
Originally Posted by
ssfgrgawer
the game is still quite alive on some servers, others not so much, Forums are pretty much Devoid of active posters, theres about 20-30 that regularly post now.
As for the log in troubles That might be the famed "post maint lag" where some servers have difficulty loggin in after maint, and at different times through the day when many many many users log in at once.
my server ss38 had fairly severe log in troubles exp after maint a while back, Now its somewhat eased.
***WARNING POSSIBLE TL;DR AHEAD***
It is sad to see the forums have fallen so far, Exp when ive made quite a few good mates on the forums, and more in game. But the forums are slowly dieing cause there is nothing "new" anymore, Battle mechanics has been pushed to there limits by many players (2 mill+ phract smacks and mech hits) and there is simply nowhere further to go, People used to come to the forums for info, to chat, with questions, show off reports, ETC, But now days there are so many "Experienced" players moving from server to server, they teach those they meet, and those learn the game fast, without having to visit the forums, so they dont join the forums.
True enough most of these guys never learn the game as well as there mentors, But they have enough info to get them by, so joining the forums is "unnecessary" now. When i first joined the forums i did it cause it looked like fun, The players from my server would hang out here to chat, smack talk, waste time through maint, Waste time while farming runs were out, Have a laugh, mabey even cause a little trouble for the mods by posting questionable content - The wonderful Alusair knows this better then most.
Those days are over, They had ended by the time server 107 came out. that server had mabey 2 people who had accounts and posted on the forums. (This was before the first forum change, long before i was a mod) My 107 history thread had 2 pages of posts, and 2 people from 107 posted in that thread, one of them was me. I did the same thread for my server 6 comrades and it ended up being the greatest collections of a servers history in the entire forums. I had players from everywhere post historys MOST of whom no longer play for whatever reason, But the fact remains they dont have reasons to post like they used to. People stopped wanting to learn when they thought they knew it all, People stopped wanting to mess with the mods when forum rules were enforced more often and many "popular" people of the forums were banned, I shant go into names, you all know who im talking about. (tho many of them did deserve it going TOO far) This is not to say the forums hasnt gained useful posters in the last 3-4 years, But the number per server has severly dropped. what happened to the guys who would post -10 mill burn war citys?, arch waves and hammers?, their First mech hit (10k + mech)
people leaving the game has also taken its tole on the forums, many of the best posters from my server, no longer play the game, and the day that happened, they never looked at the forums again, I respect people like Eric0095, Acer5200, Alusair, AbstractAngel and many more mods who not olny quit the game many many moons ago, but stayed on the forums, and even helped moderate them many till very recently. They all embody what im talking about, They wernt just here because it would help there game out, It was for fun too.
in the alliance i am in on server 173, Im willing to bet everyone has looked at the forum every now and then, But posted, I bet most cant say they have more then 10 posts to there name.
In your first post you asked IS evony dead. For some its been dead for years, For others days, mabey even hours. but more will come, Its just a shame the forums never gained many of the new crowds to replace those great posters that leave.
/endrant
sorry for the TL;DR
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