Just hopping in because I feel like vouching for the Official Forums a little, as off-topic as this may be, some posts about them give me the idea of an overall misleaded mentality about them.
The Official Forums are not all nasty or anti-alts or anti-RP. As you can see in my Requests to the Devs thread, I have made a LOT of RP-focused threads in there, and I think I can safely say that never have I ever received a flaming reaction from the community there. The only time I did, it was when I asked to nerf Titan EX because of my poor ping ratio (and that is not RP-focused).
There is the right place for every thread. General Discussion surely receives more eye from the community, and as such it flows quickly.. it is not the right place where to post a thread you want to be on the top page for a while, especially if it concerns only a minority of the playerbase.
That is why I made my Balmung Housing Issue thread in the Balmung section.
I assure you, the moderators read all sections, and it is them who then point interesting cases at Developers for them to respond (the Developers likely do not browse the English categories themselves, more of the Japanese), so General Discussion is not really a must to make a thread succesful or receive a Developer's attention.
Lastly I'd like to stress just one more time of how I'd love if the RPC accepted the Official Forum's support more. It's thanks to them that we are receiving, for example, the City-state specific outfits coming 2.51. I like to think that my thread asking for them on the official boards helped this, and maybe it did, but more probably, someone asked for them on the JP boards
It doesn't matter who did it in the end, but what matters is that I feel happy for asking in those forums.
So in the end, please do not think poorly of the Official Forums just because of the mess General Discussion can be sometimes. There are trolls there just as there are people ready for a civil discussion, and they will always have the attention of SE that these boards do not have.
TL;DR: The official forums are not evil! You just need to choose carefully the right section and the right topic/wording for your thread!
The Official Forums are not all nasty or anti-alts or anti-RP. As you can see in my Requests to the Devs thread, I have made a LOT of RP-focused threads in there, and I think I can safely say that never have I ever received a flaming reaction from the community there. The only time I did, it was when I asked to nerf Titan EX because of my poor ping ratio (and that is not RP-focused).
There is the right place for every thread. General Discussion surely receives more eye from the community, and as such it flows quickly.. it is not the right place where to post a thread you want to be on the top page for a while, especially if it concerns only a minority of the playerbase.
That is why I made my Balmung Housing Issue thread in the Balmung section.
I assure you, the moderators read all sections, and it is them who then point interesting cases at Developers for them to respond (the Developers likely do not browse the English categories themselves, more of the Japanese), so General Discussion is not really a must to make a thread succesful or receive a Developer's attention.
Lastly I'd like to stress just one more time of how I'd love if the RPC accepted the Official Forum's support more. It's thanks to them that we are receiving, for example, the City-state specific outfits coming 2.51. I like to think that my thread asking for them on the official boards helped this, and maybe it did, but more probably, someone asked for them on the JP boards
It doesn't matter who did it in the end, but what matters is that I feel happy for asking in those forums.So in the end, please do not think poorly of the Official Forums just because of the mess General Discussion can be sometimes. There are trolls there just as there are people ready for a civil discussion, and they will always have the attention of SE that these boards do not have.
TL;DR: The official forums are not evil! You just need to choose carefully the right section and the right topic/wording for your thread!
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
