P.S. you really do have to be the dumbest of the ravens, which is pretty low already - they were never known for creativity - playing the same class year after year without ever trying anything new - stupid ex-military mindset.
As the person you are undoubtedly referencing here, I just got to laugh. You just insulted how many people with that jab? Probably people who are your friends and maybe even family members. Very funny Kesh, but also very sad.
Here's something that might be foreign to you: It's called principle. They quit because of their principles, they're not gonna invest time into a game where something like that could possibly happen. Good on them. They had the motivation to play strat, and they probably would've won if you ask me (someone who was a neutral faction towards them, and possibly would've fought them at some point). What they DIDN'T have the motivation for, or should I say tolerance for, was dealing with childish admins who think it's okay to ban 20 people in one sitting over what really amounts to a minor offense.
I quit because my friends were banned for reasons I disagreed with and with what I think are unfair punishments. Even if they were reduced, it should never have happened. I wish I had been at this incident and I could have got my first ban on record too.
Now I am just hanging out on the forums waiting for Stellaris and Hearts of Iron 4 to come out.
For anybody interested the PDX has put up their last dev diary detailing some more modding capabilities, like creating custom portraits for races and custom designs for your ships. Very cool stuff and I love how much Paradox is supporting the modding community.
I'll hold off for a day on Stellaris. Please post reviews so I can yay or nay it(until sale)
I will post my review the day of release after I get some hours into it. Everything I am seeing from the live streams and the paradox forums is pretty reassuring though. The most recent live stream really showed off how the combat is going to work versus larger alliances/federations. Speaking of, I like how stellaris seems to have very distinct chapters/phases of the game. The early game is entirely dedicated to finding resources and colonizing worlds and maybe finding some friendly neighbors or rivals .
The mid game is forming alliances with like-minded species or trying to get some land (space?) grabs so that you can become even bigger before you get boxed in from all sides. The late game is diplomacy and huge wars between many different alliances/federations all over the place. I know I am pretty excited to get this game in 14 days.
They are running this Blorg joke to the ground really. "Pre-order and get a Blorg forum avatar" lol
And also yes, the things they showed already leave no doubt this will be in every way superior to the new Master of Orion.
There is talk of them having little plushy Blorg dolls made and sold on their website. Agreed though, while I love me some Blorg, the joke is being stretched a bit.
Stellaris is a sci-fi grand strategy game set 200 years into the future. It is developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. If you are familiar with Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis 3 and 4, this new game takes elements of both games, as well as many space 4X games (master of orion/sins of a solar empire/etc) and combines them together.
If you want to see gameplay here is a video of Wiz (the Developer in charge of the games AI) and cKnoor (one of their Community outreach people aka PR) playing as the Blorg Commonality from the very beginning of the game.
I've been looking forward to this game from the very moment they announced it, as the space 4X genre has been dead for years. It is now up for pre-order on steam if you are into that sort of thing.
I go by logs buddy. I wish I had a team of admins to back me up or at least communicate with each other so that I don't have to get involved.
A leader takes responsibility for the actions of his subordinates. Point the finger all you want but you could have looked into this more before making ridiculous threats about character wipes.
I learned from reading this thread that Dupre likes to jump to conclusions without any real fact checking AND that Desire gets overly emotional about what other people are saying on the internet.
I was already one foot out the door on this mod, now all my friends are leaving. Oh well, was fun while it lasted.
You want a spank on your hand or something? Come on now, this is getting ridiculous. I don't understand why everyone involved keeps trying to defend themselves. I posted the logs, it's obvious you were all just being a bunch of trolls. You guys seriously had it coming. Remember when I become admin and got the same treatment from Havelle? Pretty much the same incident with almost the same people involved. So you want me to just let you guys do this again and cause another shit storm? Well if it happens again, you'll be taking your cool memes to some other game/mod/forums.
I do disagree on the ban length which is where I stepped in and suggested giving everyone a 2 day ban which desire agreed on.
I think you are being incredibly naive. Just by posting this you are discouraging people from playing the mod and pushing people into a corner. People are going to "rebel" again just to spite you now.
Are you really trying to say its okay to have your entire strat team spam the N word in-game??? The fact that you are all upvoting each other kind of makes me think you are too stupid to realize that you are all rationalizing each other's behavior simply because you are in the same alliance (whats sad is you guys don't even realize you (Dracula and Frisians and Ravens) are a significant reason for driving away a decent amount of older more mature players away from this mod with the fact you are idiotic trolls representing the community en masse).
Lay off the Anti-Raven propaganda Kesh, the damn clan was official disbanded months ago and barely any of them play this game anymore. There was a single former Raven guy at this incident Surtr and he didnt do anything and is one of the nicest people to grace this earth.