Our community is playing King Arthur's Gold this week!

Okay now this thread is going off the rails. You cannot say "we don't want Redditors" without over generalizing and sounding dumb. I read posts on Reddit from time to time, am I a "Redditor"? I'm an avid reader and poster on the Something Awful forums and even run a game community called Goon Haven... Do I act the way you would expect a "SA Goon" to act?

The devs seem to have good heads on their shoulders... An influx of new people from any particular website is not going to change the face of the game as we know it. Best case - more players (of all skill levels), worst case - nothing!

 

But what if your wrong?? HMMMMM HMMMMM?

 

Then we are already dead.

 

It does suck finding the shitty servers with kids that whine incessantly. I found the Jaedizzle's House servers are pretty nice for matches. Very little griefing and everyone tries to have a good time.

 

How did this turn from a notice into a bitching thread?
Either wait for their announcement on what server or go make a separate thread.

 

All this thread now needs to be complete is MM coming in and calling the reddit guys a bunch of retards who can't play the game.

Oh, fun times.

 

Like I said, idiots are expected no matter where their origins are, even if we don't know their origins. For several years, I was a part of a small forum community (at one point maybe 30 active forum members and 50 who were active only in-game), for a game called The Forbidden Gates, An isometric 2D MRPG. It was heavily influenced by another game called Endless-Online, down to it's core design and concept. You could almost talk about them synonymously and you'd get most people confused as to which game you were talking about!

That's besides the point. Anyways, TFG was well ignored by most of EO's community, since they saw it as a blatant rip-off of the game (which it was, but again, besides the point). Endless-Online consisted of a lot of 4Chan users, I'd assume /v/ and /b/ mostly. It was a hardly moderated forum that could have been /b/ in PHPBB2 form. The game suffered a lot of hacking and mass duplicating of items, ruining the economy, and with little action from the dev or mods, plus the lack of enticing combat and lack of cool gear, it became a 2D isometric internet chatroom. This was a huge turn-off for a lot of the people who wanted an actual game, so they though "Well hey, isn't that EO rip still a thing? I'll go play that!".

And thus, The Forbidden Gates was forever scarred by the same idiots we were trying to get away from. The forum turned into shit, and the admins refused to ban the people that were causing the problems. This, plus the fact that the developer suddenly vanishing without warning, ruined whatever game there was left.

TL;DR: New members CAN DEFINITELY RUING A COMMUNITY IF THEY COME TO BE ASSHOLES LIKE THEY WERE IN THEIR ORIGINAL HABITATS. This is totally a thing that can happen. Sorry if it's a little long or confusing.

 

An influx of people from a specific part of the internet is the only thing which will ruin this game, such as people coming from the minecraft/terraria forums or reddit becoming obsessed with it or some famous youtuber does a "what is" or "lets play" of KAG.

Imagine it, new threads everywhere "THE YOGSCAST SENT ME HERE XD THIS GAME IS GREAT MORE BUILDING STUFF AND LAZOR GUNS PLZ :D"
"omg this game is fun cant wait to tell all my friends at school today xD"
"OMG SOME ASSHOLE IN THE OTHER TEAMED GRIEFED MY BUILDING WTF!?"

 

Sadly it looks like most of the KAG community would not like to see new people coming here.

 

Now if everyone is done complaining.
Are you guys still planning to play? What server at sunday?
Y U NO ANSWER PREVIOUS QUESTIONS.

 

With any luck, more than five! No really, average focus time participation is five players, which is exactly why I created this thread in the first place. Hopefully this focus time will result in a larger audience!

Hope to see many of you tomorrow!

edit: Not sure about the server at this point, a couple of people have kindly offered and I'm working with them now. If we get a server, it will be posted in the subreddit.

 

Five people? I thought Reddit was supposed to be big.

Also, let us continue to argue for the sake of posterity. Hopefully more than five people.

Isn't it possible to identify if a community is disagreeable beforehand? I bet it's something one of the management-types could handle, and we were given a nice warning message. If someone is accepted within another community with high standards, they're likely to be accepted in others, if they're going to stay (if, if).

I also remember the age of chat room games, but I'm inclined to think it's over. They have Facebook or whatever now. Once upon a time, I played a game called Tactics Arena Online (a turn-based 2d thing like customized Chess with hitpoints). A good number of the players were there for the chat. These days, only one of three servers is in operation, but it's much more hardcore than I remember. And that game hadn't been supported by the developer since about when I started playing.

 

pfft, an hour is if you were insanely lucky. most of the time past 50 players no one can connect anymore (it opens then ** DISCONNECTED **), sometimes if you have 60 people hammering a server if it goes down, it'll just infinite-loop-crash as 60 people try to connect simultaneously

(i tried a 128 slot once. guess how that worked)

 

Like I said in an earlier post, we have an average of 675+ unique visitors, daily. This just doesn't translate to the focus times sadly. But to be fair, no focus time before has had a backing like this. I have high hopes for tomorrow's event.

 

You and me both. It'd be nice to get some more players over the age of 14 in here. Try to post on here what server you'll be in, I'll try my best to play along too (and keep the arguing with idiot players to a minimum)!

 

Just over 30 minutes until the focus time! We've got a server, look for "r/Playdate KAG Server" in the server browser. Right now it's public but that may change, and I will post in the subreddit if there's a password.