We really need to get this topic away from the Playstation and Warcraft games. They are not even closely related. This is an area that has been sorely understated, I mean we are in the year 2005 and people act like it is 1985. It is bad enough that the current location is so far to the bottom that most never even visit but then to have RPG Software topics get swallowed up by a few tech questions such as "Help me buy a video card", "Which game should I buy next" and "Warcraft guild". Publishers have their own forum and 3 sub forums.
RPG Software Forum
- Thread starter Vascant
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IronWolf
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The "Software, Computers & D&D Utilities" forum is a pretty low traffic forum as is. To split it up even further would only hurt I would think. When I checked today there are still topics from 7/21/2005 on the first page, so I wouldn't consider that swallowing up other topics.
This is a great case for the use of the Categories feature Michael has in place. If someone wants to see only information about RPG Tools then they can select to only see that category. It works great for only seeing threads you want to see without the need to further dilute the existing forum into sub-forums.
My 2 coppers.
This is a great case for the use of the Categories feature Michael has in place. If someone wants to see only information about RPG Tools then they can select to only see that category. It works great for only seeing threads you want to see without the need to further dilute the existing forum into sub-forums.
My 2 coppers.
*chuckles* I will be the first to admit.. I have no idea what the traffic would be but I think it is more about principle rather then practical. I think this is one of those topics where numbers do not directly mean if something should be done or not done.
Example (I love examples): NPC Designer.. if going by numbers it is perhaps the dumbest thing I have ever coded in my life. 11 months of work and only had 5 people seriously interested in it enough to get involved on a regular basis. By regular I mean post once a week for atleast 2 months of the 11. According to those numbers, it is a bad idea.. very bad.
Thats the point.. How many projects have died because of what seemed like lack of interest? Thanks for the comment but NPC Designer can't be fine.. only 5 people even like it. Based on that number it is insane to even consider going commercial nevermind free. Is putting up a topic forum really worth good projects becoming vaper ware? Then again, thats a very general statement and could apply to anything.. *laughs*
Example (I love examples): NPC Designer.. if going by numbers it is perhaps the dumbest thing I have ever coded in my life. 11 months of work and only had 5 people seriously interested in it enough to get involved on a regular basis. By regular I mean post once a week for atleast 2 months of the 11. According to those numbers, it is a bad idea.. very bad.
Thats the point.. How many projects have died because of what seemed like lack of interest? Thanks for the comment but NPC Designer can't be fine.. only 5 people even like it. Based on that number it is insane to even consider going commercial nevermind free. Is putting up a topic forum really worth good projects becoming vaper ware? Then again, thats a very general statement and could apply to anything.. *laughs*
Knight Otu
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Personally, I believe that seperate, more visible(!) forum for RPG Tools would be extremely helpful for both customers and programmers. It was only by chance that I found out about Vascant's NPC Designer - pretty much the most versatile NPC/Monster Statblock Generator existing. And it hardly ever really received the attention it deserves.
When looking at Jamis Buck's NPC Generator, I'd often think "Man, I wished this could handle XYZ..."
With Vascant's program, I think "OK, XYZ should be quick to script. I'll copy a similar script, and start modifying in the relevant changes."
And if I almost missed a tool that good - I don't know what other tools I might have missed.
When looking at Jamis Buck's NPC Generator, I'd often think "Man, I wished this could handle XYZ..."
With Vascant's program, I think "OK, XYZ should be quick to script. I'll copy a similar script, and start modifying in the relevant changes."
And if I almost missed a tool that good - I don't know what other tools I might have missed.
Brother Shatterstone
Dark Moderator of PbP
IronWolf said:
Agree.
IronWolf said:
Ditto.
Vascant said:
Most of the Internet is porn...
Honesty, I have no issues with the way the forum is being used. Though, I do wish people would post more in that forum as its one of my favorite to read outside of the PbP forums.
Granted I do see the point of.. Will it really have a lot of traffic.. Probably not a ton of it no but thats kind of the point, like Otu made. How many good projects have been missed? There is a ton of data and small projects out there that just get swallowed up by normal forum banter. Maybe the moderators here do not understand software development nor what it takes to create decent software. I am constantly wondering if I am wasting my time because of lack of interest in something I am coding, this is not some 8 page PDF I created over a weekend.
Perhaps a better solution if traffic is the only qualifier used, open up the publishing forums to RPG Software Developers? This may be a better approach..
Perhaps a better solution if traffic is the only qualifier used, open up the publishing forums to RPG Software Developers? This may be a better approach..
