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Originally Posted by ajsuk
Said it 500 times now, the app forums need to be made accessible to the public, read-only at the very least so that the outside world can actually tell what's going on in the community.
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Absolutely agreed with the Jayce
I hadn't actually checked ingame, but I read somewhere on these forums that "
the forums are accessible ingame", and I assumed it meant
these forums. So I didn't bother checking that out, because no ingame forum implementation will ever be as full-featured and comfortable to use as something like vBulletin in a full browser.
I've now checked out these "other" forums, and really like whole idea. But they definitely need to be more visible to new players, and openly promoted as a tool for interacting with the existing community. As they currently stand, they are basically a way for the current community to discuss the game in a very closed fashion - and any comments of "the main forums make the game look dead", are absolutely accurate. I looked in the beginner forum yesterday, and due to the default "show posts of age" setting, I only see the stickies. Yes, I can change the age value and see them all - that doesn't change it from negative to positive, in terms of a new players' experience.