Re: Guidelines on Postings

[lastkozak]

I have received negative feedback from members of the forum, insisting that I am posting on the wrong forum. Can somebody please clarify, what is posted where? The descriptions, presently associated with each Forum, are short and seem a little ambiguous to me.

I attempted to point out to the individuals, that they were not the moderators; I assume that if there was a problem, the moderators would have sent me a polite PM a while ago answering my question regarding what should be posted where.

Presently, tech support would be where somebody would post a possible bug, or ask for technical help with the game installation and or patches.

The War room, is to pass on info about techniques, tactics, strategies.

Scenario design is self evident, as is Opponents wanted.

So if I wish to post something having to do with a game I have played, or am playing, about a defeat, or that things are not going as well as they should, what forum do I post that on?

"Inquiring proletariat minds want to know! We need to report back to 'The Party Commissariat!' "

[RedLancer]

Taras
 
I understand your confusion and I would suggest that you post your points about the latest patch here on the main part of the board.  Mainly as this is where they are most likely to be seen by Dominick (morvael) who is the driving force behind the recent changes.
 
The AAR area tends to concentrate on the blow by blow accounts of ongoing games.  You can of course post there but I suggest that if you do so it is done as a single thread which follows your progress as you go through a game.
 
You are quite correct about the War Room, Opponents Wanted and Scenario Design.
 
I ought to say that this forum is now pretty lightly moderated - Joel is very busy on WitE, Andy(sabre21), Lee(elmo3) and John (bcgames) have as far as I understand stood back from their volunteer roles with WitE.  I look after the WitW Tester Forum which is why I have decided to post in the absence of anyone else slightly official.
 
If the community feels that we need a more active moderator on the forum then I suggest that you highlight your concerns by posting below and I'm sure something will be done. 

[Lobster]

Perhaps this should have been posted in the Dear Abby section. [:D]

Just kidding. War Room material it would seem. Some people have tight sphincters and because their head is in there a lack of oxygen causes brain damage. BTW, I have no idea to whom you are referring to so this in no way constitutes an insult in any way and the author disavows any intent to demean or denigrate in any way whatsoever the character of any past, present or future member, guest or monitor of this or any forum of any sort or type now or ever in perpetuity. Furthermore this is an inane and very sad attempt at humor and being such offers no genuine or meaningful regard or disregard towards any sentient or non sentient being whether carbon based or otherwise in this universe or any parallel universe or existence.

[gids]

plus 1 on lobster,there are people on the forum who seem to think their reborn Rommel or alexander the Great just ignore em

[lastkozak]

Red Lancer, thank you very much.

A polite, and concise message, easily understood. Perhaps, it was the proper use of Her Majesty's English, and social etiquette, too often forgotten during online communications, by too many.

As for concerns, not many, I did not know morael was a pseudo-moderator. However, perhaps if members have a problem with somebody's post, they should pm a moderator rather than posting in a most un-polite manner.

BTW I did not know there was a forum for WITW. I posted a question/concern, on the posting announcing WITW, as I could not find an actual forum for it.

Would love to play test it.


Thanks again, Pacieba!, Merci! Dyakuyu, Danke shun!

[morvael]

Jokes aside, I am simply concerned that your opinion might not have the impact you desire, because of being posted in the wrong forum and not read by those who should read it. I have been a regular on several gaming forums, and the formula of an AAR subforum was always very clearly defined in a similar way on all of them. AAR subforum is to engage in storytelling, trash talk, asking for and receiving strategic advice and having all kinds of fun concerning a single instance of a game (a scenario, a campaign) that you play vs someone (or even the AI) inside a single thread. Only starting a new match would require creating a new thread. General observations on the balance of the game is not related to AARs.

Once again, I think your feedback is valuable, and I wish more people would post their observations regarding the latest patch (for which I am responsible), so you just need to make sure your voice is heard. Posting in an AAR subforum is not helping that.

[lastkozak]

morael, since I now know you are monitoring the latest patch, i will ensure any of my feedback gets to you. I require a few more games to relearn how I must hone my strategy to accommodate the changes. I am of the belief that if the soviets do not attack in 1941, but run, they should have a larger force. Their quality did seem a little better before this patch, during winter offensives in 1941, or was that just the lack of support in the winter the Germans received. I suppose only time will tell.

[SigUp]

ORIGINAL: lastkozak

Red Lancer, thank you very much.

A polite, and concise message, easily understood. Perhaps, it was the proper use of Her Majesty's English, and social etiquette, too often forgotten during online communications, by too many.

As for concerns, not many, I did not know morael was a pseudo-moderator. However, perhaps if members have a problem with somebody's post, they should pm a moderator rather than posting in a most un-polite manner.

I guess you are referring to me, without actually pointing me out. At this point I first want to apologize for a poor choice of words, which I attribute to my state of fatigue and sounded far more aggressive than I intended to. However, I want to point out that this post of yours sounds like you are ridiculing me of an improper use of the English language, as well as bad social etiquette in a backhanded and impolite way. Having said that, I'm not grieving about that and hope we can overlook our differences from now on.

[RedLancer]

ORIGINAL: SigUp

ORIGINAL: lastkozak

Red Lancer, thank you very much.

A polite, and concise message, easily understood. Perhaps, it was the proper use of Her Majesty's English, and social etiquette, too often forgotten during online communications, by too many.

As for concerns, not many, I did not know morael was a pseudo-moderator. However, perhaps if members have a problem with somebody's post, they should pm a moderator rather than posting in a most un-polite manner.

I guess you are referring to me, without actually pointing me out. At this point I first want to apologize for a poor choice of words, which I attribute to my state of fatigue and sounded far more aggressive than I intended to. However, I want to point out that this post of yours sounds like you are ridiculing me of an improper use of the English language, as well as bad social etiquette in a backhanded and impolite way. Having said that, I'm not grieving about that and hope we can overlook our differences from now on.

Please do as lastkozak correctly identified my indoctrinated social etiquette and fixation with the correct use of English based on my traditional British upbringing. Embarrassingly this says more about me than you. [;)] Let's keep this quiet if we can.

[swkuh]

If you read the sub-forums for a time before posting, you can see the function & style that each sub-forum best serves. It makes sense to follow such to get the best audience for your postings.

Good opportunity to compliment the developers & forum managers (official & unofficial) for the quality of this very complex game & the active user community.

Difficult tasks being done well.

[Joel Billings]

I will just throw in that I think it is reasonable to expect that the Soviet quality will be lower in 1941, especially as you get later in the year, given all the changes to the morale rules in the last few versions. I think the quality of the Soviets in early 42 could be noticeably lower than in earlier versions. Could make for a scary 1942 for the Soviet player, especially with the new mild first winter option. Thanks to John (Red Lancer) for posting here.

There is no WitW public forum, but there is a WitW development forum for the beta testers.

As for where to post re the latest version comments, I'd post in the main forum area, or The War Room. I have to admit though that I rarely check out The War Room myself, so the main area may get more attention.

[pzgndr]

AAR subforum is to engage in storytelling, trash talk, asking for and receiving strategic advice and having all kinds of fun concerning a single instance of a game (a scenario, a campaign) that you play vs someone (or even the AI) inside a single thread.

Let's extrapolate this a notch and demand that AIs in the future have spambot capability to log in under your username and post random trash talk and smack about how the game is going. [:D]