Spring RTS Engine

That's the issue. A lot of people use this board with the thought that it relates to everything Spring related when it should really be focused upon the engine and engine development. The fact that boards for mapping, modding, lobbies and such just causes people to think that it's a general Spring forum (Which it currently might as well be).

This means boards like "Development" which aren't defined clearly trick people into thinking it means general development, not engine specific.

One way to start is by properly sorting out the forum. What I suggest:

The Spring Engine
---Engine News
----Official Engine Releases
--Engine Development
--Engine Requests
Community Content
--Mapping
----Official Releases
--Games and Mods
----Official Releases
--Lua Scripts
----Official Releases
--AI
----Official Releases
--Art and Modelling
--Projects
----Project subforums
--Other
----Sound
Community
--Community Chat
--Tournaments
--Clans
--Community Sites
--Off-topic
Game Lobby
--TASClient
--SpringLobby
--Spring Downloader
--Other
Other
--Official Spring Engine Site
----Media submissions


This is just the just of my idea of what the forum boards should look like. Notice no help and bugs boards. This would force people to use bug reporting systems like mantis which is the preferred system I believe.

I think the help and bugs board should be replaced by a 'report bug' board that redirects to the tracker. Yes, it is possible.

Actually, if the forums were set up the way jaz suggests, then things would be a lot easier from a multitude of aspects, one of which is news reporting.

The help & bugs isnt just for reporting bugs.

JohannesH wrote:The help & bugs isnt just for reporting bugs.

It's also for asking for help!

CarRepairer wrote: Sure, you might think it's "stupid" but as we speak, a conversation is unfolding in parallel on this subforum about solar-powered Sumos. I'm just suggesting that something needs to be done.

This spam must be stopped at all costs, I'm up to my waist in spam threads I can't go through them all! THERE IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION


QUICK, LOCK THE FORUMS TO PEOPLE WHO AREN'T SPECIAL LIKE ME AND DON'T HAVE TITLES





get over it. this section is very slow as it is and most ideas posted here are good, whether they are mod-specific or not. If they are unfit they can be moved, it's not like it'll take constant supervision or anything.

Read the whole thread, I already retracted my suggestion.