kryo,
Just last year the entire forum system was completely rewritten and replaced based on user comments.
I was thinking it was a little over two years ago. My, how time sometimes doesn't fly. I'm sorry.
Which front page listings are you talking about exactly?
Excuse my lack of computerese. By front page, I mean the number of post topics that appear on page one of a folder. I understand your response, and I understand now that performance is an issue. I guess you could get better servers/more bandwidth, but that gets into your financial decisions. I'll stay out of that.
Actuarian: Everything gets buried (off the first page) pretty quickly... After something rolls off the first page the chance that it will be answered is almost zero.
Kryo:While i generally try to leave strategy and similar questions to other users to answer (better for the community when everyone helps each other with their own experiences, I feel), I go through ALL (yes, all) of the recent posts every morning and answer anything needing my attention. Usually there are two to three pages of posts to go through, and that doesn't stop them from getting answered.
I'm not faulting you at all. I appreciate your efforts very much and you shouldn't have to answer every post. Let me lay out a scenario so you'll see what I'm talking about. Say someone posts to try and figure out what the optimal population level is for a planet, and the variables that should go into determining it. Let's say this generates ten responses, then scrolls off page one. Then a week later the same question pops up and generates fifteen more responses some of which contradict the previous thread, some of which duplicate the previous and some of which are new material. Someone may link to the previous thread or maybe not. This type of thing does happen frequently. The point is that the combination of short page one post lists and expansive folder topics make it difficult for us players to sift through the forum to resolve inconsistencies and get the full picture of an issue.
Actuarian: Recently I reported a gameplay bug that had already been reported. If I could have figured this out I could have just added my post to existing thread. With that folder in the shape it's in, I really wonder how much Stardock can get out of it.
kryo: New posts are actually preferable most of the time--it's a lot easier (IMO) to sort through the forum with a topic for each bug than it is a single thread many pages long with a great assortment of reports and unrelated issues. In some cases if someone makes a bug report, there's really not much to be said about it (as opposed to those having non-bug technical issues that can be solved). But rest assured they do get read.
For bugs, I'll take your word for it, and I'm willing to double post bugs if you don't care. However, for strategy or gameplay discussions it helps to have everything in one place (see above).
I still think this board is harder to navigate and follow relative to other boards, doesn't have enough granularity in the folders, and you should grant some experienced posters with super user or moderator ability.
I hope I got these quotes right.
Evil Stormbringer, Your actually aren't the first person to respond to one of my posts, but thanks for the reply. I think you're just upset that I didn't say you would make a good moderator. I now feel more impotent... I mean important.
