kietotheworld: A flaming forum would be entirely pointless. How would creating a place specifically for flaming possibly benefit and enhance our community? We don't have any real problems with flaming at HLP anyway, so creating a place for it would be a waste of resources, and would do nothing more than turn people against each other. That's the last thing we need (or want), as this is a pretty small and close-knit community anyway, and creating a subforum just so people can abuse each other will destroy it. This isn't a place for people to fling childish insults, it's a forum about the games that we all have a passion for, and it's also a cool place to hang out, full of great people. Why spoil it?
willy_principal: No, the forum isn't dying. Over the years we've lost some people, but we get new people joining on a regular basis, and the number of active posters (I'm sure Thunder or another admin can post some statistics) hasn't really changed much. Sure, the community is smaller than it was in 2001 or 2002, but that's hardly surprising for a rather obscure and low-selling space combat game that was released more than five years ago.
I think you'll find the place will liven up a fair bit in about a month or so. Exams will be over, people will want to relax, they'll start coding, fredding and modding again, they'll hit the forums again.
Long live HLP, I say.
