www.legendflash.com New Community Forums!

Hey everyone! I recentley go started in lineage 2 and i love this game! So i decided to make some community forums/fansite.

www.legendflash.com (http://www.legendflash.com) Just made today! Im sorry if i posted this in the wrong section if so can you move it? Well anyway hope to see you on the forums.

We're running IPB 1.3.1 and we have IB Foren's latest security patch ( 13th December )

Common guy's! I go out of my way spend over $100 ?

Please help me make a really active community :) (sorry for the bump)

Ok, since this is a community forum and we all know at least 3 other good community forums, could you maybe give just one good reason, why we should go to your new board if it is only a board and not an information site as well ?

Wondering Kitten

Neatly organzied forum. Could use a skin of some sort. I know it's new but it seems a bit bland. As the kitten said, why should we use your site? Meaning as opposed to this forum or the Flame-Dumpster called l2blah?

Well questions/board of course. There a forum devoted to guides. What's wrong with trying to expand the lineage 2 community? You'd proably agree and say nothing. Well and as for skin's im deciding on one at the moment. But i want it look nice and clean and proffesional like not tacky.

also if you notice there are no ad's and popups and we offer clan forum and website hosting to clans with more then 15 members
Thanks for your concerns! :cool: And hopefully a vent + teamspeak soon.

Stratics, which already has a huge collection of guides, has a guide forum already. Look under the player guides section, several have this already.

You'll just have trouble getting a ton of traffic when sites like Stratics are already known for guides, this one for questions, and blah even more so for questions/flames/community/movies/etc etc.

Greetings,

You'll just have trouble getting a ton of traffic when sites like Stratics are already known for guides, this one for questions, and blah even more so for questions/flames/community/movies/etc etc.

And yours is known even in Korea...

Traffic, it's pretty easy to generate, if you are clever.

Have Fun ! ™

Darkmotion
Board Devil (http://www.evene.fr/livres/livre/marc-levy-et-si-c-etait-vrai-1009.php) / Fired ! (http://forums.mmoradio.com/forumdisplay.php?f=66)

Well, I am all for expanding the community, as I am the administrator of the german community fansite :)

However, I see community sites like fan clubs or like a tool. If I got a hammer to hit nails, and I like that hammer and it is a good hammer and I already hit 99% of all nails with it, then why would I want to use a different hammer ?

stratics is superb in terms of guides. I even point my users to stratics, when it comes to quest guides, as I got no time to give all the quest info in german.

The fansite business (it is a business) is fought over though. Most customers aer settling for one, maybe two sites, that they check on a regular basis or even daily.
You are trying to get into this market and get customers from other sites to visit yours.

For that you need to present something, that noone else got. For a start, that would be "no advertising" which in unique for your site yet. However, once you got a base of customers, you will be unable to maintain it, without some source of income, which typically is advertising. You would need a heckload of content to get your users to pay for it.

I am in the lucky position to have no competitior. www.lineageII.de (http://www.lineageII.de) is old and established in the german community. A new german fansite would have a very dificult stand against us, as again, that other site would need to have something, that we do not offer.

You, as an english board, are in competition with stratics, warcry, l2blah and probably a dozen other sites, that I do not know, or which names are banned here ;)
And as such, you need to give some sugar to lure all the flies to your site ;)

Establishment Kitten :)

Mine was more of an accident than anything else too, I put it up for myself, because I hate filefront and wanted my movies and screenies up as I saw fit. Then people suggested forums and I put up a few categories, then my clan needed a forum section so I put up that, then people actually started to **** it requiring a complete overhaul.

Then I started doing guides that I just link over to stratics rather than host them myself as I had no desire to maintain the back end on any of that.

I have no ads either but I don't get any bone crushing traffic that would require that anyway :) I like it that way.

Hi Nofan.

Pretty much everything i would say has already been said. I wish you luck with the copmmunity. Stratics has guides, lots of info like spells, items and the rest and has forums that correspond. I don't think it would be wise to attempt to syphon their members.

Blah is the smack-talking, junior ******s society. I don't think this community needs another one of those.

There is already a rolkeplayers association. That's a solid community and isn't going anywhere.

So, you need to find your niche. Having a nice board and a host is great. You need may want to find that little, more specialized community that would find your boards a great place to go for a particular type of discussion/information without trying to compete with already established niche sites.

I'll plug your site on my shows if you request it, but it's up to you to offer something unique to your potential readership.

Best of luck!

Welcome Nofan! I have met you ingame and I can recommended you as being mature, inquisitive and helpful.

A new forum takes a while to get established, so be patient. Posting on these official forums will get folks to know you and that will encourage them to visit and post on your site.

Like all things in Lineage, it may take a while. :)