Now that we're here, what can be added?

So a kind of mentor type section to go with guide area with have? Sounds good to us. We could add an ask a unicum area, people could use it to ask for help training and for specific questions if you guys want? We would just have to be careful of creating any kind of potential stat related division within the forum.

Then leave out stats or colors completely. Remember, most people who coach professional sports, weren't hall of fame players in that sport. Someone with a 900 WN8 might know a particular tank/map/gun/strategy/whatever better than anyone else in the game, but stuggle at the rest of it. A mentor just needs to be someone who you feel does a thing the way you'd like to do it, and has a willingness to teach. Someone with a 4000 WN8 That hates other humans and only communicates with clicks and grunts will not be useful.

The clan forum that I post on is also a proboards site the chat box is almost a ghost town. I doubt that the chat would become default it would be good for finding people quickly.

I'm thinking maybe use Twitter or Skype and say have Royce, Turbo or Snowshoes or similar answering questions for new people or people who want to know how to play a particular tank or map but just for 30 mins each week, no more, even 15 would be good.

Then edit out the typos from it and you have '30 mins with Royce' or '15 mins with Turbo'. By Live Chat in this case I mean text based. I think you'd get eight or nine pretty good things covered in 15 to 30 minutes.

Maybe invite some of the Streamers to do it such as Soviet or Alle Haptism and let them promote their streams as a Quid Pro Quo for doing it.

Then everyone wins, they get promotion for their Streams (ie more subs) and ask them to mention their 30/15 mins session for The Bunker and it's URL, so the Bunker get more members. Some have many subscribers and followers who'd then find The Bunker.

These sessions could then be posted as a 'topic' and discussed so in many senses it would encourage more posts IYSWIM.

We use Skype chat at work and it's pretty good but I'm sure there are loads of alternatives. You don't need audio or anything just the 'host' and half a dozen people and you're good to go.

I'm thinking a USP for the forum might be 'where the real players hang out'.

I reckon we already have a higher per cent of Purples than on the other forum and that's a good thing.  I agree that we don't want the stats faction thing building up so we could mix into the session with some non purple players or newer players as well.

Some examples might be...

15 mins with Sqdn Leader B to talk about British tanks (and biplanes)

15 mins with Killer Etzio to talk about the Hellcat (4K games at a 60% WR can't be bad and IMHO says 'expert')

15 mins with Sgt Becket FEAR covering the Tiger (it'd only be text chat and as we know he has three MoE in it)

(Sorry if you guys are Purple now but that doesn't matter, you're good people.)

Working with the streamers as will would expose the forum to many more players.

Hope this helps.