So recently I’ve found some great ongoing stories (and finished ones) in the PCM ‘06 till ’12 forums and it made me wonder if it wouldn’t be a good option to have a separate story sub-forum for all story threads instead having them being separated by PCM version. I think this would give some of these stories more recognition than they’re currently getting.
I enjoy reading some of these stories here and happened to stumble onto these by coincidence, I can imagine someone new to the forums who owns PCM 14 might never even bother to check the older PCM forums to see what’s going on there.
On the Dutch PCM forum they got a story sub-forum which is roughly split up in the categories.
The users could just be required to place their game version in the title like; “[PCM 13] Il Bimbo d’bronzo”. And who knows maybe like on the Dutch forums people might get motivated and create interesting stories about other games.
I don't know how easy it would be to pull out the older stories (as the forums have been collapsed already) but it isn't a bad idea. Only drawback is, fewer stories would be on the first page of the subforum if it isn't sorted by PCM version.
baseballlover312, 06-03-14 : "Nuke Moscow...Don't worry Russia, we've got plenty of love to go around your cities"
Sarah Palin, 08-03-14 (CPAC, on Russian aggression) : "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke"
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I like this idea as well. I read only the first bit and instantly thought, it would be perfect if you also included [PCM14] in the title to let people know which version it is, and I read on and saw it was included. It helps everyone get more recognition, I think it would also encourage more people to start stories on older versions of the game. I know on other sites PCM06 was the most popular version even only 2 years ago.
If its not possible to "revive" older stories from the PCM06-11, there could be a "sticky" with links to the more popular old stories, and Im sure the active stories could be moved upon request of an admin.
Just saw this now and I definitely support the idea. It can be pain in ass to move all that, but it can't take more than few days to sort all that out, am I right? So, something to think about, admins.
I have to say I might be a little bit biased on this because I do not think many people still drill down to the PCM09 section but I do support the idea. I don't know why but the golden era of the stories might have gone and collapsing them into 1 forum would maybe encourage them to be more followed. Hopefully other writers would also join.