mALX was still available,








This.








Urk, my email / IP address about to change; and I just signed up.









TESAlliance just changed their forums a few months ago too, I'm not thrilled with the changes
















Yes, I already had one person try to impersonate me on here, didn't want to leave my name open for another horrible incident like that.







I also have wondered how your wife was doing and often thought of her; thought well wishes for her health.

Thank you for your kind thoughts and I have passed those on to my wife. Her stroke caused loss of control on her left side. She can walk slowly for short distances using a quad cane but is basically dependent on her wheelchair. She remembers your handle from our old fanfiction days and told me to tell you that she wishes I was still writing. (Not going to happen.)

I doubt I will use the new forum once it is up. It appears to not include the older games anyway and I'm not interested in ESO.

Curious about the timeline for the BethSoft changeover to new forums, I went looking for info. I started going backwards through the very long thread over there that discusses the new forum registration.

I found my answer in a post made yesterday by Rohugh (one of the mods there) -

So I guess there is not a definitive timeline yet.

I can't stress enough how much I dislike Rohugh. I'd go into detail but I'd have to ban myself for the graphic expletives I'd need to use to properly detail how much I can't stand him. Suffice to say, he's an arrogant nazi who thinks being a mod over there makes him special. If you've ever dealt with him I'm sorry because you get it.

Edited.

KingCoin is now reserved for meh.

Woo Hoo! I'm glad we will all be ourselves!








I fondly remember your writing too; your girls were both dear friends.

Indeed. At one time I played 'the Settlers' online and you had to enter a game through the server's chat room. Some hackers were able to enter vulgar comments which were attributed to someone else's chat login. That didn't bother me as much as regular chat people acting as if the login named was making those entries. When it happened to me, I didn't respond to those entries that purported to be from me but I definitely tore into those who acted like any of that was legitimate. Everybody knew what was going on. They just thought it would be fun to join in. It did result in some interesting challenge games.

I just made a thread discussing bethesda.net over at Bethsoft and it got immediately locked. I think this is a shame because we should be able to discuss the new forums at Bethsoft too, it shouldn´t just be at bethesda.net. Most people are still at Bethsoft and many do not like the new place so there is definitely a need for a discussion there. At least that´s how I feel about it.


Link to thread in case anyone wants to read it.

Apparently Bethesda is looking into another type of software for the new forums instead of using Jive. Nothing is sure yet though.


Link to post at Bethsoft

Took them long enough. Anyone with a functioning brain could see that that mess they tried to pass as a forum would never be any good. How it even got to the point where they made it active I have no idea.

Great news! I hope they get it right this time.

I just want to keep Bethsoft

Yeah, they really don't need a new forum, they should just fix the one they have.

Someone said keep the forums separate from where they have mods, news etc instead of having all eggs in one basket. I think that´s not a bad idea.

It'd make a lot more sense than displacing an entire community like they're trying to do. Doing anything other than fixing the Bethsoft forums(it'd be nice to have a working search function over there) is just nuts. They've already got everything in place for running and managing the forums, a substantial memberbase that makes for a helpful community(and a free tech-support asset!).

Personally, I'm inclined to think that the move was always about purging the old guard. It would fit the trend in their games, for one thing, and reduce the criticism of their games on their forums, and the resulting conflicts(remember the Skyrim section shortly after release? *shudders*). And it would certainly fit the style of forum they seemed to be going for.

But maybe I'm just too much of a cynic *shrugs*

At least they're not axing their forums like Bioware, which I can only assume is a bad sign.

Often enough it´s the cynics who tell the hard truth

Didn't see this post. I hadn't really considered this but it sounds plausible.

They're always welcome here.

This is something that crossed my mind as well. We long term fans have more or less forced them to a standard that they used to enforce on themselves but no longer do. Maybe they are trying to break free of us "Fan-atics" and gear toward mass audiences that rake in much larger profits originally and then disappear after one playthrough so they don't have to spend so much time fixing the errors or explaining their lack of decent content.

(But maybe I'm also a cynic, who knows? )

A reboot on the current software would serve to clean out the inactive members, so that would be a reasonable idea. As long as there's an easy way to claim your member id, and retain it, all the old "registered to make one troll post" accounts could go away.

They'd need the same read-only archive of the old content, whichever way the future forums go.

Well, since Oblivion and Skyrim were both judged against their predecessors and found lacking in many areas, it's pretty hard to deny that they're dumbing down their games. Systems and mechanics that used to require a modicum of forethought and planning(birthsigns, chance of failure, or classes, for instance), or that could cause problems if mistakes are made(attributes?) have been modified, stripped down, or flat-out removed. There's a definite trend in their games, and it's heading away from their previous target audience. It makes a certain amount of sense that they wouldn't want us on their new site if they're no longer making games for us.

