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[TD1]

As ever, I am glad to see that the fourth is with me.

I'm not sure when we can expect the next bug-fix release. I believe Toady is working on graphics and the like atm, so I'm not optimistic that it will be any time soon. Thoughts on just leaping in and seeing how it goes?

If that is what we go for, I can't recall whether we had a new thread lined up to Necro or not.

(In the absence of direct contradiction from Apiks, I am assuming the mantle of overseer has fallen to me. I will personally bare-knuckle fight anyone who says otherwise.)

[Enemy post]

I'm good with starting now. The mod should be ready to go.

[Lord_lemonpie]

I'm good with starting too! Toady stated in the .04 release that it could be a while till new stuff drops IIRC

[TD1]

In the absence of dissenting voices, the long-slumbering corpse of Necrothreat has just given one violent twitch.

We have two options:
One, we Necro an old thread.
Positives:
Tradition
It's badass

Negatives:
The OP may not be available/want to change the thread name
Rules will be on second post

Two, we make a new thread.
Positives:
Can change the thread name at will
Turn list and rules at top of first page
Lack of possible confusion

Negatives:
Non-traditional, though not without precedent: I believe NT II was a new thread?

[voliol]

Necroing I think is preferred, but it has its issues. Perhaps find a veteran forum user who is still active, and look at their oldest post? That way getting the thread name changed will be much easier, because the criteria for searching is whether that can be done.

[apiks]

NT II was a new thread and I decided to not do that again afterwards because it didn't exactly go with the spirit of the origin of Necrothreat, and while I consider II successful, I recall it not being a necro being a somewhat sore point.

Voliol does have a point, however. Finding the oldest thread with a member that has been active within the past X period should suffice, although I personally would not mind a new thread either. Times have moved on if you will.

[Enemy post]

I’d prefer necroing an old thread.

[pikachu17]

Nevermind. Thought I found a thread with a current user, but it was just the current time, not the last time they were active.
What qualities do a thread need for us to necro it?

[TD1]

Active OP,
Very few posts (at most 3/4),
Older is better.

[pikachu17]

Active OP,
Very few posts (at most 3/4),
Older is better.

Does it have to be on DF Community Games already? Or can it be anywhere and then moved?

[TD1]

I think, in order to stay true to the original spirit of the thing, it would need to be a Community fort. As these naturally tend to be in Community Games (barring a gross miscalculation on the part of the OP ) then we should limit the search to there.

[Superdorf]

Three possibilities for thread necro'ing, from oldest to youngest:

A Tale in the Desert: (Yet Another) Community Fortress! - Mephisto
The Blackwood Prophecies - Kagus
The Dead Halls, potential succession game/mod discussion - Kagus

That last one in particular seems rather fitting, no? 

[IronTomato]

And so The Dead Halls became The Undead Halls

[TheFlame52]

It already has two pages of posts though.

EDIT: I guess all of them do. That sucks.

[IronTomato]

It already has two pages of posts though.

Sometimes we must make sacrifices to keep the memes alive.