The big why (GR)
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Why this site, why spread the community thinner - why "leave" GR? What is to be gained?
I'm not trying to create drama or stuff, just trying to understand and be able to make informed decisions Site looks nice, cheers!
Edit: guess this should have been in "The Scrap Yard", sorry.
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Honestly though, I'm curious as well. I'd been wondering if there was some big falling out between higher-up staff on GR and top players that I totally missed or if there's something else going on.
That said, I still like the idea behind this site as a dedicated CoH community. Not that there's anything wrong with GR (imo), just nice to have something *our own*.
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Now serious:
Basically as I understood, the staff of SNF felt that the head of GR didn't support SNF enough. (Mainly in sponsorship I guess.)
As the COH community being the biggest on GR, but GR not exploiting the full potential from such a great community; the COH/SNF staff members decided to separate from GR in an attempt to take this game franchise to the next level.
We can only hope they'll be succesful at it.
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Because they constantly banned me, so I wished for Santa Claus to bring me new website.
Now serious:
Basically as I understood, the staff of SNF felt that the head of GR didn't support SNF enough. (Mainly in sponsership I guess.)
As the COH community being the biggest on GR, but GR not exploiting the full potential from such a great community; the COH/SNF staff members decided to separate from GR in an attempt to take this game franchise to the next level.
We can only hope they'll be succesful at it.
Thumbs up! pretty sure they will succeed having this big tournament now every sunday will attract lots of new ppl while they having up to 1000 ppl watching them they can just advertise their website
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CoH2 = built for CoH and desire to customize to promote the game and partner with Relic, etc.
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Also GR is multigaming, which means some decisions had to be taken with all the games it mind, or couldn't be taken at all because it wouldn't fit here or there. Also priorities weren't necessarily put where we would have liked them to be.
And overall we just feel that a site run by coh fans for coh fans can only be better.
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Oh also I want to say it was a very mature decision, there hasn't been any issue with other GR staff or anything like that. We all have always been friendly to each other, albeit a bit distant in some cases, but the split wasn't done with any resentment for as far as I know.
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Also it was the only way I found to get 12azor unbanned.
haha, qft.
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Also it was the only way I found to get 12azor unbanned.
Aaaaaaaaand, sold!
Thank you everyone, for the answers. As a simple fan, it is hard to know what is what, and what is or isn't going on
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The code on GR wasn't the easiest to get used to/update and I hope our code will be even just bit less crappy so that we can add new features more easily in the long run. Part of that because it was build over IPB, and that experience pushed me to decide to rebuild everything from 0 and not use any kind of existing forum system. Short term took and will still take a lot of time to rebuild a strong base though, we're only getting started here.
You can say that again But you've built the forums from scratch o_0 Isn't that more effort than is really necessary. Wouldn't some kind of middle ground have been better, building on some pre-built forum framework that was designed to be customisable (unlike IPB).
I'm glad Eupolemos asked this question. Those of us (well me) who are fans of you guys but have worked on GR needed to hear your reasons.
Also quick Q even though it's the wrong place. I see a VOD link, will this be developed by the time SNF happens or will you be posting up the links somewhere. I always miss the live streams and having a single place with the links to downloadable videos was handy.
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You can say that again But you've built the forums from scratch o_0 Isn't that more effort than is really necessary. Wouldn't some kind of middle ground have been better, building on some pre-built forum framework that was designed to be customisable (unlike IPB).
I'm glad Eupolemos asked this question. Those of us (well me) who are fans of you guys but have worked on GR needed to hear your reasons.
Nice to see you here.
We do use Yii framework, and some extensions or modules going with it so I can't really stay it's totally from scratch. But even for half of them, I already see limitations or even had to change some part of their code. :/ It is indeed no forum framework though, but I just hope the effort will be worth it.
At the end of the day, getting used to Yii, and CSS styling (which I hate), were the two most time consuming aspects, not so much creating the basic forum structure, which I think took me around the same time to build as it would have been to get used to yet another framework (for forums) and adapt it. Also the forums how we have build them will be the most easily adaptable to any new content we create requiring posts, such as replays or vods, or news and the pm system which are already up.
Also quick Q even though it's the wrong place. I see a VOD link, will this be developed by the time SNF happens or will you be posting up the links somewhere. I always miss the live streams and having a single place with the links to downloadable videos was handy.
We'll be developing it in a relatively near future, but in the mean time I think the best way would be to check on the twitch channel for past videos, and we'll most likely make a youtube playlist with them too.
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Also quick Q even though it's the wrong place. I see a VOD link, will this be developed by the time SNF happens or will you be posting up the links somewhere. I always miss the live streams and having a single place with the links to downloadable videos was handy.
Aren't they attached to the twitch.tv/sundaynightfights channel? Should work until the VOD section is done
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