Once the site is up you'll be able to see everything forum or not, without being logged in. The only things you will need to be logged in for is accessing the Social Groups, using the Chat features, and Posting in the forums. Yes unfortunately anything since this past Tuesday will be left behind on this forum, the sheer volume of posts we have to convert ment we had 2 options. Close the forums completely and do the convert, which we felt would be less desirable than leaving them open with a weeks worth of posts being left behind and archived. The conversion process isn't quick unfortunately. We're not getting rid of the posts, just setting this forum up as an archive. I'll send out a notice both here and on Facebook when people can start resetting their passwords.
The Post will migrate with all the others. All Forum Posts are being migrated except those since this past Tuesday, when we started converting the databases formats. 271,000 Topics and close to 2 million replies take a while to convert and any new posts made since this past Tuesday will be left here as an Archive, but with that thread, Manticore will have the ability to edit and update it once the new forums are set up and ready which will be the determining factor of when we flip the switch and make the site live.
You'll be able to read the forums, and all the other content while not logged in. You won't be able to make use of the features of Social Groups while not logged in though which would include the Event Calendars, and RSS feeds from various Sites like UO.com or the individual EM's sites. But everything that is migrated from uo.stratics.com and uo2.stratics.com will be available either on the site or if it has to be manually migrated, which is much of the uo.stratics.com information, we will be leaving those sites up until it is all converted and ready.
We are able to import individual user accounts but not their passwords. When you go to the Login Screen there is an option to Recover your password. If you have an error doing so, send me an E-mail at [email protected] and I'll work with you to correct it.
The Forum URL will be https://stratics.com That will be the URL for everything, you won't need several bookmarks to get to everything once everything is completed. Forums, and all our Guides and Articles are being integrated into one site. Everything will be categorized by game, purpose (like the hunters guide) and alphabetically. This way you will be able to with a couple of clicks filter out everything that isn't relevant to the subject matter you want to see.
As soon as it's ready, we want to have it ready at the latest early next week. If something unforeseen happens we'll update you here and on Facebook.
It's already a sticky, and the latest updates are from January, so it will migrate in tact and be waiting for future updates! It could be made into an article but it will need updated on a semi-regular basis.
My pleasure, I'm really excited about the new site!
LOL, it was more about the forum in general. Do you remember when the uo.com forums closed? Everyone rushed to get a post in that would be memorialized in the wayback machine.
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We are working on making that happen, we still have a few things to reveal yet..... But what is perhaps going to be the biggest change is how we approach growth. In the past we've kind of had a "Field of Dreams" type approach of "If you build it...." That's going away. In the past that approach has had limited success. Instead what we are going to do is, start out with an offering of titles we can provide a level of support for, or through examination of our community found a large player base already present.
Oh it will be locked (read only), with your own words "After around a week after the launch these forums will be put into a Read Only state, and remain up for and undetermined amount of time, but no new posts, or conversations will able to be created."
We are going to convert them to groups and hand them over to the individual in charge of them. I'll be sending emails out to the guild forum admins as we near launch asking them to verify ownership, and ask if they wish for it to remain open, or be archived and hidden from the public if it is no longer used.
I'll double check avatars, but signatures fall under the same guidelines as we have now.
Well there's a couple things wrong with that image you're painting.
Here's a breakdown on how to earn or lose Trinkets.
Don't worry too much about it. Stratics routinely has these bouts of delusions about being more than just a site for UO occasionally, which usually corresponds to coming under new management. They decide to change all the forum software and add "features" which no-one uses. Eventually they stop trying to force them down people's throats when they realize the whole demographic of the site is just here to discuss UO and the only reason they're here is because EA refuse to make an official forum. Stratics then gets sold after the failure to "expand" and we start again at step 1. Rinse and repeat.
I told a friend, when Taylor & crew left, that was behind the turnover. UO may not be abandoned (i.e. it's still in the house), but it's starting to smell like grandmother's old shawl that's on its way to the cedar chest.
Those are being migrated, and right before we flip the new site live I'm sending out an E-mail to all the Guild Forum owners asking if they want them to be setup on the new site or if they are disused and abandoned and should be archived out of sight.
Groups as they are set up have:
It's partly true, the cost of maintaining the site is more or less equivalent to the cost of a new car payment (think Mustang not a SMART Car), even with our entirely volunteer staff. It's a noticeable financial cost on any one individual trying to maintain it, unless of course they are rather well off. The only way to make the site solvent is to increase ad revenue, or charge people to use of certain aspects. We're giving you all the opportunity to more or less chose which. By recruiting people to the site and helping us grow more titles, we'll increase ad revenues. By contributing guides and articles we can draw new faces to Stratics, by making direct financial contributions for Trinkets we can offset some of the costs.I told a friend, when Taylor & crew left, that was behind the turnover. UO may not be abandoned (i.e. it's still in the house), but it's starting to smell like grandmother's old shawl that's on its way to the cedar chest.
Can't speak for anyone but myself, but I almost cried when Taylor left. I liked him very much.
Hidden and private groups still fall under the RoC and site ToS. We will be doing spot checks if anything sketchy that can harm the site is posted we'll work with the group owner to correct it. Continual violations of those type can result in the group being removed and no refund given.
Sorry I have to ask again, but I am not sure if we are both talking the same.
I'm going to chime in on this particular statement.
If I read correctly the info posted earlier about trinkets, it sounds like you get no additional trinkets for posting more than once in the same thread. I got the impression you'd have to keep starting new threads to earn many trinkets for making posts. Don't know what would happen to your trinkets, i.e., if you'd lose some you already earned, if you started doing that and the moderators decided to merge multiple threads into one.