I wish I was disappointed but that forum has been so ridiculously heavily moderated for so long I haven't had a desire to go there for a loooong time.

Agreed.

Hey, I have just realized that I am one of the 'Treybabies.' A proud 2010 Treybaby! All grown up at six years of age.

Well, maybe not grown up.

Our doggie certainly did have a number of offspring appear during those tumultuous days of '10. How dare it when they tried to shut us off from the Oblivion fan-fiction! The indignation! I mean, I read about arrows flying across Chorrol, the city, not this site, lol and hitting the annoying Earana (and I mean the full width of Chorrol), mischief at the Academy with people hands being placed in water while they slept, axes and daedra smashing through the doorway into Jensine's Merchandise and the discovery that Simplicia the slow was inflicted with helljoint!

How else would I have discovered these things?

How else would I have so much fun reading these things if it wasn't for the creativity of the fantastic writers and members that shared the same passion for Oblivion? Unfortunately Beth have indeed moved away from that core beginning and reached out for a different target of audience...

Glad to hear that Beth.net is looking to reboot. The site was absolutely shocking for reading and posting.

I only used it to hunt down mods that I could add to Fallout 4, otherwise the site was pointless.

I agree that one reason was to clean out all the unused members. I remember scrolling through them one day years ago, they certainly did have a large number of one hit wonders posters.

My original story lost 30 chapters when they changed the format in 2010. I don't know how they managed to only transfer two pages of a closed thread; but the stuff they lost was Eyja's attack on the Dark Brotherhood; Maxical meeting Foxy for the first time; and the death of Rona Hassildor; finding the Dwemer; meeting Kagronacl/Sage Vardengroet/Divayth Fyr/Clavicus Vile. All the OLD game places they visited are gone.

The latest announcement says that the SSE forums are being opened up on the new NodeBB site, rather than the one using Jive (which will be shut down later), so perhaps it won't be as bad as we were expecting. It also looks like the Skyrim forums for the 32-bit game will remain. The General Discussion forum at Bethesda.net has some more detail, too.

No announcements about Oblivion or earlier, presumably remaining, like "old" Skyrim.

Wouldn´t care even if I was paid to at this point. Thank the Aedra that Acadian and Renee (I think?) coaxed me to join up here

I was active on the OB forums there while I played OB. Similarly the Sky forums while I played Sky. Now that I'm playing ESO, I haven't been on the BethSoft forums for months. I was primarily there for game tips on my active game and the ESO forums are run by Zenimax.

Thank you for the update, ghastley!

I plan to check out the new forums for SSE. I am so glad that they listened to the people who tried to make the old new forums work. That format was just awful. Hopefully the new new version will be better.

Unfortunately, we just get dumped straight into it, with no trial run. We'll know the best or worst on Thursday, it seems.

New forums are up for the beta run

They're not half bad.

I have to admit, it does look quite good.

I fear the inrush of the masses who will do nothing but gripe about it for several months before moving on.

One of the reasons I don´t have any plans to register

So far (after one post, lol) I like it. I have heard from a number of people who will be playing Skyrim for the first time as SSE. Most of them were too young in 2011. I like to see a community get new life and energy, especially when it's as positive as the excitement I've seen.

I do note that there are forums for:
Skyrim SE
Oblivion
Morrowind

But nothing for "Skyrim classic" or whatever the 32-bit version is now called. I know they want to keep discussions separate, so people don't get confused between Skyrim and Skyrim, and what works in one but not the other. However, a simple redirect to the old site would be possible, wouldn't it? I suspect they'll get the problem they're trying to avoid, this way.

I don't know whether to laugh at Bethesda or cry right now. They're making the same mistake again, launching the forums before they're ready, because they're better than their first attempt. Even though their old forums are better than either of them.

I guess they haven´t lost their confidence

Not the word I'd have chosen

Dare I ask for your word?

They won't find out what wrong until they launch them, so the big questions are whether they listen, and whether they can fix what we report as broken. I think the Jive stuff was hard to fix, rather than Beth weren't listening, so I'm hopeful.

They needs a 'jump to first unread post' option.

Check the top right, that's where I found it.


Added: once you're in the thread there should be a light blue box at the top right

Ah, that's an odd placement. Many thanks!

Except that they know they're missing features that they should have, because they plan to add them later. They even say as much in the thread over at Bethsoft. This thing reminds me of the start of Star Trek Generations. I'm wondering if one of the Moderators is going to be unable to log in or something because some important feature won't be active until tuesday

The medical staff....doesn't arrive until Tuesday.

They need some background color, but seem to be working quickly and have some user friendliness from what I saw.

Do we need to "re-register" our accounts a third time for this new forum?

No, it uses the same account as the former Beth.net.