New SoE's EQ Forums?Follow

Well, I am one for change....so I will give the new forum style a chance.
One big problem since the last time they made changes was that SoE merged Housing and Tradeskills together. It is hard to try to keep up with the Jones’, in housing. Lot of player use the discussion area for trade skill information, hints and short cuts. More so then Housing uses it to show off their houses and ask questions about how certain things they are trying to achieved. So Housing gets lost in the numerous posts that are place with trade skills. Both are important and both should have their own thread LIKE BEFORE. Lot of players have argued this but SoE seems to ingore, including the 2nd post on this new forum. So for this reasons “the Italian Judge” Vinney gives the new forums a TWO THUMBS DOWN award at this time.
Lot of player's into housing are using the specific forum on EQ Resource. Seems to be a little easier for us housing guys and gals to Display, ask question and get ideas on.
And for a shameless plug, come visit Vinney's PeaceKeepers Guild and 16 house in Cedar Country Meadows, Zek. No PKing till level six.




Edited, Oct 9th 2012 12:33pm by Vinney

I'll give the new EQplayers forums a huge thumbs down also...

As I also find that they have lumped too many categories together, maybe for the forum moderators convenience but at the expense of the playerbase.

Though I dont like change as much in general, especially if the change is worse than before (being an old stubborn forty something year old player).
Sadly, I have not used the EQ players forums as much for a couple years now...

Still waiting on the once promised but now phantomlike "new EQ players leaderboards"....Even the "site in progress" button was ninja removed...

Edited, Oct 9th 2012 4:54pm by hexeez

Sounds like a protection app preventing cookies from being saved. If it's your browser doing the blocking, you can make an exception for forums.station.sony.com or simply sony.com to cover everything there.

Don't know if that's the problem or not, just sounded like it. Hope it helps.

EDIT: Never got around to the CSS other than looking at their's and they are a mess, with tons of different colors many very similar and only different by a few single digits. I did try browser custom colors and it actually looked alot better, but still screwy in spots (maybe a dark gray background, as I only tried black and white ones).

Yther Ore.

Edited, Oct 11th 2012 3:26pm by Yther

I personally don't like the new forums. I much prefer that they didn't change anything. Why fix it when it wasn't broken? The only thing that was wrong with the old forums was the login issue (logging you out after 5 minutes, instead of leaving you logged in all day). These new forums, although pretty to look at, don't suit me.

You can get to them, it's just alot of work. If you can get the full url from the results page (most of the time not), you can copy it, and paste it and replace /eq/ with /eqold/ to get to the old post, but more likely, you'll have to copy the google url and paste it, and edit out all of the google stuff, then replace the /eq/ with /eqold/ in the sony part of the url to get there. And then this will only work while they keep the archive up.

Hopefully those working on backups are almost done, and will have google scour their sites.

Temporary archive at http://forums.station.sony.com/eqold/ and you can use the search there too, while it's up.

Yther Ore.

yeap, you are no longer able to reference old post. A lot of information lost and a lot of time and effort. I am now posting any of my house information and having to rebuild all the different post I had toward the Housing forums to here: EQ Reference If SoE was a NFL football team they would be leading the league in fumbles. So Sad