Hm, Talya; I'm asking two totally different questions:
1. why should there not be a newbie-subforum? Does the abstinence of such a MMORPG-typical subforum provide any benefits at all?
2. why not make this newbie-forum, if it should ever be set up, accessible for non-registered guests too?
The official news, the general forum, the technical forum, this very bug-comment-notes-forum and other subforums are presently accessible for non-registered players in this forum you're reading right now… http://app.ryzom.com/app_forum/?page=topic/view/6663/1#1 You see: it's already been decided that these subforums will stay accessible for non-registered players, at least for now. Isn't this the answer to your question somehow, Talya?
As long as there is a subforum for newcomers, it will be used. Quod erat demonstrandum. Here's proof again: http://forums.ryzom.de/forumdisplay.php?f=89 had 3,568 threads since 2005 (sorry for accidentally writing 2004 in the upper post!), and http://forums.ryzom.com/forumdisplay.php?f=87 had 1,378 threads since 2005.
As long as such a subforum is too hard to find, it won't be used much or maybe won't be used at all of course.
Hard facts again: only 26 threads in the old English Ryzom-newcomer-forum since May last year (excluding older stickies), and only 3 (!) threads in the old German Ryzom-newcomer-forum since May last year (excluding older stickies again)...
My examples only pointed out for what kind of topics a newbie-forum is normally being used and appreciated for. So your "replies" to the selection of topics from the old forum are quite off-topic, Talya; even though they are interesting :)
You're complaining about non-"essential" information, unnecessary questions, useless repeats of same-old questions, questions that cannot be really answered well / competently, personal opinions being no help to newcomers even if they asked for it, and how wrong it is to not want to register before using a (newbie-)forum...
Funny - isn't this like complaining about the everday imperfection of mankind? :D
An absence of a newcomer-forum can't prevent these typical occurrences from happening, you know? ;) They will still go on; only changing to different platforms. What's "better" about that?
1. why should there not be a newbie-subforum? Does the abstinence of such a MMORPG-typical subforum provide any benefits at all?
2. why not make this newbie-forum, if it should ever be set up, accessible for non-registered guests too?
The official news, the general forum, the technical forum, this very bug-comment-notes-forum and other subforums are presently accessible for non-registered players in this forum you're reading right now… http://app.ryzom.com/app_forum/?page=topic/view/6663/1#1 You see: it's already been decided that these subforums will stay accessible for non-registered players, at least for now. Isn't this the answer to your question somehow, Talya?
As long as there is a subforum for newcomers, it will be used. Quod erat demonstrandum. Here's proof again: http://forums.ryzom.de/forumdisplay.php?f=89 had 3,568 threads since 2005 (sorry for accidentally writing 2004 in the upper post!), and http://forums.ryzom.com/forumdisplay.php?f=87 had 1,378 threads since 2005.
As long as such a subforum is too hard to find, it won't be used much or maybe won't be used at all of course.
Hard facts again: only 26 threads in the old English Ryzom-newcomer-forum since May last year (excluding older stickies), and only 3 (!) threads in the old German Ryzom-newcomer-forum since May last year (excluding older stickies again)...
My examples only pointed out for what kind of topics a newbie-forum is normally being used and appreciated for. So your "replies" to the selection of topics from the old forum are quite off-topic, Talya; even though they are interesting :)
You're complaining about non-"essential" information, unnecessary questions, useless repeats of same-old questions, questions that cannot be really answered well / competently, personal opinions being no help to newcomers even if they asked for it, and how wrong it is to not want to register before using a (newbie-)forum...
Funny - isn't this like complaining about the everday imperfection of mankind? :D
An absence of a newcomer-forum can't prevent these typical occurrences from happening, you know? ;) They will still go on; only changing to different platforms. What's "better" about that?
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