Googi most of these kids can't be, hell the staff on those servers pretty much promote it.

Not all people from Classic/Playerworlds are idiots... -_- I first came to these forums when Mithica was p2p, and my Mithica_GP8 account was able to access the forums.. And besides...there are a lot of those "OMG WTF GUY" people who suscribe to gold.. Just because they do or don't upgrade does not deterimine their intelligence.

But not all people want to play the gold servers.
They may be perfectly happy playing on one of the classic tab sections.
Graal should sell the fourms as a seperate buyable item like Something Awful fourms although the fourms should still be included in the gold upgrade account.

I agree but I think they should only have access to the Classic/Playerworlds Forums and not the rest , if they want to know what is doing on with Graal either upgrade or go to the Main site. They can gleam a certain amount from the Classic/Playerworld Forums and maybe this will wet their appetite enough to want to upgrade.


O_o I just noticed Zell12 and AlexH and I all registered in June 2001. :megaeek:

Limited access to the forums, giving them just Classic/Playerworld access does sound like a pretty good idea. I know if it were possible to not re-upgrade to use the forums, I most likely would never upgrade again. These forums, after all are an incentive to the paying Graal customer.

If I'm not mistaken, anyone can view the forums, but only gold members can post... or was this changed?

I don't see the reason to have to go through all the work of having to enable posting for hundreds of accounts. First off, the forums would overflow with people that have no regard for forum rules, and we're definitely not prepared to have to moderate the forums 24 hours a day, and probably banning dozens of accounts a day.

Can you just imagine how many PMs forum staff and unix/stefan would get? 100's a day. Maxed out pm boxes nonstop. I'm not saying we can't have a lot of people, I'm just saying it would be hell to just suddenly allow hundreds of people to post in the blink of an eye.

I didn't read all of the posts, so sorry if mine seems similar to someone elses.

I believe that classic members that have upgraded their account previously should be able to post on classic sections of the forums. Having some restrictions / requirements would probably be needed.

restriction examples:
-X amount of posts per thread per hour
-no new threads
-no sending private messages

requirement examples:
-XXX amount of hours on XXX's server to access XXX's forums
-an overall good rating from gold members (so basically, gold members could vote out classic users if they're doing things that aren't appreciated etc.)

not that they have to be exactly this, but similar ones may still make them want to upgrade


[added]I'll help unix with the PHP etc. for this if he ever accepts the ideas[/added]

Classic players should have access to the Classic // Playerworlds forums

Very bad idea.
I can tell you for a fact some people would rate people 1 just for the sake of getting them removed.

i dont think its very fair to consider all classic and pw users as SSJ4 HAR HAR I R 1337 people, because they arent. You'll find just as many classless people playing gold. Just because someone is able to get a hold of their parents credit card doesnt mean they are more intelligent then those that cant. My standpoint goes on the ability to post on development, classic/playerworld and the playerworld individual forums.

stereotyping is bad, okay? not everyone who plays the classic servers are unintelligent or stupid...

no offense or anything, but i already know everyone's personalities (well, for the most part) here and these forums need something to spice them up. you have to admit, it has got pretty damn boring around here as of lately.

agreed.

Yes. I know quite a few people who don't play Gold Graal, and they surpass in the intelligence factor of the common Gold player. They do (or did) indeed play in the classic/playerworld section of Graal.

i think i have a combined 5 hours in the gold servers, and I like to think of myself of having a high intelligence level...but then again, thats your opinion to take, not mine.

ya but, who would want to buy access to forums? I mean who would pay to post here?