Just a suggestion for a new order on the list of topics, to be more noob friendly.
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1: Introductions/News

A) Introductions

B) News/Announcments
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2: Gaming

A) General Gaming

B) Console Arena

C) Xbox/Xbox 360

D) PS1/2/3

E) Nintendo Wii/Gamecube

F) Handhelds

G) PC Gaming (to sum up the old branching section into one subforum)

H) Other Consoles/Retro
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3: General Discussion

A) Gamer Lounge

B) PC Software/Hardware discussion

C) /random

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4: Other

A) Advertising

B) Clan talk

C) Groups

D) Pwnem Market

E) Forum Games

F) Help/Suggestions Section

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I advise this system for 2 reasons.

One, this forum isn't too big (yet), so such a bloated amount of sections/subsections is unnecessary and possibly overwhelming to new members. The order now also seems, well, out of order lol.

And Two, some sections didn't need to belong, such as the whole section dedicated to PC gaming, or the Music/Media subforum when the Lounge would work just fine for those purposes. Also, the Noob Gamer section is rather pointless, I doubt anyone is reading those lmao (sorry to be honest), so a "Help" section is preferable.

I know as I was once a forum noob (as we all once were), I was discouraged from joining some forums if there was too much ground to cover.

This isn't necessary, but it'd be a nice improvement on this forum IMHO.

I'll look into it.

However, the problem with merging the PC Gaming section is that it will become harder to spot a specific type of game. For example, if you're looking for an FPS you'll see a bunch of MMORPGs as well as flash games..

What I might do is merge FPS with All Other Games...

You could find the same problem with 360 or PS3. I mean they have and will have (at least the 360 has that is) RTS games, so I don't really see a problem.

Well while that's true, there's a handful of games that have download links in the PC Gaming section, so if you were looking to download a game it makes more sense to have them separated. But what I might do is merge all the sections and just make a master thread with all the games found there based on genre. That should make it easier for someone looking for something specific..

So like:

FPS:
Assault Cube (thread link here etc.)

Yeah I guess. It's just the main page is rather cludered. Sub-sub-forums are fine I guess.

Well, putting the news & announcements up the top makes sense to me.

As for everything else, I don't really care. :)