Regarding the Changes and Moving Forward! Options

[kaz]

Hello everybody

No one can ignore the fact that now the official forums for RPGMaker are open, this will affect the activity of other forums including RRR.

We are therefore changing the focus of this Forum in order to become more competitive. We are moving away from engine support and into the game making stages. You can still discuss engines and get help - but it might not be in the same area as before or in the same format.,

We are planning a few new areas at a time- we would liked to have done a big reveal for you all but feedback from certain sources has made this impossible. We have based these changes on Forum Statistics, pm's with ideas and general observation.

We would liked to have had time to throw these ideas around more for discussion before they were implemented, however we find that if we put a topic in for discussion it gets ignored yet when changes are made we get complaints. Faced with this we have to implement it first. Even we do not know if the ideas will work at this stage, so actually putting them out there and getting them operative is the way that we are doing it- even though some members may not agree.

We have to be allowed a little trust here- the focus is reviving a stale forum into something new.
(We can only work within the constraints we have, we cannot improve the main page or even upgrade the board- but we can build on and hopefully enlarge the community)


With all that in mind-

You will notice all kinds of different areas popping up over the next few weeks,

Initially they will look rather random and even in wrong place. The forum will look huge but fear not eventually we will get them right.

Some areas are based on we already have, but in a different format.

Did you know Theory and Design has always been the most popular area of the forum according to the statistics, Members are quite happy to discuss planning stages of their games. We are trying to expand on this area and so split the Theory and Design into separate areas,

There are Q and A topics in each of the new areas so ask away!

We have a new area for Story- anything from the written word to plot advice and critique. This is based on the number of topics discussing this in the Theory and Design areas- we felt giving it a new forum would provide an area of interest,This will be taking in the writing works in the Art and Lit and music area (which is being changed at a later date)

We have also changed the roles of the staff members- they are now providing support and feedback in the new areas, and will be named support staff on each forum.

We want to eliminate people leaving due to lack of feedback for their ideas or projects.

We want to build on the community we have and expand it ..

We want RRR to survive all the changes....we have to change or we will not survive - simple.

Any questions or suggestions as always please use the Feedback Forum or check within the new areas and use the feedback topics provided there.

[amerk]

Not entirely sure where this discussion is going. Both our site and the VX site are owned by iEntry, although we both serve different purposes. We are called RPG RPG Revolution (also known as RRR) and we address all game engines, whereas VX focuses mainly on VX. In any case, the reason for these changes is not just because of competition, but competition does drive the need. We're also trying to focus more on gaming development than what we've done in the past, and be able to provide better assistance to game developers.

Edit: By new site, he meant Degica's official site at RPG Maker Web, not this site, as we, too, have been around for a long while.