OK! Let's Shut This Place Down!

[Wade]

I was in a dramatic mood. I'm still, currently, favoring the official site and intending to visit here too. I hope I'm welcome.hehe.

[AMF]

Yeah, definitely staying here. Much better, any way you cut it.

Nanny nanny boo boo.

[Suicide Junkie]

You will be welcome if you ease off on the abandonment thing.

Loyalty is earned, and the folks here at Shrapnel have definitely earned a lot of it.

[Tim Brooks]

Wow! Thanks for the show of support.

And besides, they actually LIKE us

Yes, we do. If you guys ever went away... well that would be a very sad day here at Shrapnel.

You are and always will be welcome here.

[Matryx]

I'll be staying here too, though I do have one post on the new forum somewhere I think.

Sure, there may be a "fear of change" that you claim, but I can't see a single reason to move the majority of my SE-related forum activity over there...

and being "official" doesn't equate to a good reason.

Got a long history with Shrapnel, and well it would be a tragedy to move off.

[Rathar]

Wow. See now thats a reason to stay with a forum/company. They no longer provide direct (support/finance/err/?) to a game and still encourage participation in said game.

Nice show on suppoting fun gaming in general. You folks at Shrapnel will continue to recive my posts and the .0000001 cent per ad click per post revenue it creates. Plus, I will continue to look for your moniker/name on games and hope they are great so I can buy them. (I only buy great games..)

Def purchasing dom 3 through you when it comes out.

Rathar

[dogscoff]

Shrapnel forever!

Will you guys budge over a bit? This sofa is really getting crowded.

EDIT: However, I hereby propose that Shrapnel rename this forum from "Space Empires IV & V" to "The Great Shrapnel Space Empires Sofa party.

[Q]

First I am not American, therefore you initial post does not concern me at all!
Second I feel very well here and the possibilities of this forum with uploading files is great.
Third if you have questions you get helpful answers almost in no time.
Forth this forum has a high level of politeness.
Fifth Shrapnel has proven to be a reliable company.

So why should I leave for somewhere else just because it is new???

[PDF]

Wade said:
Friends! Americans! Countrymen! Lend me your ears!
Everyone go on over to the Official site www.spaceempires5.com and contribute your minds. It's time for a change. We have our own home now. You no longer have to be that brother in law sleeping on the couch, eating all the food, and drinking all the soda or beer.

Come! See the many qualities of our new home. Sure!, there are improvements that need to be done. In due time! Come lend your suggestions! Get in early into the Space Empires Universe.

I can not make you leave. But let it be known that the powers that own this place do not have to come down here to evict you. They can simply, and very effectively, bombard you from orbit! You will have no way to fight them!

Come home to your new place. We welcome you all with open arms.

Nice invitation, but I *like* drinking the Shrapnel beer !
Plus the new forum software is really cra.. hmm not that friendly

[Rathar]

Ok I checked out the forums you suggest and well..

Although I know little these days, that forum style/type is more appropriate for small-scale MUDing of the 100-200 person variety, not for what you can/will be faced with. EZboard for example is far more set up for your needs (or perhaps I too am used to a certain supposed "standard format" but..)

I have always liked the front end possibilities of the boardtype spaceempiresV.com is using but the user interface strikes me as lame.

Too much wasted space informing me of options I will almost never use between each post and that leads to less information between screens.

Tbh, I have never liked the way this forum is put together either ESPECIALLY it's completely utterly totally useless search function. IF I have to use +-etcetc parameters then it sucks. Period. Did I mention that searching for information in this format is weak/lame/almostimpossible>?

I fully desire someone to point out how much of a time wasting fool I have been in regards to this but you try searching for an exact match to mictlan blood strategies (dominions , soon to be 3) or how to use shields in SE and you might see what I mean.

I REALLY like how sanely moderated these forums are. Screw flames, if you light an inappropriate match here the users themselves let you know and then 1/100000 times the mods have to lock things. Spent time on many a board where A post saying "Roses are red" will end up in a ^%$$%# flame blast ending in recrimination and ridiculous flagrant name calling only to be locked by arbitrary mods of one side or another. The "toast" level in these forums is light "tan" and I like it.

Long winded way of saying that we currently have largely crappy software being used ingeniously.

Rathar