Dear the PMBR, AlphaZealot, the P:M community, and everyone else involved with the movement of P:M to Smash Boards
Moving over to Smash Boards with its own forums is a massive push for the Project:M expansion into a more mainstream audience, but I'm afraid it's slowed down some of Smash Mods' perks.
The biggest one that comes to mind is the clarity of the announcements and the ease of access to them, and commenting on them. That will be much less significant if everyone P:M update fix is hidden somewhere behind two or three clicks from the Smash Boards home page.
The ease of access to the IRC isn't there any more. It used to be literally one click from any page on Smash Mods then you're there to ask a quick question or see what other Smashers are up to.
Bug reporting is less obvious now, and at the moment I literally can't seem to find the thread for it if there is one.
The last one that comes to mind, and the one that personally hurts the most, is the removal of the P:M specific workshop.
P:M is a game that in so many areas is separate from Brawl. At the core a lot of modding is similar, but so many stages, for example, need to be P:M specific. Things like character color changes that come default with P:M and aren't from Brawl force people to have to make the P:M version, and often they end up only making a P:M version. I know I'll have a severe bias to this, but my HUD thread was made for P:M. If I posted it onto the BrawlslashP:M Workshop place, only so many would be able to download it, and in the end the Brawl/P:M mix up of textures and coding could mess up a lot.
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4006/pmworkshop.png
I know Smash Mods wasn't perfect, and, once again, going to Smash Boards is a huge step in the right direction, but I hope that there's still hope to fix a few of these things before people get too settled in.
Thanks for reading.
I hope I posted this in the right place.
Moving over to Smash Boards with its own forums is a massive push for the Project:M expansion into a more mainstream audience, but I'm afraid it's slowed down some of Smash Mods' perks.
The biggest one that comes to mind is the clarity of the announcements and the ease of access to them, and commenting on them. That will be much less significant if everyone P:M update fix is hidden somewhere behind two or three clicks from the Smash Boards home page.
The ease of access to the IRC isn't there any more. It used to be literally one click from any page on Smash Mods then you're there to ask a quick question or see what other Smashers are up to.
Bug reporting is less obvious now, and at the moment I literally can't seem to find the thread for it if there is one.
The last one that comes to mind, and the one that personally hurts the most, is the removal of the P:M specific workshop.
P:M is a game that in so many areas is separate from Brawl. At the core a lot of modding is similar, but so many stages, for example, need to be P:M specific. Things like character color changes that come default with P:M and aren't from Brawl force people to have to make the P:M version, and often they end up only making a P:M version. I know I'll have a severe bias to this, but my HUD thread was made for P:M. If I posted it onto the BrawlslashP:M Workshop place, only so many would be able to download it, and in the end the Brawl/P:M mix up of textures and coding could mess up a lot.
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4006/pmworkshop.png
I know Smash Mods wasn't perfect, and, once again, going to Smash Boards is a huge step in the right direction, but I hope that there's still hope to fix a few of these things before people get too settled in.
Thanks for reading.
I hope I posted this in the right place.
