Please Identify Specific Forum Game Threads

[DrSpike]

Re: Re: Re: Please Identify Specific Forum Game Threads

Originally posted by lord of the mark



He needs to have a minimum post count in certain threads to make a (very modest) suggestion? He didnt whine, he made a suggestion. Whats the deal. Methinks some people have a really massive "chip on their shoulder"

Well if you think the tone was that of a modest suggestion then read again. That post was *guaranteed* to attract the kind of responses it did.

In the past when the case was reasonably made I did say (if you recall) that I thought it was a reasonable suggestion, albeit as a solution to a rather small problem.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Actually, next game I host I will (if I remember) add the FG tag to the front of it. But it is quite a bit of effort when the only saving is to prevent people who don't want to play games in a social environment from wasting a few seconds of their time.

In other words, my gives a **** is broken.

Yeah, why not consolidate the MP and SP forums for each game?

Some people just enjoy a forum better when its well ordered, and they can glance at it and see whats interesting. Call me OCD if you like, clutter is annoying. If I had my druthers, we would have tags for board games, console games, and PC games, and for broader gaming issues. But I wont even suggest THAT level of compulsiveness on everyone - though i just might try to lead by example.

But forum games really are more different than just about any of the other things we discuss here. So it seems more reasonable to ask for a tag.


And by the way, not everyone who doesnt play forum games doesnt like gaming socially. I play board games regularly . Just not into forum games, thats all. And i presume there are people here who dont play forum games, but who do play MP games.

[Maquiladora]

But it is quite a bit of effort

Right.

[lord of the mark]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Please Identify Specific Forum Game Threads

Originally posted by DrSpike


Well if you think the tone was that of a modest suggestion then read again. That post was *guaranteed* to attract the kind of responses it did.

In the past when the case was reasonably made I did say (if you recall) that I thought it was a reasonable suggestion, albeit as a solution to a rather small problem.

He gave HIS reactions, identifying them clearly as his. By way of rationale for his suggestion. I might have phrased things more diplomatically, but I can easily see a much more whining tones. Take a look at the "is civ3 crap" thread to get a sense of what whining around here sounds like.

[Skanky Burns]

Just not into forum games, thats all.

I'm trying to troll here. Stop being reasonable.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns

Just not into forum games, thats all.

I'm trying to troll here. Stop being reasonable.

Have you seen my replies to Paiktis in OT? As far as staying reasonable in response to trolls, now THATS a challenge. Comparitively, yours are like playing an SP game on a low level, compared to MP (to bring us back on topic )

By the way, I did try playing Mornington Crescent, so Im no purist - but I lost dismally

[Skanky Burns]

The OT? Not if I can help it!
I know, I am also too reasonable.

Maybe I should call you a limey bastard.

[duke o' york]

In that case, I call Cockfosters.

Sorry, got excited at the prospect of more MC, but it seems to have drifted away into the archives.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
I just dont see what the big deal is - How hard would it be to add the tag "FG", for forum game to the title of an FG thread? Why NOT do it?

I just don't see waht the big deal is - how much time does it take, opening a thread and then hitting the 'back' button?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by duke o' york
In that case, I call Cockfosters.

Sorry, got excited at the prospect of more MC, but it seems to have drifted away into the archives.

I thought it got slapped down as too spammy

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


I just don't see waht the big deal is - how much time does it take, opening a thread and then hitting the 'back' button?

How about we just dont title threads at all then?

[duke o' york]

The whole point of MC is to make a big deal over your move. I mena, you may have to wait a couple of days until your next turn, so you should be able to string out a simple shunt to Embankment into an essay discussing the relative merits of potential strategies for you and your opponents, consider the cultural background by comparing the current game to celebrated MC matches, and generally let your imagination run wild a bit.
It'd probably be better off in Stories and Diplomacy or whatever it's called, though as Major-General Hawpington-Smith referred to it in his titanic struggle against Lady Heloise Badminton in the 1865 tourney........

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by duke o' york
though as Major-General Hawpington-Smith referred to it in his titanic struggle against Lady Heloise Badminton in the 1865 tourney........

must have been a titanic struggle, since if London Underground was even open that year(was it?) it was one line only.

[Skanky Burns]

That just goes to show how difficult the Coxton shunting really is. Why, in 1876, when Lord Farthingworth was defending his title, he didn't let mere reality get in the way of moving to St Pauls. He wouldn't let the fact that the London Undergroud not being invented stop him from using the service.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
How about we just dont title threads at all then?

It's marketing. If you don't title your thread, you'll get less people. However, putting "FG" probably isn't going to attract many more.