Casual reminder and forum etiquette
Oct 1, 2020 21:29:30 GMT
FunkySwerve, Retribution, and 3 more like this
Post by woqued on Oct 1, 2020 21:29:30 GMT
Don't forget that the dev base working on the game is very small. Cluttering the forum with player errors and begging for fixes when the player base grows can be counterproductive. Do educate your fellow player and warn them of pitfalls they may face, it's an old game with it's intricacies and a rather complex system that does have it's oddities from very well known and lesser knownantiexploit side-effects to reincarnation trouble be it name, class combinations, gear in bank, glaring DO NOT REINCARNATE warning and whatnot. Reincarnation has a FAQ and 100 buttons u gotta press Yes, I Understood What I'm About To Do buttons to press before going through with it for a reason, or just things you didn't know about because there's a lot to know and many things you might've not thought of (like checking if what you were doing was completed on the server beforehand). That's part of the excitement and discovery that gives personality - sometimes rotten, often colourful - to the game.
If you contribute, be it bugs or ideas, please go through a mental checklist of:
- Did I ask someone who might know about this first?
- Should I have known about this? Could I have known about this? Can I prevent others from doing this if so?
- Was there possibility this was player error? Was it easily avoidable?
- Was my report/request/idea as clear, complete and well thought out as possible? Or at least borderline reasonable if we're bein skimpy.
- Why should someone do something about it? Was your time wasted on this issue more than what you're asking for someone else to use on it, and even then can you live on without it? Preferably ask other players for info/help on the subject as well.
- Just because you dislike something doesn't mean someone else has to do something about it.
- Use the FORUM SEARCH function or do at least a quick glance on posts on that subforum before making a new post to see if it's been covered/discussed elsewhere.
... I'm guilty of most if not all of these things myself and hopefully improved over the years, but not a bad thing to refresh your mind on.
Ideas are good. Bug reports are good, crucial even. Thoughts are good. Community feeling on forums is great. But don't forget, that every one of these require investment - reading it, then thinking through what's actually going on here, does the poster know what they're talking about, then is it feasible to do something about and so on and so on. Bugs can be really exhausting to hunt down even if you know perfectly what to look out for, so be specific. The devs already have servers being updated and worked on, ideas they are moving forward, known bugs on the table, future content being hashed out, and class downfalls and "excessive perks" known and on the to-do list, once they get there. They are using time and effort for basic stuff like resetting keys, fixing broken characters on the regular on the fly (which is nice, but it's also something we take for granted by them still being around - and one basically mandatory resource-sink from a limted supply). Maybe even make it easier on them by actually paying super extra attention when you are making big decisions on your character like reincarnation. Be careful not to have duplicate names when making characters. Maybe even save your CD-Keys on a cloud/external hd somewhere to make returns to the game a bit easier.
TLDR: Make it a community effort to help, cover, educate your fellow players. The game is more popular than it has been in a long time - but that comes with a strain if everyone is making mistakes that they probably should've known about or have made before, bug reports that may not be bugs, ideas reposted. Player errors fixed, player frustration reduced, dev time and nerves saved.Some old douche not even moderator just a player not even playing the game anymore complaining lul.
If you contribute, be it bugs or ideas, please go through a mental checklist of:
- Did I ask someone who might know about this first?
- Should I have known about this? Could I have known about this? Can I prevent others from doing this if so?
- Was there possibility this was player error? Was it easily avoidable?
- Was my report/request/idea as clear, complete and well thought out as possible? Or at least borderline reasonable if we're bein skimpy.
- Why should someone do something about it? Was your time wasted on this issue more than what you're asking for someone else to use on it, and even then can you live on without it? Preferably ask other players for info/help on the subject as well.
- Just because you dislike something doesn't mean someone else has to do something about it.
- Use the FORUM SEARCH function or do at least a quick glance on posts on that subforum before making a new post to see if it's been covered/discussed elsewhere.
... I'm guilty of most if not all of these things myself and hopefully improved over the years, but not a bad thing to refresh your mind on.
Ideas are good. Bug reports are good, crucial even. Thoughts are good. Community feeling on forums is great. But don't forget, that every one of these require investment - reading it, then thinking through what's actually going on here, does the poster know what they're talking about, then is it feasible to do something about and so on and so on. Bugs can be really exhausting to hunt down even if you know perfectly what to look out for, so be specific. The devs already have servers being updated and worked on, ideas they are moving forward, known bugs on the table, future content being hashed out, and class downfalls and "excessive perks" known and on the to-do list, once they get there. They are using time and effort for basic stuff like resetting keys, fixing broken characters on the regular on the fly (which is nice, but it's also something we take for granted by them still being around - and one basically mandatory resource-sink from a limted supply). Maybe even make it easier on them by actually paying super extra attention when you are making big decisions on your character like reincarnation. Be careful not to have duplicate names when making characters. Maybe even save your CD-Keys on a cloud/external hd somewhere to make returns to the game a bit easier.
TLDR: Make it a community effort to help, cover, educate your fellow players. The game is more popular than it has been in a long time - but that comes with a strain if everyone is making mistakes that they probably should've known about or have made before, bug reports that may not be bugs, ideas reposted. Player errors fixed, player frustration reduced, dev time and nerves saved.
