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There's lunacy and then there's just plain lunacy. For the love of pete, please read what you just said out loud. You're legitimately insinuating that a roleplaying group on a forum that barely gets most of the traffic that comes to DCW is going to become just as important as the top fan-sourced wiki/encyclopedia for Detective Conan information (Wikipedia's content is laughable). DCTP is bar-none a bigger board than we are. They have more roleplays going on than we do. And they don't have a roleplay board. Why? Because there's not enough to warrant including the board. Even their semi-roleplaying game Mafia is in the games sub-forum. Take my Magic Kaito point, which everyone glossed over. Logic dictates that since Magic Kaito is Conan-related it would get its own board, right? There's not enough discussion to warrant creating the board for it. If there was, it would have happened by now, but there isn't. I hate to break it to you kids, but like 10% of the traffic for DCW comes from here. It's all in the wiki. No amount of roleplays and special forums and all that jazz will ever change that. Believe me, I've tried. The wiki is a giant. It's what people come to this website for. The traffic comparison is never going to change. It's too large of a difference.

I think there is one (it's under the moderator thread for DCW IRL). When I first started DCW IRL, I wasn't aiming to cause trouble, just have something fun to do on the side. Personally speaking, I would hope it wouldn't get too messy and while a subforum would definitely be nice, I don't think that it's something we should put a lot of effort into at the moment. Generally speaking, we have enough roleplayers to fill most of the ranks (not including special rounds) and having a roleplaying subforum (in my opinion) will not change too much. We try to explain roleplay as much as possible, though to really understand you actually have to participate (like many things in life). I think that those who are curious will try it if other members are encouraging. Since we're only doing one round at a time, there's really no need in a subforum at this point. All we would see would be old DCW IRL rounds (which thanks to Moho, can be found in a compiled thread). Perhaps the reason why DCW IRL seems to crowd up so much of the chatroom is due to the fact that there are rarely any new threads created in the chatroom other than DCW IRL threads. If we ever got into roleplaying to a greater extent with several rounds at the same time (or more, or a great deal of unmoderated threads), then organization would be more key. I'd say that until we've reached a point where DCW IRL has expanded past the "one round a time, 8 players per round" stage, we should put this matter to rest. Again...my point is, it would be nice. It actually would. But again...DCW wasn't built as an RP website and I think that if DCW IRL gets too big, it should be moved to somewhere separate. I don't think nor want DCW IRL to become the only purpose of DCW...DCW is a wiki forum at heart, not RP forum. I love that DCW IRL made a lot of you guys happy and entertained all of you, but I don't want to cause trouble for DCW either. Forcing DCW to become something other than what Maurice set out to do would be trouble. If you guys are really interested in RPing, you could always try out a site called HexRPG. I know, it won't be the same. DCW is a community, a tight-knit one. But I'm not sure taking RPing to another level will help that.

I personally support this suggestion, even though I'm not a player myself. I also agree with KKLT that this is not necessarily a matter of special treatment. It's just a re-organization of the forum. Not only that doing so can help clean up the Chatroom section, it's also more convenient for the players and the moderators who are doing patrol duties. A more organized structure is always the better choice for all of us so I don't really see any harm in it. And yes, I know that so far we only have like 6 rounds of DCW IRL or so, and it's not quite necessary at this moment. But the number of rounds will keep increasing and increasing in the future, until the Chatroom section is full of DCW IRL things, and I don't think that anyone would like it that way. I guess it's also not how Chatroom was supposed to be either. Furthermore, even if a sub-forum is created inside the Chatroom section, it's always gonna be a part of it, it won't actually earn any special standing comparing to other forums in DCW if that's what we're worrying about. Because when a member posts something in it, technically they'll still be posting inside Chatroom, so it isn't really going to change anything, except that the sub-forum will make things more organized and convenient, that's all. However, with that said, the only one who can add more sub-forums is Maurice (iirc), so it all depends on his decision.

Actually, I kinda like the suggestion. The chatroom is getting a little messy. XD if there was a subforum, it would be nice. And I'd like to say something in regards to the replies. Firstly, I don't think we should compare anything with DCTP. DCTP is DCTP and DCW is DCW. I know many people here are on there as well but the forums are still different to me. We do not have to adapt or follow what the other (forum) is doing. It kinda makes me feel like DCW is a subforum of DCTP and it sorta implies that DCTP is a much more powerful forum compared to DCW if you say that. Also, I dont think we should reject the idea completely. Consideration of the idea or suggestion is not going to do any damage. I do still agree that currently, it is still not necessary to make the effort to create a subforum and move the posts, but it is not so 'small' that a subforum cannot be created. I believe the only point here is whether or not it is necessary and not whether it needs special treatment or whether the other forums are doing it or not.