Tiriyon wrote:
For those who like to fish I have an Idea to improve our community!
To create a community the best thing is a channel.
Now just type "/join fish" and you'll enter a fishing channel, there's one now in Darkmoon fair realm.
But the topic had a totally random title, so I started a new one. ("EVRYONE LISTEN! - ! - ! - !" is never a good forum topic title...)
Game-specific channels are fine, but limited to faction and realm. There are about 350 English language realms, each with 2 factions. So that's about 700 separate little communities. And I know some people here play on non-English language realms. So it could be more.
Some websites have IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channels, which don't seem terribly popular relative to the site. There are some Twitter-like applications that allow players to communicate with the outside world (like other realms), but they don't seem terribly popular either. Blizzard's upcoming new Battle.net will allow more inter-realm communication, but I don't expect it to support "interest groups", like fishing - I still don't think they understand how fragmented communities can become around "niches" like this.
But it's clearly something people want to do.
Do you have any ideas? Thoughts?
There are more general things I'd like to do to bolster the community - things like being able to find other anglers on your realm, or tracking catches/achievements. We've even talked about in-game addons in the past. But I'd not considered chat.
