Well, when I first came to see this forum, I must admit I have been lost for at least one week, before understanding more or less how it was working.
I definitely think some categories are not obvious, and result in people posting their questions anywhere and certainly not at the best place.
I think a good thing would be to keep distinct RP/OoRP Forums. RP forums could be Faction RP and RP Forum, and out of RP could help being redesigned, with a Server Rules, Feedback/Questions/Ideas and a General Discussions for the RP Server. PvP being down might indeed be deleted ?
Then, the subforums could be :
Faction RP
- Message Dumps Subforum
- Unofficial Factions message dumps, and maybe Bar/Watering Hole as well. My idea would be that unofficial factions, or groups, don't really have the necessary infrastructure to get their own communication net, so their message dumps could consists in places where they gather to exchange their achievements, such as bars, and so we could group those two.
- Xoria's subforum idea on Diplomatic matters sounds really good to me, and could boost up this side of RP on forum
- A Recruitment sub-forum
- A Roll Call Subforum ? Though Rollcall might lack visibility in it...
RP Forum
- Biographies
- Stories
- Events, as events are/should be not only for factions
- Employments, though I was looking for a better name and couldn't find it
- Sirius Stock Exchange
Server Rules
Same as now, except RP related questions would be better posted in...
Feedback/Questions/Ideas
that would be the forum to discuss OoRP the RP stuff that need to be discussed.
- Feedbacks on Factions subforum
- Feedbacks on RP/Events subforum
- Factions Creation request, as it involves a lot of OoRP
and then, the ideas, questions could just be in the main part of forum
- Maybe an Ideas on Faction Creation as Xoria was proposing, to get input before the 500 mils step ?
General Discussions
- Help subforum
- Newcomers subforum, where you would find all these great posts the community made, from Attention Disco Rookies to DBoy tutorials and Unseelie's Trust post, well anything relevant to somebody frikkin' lost that want to get as quickly as possible into the game without browsing the forum for 3 hours to gather all the interesting posts.
In the main forum would be general discussions about the mod, about Rping, and so on.
- would probably put the servers announcements here too, as a subforum
- Character name change here as well
Ooh woops, seems like I just proposed to scrap everything and build it anew...:$ Sorry about it, I was just thinking about it for quite some time now, so that I used this thread to gather all my thoughts. But I guess it would just be far too much work compared to what you asked, and maybe not make the whole thing much clearer. So I would just say pick up the idea that seems clever (if any:)), and throw the rest.
