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EpiComms reorganisation
CyberShadow
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:33 am 
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After several requests, I have decided to reorganise the EpiComms boards. This is advanced warning that it will happen as soon as I have the time - so look before you click!  :cool:

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:04 am 
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Great Stuff! Thanks for all the hard work! :)

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:03 pm 
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We'll be standing by ... :)

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:22 am 
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(Hena @ Jan. 01 2008,05:10)
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Any plan of the new order for us mere mortals?

:D

I was wondering the same thing.

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Just put all the adifferent armies into the same sub-forum.

Job's a goodun!

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:49 am 
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Hit by Tzeentch eh? :D Well let's see what you come up with :)

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CyberShadow
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:38 pm 
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Well, I will talk to Neal first, but essentially collect all of the EA boards into two sections - general and forces - and have a specific section for all of the NetEpic boards.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:20 pm 
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Sounds excellent. Some suggestions (mostly old):
- one subsection for batreps in RA general
- all chaos to one subsection in forces
 (like: IG, AMTL, SM, Eldar, Orks, Chaos, Tau, Tyranids, Necron, Other)
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Legion 4
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:19 pm 
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And still have forums for DRM, E/W, etc. ?!

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Change!!! ?Run and hide, run and hide!  :p  :O

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Sounds good to me! The one issue with TacComms I've always had - especially when I was new to the site - is the utterly bewildering number of forums. Even these days I often spend ages looking for an old thread as there are half a dozen forums it might be in...

Paring down the Epic forums as much as possible sounds good to me. Are the other forums getting conglomerated as well?
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nealhunt
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:02 pm 
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Suggestions for Epicomms:

* "Background" can go into "General Discussion"
* Have a "Rules" (or "Core Rules") and "Army Lists" division for the sections (with all the army list sections shuffled accordingly)
* I'm not sure a separate "Terrain" category is needed for modeling

Battlecomms:

* based on traffic, historical, fantasy and alternate history can probably be combined

Gothicomms looks pretty clean to me, but I don't frequent there.

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If you're not limited to a strictly forking hierarchy in your directories, it would be cool to have certain sections cross-listed, e.g. have a single "background" section accessible either by the EA or NetEpic boards.  But I figure that's probably not an option and would play merry havoc with the search function.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:15 pm 
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(nealhunt @ Jan. 02 2008,18:02)
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Battlecomms:

* based on traffic, historical, fantasy and alternate history can probably be combined

I'd personally prefer keeping historical and fantasy and scifi (including alternative history separate. If anything, the number of fora topics within these subsections can be reduced - for example:

historical - gaming; modelling
Fantasy - gaming; modelling
sci-fi - gaming; modelling
others - trades; general forum

Another option would be to group them by scale instead:
2mm or smaller - sci fi; fantasy; historical
6mm - sci fi; fantasy; historical
10-20mm - sci fi; fantasy; historical
28mm - sci fi; fantasy; historical
other scales - sci fi; fantasy; historical

The latter would be a bit clunky, however. And I wouldn't like historical and the others combined, at any rate.

Furthermore, I feel the 'homegrown' EW and DRM should have their own section, in appreciation of their support for the 6mm hobby. The same could apply to Bacchus, I guess.

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CyberShadow
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Thanks for your comments, guys.

I like the idea of a battle report board.

To clarify, I hadnt thought about changing the BattleComms or GothiComms areas at this point. EW and DRM will retain their dedicated boards. I acknowledge the comment about the sparseness  of posts on the Ancients/Fantasy/Other boards, but I would like to keep these distinct at this point... and I am open to ways to increase traffic and help to persuade more members to join to post in the general wargaming areas.

The idea of having cross accessible boards would be great, but I dont think that this is possible with the current setup.

I did consider grouping games by scale when the boards were first set up. However, I thought that genre would be better since some games can be played in a variety of scales (ancients, for example - where would discussion on Hordes of the Things rules go?).

I would actually like to increase the number of game-specific boards that we have (for example Command Horrizon, DRM, EW, etc) but would need to be sure that the demand was there first.

Thanks again for the comments.

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