Bumpity bump!

 Mike,

I live up in Oxford(Miami University) so if there is a game in Cincy I'd love to come. I'll make sure to look you in the eyes when I signal jam your fleet and walk into your home system ;)

Knowing Mike, you would never even have the chance to pull that off.

 I'd like to point out that this board is relatively dead, but the wiki is hoppin'!  Which is just fine with me...

I'd like to point out you're right ^^

Mike_Evans said:

Yes the Wiki TI3 forums rocks which is just fine. Lets not forgot to come and check out the official site once in a while though - they are still working on it and it just might improve some. Besides we do not want to isolate us and so new blood might need directions to our nest all though wiki forum get better hits on google these days due to increased traffic.

If you have not allready checked it out come to TI3 uofficial forum at http://www.ti3wiki.org/forum/YaBB.pl

 Just a bump for this thread

(and now some text to ensure my post is long enough).

I would like to see the PM function on this website.  I still think that the best visibility with newer players come here first and would not mind coming back to the PBeM boards they have here if the PM functio nwould work.  That is the only thing left holding me back from moving to here from the TI3wiki.org 

Now that the speed has been increased to a much more manageable pace (Still a little slow) I do not mind reading up on my games here.

 In times where even the Internet Explorer is capable of tabbed browsing it should be easy enough to make both boards interesting! So don't bother to post over here! Enlarge the community wherever you can! Over and out!

The wiki hosts internet play, hoards of custom stuff like races, tiles, rules....  Join in !

 Just a bump....  the forum at the Wiki is buzzing with good activity!

This forum is new and far from perfect - but I'm happy here for right now. 

I find the wiki to be too full of elitist grognards playing their own weird variants that are so different from the original to have lost all relevance. 

So enough plugging the wiki already.  Thanks.

I agree.  The poaching attempts by the wiki enthusiasts are kind of annoying too.

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy BOTH forums, and I'd encourage anyone to continue to pimp the wiki.  It's a great resource. 

What I don't like is the negativity about this forum, and building up the wiki at the expense of this forum.  This is where most all of your new players are going to start.   It's detrimental to the future of the game to turn off new people by slamming FFG like they don't support players. 

Anybody out there ever lost a game piece, then wrote Thadd, and got that piece in 3 days FREE?  Try that with the big guys!!!  Other companies are glad to SELL you extras.

If you want to make sure TI3 is around for as possible you ought to cut FFG and this forum a little slack.  Their trying to make a quality product and a way for players to meet. 

There's room for everyone here

4lterego said:

This.

4lterego said:

I'd probably be happier if this forum actually WORKED.  No PMS?  Problems posting on occasion?  The crappiest post editor I've ever seen in a forum?

Yes, some of the wiki people are some of the old guard (for good or ill).  But there are quite a few newer players there as well. 

If FFG would make any sort of effort to make these forums as good as they were (functionality-wise) before this horrendous switch, there'd probably be less so-called "poaching".  But it seems whoever is in charge of web design here doesn't have any desire to make this forum something more than a halfway-useful piece of garbage.

Saying it's "new" is giving them too much credit - it's been about 2 months now and hardly ANY of the major problems have been addressed AT ALL!  It's STILL slow and clunkly a lot of the time, none of the functionality that a "real" forum needs is present, and it's still just too flashy.

I come here on occasion, but unlike the old forums, where I loved coming and interacting with other players (new and old), I generally dread coming to these new forums because it's such a pain in the butt to use.  Yes, I complain about this a lot, but I complain because the webmasters here seem to be ignoring the problems.