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Are Druchii.net's best days behind it?

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Post by The dark prince »

My opinion on this issue is different from what others have said before. As with what happened to Kala, I was a complete noob to the world of playing Warhammer. I had no idea as to tactics or anything. I stumbled across D.net as i was scouring the web to look for some way to beat my friends...and I was literally in heaven. It was a godsend! I came just at the time as the Revision was being finalised, which was just exciting. MSU had just been formally introduced by malekithau, and i was dazzled by the simplicity and brilliance of it. I had about 2 years great gaming with my friends, before most of them lost interest and moved on.

I haven't actually played Warhammer for almost a year now. Although I still believe that I can contribute to this site, I have become mainly a lurker. I just don't feel the urge to post any more.

Mainly what I am trying to say is that oldsters will obviously lose some enthusiasm for the site, but try and think back to when you first joined. It was like the Holy Grail! I don't really think the site has degraded very much, rather that people have just got used to it.

Don't know if any of that made sense.

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Post by Banshee »

To answer the initial question:
Yes, D.net has already seen it's better days.
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For now! Just wait till some new army comes out - you will find excellent advice on how to fight them on this boards. Or wait until 7th ed. - I'm sure D.net will again play a big part in creating blanced army books, wiping out bad written rules,...

The best things that I got from D.net were the thoughts on DE tactics - using your DR's in a proper way, using blocks of those 'useless' spearelves (a 16 elves block won me a battle yesterday by beating units at least 5 times it's own points cost!),... But the most excellent idea I got here was the MSU/MSE discussion! There were some brilliant posts which brought DE tactics to a new level! I don't think you can have a similar new idea nowadays 'cause the idea's already been there. ;)

BUT:
D.net is still an excellent place to discuss your ideas on tactics and armylists. There a lots of veteran players around that give their advice freely. Also if you have rules questions you get the correct answer in no time (in most cases). So D.net is a very good ressource for DE players' questions, no matter what is asked!
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Post by Belial »

I too am very frustarted over the fact that you cant discuss old topics again, let alone revive old treads.
I really cannot see what harm it might do. If people do not want to start an old discussion then they wont join in...

But I guess there is a reason for this, otherwise they would not have made the rules so.

Also, I find it negative we are restricted not to discuss anything concerning religion or politics. I know it invites a flamewar, but still...
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Post by Alkkrision »

Yeah, there are reasons Belial. It's the sort of thing that may incite religious tensions, such as someone's opinion on one religion arising, which could lead to inciting more than just flamewars.

It's the same with politics, though maybe on a lesser scale. Maybe talking about current affairs we would be able to get away with it, but there's always someone who's going to scream "I HATE (Insert Name Here)"!!, which could get us into a load of trouble.

Druchii.net have been a little quiet lately, but we have been working on the Mordheim revision for Dark Elves which makes things brilliant. It's certainly going to get me into Mordheim.
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Post by Daemonic aura »

I havent been here for very long whatsoever. However, i find this site to be a fantastic resource. I believe that all that is needed is for the guys at GW to actually do something meaningful with dark elves. Instead of coming up with one variant army list and leaving it at that , they should try harder. Storm of chaos was the last time anything was done for the dark elves. When reading white dwarf i continually see new background, new army lists ( gnoblar hordes, the lustrian norse, undead pirates to name but a few) but nothing for dark elves. There is an article in the most recent white dwarf being a battle report (in which we lost to HIGH ELVES. the shame.) Before that nothing for quite a lot of issues. Oh, except mengils manflayers, which didnt really do anything for me. Sowhat i am saying is, why do they not come up with anything for dark elves? This would give everyone something to talk about. They could even ask us what we wanted, much like they did with the dark elf revision. Even if this does not happen, this is too great a site to fall by the wayside, so just hang on in there and hope something comes up.
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Post by Xizor »

Is it just me, or have the last few weeks been totally dead around here?

Its such a shame to come online and find there has been around 15 new posts all day, most of which are in random polls we've seen a million times before or in the RPG (im glad that seems to be going well though :)). I had become used to (complacent perhaps) receiving multiple replies to my army list topics daily (as im sure did other members)...now nothing.

None of the veterans seem to post atall anymore, but its not even like theres a new wave of posters. very sad indeed :(

At the moment (IMO of course), this isnt an issue of slow decay, it just seems dead and buried.

Even my rubbish little forum seems to have more happening...

