orudge wrote:Beardie wrote:Just wondering what is happening with the Graphic Sets Subforums?
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Well, I'm still not entirely decided. I think that it would still be a possibility for sets that could justify their requirement for one.
That'll give your admin staff some more work though. And possibly a few "Why can they have their own forum and I cannot?"-responds. And what to do with inactive sets which have their own forum? When deleting their forum you'd need move all topics to the general graphic development forum, but would you want several topics for the same set there? Merging could result in a mess too.
I foresee a mess of projects forums within short time, TBH.
Purno wrote:Though your suggestion looks quite good, this system kinda forces me to make a seperate release topic for the Dutch Trainset, the 2cc Set and basicly any other graphic set which doesn't have a seperate release topic yet.
It's a bit more work for the set maintainers, but it's probably quite handy - I think such a system has worked well for sets like the US Set in the past. But it seems a few people here think it would be a good idea.
For the Dutch Trainset and the 2ccSet we always edited the first post and topic title to announce a release. This has always worked and I can't see such a system would be a disadvantage to a set compared to a whole new topic for releases (which often results in posts being made in the wrong topic, as bugs gets discussed in the releases topic instead of the development topic).
Especially since there are sites like GRFCrawler or BaNaNaS, I don't think a forum would be the ideal way to announce releases. IMO sites like GRFCrawler or BaNaNaS should be the place TT players look for Graphics. (OpenTTD already has a ingame download system).
Note that a forum cannot be sorted or queried. The search function only has limited options. I expect a few *bump*-replies just to make sure their release doesn't get off the first page.
TBH, I don't think forum software offers the features you'd want for a collection of searchable GRFs.
There can be a sticky link to GRFCrawler within the Releases forum.
Well, I do prefer it to be in sight as much as possible. I wouldn't want a newbie able to miss it. Perhaps it's even an idea putting a link to GRFCrawler in the description of the Releases forum (the main forum on the index, not a subforum)?
It's about time too that one system gets used for these things, and not several. (Having to upload your GRF to GRFCrawler *and* BaNaNaS is already enough IMO). Perhaps pick the best ones and advertise those to encourage people using those and not trying to setting up a similar system to re-invent the wheel, so to say.