Just a suguestion - how about we break up this "General Chat" into a few different categories. Like SaturnSpeed.com has about 20 categories. Here, I seem to put EVERYTHING in general.
If anything, add a war stoires, and a location specific place, and meeting place. It just needs a little more organization......
The main problem that you still run into is that some topics are well, just have to be general, if they were in a category, they'd be in one by itself. Its hard to group such a variety of topics all into a few sections. But if anyone has some good suggestions as to what they would be, I'm also up to it.
Yo Admin - how bout........ 
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