[WuKong Patch] General Discussion

On July 26 2011 15:50 r.Evo wrote:
Hm. This feels weird. When you do this the next time, would you mind skimming through the last 1-2 pages and summarzing the last ongoing discussions?

Also, wait, do you want discussion about Wuking here or in the Patch Notes thread? I are confused.


Also: NO BLIND ON CORKI AND SOLARIUM JANNA QQ.

On July 26 2011 15:57 zulu_nation8 wrote:
so are we making a new thread every time a new patch comes out?

I'll be making new GDs every time Riot releases a new patch (instead of the monthly reset like Jinro does).

On July 26 2011 16:02 BlackPaladin wrote:
But the old one was almost 1 million views! You ruined what would have been our record!

On July 26 2011 16:07 NeoIllusions wrote:


I know, I know...
Old Travian threads would have been immense as well, if they weren't divided up into 3 parts.
Our LoL GD threads are even bigger if it was just one thread as well.

But overall, the head honcho Reds have said that they don't like the giant GD threads for whatever reason. We were given a subforum, despite TL.net being a SC site, so might as well keep things neat.

On July 26 2011 16:02 BlackPaladin wrote:
But the old one was almost 1 million views! You ruined what would have been our record!

On July 26 2011 16:32 NeoIllusions wrote:
Alright, so let's address the reason(s) why there's a new General Discussion every so often (either monthly or with each patch):

1. LoL GD threads have a tendency to be very active and become rather bloated after several months. While some of us take a little pride in such a big thread (myself included), it's rather difficult to keep track of the "discussions" going on in such a GD if you don't check it daily.
1a. A newcomer to our subforum would be rather deterred to try to read a thread with 1K pages, it's rather hard to catch up.

2. While I don't have the official numbers, I would say our GD easily produces 10 new pages every 24 hours.
2a. Our previous GD ran for 8 months and it had 23K posts. That's over 5x the size of your average StarCraft livereport thread.

3. Megathreads tend to produce a lot of spam posts and end up being counterproductive to discussion, which is the main point of the GD thread. Often times, people will make useless points (in our case, a lot of huehuehue posts) just because the thread is already so massive. I don't want to have to warn for those kind of posts (partly because I sometimes make those kind of posts too, huk). So it helps with general quality when there is more transparency in a brand new thread. Forum users feel more accountable for their posts when the thread isn't thousands of pages long.

4. Because of our collective activity, we were given a subforum on TL.net. While Mafia and Travian don't exactly count, LoL is the first separate computer game that the Reds were ok with creating a new section for. We are expected to keep things as orderly here as with the rest of the site.

While we may not like having to deal with a new GD regularly now, I hope everyone at least understand why it's being implemented.

On July 26 2011 16:02 BlackPaladin wrote:
But the old one was almost 1 million views! You ruined what would have been our record!

On July 26 2011 16:42 Craton wrote:

You'll never defeat the KPop Thread (posts) + SFW Picture Thread (views). /cackle

Wukong's kit is too gimmicky, imo. A free stealth + an aoe moving knockup is pretty damn strong, so if he actually has decent damage, he's gonna be the new release vayne. Naturally, Phreak is terrible and took ghost, but any decent Wukong is going to pick flash and flash+ult, just like alistar + pulv. Since he gets so much free tankiness + the free stealth, he's gonna be able to do a really powerful initiate with minimal risk.

Also, I, too, think Galio is going to be on the OP side of things.

This free week is going to be hell :[.
Katarina, Nunu, Sion, Teemo, Veigar, Zilean, Shen, Malz, Urgot, Leona. Fk.

On a thread-related note: it seems a little peculiar to have a patch note discussion thread, while we are also changing the general thread based on patches.

On July 26 2011 16:47 tyCe wrote:
We should just have a proper subforum with even more subforums - general discussion, tournament discussion, etc. Or maybe you can ask Hot_Bid whether TL would like to expand to LoL and have a LoL site? It would probably all the rage since the community on TL is way better than any other LoL community.