Breaking up the forums:
I will be honest, there are a lot of times when I just log in, look at the topics, and click "Mark as read," particularly when it's on topics like the "Lumiel Refuge Camp" or "For those of you who have forgotten.." However, looking over the forum's structure I think at the most we could split up "Lounge" a bit, since it seems that putting non-RP matters, game mechanics discussions, AND site/forum discussions into one sub-forum is a bit much.
As for 12-page topics... forum members here all just go way off topic constantly. I know some of the forum mods have had to split topics a few times to trim off the off-topic stuff into new threads (the anime discussion thread was 3 pages of off-topic discussion by the time I noticed it, and it quickly spread to 3 more pages soon after the split), and I don't think adding new sub-forums is going to do anything about that. We just need more people with bright blue names patroling the forums to split off-topic discussions into the proper sub-forum, and we need all members to be more mindful of staying on topic.
Server queues and population:
Even at FFXI's peak, there were never server queues. There may be more people playing FFXIV but I still doubt it will be like WoW where they have a hojillion servers and there's still server queues. Even then, the only time I ever had an issue with server queues in WoW was when I had a character on the highest population Latin American server (for better Spanish language aquisition. ¡Para la Horda!), and even then I had to wait maybe 15 minutes at peak times. My personal stance is, the more people on the server the better. I don't understand all this anti-social talk for picking our server. >_>
Podcast Big News:
Congrats on becoming part of Aetheryte Radio! That is excellent for you guys. Like you said, it will definitely help make roleplayers and our community more well-known to the general FFXIV population. I do have some concerns that moving the podcast (and changing the name of it) away from the RPC will lessen a bit of the RPC community's vitality, but from the interest expressed by others on this forum, it seems like there will likely be a new podcast or two to fill that gap and keep a podcast focused on the RPC and its members specifically.
I will be honest, there are a lot of times when I just log in, look at the topics, and click "Mark as read," particularly when it's on topics like the "Lumiel Refuge Camp" or "For those of you who have forgotten.." However, looking over the forum's structure I think at the most we could split up "Lounge" a bit, since it seems that putting non-RP matters, game mechanics discussions, AND site/forum discussions into one sub-forum is a bit much.
As for 12-page topics... forum members here all just go way off topic constantly. I know some of the forum mods have had to split topics a few times to trim off the off-topic stuff into new threads (the anime discussion thread was 3 pages of off-topic discussion by the time I noticed it, and it quickly spread to 3 more pages soon after the split), and I don't think adding new sub-forums is going to do anything about that. We just need more people with bright blue names patroling the forums to split off-topic discussions into the proper sub-forum, and we need all members to be more mindful of staying on topic.
Server queues and population:
Even at FFXI's peak, there were never server queues. There may be more people playing FFXIV but I still doubt it will be like WoW where they have a hojillion servers and there's still server queues. Even then, the only time I ever had an issue with server queues in WoW was when I had a character on the highest population Latin American server (for better Spanish language aquisition. ¡Para la Horda!), and even then I had to wait maybe 15 minutes at peak times. My personal stance is, the more people on the server the better. I don't understand all this anti-social talk for picking our server. >_>
Podcast Big News:
Congrats on becoming part of Aetheryte Radio! That is excellent for you guys. Like you said, it will definitely help make roleplayers and our community more well-known to the general FFXIV population. I do have some concerns that moving the podcast (and changing the name of it) away from the RPC will lessen a bit of the RPC community's vitality, but from the interest expressed by others on this forum, it seems like there will likely be a new podcast or two to fill that gap and keep a podcast focused on the RPC and its members specifically.
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