EVE General Discussion

I didn't go back to sleep for long enough...

I don't actually use reddit and I would really like these forums to be The place to come for eve discussions. After falcons comments about a new forum, I want to discuss how this new forum could be as good as possible.

I get the concern about player moderation through down votes, and the cliques that it can form. However it's a fact that right now reddit is getting more eve traffic than these forums. They must be doing something right. It's also true that if you present yourself in a friendly manner then you are unlikely to be downvoted. Even still, it's possible that we can take the up/down vote system and improve on it. Perhaps even a blended forum where users can choose to auto hide posts with a certain number of dislikes, adjustable by tolerance of different opinions (no of dislikes).

Edit: as Frostys has said, reddit offers freedom in the sense you are free to post why you like and others are free to react.

This

Just had this vision -

" I'm telling you those people don't want me at the party"
15 minutes later the guy get tossed out after taking a dump on the homeowners kitchen table
"See I told you. Those people are a bunch of haters"

Stealing a Goat is a felony in my state. Texas Law!

As an elder god who requires the hate and misery of mortals to exist I must protest this change. I didn't drive Hilmar mad with my dark whispering for it to end so soon. Getting all this set up was a lot of effort, and it was supposed to be a steady food supply for the future. I mean I just spawned, so now I have millions of tiny figments of purest evil about to hatch! How am I supposed to feed them? Think of the children!

If you go through with this madness I'll be waiting for you in that instant of darkness when you blink. And I'll sue. One of these should scare you way more than the other, just sayin.

Oh jeez, not Ayn Rand...


(and people call us a cult...)

One of the better values here is the "dev posts" roll-up. Does such a thing exist in Reddit? or has someone made a site I could bookmark that conglomerates all known ccp user posts on Reddit ?

Reddit is a malodorous skunk hole, where the infighting for fame is extraordinarily vicious, because the prizes are so small.

If I was rethinking this forum, I'd be thinking about what people would pay for, and try to structure it that way, so that the forums can be a self-sustaining creation.

With that overall philosophy I'd look at three things, newsworthiness, fun and visual appeal.

There always tends to be one forum that people pile into.

On these forums it's probably General Discussion.

Why is that?

I call that feature, newsworthiness. It's up to date information across a spectrum of interests. A function of information and time.

So that would be important to have. A big crazy tavern of all sorts of conversation.

Next would be fun. I'd reward good posting, which I break into two groups; fun and/or informative.

Wow! Nice post, here have a fancy EVE jacket, in game or real. Or some game time, or a pile of ISK.

Then the visual stuff, we are all about graphics. Which makes sense, light is a speedy carrier of information, so we tend to rely on our eyes.

How can players create visual content for the EVE forums?

Currently linking to other places gets you a popup message warning you of the dangers of the internet and reminding you to stay in the safe arms of EVE.

So it makes it difficult to organise a ship design contest, or even make a funny gif of being podded.

That's the areas I'd look at.

And I'd take it easy on the heavy breathed marketer with the bad tie, knocking on my spaceship window.

There's a few former threads that used to be here that aren't anymore. Though I can't recall the exact title there was a thread specifically earmarked for alliance/corporate warfare. The volume of posts rivaled general. If memory serves there were multiple posts and/or posters promoting the catch phrase " there is no ( insert name ) "