On April 25 2020 12:55 CalvinStorm wrote:
I remember when I used to come to this forum there were pages and pages of strategies and questions. What happened to all those threads??

That was a long time ago. An old game, Discord and Reddit are some reasons.

brickrd

United States4888 Posts

April 25 2020 22:14 GMT

there is currently a lack of well known high level posters contributing advice. in the past there were a lot more GMs and even a few pros with recognizable names replying to threads with legit detailed info on how to play, but these days it's mostly diamond and master level players giving more generic advice

also, there were a few balance whiners who used to repeatedly come into strategy threads after every ladder loss and attack people for giving them constructive criticism, which brought down the mood

the race help threads still exist and you can post in them whenever you want. just change the forum settings to show older posts and they'll come up at the bottom

InfCereal

Canada1534 Posts

April 26 2020 12:11 GMT

The game is what, 10 years old?

A lot of people have moved on, especially content creators.

CalvinStorm

Canada78 Posts

April 29 2020 04:03 GMT

Hmm oh well. I just got back into the game after WOL because of the quarantine and was excited to get back on this forum as I remember it helped me a lot back in the day. I was so shocked to see it deserted

bulya

Israel382 Posts

April 29 2020 05:11 GMT

try Reddit, allThingsTerran, allThingsProtoss or allThingsZergs, depending on your race

ilax30

125 Posts

April 30 2020 22:01 GMT

I mean at the start of the game and after every expansion with loads of new units there are tons of new strategies. But the game has been rpetty much figured out and its not like the builds change drasticially. Less exciting stuff to write about and alot of guides from a year ago are still pretty relevant. But lie other people said, the race discords, content creators discords like Pig are still very active. So best to look into certain channels for advice/builds. Or some pro players like Harstem still post builds every now and then on their YT channels

neptunusfisk

2201 Posts

May 02 2020 13:28 GMT

You can find lot's of builds and stuff on sites like https://lotv.spawningtool.com/build/tvz/

and also lots of content on youtube.

I think it's just the austere, turn-of-the-millenium forum format that is no longer attracting people

Kertorak

101 Posts

May 02 2020 18:22 GMT

I don't know about this.
But how I see it: This page and many youtube videos served me an unlimited source of knowledge - it doesn't have to be from this month-topic. I read many quality posts from the past on this website (about any time). That's why I am here.

For instance "sc tutorial central" (by jakatak) gave me invaluable helps and tools and techniques but it doesn't seem to be well known (for what it deserves), he also did an immeasurable big amount of work (and together with others/pros) on "the core"... just as one example. This is a great website.

Anyways. There is also the "dark side" of reasoning.

Beelzebub1

634 Posts

May 03 2020 14:20 GMT

#10

#1. The game is a decade old

#2. The metagame hasn't really changed all that dramatically for casual mode players. You can make virtually anything work below GM with good macro and scouting.

Just go watch some pro games for the match ups you want to study, and welcome back :D

Mrsqueak3rs

1 Post

May 09 2020 19:00 GMT

#11

On May 02 2020 22:28 neptunusfisk wrote:
You can find lot's of builds and stuff on sites like https://lotv.spawningtool.com/build/tvz/

and also lots of content on youtube.

I think it's just the austere, turn-of-the-millenium forum format that is no longer attracting people

how dare you toss a word like "austere" around here lol.

Thanks for the link, it's gonna be real helpful when I get back into this gem of a game.

Teoita

Italy11724 Posts

May 09 2020 21:12 GMT

#12

Life happened really. Turning this forum into a valuable resource took a lot of time and effort out of many of us. Eventually, we moved on to other parts of our lives, and nobody replaced the highlighted posters and TL Strategy teams. It's sad but unfortunately, it was going to happen at some point.

I'm happy to hear you found the forum useful in its glory days though

Dingodile

4021 Posts

May 13 2020 11:54 GMT

#13

We all are 10 years older.

BabelFish1

168 Posts

May 14 2020 01:58 GMT

#14

On April 26 2020 07:14 brickrd wrote:
there is currently a lack of well known high level posters contributing advice. in the past there were a lot more GMs and even a few pros with recognizable names replying to threads with legit detailed info on how to play, but these days it's mostly diamond and master level players giving more generic advice

also, there were a few balance whiners who used to repeatedly come into strategy threads after every ladder loss and attack people for giving them constructive criticism, which brought down the mood

the race help threads still exist and you can post in them whenever you want. just change the forum settings to show older posts and they'll come up at the bottom

The other part of it is TL's forums doesn't enjoy a good reputation. They took down their forum rules and decide on a case by case basis what should and shouldn't be allowed, which has absolutely lead to issues with bad apples. I can think of several cases where frankly, moderators here should have been fired and banned but weren't. Now days it's pretty rare though but when you decide to say "screw the rules, it's my house and I'll make them up as I go along" then people stop taking you seriously, even when you exercise considerable restraint after an initial crazy period.

That combined with the other variables=the issue the OP mentions.

Whatson

United States5239 Posts

May 15 2020 07:31 GMT

#15

On May 14 2020 10:58 BabelFish1 wrote:

Show nested quote +

If you don't like the forums or the moderators, you can always leave. Nobody is forcing you to stay.
Now, if you were to actually provide evidence of the "several cases where moderators here should have been fired and banned" in website feedback then maybe people will start taking your opinion more seriously.

To stay on topic:
Essentially, the game at the casual level hasnt changed in the past few years. Sometimes a random strat will rise in popularity again, but now there's also years of history to fall back on and find answers for problems.

BlueStar

Bulgaria935 Posts

May 15 2020 13:36 GMT

#16

Simple:
- To create content that will be outdated after the next balance patch is nonsense.

Doing the same thing over and over again without any tangible results isn't very smart.

Ziggy

Poland1625 Posts

May 18 2020 07:45 GMT

#17

sc2 has been figured out and we're all waiting for sc3 / wc4

Nantrix

7 Posts

May 19 2020 00:20 GMT

#18

Well this will be the year to decide if its worth waiting for a Blizzard RTS. If nothing at Blizzcon then its time to move on to AOE4 being the new thing. Seems like Microsoft actually wants to bring RTS back.

Alejandrisha

United States6210 Posts

May 23 2020 11:46 GMT

#19

the first gen of blue posters moved on and there was no second gen. pretty much what teoita said
also hey teo <3

Alejandrisha

United States6210 Posts

May 24 2020 01:51 GMT

#20

i've been watching a lot more sc2 lately and i haven't seen any build that has really inspired me to flesh out into a guide. it seems like every matchup protoss is basically forced to open the same way. we used to spend hours and hours ripping builds from vods and watching the build tree develop but now it's like.. watch any vod and you can do the one build if you just write it down in notepad. in my opinion lotv is very bleak.