That should clear up everyone's questions, right? Good ...
As a development team and as a company, we know that the forums are extremely important to some of you, and we know that some of you have put a lot (!!!!) of effort into building up the community here, especially those who have written the more creative poetic stuff. C'mon, how many of you have > 5,000 posts, raise your hands. That amount of effort is *staggering*. Seriously, I think the highest post count I've seen was ~8400? Over 2.5 years, that'd be like 10 posts EVERY DAY since AG2 launched.
The effort of migrating that much data from AG2 to AG3 is almost as staggering, since the guy who wrote the AG2 forum software didn't make it terribly efficient, and the way we're linking accounts, etc., between the two systems might cause problems. Trying to migrate it to AG3 will be a pretty big job, and it will probably fall in my lap since I'm sorta the database guru around here, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's up to me whether I want to do it or not. If Dan says do it, I do it.
Whether we start over, and wipe everything, and build a new forum engine, or implement someone else's forum software, remains to be discussed internally because it's not a critical feature for us yet. That doesn't mean it's not important to us, it just means we have to get core features working like, y'know, logging in.
Will we migrate old posts into the new forum software? It depends whether we can find an easy way to make the old forum data compatible. Nothing's *impossible* but it's also not practical for us to spend development time (read: dollars) for us to spend a big amount of effort trying to sort stuff out so it's all perfect and pristine.
If we start over with forum posts, will we archive the old forums? Again, nothing's impossible, but I can't answer that right now.
What will happen to your armor points for forum posts? Well, since armor points are also up in the air regarding the same sort of "wipe vs migrate" discussions, I can't answer that question right now either.
Please direct people asking about the future of AG2 forums to this thread if they start asking questions in other forums/threads. I'll post updates to this thread as I have more information.
the thirty seconds post again isnt working and they need 2 add a user search
It works. No, they don't need a user search, because if you know the user name, you could have typed it into the URL http://armorgames.com/user/-Insert Name- and gotten straight to the profile.
the thirty seconds post again isnt working and they need 2 add a user search
They have a user search on AG3, or will have, I'm not sure if it's still on the beta. The search bar will work for games too. For example if you type in "Ghost" it'll show all games and users with "ghost" in the name.
on the game the last castle online when i click multiplayer when i am joining it says that i dont have the latest version of it when i was playing it like 1 hour ago now it wont work please help me cormyn or any other user of armor games
What exactly would be the good thing about user-searches? One thing is the "I can get usernames that might sound like the one I am looking for", but that is no much different from the google search or the [insert username] technique we already have. It's all fine and dandy, but it isn't that much of a user search as much as just a way to verifying the usernames you think you can remember.
A real user search would have different criteria to make people to look for users they are not already familiar with, but since 1) AG does not ask for any information and 2) no one would be willing to fill such information anyway.
Anyway, all that considered, it's either something we already have, or something that will never work...
hey i have what i think is a good idea. ok you know how hard it can be to find one of your or someone elses forums well make a search bar for forums i got this idea when this guy wanted me to explain something i posted on his forum and he can't find it
hey i have what i think is a good idea. ok you know how hard it can be to find one of your or someone elses forums well make a search bar for forums i got this idea when this guy wanted me to explain something i posted on his forum and he can't find it
Couldn't agree more. I think there should be an user one too. And the search ba for games should be better. I search epic war and sonny comes up.
