This Forum is Closing?

[Lemon Wren]

Admittedly I run hot and cold with this forum. Sometimes I can't stay away and then sometimes I'm gone for a few months at a time (while still playing Elvenar mostly daily). But it looks like Inno is closing these forums in favor of Discord? I've seen the entreaties to join Discord in the game, but since I really dislike Discord, I haven't checked out Inno's server.

I've tried to read up here on what's happening, but there are just too many posts to read through. Can someone please fill me in? Has Inno made a definitive announcement about what the plan is for these forums?

Also - any other shockingly awful news I may have missed?

 

[BrinDarby]

for now............ No
the forum isn't closing, but all official announcements
are made on Discord, someone usually feeds us that info.
This is subject to change @ any time, we are told.

 

[Lemon Wren]

Ok, thanks for the clarity.

This is quite disappointing.

As for no updates directly here - Inno is probably banking on just throttling the activity out of the forums so they can shut them down later.

 

[Mighty Peach]

Discord has its uses. But the forum is superior when it comes to long-form communication and archiving information. Having both active would be the best of both worlds.

 

[getmomo]

The forum isn't technically closing yet, but in reality it mys well be closed as it is pretty much dead lately.

 

[Lemon Wren]

Discord has its uses. But the forum is superior when it comes to long-form communication and archiving information. Having both active would be the best of both worlds.

I have a Discord account, as I've tried to use it for a few things that are only on Discord. I've abandoned them all because I find the long chat threads too random to deal with. I'd honestly prefer Reddit to Discord.

 

[Lemon Wren]

The forum isn't technically closing yet, but in reality it mys well be closed as it is pretty much dead lately.

Yeah, I see that. Pretty sad.

 

[Darielle]

Ok, thanks for the clarity.

This is quite disappointing.

As for no updates directly here - Inno is probably banking on just throttling the activity out of the forums so they can shut them down later.

That's what I think too.

 

[Darielle]

The forum isn't technically closing yet, but in reality it mys well be closed as it is pretty much dead lately.

When no one can get here except through a link that they saved previously, it's bound to die off. That's intentional on Inno's part, but they're pretending to wait to see if the forum dies. Of course it will die. They've closed access to it for anyone new, and you can't maintain a forum without new people.

 

[Lemon Wren]

No doubt a cost saving measure for Inno, although wow, is Discord a terrible replacement for this forum for new players.

Basically every question I've ever had about the game was answered here and nowhere else.

 

[crackie]

It's subject to review pending traffic reports, allegedly, even though they've severed every major artery that directs traffic to this place. Although, despite their best efforts to kill this place, there are still a trickle of new user registrations. So yeah, they'll give zero help in getting eyes here, but it's up to us to prove this place is highly desired resource depot by users.

 

[Yavimaya]

When no one can get here except through a link that they saved previously, it's bound to die off. That's intentional on Inno's part, but they're pretending to wait to see if the forum dies. Of course it will die. They've closed access to it for anyone new, and you can't maintain a forum without new people.

I just typed in my Google Chrome browser Elvenar US Forum and clicked on it and it took me here and i didn't have to log back in! Just found this out this week.

 

[Yavimaya]

It's subject to review pending traffic reports, allegedly, even though they've severed every major artery that directs traffic to this place. Although, despite their best efforts to kill this place, there are still a trickle of new user registrations. So yeah, they'll give zero help in getting eyes here, but it's up to us to prove this place is highly desired resource depot by users.

Many people thought it was already gone including myself! I'm going to spread the word that for now it is here.

 

[YarL]

The forums are a great for place for collaborative work of a lasting nature. Discord has its place but it seems seems a lot more disorganized to me. Instagram is cute but not a place to do anything serious. The strongest form of long term communications is the forum . It is a place where a moderator can collect Q&As and add it to a FAQs Area or document.

The forums are a better place than the Wiki for me to access game information. The Wiki is clumsy for me to work with. I would like to see everything on the wiki get collected into text files or PDF and be made available in the forums. The one thing that is greatly needed is a single text file that fully describes each AW in detail along with the formulas they use. I keep working on doing that for myself but it is a major pain for me.

After trying some of the other tools, I greatly prefer the forums. It provided a superior tool for communications. I have been using the internet for just over 40 years. I have played two long term empire building games that each lasted over 20 years each. I have been playing Elvenar for 7 years and I hope I will play it for over 20 years. But as it grows in complexity we need to easily access documents that have details on things like how combat units and their construction works. I already mentioned my need for a description of all AWs in a single document.