[Suggestion] Suggestions for forum changes

[Sebivine]

Hello everyone

 

I'm new to this game and have just joined the forum as well, but have a lot of experience with forums (including behind the scenes). For a company with several games that are worth a lot, the forum seems to be quite conservative and outdated.

I will give a few suggestions that shouldn't require any major input/work other than perhaps #3 & 4, but will improve QoL.  

 

Overview:

1) Adding a suggestion subforum.

2) Adding an introduction subforum.

3) Adding the option to choose avatar (either premade ones like in the Aion forum, or custom ones like every other forum since 2005 :3).

4) Adding more options in text input. 

5) Move Esports subforum to the bottom

6) Possible new subforum organisation

 

Suggestions:

1) Adding a suggestion subforum.

An extra subforum for suggestions near the bottom of the list (below classes for example) where forum users can give suggestions. Should be split between Game and Forum just like classes are split between all of them. Possibly with a polling system. This way admins can just forward the thread in suggestions to devs and this way suggestions that could possible improve the game/forum by a lot wouldn't be send to other pages due to spammy topics in general discussion.

 

2) Adding an introduction subforum.

An extra subforum for introductions near the bottom of the list as well. Here people can make threads to introduce themselves. If possible, you could turn off the post count in this subforum so that people can always say welcome or welcome back without it being seen as post-hunting. 

 

 

3) Adding the option to choose avatar (either premade ones like in the Aion forum, or custom ones like every other forum since 2005 :3).

Looked through the search option and saw many threads for this going back years... I understand priorities, but come on :D 

 

4) Adding more options in text input. 

The amount of options in text editting is abysmal :x Not even text color? No emoticons? Should atleast put in the basic forum emotes and the B&S emotes.

 

5) Move Esports subforum to the bottom

Self-explanatory

 

6) Possible new subforum organisation

News and Announcements

General Discussion

PvE

PvP

Player to Player Support (or better: "Community Support")

Classes

Servers

Bug Reports

*Suggestions*

Fan Creations

*Introductions*

Esports

 

Thank you for taking your time to read this.

Sebivine