No room for civility any more?

[TheDarkCavalier]

Captain : well, my point was to express my opinion on this...

To all of you: JUST GET A LIFE, OR GO READ A BOOK!

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by TheDarkCavalier
Captain : well, my point was to express my opinion on this...

To all of you: JUST GET A LIFE, OR GO READ A BOOK!

It's fine to express your opinion...nicely.

The way you expressed it was the point of the whole thread. I am thinking other words about this but I will keep them to myself. That is what being civil is all about.

Opinions are like a******'s, everybody has one and they all stink......except mine.

[Peter Triggs]

Re: can't be sure, but...

Originally posted by Captain
Perhaps DarkCav is attempting to see if those who talk about civility, actually do talk civilly.

Only, he can't really admit that, as that would defeat the purpose. He must give the appearance of genuinely being a troll to see how others react to that, whether civilly or not. If others knew he was only trying to provoke a response instead of being a troll, the responses would not be a valid indication of true attitudes.

As I am assuming from other people's responses, they have not considered this possibility. His respondents have been fairly civil in the face of "trolling", the response is valid.

Perhaps a premature conclusion, but it does not appear there is any hypocrisy here.

DarkCav, was that your point? Or are you just an ass?

Captain,

ROTF. Maybe I just have a strange sense of humour, but the logical nuances in that struck me as excellently hilarious.

[Changmai Beagle]

Civility, Darkness, and all that Jazz

There is still a lot of civility, but there has been more hostility recently - but even pre CivIII. Perhaps it began with CTP - possibly the first Civ game that came out of the package below expectation levels.

I am concerned that some newbies may be leaving because they are encountering flame wars. When I started I was looking for information and would have gone back to RTFM if I had gotten that response.

I think Empire was, or became, a White Wolf game. I played it too way back when, and it still has a better patrol feature than any of the Civ games -- IMHO

Dark can mean unenlightened, I suspect, but maybe not since we called the Dark Ages the Medi- evil ages. But I do enjoy a good unenlightened Guinness now and then. Although my wife's fact is that it isn't good for me.

Thanks for starting a thoughtful thread, Vel.

[Qilue]

Three points, one off-topic and two on-topic.

Off-topic -
Captain's spelling of hypocracy (as hypocrisy) reminded me of a thread over at Elder Scrolls. It was titled "Hypocrisy" and is to date the largest ever non-engineered thread (a bit over 800 posts). It was thread-jacked multiple times with a discussion not unlike this one that devolved into a flame war before being thread-jacked again. It was finally locked by a mod to let it die naturally.

On-topic -
1. I'm almost certain TDC is a DL who needs a PCR and a vacation and possibly some other TLAs I can't think of right now.

2. I generally ignore whole threads that seem negative. Most often, it's the same people posting the exact same thing over and over and it's always the same posters in every one of the 'This game is broken' whining threads.

(edit section)
I believe TDC did make one excellant comment that was apparently aimed at the wrong people.

To all of you: JUST GET A LIFE, OR GO READ A BOOK!

[Cyclotron]

I think you give the downers and flamers here too much credit... it's not so much a psychological, need attention thing as it is a personality thing. I hate to say it, but some people are just rude at the core. Whoa, I'm back to the apple metaphor...

[TheDarkCavalier]

so, now you invent stupid 2,3-letter words... unable to speak normally... yeaaaaaaa

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by TheDarkCavalier
so, now you invent stupid 2,3-letter words... unable to speak normally... yeaaaaaaa

Yeah what do those words mean?

[Qilue]

Originally posted by Tuberski


Yeah what do those words mean?

sorry

TDC = TheDarkCavalier
DL = double login
PCR = post count reduction
TLA = three letter acronym

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Qilue


sorry

TDC = TheDarkCavalier
DL = double login
PCR = post count reduction
TLA = three letter acronym

thank you, you could have refered me to the thread that explains all of these,but you didn't you took the time to help a newbie.

see how that works TDC? Do you think he would have answered you as nicely?

[TheDarkCavalier]

HAH! You think I CARE?! And I AM NOT a double login, I'm just sick of all this s...

[Qilue]

Originally posted by Tuberski
thank you, you could have refered me to the thread that explains all of these,but you didn't you took the time to help a newbie.

We were all newbies once, whether to this forum or the game. Some just seem to have forgotten.

[rpodos]

Quotes:

Guest19382] When will MULTIPLAYER come out
Guest19382] You need to implement more editors to the game for unit creation (cause it's so time consuming to create units only Darksheer really has been good it this so far)
Guest19382] shut up with the 00:00 thing
Guest19382] Schee is just as annoying as your editors
Guest19382] Why don't we have wonder movies. I really loved those
[Guest19382] money? you should have plenty your programmers cut all the corners
Guest19382] you put the game out way to soon
Guest19382] you should have made it better
Guest19382] I just want CivIII Multiplayer Gold Edition
Guest19382] Here's what you need to do very soon. 1. Multiplayer 2. Zooms for mapeditor 3. Scenerio creator 4. More units and a unit creator thats easy to create animations
Guest19382] I'm leaving you don't give any answers just "No comment" or give us the run around

Sound familiar? Whether or not this person is contributing (?) to this thread, the issue is the same.

I've just started participating in the Apolyton community, and I want to have fun with it, the people, and the game.

Contribute please, don't flame.

If anything, take out your aggression by gaining retribution from those damn Germans (although they do make nice kindling for my warmongering ways!).

R

[DaShi]

The Smell of Fresh Blood



Vel, nice try, but chaos will reign! So glad to see very little has changed here. Perhaps even worse.

Actually, I've been avoiding this forum for awhile, because I assumed that it was no longer amusing. But no. Unfortunately, I've seemed to have missed some very good threads.

And now for some honorable mentions (for without you, this thread would have continued to be a huggie borefest).

TheDarkCavalier- your new to me, but keep up the good work. Kneejerk responses are always the best way to stir the water. However you could still use a little work on your forum. You're insults are weak. Make them more cutting. Don't fall for the trap of long insults. Very few can master them (miss ya ****). The best is too find the happy medium of harsh insult within one line of posting. Keep working at it, you'll get there.

NOHonor-Very dissappointing. You've done such good work in the past. You even managed to spread your venom to other forums. An admirable task. I truly expected you to take the lead on this one.

Look at this post:

Originally posted by Whoha
1) Due to the lack of sufficently different units and unbalanced units, all the strats that work have been discovered.

and
2) I doubt everyone is playing with the default rules set, I sure am not. I myself have all infrastructure reducing corruption, Higher naval movement, doubled hitpoints,etc so strats that work with my particular rules set wont work for anyone else.

All Hell should have broken out after this one. This thread should have been closed on page three. TDC came in, but he's still new at this. Only one .

Dan Magaha- you're on a completely different level than the regular posters here. But what happened? A one word post from you should have started a series of threads about it. Have you been posting here too much? You're strength is stealth. Hiding in the background. Waiting for the right moment. Then strike fast and fly off into the fog. Alas, it didn't seem to catch here. I'll still give you for the effort.

[Gatekeeper]

Velociryx:

Since we're at a "revival" meeting of sorts, Vel, you know you have the power to cast demons out of the "tent," right? All you have to do is call on a higher power whose Name Shalt Not Be Spoken, But Begins With an "M."

CYBERAmazon

(P.S. In all seriousness, Vel, the thread is quite interesting. Keep up the good work.)