Its a shame to have to say all this, and still Ill come here daily, but lets hope something happens to re-invigorate us Druchii.
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Post by Azure »

I want to do my part!

Xizor, would you like me you write tactic articles? (if so pm me and ill write one up to see if you would like me to do more)

Im one of the reasons this site is slowing simply because i rarely read therough the army list section and now i will!

Azure

p.s. religion=a big no no... of course we could ban on the spot of a 2nd offender but of course that could cause a massive reducment of are user base

p.s.s. has anyone sent out a mass email saying we are back up yet?
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Shadowrune wrote:
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if you were a very fast driver and felt pretty happy with your life. Once you crash in a life threatening accident you would be takin your time before increasing your speed again


Not only the hardware did crash, the motivation did suffer here as well.


One month later and nothing happened. The album still isn't in working order. It's a shame...

Delete it of bring it offline :!:
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Post by Gibious »

It been quite a while since my last post and it seems that druchii.net has still not fully recoverd also as the dark prince is saying i too am loosing the will to post anything as it seems that i have reached my limit unable to contribute. I now change my oppinion to that this site seems to be slowing to a hault.
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Post by S_serpent »

But still new adepts are found, I only joined really 'like yesterday' everything has its ups and downs (I have ;) )
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[quote=Also, since D.Net crashed for so long, it will take some time to get everyone back. Haven't seen DA, haven't seen Ash. And a few others.

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I did'nt know about that. How long was D.ne out for?
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Months. :badh: A few of us used it as an excuse to invade Asur.org. And we are slowly winning. :twisted:
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There's an invasion? Good god, why was I not told?
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Hop on over their. The war of the beard campaign is about to start and us Malekithians could use all the help we can get. Even though we won the Sundering were still outnumbred.
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Post by Thanatos »

I havent been so active actually playing druchii either. I retired my cult army and I havent played the standard dark elf list in over 6 months. I think part of it is that a good part of the people here are college or highschool students, and school takes away from forum time. I know my winter break starts like 5...4...3...2...1...YAY. But that could be part of the issue.
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Hello here. I´m along time member but been away for a while and got quit a chock about the forum. Usually when I was online before it was full of posts but now I see on the same side post from several months(atleast both april and march) and very little posted. It was a sad truth to see. I can only hope for it to recover and get back. I shall myself try to help out more.

But the one I want to point the finger at for this decline is actually not the members here who are great but GW(I´m not a GW basher, never have been). why you ask, well it´s b ecause GW drops a army and then that army have to wait for up to 6-7 years until they get something new. It´s so bad. Much better if they could give some extra miniature here and there like before. would bring out much more topics for people to be active in. also the fluff of the Fantasy world has just stopped after Storm of Chaos. Almost nothing any longer gets posted in WD and that makes it very little to tlak about here. As many had said before me most topics havebeen discussed a lot here allready. What we need is new fluff and new minitaure(like lords and heros). That would bring back a lot of active members to this forum.
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Post by Raziel02 »

This site is constantly growing, its numbers compared to other sites are beyond other WFB wildest dreams, that for one is something to consider. Iwas certainly not around when the site started and to be honest am still a rookie, but hearing what some of the founders of the site say it has been a masive growth from when the site started, and even some people thought that this site may not grow at all, any veteran players please correct me if i am wrong in saying this.

When i first joined the site, i was very taken back, by the sheer size of the site. The amount of information was gigantic, and i still think i have not covered all the information that this site has to offer, that in its self is another achievment. Then i discover a the herald, it may have casued some problems with certain members, but still yet another sound achievement one that has, for me seperated this site from all the others. Simply compare this site to any other, it is a dark god looming in the distance of everyone elses aspirations, in my opinion.

One thing that has been made clear to me, its mostly the veterans who are stateing that the site is losing its power. And this is the case, if you are comparing it to something that WAS. Things have to change and all though they may not be the same as the old days, its up to the members to keep the flame alive. You can not honestly say that this site has disscused every point emaginable, warhammer is a huge world, and the fact that we can add materiel to it increases the size of it.

There is one problem that i have experinced. iT has already been stated but there is a clear difference between the veterans and the new posters. They hardley mix, and this in my opinion is the problem. It is one of the most irritating things to post something, only to look at it and see, post veiwed 527, post replied 0. If that happens often to a new poster, is it any wonder that people may be relctant to post new threads.

