The Sierra Gateway: a proposal

So, everybody retains their autonomy. No generic logins.
There's a place at the Sierra site that has links to all the separate boards.
All the separate boards are linked back to the Sierra site.
I still can't see a down side to this.

Although, I can see a mixed blessing.
New folks coming to T-A. In the long run it will be a good thing, but I foresee some trials ahead.
The same could be said for the other boards. Everyone has their own culture.

Isn't this simular to the old 'web rings'?

 

This could be a good thing. I mean the Admins still get to enforce their own rules, and then this site would basically be the closest thing to an official Arcanum site their is, and the regulars would have some sort of social superiority.

 

It does sound like a web-ring, now I think about it. As long as logins remain autonomous, I'm totally behind the idea. Fresh blood could be a good thing - there should be at least a couple of interesting people out there.

 

I don't see any downsides either. It is true that there is a diversity among gameplayers: for example those who purely like the classic adventures generally have a different kind of posting style than, say, hardcore FPS players do. I don't see that as a problem, cause hardcore FPS players won't even bother visiting the adventure game forums and vice versa. On the other hand a forum member of the N.O.L.F. forums will find it very convenient to have instant access to other FPS forums and will most likely find his friends there aswell. There are always some trouble makers of course, but that's where the admin/moderator steps in if something gets out of hand. And when there's a REAL pain-in-the-butt member, then the admin can inform the admins of the other forums about it aswell.

I heard about the webring, but am unfortunately not familiar with it.

 

I think that the best advice is, that we have to wait untill everyone agree or disagree with this.

 

Or, we just leave this to the admins, since it won't matter what we think, really.

 

Okay.

 

It is alright Xz.

You absolutely right Xz, perhaps we should let the people with the power decide.

 

Yes, we are aware that these are forums for Troika games and that Arcanum is the only title published by Sierra, so it is indeed probably better to place the Gateway link in the Arcanum section.

So, shall we then? DarkUnderlord, mathboy and Vorak, do you also support it? Let us know and, if you decide to join up, then please register at the Gateway (www.sierraforums.com) so that Almirena or Collector can give you access to the boardroom and you can meet the other forum admins.

 

Or hey, if you wanna make a really crazy choice you could make me an admin instead.