Great. Never knew this site existed. This seems to have access to more sites than forums.stardock.com. I guess this is the Impulse Community Forums. Fine. Wonderful.

Like I said there should be mechanisms that allow people to view what it is they want to view. If you want everything then clearly there's a way for you to do that. Since this is what you appear to want then I'm happy for you.

However I would like the same opportunity to view what I want which in my case is a far more limited set of forums. Regrettably you get your wish but I don't get mine.

My recent posts don't seem to ever update, the list looks the same now as it did at 7:30 this morning (it 2:20 PM now).

Since i like to look at this list to see what topics are being discussed, when its working, I would like it limited to Galciv topics, that's what I come here for. Out of the top 10, about 5 have something to do with Impulse.

Perhaps its a way of advertising their other products.

Yes it seems this behavior is not all that uncommon although for me at least at the moment the current list seems only a bit over an hour behind.

To clarify, there are a number of different "recent posts" lists that people may be referring to. These probably differ from one site to another and here I'm specifically talking about how these are listed on the GalCiv2 site.

First off if you come in via www.galciv2.com then there is a Recents Posts box along the left margin. I think this is the one that Captain Yar is refering to because the latest post I see there at the moment is one from 9AM forum time this morning. This isn't the list I usually look at.

I usually go directly to forums.galciv2.com which is the same as goind to www.galciv2.com and pressing the Forums button in the left margin near the top of the page. Anyway once at forums.galciv2.com you see the Category list showing the forums and subforums along with the ten most recent posts at the bottom of the page. This list also has a tendency to get somewhat out of date but currently the most recent listed here is from 13:19 forum time (about an hour and a half old).

To actually get the most current "recent posts" you click on the "More Recent Posts" link at the bottom of the page that takes you to the first page (50 per page) of the current Recent post list (https://forums.galciv2.com/recent). The most recent post listed here is from 14:44 (only 5 minutes old). This is the most accurate place to view the "recent posts". This list goes back 72 hours and usually consists of 3 to 4 pages of 50 threads per page.

AS far as Impluse being the most active, it probably is only natural since it's a new product that cuts across all of SD's products. I guess it is a way to "advertise" Impluse but given that it's to be the future upgrade mechanism for GalCiv II it does have some relevence in the GalCiv2 site and perhaps legitimately belongs in the list of recent posts on the GalCiv2 site. However I don't think the same thing can honestly be said for the OTF and it's subforums.

I would have changed it from the colony example to the usefulness/helpfulness that you are in respect to galciv topics. Karma I thought was to be used if you thought somebody's post was useful or such. As you pointed out, this isn't TECHNICALLY an open forum about the popularity of cake or waffles, it's about galciv/pm/sins/demigod/winblinds...etc Stardock products or products they were the production house for.

Now, it Karma would make my colony ships go faster, I'll start having a mooch signature at the end of every post asking people to give me karma if they liked my post. I'd be fine with my 18 or a 0 though.

Back on topic.... sort of:
Would negative karma then make your ships go slower? And what if you're in Yor space at the time? Does and interdiction field have any affect?

BTW i like both waffles and cake. And I was going to give you karma JUST to make your post inaccurate.

eh, it'll happen sometime. I troll the forums enough that someone is BOUND to accidentally hit the karma button for me. See, 17 people have done it so far.

Yeah, I don't understand the 18 points, 17 people aspect...Did someone extra-cool able to give me 2? Or in my interpretation on how I got them, did they accidentally double-click the karma button?

The number of points anyone can give is dependant on their forum rank. So all the rank 1 citizens can only give +1, but forum mods, etc can give higher since they're higher ranked.

Ah, I never knew that. I assumed that everyone could give up to 4 karma at any one time. I guess it makes sense to make it proportional to rank. Finally a benefit to rank.

For the forums that use them On Sins, everyone's a citizen and nobody gets ranked up.

Perhaps Sins just hasn't been around long enough. I know Kryo goes around looking for likely candidates every year or so. But it is kind of a matter of luck whether or not someone stands out. It generally takes quite awhile to form an informed opinion. It's far more likely for the annoying types to stand out than it is for the helpful.

Rank used to be displayed instead of Member number and karma. It never really meant much but it provided some minor recognition for "service to the community".

Nah, they've said there's nothing for Sins to make forum ranking meaningful, so they won't do it

Ahhh i was like you mumble...i thought the standard was up to +2....Cool..now if they would only put the rank back on instead of member number i'd be happy.

Okay, let's try this again.

If someone has a certain value in their karma pool... their actual gameplay 'features' would be automatically enhanced by that edge alone? right?
Darn, that's why even my best hyperwarp engines never seem to keep up with DreadLords!

Hey, what about valid spending Tokens equals Karma. Nah, that would be a nightmare for SD customers' service too. And moderators could fall into a depressive mindstate sooooo bad, forums participation would become a huge mess.

Frogboy said:



Why negative karma is a bad idea:

"I don't like your attitude, Frogboy." *gives negative karma*

"You know what, you're right, but you argue too much, and I don't like that." *gives negative karma*

"Wtf? Just because you know more than me doesn't give you the right to correct me." *gives negative karma*

"OMG WHY DID YOU HAND MY ASS TO ME IN THAT OTHER THREAD? I HATE YOU!!!!111" *gives negative karma*

"I don't like your name. It sounds retarded." *gives negative karma*

"You have too many karma points." *gives negative karma*

You give too many good reasons. *gives negative karma*

Nobody wins. *gives neutral karma*

Making negative Karma available, will make the average Election for office look like an amiable chat between life long friends, compared to the war that would break out on the forum(s).

I'd like to say to everyone, that this thread is dead. So no necromancy please.

Doesn't look dead to me.

-1 Karma for calling this thread dead

What about Necrophil< explicit content removed >?

If it went w/o a comment for 6 months, then I'd agree. It seems alive and well Mr Reptile.

Bonus Karmas to all concerned for bumping this up even if sethpenguin thinks it shouldn't.

Number of bytes uploaded by members into the library = validated Karma points!
Lemme count, , .. , .. , yup, i'd certainly get some more!

And since i'm stuck with the silly #13 (superstitious, at times)... i could use an extra favor once i finally get to zip CoSH version 05-B and distribute it - all free.

There ya go..thats 2 i have given ya.....:P

I have a queen song in my head atm....but the words are somewhat different..

Keep this thread aliiive...keep this thread alive....Itll take all your time and typing to keep this thread alive!

Bah, I wish I could have been stuck at #13.

Ya know, I once dated a girl who was born in Vorhees, NJ on the 13th... When I found that out my jaw dropped and she didn't understand. Even after I gave the hint about what Jason's last name was, she was still clueless.

/sigh

No, she wasn't blond either!!!