Ship abilities & Troops

[Black_Knyght]

Originally Posted by geoschmo

That's just how Fyron rolls. The best thing to do is ignore his Emily Post comments and just respond to the actual feedback you get on your questions.

As dead as this forum is I don't know why anyone would try to lower the number of posts.

How Fyronic!

By the way, love the dead horse smilie.

It seemed so very appropriate to the discussion at hand.


In truth, I got involved with Space Empires a bit later than most, courtesy of Ragnarok, and started fiddling around with modeling and modding about the time SE5 was becoming the next big thing over the horizon.

I very much enjoy SE4, and love the idea of customizing it to fit an idea I have. I do greatly appreciate, certain nitpicking notwithstanding, all the helpful bits the more experienced players have given me, and may yet give.

[Fyron]

Originally Posted by geoschmo

...Emily Post...

Alright Mr. Miller...

[capnq]

Originally Posted by Fyron

especially for simple yes/no questions like this one that are not going to generate any interesting discussion

There is no way to predict how much discussion a seemingly simple question will generate, or whether the discussion will be interesting (which is purely subjective anyway).

[Fyron]

That's probably because the issue of etiquette is bigger than the particular query of this thread...

[Fyron]

If there is any doubt, a simple cross-link to help out the people wanting to help you is always the polite thing to do.

[capnq]

It's also polite to include enough description of what the link is pointing to that people can tell that the link is relevant to the discussion, but you didn't show any evidence of understanding that in the other thread where someone called you out on your attitude on this "issue", either.

(I don't expect you to grasp this point, either, but I'm stressed out enough to need to vent. It's taking all the self-control I have to stay this civil.)

[capnq]

On second thought, I'm just going to stop reading these forums for a while, before I'm provoked into posting something that deservedly draws a cooling-off ban. The signal-to-noise ratio around here has deteriorated to the point that it's too much hassle to even cherry-pick the threads that look like they might be worth the time it takes to load the page.

[Fyron]

*hands out some senses of humor*

[Black_Knyght]

Okay - now THIS is getting RIDICULOUS !!!

And - dear Fyron,despite your complaints about wasting people's time, it's interesting how much effort you personally have applied in this post to actually answering any questions, as compared the effort applied in pressing a petty point of personal dissatisfaction or simply needling others!

It seems to me it dramatically diminishes your point about multiple forum posts wasting peoples time, when you yourself choose so freely to waste others time in a post with your own soap-box grumbling and off-topic complaints.

IMHO, of course.

[Fyron]

Let's please drop the ad hominems; they're not helping anyone.

The question in this post was already answered by others in the other place you made it. Answering it again here would have been a waste of everyone's time that could be avoided if a simple courtesy link is provided with the posts, which is the whole point. There is nothing personal or petty about this issue; many other people have voiced similar concerns about duplicating questions across multiple boards when it's come up in the past, here, on SEnet, and on se5.com. These are all volunteer forums, and it's impolite not to help others helping a person of their own good will.