[Done] Event subforum consolidation proposal

[Avalanche]

Server events are "serious" things and attractive to new players, imho. They cover the story. Also story covers them.

Player events we sometimes make for fun, tralalala and even nutelalalala. They are not reflecting what Disco really is, especially if I'm writing them goofy. New players would thing we play this game totally wasted.

100% I agree. Server Events are serious yes and their posts are high quality. Player Events are for fun and some posts are of questionable quality. We could keep them separate but my original proposal of promoting the "Events & Competitions" sub-sub-forum into a sub-forum still is logical and in the best interests of both forum design and community members.

Should you agree to the idea of promoting "Events & Competitions" into a sub-forum, I then propose to you why not have "Server Events" as pinned posts within it. Threads within "Server Events" already carry an [Official Event] tag. Imagine members and factions promoting events in 1 dedicated forum which is not hidden inside another forum (such as General Discussions) and pinned above them all are the occasional [Official Event] admin/story lead events.

This proposal which consolidates events into one dedicated sub-forum and not sub-sub-forum will make events look more frequent, engaged, encouraged, emphasised and of course the huge bonus would be General Discussions threads/replies would not bump them down from the forum index (front page).

But, with our 16:9 screens there is enough space to promote player things by nice portrait format banners on homepage side, shortcutted to their current threads.

Personally I'd like to see Durandals banners for fun things, like player events (and competitions ofc), base sieges and comm thread.

Sure, banners could be used for cool thing like you listed. Good in-game activities need good marketing and I'm all for your idea. I do see banners as an unrelated topic to my sub-forum mergers proposal though which I put in the OP.