Notice the lounge.

[Pie]

Notice how most of the discussion is in the lounge, perhaps it's time for something "New" to happen in a different part of the forums?

[Rook_PL]

Yeah, but it will all change when 1.5 is finally released.
So we wait...
...we wait...
...and wait...
... and we get bored a little. That's why the lounge is growing.

[Hair|Trigger]

yes the lounge is over-used imo.   everyone get of ya a55es.  this isnt a hotel. 

[Sethamundo]

Yeah, but it will all change when 1.5 is finally released.

yes the lounge is over-used imo. everyone get of ya a55es. this isnt a hotel.

How?

You do realize that most of the people that frequent The Lounge don't play Soldat anymore, or at least not a whole lot.  Not to mention those of us who are Linux users.  That rules out Soldat almost entirely.  There are exceptions of course, but my point still stands.

[Pie]

I was just wondering, i mean, almost no one posts in general discussions. And since the preview of 1.5.0 has come out, most of the suggestions/improvements are either in it or not.
The fistingzone is full of crap and the lounge is used almost all of the time.

Also, about the linux thing, soldat will be coded for it right, or is it out of the question?

[M.rSnow]

But what are you supposed to say in the other forum's (Sub-fourum's whatever..). Theres allmost nothing new to take up. Everything has allready happend. The weapons are balanced the Modders are modding. All you can do in the modding section is either mod (most soldat players don't do that) or give people Happy faces . I think the problem is that there's nothing new.
Except 1.5 which we all are waiting for.

[FliesLikeABrick]

Also, about the linux thing, soldat will be coded for it right, or is it out of the question?

Omg? You can't programate multiplatform? :/...

Soldat is a large application, and the only person who currently knows all of the game code well is MM.  In order to make Soldat cross-platform, the entire game would have to be rewritten.

Wine is making good progress on supporting Soldat.  It is up to the Wine devs to support Soldat better, and it is up to the Soldat community to vote for Wine and report bugs for Soldat's support in Wine.

Read this post for more information: http://tns.u13.net/?p=45

If you want Linux, BSD, or Macs to run Soldat better in Wine-based emulation (including Parallels on Mac), then do what that post says and test/report on Soldat frequently on the AppDB page for Soldat: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7794

If you don't help contribute to the input that the project managers/devs on Wine use to figure out what to work on, then you shouldn't complain about the lack of Wine support for Soldat.

As for the original topic of this thread.... just because the lounge is popular and has a lot of activity doesn't mean we need to change anything.  The lounge has been the same way ever since the old old Soldat forums, nothing has changed.  It is a good way to keep the old players and old non-players around to interact with the community, even if they don't post in the rest of the forum as often.

Having a healthy off-topic section is a sign of a very healthy forum, I'd say.  Just wait until 1.5 is out, then we'll see an immense amount of traffic and activity in the rest of the forums, and that will last quite some time.  Right now we're in a bit of a lull in the rest of the Soldat parts of the forum because people are just waiting for 1.5

[Pie]

I see,  I was just curious as to why it wasn't on linux. I never said anything needed to be changed, Just that the lounge seemed to be the place where the majority of posts were. When 1.5.0 comes out, like you said, i'm sure that it will be flooded.

[Wolf_Man]

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My posting places...

[Blue-ninja]

In the Lounge, we can talk about virtually everything and anything almost entirely unrelated to Soldat.

The only downsize? The vast majority of us aren't very good topic discussers, and we tend to get underage forum users every now and then (immature, underage forum users: Arbiter is an exception, because he actually contributes).

[KorrupT MerC]

I would talk in general discussions more but the topics are either repetitive or not interesting, like that female soldat player topic...

[M.rSnow]

And pigtails. Don't forget those. I actually like the idea of pigtails. Theyr moddable

[Liber Lupus]

In the Lounge, we can talk about virtually everything and anything almost entirely unrelated to Soldat.

The only downsize? The vast majority of us aren't very good topic discussers, and we tend to get underage forum users every now and then (immature, underage forum users: Arbiter is an exception, because he actually contributes).

Aren't you underage yourself?