Bring Back IG Forums
 

New Day. New Management.

Fifth times a charm.

In-Game forums. We all remember them. They were forums... In Game. They had about 6 broad categories. Main. Trading. Squads. Squad Only. Bugs. Art(?). Other. Maybe more. Maybe less.

I want to start off by stating the obvious. Nobody asked for the forums to be removed. They were replaced with Zone-Play... which currently no longer exists because it was ran by our former and great manager, TashkinHD(didn't he used to have an HD in his name? I feel like he did.). Once he left it became quite apparent, or so I thought, that we would be given In Game forums again... Well we didn't. He did continue to host the website, but did eventually shut it down entirely. What a bumpy end to such a bumpy site. With many ups and downs, I don't believe that Zone-Play ever became what Tash had envisioned.

While we did get a substantial amount of players registered on Zone-Play, many of them never used it. I can confidently say that there were less than 300 users that had posted more than 50 posts. Maybe even less.

See the benefit with these forums were that the community was more contained. Very easy to manage and all of us, for the most part, were pretty accepting of one another, (OFC that didn't stop them from banning me because I wanted a certain word unbanned, with proper reasoning... Just stating it out there...) even when we disliked one another. The downside was that it didn't represent the community very well. Most of us on the forums who were active were well over the game's average age. Most of the time, the users who were active were staff, of ex staff. The "lesser class" was rarely given a voice.

Despite what others say, I believe that everyone deserves to be given a fair oppurtunity to get their claims out there. And while the forums were indeed free, people CBA. I can't tell you how many suggestion forums I made on the behalf of others. With an In Game forum, we can help to expand how many people actively participate in the community. It also broadens the scope of people who will know minor updates from here and there, and plans for the future.

Something I also see now as kind of obvious, an in game forum will have more bugs reported. Like I said, people CBA when it's not already in the game.

Going back to what I said about bringing the community together, I think it goes without saying that in this Graalians Zone community, we would all PM each other in game if we saw one another... if you wouldn't... shame on you, we are very fun and hot people. In the game having forums which would connect everyone would help to establish a sense of server community which we so badly need to keep, and gain, new players. Like I will tell you right now that I met some great friends that kept me on zone over those forums. Like I swear our forum games were in the 4000s...

A following point I may add is that they were very easy and accesible. No real sub-forums made things very easy to find and so threads weren't just lost(and if they were, people knew to bump important ones). Sure some people abused the bumps, but it was pretty minimal. Anybody could use them without explanation and it was dope. It was also really accesible... which deserves it's own paragraph.

So if you did use the in game forums, I assume you probably used them for the trading, the off topic, and the basing categories. Trading with this forum was great. Time consuming... but great. It made getting replies oh so much faster. Just ask Pig, I feel like he would know since he was always selling something or a hat. Actually that's how I found the ***Space Crown Helmet thing... WHICH IM STILL OFFERING 50 DOLLARS WORTH OF ANY GIFT CARD FOR***. Doing that while also in trades, ooh baby that maximized things. Because while you can say you're selling/buying on these forums, again, not a lot of people read them.

Basing with these forums were also fun. Basing is a lot of waiting sometimes. They were a good time saver without being AFK and you were still able to tell when you were being attacked since they were kinda see through. Apart from that, they served as good platforms to get people to join a squad. They allowed tons of detail to write about how much you could write than just "recruiting. blah blah blah" and you can write about your goals and beliefs as a squad.

Lastly for this section, I found the games and etc fun. Like mad fun. I was kinda addicted to em k.

But even then other parts like the Suggestions just improved with a greater community. More people. More input.


Plus with them, people will be more active to check up on forums. I know I was more active then... So yea. Plus I usually have a set time when I check all the forums like graalians, albf, etc etc. those forums were always just easy to connect to.

Plus when you could tap on their heads and it'd take you to their profile so you'd know just who to talk to.






K. I missed a few feelings I have towards em but yea. I've started an ipetitions to get them back. Pliz Sign. http://tiny.cc/ZoneForums

Itd be nice but its a low priority as of now, that should be done after bigger updates

The petition never states when, just to do so. Sign mk.

And also, wouldn't it be kinda ez? Isn't all the coding just still dere somewhere?
Like there weren't any bugs wid it or nothing and I don't see it messing any current code sooo

Nooooo.

I want to bring back the zone-play.com

Im trying to see if I can pay for the domain or for a new domain...

Whose running this **** show now?

No one used that. It would be a waste of money for you. Tashkin stopped paying for it for a reason...

Frie is a stats w****. Doesn't like in game ones cus they wouldnt show his stats. ^^

Noob y u no sign

Because there's no need to.

my nan said that she wouldn't vote cus trump would never win illinois. lel.

Y u no has faith in ur fellow zonians to sign too piggy?

U never kno

Well at least there were a bunch of people with 200 plus. it was extremely fun. atm were using this ******ed forums for no reason while every other igraal game has their own site. You know why zone-play.com didn't have that many users. Its because zone can't ******* improve I mean god damn it zone was much more fun with the forums. For a lot of people it was a competition to get to the top of the post list. They had raffles YES THEY DID it was fun. Especially how that zone forums wasn't god damn boring like here there were cool features. What staff were online on zone. Raffles that anyone could win. It was epic but now what happened I bet staff though "Oh no people are having fun. GET RID OF IT IMMEDIATELY I WONT TOLERATE ANY FUN"

BRING THE FORUMS BACK MAKE ZONE BETTER.

1) no. lol. there was nobody that used them. tash was paying for the $15 version of the site and he couldn't make that back. As someone who helps run the Albion Forums, I know what ads give you. And it's not that bad... lol

2) by a lot of people do you mean you, me, november, and like 2 other people? no. lol. I can tell you right now that it wasn't even fun for me. I just posted a lot. And like wrote a lot. But that's me. Mk.

3) The raffles were bad. I didn't even get my 500zc from them. Lmao. And after a while the prizes got worse and worse. Like... thanks for this 20zc... I guess...

4) Na. The zone in game forums were lit. They were never monitored.

5) Graalians is the most succesful forum site. ITS THE SITE. Old West and Eras forums are also pretty dormant... lel

6) In game forums made us unique

everything you listed was kind of opinionated with no proof towards ur claims. Sure mine was too, but thats why I have a petition.


If you want to buy the domain, do it. Just remember how little we used it. And Tash owned it. And the server promoted it. Js. You will lose so much money for the 4, maybe 5, active users.
Mk. Shh.

I remember the zone forums were active enough to even have like a weekly gfx contest. Too bad I had no gfx skills back in the days

sum1 pls answer question


whose running the **** show now?

Chelterrar. FR.

MK, now that I've helped you, sign the petition k.

will the petition make the game more like Zone PC?