2012-10-28, 02:42 PM
My first Maple forum was Sleepywood, way back in 2008. When someone in-game recommended Southperry and I went to take a look, I immediately noticed two good differences:
1) Much lower traffic. One could keep up with this forum.
2) Much higher signal-to-noise ratio. Almost everything that was posted was worth reading.
Later I found out about Basil and Nexon's forums, but a quick look was enough to tell that they were even worse than SW in terms of high noisy traffic.
Later I also learned that (3) despite the low traffic, everything important gets posted here.
I am glad that we still keep these characteristics.
As for Maplestory-related discussions, they've moved from Maplestory Discussion to various other subfora. Q&A, Should I..., Extractions (almost everything to do with a new version is discussed right in the extraction thread, instead of a new thread being made for this feature or that), Game Mechanics and other technical sections when a whole new mechanism is introduced, JoeTang's damage threads, Locked's builds for new classes, Cinema and Scroll Lock... People still talk about Maplestory, they just do it all over the place. (Which doesn't contradict what people said above, about there not being all that much to say about Maple right now. Even when there's a new patch the talk dies down pretty fast, "ho hum another OP class / hyperskill / useless event / annoying boss")
Anyway, bottom line, I'm happy with the way Southperry is. And I think that as long as we do get all those people coming here and reading, we're doing fine. No need to coax them too hard to post, if they feel they have nothing to say.
1) Much lower traffic. One could keep up with this forum.
2) Much higher signal-to-noise ratio. Almost everything that was posted was worth reading.
Later I found out about Basil and Nexon's forums, but a quick look was enough to tell that they were even worse than SW in terms of high noisy traffic.
Later I also learned that (3) despite the low traffic, everything important gets posted here.
I am glad that we still keep these characteristics.
As for Maplestory-related discussions, they've moved from Maplestory Discussion to various other subfora. Q&A, Should I..., Extractions (almost everything to do with a new version is discussed right in the extraction thread, instead of a new thread being made for this feature or that), Game Mechanics and other technical sections when a whole new mechanism is introduced, JoeTang's damage threads, Locked's builds for new classes, Cinema and Scroll Lock... People still talk about Maplestory, they just do it all over the place. (Which doesn't contradict what people said above, about there not being all that much to say about Maple right now. Even when there's a new patch the talk dies down pretty fast, "ho hum another OP class / hyperskill / useless event / annoying boss")
Anyway, bottom line, I'm happy with the way Southperry is. And I think that as long as we do get all those people coming here and reading, we're doing fine. No need to coax them too hard to post, if they feel they have nothing to say.