TPforums dieing slowly, let's put an end to its misery.

[Veritias]

Just to point out how dead Tibia actually is, just take a look at Tibianews. It rarely gets updated, and should be considered dead. The Tibia era is over, and they are losing ground rapidly making them another lost online game on the internet.

[Jesper_Kladden]

We could start focusing on many different games, not Counter-strike and those (well, ofc. we could have them here, but they wouldn't be our main attraction), but games like Company of heroes, Call of duty, Warcraft, Heroes of newerth (which has taken the internet with a storm), and soon to come, Starcraft 2

[Ironguy]

(02-24-2010 05:36 AM)Jesper_Kladden Wrote:  We could start focusing on many different games, not Counter-strike and those (well, ofc. we could have them here, but they wouldn't be our main attraction), but games like Company of heroes, Call of duty, Warcraft, Heroes of newerth (which has taken the internet with a storm), and soon to come, Starcraft 2

Starcraft 2 ftw.... Though there's already tons of those, and I'm sure no one is gonna wanna lose that fresh new account (that they will probably have to fight for) jiggling around trying to find exploits

[Jo3Bingham]

(02-24-2010 01:42 AM)Veritias Wrote:  Just to point out how dead Tibia actually is, just take a look at Tibianews. It rarely gets updated, and should be considered dead. The Tibia era is over, and they are losing ground rapidly making them another lost online game on the internet.

No offense, but I wouldn't use TibiaNews as an example for anything. The reason TN is dead is because they aren't a community driven forum. It was removed from the Promoted Fansite status because no one wants to take care of it, which is why it never gets updated. Take a look at some of the top Fansites (TibiaBR/ML/MX) and tell me they are dead... There is an average of 35,000 players on Tibia each day, at a time. I know that's nothing compared to more popular MMOs such as WoW, but you can't compare Tibia to those types of MMOs. The reason TP has lost so much interest is because it went down for quite some time, and when it finally came back up no one knew and they couldn't find it (I have no clue how I came across it).

Now that that is out of the way, yes I think we should cater to more gaming areas. As far as I'm concerned TP is the #1 place for Tibia-related programming, am I wrong? And in my personal opinion players who want to 'cheat' in Tibia don't want to waste their time learning to do it on their own, they want to use something that is finished (NG, ElfBot, BlackD, TUGBot, TibiaAuto, etc.). You can also confirm this with threads on our own forum; "Please, how do I make a cavebot?", "Give me _____ code.", etc. And why would people want to learn how to program when they can run one of these bots, open the scripting feature, and in a few minutes have a working feature that would have taken them ages hard-coding (This includes TibiaAPI users, no offense I'm one too haha.).

The idea of making this a programming forum with computer games as our main focus seems to the best idea thrown around, in my opinion. The only thing is, we can't just sit around talking about it we have to make something happen.