Ok, I want to commit myself to helping with the Tips and Tricks Vault.
We need to get some resources setup for the influx of new players on the horizon with the retail release.
I am just ruminating out loud here, so I don't want anyone to think that I'm stepping on toes, but I think we need to do the following.
1) Get Sonalysis to put stickly links on their forum for both the TnTV and the Subsim forums. They need to get over whatever hangups they have about giving official sanction to our primary homes. If we push them on this, aka post a half a b*tch-fit over the lack of support for user-created resources, I'm sure we can get them to do that. What I would really like, is to have an actual, printed insert in or on the retail box with some of the most prominant sites, with the site owners' permission of course (the TnTV, Subsim, maybe Bill's site, if he would like, etc.). They need to play up the community much more than they do.
2) We need to get at least 7-10 people from the Subsim community to be committed to posting to the TnTV or moving posts with helpful information from SubSim to the TnTV. Maybe this has already been done, and I'm just flapping in the breeze on this one. If that is the case, then I say here that I want the TnTV to succeed and I want to help.
Who else wants to do this? Let's get going on a plan. We have a month to get this flying high.
And, OneShot, thank you for setting up the TnTV and maintaining it.
The problem we have at the moment is delution and muddling of what forum is for what type of discussion. In my mind, I see the SCS forums as being the place for very basic questions about DW (eg. how do you use the NB? what is the Rapid Loc button for? what is a wakehoming torpedo? how do I install the patch? etc) and the TnTV would be for learning the tactical aspects of the game (how do I use the BB and NB together with my other sensors and TMA to develope situational awareness? when should I use a wakehoming torpedo verses a wireguided torpedo verses an ASM or SUBROC? what is the best way to avoid torpedoes? how do I attack a CAG with AEGIS vessels? or avoid prosecuting air platforms?) The SubSim forums I see as being the "clubhouse" or "submariner's pub", the soul of the DW community, a place where we come to swap AARs and stories, work on generating ideas for the advancement of DW and the other forums, and mod work and discussion.
We have the enthusiasm and the ability, and once we have the numbers and the blood, we can really do something special with our DW community, not that it isn't pretty darn special already.
