A general discussion about the climate in this game.

Hey I would like to open an open, honest and clean discussion on how this games community is driven.

I would like to point out that this post stands on its on feet, with no regards to earlier posts posted by and or with the poster in question.

Respect and regards

RCR

Greetings RCR,

its hard to start a discussion about the whole community without anyone beeing in the position to be able to speak about the whole community. Which part of the climate would you like to adress? Could you specify the discussion topic a bit more?

Regards

Snowlob

I like that "TheWarming" is posting a music video to put the mood of the thread, very nice touch.

+1 for the community.

Snowlob you make some very solid arugments, and your points are valid. My idea was that these different parts of the comminity would be naturally discussed during the thread.

But we can start with, for example:

1. How are new players being welcomed here by the veterans?

The ZK community is mostly friendly and they jape and joke a lot - they may do something that seems toxic at first, but you'll find out later they aren't really toxic themselves. Then there are a few people who are flat out toxic, many who are active all the time and make the whole environment feel toxic, even though it's not.




There are also some unofficial classes you need to be aware of:

-admins (the administrators who run ZK)

-badmins (admins who abuse their power for toxic reasons; fortunately, there are only a few - most of the admins are reasonable people)

-drama seekers (people who cause and are drawn to drama)

-forum dwellers (people who essentially live on the forums)

-nerfherders (people clamoring for unit nerfs every couple weeks)

-lobsters (players with either poor playing skills or insane strategies that will most likely fail)

-toxic people (people who are toxic [a stupid and self-explanatory explanation, but I wanted to include it])

-anarchists (people who seek to overthrow the admins no matter what)

-the masses (everyone else, the normal people who aren't really involved in Zero-K politics, they usually just do the game, not the forums)





To be honest with you, I'm a forum dweller, lobster, and drama seeker. rockingchairrabbit, if you feel intoxicated by toxic people, join me and my clan, Wa-ter. We will take care of you and, if need be, ward off the oppressors.

Inquiring minds want to know.. how do you know if this community is toxic if the last time you've actually played a game was 17 months ago?

hmmm 17 months ago.. 2 years ago.. why do i get the feeling this might be the guy who got banned from the other post regarding a 2 year old event

edit: oops it was the same guy.. so he is still searching to position himself morally regarding the community.. most people are nice.. but someone clearly wronged this man.. why else would he hold such a turmoil for so long.. i bet there was a little more to the story

quote: Inquiring minds want to know.. how do you know if this community is toxic if the last time you've actually played a game was 17 months ago?

Where on earth did that dude opined whether the community is toxic or not?

quote: Where on earth did that dude opined whether the community is toxic or not?

The insinuation was made here and by extension this post (see: title).

Here is a simple explanation rockingchairrabbit, there is no corporation that we know of, behind either the game, "Zero-K", or the engine the game runs on, "Spring-RTS".