How about a new Forum for Groups?

[Eilorn]

How about creating a new Forum specifically for forming groups? LFG helps, but, having a forum where you could specify that you would be leading a group at, say, 4pm mudtime some saturday, would help a lot for those of us who have limited mudding time budgets. You could also request groups. Each topic would be limited to a single group.

Eilorn.

[Lorsalian]

Seems like the gameplay forum would work for this. Just have an informal rule the all such posts have the phrase "GROUPFORM" or something so could search for them.

[Thracx V'staluz]

We have an looking for group toggle, a channel for forming groups...and now we want a forum? What's the need?

[selerial]

We have an looking for group toggle, a channel for forming groups...and now we want a forum? What's the need?

At higher levels, you'll probably want to do certain quests or zones that basically require a specific set of classes and or take an extensive amount of time, and just asking around on the mud to do a Scorx run (for instance, since you're an elementalist) at any random time is bound to get you a whole lot of crickets chirping and maybe one or two people to respond.

As far as the original post, I think a grouping forum would be rather nice.. when I wanted to form my Scorx run and I petitioned, though, I was told to use the General Forum, which worked well enough.

[Nekelet]

..We have an looking for group toggle, a channel for forming groups...and now we want a forum? What's the need?..

The need is that many quest fights, or major time-requirement zones require significant pre-planning. They often can't be accomplished using the standard (live/in-game) options.

General and Gameplay formns have served well in the past to facilitate this need though. Bump the topic as the time approaches, and voila, you have your group...

I do agree, that a separate (and consistently on-topic) forum for this purpose would be a great tool... If it were to be implemented, let's please keep it free from the standard.... chatter...


-Nek