Home Depot Now Selling Forum Themes - Love It? Hate It? Read and Discuss.

[Liquid Blue]

People would be alot more open to title changes if they had a say in what they were being changed too. Your best bet would be to throw out a few suggestions and have majority rule over what the titles should be, if you truly think the old ones are getting stale.

This and mods that actually post and communicate with the community. Everyone has their own personal lives, but I think with 3 or 4 more mods the load won't be as big to bear and people won't have these mystery admins popping in to throw down their decisions and leave.

[Ewan]

About the new names:

It might be a little weird for newer people, we've been improving the site and getting word about Continuum out to try and attract new players. The old names for the forums were to the point, anyone with no knowledge of the game would understand what each forum was for. Now they're either a reference to something in-game, or just a weird name. I'd suggest maybe a re-think on the name changes, either something so that anyone can instantly understand what that forum is for, or just back to the old ones.

[Mr. Peanuts]

Just change the names back to how they were.

[Dameon Angell]

They told me on staff chat that the "F1" forum meant the "F1" key for help in-game. I'd change it back to "Help and Technical Support" or something. And the "Death Threats" forum just sounds mean.

[DangerGirl]

Well, I guess this is as central a forum as any, so I'll post here and direct any other threads to it.

Obviously, we've announced that the default forum theme has been changed and most of you can see it, unless you've changed your theme to non-default, in which you'll need to manually change it to see the new one. As there is some confusion and other.. stuff.. going on about it, I wanted to put together this post for a central discussion regarding it.

First off, I'll admit I didn't have regular announcements up about the forum change, and that is my fault entirely. I did, however, release at least three global announcements before, during, and after the forum upgrade that stated we were working on and would have a brand new forum theme very soon. Staff has known since August, if they pay attention to the respective dev board that I've been coordinating the theme work on.

This, however, does not excuse the fact that I didn't remind the community, for which I apologize for. I was stuck in the technological mindset and thought the previous announcements would suffice.

We did have quite a few on-forum and private requests for a new theme. If you do a quick forum search you'll find a few of them.

http://www.trenchwars.org/forums/showthread.php?t=28101

http://www.trenchwars.org/forums/showthread.php?t=27322

http://www.trenchwars.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24988

With the introduction of the new TW.org website we felt obligated to find a decent match to keep us connected to the zone. We are the Trench Wars forum, it'd be nice if we tried to somewhat stay related. We're restricted in what exactly we can do with the theme, as no one has full access, so it is going to remain simple and not all technofied like the main TW.org site, which, btw, kicks ass.

We had a ton of people already using the new theme, and I didn't receive very many complaints, so the theme is as it is, except for a couple buttons and icons being worked on. I guess you can compare it to the Wii recall. They claim none of the testers complained about the handset going flying, but when it was released, the complaints came in hordes.

I'm not beyond making a few changes. But I need a large show of support for something before I go and modify the files. If you wish to make a comment, please do so here, but be constructive. If you simply say "it sucks," I might find the humor to perma change your personal theme to something even I wouldn't touch. :P

Now, aside from the forum theme, the subforum name changes were in the works, although it is more of an experiment at the moment, because it is something that needs to be done on the spot - since it's not a theme, everyone sees it the moment you do it. Obviously, some are working out and some aren't. It was meant to break up the monotony and bring the forum closer to the game itself while still keeping the little nuances of the community in it. If anyone wishes to comment on them, please do so here too, constructively of course.

As a reminder, any large news will be in the Global Announcements that you see above each forum. Please keep up with those. I watch the numbers on them and know not too many read em, which is a shame, because that's what they're there for, letting people know what's going on.

My New Year's resolutions to the forum are for myself to be more active in the community and hire a couple more moderators to help keep the peace and keep Forum Staff within the community. I was asked what it was that I wanted out of the forum. In short, I'd love to have a forum of subspace players, especially from the Trench Wars zone, to come to the TW forums to talk about the game, talk about the zone, talk about anything in general, make friends, make enemies, debate with people, bring up interesting and intelligent subjects, and all in all, just have some fun.