Has Zel lost its shine?

It's a mixture of things, more than likely, and the holidays is one of them. I don't think it's time to panic though, in the 6 years I've been here it has gone through this stage many times. Eventually, it will get back on track and the activity will be high. Although, in the past Zelaron was structured around D2 and that's where most of the members came from. I think we need something of that magnitude again.

Activity seems to come in waves. I think I'll stay this time.

Still borrringggg

The reason why Zelaron was so active during the Diablo II days was because we put (almost) all of our focus and efforts into a single area. Now, we have a large number of different sub-forums, all of which have about half a member interested in each. Activity remained reasonably high after the "D2 era", but it was still augmented by the existence of our Diablo II forum.

Now that the Diablo II forum has withered and completely died, we need to refocus our efforts, or Zelaron in its entirety is likely to die, too.

So, in order to make Zelaron more active again, we need to choose one single subject/area and focus all of our efforts on it. As previously stated, I think either Game Hacking or RPGMaker will be ideal, because we have a pretty good background in both areas. This "background" will thus give us a boost of activities from search engines.

For those of you who think we should turn Zelaron into a full-fledged general conversation forum, I'm sorry, but it's a terrible idea. There are too many other general discussion forums around.

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Edit: For those of you who think you have no interest in, say, RPGMaker or some similarly "focused" area, remember that general discussion worked fine during the D2 days despite the fact that we didn't dedicate 17 different forums to it.

Any other ideas?

Start giving out free donuts again.

I'm fine with Zelaron focusing on one single area, as long as we can gain members that stick around. If it's RPGMaker I'm afraid I won't be able to help at all since I've only heard of this program through Zelaron. If you want to go down the "Game Hacking" path, what games would you focus on? Do we even have any good programmers/hackers nowadays? I know in the past we did with D2, but now....?

I vote for the hacking and cracking section.

I'm fine with that. A forum focused solely on general discussion is doomed to fail, anyway.

I think the focus should be around MMORPG's seeing as WoW just released a new expansion, WAR is still holding strong and is actually competition for WoW now, Diablo 3 will be released soon and we could endevour back into our old days. Starcraft 2 is comming shortly, and I've even heard a terrible rumor from a troll in trade channel about warcraft 4...

If we could get a decent MMO thing going, It could work, but it could also fail.. I'm not the expert in this area.. But I think the general background of the community here is gaming (Im a quick learner)

Personally I think the game hacking is a terrible idea, I for one hated when people fucked up too human when it was still 1-2 weeks out, completely screwed up the economy of that game and multiplayer trading had died. Hacking it could be fun, but Id prefer it to be where d2 is now, still around but kinda forogotten, having a bot makes going back to d2 desireable. If we got d3 tomorrow, and in 1 week we were hacking it, I would be disappointed.

Sure, focusing on one area is good, but we need to have more popular input too. Maybe reviewing more games, movies, etc. would get more hits? I honestly haven't the foggiest how search engines work? I'm down for evolving the RPG Maker, but I'd like to actually see something out of it too. I remember the days of the Zelaron RPG, and it was fun as hell. If we're going to focus on it, lets make something out of it too...