Perhaps not the best title for the thread but please bear with me as I try and explain what this is about. I'm sure this will elicit some, perhaps heated, discussion but please keep it civil and accept that everyone is entitled to their own view and opinion. Also please keep to the subject under discussion.
There was chat in the Europa Linkshell recently (click here for info on Europa) about needing to be better able to organize things for the people playing at EU prime time. The main request by those who brought this up was a separate forum for EU prime time players. Whilst as one of the co-leaders of Europa I didn’t think this was necessary I did agree to post this thread to allow it to be discussed in an open environment.
Personally I feel that a separate forum to EU prime time players isn’t necessary because there is everything we need in the selection of forums already available. I also thought that if Europa was granted a separate forum then every other Free Company and/or Linkshell might also request their own as well. With that thought in mind I doubt the forums admins would create one for Europa. Now perhaps a separate for each of the main time zones would be useful, although personally I'm still not convinced it is needed.
My counter suggestion to creating a separate forum is to have a standard that is used, particularly in the server events forums, to identify threads that are meant for a particular time zone. Although this isn’t meant to mean that an event is exclusively for players in that time zone. For example, in the title for an event it could start with an indicator of the time zone the event is planned for so you would see:
[EU] Tavern Night, Sunday 8 September
Now for this to be useful everyone would have to stick to this else those events that didn’t have the agreed information in the title would still have to be read in detail to try and work out when it was taking place. The actual agreed standard is still open for discussion.
So as promised to those in the Europa Linkshell, here is the thread for you to explain in more detail what it is you are looking for and how you think those requirements can be met.
There was chat in the Europa Linkshell recently (click here for info on Europa) about needing to be better able to organize things for the people playing at EU prime time. The main request by those who brought this up was a separate forum for EU prime time players. Whilst as one of the co-leaders of Europa I didn’t think this was necessary I did agree to post this thread to allow it to be discussed in an open environment.
Personally I feel that a separate forum to EU prime time players isn’t necessary because there is everything we need in the selection of forums already available. I also thought that if Europa was granted a separate forum then every other Free Company and/or Linkshell might also request their own as well. With that thought in mind I doubt the forums admins would create one for Europa. Now perhaps a separate for each of the main time zones would be useful, although personally I'm still not convinced it is needed.
My counter suggestion to creating a separate forum is to have a standard that is used, particularly in the server events forums, to identify threads that are meant for a particular time zone. Although this isn’t meant to mean that an event is exclusively for players in that time zone. For example, in the title for an event it could start with an indicator of the time zone the event is planned for so you would see:
[EU] Tavern Night, Sunday 8 September
Now for this to be useful everyone would have to stick to this else those events that didn’t have the agreed information in the title would still have to be read in detail to try and work out when it was taking place. The actual agreed standard is still open for discussion.
So as promised to those in the Europa Linkshell, here is the thread for you to explain in more detail what it is you are looking for and how you think those requirements can be met.
