I want to come to General Discussion for just that: general discussion. But it seems like half this board is about the dress-up part of Final Fantasy XIV. And don't get me wrong, I'm a slave to the glamour game myself, but it seems like it's gotten a bit excessive.
Should there be a Glamour/Style subforum?
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10-18-2016, 09:24 PMcyborgmermaidShould there be a Glamour/Style subforum?
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10-18-2016, 10:24 PMBeckett
I want to say yes, but the sub boards don't get used nearly as often as General Discussion. I wish half the people that talked about housing in GD used the Housing forum.
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10-18-2016, 10:28 PMCelef
Yes definitly !
Plus we could add in that section the "show your..." thread so we would not need to browse through 5 or 6 pages to see the glam / charac threads if we are looking for them :) -
10-18-2016, 11:30 PMMimilu
The JP forums already have a separate Glamour forum for showing off Glamour and suggesting Glamour ideas. >w>
(They also have a forum for showing off your UI layout)
That's probably because the General Discussion forums have way more activity then the Housing forums. >w>()Quote:
Originally Posted by Beckett
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12-29-2016, 08:23 PMCelef
Bumping this thread because it's a very good idea :)
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12-30-2016, 01:40 AMLukha
Isn't that what the Items, Synthesis and Gathering forum is, though?
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12-30-2016, 01:50 AMMimiluApparently the JP forums didn't think so, seeing as they have an entire forum dedicated to Glamour and Glamour Suggestions in their Community forums. >w>Quote:
Originally Posted by Lukha
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12-30-2016, 01:58 AMValkyrie_Lenneth
The JP forums actually use their sub forums and also dont make 6 new threads a day for the same topic. I think whoever manages the NA side of the forums just gave up tbh, since this place is a complete mess due to snowflake syndrome and lack of search.
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12-30-2016, 01:59 AMdragonseth07Bingo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
On that note, glamour has a subreddit. Use it! -
12-30-2016, 02:14 AMNaunetIf by half, you mean a couple threads...? I don't think it's much of an issue, personally.Quote:
Originally Posted by cyborgmermaid
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12-30-2016, 02:24 AMAlphaFox
To be honest, I think the only sub-forum that would see a wave of interest is an actual "Off Topic" like so many other forums have to freely discuss anything not related. I mean no offense to those who run it and I can see the reasoning I suppose, but can't even really talk about other FF titles unless it relates back to 14 some how.
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12-30-2016, 02:38 AMCelef
Can't believe we have a sub forum for market and retainers and not for glamour ^^"
After the whinnings it's probably the second topic discuss here xD -
12-30-2016, 02:44 AMNaunetOne would think that would suggest to SE that it is something worth investing development time in to adjust.Quote:
Originally Posted by Celef
Honestly, the other subforums see so little use that making a post in there always feels like a good way to just have your thoughts (or questions, or ideas) ignored. -
12-30-2016, 02:56 AMMimiluThe JP forums also has Reps that will move the conversation to an older thread about the same topic. :-BQuote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
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12-30-2016, 03:43 AMCelefI actually would love a Whinning sub forum, some kind of a war zone where you go at your own risks....a bit like General in fact, though you would know what to expect when you step in xDQuote:
Originally Posted by Naunet
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12-30-2016, 03:44 AMValkyrie_LennethSo do the NA forums, but the JP mods have way less crap to muddle through.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mimilu
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12-30-2016, 03:49 AMMimiluI don't think I've ever seen an EN Rep lock a thread and link people to an older one before. :BQuote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
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12-30-2016, 03:52 AMAtoli
General Discussion is to discuss everything that doesn't explicitly belong to any of the existing categories.
Glamour and Character looks seem very fitting there, so I don't see what the problem is.
It's mostly just 1 thread per race + 1 general "show your glamour" one + 1 "suggest new glamours" megathread.
While they are all large, ongoing threads, it's just a handful so I don't think it's fitting to say half of the GD is glamour. -
12-30-2016, 03:55 AMdragonseth07I've seen it on other site's forums. NA people tend to have a rather, uh, colorful reaction to being told to post in someone else's thread. They get angry at the indication that they aren't the center of the universe and end up posting in the linked thread without reading any of what's already there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mimilu
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12-30-2016, 03:56 AMValkyrie_LennethYou occasionally see moved threads now, but the days of them linking to other threads has long passed. It would take an army of mods to sift through what we have now. There something like 38k threads on the NA General Discussion forums now, the JP forums has 2600. Scale is important here. And NA has duplicate upon duplicate thread. It would probably take months to whittle down our forums to be continuous threads at this point, maybe years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mimilu
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12-30-2016, 09:06 PMAstralKaos
The Japanese forum has a glamour section, so yes, yes indeed we should... not that anything would get noticed, but still, good to have it out there so the small chance a dev would consider a non-Japanese player request.