Petition for tutorials forum

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

How about a 'Tutorials' sticky in the Mods Forum? Put in all the links and lock it.

This would be the way to go about it. As I say every time this type of discussion arises, we have 23 gross-forums spread across six topical divisions. Within those forums are 9 sub-forums, giving a grand total of 32 boards on the SubSim Radio Room. Many of these forums are seldom used, which would be the case should such a forum, as was mentioned above, be created. We're already swimming in division-inspired clutter, and the last thing we need at SubSim is yet another sub-forum.

[danurve]

I'll admit, this thread baffles me, puzzeling.

The logic against another sticky is in black and white yet most seem to still beleive that is the solution. The shIII main page here is 1/3+ stickies already. The CM as an alternate could be the resource, partialy set up to help unclog forum threads but no ones taking advantage of it. Or even inquire about how to go about it. Even as easy as it is.
Friggin amazing.
Must be to easy to note what it lacks instead. Or could that be because what someone is looking for just hasn't been set up yet. Just think about how much time was already spent complaining, requesting, wishing and wanting, with nothing to show for it.

[Stealth Hunter]

Ja. Wir benötigen ein HOFFNUNGSLOS.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by danurve

I'll admit, this thread baffles me, puzzeling.

The logic against another sticky is in black and white yet most seem to still beleive that is the solution. The shIII main page here is 1/3+ stickies already. The CM as an alternate could be the resource, partialy set up to help unclog forum threads but no ones taking advantage of it. Or even inquire about how to go about it. Even as easy as it is.
Friggin amazing.
Must be to easy to note what it lacks instead. Or could that be because what someone is looking for just hasn't been set up yet. Just think about how much time was already spent complaining, requesting, wishing and wanting, with nothing to show for it.

The stickies problem is easily resolved. There are 12 stickies on the SHIII forum, not counting the deleted sticky that will vanish once it is unstickied. You don't need all of those stickes as individual topics. In fact, there are two screenshot threads. Why? Merge the two, along with the video thread into a single 'user media thread'. Now you have 10 stickys.

Combine the Vista guide, screenshot tutorial and Newbie guide into a single topic. Now you have 8. Send the GWX AI thread to the SHIII mods forum, since that is why we have mod forum, to have 7. The SHIII SDK is still being used in SHIV, so UBI will not be releasing it. Accordingly, that thread can be dropped. Now there are 6 stickies. We've just halved the number of top threads.

Regarding the community Wiki: This would also be a great way to go. As of now, it is just sitting there, waiting to be further used. Expand on it.

[Gezoes]

More tutorials means better access for new players. That's a good thing. Besides, I look up a few things quite often and it's true, it's a bit hard to find sometimes.

The community manual is great! And online again might I add. I'm sure anyone would welcome any addition or expansion to it. This is no rant against it as some seem to think?

[joegrundman]

Well, I didn't think this would be so contraversial!

I seemed to have stepped on Danurve's toes as he seemed to imagine that this is some anti-CM rant or that a tutorial forum would be in some kind of opposition to the CM. Lighten up, pal! The CM is wonderful.

I think a sticky would be some help, but not the same thing at all. For one thing, you have to convince the appropriate mod to link to it, but i dare say that would be some improvement.

I think such a forum would also be popular, not unpopular, and would be constructive not argumentative. As internet forums go, this one is characterised by an uncommonly helpful and cooperative nature.

Also, so what if it isn't a super popular forum? As you say, you have lots of others, you can always close it down and transfer the existing threads to this and the sh4 forum.

In this I am inspired principally by the example of my previous gaming obsession, the TW series. The websites devoted to that do in fact have a thriving and exceedingly useful tutorials section for both gameplay and modding and as this game is at least as complex (and i think much more so in fact) such a forum would be just as useful here, if not more so.

But clearly there is some inertia against the whole idea. Does it cost a lot of time or money to open a new forum? If so, then I retract the whole petition!