New Forum Likes and Dislikes: Redux

TC_Baelfor

Just waiting on a return PM for that. Sent one about a week ago
and haven't heard since. Maybe I should send another. SMILEY

FLUiD

From what I can tell from the get go, the cookies on the board do not work. If I tell it to save my password it does not do it. Also if you add any text under your signature image, for some reason its not displaying propperly.

Not having the ability to upload your own avatar is painful. Not that I have a awesome avatar that I want to use but the current selection is a bit lame.

**Ic3b3rg**

And here i was expecting to see the kitty cat running through the field, but the GTA sig works too SMILEY

Ya i dunno about walrus replying to pms, he has been busy and is probably off today.

Virtuality

Baelfor wrote:
Just waiting on a return PM for that. Sent one about a week ago and haven't heard since. Maybe I should send another.

Um..... From what I recall PM's on the old board didn't work to great when directed at the admin crew, plus if you PM'd him a week ago then those were the boards you were using to do it, which no longer exist as far as I can tell. Safest option, PM him again and assume he didn't get the last one. But remember, PM'ing the Admins doesn't always work, it depends on how the boards are set up.

lanski

i personally like the forums the way they were before, however, with time, i will get use to this i guess.

addr

I'm just happy to be able to post to the forums at all - my pre-conv account was somehow screwed up and would only log me in as "null". So this works for me!

**Super_Jenius**

Functionally, I like the new forums much better than the old
ones. Bookmarks, subscriptions (as soon as the email problem is
fixed), HTML editor in Firefox, and customizability (is that a word?)
are all really nice features.

I personally don't think the rating system will be that big of a
problem. Helpful messages will receive high ratings, and troll
messages will receive low ratings. Sure, there is room for
exploitation, but I expect it to work as designed for the most
part. Time will tell.

Of course, the biggest problem is content. I managed to save my
most important messages, but there is still a lot of good stuff on the
old forums. Making that available read-only would be nice.

Another little thing is that replies don't indicate which message is
being replied to (unless I'm overlooking it), and that makes
conversations harder to follow.

Message Edited by SuperJenius on 08-17-2005 12:49 PM
Message edited by Super_Jenius on 08/17/2005 09:49:01.

jerkface

I like the drop-down menu! SMILEY

**DeetyMxO**

Personally, I'm not even noticing the ratings...I guess they're only a issue if you pay attention to that sort of thing. SMILEY

The biggest con to me is the inability to change your forum name. If I decide to start playing a new character on another server (or the same server, for that matter) I may not want posts related to that character showing up under DeetyMxo (or Deety, which I lost during the forum wipe [*please* help us get those back.]) If I decide to start another character on Syntax so as to get involved in the RP there, for example, it's very possible I wouldn't want there to be any ties from that character to Deety.

I'm assuming this problem exists on other SOE forums as well; anyone know how they deal with it there?

DT

Virtuality

I'm guessing here, but do forum only accounts exist and if so, do they actually cost anything?

Ingus

forums are forums.... what sony needs to be fixing is the buddy list.... with aim we could type "/ga name" to make a group.. and this was simple and easy for factions to organize and group players on their buddy lists such as factions, orgs, hitlists etc..

so SOE, UPGRADE THE BUDDY LIST with:

"/GA <Name>"

Good day

Voldrasil

Ok I haven't read the previous posts (too much reading scares me), so if somebody's already said this you can't yell at me.

The Rating System
I think it's somewhat unstable considering how somebody could hold a grudge against you and start ranking you a 1 every post. I find it to be pretty much useless, but I'm sure all those Awakened's (is that the highest level?) out there are feeling proud.

Forum Decorum
Hmm....maybe it's just me, but these new forums look awfully bland in comparison to the originals. These are the style you'd see in one of those video game fansites that's made unprofessionaly.

New Features
Well all the new stuff is defintely a bonus. I think having avatars is cool (somebody suggested we have our UI pics in them instead of misc. art), but they could use a little Matrixy theme. You can do a lot more text editing in posts too, which is also an obvious bonus. There's a bunch more stuff but I won't post it all.

There's my 2 $info

DiscoChild

i'd like it if my signature worked. i keep getting this error
that says i can't use simple HTML in my signature. SOE also says
that they can't help me b/c it's server-side and SOE doesn't run the
boards. and lithium (the guys who host the boards) has yet to
respond to me.

Chuui

The Rating System
I think it's somewhat unstable considering how somebody could hold a grudge against you and start ranking you a 1 every post. I find it to be pretty much useless, but I'm sure all those Awakened's (is that the highest level?) out there are feeling proud.

Actually as best I can tell, "Controller" is the highest rating. After someone went through 1 starring mine, and several other's posting history, our ratings dropped to "Awakened". Others have now either dropped to, or risen to "operative" which seems to be just below controller.

But that raises the other reason why this rating/level system is useless, no one has been told in any official capacity which rank is what and what it means! It just seems all so random right now.

As for the "plainess" of these boards, I like it. They load faster. But, other people should be given the choice of having a bunch of graphical bells and whistles if that's what they want. In fact, I wouldn't mind the boards being plainer still so I could read them quickly while using a lower connection speed (sometimes I get stuck on a really old connection >_>)

But these boards should all be about choice. The options are there (for other schemes) they just need to be created. I would also like to be able to turn the avatars off as that too would cut down the loading time... But I don't recall seeing that option anywhere yet.

Anna

I'm already used to these forums from SWG and like there I would like them to use the whole width of my screen.

Else I'm quite happy and hope the search will work a bit more stable than on the SWG boards.