POLL - Should Forum Be Rebooted

Time to move on

Other projects are blocked with not moving on.

I noticed that other topics have become more and more fun on SU.

The Reveal of AA was for me a symbolic klimax of your Blog.

Maybe the ones coming to SU will enjoy coming for talking about other games.

Was a intresting group

no

I couldn't answer Yes because it's not a shit hole.

The doxer is hiding in plain sight right over on the SotA forums. If anyplace is a shithole of terror, it's there.

I don't regret anything I've said on this forum. Talking the truth is not shit. Doxing someone is. So whoever the doxer is should not be allowed to think they forced us into hiding.

Having said that though, it might be good to have an open gamers forum that isn't focused solely on SotA. Because even though it's good that truthful information is out about SotA, at one point I will move on from that topic. I'm already bored with it for the most part because I don't want to play the game, even if it improves. With people like Themo and Envy running it, that's just shit.

Let's say we reboot it to something else. As we all know, this isn't just about SotA anymore. I honestly feel like we talk about SotA so much because ALL of us came from there, and some still "play" it or are willing to try it in the future. If we had tons of people from other places, then it wouldn't be so much about SotA at all. Since this summer, we've had a gigantic leap in talking about other games, other topics (politics, cooking, traveling), and even about the industry as a whole. This is a well rounded gaming forum with a focus on SotA primarily because of the playerbase here.

So even if we reboot it, it'll still be about SotA. We'll still talk about it because it'll still be something we can all relate to, something we can use as examples in our conversation. We talk about EvE. I think EvE is boring as shit, and has its own toxic playerbase. Difference is, game is purposefully designed to allow it, and as a griefer, I can appreciate it. Should I not talk about EvE because I'm afraid someone over there will dox me or stalk me or try to hurt me (especially since EvE players will be more likely to pull something like that off seriously)? What about WoW? Hundreds of thousands of players who are fanatical about their game, and I will argue to my grave it's above all the most responsible for destroying the MMORPG genre as we know it. Should I silence myself because some flower will get their pink shoulder pads in a bind and come after me?

It may be because of my history with stalkers on UO. I couldn't go to another UO shard without people knowing who I was so long as there was even a fart from a past role-player on there, as my name was dropped at some time. Entire role-playing communities stopped what they were doing and banded together OOC to stop me from doing anything. Some tried to harass me outside of the game, but even inside of the game, it was just as bad. Female friends were sexually harassed. People who just wanted to enjoy what I brought to the table were suddenly paranoid because everyone was out to get them. People left the game forever because of the drama. So while I was the only one "stalked" others were so suddenly and badly harassed that they stopped doing what they loved; that's far worse, to me, than someone knowing your name or where you live.

Because let's face it, you know who else has your name, address and knows your children? Literally every single stranger you know absolutely nothing about in your city. Someone wants to do you harm, they'll do it. At least we know who these piles of dogshit are, some has-beens and insecure 40-year-old virgins who never had the balls to do anything else with their life because if they couldn't control the environment they were in, they stayed in their homes with their 47 cats and scoffed at the world they couldn't be bothered interacting with.

They're cowards. SWATing is becoming a serious crime. Law always lags behind technology and science, we know, but it catches up, eventually. It's one thing to get the name, address and phone number of someone, to dox them, but it's another thing to potentially commit a federal crime. Some of these people are sentenced to decades in federal prison. That's no joke. Someone has to have the exact same mentality of wanting to kill someone to pull this shit off. The consequences for the perpetrator are similar.

So if we want to redo it and make it less about Shroud and more about games and such in general. sure, fine. But we're still going to criticize games. We'll still talk shit about things that could incur the wrath of some microdick on the internet somewhere. If we make a change, make it so we can piss off more people by criticizing bullshit, not less, and especially not out of fear.

I don't blame IM in any way if I was doxed. I didn't have to post here. None of us do. It has made me leery of trusting anyone, but it doesn't make me afraid to tell the truth.

If we were to expand the forum, to all games we play, and shrink the Shroud to one single forum, it's not because of the doxing. I think the time was ripe for it before all this came out. We had already discussed the possibility elsewhere.

Every one of us knew IM was a persona and had a SotA account that was not banned. It doesn't change anything, we only know who he is now.

You should leave it open and how it is, its obviously bothering them. The truth often bothers people. 

If you edit, and merge, censor,  you're becoming more like those you dislike.

In the end, you'll only dislike yourself.

I think you should leave it alone,  its accomplishing its goal of opening peoples eyes to the truth. Its working, why fuck with it? 

You can always add more without removing anything.

Its just when i see what SOTA forum is like, with all the merges, and locked forum posts, and censorship, I guess it leaves me hesitant to want to mess with a good thing.

Also think it should remain open.

Some poor soul searching if they should buy this Shitty game, wouldn't be as likely to come here.

So what it sounds to me is you guys would like the forum to stay in some capacity, yeah? SotA content of course wouldn't be removed, just put into a single forum where discussion could continue as is now.

Release it to the public again?

Comments or likes will tell me why or yes.

That's basically what I'd like to see. Maybe even remove it from the top, put a general games discussion forum at the top, followed by a SotA discussion forum.

Cept for that boat has sailed, we're not getting what the kickstarter sold. Though I guess that's each individuals perspective.

Think @mycello said it right with people playing a game for too long tend to lose interest. Will be interesting when that final wipe happens. That's launch day even if they proclaim that it is not.

SOTA! Episode 1!

Feature Complete!

Launch date: 2018

Trying to. Front page hits.

from their latest update, it appears you have that backwards. Launch date summer 2016!

Feature complete 2018!

Prediction: Incoming 2yr "live" beta. No wipe from beta to live. SNPFU.