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I agree with the proposal. I`ll try to modify it tomorrow. Imus, maybe we can find some time to talk this week. I have something which requires your attention.

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Complaints / Re: Forum behavour
« on: January 29, 2014, 03:07:01 pm »
No offence Andreas, but this is my final reply to you. You are starting to become very annoying, and I think you kinda crossed the limit:

1st quote: The final team was decided by Geert and Batt. It is not up to you to declare if we had players or not. Also, the fact that you know certain specific insides of the n-ice community but you start posting them publicly is something that worries me. Way more then your accusation of arogance because of the frustration caused my decision from last evening.

2nd quote: Kwissy was banned for cheating. Turning from such an action to a normal player and more importantly to someone who helps the n-ice community took a while...but I`m glad that he did it. After the ban he had a period when he insisted to change the money transfer several times. I can justify my answer to Kwissy if he requests it, or probably to any other player, but not to you. I simply do not consider that you deserve a justification after your recent behaviour. Also, asking me 7-8 times for something of which I already said I do not agree, kinda seems pointless, don`t you agree?

3rd quote makes absolutely no sense. You quoted a post from a different topic of the forum and placed it in a board where a player accused Kwissy of cheating the 2nd time. I researched and found no evidence that Kwissy would have done such a thing.

4th quote refers again to something from another topic: You consider that you`re making a point quoting my answers from my replies in all the forum?
Or perhaps we have someone with a new obsession ? Since from what I remember, the replies that you posted are from 2-3 different topics, I can only think that you researched all of them?

6th quote: not even worth bothering answering? Kwissy cheated once for which we still have the proof, then that topic was referring to another player complaining about him? Did you think about that? Or again, frustration problem?
 
7th quote: yes, I consider I have the right to be angry while you don`t. You want to know why? Because I have the obligation to follow the n-ice protocols even in the case of annoying people like you. People who track the whole forum in order to try to make an interesting debate about somebody.
You want to know why again? I have never bothered you on IRC. About you bothering me could we say the same thing?

8th quote : The funny quotes section is made to post quotes in a friendly ironic way. I see nothing friendly between me and you. Also, your obsession for always warning and interfering in the fun of 2 players worries me.... The same as quoting only a part of the post in order to try to make a point.

And finally the 9th quote which is the most pointless one. I must ask you...are you blind? I had that impression yesterday....I have it again now since you posted it here.

But let me breath some fresh air and explain it again...for the 17th time:

I already answered to your questions last evening....and you were still asking them. How many times do you consider I have to answer a question so you can understand it? Also, do you consider that my time is unlimited each time you want to annoy me?  Therefore, you actually got me angry enough with your questions that I repeated the previous answer to you. It wasn`t spam. It wasn`t pointless. It was posted to show you that maybe you got a problem since you`re asking the same question 2-3 times. And it would have been good to happen with 1 question.

However, when it comes to your post....you did out of.....I don`t even know what it was. You felt the need to show me that you can repeat replies, BUT WITHOUT A REASON...which is spamming. Combined with flashing my name without a reason and your recent behaviour of bothering most of the people on the channel, it resulted in my telling you that you need a break from that channel.

After all the _______ justifications that you made write here AGAIN, even if I told them to you last evening, I can only concur that my judging of your behaviour was correct. I`m pretty sure you can understand the difference between 15 replies(more or less, I didn`t count them) WITH A REASON: designed to show anger because you were becoming very annoying and pretending not to see my answer and the 6 replies WITHOUT A REASON and posted only to show the muscles...or I have no idea why.

Now my warning to you. Either you cut it out and take that break, or I will enforce the break on you. Bothering me is included.

As a justification to you: Your behaviour recently has been annoying for the people on the channel. It appears to me that you have got a lot of free time. Well, NOT EVERYBODY has free time to spend it answering your questions. Also, posting oppinions and news about OpenTTD 1.4.0 is not something of interest since we haven`t switched to that. But yet you feel very good by seeing that most of the people do not know it, but you do.
So my conclusion is very simple: You absolutely need a break from that channel. I trully hope you won`t prove that it should be a permanent break.

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General / Re: Legal?
« on: January 27, 2014, 11:49:01 pm »
Every remark after the word "Unfortunately" is directed at the situation itself. The "you" is a form of speaking and does not refer to Andreas.

