A message to the community

system · August 28, 2013, 10:30am

hi guys my question is when comes beta or full game i stilll have my old chars or game start total new???

system · July 20, 2015, 5:53am

honeybear, honesybear wohhhoooo

sunandsteel71 · July 20, 2015, 4:28pm

Thanks for that Neil.

Raiyaz · July 20, 2015, 7:17pm

Jeez what a necro! /troll

eisprinzessin · July 20, 2015, 7:26pm

Just because a thread is old and has not been touched in a long time, does not mean it is not current anymore.

Corpsecrank · July 25, 2015, 3:12am

After a thread reaches a certain age and no posts have been made in it for more than X number of days it should auto lock so it can’t be brought back to life again then the problem is solved on it’s own. No mods needed no way to be abused etc etc.

eisprinzessin · July 25, 2015, 4:33am

We occasionally close older threads during early access, but not in all forums. I expect that we will do it less frequently after release, mostly when an expansion will be released. Doing it manually does not require that much time and allows us to decide when we want it to happen without involving the devs.

system · July 29, 2015, 2:48pm

I mean, It would be better to switch to the steam communety forums… the forum have enough features to moderate faster and simply. And you can save A LOT of money for servers…

We live in the year 2015 and no one needs an extra website. If I want news about my “product” then I use facebook, and not every single page.
For games it is Steam… News, Forum… A normal Player dont want do make many Profiles on extern Sites for this.

Make this Forum only for Moders and other like this…

(sorry my english is bad)

Shuranosuke · July 29, 2015, 2:54pm

The Steam forums are terribly designed and a cesspool , so I hope they never switch.

powbam · July 29, 2015, 2:59pm

I’m really not a fan of the year 2015 argument at all… Please show us the rulebook that says that all game devs and publishers have to pack up everything and lock themselves completely onto Steam?

Oh? Lost that handbook?

Mhmm.

Sorry but nearly every game dev has their own website. Nothing has changed. The year is 2015… And freedom of choice is still a thing.

Jaknet · July 29, 2015, 3:20pm

Well I guess I’m not a normal person as I never use facebook (never even made an account) never use the Steam forums and if I want to discuss a game, I go to the game’s own website and talk about it there.

Ceno · July 29, 2015, 3:27pm

You old-timer you.

I discuss GD basically everywhere EXCEPT Steam to be honest. Steam forums have become considerably vitriolic.

I probably ought to pay more attention to them, though, just for the sake of gleaming information. Either way, I wouldn’t want to see a forum migration to Steam’s systems either.

eisprinzessin · July 29, 2015, 3:31pm

Besides these forums have existed before GD has become available on Steam. Well, even if it is possible to open a forum there without a product, Crate has been running its own shop here for years.

mamba · July 29, 2015, 4:03pm

I much rather have a dedicated site than one for everything like Steam forums

If I want news about my “product” then I use facebooek, and not every single page.

I never use FB for anything, don’t have an account. When I am interested in something I go to the specialized page not a general bulletin board

For games it is Steam… News, Forum… A normal Player dont want do make many Profiles on extern Sites for this.

fine by me, if you can’t be bothered with that, then chances are you contribute nothing I should bother reading

Raiyaz · July 29, 2015, 9:47pm

You old-timer you. :p[/QUOTE]

Wait, does this make me an old timer too? I just don’t like giving away free money and my privacy to a company I don’t respect.

Anyways, I’m in the same pool as Jaknet, and I also think the Steam Forums are a cesspool. I’m sure they offer some value, but I don’t think it’d be a great loss if they were closed down.

powbam · July 29, 2015, 10:19pm

To be fair GD’s Steam forum is certainly among the tamest on Steam. It gets about as much flak and runoff as we get here, give or take, and they keep it pretty clean thanks to applying the same pressure on me there as I receive here

They keep me fairly under control compared to when I was but a wee laddy(sorry but I’m pretty sure there’s some Irish mixed in with the German and Injun that populate the rest of my DNA) in the GD arena.

I sneak in a jab or two here and there but nothing like I used to get in.

Stormcaller · July 30, 2015, 2:31am

Also when you lower the barrier to entry, without heavy moderation, some interesting things will start happening, like your 5 page essays in the “builds” section with all the details will be met by one line “hm I don’t like it” replies from the guy who bought game yesterday.

Current structure is more like “don’t want to bother looking around? use steam, don’t want to external sites but steam sucks? use reddit, want to write long posts? use here”

Raiyaz · July 30, 2015, 4:04am

I see you post there occasionally, so I guess I’ll take your word on it

system · August 2, 2015, 12:24am

…Tsk-tsk.

jiaco · February 29, 2016, 5:55pm

This thread really needs a bump due to the massive increase in traffic that we have seen. I quote below the more relevant parts from the OP and just want to stress to all users of this site that the report button is the principal way you can get moderators to find problem threads/posts. There are just far too many posts per day to keep up with it all.

And my pet peeve is piracy, so feel free to report any post that mentions it in a positive light, I will just wipe those posts right off this site.

We are a community of people that bought the game. Pirates can go elsewhere, but are not welcome here.

jiaco:

Please bring issues that bother you or that you feel need moderator attention directly to a moderator. We will determine whether there is need for intervention and step in if necessary or privately address the individual in question. Please don’t take it upon yourselves to correct other users, this is only likely to result in conflict, which makes more work for moderators and Crate staff. It also can give new users a bad vibe and turn potential fans away from the game and community here.

If you feel a thread has been necroed without merit, you only make things worse when you follow up with your own post. Instead, do not respond but, if you think something needs to be said, contact a moderator allow them to say it.

You have 2 options: you can use the report button which will send us all an email with your concern and a link to the post in question, or you can send PMs to one or more of the moderators. I think the report button is the easier method as the email is sent to everyone, but the moderators are here for you and you should all feel free to PM us if you think there is an issue that requires our attention. (Not just to tell us what color socks you are wearing or what you ate for breakfast, but for issues relating to the quality of this site ;))

But please do not express your concern directly in the thread. Do not attack people and do not allow small situations to escalate. Even comments that aren’t outright attacks like “Did you not see this thread is over a year old?” can be read as abrasive or snarky in voiceless, toneless text, even if that wasn’t the intention. There will be moments where this gets tough as you see your beloved small community grow into a mass of people that cannot possibly share your opinions nor conduct themselves as you have grown accustomed to. But that is life and the alternative means certain doom for Crate, which is something I bet none of us can tolerate.