New Vanguard Forums Coming - Save Your Favorite Posts!

Discussion in 'News and Announcements' started by ARCHIVED-Zatozia, Sep 18, 2012.

  1. So long as I can be able to remain logged in a decent amount of time, and actually have my Read threads be remembered between sessions I'll be a happy camper.
    As it is if I log in, read all of the new posts then close the tab if I come back later all of the threads I had read on my last session aren't remembered and god dangit is that annoying.
  2. Nejibana@Telon wrote:
    That function will not be available on the new forums. It will be up to the individuals if they want to associcated their forum handles or signatures with their character names.
  3. Will there be titles and guild ranks/guild names on the new forums?
  4. Kilsin@Telon wrote:
    I was wondering about this one too...and also, a while back there was a forum contest for a special forum handle that I and another player had won and as such I have had the forum handle of "HedgeMother" and the custom color of dark green for quite a while. It may seem silly to some, but it would be really quite nice if I am able to retain both of those in the new forum structure.
    As to Kilsin's question, having guild ranks available and visible on our post can assist a new player/guild seeking player greatly in determining the type of personalities that they will encounter should they choose to join a particular guild.
  5. There will be nothing inspirational or unique. that should cover all the questions
  6. Kilsin@Telon wrote:
    The new forums have earned groups similar to these forums. We will probably not have as many as we have on this one though.
    There won't be any guild ranks or names. I'm not sure about titles just yet. The new forums are being tested with the PlanetSide 2 Beta forums. I would check it out there but my access is currently nerfed and I can't check it!
    I'll collect all the questions here and try to get some answers for them.
  7. leavwiz wrote:
    Hey there,
    We will still ban/punish those who are "less than cordial." However, we have been evaluating our moderation efforts and have decided to use a mallet instead of a sledgehammer.
    Post with purpose, fun, and construction and everyone will be fine!
  8. Leavwiz is most always cordial, but sometimes truth hurts...Moderators would do well to learn "tongue in cheek" and not find it as "ban" material.
  9. Zatozia wrote:
    That's a shame Zat, I don't really care for post counts or titles earned by posting.
    Guild tags are more important to myself and others to advertise our guilds and for players to know what guild you are a part of and be able to judge if you're a good fit like Aasha mentioned.
  10. ARCHIVED-326 Guest

    Zatozia wrote:
    Sounds to me like this is a downgrade.
    I hate to say it, but... What are the forums for and how can new forums provide a better experience? I mean, you have a handle, some have an avatar and/or a signature. You can post, you can reply to a post, start a new thread. What could we possibly gaining by moving to new forums?
  11. 326 wrote:
    The current forums:
    • break constantly, requiring extensive maintenance by SOE staff
    • have broken search which barely works
    • require editing of HTML to quote more than one person in a single post
    • won't reliably e-mail users when a thread they've subscribed to has been updated
    • won't reliably e-mail users when they have received a PM
    Among other numerous strange design flaws which make the SOE Community team's jobs 10 times harder than they should be.
    The new forum software has much faster performance, excellent search capability, and also the ability to "Like" posts which draws attention to useful posts (I know you're thinking it will be as useless as Facebook, but actually it works really well on a forum). Also, Private Messages have a threaded "conversation" style which makes it easy to follow a chain of private messages.
    So...
  12. Are you passionate about wanting to preserve the Vanguard forums? Do you have some knowledge of installing and running forum software like vBulletin? Do you have some web hosting space that allows PHP/MySQL scripts?
    I have developed an automated PHP script that will harvest the threads and posts from an SOE Forum and write the data directly into a vBulletin database. Without too much difficulty, it should be possible to alter the script to work with other software like phpBB or SMF.
    I just did a count and here's the stats I see on the Vanguard forums:
    • Threads: 40,183
    • Posts: 532,047
    Based on the import speeds I've been seeing on the EQ2 forums, I estimate it would take about 52-72 hours of continuous harvesting to capture the entire Vanguard forums into another forum database.
    If you think you are up to the task of preserving Telon's history, please send me an e-mail at morgan (at) eq2wire.com.
    I have not posted on the Vanguard forums before, as I primarly play EQ2. I am the co-creator of EQ2U which is an EQ2 character armory website.
  13. Vanguard is no longer first.

    Everquest has screwed you guys over, they're getting it first.
  14. JackPipsam wrote:
    I'm not quite sure that's the way I would have worded it. EverQuest is getting the new forums first because we didn't want to push out the new forums there in the middle of its expansion Beta.
    Vanguard will still be getting the new forums though and we'll still give at least 24 hours notice before it happens.
    This gives everyone more time to backup their favorite posts!
  15. ARCHIVED-326 Guest

    Zatozia wrote:
    This about hits the nail on the head, Everquest with yet another expansion and obvious love for the game that Vanguard does NOT have.
    Still no word on new content and F2P has been live for some time. Thanks for the new bugged raid mob and timesink random spawn mechanic lorestone hunt, but "where's the beef"?
    Really kind of shocks me that the forums are changing more than the game. Wait actually I'm not shocked at all having played this game for 5+ years.
  16. I guess nobody wants to host an archive for the Vanguard forums?
  17. If no one else is going to... Feldon, I've sent you an email about this. You do good work over at EQ2Wire, thanks for your assistance here.

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