City Hall and City Meet up section

A bit early to fully set up the section as MH3U does not officially release for another 4 months or so in March 2013 but with the WiiU's online feature comes the Inevitable "CITY HALL" section.

The "City Hall" of course will be a place for people to post meet up times to play and hunt together as well as talk about what it is they plan on hunting...

This time around however we (With the added addition of the 3DS and local play for it) will also be including "Local Meet Ups" as well.

Some locations such as schools, GameStops, and different Nintendo events will offer opertunities for Local gatherings and Hunts for those who have and will choose to get the Portable Version of MH3U as well. The 3DS also offers a local search feature that lets you look for others who are playing MH3U as well once you are in the arranged location.

Of course, we will still highly suggest that everyone keep personal information private! and post only the city, state and location of know event gatherings and if it's hosted by anyone special...

For example ONLY:
Seattle, WA
StarBucks: (Pike Place Market)
Saturday (date)
12:00pm
Hosted by (Capcom USA)

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Additionally going back to the WiiU version of MH3U.. It will offer other choices of communication with friends as well and it is known that several of the "Mii" gathering areas within the WiiU are world wide and multi language.

We do not yet know if MH3U's online will be multi region or not however or how all the new communication features of the WiiU will work. It has been said however that the WiiU's internet browser is rated as being one of the better browsers out and the best that will be out on a console for the time being....

Hopefully as members of this community you can use the WiiU's in game pause feature to jump on over here to the forum from its browser and set up a hunt with your fellow members Quickly and Easily!



Now, we come to the reason for the early posting about the City Hall:

Before the game is released are there any possible "features" or additional information that you think might be able to be added to the forum (city hall) section for MH3U to help make finding Hunting parners quicker and more convenient?

I will try to look into each (lagitiment) sugestion and see if it could work here on the forum...

city hall dundundun!!

Maybe split the City Hall into a DS City Hall and a WiiU City Hall?

The WiiU City Hall would be similar to the Tri City Hall. The sticky How To Recruit Successfully seems to carry over pretty well, with just the few changes mentioned. Hopefully more hunters will read the sticky before posting!

The DS group hunts are going to be people who need to meet in real life. I imagine what will happen is that threads for each major metropolitan area will start as a hunter looking for others from their area. Very different needs than the Wii U owners.

Also, since we do have minors on this site, it's very important that the sticky in the DS City Hall reiterates the importance on how to stay safe when meeting someone from the forums in real life for the first time. So not just not giving out personal information, but also selecting locations that are safe. Having somebody know where you are, etc. The guidelines from online dating sites apply pretty well.

Agreed, staying safe is very important.

Hopefully with the 3DS version, we can talk about and have "organized" events with actual gaming stores or locations. That would minimize any actual "personal" information being given out. I know several of the Games Stops, Card Stores and other game places in my area are willing to set aside days to allow play events as it does bring people into their locations. Starbucks are always willing. By holding "allowed" events at these locations no actual personal information has to be given out as MH3U on the 3DS can search for others with it and you can play together without ever actually talking with each other if you so choose and public locations are usually more safe.


As far as MH3U on the WiiU goes, with all of its community features we will have to see in what way we can enhance the experience and make the forums a more useful information source for getting hunting parties together.