Open communication is essential.
Role forums worked wonders for worldofwarcraft forums because role
forums bring issues, perspective, and understanding of class mechanics from one class to another.
My recent post about RDM melee buffs for 99 got locked and moved to the RDM forum, but this it wasn't an issues restricted solely to RDM. These are role issues that affect many classes and confining any/all to designated areas only let's them fester and rot and not actually breath and grow into something useful.
Even if you don't do it for FFXI please make them for FFXIV.
Edited, Mar 8th 2010 4:59pm by zephryn
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zephryn wrote:
My recent post about RDM melee buffs for 99 got locked and moved to the RDM forum, but this it wasn't an issues restricted solely to RDM. These are role issues that affect many classes and confining any/all to designated areas only let's them fester and rot and not actually breath and grow into something useful.
I see no mention of other tank jobs, nor do I see anything that could have led people to believe you wanted to discuss other tank jobs.
Just sayin', in this particular case.
Role forums would be kind of interesting though.
Edited, Mar 8th 2010 12:05pm by Kirby
Tank jobs!? It was a damage dealing post.
Meh, same thing.
My post still applies.
My post still applies.
#5REDACTED,
Posted: Mar 08 2010 at 4:49 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Go get enlightened on the wow forum set up. Lol
I don't really see the point. They're different jobs, that's why they're separated. There's no "tank" job. There's meleeable-mob tank jobs, a non-meleeable tank job and then alternate/low man tanks. Nothing really overlaps about them other than the fact they maintain enmity. There's a reason they're used differently, because they're different. More things overlap with melee, but the same thing still applies that makes them different enough that making one section doesn't make sense.
Lets say I have a game, we'll call it Pong, the MMO, or PMMO for short. I make a forum for it, and I have 50 users. If I now decide to take the PMMO forum and split it into a main forum and a quest forum, I now effectivly split the forum population. Some people will come to prefer the quest forum, and some will prefer the main forum. In an ideal situation with a large population, this tends to be self reinforcing, because there is crossover between the two forums, users come and go, and the lurkers read both. There is also a potential major downside however:
As you continue to fragment the forums into more subforums, you lose a percentage of users to one or more forum exclusivly. if you split them too quickly, you end up taking mainstay posters from your "lifeblood" forums that you need to continue operation, and end up with many smaller, cliqueish communities that tend to be somewhat hostile to outsiders, and negative growth into your main forums.
This is why we will likely not add those three forums at this time. There is not a sufficient population at this time to support them.
As you continue to fragment the forums into more subforums, you lose a percentage of users to one or more forum exclusivly. if you split them too quickly, you end up taking mainstay posters from your "lifeblood" forums that you need to continue operation, and end up with many smaller, cliqueish communities that tend to be somewhat hostile to outsiders, and negative growth into your main forums.
This is why we will likely not add those three forums at this time. There is not a sufficient population at this time to support them.
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Overburn wrote:
I don't really see the point. They're different jobs, that's why they're separated. There's no "tank" job.
Of course at this point kao's got a very good point. Maybe a few years back, but ffxi is just getting smaller over time, so i don't think it's necessary.
ThePsychoticOne the Prohpet wrote:
Overburn wrote:
I don't really see the point. They're different jobs, that's why they're separated. There's no "tank" job.
But the overlap between them isn't really large enough to put them together. There's not much a PLD or NIN or SAM or WAR or THF or WHM or whatever tank people are using that are going to be the same enough to make a new forum for it. Most of the tanking really just relies on gear, spells, and/or play style which don't apply to other jobs, except maybe for WAR and SAM. For anything else that separates them, it is already in each of their own current forums.
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Posted: Mar 10 2010 at 5:46 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) So are you saying business isn't good for zam and your site doesn't have enough traffic. Bummer.
I'm just curious, to the staffers here. How many forums does FFXI currently have compared to any other game? I don't really visit the gaming forums much anymore, but when I did it was for FFXI, and there always seemed to be SO MANY forums for the one game.
Edited, Mar 11th 2010 1:13pm by Belkira
Edited, Mar 11th 2010 1:13pm by Belkira
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
How many forums does FFXI currently have compared to any other game?
George Carlin wrote:
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lolgaxe wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
How many forums does FFXI currently have compared to any other game?
63. The only other game that has more than one or two is WoW, which has 12.
Do we REALLY need more FFXI forums? Seriously?
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
lolgaxe wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
How many forums does FFXI currently have compared to any other game?
63. The only other game that has more than one or two is WoW, which has 12.
Do we REALLY need more FFXI forums? Seriously?
lolgaxe wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
How many forums does FFXI currently have compared to any other game?
The world servers that are going away will have their forums set to read-only a few days after the world merge is completed.
ThePsychoticOne the Prohpet wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
lolgaxe wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
How many forums does FFXI currently have compared to any other game?
63. The only other game that has more than one or two is WoW, which has 12.
Do we REALLY need more FFXI forums? Seriously?
And then those other forums will go away after the merger, and you'll be left un-round again.
FFXI doesn't need any more man power and server room from this site.
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
ThePsychoticOne the Prohpet wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
lolgaxe wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
How many forums does FFXI currently have compared to any other game?
63. The only other game that has more than one or two is WoW, which has 12.
Do we REALLY need more FFXI forums? Seriously?
And then those other forums will go away after the merger, and you'll be left un-round again.
FFXI doesn't need any more man power and server room from this site.
Nizdaar wrote:
lolgaxe wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
How many forums does FFXI currently have compared to any other game?
The world servers that are going away will have their forums set to read-only a few days after the world merge is completed.
So we can try to make ourselves the last poster in the forum before they lock, right?
Overburn wrote:
So we can try to make ourselves the last poster in the forum before they lock, right?
I wouldn't recommend it.
Nizdaar wrote:
Overburn wrote:
So we can try to make ourselves the last poster in the forum before they lock, right?
I wouldn't recommend it.
I'll see if I can get donations for a prize for each forum.
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