January 31, 2007

Changes for WPH

This week Gregg will be moving the WPH forums over to the Atari website. From what I understand, most of the WPH forums as we know them will stay in tact as a sub-area of the Atari forums, but there may be a few changes.

Some people are afraid of this because they don't want to lose the close-knit-ness of the community, and I can understand that. I'm afraid of that too, but several of the WPH mods have been exploring things at Atari, and from what I hear their community is pretty similar to ours... so I think we will fit together nicely. The plus side is that WPH'ers will now be exposed to the games at Atari play and vice-versa, so now there are more games to explore and potentially more cool new people to meet in the lobbies. So I think that, overall, this will be a good thing for us.

If things do get more crowded in the DB lobbies, being a member of a clan will be more important than ever. With a lot of new people coming in, the ratio of skill to score will go down, meaning that, in effect, we all become "better" players without actually improving our abilities. The molotov shots you know now will be less known by the general public, so if you were just a low blue before, you might be a red now. Also, with lots more people around, it is nice to have a community like a clan. It's always easier to cope when there's people around that you know.