RCKen
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Ok RC Tankers, here we go. This post relates to the discussions here ( http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=4835578 ) about giving Tankers their own forums. I thought I would start a new thread to give you all the news. I spent a good portion of the day yesterday discussing with Marc (RCAdmin) about getting Tankers thier own forum here on RCU. Before you all start popping corks on champagne bottles I need to tell you that I have good news, and I have bad news.
Let's get the difficult part over with first. Setting up a completely separate forum category for Tanks would involve MAJOR programming on the part of Marc, Nathan, and Michael so that's probably not going to be able to be done anytime in the near future. 
Now remember, I said I had good news too. So read on before anybody gets upset........
The Good News. Marc did listen to my arguments for the Tankers and we worked out these compromises in this area. Here is what Marc is willing to do for the tankers in this area:
- First off, changing the major forum name from "RC Cars, Buggies and Trucks" to "RC Cars, Buggies, Trucks, and Tanks"
- The category sub-forums that you all decide on will be put into place in the current RC Tanks forum under Cars, Buggies, etc.... So here you will get the sub-sections that you all want. All you need to do is give me the "rooms" that you want and I'll get them to Marc. If the RC Tanks community on RCU grows down the road as a result of this new structure then we'll readdress the issue of giving Tanks it's on separate category.
- Right now there isn't enough sales traffic in the marketplace to justify separating out the Tanks from where it's at now. But..... Marc is willing to put a DIRECT link from the RC Tanks discussion forum to the RC Tanks marketplace section to help increase exposure, traffic, and sales. If the number of ads increases for RC tanks on down the line then they could probably justify separating it out.
- All current threads in the RC Tanks forum will stay where they are at. But then all new messages will be under the rooms structure that you all set up.
So........ assuming that you all approve of this new proposal from RCU administration what I need is the structure of the rooms so that they can get to work putting them in place.
I don't know how you all want the exact structure of the specific forums, but there are a few forums that I would like to make a suggestion that you include in the final decision:
- Clubhouse - This will be general "catch all" room to discuss anything about tanks that's not covered in the other rooms of the forum. This is where everybody should come together to "chew the fat".
- The War Room - This room should be for discussing all things involved with the battles that are done.
- Support Forums - We may want to think about seeing if the manufacturers of the tanks would be willing to run an "official" support forum. This would be a place for end users to ask questions and such and for the manufacturers to answer your questions. This forum will only work if the manufacturers are willing to "play along".
Ok, I think that's about it. So, does everybody want to do this???
Ken
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New forum organization for RC Tanks - 
! I agree with STERN and HEAVYASLEAD.
