What happened to this forum??

Arby's, roast beef sale.

Actually, when they made the empires forum alot of the post traffic went over that way. The goal was to free up the main forum for questions/noobs/etc. It worked a little too well, I think.

I think most people have decided to do most of their posting on the empire forum now, which I don't spend any time in but have notice how often posts are made there sometimes. Most posting here is answering questions now.

~SDC~

People got exactly what they asked for. Now they just have to decide if it was really what they wanted?

Unfortunately, what happens is groups of empire related people are discussing topics that are not necessarily empire related in their own threads.

So people who are not interested in Empires, won't ever see those discussions.

Its a shame really, I always keep this forum as my main.

I would personally like everything to be back in one place again (:(

You really? You were one of the ones asking for this separation. I didn't like it from the beginning, now the topics that could help newbies are not being discuss here, but there in the empires forum, so we move one forum to another forum for unnecessary reasons. :notsure:

The reason of this separation was the famous SPAM, and you and others like you were screaming because of the SPAM, we need to separate this, we need this, we need that, well now you have what you wanted, two separate forums, the main forum is dead zone and one active forum, the empire forum where the same topics that were here in the beginning are being discussed, plus all the tech questions that could be helping the newbies, who was the part receiving the worst, the newbies. Those are the ones reallyng getting the wrong end of the stick. :notsure:

Read the first paragraph in this link that you posted http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GE&id=131562#132097

I am not ranting against you, so don't take this as an attack against you, but forcing the empires out of this main forum to another forum was a big mistake.

Four posts in a row to make one point is SPAM!! :notsure:

Renegade your understanding is at best flawed. I never asked for the forums to be separated. I never wanted them to be separated. The limit of recruiting threads came later, something that Mindshock and I started in response to comments from some of the community, all views - not just yours must be accomodated. The central issue here however is that the creation of the empires forum and the recruiting rules were SEPARATE. Now if you go back and read your posts I think you will find that they make very little sense at all.

Exar, I know that we have not seen each other eye to eye lately, but my post was not intended to offend you, was an intent to keep your mind away from the problems, and make you realize that life is a short period of time that we must enjoy to the fullest. You need to smile more, laugh more often and don't take verything so seriously, that is the best medicine for the heart. When you take a stand you must realize that no always people will agree with you. Many people will have different opinions and your role here has been a great, I will say one of the greatest. But sometimes you tend to take things too, way too serious.

Jokes are jokes, Icho knows that, because we have been joking back and forth for long time and we never have had a exchange of words. I am sorry that you think that my difference of opinion with you are a flame war, they are not intended as such.

I am not mocking you for been sick or anything like that, if my comment seems like that, then I apologize here to you. Smile Exar, life is too short to take things so deep in your heart, enjoy the life that God has given you, look around you, this forum is not your life, this is just a place where you come to exchange ideas, get mad, laugh at the silly or stupid things people write. Take care of your loved ones, spend more time with them, go out, go to the beach, admire the sunrises and sunsets, that is the real life.

Don't be so serious it is not good for your heart, the best medicine is a good snile, when you sign out, think, that Mayito/renegade/etc, etc he is a crazy dude. And take a deep breath and laugh out loud with all your strength and think about something nice in your life everytime that my name come across.

You are one of the best persons in here, and an excellent player. Your values are high and honorable. So don't let the weight of someone's else opinion (mine included) affect you. Life is tto short to pay attention to those silly details. Enjoy life to the fullness and laugh, laugh and laugh again when you read my silly posts.

Are we browsing the same forums? It is really hard to find in empire threads any useful information if you aren't continually lurking to watch the various posts. And there aren't lots of non empire thread in the empire forum.
But in this forum (galactic forum), there are a lot of questions that can be easily spotted and answered.

More I would like to see example in the Empire Forum of "tech questions that could be helping the newbies".

I would also add that the strategic forum has lots of informations.

I would also add that I am fine with the current forums. And don't forget that there were 2 kind of empire spam:
- the various threads related to empire talks and empire announcement. And some were posting *bump* posts in empire thread in order bring them back to the first page. So it was annoying to go to the second page to see unanswered question or modified thread. Don't forget that some people can come only once a day to the forum (in opposition to people that can be connected near a whole day)
- the recruitement posts in non empire thread, that can sometimes degenerate and going completly off-topic.

Didn't you just post this exact same message in the Jedi forum? :notsure:

You must really like this speech.

Another reason there are less posts, is that most, if not all Empires have their own private forums.

I know the Diplomat's forum is extensive and far more active than this one.
It has many visitors from other Empires.

Lothmorg, don't you have something better to do???

LOL
Seems you don't either.
LOL

Can't we all just get along? LOL LOL LOL

Blah Blah Blah Blah. In no way did exar want to start a flame war from what I read in his post. You constantly oppose people's comments, then when they respond you say to them calm down and basically get a life. Get off your high horse renegade and smell the s**t your shovelling in here. You really know how to turn a discussion into bitterness.

Stop your spamming, stop your opposing people's opinions then saying it's the other persons fault for taking you seriously and procede to tell them to get a life, which you have no idea what there life is really like. Discussion is essential but what you do is just for attention be it for good or bad.

You should really take your own advice renegade.

Thats my 2 cents

Sorry I am not going to argue with you. You are entitled to your opinion.

Also sorry lothmorg I was feeling pretty bad for my senseless coment to Exar, so I was mad with myself no with you.

I assumed that Exar will take my comments as a joke to get him in the right mood, but I failed to noticed that he was pretty scared about his medical condition. So again Exar sorry for any comments that may have offended you. My sincere apologies. (:(

Just ignore him, that's what most of us do.

I prefer the split. The Empire talk created a lot of "spam" for the non-empire interested. I really started to ignore the main forum when it was at its peak... it was too crowded with repetitive chat about "JOIN THE FORCE EMPIRE! WE ARE THE BEST" "NO, JOIN THE VADER EMPIRE! WE ARE THE BEST!" "YOU GUYS COULDN'T INVADE TATOOINE! JOIN THE FORCE FORUM AND WE WILL GIVE YOU THE CHEATS TO WIN EVERY GAME!" "JOIN THE VADER EMPIRE AND YOU WON'T NEED THE CHEATS! WE WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO BEAT MASO WITHOUT TRYING AND NO CHEATS!"

Yawn. Now the threads in the main forum are like they used to be, prior to the empire craze. Basic talk about the game, new players looking for info, and bug talk.

Empire forum allows the empires to chat to each other in and out of character. And the recruitment spamming is down in the main forum. Why do people seem to think we need 80 threads a day on the main forum, when most of those were recruitment, empire talk, and bump threads rather then what we have now? I am not understanding how integrating the Empire forum back into the main would would be an improvement for the general playing public. Other then saving Empire players one forum to check for stuff?