I'm just saying, the average person that wants to create a user account on the forums to contribute something to this project is going to be put off by that question. most will give up, and the bots get around it anyways, so its really only hindering, not helping. if anything, put the answer somewhere on that page in an .img format or something.
now, i don't know what the user base is currently like now since i'm just an oldbie returning once every 3-4 years to say hi and all, but from my years of being around in development of designing applications, i can say that the harder you make the initial entry, the harder it is to grow your base.
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i mentioned this idea years ago, but knew it was never able to be implemented at the time due to each system being independent of each other. i'll assume it's still the case, but maybe not. the ultimate solution is to user a single sign on application that pulls the user ID and what not from when a person creates a planeshift game account and automatically makes the associated forum account. then its easy for anyone playing the game to post, and you remove pretty much all bots.