I'm betting that these "changes" will be to put in a bot that auto-deletesposts that disagree with anything that perfect world does or says. It's notenough that they don'tlisten to players, but they have to make sure the playersdon't have any influence on the devs in any way shape or form.
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Here's an idea for a forum change: Can we stop using this archaic install of vbulletin and migrate to the latest version of vbulletin that has, you know, all of the features of a real forum that the rest of the Internet has had for half a decade? For christ's sake there is no Report Post button for the sudden influx of gold spammers (No I am not going to waste my time and effort to open a support ticket on an external website to your inept outsourced support department to report something as ephemeral as a forum post; that is idiotic).
Nitpicking is a time-honored tradition of science fiction. Asking your readers not to worry about the "little things" is like asking a dog not to sniff at people's crotches. If there's something that appears to violate natural laws, then you can expect someone's going to point it out. That's just the way things are.
Could you guys please just one single time NOT treat us like idiots? "We will change things. Be warned. We won't tell you what it is though." - what about a change to the way the forums are organized would require this secrecy nonsense again? I understand that certain game changes need to be kept secret as developing a game means competition and all, but the forums?
You probably won't implement changes that deserve a warning wthout announcing them first. Then please wait until you can "safely reveal" them, for targ's sake. And if you "can't reveal" them yet, don't say anything. Nobody likes empty statements.
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"No. Men do not roar. Women roar. Then they hurl heavy objects... and claw at you." -Worf, son of Mogh
"A filthy, mangy beast, but in its bony breast beat the heart of a warrior" - "faithful" (...) "but ever-ready to follow the call of the wild." - Martok, about a Targ
"That pig smelled horrid. A sweet-sour, extremely pungent odor. I showered and showered, and it took me a week to get rid of it!" - Robert Justman, appreciating Emmy-Lou
You have been warned, anything adverse that happens will be your therefore be your fault.
Wouldn't it be funny if cryptic installed grammar TRIBBLE software and programmed the forum software with a prohibited word list. Words like "nerf", "dental", "Geko".......
Space the final frontier. These are the voyages of [your name here] on a five year mission to gain one level after the delta rising xp nerf.
while i'd love it if some of the annoyances of this forum were fixed (inability to use quick reply box before clicking the "quick reply to this message" anywhere on the page, quoting posts 4 out of 5 times giving a blank post or two/three other quotes attached, links changing after posting that always focus on your last post on refresh, interfering with reading new posts and such), the change will be probably something much less interesting, or maybe it just means autumn cleaning and most of the old posts will be deleted.
or just posts from specific members.
Now clowns, that's another story. They scare the crap out of me.
We fight them too. Entire armies spilling out of Volkswagens.
We do our best to fight them off, but they keep sending them in.
"Dear passengers, we will be experiencing some ionic turbulence. We advice you to fasten your safety belts. Thank you."
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
I really hate to be the voice of sanity, but perhaps it is a backend security improvement? There have been a spate of high-profile forum hacks recently, this could be nothing more than a back-end patch and security update.
Nah. Our Asian Overlords are removing any trace of disagreement or dissent from the forums. There is only Satisfaction at PWE. If you are dissatisfied, Charge Your Zen.
Well maybe they liked the idea of a 500 dil cost for quick reply. That would explain why he didnt want to tell us what is going on. he never said he was opposed to the idea. just that that it wasn't the case at the moment.
".....changes to the forums, sub-forums, sticky threads and many of the older archived posts and bulletin announcements."
".....update and reorganize these features, we will be sweeping through the forms...."
It sounds like they're going to clean out older posts, bulletins, sticky threads and announcements and updating forums and sub-forums. How exactly they're going to update them is the mystery, I suppose
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Just because you spend money on this game, it does not entitle you to be a jerk if things don't go your way.
I have come to the conclusion that I have a memory like Etch-A-Sketch. I shake my head and forget everything.
If pink, you're drunk and imagining things. In which case, I'll have whatever you're drinking. I'm going to imagine that Club 47 will return someday ... with better dance music.
If locking the scheduled maintenance thread, then giving no information on why the servers aren't back up when they are supposed to be is part of the 'changes'... I don't like it. :P
Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
If locking the scheduled maintenance thread, then giving no information on why the servers aren't back up when they are supposed to be is part of the 'changes'... I don't like it. :P
Maintenance is finished but they obviously broke something. :P
Forum wise, I would like to see the identity of the posters restored to their posts as there is till a lot of great information in some of the older posts that had the posters identity removed when the forum was transferred to PWE.
