The Forums
UltraCorps has its own built-in forum software. Use of the forums is subject to the Social Rules, and inappropriate postings will get you booted from the game without refund . . . so please be civil!
There are three types of forum:- Open Forums for UltraCorps as a whole. Anyone with a valid account can read the general forums. You cannot post until you have completed a solo game; in theory, this will weed out most of the spammers. These are the forums for announcements, general discussion, and so on.
- In-Game Forums for specific games. Every game (except solos!) has a forum. The owner of the game has administrative powers. Anyone in the game can read or post. If you're not in a game, its forums won't be visible to you at all. (Since there are hundreds of PUB games going on at any one time, this is a very good thing . . .)
- Private Forums are not implemented yet. Elite users will have the ability to create private forums and control who can read them. If you have access to a private forum, you can both read and post. If you want to join a private forum, ask the owner. There are no passwords . . . the owner will add you to a list if he wants you to be able to read it. This will send you UltraMail. At that point, you can either join the forum, or decline. If you join, the forum will become visible to you. If you decline, it won't.
Forum Controls
We expect that most of our readers are already familiar with forums. A few specific notes about this system:
- The system keeps track of which messages you have read (though it assumes that if you have viewed a page, you have read all the messages on it). If a topic has new messages, there will be a link after its title, saying, for instance, 10 new. If you click on that link, you will jump to the new messages in that topic.
- In the Open Forums and Private Forums, your username shows on your messages. On In-Game Forums, your game alias appears instead.
