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| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: Vigo on January 31, 2012, 03:42:12 pm ---Sorry, a no vote from me. Not that I don't like your idea either, it's just currently the ways the boards are set-up, it just doesn't seem geared toward having a 1 genre board lumped in on the side. I do agree, it can be hard to racing cab threads on demand. What would pique my interest more if there was a "Specialty and Racing Cab" section that would cover the technical end of nonstandard cabs (most especially racing cabs), and those other special types of cabs we built. (e.g.: How to make an arcade dance pad, or the art of setting up a dual screen cab). It could also serve as a mutt home for stuff like pachinko or crane machines. Then as far as the games, competitions, non-technical talk. I think it would be cool if we had a more encompassing "gamers louge" area. We could merge in discussions from the consoles section, give a better home to our high-score competitions and allow us a place to discuss specific games, so we could have a thread on Marble Madness for example. I think it would also give a nice home to all the people who want to talk fighter games as well as racing games. We seem to have a huge fighter game crowd here as well. --- End quote --- Sounds messy...and complicated....and difficult to keep track of due to overlap with current forums. Having a "mutt" would defeat the purpose in my mind. What prompted me to post a poll was that there are a lot of people into arcade racing games over on the Supermodel forums, but that forum is limited to talking about one emulator. I've also seen posts on MAMEworld where someone wanted to get nostalgic about racing games and it didn't really fit with that forum either. I think there will only be a half dozen to a dozen people who will post regularly, but google would bring a lot of outside traffic coming for the organized information. Then they'd join so they could ask questions. Might even get sim guys in here looking to play something else on their setups. I think it would be a good idea, but I'm not hung up on it. |
| Gray_Area:
It seems some folks missed these salient features: --- Quote from: BadMouth on January 28, 2012, 10:23:51 am --- -Lap time competitions similar to the high score competitions in the Main Forum. -General discussion of arcade driving games, racing anime, movies, etc. -The driving cab projects should stay in Project Announcements, but a directory could be created in a thread in the Driving Cab forum. --- End quote --- |
| Vigo:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on January 31, 2012, 04:37:36 pm --- --- Quote from: Vigo on January 31, 2012, 03:42:12 pm ---Sorry, a no vote from me. Not that I don't like your idea either, it's just currently the ways the boards are set-up, it just doesn't seem geared toward having a 1 genre board lumped in on the side. I do agree, it can be hard to racing cab threads on demand. What would pique my interest more if there was a "Specialty and Racing Cab" section that would cover the technical end of nonstandard cabs (most especially racing cabs), and those other special types of cabs we built. (e.g.: How to make an arcade dance pad, or the art of setting up a dual screen cab). It could also serve as a mutt home for stuff like pachinko or crane machines. Then as far as the games, competitions, non-technical talk. I think it would be cool if we had a more encompassing "gamers louge" area. We could merge in discussions from the consoles section, give a better home to our high-score competitions and allow us a place to discuss specific games, so we could have a thread on Marble Madness for example. I think it would also give a nice home to all the people who want to talk fighter games as well as racing games. We seem to have a huge fighter game crowd here as well. --- End quote --- Sounds messy...and complicated....and difficult to keep track of due to overlap with current forums. Having a "mutt" would defeat the purpose in my mind. What prompted me to post a poll was that there are a lot of people into arcade racing games over on the Supermodel forums, but that forum is limited to talking about one emulator. I've also seen posts on MAMEworld where someone wanted to get nostalgic about racing games and it didn't really fit with that forum either. I think there will only be a half dozen to a dozen people who will post regularly, but google would bring a lot of outside traffic coming for the organized information. Then they'd join so they could ask questions. Might even get sim guys in here looking to play something else on their setups. I think it would be a good idea, but I'm not hung up on it. --- End quote --- Well, I completely know where you are coming from. My big issue is that the Main board is one big giant mutt board, so we are talking about messy and difficult to begin with. I am looking at from the perspective of a way of cleaning up the forums on a whole, and while making a racing cab only board might have more of a clear definition to racing topics, I think there are a lot of arcade topics left in the dust without a home. I am trying to come up with a solution to acknowledge that issue, at least one that does not involve making a dozen micro boards that will get zero attention. Looking at a "Racing and Specialty Cab" board, I would say that 85% of it would be racing related shop-talk. How many common specialty cab genres are there? Dancing/music games, Mahjong, simulator stuff...the random guy wanting to add paperboy handles on his frankenpanel. Mameing a taxidermied goat?!? However, a lot of interesting ideas do get lost in the mix without a clear board to go to. If you look at the reality of it, racing cab topics would dominate the thread talk. I only mentioned it as being a mutt home for other random stuff, because I think the occasional crane game topic would inevitability end up migrating in there as well. We don't get a whole lot of those though. With the lounge idea, I think there there is no really good place for anyone to talk about any genre of games here. We just kind fit it in where ever it feels the best. We have stuff spattered on the Main board, Everything else, Consoles, Arcade Misc., and occasionally crammed into software and reviews. I think there should be a place for people to talk racing games, but I also think there should be a place for people to talk fighters, shooters, that old commodore game they used to love, etc. Also, the current high-score competitions feel totally lost on the main board. It seems more beneficial to put these things together. Two birds, one stone, ya know? I would be down for a child board on that to talk racing only, but I don't know how much traffic it would get. |
| Vigo:
I just also wanted to add that inviting other specialty cabs into the board would probably do a lot to alleviate the worries about not enough traffic going to the board. The same could be said about doing a complete gamer's lounge rather than just racing game talk. |
| BadMouth:
mahjong and driving cabs? :dizzy: |
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