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Miscellaneous => Other Games => Topic started by: theory on December 12, 2014, 12:30:20 pm

Title: Change the name of this board?
Post by: theory on December 12, 2014, 12:30:20 pm
There's a lot of non-boardgames that are included in this forum already.  There's also a lot of games topics in the General Discussion forum that would have to all be moved in here if this is expanded (e.g., Pokemon, roguelike, etc.)

What do we think?
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Kirian on December 12, 2014, 01:03:37 pm
I'm going to skip voting on this because the line--if there is one--is too blurry.  Assuming we take "board games" to include card games as well (and I'm pretty sure we're including Dominion, so yeah), Hearthstone and Prismata are card games just as much as Magic or Dominion are, despite the fact that their only playspace is online.

I've never even seen a physical copy of Through the Ages in the wild, but that doesn't mean it's a video game.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: amalloy on December 12, 2014, 02:37:03 pm
I'm with Kirian here: I think the name already does include other card games. I know Hanabi isn't a "board game", because it has cards and no board, but nobody would blink if you brought it with you to a local board-game night: it's the same kind of game, even with different physical bits. If you broaden the name to something wider than "board games", do you want it to include stuff like LoL? I'd be against that, myself: it's such a different type of game than what's currently in this forum. And if you don't want it to include that, the current name is fine already.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: mpsprs on December 12, 2014, 03:19:44 pm
I suppose one option is to have child boards of this board:

One for board games
One for non-board games
One for arguing into which of the above categories a particular game falls
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Witherweaver on December 12, 2014, 03:22:56 pm
Can we use the board for hide-and-seek strategy discussion?
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: jsh357 on December 12, 2014, 03:41:23 pm
Just call it Other Games and be done.  Things will work out, have faith.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Witherweaver on December 12, 2014, 03:52:55 pm
If you build it, they will come.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Teproc on December 12, 2014, 03:58:15 pm
Just call it Other Games and be done.  Things will work out, have faith.

This.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: DG on December 12, 2014, 04:42:33 pm
Other Kingdom Games is a much better title.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Polk5440 on December 12, 2014, 04:55:10 pm
Just call it Other Games and be done. Things will work out, have faith.

Just leave it as Other Board Games and be done even quicker. Things will work out, have faith.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: pacovf on December 12, 2014, 06:47:49 pm
I like categorizing stuff, so I am all up for more child boards! I think "Board Games" and "Video Games" would be a reasonable distinction. Then each game would go wherever someone actually starts the thread.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Donald X. on December 12, 2014, 08:07:03 pm
I like categorizing stuff, so I am all up for more child boards! I think "Board Games" and "Video Games" would be a reasonable distinction. Then each game would go wherever someone actually starts the thread.
Posting begets posting. I think it's better to have forums broad enough to fill up a screen with active threads; when it exceeds that, split it up into two forums. The exception is when you want to be able to hide/ignore a forum.

So, I wouldn't split off video games; it just means forums with fewer active threads. Combining video games and board games is the correct direction, except it's moot at the moment since general discussion doesn't get that much activity either.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Tables on December 20, 2014, 07:25:54 am
I'm in favour of either creating a Video Game section, or just changing other Board Games to other Games. Both have advantages, but I think the latter might be better.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Tables on December 21, 2015, 02:54:22 pm
So hey, this thread is now a year old, still stickied and still nothing has happened despite a majority voting yes. Erm, time to do something?
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: LastFootnote on June 17, 2016, 04:29:51 pm
So hey, this thread is now a year and a half old, still stickied and still nothing has happened despite a majority voting yes. Erm, time to so something?
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Awaclus on June 17, 2016, 04:32:00 pm
Who's this Erm guy?
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: popsofctown on June 19, 2016, 02:12:10 pm
I think the name should change to "other turn-based games."

I know there are those non turn-based physical boardgames out there but ugh man I hate those so much.  No one has tried to promote them on this forum so maybe my opinion of them is widespread enough for that name to suffice.
Turn-based or not is a pretty powerful way of classifying games, kind of like asking whether an animal has a spine or not.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Tables on August 11, 2016, 08:04:26 am
\o/
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: silverspawn on August 16, 2016, 04:26:41 am
\o/ !
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Roadrunner7671 on August 16, 2016, 08:49:01 am
Things will work out, have faith.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Kuildeous on August 16, 2016, 09:23:41 am
\o/ !

What?! You really want to go with (\o/)(\o/ - 1)( \o/ - 2)…(2)(1)? You've gone too far, sir!
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Witherweaver on August 16, 2016, 09:30:19 am
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Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: ThetaSigma12 on June 11, 2017, 02:50:44 pm
You know, at this point we should basically just rename this "Temporum and Other Games." Actually, we could probably just have our own Temporum sub-board.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: werothegreat on June 11, 2017, 04:23:26 pm
You know, at this point we should basically just rename this "Temporum and Other Games." Actually, we could probably just have our own Temporum sub-board.

And maybe remove the Innovation sub-board?  I don't think anyone plays that anymore... certainly no one has posted there in over a year.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: LastFootnote on June 12, 2017, 04:54:15 pm
And maybe remove the Innovation sub-board?  I don't think anyone plays that anymore... certainly no one has posted there in over a year.

False! Seprix posted in this thread (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=13691.0) on July 21st of last year! Boo-yah! *offers high-fives*
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: werothegreat on June 12, 2017, 05:41:03 pm
And maybe remove the Innovation sub-board?  I don't think anyone plays that anymore... certainly no one has posted there in over a year.

False! Seprix posted in this thread (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=13691.0) on July 21st of last year! Boo-yah! *offers high-fives*

*stock_eyeroll.gif*
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Kirian on June 13, 2017, 02:55:38 pm
I rather wish people still played Innovation.

My deluxe box should be in the mail any day now, so hooray for that!
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Awaclus on June 13, 2017, 03:02:38 pm
What killed online Innovation for me was that all the expansions were released and it was way too many new cards that I suddenly had to learn.
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: Watno on June 13, 2017, 04:39:48 pm
there are people playing without expansiosn i think, as well as with only some at a time.

Hurray for Innovation Deluxe finally shipping, though I think I'll stick with my patched version of base/echoes/figures
Title: Re: Change the name of this board?
Post by: GendoIkari on June 13, 2017, 07:28:04 pm
I rather wish people still played Innovation.

My deluxe box should be in the mail any day now, so hooray for that!

I just started playing more recently. I'm really glad to have the original version; the new ones just don't look as nice.