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12483 - is the situation improving?
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macbone wrote:12483 - is the situation improving?
It's stuck in mid-dance.gif mode.
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I feel its all down to the poor dice system and the constant losing phases you seem to get once you gain a promotion. I talk to no end of people who see this and i always witness it for myself. The sooner the site becomes fair and a genuine dice system implemented the sooner the site will see a rise in numbers.
No matter what any of the CC admin say, this site is flawed and its very biased to a select few. The high ranked people would not be able to sustain their level if it wasn't for the help of the fixed system. Make the site equal for all !!!!!
No matter what any of the CC admin say, this site is flawed and its very biased to a select few. The high ranked people would not be able to sustain their level if it wasn't for the help of the fixed system. Make the site equal for all !!!!!
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Darthakian wrote:I feel its all down to the poor dice system and the constant losing phases you seem to get once you gain a promotion. I talk to no end of people who see this and i always witness it for myself. The sooner the site becomes fair and a genuine dice system implemented the sooner the site will see a rise in numbers.
No matter what any of the CC admin say, this site is flawed and its very biased to a select few. The high ranked people would not be able to sustain their level if it wasn't for the help of the fixed system. Make the site equal for all !!!!!
BBS, your socialism is spreading like a virus. A Red Virus.
--Andy
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AndyDufresne wrote:Darthakian wrote:I feel its all down to the poor dice system and the constant losing phases you seem to get once you gain a promotion. I talk to no end of people who see this and i always witness it for myself. The sooner the site becomes fair and a genuine dice system implemented the sooner the site will see a rise in numbers.
No matter what any of the CC admin say, this site is flawed and its very biased to a select few. The high ranked people would not be able to sustain their level if it wasn't for the help of the fixed system. Make the site equal for all !!!!!
BBS, your socialism is spreading like a virus. A Red Virus.
--Andy
Give me equality or execute those people over there!
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BigBallinStalin wrote:AndyDufresne wrote:Darthakian wrote:I feel its all down to the poor dice system and the constant losing phases you seem to get once you gain a promotion. I talk to no end of people who see this and i always witness it for myself. The sooner the site becomes fair and a genuine dice system implemented the sooner the site will see a rise in numbers.
No matter what any of the CC admin say, this site is flawed and its very biased to a select few. The high ranked people would not be able to sustain their level if it wasn't for the help of the fixed system. Make the site equal for all !!!!!
BBS, your socialism is spreading like a virus. A Red Virus.
--Andy
Give me equality or execute those people over there!
Equality in opportunity or equality in result?
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Gillipig wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:AndyDufresne wrote:Darthakian wrote:I feel its all down to the poor dice system and the constant losing phases you seem to get once you gain a promotion. I talk to no end of people who see this and i always witness it for myself. The sooner the site becomes fair and a genuine dice system implemented the sooner the site will see a rise in numbers.
No matter what any of the CC admin say, this site is flawed and its very biased to a select few. The high ranked people would not be able to sustain their level if it wasn't for the help of the fixed system. Make the site equal for all !!!!!
BBS, your socialism is spreading like a virus. A Red Virus.
--Andy
Give me equality or execute those people over there!
Equality in opportunity or equality in result?
Fine! I'll make an exception in your case.
Give me equality or execute Gillipig!
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BigBallinStalin wrote:Gillipig wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:AndyDufresne wrote:Darthakian wrote:I feel its all down to the poor dice system and the constant losing phases you seem to get once you gain a promotion. I talk to no end of people who see this and i always witness it for myself. The sooner the site becomes fair and a genuine dice system implemented the sooner the site will see a rise in numbers.
No matter what any of the CC admin say, this site is flawed and its very biased to a select few. The high ranked people would not be able to sustain their level if it wasn't for the help of the fixed system. Make the site equal for all !!!!!
BBS, your socialism is spreading like a virus. A Red Virus.
--Andy
Give me equality or execute those people over there!
Equality in opportunity or equality in result?
Fine! I'll make an exception in your case.
Give me equality or execute Gillipig!
We should all have the right to equal opportunity. We should not, however, have a right to equal results.
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Dukasaur wrote:The lag problems have hurt us badly. I hope they're easing off. At least it seems the game lag is fixed, but the forums continue to be bad. Things were improving very nicely for so long, too, and then the troubles came...
The Off Topic forum has been taken over by a band of derailers that would rather see a stupid thread continue for 6 years of bananas, than a serious discussion. I see many players have given up on CC because of the Off Topic derailers. Some players enjoyed mentally stimulating discussions in OT, but with overwhelming childish derailing, its now a forum of tumbleweeds with the same band of derailers stifling dialogue.
