Hi hatred and all, Many years ago back in 99, I started playing x beyond the frontier. In my opinion 1 of the best space games ever invented. It goes along side elite for sure. But back then it didn't hold much interest with the wider community. The advantage of that is that the forums were great fun! The game is single player, but on the forums we had roleplaying guilds, pretend guild wars, we even had a convention to celebrate just how great the game was and the community as a whole.
Well as the series progressed, first x-tention, then x2 the threat, the community really started to get far far bigger and that's when the problems really started. The fun of being on the boards became not so fun and quite quickly. Not so much because of hackers and the like, but because there were plenty of trolls on there. moderators who would previously join in with the mucking around became more like police. The nice little family we had was destroyed basically because the community as a whole just wasn't ready. It went from being 1 thing to the exact opposite. I don't go on those forums anymore even though the x series of games has continued on. A lot of very well respected forum members who contributed in loads of ways whether it was creative writing or various forms of animation, most notably stories like the rogue's testament trilogy an the traders tale series of stories. Even if you have never played the games before you could well enjoy these stories. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that when it comes to this community, there is a very different mind-set overall between here and lets say the wider gaming world. I want to see the 2 types of games merge that's for sure, but I will echo hatred's word of caution here. for example, the vast majority of gaming forums aren't mailing lists. They are web based forums. You could never have a board with several thousand members or several tens of thousands of members on an email list it would create to much traffic. The blind community would be forced to adapt, which I think it should personally. But that is the least of anybody's concern being very honest. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
