Mmm, might be a good idea in the long run. The only problem is that people might start saying "Why have a modelling forum and not a ????? forum?". You know what people are like; any excuse to complain .

Yeah, I thought about that as I was making the suggestion. "How about a forum for dll editing, equipment folder editing, mission editing etc." I know what you're getting at and you're right. There are always going to be those that want a new forum for their personal slice of the pie. I personally don't model, so I'm not asking this to try and gain my own little forum.

The thing with modeling is that there are now so many people doing it and it's such a different task from ini editing. The two need each other but are really incompatible when it comes to discussion and asking questions. I know that when I go into the General Editing forum I should just ignore anything having to do with modeling since it won't pertain to my knowledge base.

Also let's be realistic about some of the forums that are in TLR. The Babylon 5 Mod Forum? Hasn't had a post since March 25th, and that was just a couple of posts. The Using Mods Help Forum? The major mods have a forum of their own to ask questions in. Other mods will usually dispense post-release help in the Mod Announcement Forum where their original post was.

A modeling forum would have a whole lot more users with much more activity.

i think maybe we should have an art forums....so you can post anything that you made with photoshop, ms paint, etc etc for people to admire

@Wolfy, I wasn't even allowed to keep an Art thread. It's "too much strain" on the server I was told.

Sir S

If it was done correctly - maybe it wouldn't bog the server, but lets face it, hardly anyone listens to the "smaller" rules here, and so it would be abused, or people would be too lazy to adjust size of pics. Each pic that might be posted could be about 100-600k if in jpg format. If it was in BMP (which some numb nutts never realise there is a difference), it can be 1.5-2.5 MEG of siz.

Now stick ten of those in one thread, and try to read it with a 56ker....its a mini download each time they view it, and of course it would kill them (not really - but its bloomin annoying). Further more - if it gets viewed alot, then it will keep eating up that much bandwidth here too........which puts an added strain on the servers for any website (hence why many won't let you right click/link images from sites......as its a MASSIVE drain when people link FROM you images....and that would happen too...

There are lots of reasons why not.......however, its up to Bargib - i am only posting a reply as my own website admin - where i have to keep a close eye on bandwidth (I only have a few images on my site, but it takes 2.6-3 gigabyte of bandwidth a month!)

well small is good.....but what about links? im sure that wont be too hard....or you can make those little thumbnail things so people only have to look at the ones that look interesting

Tried that, and STILL people didn't manage to do the suggestion at all. Some did, most didn't

yeah but u can delete things that arent thumnails....it would make your life as a moderator more exciting

Well, nice to know we've discussed the idea about an Art forum. Now any opinions on a Modeling Forum ? You know, like the reason I started this topic?!
I'm not trying to suggest a forum where folks can post pictures of their ships. Just where they can discuss how to build those ships. They can live under the same "no big pictures" rule everyone else does. If you look at most of the modeling posts I think you'll find most modelers use links instead of posting a picture.

The problem is that a forum is made up of people, and people often find it difficult follow rules, hence the issues involved. We try to educate the people, but we still end up with rampant spammers and people who do the wrong thing.

Chips "which some numb nutts never realise there is a difference"
you crack me up...
Someone might post stuff like these old sceeenshots from the
original beta of freelancer.











Oh forgot the topic of this post... Anyway I'll see what I can do about getting the model makers a forum...right now bargib is busy getting the new forums ready that will upgrade the forums at present...as soon as the new forums are working it should be easy to make new threads...

lol. You had me worried. I thought we were regressing to the Art Forum discussion again. But I guess that proves Esquilax' point about everyone wanting their own forum. Thanks bp.

Those pics of BP's look like WC1 all over again.

As for the forum issue, I think less forums is better. The more you have the more people are separated into categories. Already few people leave Off-Topic to go to other forums, few people leave General Editing to go to other forums. The more you have the less population in each and the more dead this site will seem, though it wouldn't be the case.

Sir S