If CC wants to grow and be healthy, some cancerous derailers need to be banned from forums. Then the churn will decrease as players start to enjoy adult conversation in OT and stay to build up member count.
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universalchiro wrote:
If CC wants to grow and be healthy, some cancerous derailers need to be banned from forums. Then the churn will decrease as players start to enjoy adult conversation in OT and stay to build up member count.
Part of the problem with OT is that people would get in heated arguments and get each other banned. Many of the banned just stopped coming back after a while (Woodruff, pimpdave, etc.)
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DoomYoshi wrote:universalchiro wrote:
If CC wants to grow and be healthy, some cancerous derailers need to be banned from forums. Then the churn will decrease as players start to enjoy adult conversation in OT and stay to build up member count.
Part of the problem with OT is that people would get in heated arguments and get each other banned. Many of the banned just stopped coming back after a while (Woodruff, pimpdave, etc.)
Nobody cares about OT anymore. It does not reflect real life! The overly heavy moderation, the PC brigade talking rubbish and the moderator's choose who to punish, mainly leaving the group reponsible for the death of OT to carry on without any punishment.
Mr Changsha wrote:It does seem to have a stabilized around 12300-12400.
I do have two questions for you expert 'scoreboard-worriers' though...
1. At what level would you consider the number to be so low that a CC-addict like me should start to worry?
2. At what level would you consider the number to be high enough to pronounce the site healthy?
I'd say it's critical now!! The lag will get worse as more ads are added to cover the falling membership, the gameplay is now on the verge of moving completely away from the original format of this site.
And the idiots incharge sit scratching their heads wondering why membership won't rise. The basic answer is - They killed the forum and they've tampered with the game too much. This site has never had a strong or clever person in control.
The answers to 'fix' the site are simple but again, nobody will do the blazingly obvious!!!! They will continue on the track they've chose stubbornly adding more petrol to the burning corpse of CC.
Now during this winter the rise was minute! Panic buttons will be pressed like f*ck in 3 months when over 2000 less players will be on the scoreboard. Then heads will roll and changes to the forum will be made. Game settings and maps are here to stay, this is a big problem!!
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iAmCaffeine wrote:Is she for real?^
Please elaborate, I take it you disagree with me? Then again you never seen this site when it was good and had over 25,000 on the scoreboard. You came after the damage was done.
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Mr Changsha wrote:It does seem to have a stabilized around 12300-12400.
I do have two questions for you expert 'scoreboard-worriers' though...
1. At what level would you consider the number to be so low that a CC-addict like me should start to worry?
2. At what level would you consider the number to be high enough to pronounce the site healthy?
If all you care about is finding someone to play a game with (not caring about playing specific settings or maps) I guess a couple of hundred users would be enough.
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linda wrote:And the idiots incharge sit scratching their heads wondering why membership won't rise. The basic answer is - They killed the forum and they've tampered with the game too much.
How do you actually know this to be true?
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Metsfanmax wrote:linda wrote:And the idiots incharge sit scratching their heads wondering why membership won't rise. The basic answer is - They killed the forum and they've tampered with the game too much.
How do you actually know this to be true?
I don't!! Although I'd say it's true. If I had a buisness that was flagging and slowly going under then I'd certainly sit down and wonder why and what I could do to stop the rot.
May I ask how you found this site? I'd imagine like myself, the vast majority googled risk. So why are they now making maps that have little resemblance to risk maps at an even higher ratio to risk style maps?
It's like someone googling Indian cuisine and being directed to a Chinese restaurant. They might be hungry initially, so they'll stop for a bite to eat there to see if they enjoy it but they will soon realise that wasn't what they were looking for and look elsewhere again.
CC had a reputation for an interesting, funny and open forum years ago. Now a whole day can pass without a single post in general discussion. Nobody has stood up and took the blame for this and reversed an extremely bad decision. Nothing will be done on either count I can guarantee that. Maybe CC can survive with 9,000 core members?
Also, I don't think the dice here resemble anything like reality.
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linda wrote:
CC had a reputation for an interesting, funny and open forum years ago. Now a whole day can pass without a single post in general discussion. Nobody has stood up and took the blame for this and reversed an extremely bad decision. Nothing will be done on either count I can guarantee that. Maybe CC can survive with 9,000 core members?
Also, I don't think the dice here resemble anything like reality.
