[quote=@MelonHead]
That's why you got an irritated reaction, the arena chat thread is here for anyone who has questions to come and ask everyone at once, you don't need to have a discussion without us in a different sub-forum, where few of us would even see it most of the time.
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The goal of the discussion thread wasn't to discuss arena thread. If I knew that you guys would hijack my thread for the next 4 pages I'd have wisely shut my mouth because the entire subforum existence isn't [i]that[/i] important to me. If it exists or not isn't really important for me personally is what I mean. I was merely questioning the need for it to exist independently, because it doesn't seem to get a lot of activity (tournaments [i]supposedly[/i] being the time when it does get activity, but I'm not holding my breath for that). 

It just came up. I knew it'd never happen, but I was merely saying that I would think it to be a good idea. I'd rather see it become active but I still feel like you guys don't have the answers (and any acknowledgement that arena roleplay is slow comes hissed between teeth and that's not really helping us make arena RP more alive). 

[@Fallenreaper] I'd argue that 5 out of 200 peak users isn't that much. Furthermore, there is indeed a sort of in between classification for people that do both arena roleplay and other roleplay, hence I might not associate them with arena necessarily. I know both Yoshua and Ganryu and neither of them strike me as hardcore arena roleplayers. So, in my mind, they don't come up. They still don't. 

But I suppose you raise a fair point. 

But I remain of the opinion that arena RP is too inactive for it's own good and have yet to hear anything that strikes me as a good idea when it comes to fixing that. Saying that the tournament will improve that is meaningless when there is (as Melon stated) 7 months between this one and the last tournament. Arena RP moves slowly, very very slowly. Perhaps this is not an issue to you, but it's certainly not doing you any favors, which is why I had also suggested something like a tournament master function with a title for people who want to help make arena more active by hosting tournaments (because tournaments were cited as a period when arena became alive again).