Originally posted by Xyger

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I dunno where you've been, XK, but when Skydude came back, the SF became a lot more active... And the two have a lot more content in them than a lot of the rest of the forums, not necessarily due to number of posts, but how much is actually there to read. The SF posts are some of the longest posts on the board, if not the longest, and they're all text. The entire reason why it's so inactive is because it takes a lot of time and effort to write that much, and as a result a lot of the activity in the SF takes place outside of it. The SF itself is just the end result.

The SB has a small community of about 20ish users in it at any given time, being active. While it's a small part of the 1400+ users that inhabit this board, they're a very devoted crowd, and there's a large degree of consistency of attendance in the forum. Disturbing something like that would actually more than likely bring activity in both places DOWN, as it becomes confusing to see where the difference between the two lies.

A battle is a single roleplaying situation that involves conflict and conclusion. It can be resolved easily and shortly. A story, on the other hand, goes for years and years at some points (I'm looking at Evil Reign Remixed, in particular, which has gone on for almost two years now...). Meshing the two together would eventually bring the differences in them to disarray, making the stories shorter (which is bad, because they suffer when there's little content to them, obviously) and the battles longer (which is bad, because they're designed to be short and easily concluded).

This may not mean much to you, but to the crowd itself, it's a little problematic. This is also noteworthy as some users refuse to participate in the SB, whereas other users refuse to participate in the SF. I'd also like to note that the two forums do have a bit of a reputation for being postcount++ due to the efforts of various users to spam them up, discredit their content, or in one particularly irritating case dump a thread in there that should have been trashed. Perhaps if some of our more critical users were to add to the activity in the forum, it'd be worthy of your judgement...

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Originally posted by Xyger

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People interested in hacking Earthbound for the SNES can go here for the basic info on PKHack and a few suggestions and examples of good hacks, and here for the latest release of the program. Yeah, it's written in Java, but nobody else seems to care enough.

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