In the USA and Western Europe, anytime someone states something challenging and/or controversial there are usually two reactions:
1) He's a troll, ignore what he wrote, usually followed by
2) Ban him and delete what he wrote.
Pathetic. Scary that old marines and soldiers have reached this level of "I need my safe space". Expected better... Shouldn't have. I guess western society is worse off now than I expected.
I stand by what I said, several attempts at derailing and (just terrible) puns and jokes notwithstanding.
This game is an incredibly complicated one. But whereas in other games/hobbies people who love said games/hobbies make every effort to promote, entice, and then to help new "recruits" (so to speak), here there is none of that.
The "old guard" does zero effort to help their hobby (i.e. WITPAE).
Their effort, such as it is, is limited to deigning to a reply to a forum post asking for help on a specific topic... or making a joke about it. Or putting down a complete newbie who does a youtube series to promote the game (granted, he was terrible, but he is learning and actually not making many mistakes now).
There was some effort at tutorials/guides.... but that happened roughly 10-15 years ago.
What is needed is actual guides and tutorials, ones that are hopefully after the year A.D. 2000!
What guides there are are scattered all over the place, some are in the (terrifyingly mismanaged, just a mess) sticky section - many are not and so are lost in the forum.
I expect a comeback of "troll" and "ban" - par for the course, when there are no arguments and dealing with a modern western "man".
I also expect the "Use the forum search function!", which is also expected due to lazy, zero effort of the "old guard" to grow the community and help newcomers.
A lot of this stems from matrix forums - they are godawful and their design is the worst I've seen. Clutter everywhere, sticky topics of a sale that happened 5 years ago blocking the page, actual helpful posts and tutorials and guides either very hard to find in the "stickies" topics or not there at all ("Use the forum search function!" - yeah, right, good luck with that).
So, zero effort to grow and help the community, those who do their efforts are lost in the ether and hard to find.
PS
Someone make a youtube guide with voice over that can be actually understood, for ***** sake. That's the minimum that should happen.
I would argue that matrix, the company, SHOULD ITSELF do this - video tutorials on youtube/matrix page.
But we're dealing with a company stuck in the 1980's boardgame era who are proud to sell/move as few units as possible (despite having some fantastic games, like Distant Worlds which I wrote a guide for), and zero marketing and promotional know how.
So, I expect some pithy, terrible puns and jokes, perhaps a ban and nothing to change ("We are working on the stickies" - yeah, when in an American company an exec/employee says to expect something to happen as they are "working on it".... it will happen...after 25 years or so).
Extra:
Look up Steam. See that GUIDE tab on every game? If a game is complicated and the community needs it, members will STEP UP and write/post a guide or two to help new players. See how easy it is to organize something like that ("But we have WAR ROOM" - yeah, it's not clear what the **** it is, really, and what should go in there. GUIDE is much clearer).
Look up Distant Worlds on Steam:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/261470/gu ... s%5B%5D=-1
One of these guides is mine, actually, as I really loved this game and played the heck out of it and wanted others to experience it - and they were stopped by "game plays itself" and "what do I do, there are no guides and it's so complicated".
Seriously, matrix, I love your hardcore, niche games, but your website and forum suck. They are bad even by 1980 BBS standards! Disorganized, unhelpful mess for every game.
Grab your ***** and fix your ****, matrix.
" - BBfanboy