I have been working on and almost completed a whole new forum for nations in the game. The whole design has been changed along with a few add features the old ones didn't have.
The new forums will work a little different. Everyone in the nation will be able to view them without the forum priv. Those with the forum priv will be mods of the forum where they will have controls to lock, unlock, edit, change title and delete threads. If you created the post you are now able to edit your own post too.
There will also be a "private" forum where only the leaders will be able to see. Mods can control which threads should be private. If your a nation leader, you will be able to select "Post as private" and then only those with higher privs will be able to view that section.
A poll feature has been added in so nations can now set up polls within there own forums. You can have up to 5 answers to each poll.
Overall the new forums are a 100% improvment and with the new changes should allow nations to begin using them more often.
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. This should be done by the start of next set.