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From: thewood1 Add Member To Contact List
To: bdukes
Date: 2/16/2018 9:35:51 PM
Subject: Be careful

That one post was a very poorly worded personal insult and attack. You can complain all you want about my posting style, but you start personal attacks and I will push the Matrix mods for some action.

My suggestion is take a step back and really think about what you are trying to accomplish. Don't do something that may lead to frustrating you even further.

thewood1
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Status: online Wait a minute, you're in here causing grief and you don't even own the game. For crap's sake, there are enough idiots running around who own the game in here and we also get a knucklehead trying to give advice on a game they don't own?

thewood1
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Status: online BDukes, I don't think you mean to come off as dick-ish as you are sounding. I suggest assessing how people are reading your stuff as a point of self reflection. Someone like Apache85 doesn't get involved in internet drama, yet here you are pushing him to do just that. He is a very big contributor for scenarios, peer-based help, and general knowledge. Don't be the guy that makes him not want to help any more. Really, don't be that guy.

My suggestion is go back, read you posts in this thread and maybe use it to get your point across in a different way. Just a little bit of advice who has seen people come into this forum and just plain piss people off through ignorance.

thewood1
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Status: online It actually is clear with some common sense. This is why knowing the game and having some basic knowledge is important. Most weapon systems have ranges that differ if the can attack both air and ship targets. Its important you use the tools you have, the documentation you have, and the forum to understand the game.

In other words, do some of your own work. You are starting to dominate these boards with questions that you should be able to answer on your own. You have to be asked multiple times to put saves up, etc. Try helping yourself a little before posting. There are dozens of people who want to help other players. But making them work to understand the problem and then finding out you didn't even try to help yourself can be discouraging for you and them.

If you want to request a change in the game, go to the thread dedicated to that. Don't bury the request in a 20 post thread with 10 huge graphics. It will be hard for the devs to see it.

thewood1
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Status: online Hello?

Did you post a save of the issue as requested?...no

Did you wait a reasonable amount of time?...no, less than 24 hours, really?

So let's start there. If you are really that impatient, I would think common sense would say to provide as much information and description as possible.

thewood1
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Status: online Yeah, but some of the stuff you are posting would be answered with a little more playing time. Fine if you see some UI issues, but game play issues are different. Making the devs answer questions that can be answered by reading the docs, watching the videos, and play the tutorials should answer a lot of those questions. I thin the devs have mentioned that a couple times. My advice comes from living it and watching others go through the same thing.

I would hope it would be a common courtesy to try and get at some answers yourself through the multitude of resources the devs and the community has tried to provide. I will also point out that coming in with a completely snarky attitude from the get go isn't convincing a lot of people to step in and help.

ORIGINAL: thewood1

I was trying to take this private to avoid destroying a thread. He made a very blatant personal attack and gave him the benefit of the doubt with some advice. I do this when someone makes a personal attack and comes across as too immature to understand what they are saying. And this guy just validated it all.