Thank you, Guardian!
I would also like to recommend the possible introduction of an award-like system on the forum? You could increase the forum's activity by having a set of awards which could be obtained by reaching a certain number of posts.
When I owned my gaming forum back in the day, I had three awards revolving around post count.
Award 1: First twenty members to acquire 100 quality posts on the site
- bronze coin/medal award image
Award 2: First ten members to acquire 250 quality posts on the site
- silver coin/medal award image
Award 3: First five members to acquire 500 quality posts on the site
- golden coin/medal award image
...something along those lines. I can't quite remember; it may have been, two-hundred posts, five-hundred posts and then one-thousand posts.
You could also introduce awards for competing and winning in community game-nights/sessions hosted by yourself and other administrators. Also awards for posting a certain number of times in a specific section/category. The owner on Hack Forums, Omniscient/Labrocca released a MyBB plugin named
MyAwards which I'm sure you're already aware of. I think you have to be a premium subscriber on his site,
MyBB Central to download it, though.
:?
There's also a free-to-download version named
MyAchievements which actually functions in a similar way. It also has the ability to grant awards automatically based on an individual's post count, reputation count and/or online time, if I recall correctly.