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I welcome any changes to the current state of the forums!
Especially if one of the changes is to make the forums not be used like a Facebook page for some people.
Thank you,
Zeus
Sorry, what do you mean by the Facebook bit?
I am not even on Facebook so I wouldn't even know where to begin with that...
And Smirk, any ETA so that forum authors know how long they have to complete their backup processes on their stories?
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Yeah, like you don't do that already by ignoring the numerous problems people post in the forums and never get attention until a year later, or involves the Devs losing money in a F2P game!
Thanks but, any word on what the changes will be, or is this pre-warning only that an outline will be on the way?
could be;
shutting down all old threads that havent been active with 30 days of their original purpose to avoid necro threads so mods deal with the here an now.
reorganizing the forum structure so its easier to handle and manage.
probably stability upgrades and other features.
better user ability for the standard fan fan include the rest of us keyboard warriors here and new players.
rearranged graphics user interface, (the grey and black never worked the first time out and still doesnt).
will see what becomes of the forum. just hope there isnt a a zen charge to remove the 300 second barrier when they update the darn thing :P.
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Crash! Don't mention them by name! You know they appear if you mention their name!
Anyways... would like to hear what's gonna happen to the forums Smirk.
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You probably won't implement changes that deserve a warning wthout announcing them first. Then please wait until you can "safely reveal" them, for targ's sake. And if you "can't reveal" them yet, don't say anything. Nobody likes empty statements.
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Could you let us know before you implement changes that will erase out "subscribed to" threads list ?
That was wiped by the change over to the PWE forums , and it was pretty upsetting .
Wouldn't it be funny if cryptic installed grammar TRIBBLE software and programmed the forum software with a prohibited word list. Words like "nerf", "dental", "Geko".......
You do realise you didn't actually say what the changes are, right? :P
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or just posts from specific members.
We fight them too. Entire armies spilling out of Volkswagens.
We do our best to fight them off, but they keep sending them in.
oddly enough, i dont care anymore.
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Nah. Our Asian Overlords are removing any trace of disagreement or dissent from the forums. There is only Satisfaction at PWE. If you are dissatisfied, Charge Your Zen.
Stop being cryptic. :P
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Smirk just abides Rule of Acquisition 208.
So you tell us there is going to be changes...
...and then don't tell us what the changes are...
Yeah, great job at "managing" the community...
".....changes to the forums, sub-forums, sticky threads and many of the older archived posts and bulletin announcements."
".....update and reorganize these features, we will be sweeping through the forms...."
It sounds like they're going to clean out older posts, bulletins, sticky threads and announcements and updating forums and sub-forums. How exactly they're going to update them is the mystery, I suppose
Especially if one of the changes is to make the forums not be used like a Facebook page for some people.
Thank you,
Zeus
If pink, you're drunk and imagining things. In which case, I'll have whatever you're drinking. I'm going to imagine that Club 47 will return someday ... with better dance music.
Maintenance is finished but they obviously broke something. :P
Forum wise, I would like to see the identity of the posters restored to their posts as there is till a lot of great information in some of the older posts that had the posters identity removed when the forum was transferred to PWE.
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There. Fixed it for ya.
But if you insist on Latin: I believe the plural of "forum" is "fora" (they only come in quads).
Sorry, what do you mean by the Facebook bit?
I am not even on Facebook so I wouldn't even know where to begin with that...
And Smirk, any ETA so that forum authors know how long they have to complete their backup processes on their stories?
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Yeah, like you don't do that already by ignoring the numerous problems people post in the forums and never get attention until a year later, or involves the Devs losing money in a F2P game!
could be;
shutting down all old threads that havent been active with 30 days of their original purpose to avoid necro threads so mods deal with the here an now.
reorganizing the forum structure so its easier to handle and manage.
probably stability upgrades and other features.
better user ability for the standard fan fan include the rest of us keyboard warriors here and new players.
rearranged graphics user interface, (the grey and black never worked the first time out and still doesnt).
will see what becomes of the forum. just hope there isnt a a zen charge to remove the 300 second barrier when they update the darn thing :P.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
IMHO some people in here use the forums like IM aka the facebook ref. Maybe I should have used Instant Messaging instead as the reference...
Only a few but it does take away from the thread when they do.
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