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I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but if it's not, please move it, and not delete it.

I think the forums need a change. They should be split up like the games page. The forums being:

The Septagon - 7th Column, Community and Bungie General
Classics - General for Gnop!, Minotaur, Pathways into Darkness, Operation Desert Storm and Abuse
Marathon - General for Marathon, Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity
Myth and Oni - General for Myth, Myth 2 and Oni
Halo - General for Halo Xbox
Halo PC/H2V - General for Halo PC and Halo 2 Vista
Halo 2 - General for Halo 2 Xbox and Live
Halo 3 - General for Halo 3
Halo General - All around Halo
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Multimedia (I liked that idea) - Fanfics, montages, etc.
Classifieds - Groups and clans advertising
The Flood - Random

But we need names. Help me come up with some.

The Septagon - The Septagon
Classics - ???
Marathon - The G4 Sunbathing Station, Lh'owon, Citadel of Antiquity, etc.
Myth and Oni - ???
Halo - The Library
Halo PC/H2V - The Maw
Halo 2 - New Mombasa
Halo 3 - The Ark
Halo General - ???
Multimedia - Multimedia
Classifieds - Classifieds
Flood - Flood

Come up with some ideas and tell me what you think of my whole idea.

[Edited on 8/31/2006]

  • 08.30.2006 8:26 PM PDT
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I'd prefer less forums - not more.

  • 08.30.2006 8:29 PM PDT

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I'd prefer less forums - not more.
As would I...more forums would mean more places for people to spam.

  • 08.30.2006 8:33 PM PDT
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Why dont we have one giant forum where everyone can gather and chity chat?

  • 08.30.2006 8:33 PM PDT

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Why dont we have one giant forum where everyone can gather and chity chat?


We do. It's called The Flood.

  • 08.30.2006 8:36 PM PDT
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A seperate forum just for myth?

Look in the underground, i dare you to find at least two myth subjects on the front page at any time of the day. We dont need anymore forums. If anything the Halo 3 forum should be locked untill we have somthing new to talk about.

  • 08.30.2006 8:48 PM PDT

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The Septagon: Community.....(place for members to kiss moderator ass)
The Underground: Bungie General and Oldschool games
The Ark: Halo 3 General
Reach: Halo/Halo 2 General (Including fanfics and novel discussion)
The Maw: Halo PC/Halo 2 Vista
Camp Froman: [Halo] Xbox Live/Multiplayer/Playlist discussion
Mombasa Gazette: News/ Classifieds
The Flood: Off-Topic

Thats 4 less.

  • 08.30.2006 8:48 PM PDT
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Actually its fine how it is. All you did was rearange things and add a new forum. I like the Mombasa Gazette name. That was clever.

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Most of those ideas wouldn't work. The Underground is specifically for all the oldschool games, marathon, myth, and oni, (chapters as well) if they did however do that those forms would be dead. I mean there would probably be like two posts in the oni forum. And barely any in the myth forum. I suggest you join the jumpers. They're groups dedicated to all bungie games myth, marathon, and Halo. Just look in my sig if you want to join.

  • 08.31.2006 8:24 AM PDT
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There should be a Halo forum, a Halo 2 forum, a Halo 3 forum, a Halo media forum, a Bungie forum, an Old school forum, The Classifieds, and The Flood.

  • 08.31.2006 8:52 AM PDT
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When Halo 3 arrives, this is what I am thinking we could do:

*Scrap Gallery and Voting Booth. Neither are needed (or updated for that matter.)

*Put in a Multimedia Forum (for all thing media: Montages, Machinima, various forms of Multimedia Material)

*Combine Optimatch (Halo 2) and New Mombassa.

*Create a Halo 3 Optimatch

*Combine The Maw and The Library.

So here's the list:

The Underground
The Septagon
Halo 3 Forum (Needs a Catchy name......)
Halo 3 Optimatch
The Library
The News
Classifieds
Multimedia Forum
The Flood.


So we cut down on the excess Forums, but we still have enough to keep this site fresh and entertaining.

  • 08.31.2006 8:59 AM PDT
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There is not nearly enough activity concerning all of the oldschool games to warrant the creation of seperate forums. Hell, the things practically keeping the forum alive is the novel and movie discussion.

I agree that the Gallery and Voting Booth (mostly the Gallery) are in need of either updates, or a trip to the garbage.

What I'm truly torn over is if Halo 3 will need yet another forum for Multiplayer (most likely), and if we need another Optimatch forum for Halo 3. If Bungie plans on continuing to update Halo 2, then there would probably be too much traffic in New Mombasa to put everything Halo 2 in there and simultaneously get anything done. If there will be no further updates for Halo 2, then the current Optimatch could just be switched over to discuss Halo 3 playlists. However, if they do plan on updating Halo 2, will we need another forum, or will Optimatch be able to contain all of the complaints of both games?