That is the negative side over, the one thing that i have not seem mentioned a lot is the History of the druchii forum. This for me personally is where i feel most at home on the site, but again porr replies may be a result of not a huge amount of materiel being provided, there are however a few members how make an effort to reply and help people as much as they can, and this applies to my previous negative staement. For me the history forum can be a big future point for the site, if it where expanded even more, it is a great place for all budding writers, and more to the point could be preparing the future of the warhammer storyline, perhaps this site may produce the next generation of warhammer writers, the competions is a starting point, hopefully the history forum will expand even futher, along with the eniter site, as long as the site changes and adapts then druchii.net will be a God in the WFB forums for a long time to come.
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There is one problem that i have experinced. iT has already been stated but there is a clear difference between the veterans and the new posters. They hardley mix, and this in my opinion is the problem. It is one of the most irritating things to post something, only to look at it and see, post veiwed 527, post replied 0. If that happens often to a new poster, is it any wonder that people may be relctant to post new threads.

It's called "elitism", and sadly, every site suffers from it to some extent, unless the new poster is well-known already.

perhaps this site may produce the next generation of warhammer writers

A bit bold there, I think. Off the top of my head, there are actually a couple of sites out there entirely dedicated to writing background as it is. The Warseer Background forum is graced by major fluff-writers, and the ImpLit site is even bigger. Much as I hate to say it, the History forum still has a long, long way to go. Aye, the competition may be a start, but the old saying "don't count your chickens before they're hatched" still applies. ;)

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Post by Raziel02 »

Okay it was a bit of a bold satement, but it was said in the way of an optimist. there may be other sites dedicated to one subject, but i belive that is dangerous as you can not guarante that the site will live for very long, but that could apply to anything i suppose.
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there may be other sites dedicated to one subject, but i belive that is dangerous as you can not guarante that the site will live for very long

Off the top of my head, the Hammer and Anvil is an example of a site dedicated specifically to one thing (rules development), and it is going strong. That's just an example, though, and yes, there are some sites that fail because they're too focused.
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Post by Fr0 »

I considered digging this up the other day.. glad someone else did. ;)

I've noticed a decline in many forums as of late. I'm starting to think that it's that time of year where people don't want to sit inside and talk about Warhammer.. going out and stuff.

I have noticed that the quality of the site has degraded as of late.

There are less and less frequent posters. Though it's nice that we have lots of members, and all sorts of high quality posters and artists.. sadly, I think this place was far more active when I first came here ten months ago.

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Post by Calindor »

To me it seems that less and less people play warhammer at all! In my gaming club we are mostly playing confrontation or Axis and Allies miniatures. Fantasy was almost ayear ago or more sinc esomeone played. We still paint but not much gaming which meens less buying.

But as it seems now we are starting up with 40k for this summer campaign and after tat I´m hoping to get Fantasy to get back to life., As i look around a lot of swedish forum I notice that overall it´s little talk about warhammer fantasy.
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That is one of the reasons that i went into 40k, at my local store me and my freind was the only ones that played fantasy, everyone else played 40k, which i think is a shame, one thing i have noticed is that younger perople play fantasy more often, wherei play anyway. Back to the topic, i think that may be a good point, when a new campagin for fantasy comes out we may start to get a few more NEW topics to disscuss.
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Post by Scionuk »

Firstly, my first alias i arrived just months before SoC was released and yes it was alot busier then so the amount of posts was unbelievable but come 7th ed or new army book release i think youll see it all over again.

I had actually noticed an increase in warhammer gamers at my local GW store, however non are new gamers just old hands turning to new armies and playing more, with 40k getting all the new gamers but not playing so many games!
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Post by Kyrel »

I'll be honest and say that I don't believe that I've visited the site for a year or more, but I've pretty much had a long vacation from Warhammer for various reasons. However, Like every other forum, Druchii.net is most interesting, and contains the most interesting and revolutionary stuff when there is something new and interesting happening. And let's be honest. It's been a while since anything really interesting happened in Warhammer, which related to the Druchii. It's been quite a number of years since 6th ed. came out, a long time since we got our army book and a long time since the revision came about after our hard work.

However, I'm not completely desparing yet though. 7th ed. is comming up on the horizon, and who knows what changes it will bring about. I'd be surprised if we don't get some new army books at a point, and I'm quietly hopeing that that we might start looking into some new idears and playtesting once 7th ed. comes out. The aim being to get GW to talk to us again, and potentially get some influence on a future variant of the Dark Elf army book. Anyway, I live in the hope...

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