[Kazan]

give people the option to talk about WC out from under the boot of BanditAsswipe? Hell yes

[aldo_14]

 

give people the option to talk about WC out from under the boot of BanditAsswipe? Hell yes

But not in an antagonistic manner, of course........

[Kazan]

you obviously don't know BanditLOAF - despite his recent olive branch and supposedly unbanning all the staff - i'm still banned on completely fabricated claims that I evaded a ban and flooded the forums - which he KNOWS he fabricated - and the initial ban was bull**** as well related to his personal vendetta

[Fury]

LOAF is not everyone's best buddy, but I'd still appreciate if you would leave unnecessary bashing. Issues like Kazan's should be brought to the CIC admins directly, and if that won't work out it won't help much if you bash them here...

[Kazan]

yeah.. that ban that is like 2 years old is really going to get reversed with them still believing bandit's bull**** about me supposedly hacking and flooding the forums 

Bandit owes me one hell of an apology

[aldo_14]

yeah.. that ban that is like 2 years old is really going to get reversed with them still believing bandit's bull**** about me supposedly hacking and flooding the forums 

Bandit owes me one hell of an apology

Look, we're* not considering a WC section to piss off or annoy Bandit or any other WC community, nor to 'steal' their members.  We're considering it to expand our own and encourage useful discussion and modding work.  Regardless of how annoyed you may be towrds this particular bloke, and regardless of how righteous your ire may be, we do not want people to think this is being considered for any antagonistic reason or purpose.

*hope nobody minds me appropriating the group term 'we', here

[Kazan]

i never said the admins were considering it for those purposes - i said it facilitates people who don't like banditloaf's style to have someplace else to discuss things

[aldo_14]

i never said the admins were considering it for those purposes - i said it facilitates people who don't like banditloaf's style to have someplace else to discuss things

Yes, and I'm just making it clear that any specific-individual-based reasoning in no way had any bearing upon bringing up this option, as I'm sure the admins will agree.  Otherwise it would look antagonistic to said individual.

[castor]

we do not want people to think this is being considered for any antagonistic reason or purpose.

I'm afraid that would happen anyway, to some extent, no matter what (thus woted no).

[Kazan]

yup because in Bandit's mind anybody who dare like FS2 and WC at the same time is a dirty america-hating traitor

[aldo_14]

we do not want people to think this is being considered for any antagonistic reason or purpose.

I'm afraid that would happen anyway, to some extent, no matter what (thus woted no).

I think so, but the key thing is to minimize that extend by being nice, polite and civil

[Unknown Target]

I'd say no. WC fanbois are almost as scary as FS fanbois .

However, I would support a more gradual integration, where they don't get their own seperate forum. After all, if we give them that, what's to make them integrate with the rest of HLP? We should let them come in, get used to the atmosphere here, and if they show that they're mature enough, we can open up a seperate discussion board.
I'm not saying the WC guys are immature, but bad blood runs deep between us, and we don't want a massive inter-forum flame war.

[Fury]

Yep, that's exactly what was done just a moment ago. There is a new category called "Other Games" and a new board called "General Discussion" under it. Other games such as Wing Commander can get their own boards if they become a very popular topic on the general discussion board. I think should cover all bases on this front.

[Getter Robo G]

Cool... I missed it but I would have voted no.

One, look at Game Warden. Due to the popularity of a certain project (Yeah a little jealous, but hey I'm Human ) we had an influx of members who started using the board as a BSG board instead of keeping long discussions (and spam) in the respective Sections.

We even had some of them using it as if the forums were MSN/Yahoo messenger...
(luckily Raa, I think, stepped in and squashed that...)

Two, we have the SAGA forums here already.  If there needs to be more non-FS2/WC threads then make it an off shoot of the project or have ONE thread in Other Games. After all I myself have ONE thread for Trek and ONE thread for Robotech....

It's not like we are going to get dozens of more members like GW did.

[Mefustae]

In line with this talk of expanding the forum into areas of wider gaming, namely the greater space-sim genre, perhaps we could launch a grand project to branch HLP out to every facet of FreeSpace throughout the Internet. Not necessarily an all-out invasion, simply providing directions and signposts pointing here. Y'know, make this new, expanded HLP the true nexus of anything and everything FreeSpace, a true Internet superpower.

I want to see the mighty standard of HLP sweep across the the greater FreeSpace community leaving no FS site untouched by our munificent, benevolent power.

[Mobius]

In line with this talk of expanding the forum into areas of wider gaming, namely the greater space-sim genre, perhaps we could launch a grand project to branch HLP out to every facet of FreeSpace throughout the Internet. Not necessarily an all-out invasion, simply providing directions and signposts pointing here. Y'know, make this new, expanded HLP the true nexus of anything and everything FreeSpace, a true Internet superpower.

I want to see the mighty standard of HLP sweep across the the greater FreeSpace community leaving no FS site untouched by our munificent, benevolent power.

Uhm, Utopia. 
I think that bringing WC(WC?)fans here in HLP is a benefit. We could recruit more modders...
With an high number of members we could put pressure on Interplay for FS3.
Bringing them into the FS universe will be a priority,however. They shouldn't come here just for the WC Discussion Board,of course.
Maybe someone is Italian too...

[Kazan]

you just broke one of the cardinal rules 

There will not be an FS3 unless THQ becomes enlightened.  Interplay no longer exists

[Wobble73]

Yeah! I've not been here that long, but even I know that's like mentioning the Scottish play in a theatre!


 

I'm truly shocked!!!

[Colonol Dekker]

  We have to add the holy trinity of rules to the signup page.

A- Dont mention "F..............S....................3"
B-NEVER, NEVER, Never, mention D*r*k Sm*rt.
C-Ahhh, crap whats the other one?

[Kazan]

C-Ahhh, crap whats the other one?

if you run into a shivan in the airducts, it's just carl.  give him your lunch and back away slowly