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That's a good point, Mabian. Combining the two (Optimatch and New Mombassa) would create traffic. Even if Halo 2's popularity takes a sharp turn downward when Halo 3 arrives.

I guess we may have to make Another Optimatch for Halo 3 and just have two of them. I guess it wouldn't hurt, but we would still need to get rid of one (maybe two) of the "lesser used" Forums.

*edit* Optimatch for Both? Hmmm......it might work, maybe.

[Edited on 8/31/2006]

  • 08.31.2006 10:03 AM PDT

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I'd prefer less forums - not more.


Please explain the rational.

I agree that if your community is 50 people, you don't need 50 forums. But, with a 7 figure community population, 7 forums will not likely cut it.

More forums, might also alleviate some of the pain of the limit of 25 groups that you can join. As there would be public forums for some popular topics like column art and battle tactics and such. Wideload appreciation, and anonymous gaming and such might need to stay in groups. But, plenty of the groups perhaps could be public forums. It's just a thought.


I agre with him. There are many people on Bungie, and it's sometimes hard to find a good forum. And if you're too open with forums, that leads to spam. And I only changed it so there would be nine main forums. If that's not good how about:

The Septagon
Classics
Marathon
Myth and Oni
Halo
Halo PC/H2V
Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo General
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Multimedia (I liked that idea)
Classifieds
The Flood

So that way there's as many forums as there are now, but there's no Voting Booth or Gallery, so less wasted space, and it's more narrowed down.

You CANNOT say that that there is more forums, because, I counted. There's twelve now, there's twelve here. I think this idea is better than my original, so I'll edit my old post.

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Posted by: Pezza
I'd prefer less forums - not more.

wouldn't be a bad idea. maybe combine new mombassa, the maw, the library, and the halo 3 forum into one?
edit: or if that's too many, have the library encompass halo pc, and halo for the xbox, and have optimatch and h2v merge into new mombassa?

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  • 08.31.2006 12:04 PM PDT

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This is my take at the forums.

Main Forums:

Underground - Bungie Oldschool and Bungie General
Septagon - 7th Column and Community
Halo General - Halo 1, Halo 2
Halo 3 Forum - Halo 3
Optimatch - Halo 2, Halo 3 Xbox live Playlist
Halo PC / Halo 2 Vista Forum- Halo 2 Vista / Halo PC
Offtopic Forum - Offtopic

Small Forums:

The News
Voting Booth
Advertising


I think all forums should be named in a less complicated way. Instead of The Maw use Halo PC / Halo 2 Vista Forum. Just keep it simple for those new (less advanced) people who can't seem to read forum discriptions. But DO NOT change the Septagon or the Underground, they're bungie originals.

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  • 08.31.2006 12:45 PM PDT
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In my opinion this is how it should be.

* The Underground: anything relating to bungie, all of there games (except Halo) (stays the same)
* The Septagon: Has to do with the website in general (stays the same)
* Halo 3 form: Has to do with Halo 3.
* Halo General: Halo xbox, halo 2 xbox, playlists, Halo PC, and HGN
* Classifieds: Advertising (stays the same)
* The Flood Off-topic (stays the same)
* An updated version of The Gallery and Voting Booth in one (name undecided)

And put the group max to at least 30.
That in my opinion would work best.

  • 08.31.2006 1:05 PM PDT

Cool ideas!

  • 09.24.2006 3:38 PM PDT

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Wow, this one got bumped?

  • 09.24.2006 3:58 PM PDT

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reading though i found 2 problems. First off when halo 3 comes they will likely make halo 2 one forum and halo 3 will have 3 forums again. It worked well and with the amount of traffic for halo 3 it's going to be needed. New Mombasa will be combined with optimatch. they have stated several times that once halo 3 hits halo 2 will not receive any updates. And we are getting closer to that date.

The other problem is that since bungie sold the rights to myth and such i don't think they should have forums discussing it. Bungie is not going to be those back so they mind as well keep it all in one forum.

Anyways i am sure the web team knows what they are doing and i don't think it will be to long until we see some of the new features roll in as well as the new look.

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Septagon - 7th Column and Community
The Underground - Bungie General and Oldschool Games
The Maw - Halo PC and Halo 2 Vista
Installation 04 - Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 2 Xbox Live! Playlists (?)
The Ark - Halo 3 General
? - Halo 3 Xbox Live! Playlists
The Flood - Offtopic
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Classifieds - Advertising
? - Voting Booth + News + Gallery

Seven main forums and two sub-forums.

[Edited on 9/24/2006]

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Posted by: Pezza
I'd prefer less forums - not more.
As would I...more forums would mean more places for people to spam.


I agree.

  • 09.24.2006 5:04 PM PDT

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The forums are perfectly fine right now. If you can't find a forum to post your topic in, then it doesn't belong here. And assuming you follow the rules to every last period.

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  • 09.24.2006 5:05 PM PDT

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