Anyone know of any other forging websites that are popular? I would like to check out some other sites.
xforgery.com reachingperfection.com The thought that Forgehub would be against such listings when an honest inquire is made would resemble the old Soviet Union's credit card jingle - don't leave home!
Trust me, they can be buttholes about it. I asked in the chatbox once and everyone jumped on me. I recall an analogy being made along the lines of, "You wouldn't go in to a McDonalds and ask where the nearest Burger King was, would you?" First of all, I wouldn't have to because my phone would just tell me where the BK was. Second of all, one person giving a few page hits to another Forge website isn't going to bring FH crashing down. And it wasn't like I had plans to leave FH indefinitely either, since XForgery is pretty much comprised of FH kids trying to get their maps more publicity. Also, I can't remember the name of it right now, but I believe there is a Forge website dedicated solely to race tracks. Anyone remember what that place is called?
Halotracks, but the owner didn't like Halo anymore, so he turned it into a multi-gaming site, burying the Halo content, so most HT members moved to XForgery.
Most sites died with the entrance of Halo Reach. Forgehub is the only one really left active. During Halo 3, there was xForgery, Monitor Built, ForgeryAid, Halo Tracks, and Halo3Groundhog, but as I said, they're all gone. Just XForgery remains with very little activity.
Appreciate it everybody. I just wanted to know if there are any forging websites out there more competitive than FH. The answer is unanimously "no".
Epic Derail Ahead: I see a multitude of members complaining about a lack of 'competitive' orientation across the site, but not a while lot of reasoning behind it other than 'the maps are bad' or 'thats not competitive,' with no examples of 'good' maps or any clarification on what 'competitive' actually entails. While we cannot cater solely to a specific group, we try our best to please as large of a majority as possible. Is that the problem, that we focus too much on other things, or is it that we focus at all on other things? Rather, are you opposed to our policy or our execution thereof, and if it is the latter, how can we help?
Exactly. FH is a site for all categories of forgers, which is fine. I'm just wondering if there were any sites that cater specifically to my forging style. I am glad to be a member of FH, but I would like to be a member of a site that rewards originality and functionality above all else. This may feel like I am just complaining, but I am only speaking on what I have seen my last few months as a member on FH. There are some things that frustrate me on FH, but there are more things that keep me coming back. That's why I am seeking an alternative, not a replacement.
Unfortunately, splintering the "competitive" section into "casual slayer" and a sort of "true competitive" would simply cause confusion. The MLG section apparently was failing (and let's face it, there were plenty of "casual slayer" maps in there as well since many seemed to think if their map was symmetrical and contained no major aesthetics that it was MLG), so it was consolidated with competitive, which tends to boil down to, "not a mini-game or casual map, so it must be competitive." I have a feeling that even if there were separate forums for the casual competitive and truly competitive maps, lots of people would be confused as to where their maps fit in. Most likely, the would just post in the "true competitive" section because they'd like to think their map is just that; what defines the two is sort of nebulous and up to interpretation. I think you'd pretty much have to go with the MLG forums if you're looking for truly competitive maps, but I'm sure they have their own similar problems as well. In the end, it's pretty much impossible for Forging website to accomplish what you're looking for once it becomes popular- there's just no way to separate the two.
Exactly this. I did the same thing a while ago, and I thought I was going to stay there forever. I end up coming back again because I feel that this is the only active site. I wish it wasn't, or at least the other popular sites (XForgery, ReachingPerfection, etc.) got more people to join. The problem is, we're the main site. If people want to go to a website where they want to find maps, they go here, and not anywhere else. I'm not saying that this community is entirely horrible, but we just keep getting more and more members each day. It just doesn't seem fair for the other sites.
As people have said above, the only forging forum that really caters more specifically towards competitive maps is MLG, with which you're doubtless familiar. Out of the other forging sites that are/were popular, the majority were either a similar principle to FH (ie. "everything" forging sites) or a specific type which was generally more towards the casual side of forging, like Halo Tracks for race. I guess that if you're gonna dedicate your time to a specific community for competitive focused maps, and there's already a place for that within the community that has most interest in competitive Halo, it doesn't really make sense to create a distinct site/forums outside of that.
Dude, just go to Reaching Perfection. Its got some of the best forgers in the entire world. You can really learn a lot from there.
Dead serious. Its ran by the best forger ever. I've read all his lessons over a dozen times, but I can't come close to replicating the level of awesome his maps have. I highly recommend it.
Whatever Schnitzel. I doubt there's any forging website that we don't already know about Xzamples. I just recently recovered my password for the MLG forums a feww months ago, but that site is deeeaaad.