Post by generalvikus on Jan 31, 2018 6:57:17 GMT -6
Hello everyone,
Firstly, I apologise for my relative absence from the forum over the last couple of days. Over that time, several solid proposals have been made for the First Ballot, which is excellent. I intend to begin voting on that ballot shortly, after which the biggest job that needs to be done before the game starts properly will be complete.
Since starting this game, one of the unexpected issues that I have discovered is that, in order to properly organise all of the discussion, debate, proposals, counter-proposals, and voting that will have to go on for this game to reach its potential, a large number of threads will be required. I have worked out that a minimum of 8 will be needed for the current structure - assuming that we don't add any more 'depth' to the game such as new Boards, which will require even more threads. Furthermore, while 8 is the bare minimum number we need, a larger number of threads would improve the game further. Ideally, for example, each theatre command will have its own thread for storing notes, plans, and discussion; each ship design competition will have its own thread, and each ballot would have its own thread. All of this would make the game easier to understand and play; players would have a better idea of what is going on at a glance and be more easily able to keep up with developments over time.
Even 8 threads will be problematic. Firstly, they are likely to get separated as time goes on; some will get buried while some will remain continually at the front of the forums, making it difficult to navigate between them (especially when people inevitably start to lose the links) and difficult for new players to figure out what's going on. Furthermore, because these forums are very small, 8 continually active threads will be quite a lot of clutter, which may risk crowding out other threads. Both of these problems would be exacerbated if we had any more than the bare minimum number of threads.
For this reason, I floated the idea of creating an entirely new forum on the 'interest check' thread, allowing us to have as many individual threads as we like while all the information would be easily visible and accessible. The two people who responded agreed with this idea. While I considered creating a new poll to decide this question, I have decided against doing so because that would further extend the already lengthy list of things we'll have to do before the game starts, and because I can't see any down sides to this idea at present. The new forum has already been set up, though I may expand or reorganise it over time as needed: rtwplaybycouncil.createaforum.com/
Please save this to your favourites or keep the link, as it won't show up on a google search.
The 'registration' thread will remain on this forum so that new players can still join from this group, as will the 'interest check' thread, which we will still use for general discussion. All other matters will be handled on the new forum.
If you are strongly against this idea for some reason, please let me know and I'll re-consider. If not, we shall proceed as planned, and the first ballot will begin shortly.
EDIT - IMPORTANT: I forgot to say - when creating an account on the new forum, could you please use the same username you have for this forum to avoid confusion? Thank you!
Firstly, I apologise for my relative absence from the forum over the last couple of days. Over that time, several solid proposals have been made for the First Ballot, which is excellent. I intend to begin voting on that ballot shortly, after which the biggest job that needs to be done before the game starts properly will be complete.
Since starting this game, one of the unexpected issues that I have discovered is that, in order to properly organise all of the discussion, debate, proposals, counter-proposals, and voting that will have to go on for this game to reach its potential, a large number of threads will be required. I have worked out that a minimum of 8 will be needed for the current structure - assuming that we don't add any more 'depth' to the game such as new Boards, which will require even more threads. Furthermore, while 8 is the bare minimum number we need, a larger number of threads would improve the game further. Ideally, for example, each theatre command will have its own thread for storing notes, plans, and discussion; each ship design competition will have its own thread, and each ballot would have its own thread. All of this would make the game easier to understand and play; players would have a better idea of what is going on at a glance and be more easily able to keep up with developments over time.
Even 8 threads will be problematic. Firstly, they are likely to get separated as time goes on; some will get buried while some will remain continually at the front of the forums, making it difficult to navigate between them (especially when people inevitably start to lose the links) and difficult for new players to figure out what's going on. Furthermore, because these forums are very small, 8 continually active threads will be quite a lot of clutter, which may risk crowding out other threads. Both of these problems would be exacerbated if we had any more than the bare minimum number of threads.
For this reason, I floated the idea of creating an entirely new forum on the 'interest check' thread, allowing us to have as many individual threads as we like while all the information would be easily visible and accessible. The two people who responded agreed with this idea. While I considered creating a new poll to decide this question, I have decided against doing so because that would further extend the already lengthy list of things we'll have to do before the game starts, and because I can't see any down sides to this idea at present. The new forum has already been set up, though I may expand or reorganise it over time as needed: rtwplaybycouncil.createaforum.com/
Please save this to your favourites or keep the link, as it won't show up on a google search.
The 'registration' thread will remain on this forum so that new players can still join from this group, as will the 'interest check' thread, which we will still use for general discussion. All other matters will be handled on the new forum.
If you are strongly against this idea for some reason, please let me know and I'll re-consider. If not, we shall proceed as planned, and the first ballot will begin shortly.
EDIT - IMPORTANT: I forgot to say - when creating an account on the new forum, could you please use the same username you have for this forum to avoid confusion? Thank you!
