Welcome to the new Forum

[Sam Roads]

Hi,

I hope you enjoy using this new forum, which is powered by vBulletin software and is much more powerful, user friendly and robust than the previous forum.

You'll need to register an account before you can post, but that's reasonably easy and once you have done that you'll have access to a host of useful functions.

If you have any difficulties getting started, please email me on:

sam@harlequingames.com

Cheers

Sam

[Øystein]

Very nice, Sam!

Great to see MEPBM now has a good forum to use :)

Øystein

[LGTilley]

Well, much prettier and more functional than the old one (could not be worse though could it!) Not sure I can see whay a forum is any more use than the list though, so I shall continue to partonise that, and look in here from time to time to see if there is anything more interesting than the puerile "taunts" that seemed to comprise 95% of the old one.

A reseved "Well Done"

[Krizzel]

I think the new forum is great! I've used this style of forum before and it's certainly the nicest and most useful kind I've ever encountered.

I'd say there's probably little need for both the forum and the list, but given that I think the forum is definitely superior. It keeps everything a lot more organized by keeping each topic to its own thread, and furthermore subforums can be added to keep like threads together.

For example, a subforum for taunts and discussion of specific games could be added. Another for announcements from MEGames (such as the FS, info on Automagic and MEOW, etc.) would be a natural choice, and so on from there.

[Player]

Too many "forums" ruins it. If a hands on moderator cared to "file" old threads, all the power to him. Scenario based subforum's might be worthwhile but many more will overcomplicate.

[Krizzel]

Originally posted by Player
Too many "forums" ruins it. If a hands on moderator cared to "file" old threads, all the power to him. Scenario based subforum's might be worthwhile but many more will overcomplicate.

If there are too many, yes, most of them won't be used. However I think down the road one for 'Game Talk,' one for 'Official'-type announcements, and one for General Discussion would probably be a good thing. When there's only about 5 threads here though we're pretty far from needing it, so 'down the road' probably means when there's a couple pages worth of active threads and things are starting to get a little jumbled.

[Player]

Almost too many options , but it's pretty cool now that I've surfed around a bit.

Going to have to figure out how to make things big

AND

Blue...

First Try...

[Brad Jenison]

Wow; lots more bells and whistles but I'm glad to be on board. Best to all on this new forum.

Brad

[klub]

From a dial-up users perspective this is much faster and easy to use. Some of the Features will take a short while to learn, but overall well done it looks great!

I hope that there are some limits on image size allowed, as I used similar boards that allowed huge signature images, they look gross and slow evertyhing down.

Paul

[starkhorn]

Looks really good....just like the ezboards that I've seen and used on other forums.

Are there plans to install different forum rooms ? i.e. one for taunts, one for discussions on MEPBM in general etc, etc ?

Cheers
Brendan McGoldrick

[Krizzel]

Originally posted by klub
From a dial-up users perspective this is much faster and easy to use. Some of the Features will take a short while to learn, but overall well done it looks great!

I hope that there are some limits on image size allowed, as I used similar boards that allowed huge signature images, they look gross and slow evertyhing down.

Paul

Avatar images are limited to the smaller of 50x50 pixels or 60k. Images within a post or a signature aren't limited as far as I know, though. But you can turn off signatures somewhere within the settings if it becomes a problem - then none of the signatures will load for you. On the other hand it's probably 'good board etiquette' to not post any big images.

Looks really good....just like the ezboards that I've seen and used on other forums.

Are there plans to install different forum rooms ? i.e. one for taunts, one for discussions on MEPBM in general etc, etc ?

No plans yet that I know, but I'm definitely in agreement that we need at least one more just to separate the 'taunts' from all the other discussions. It's not too big of a problem yet, at least until we start running over into a second page.

[klub]

Originally posted by Krizzel
Avatar images are limited to the smaller of 50x50 pixels or 60k. Images within a post or a signature aren't limited as far as I know, though. But you can turn off signatures somewhere within the settings if it becomes a problem - then none of the signatures will load for you. On the other hand it's probably 'good board etiquette' to not post any big images.

Sounds good thanks for the info!

Paul

[Krizzel]

Originally posted by klub
Sounds good thanks for the info!

Paul

Also, when taking a look I found you can turn off images altogether - you'll get a link to the image instead of having it actually load.

I've added this to my FAQ thread - any other questions feel free to come over and ask them there ;)

[Sam Roads]

New forum rooms - we've no plans for this. They clutter things up a lot. We'll see how big things get before deciding if we need to but from what I could see with the PBMForums there wasn't any need.

