[David Watts]

Originally Posted by Charlie Hough

Strictly speaking, people can get answers in the existing forums. But I'm a fellow forum veteran, and I've found it very annoying that there are so many career sim threads in the historical simulations forum. Yes, I can work around it, and I like to read about people's sims and stories on occasion, but originally the historical forum was more focused on historical game setup, settings, output, troubleshooting, etc. There seems to be much less of that since the dynasty reports have taken over, although that's a correlation and not necessarily causation.

We should also think of this from a new user's perspective, where reorganizing things would make it easier and more intuitive for someone who is new to jump in and understand the right place to post career sim reports and stories versus other topics related to setting up and customizing a historical or fictional game, tweaking settings, troubleshooting issues, etc.

Also, from a usability standpoint, when you have a bunch of dynasty reports mixed in with the those other topics, and a user wants to use the search within the forum, it means a greater risk of search terms being mentioned in those unrelated dynasty posts, and you can end up having to sift through more results to find what you need.

It will be interesting to see how fast a historical forum strictly for questions and such withers away into oblivion. Then again, such a thread may draw the attention of the blow hards that don't play historical, but think they know the answers to all things OOTP related. Same folks love to voice their opinions on how historical should work and most of their opinions would ruin historical overnight if implemented. If that happens it could really take off and become a popular place to post. Of course, 90% of the posts will be utter garbage, but hey it won't have to do with people enjoying the game. I'm off now to run some tests.