Dice will always be a complaint I think. In regards to the forum -- I suspect this is more a Golden Age Syndrome -- looking back at earlier years with fond eyes.
--Andy
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universalchiro wrote:Dukasaur wrote:The lag problems have hurt us badly. I hope they're easing off. At least it seems the game lag is fixed, but the forums continue to be bad. Things were improving very nicely for so long, too, and then the troubles came...
The Off Topic forum has been taken over by a band of derailers that would rather see a stupid thread continue for 6 years of bananas, than a serious discussion. I see many players have given up on CC because of the Off Topic derailers. Some players enjoyed mentally stimulating discussions in OT, but with overwhelming childish derailing, its now a forum of tumbleweeds with the same band of derailers stifling dialogue.
If CC wants to grow and be healthy, some cancerous derailers need to be banned from forums. Then the churn will decrease as players start to enjoy adult conversation in OT and stay to build up member count.
You're still peddling this nonsense?
linda wrote:Nobody cares about OT anymore. It does not reflect real life! The overly heavy moderation, the PC brigade talking rubbish and the moderator's choose who to punish, mainly leaving the group reponsible for the death of OT to carry on without any punishment.
I hope you realize that none of what you posted in the quoted block is true.
(1) Lots of people care about OT.
(2) OT does reflect real life (as much as a forum is meant to reflect real life).
(3) There is virtually no moderation.
(4) The PC brigade doesn't exist here.
(5) Since OT isn't dead, the last half of your third sentence is also untrue.
Do you want to try again (or at least participate in OT)?
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AndyDufresne wrote:I suspect this is more a Golden Age Syndrome -- looking back at earlier years with fond eyes.
--Andy
hmmm... maybe that is because it felt like more of an actual "community" back then... who knows... but yes, the eyes are fond for many of the people that were around back then... i am optimistic, things seem to be TRYING to head in that direction again... the black jesus has spoken...-el Jesus negro
p.s.-maybe we should bring Wicked back...

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iAmCaffeine wrote:Is she for real?^
Not one of your multis? I guess she is not brown nosing enough to be one of yours. So do you have answers for the lady? Or just trolling trying to meet a real live woman?
Linda makes some valid points. I agree whole heartedly about the lag. When I can be viewing 3 youtube channels at once without issue, but can't take a turn with out timing out. There is an issue.

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BoganGod wrote:iAmCaffeine wrote:Is she for real?^
Not one of your multis? I guess she is not brown nosing enough to be one of yours. So do you have answers for the lady? Or just trolling trying to meet a real live woman?![]()
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Linda makes some valid points. I agree whole heartedly about the lag. When I can be viewing 3 youtube channels at once without issue, but can't take a turn with out timing out. There is an issue.
I'll disregard the multi shit, we've been through that before. In terms of brown nosing.. Are you clueless?

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loutil wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:Gillipig wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:
Give me equality or execute those people over there!
Equality in opportunity or equality in result?
Fine! I'll make an exception in your case.
Give me equality or execute Gillipig!
We should all have the right to equal opportunity. We should not, however, have a right to equal results.
What if, in a theoretical society, everyone could be guaranteed happiness. Would you still be against equal results if the equal results was that everyone was happy?
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decaf dope wrote:I'll disregard the multi shit, we've been through that before. In terms of brown nosing.. Are you clueless?
decaf, decaf, decaf asking questions and saying nothing will not earn you the respect you so desperately crave. Let us assume that Linda is joking, could she be using humour to sugar coat a message or observation that is unpalatable to the recently arrived people who never knew the site when it was busy.
As for the multi thing, the lady doth protest to much eh?
@Owen what gives you grounds for hope? Other than maybe partaking of the sacrament ja left to help man connect with the divine.
@Linda - So how would you fix things, detail not vague sweeping statements please.

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Gillipig wrote:loutil wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:Gillipig wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:
Give me equality or execute those people over there!
Equality in opportunity or equality in result?
Fine! I'll make an exception in your case.
Give me equality or execute Gillipig!
We should all have the right to equal opportunity. We should not, however, have a right to equal results.
What if, in a theoretical society, everyone could be guaranteed happiness. Would you still be against equal results if the equal results was that everyone was happy?
Isn't that question pointless and useless? It uses an impractical assumption. The focus should be on the process because if the results are changed but the process is not, then you'll get results which deviate from the planned results.
This is the basic reason why redistribution cannot be sustainable and why plans for redistribution have failed.


