Rise of the Witch King

A lot of people are making topics regarding custom RotWK maps. Should we create a special forum for these? We could even use it to maintain all the popular ones in a pinned topic.

Yes, since this isn't used much where it is.

Good idea.

Mhmm, not so sure. At first, the idea is perfectly fine, but separate forums tend to get inactive if overall activity isn't high enough. This is just my personal opinion, but I think you got a nice pocket of activity going on here in the General Discussion and part of that are the maps. You would cut your activity in two parts if you divided that over those two forums. That would work if activity was high overall, but I don't think it is just yet. That's just me though, maybe something to consider.

Yesh! Or simply one topic tbh!

In this case though the added benefit is that it allows us to maintain an index of some of the maps with a single place for people to download what they need. We want to expand our coverage of custom maps in the future and a forum may be a good way to do so.

As for activity, Tech Support is not super active but that doesn't mean it isn't useful. We could apply the same argument here. In any case there are quite a few people who work with custom maps and I think they could benefit from their own forum.

I vote for yes as well. It will be much easier to find and discuss there any new map made.

simply YES

But there is worldbuilder section no? we could start to reuse and redirect the new topics in that section.

That is true, that is the benefit of a separate forum, but I don't think it is useful cutting your activity in half. People visiting General Discussion for discussion on some maps will no longer do so and General Discussion topics will suffer from that. This forum may then even die out or be very inactive. Then those who would normally visit this forum would stop doing so and you would lose overall activity, which would eventually hurt the activity in the Maps forum.

As for Tech Support, that's entirely different. That's always going to have some activity, because people are always going to have technical problems. Also Tech Support is already a separate forum. You got a good thing going here in the General Discussion, so I would ease down on the expansion, but that's just me.

After thinking about it, I side with Thorin. Interests in new maps will eventually die out and that would leave us with a dead forum.

I voted yes but it seems to me one organized topic is all that's needed, very few discuss custom maps.

I feel like thats something you could include into a modding corner once theres enough interest in these things.

If we keep it in Gen discussion, we could bring back tags. Put [Custom Map] in the title. Take a page from the defunct Artist section with its personality driven threads (ex. "Thoon's Map Room"). That way it doesn't clutter the front page, but still encourages continuous discussion.

Okay we're getting mixed reactions here, so I'll hold off on the forum for now. Perhaps we can use some kind of tagging system for now as Thoon suggested.