How to get depressed....
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:12 am
I come on to this forum 3 to who knows how many times a day. I get up, get a cup of coffee started, let the dogs out, finish making my coffee, let the dogs in, and come up here to my computer room to open this forum. Do I do it because I'm a moderator? No. Do I do it because I'm bored? No. Then why? I do it because I may find someone I can help. I do it because there are forum members who can teach me something. Because I may teach someone else something.
Did I have to work up a way to check out these maps? Do I waste my time printing out forms so I can mark off what is in those XMLs to see what is forgotten? Do I have to load up my drives with stuff that I don't need and often forget it's there when I've finished with it?
No, to all of those questions. There are some people out there who want to play this game and some of those maps. Why can't they? Is it something left out in the map? Something they didn't load? Something they tried that went wrong? It could be any of those things.
And then there are those who can't seem to get or keep this game working. Could it be the system they have? Could it be the OS they use? Could it be something they have running in the background? Could it be something that is running in the background they don't know about? The answer could be yes to none or any or all of these.
So, what do we do? Let's all stop playing and go on strike against Firaxis until they look over each system and its comtents and rewrite this game to work with all of them. Let's rent a billboard in front of every store that sells this game telling people not to buy it. I'm open to suggestions.... Don't get me wrong:
You are all allowed your opinions and allowed to voice them, as long as you keep it decent.
People have come onto the forum and spoke of how this particular map just does a CTD and they don't like that, end of story. I failed mind reading in 8th grade.(I'm not joking, we were tested on that) No one but you knows what you have for a system. No one knows where the map failed. No one knows what Mods you have loaded. No one but you. We owe alot to Atani, who is taking his own time to design a program to load these maps. And he is writing up the Installers, on his own time. Don't like the GLOBALS, the map is there for you to put in your system as a non-GLOBAL.
I used to write instructions to help people to make maps and change things in maps. Since the interest didn't appear to be there and I didn't care for some words directed at me, I've stopped.
I have helped to simplfy things in this game, to allow maps to take up less space, something that a group of us can look on with a smile.
I'm not going to leave this forum. I'm going to be here, moderating and helping and working out problems when I can, but only to those who appear to want that help. If you want to glue that CD to a wall or use it as a cup holder, I'm not going to give a voice to your choice. If you want to attack Firaxis, I'm not going to give my opinion on your opinion.
And I stopped looking for that soapbox.......
Did I have to work up a way to check out these maps? Do I waste my time printing out forms so I can mark off what is in those XMLs to see what is forgotten? Do I have to load up my drives with stuff that I don't need and often forget it's there when I've finished with it?
No, to all of those questions. There are some people out there who want to play this game and some of those maps. Why can't they? Is it something left out in the map? Something they didn't load? Something they tried that went wrong? It could be any of those things.
And then there are those who can't seem to get or keep this game working. Could it be the system they have? Could it be the OS they use? Could it be something they have running in the background? Could it be something that is running in the background they don't know about? The answer could be yes to none or any or all of these.
So, what do we do? Let's all stop playing and go on strike against Firaxis until they look over each system and its comtents and rewrite this game to work with all of them. Let's rent a billboard in front of every store that sells this game telling people not to buy it. I'm open to suggestions.... Don't get me wrong:
You are all allowed your opinions and allowed to voice them, as long as you keep it decent.
People have come onto the forum and spoke of how this particular map just does a CTD and they don't like that, end of story. I failed mind reading in 8th grade.(I'm not joking, we were tested on that) No one but you knows what you have for a system. No one knows where the map failed. No one knows what Mods you have loaded. No one but you. We owe alot to Atani, who is taking his own time to design a program to load these maps. And he is writing up the Installers, on his own time. Don't like the GLOBALS, the map is there for you to put in your system as a non-GLOBAL.
I used to write instructions to help people to make maps and change things in maps. Since the interest didn't appear to be there and I didn't care for some words directed at me, I've stopped.
I have helped to simplfy things in this game, to allow maps to take up less space, something that a group of us can look on with a smile.
I'm not going to leave this forum. I'm going to be here, moderating and helping and working out problems when I can, but only to those who appear to want that help. If you want to glue that CD to a wall or use it as a cup holder, I'm not going to give a voice to your choice. If you want to attack Firaxis, I'm not going to give my opinion on your opinion.
And I stopped looking for that soapbox.......