So I tried searching for "We Play Civ"...

[SlowwHand]

We should claim this forum for Texas. What say you slowwy?

We could do that. Plant a flag up...who, KH's ass?

[Ben Kenobi]

Isn't our 'president' asher? We'd have to assassinate him.

[KrazyHorse]

He's dry-humping the cash cow? Respect is due.

He's so dumb that he posts about it online though. If I cared enough to find her I would let her know what a creep she's about to marry.

[SlowwHand]

I think Asher just listens to bad advice at times. Let's just plant it and see what happens.

[SlowwHand]

See how that mental...

[SlowwHand]

...Ignore works, KH?

Now let's work on compacting your multiple posts.

[Drake Tungsten]

Three posts in a row? Slowwy must be *****ing about something...

[SlowwHand]

KH imitation.

[KrazyHorse]

I bet the first 3 were about me and that last one about you.

[MikeH]

Please Asher, i'm sure you're not so narrow minded.

Artists don't get paid more than programmers for no reason. Color theory, typography, sizes, shapes, placement, all of these are important because they manipulate how the USER interacts with the INTERFACE. If the design sucks, (i.e. Blackberry), then the product will generally suck, no matter how good the programming is, especially true for the unsavvy. Of course, an application with a lot of powerful features and a **** design is still a great application, just frustrating to use.

Er... what? So many things wrong with this. Artists get paid more than programmers? Where? Not in the UK at equivalent level jobs.

Blackberry's suck? They are still the market leader in smartphones, despite increased competition because their functionality is much better than their rivals for business use.

Genuinely good web designers require pretty good technical skills, just as any good designer requires really good technical skills. They can be pretty well paid but your average photoshop monkey is 10 a penny, it's an incredibly popular career choice, loads of people want to do it and the pay is relatively low.

At the end of the day if an application looks nice but doesn't work it has no value. For business applications, which is what Asher and I make, functionality and business results are king, usability is very important as is how nice it looks, but at the end of the day if the user can get the results of the financial reports or whatever it is they require easily it doesn't matter what font or colour the numbers are in. This is true on the web too. It doesn't matter how nice the website looks if it doesn't work, and a really functional website, or one with great content will succeed even if it looks a bit ****.

eg. craigslist, twitter, myspace

[Lancer]

Wow. Deleted posts, fantasy fights... I'm going to go way out on a limb here and call this a successful troll.

[MikeH]

After a quick chat between mods we agreed that Lori was a bit hasty closing this. Re-opened.

edit: Play nice though, or we'll just close it again.

[rah]

Thanks, and modifying the thread title can be useful. I can never remember taking major abuse for title changes. Actually I was always surprised how reasonable people were about it, and always prefered it to the thread being closed.

The few times I checked over there it was in the OT. Is the activity in the on-topic areas just as pathetic?

[Dinner]

After a quick chat between mods we agreed that Lori was a bit hasty closing this. Re-opened.

edit: Play nice though, or we'll just close it again.

I told you that Lori guy is a douche.

[Dinner]

Thanks, and modifying the thread title can be useful. I can never remember taking major abuse for title changes. Actually I was always surprised how reasonable people were about it, and always prefered it to the thread being closed.

The few times I checked over there it was in the OT. Is the activity in the on-topic areas just as pathetic?

I just checked. Their colonization subforum, which is/was Dale's pet project, has had a total of 9 threads since the site was created. I'd call that pretty pathetic.

Now their SMAC subforum seems lively enough but it seems to mostly be 2-3 guys and SMAC is now a decade old so it is hardly a growth sector for internet gaming.