- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The problem with New Mombasa is that nearly everything to do with Halo 2 has been discussed to death. If you look at any of the threads, they will all start repeating themselves.
"OMG No ATV!!!" and "OMG No Pistol!!"
And the like, often two or three of the same threads a day.
Discussion on New Mombasa becomes increasingly hard, as it is home to the most posts on B.net. The front page changes the fastest, so when any topic is resolved, it drifts off into the netherworld of pages 2-780, never to be seen again. It's later brought up, flamed and spammed,
It’s a vicious cycle.
Since the problem is that no one can find if anything has been posted before, the front page system needs to be changed. The front page can be redone so that useful topics no longer drift into the background.
#1 New Mombasa could be split into different areas, for discussion of, weapons and vehicles, level design, visual and audio effects, strategies, and so forth.
#2 Or a Cache system could be implemented. What I mean to say here, is that instead of organizing New Mombasa by which topics drift off the front page, they would be organized by date.
[In the NM cache, if a new thread was created today, it stays on first page for the day, and any new thread stays, making the page longer. The next day, when new threads are created, the old threads (which have been limited to the top twenty of yesterday, any on that page below twenty are recyled into page two and so forth) are moved off the page when the days new threads pushes them off of the twenty slots, but the page just keeps growing longer with all of the days new threads.
In summary, the days new threads stay up for the day, making the page as long as the days threads.
The next day, the page cuts itself off the top twenty of yesterday, everything else is pushed back into page two.
All new threads of that day can push the top twenty of yesterday off of the front page. When the twenty slots are filled, the page grows longer, but only with threads active in the last day. ]
I think what this will mean is that all threads dealing with relevant issues, like recently, ATV's and Pistols, will stay on the front page for the day, so we don't see two and three of these threads a day. After the first day, everyone who logged on for that day will have already seen all the topics discussed, and won't make repeater threads.
Repeater threads are flamed and spammed, often carrying over into other threads. People will be able to see all of the days threads, without having to search through page 2-780.
After several days all relevant, useful topics will have been made, and on the front page. Everyone who has logged in for that day will have seen them, and won’t create those same topics again tomorrow.
Just a thought.