BF2S Forums Operation Trackr - Is it too late?

I suck at this, but you get the idea.

Indeed, I am going to start going through some old threads here and on Trackr to compile whatever I can.

Rename the forums trackr. Trackr doesn't have the same thing BF2 had. What lured so many people here was the stat tracking, trackr is just another gaming forum with no other draw. the best thing to get more new members would be to add support for other games in a bf2s type format and link them to these renamed forums.

I don't think we need a seperate console and other games section. And there's no point of a Crysis section. And a section is needed for all the other BF games that are outside of BF2 and 2142 (aka BF1942/1943/BFBC/BFBC2/BF Heroes and BF3)

and some other ones that I've probably missed out


They really do milk the franchise eh!

There's like 4 bf2s Servers all empty, most playing redundant games. Should have changed them to current games, renamed the servers trackr and built a community around them. I3D would have had no problems changing them.

Zombie_Affair wrote:

Good, good, after working with it myself I can tell. What do we know from Chuy since this? Is he looking for a different CMS, working on his own or what?

The last time I spoke to him (yesterday):

- He is going to look at patching up this current version of PunBB
- Possibly investigate porting the forums to MyBB (he already coded this and we (the moderators) have tested it - several months ago)
- Theories involving restructuring and improving the forum layout
- Once either patched or converted, new features can be added
- Investigating the idea(s) that Kmarion posted

Basically: Improvements, not redesign.

He has two weeks off, coming up. I doubt he'll want to be dedicating all his free time to BF2S/trackr, but he did say that he has some strong motivation to do some work on BF2S/trackr.

menzo wrote:

good post.
why not move the bf2s forums to trackr and just rename it?

Bingo.

Well these two screenshots show what it looked like quite some time ago. The database was replicated and converted to MyBB. This is the result.

(A rough development version)


http://i25.tinypic.com/wlegyw.png

http://i26.tinypic.com/29f9nc4.png

No idea if chuy plans to use this, I guess not.

liquidat0r wrote:

Well these two screenshots show what it looked like quite some time ago. The database was replicated and converted to MyBB. This is the result.

(A rough development version)

http://i25.tinypic.com/wlegyw.png
http://i25.tinypic.com/wlegyw.png
http://i26.tinypic.com/29f9nc4.png
http://i26.tinypic.com/29f9nc4.png

No idea if chuy plans to use this, I guess not.

I like it

King_County_Downy wrote:

I'll share with you all an idea that Kmarion brought up in the mod section.

Kmarion wrote:

I told Miggle that I would share this with you guys:

Hi, I'm sure a lot of people from BF2s thought that Trackr's idea of a unified game database was a great idea. The main problem people had was the change from the good forums here to the mediocre forums there.

I've been fairly bored lately and was noticing how unorganized the discussion of BF1943 is, it has 2 threads with general discussion happening in 2 different forums. Somehow this made me think of how cool it would be if we had a unified system, where one thread had links to threads for all games on our forums. I think this would help people get answers to their questions faster and keep duplicate threads from being made.

I made a couple of previews to show what I was thinking of:

The main thread (more games to come), each picture links to a database of threads about that game
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/44874/Gam … erview.png

An idea of what the individual threads will look like (with more links):
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/44874/Gam … ut%203.png

This.

My idea for trackr is similar, however new games get released to fast for people to keep track of. So what we should do is base trackr's sub-forums by [i]series, developers and similar games[/s]. When we made the CoD4 section into just the "CoD" section allot more threads about the other CoD games began popping up than there ever where when the other CoD games were confined to the Other Titles section. Likewise with the Valve section, currently on Trackr its just TF2 that people made threads about, however on BF2s there are threads about TF2, L4D, CSS and DoD. We also (in both) have seperate sections for BF2 and BF2142 and no sections for the other BF games. Nothing new has really happened to 2142 and after the finishing of the 1.5 patch nothing new will happen to BF2 either, however tons of new stuff is going on in the BF2 series, with Heroes, 1943, Bad Company 2 and even the distant BF3.

It would also give an excuse to include sub-forums for other series. Grand Theft Auto, Command And Conquer, Fallout, Blizzard games (Diablo + *-Craft games), Star Wars, these are all large series, franchises and Developers that if we were to have a forum dedicated to all sorts of games we would want to give their pwn section. And by giving them their pwn section people feel more inclined to make posts about them. Remember toward the end of last year  when SergeRiver was making all these threads about that one game he was really excited for and it reached the point where he was spamming Other Titles with threads about it? Well if there was a section for whatever game he was spamming about, people wouldn't mind because what he was doing was the point of the section.

If you want a really good reason to do this, just look at the kind of threads in the OT sections compared with the other sections in games. In OT we have threads like "Fallout 3 Official Discussion Thread", "The Old Republic" and "[Battlefield 1943] Official Website with Trailer", threads that are general discussions. While in the other sections we have (Crysis) "Sharks", (Call of Duty) "GL Artillery", (Valve) "[TF2] Minor Update 23/6/09" and (BF2) "What is your favorite server". As you can see, the Other Titles section is mostly general discussion threads, while the sections for specific games/series/developers have numerous threads about the finer points of the games.

We don't need to nor want to get rid of the Other Titles section, we need it. However for Trackr to work we need to expand on the number of sections greatly, yet still keep them by series so that way the sections will not go stagnant and require deletion. However more sections = more posts = more activity = better forums.

CanadianLoser wrote:

if it isn't broken, don't fix it.  We love bf2s so why would we leave it? if you want change it to trackr.com and change the title bar to trackr forums or w.e. but this site will always > trackr.net because of the reputation and members it has built.

You realize BF2s is slowly dying, right?  We are not getting any new active members, it's just the same old members.  One by one, they all start to leave, and with nobody to replace them, you get a dead website.

There is a problem.  We don't have new players joining the community, because BF2 is a game that's 4 years old and doesn't attract as much people.  That's what we're trying to fix.

We're still getting 5-10 new members per day on average. The tough part is getting them to post without fear of d-bags dog piling on them for posting a simple question. They're probably a bit timid tbh. I would be...

One email blast to all registered users that a new forum design etc. might inspire some of our old members to come back.