Clint

[rmarine]

New Forum looks great ... just joined and wanted to say hi to everyone I've played with (if you pardon the expression) ... especially Mr Sacco, Jeppe and Dunsters ... I've seen you guys lurking about this Forum and I've got my eye on you.

Carl Birch ex-G83

[SMoyes]

But, but, how does one get the pictures off to the left like some of those people (or orcs) have? I want one.

Khamulia
AKA
Urzzy Babes

[Øystein]

How about a Legends side/Sub forum? :D :D :D

*runs for cover!*

Øystein, both MEPBM and Legends player

[lionatus]

Finally. Back to the boards. At least thats where most of my time is when plans go wrong. Well done guys.

Now how do I change my Avatar?

[lionatus]

And whats with this Junior Member bit?

I was thinking along the lines of Grand Marshall..............

[The Gray Man]

The Gray Man is here.

[ikvsabre]

Originally posted by Player
Too many "forums" ruins it. If a hands on moderator cared to "file" old threads, all the power to him. Scenario based subforum's might be worthwhile but many more will overcomplicate.

I think that scenario-based sub-forums would be very good. As it is now, it is a bit tough to tell what scenario a given game belongs to. Also, I would have one sub-forum for general discussion. This would make the forum MUCH more organized, w/o burying it in levels. Each active game would be a thread within its scenario forum, and everything else would be a thread in General Discussion.

Joe

[darrell]

Originally posted by ikvsabre
I think that scenario-based sub-forums would be very good. As it is now, it is a bit tough to tell what scenario a given game belongs to. Also, I would have one sub-forum for general discussion. This would make the forum MUCH more organized, w/o burying it in levels. Each active game would be a thread within its scenario forum, and everything else would be a thread in General Discussion.

Joe

I like this idea myself, although I'm not sure how exactly to set up the "active game" sections. Having a 1650 and a 2950 would be obvious, but should the FA1000 and BoFA games get separate forums, even if they would never be used? It seems like the easiest thing to do would be to make two sections, one for active games and one for general discussions...but then are the game numbers so ambiguous that it's difficult to distinguish which scenario a specific game belongs to?

I made a poll about this recently and a majority of those that responded supported switching to forums that separated active game discussions from general discussions. Unfortunately, the number number of people that took part in the poll totalled about 15 percent of total registered users, so I wasn't sure if it was "scientific" enough.

The original poll can be found here (http://forums.halo5.net/mepbm/showthread.php?s=&threadid=477) .

I had sort of dropped this, since I didn't reall get much in the way of feedback one way or the other, but the general consensus does seem to indicate a preference for at least one forum for active game discussions and another for general discussions. If nobody comes up with any showstopping comments then I'll go ahead and implement this in the near future.

Thanks for the input.

[ikvsabre]

Originally posted by darrell
I like this idea myself, although I'm not sure how exactly to set up the "active game" sections. Having a 1650 and a 2950 would be obvious, but should the FA1000 and BoFA games get separate forums, even if they would never be used? It seems like the easiest thing to do would be to make two sections, one for active games and one for general discussions...but then are the game numbers so ambiguous that it's difficult to distinguish which scenario a specific game belongs to?

I made a poll about this recently and a majority of those that responded supported switching to forums that separated active game discussions from general discussions. Unfortunately, the number number of people that took part in the poll totalled about 15 percent of total registered users, so I wasn't sure if it was "scientific" enough.

I had sort of dropped this, since I didn't reall get much in the way of feedback one way or the other, but the general consensus does seem to indicate a preference for at least one forum for active game discussions and another for general discussions. If nobody comes up with any showstopping comments then I'll go ahead and implement this in the near future.

Thanks for the input.

15% is actually pretty reasonable. Consider that most political polls question between 800-1500 people to guage the feelings of 280 million people. Besides, if people don't respond, they have forfeited their rigth to comlpain, IMO.

re : FA1000
do you really think it would NEVER be used? I haven't played MEPBM for a while (like 3-4 years), but I recall FA1000 having a decent following (although not as good as 1650 or 2950 of course). Hell, I was considering sending in a setup for FA1000 myself.

Having 5 sections isn't overdoing it (4 scenarios plus 1 general discussion). The demarcation line is pretty intutive.

At the very least, split it into two. Add my vote to splitting it to individual sections for each scenario. As I recall, it was like that on DGE's forum section, and no one had any complaint that I was aware of.

Joe