Also...I won`t start to quote because I already have the example from the complaints section where I took my time to answer....and I dunno if you even read it...not to mention answering back. Anyway, I will try to underline the basic:

I did not refer to SPEEDING. Driving with 50 km/h in a blizzard does not mean speeding since the limit in most of the cities is exactly that. Also....I didn`t try to compare driving with OpenTTD....but what you understood is a part of your uniqueness :)

I compared the way the driving code treats this problem. It doesn`t restrict a specific limit (speed limit) , but simply warns that you should drive slower. It doesn`t say how slow....it doesn`t specify a penalty...it simply a warning for your own safety. Just as maintaining the distance from the car that is in front of you.
It states that you must maintain a good distance which should be increased in severe weather conditions, but it doesn`t specify it. It simply a guideline in the middle of a driving rule book. Also, again...no mention about driving itself...just about how an official rule book treats certain situations.

Also, concerning the last remarks of my post. They simply meant: You cannot expect every new player to have the style and the knowledge of an experienced player. Therefore I`m pretty sure we will continue to see such situations. Our expectations from those rules is that if at least 1 new player bothers to read them, then their mission is done.  The idea is to try to prevent at least a small part of the new players from using terraforming excessively.

Since this post got way way deeper then the original host wanted to know, this is my last reply here. I hope he understood our thinking about such actions :)

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General / Re: Legal?
« on: January 27, 2014, 07:53:12 pm »
Each player has a different knowledge of the game, and then we got Andreas :)  He had the time to gain experience so he has a whole different understanding of the game. Unfortunately, you cannot flood the world with OpenTTD knowledge ^^

If such a technique would be possible, we could say goodbye to stupidity, low education, possible to poverty too and a whole range of "plagues" that are ravaging humanity. I can only say I hope that this player will grow and will start to think like you as soon as possible :)

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General / Re: Legal?
« on: January 27, 2014, 11:38:50 am »
He didn`t "built a big trench along the map"

The way you say it makes it look like he carved a valley just for the fun of landscaping. He considered landscaping to be necesary in order for his trains to reach maximum speed. It is not bad will. It`s just not knowing that he doesn`t need it.

According to him it is a necesary modification...and I can assure that I don`t think he waited that long in order to terraform just for the fun of it.

In what terraforming is concerned here, the situation is divided in 2 cases hopefully listed the right way by the rules:
1: Un-necesary land modifications (building lakes with company HQ in the middle.....or circular hills around the HQ....or writing GOBU IS SMART by lifting the terrain...or any other such stupidities) : FORBIDDEN and listed in the rules as "un-necesary modifications" since I`m pretty sure you can win the game without such things and your score won`t be affected

2: Player decided land modifications(Raising/lowering land for a station or for a section of line...raising or lowering land for a bridge system....for tunnels...for intersections....for cornering .....) There was a huge a debate on weather those things were or weren`t legal. Therefore xOR introduced the terraforming limit and decided: if the player has the patience to do it this way....as long as it is not something at section 1...it`s ok.

I consider this idea to solve the disputes since it is an automatic terraforming limit. Admins do not need to intervene if it isn`t something that it is listed in paragraph 1.
As for the rules, I consider they describe the situation quite good. Ofc if we deny them (Andreas considering that those are un-necesary modifications) we will re-start the debate.
Also...not knowing something is different then willingly breaking the rules and there will always be touchy subjects about the rules NO MATTER how we re-write them.

Some of the rules are designed in a preventive way in order to help us make the player understand how he should play. For example:

If some player entered and built a 3 line route and he starts to make a trench 8 tiles wide (just in case he needs to add more lines later), if the rules would say "terraforming at a bigger level is permitted if you started playing for a short time and do not know any other means of building" , then this player wouldn`t care. Everybody would start saying that they read the rules, but they didn`t think this was too important. The rules are supposed to help a player understand what he must do, but some changes are not required immediately. I hope you understand what I tried to say in this last paragraph, if not, I`ll try to rewrite it ^^

Basically think about driving: In a storm...or in a foggy environment , you are required to lower the speed, but if the police will find you with 50 km/h in a city , they won`t fine you....even if it`s foggy outside. It`s a preventive writing of the rule...

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New Server Proposals / Re: Road Only
« on: January 19, 2014, 12:54:49 am »
We do have such a server in our consideration. Currently we are adding one more machine to our network and when this process finishes, we will be able to add more servers. When oil rigs pop in a cv game is a reference to server 8 I guess. Such a server was very popular. This is the only reason for keeping it. Players like easy games.

As for making a server with only road,water,airplanes, it would be possible, but there are certain aspects to consider:
1: If you allow airplanes, trucks become useless....most of the players only use them to supply cargo to the airports because the profit is much bigger with airplanes
2: Ships overload the server, demanding a lot more CPU then it normally does. This is why almost all our servers have the ships max number set to 0

If you take those 2 arguments into consideration, the result is obvious: Have 1 road server and have 1 airplane server.

This is exactly what we`re thinking right now :)

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General / Re: Legal?
« on: January 19, 2014, 12:48:23 am »
Modification of the landscape can be interpreted in multiple ways. What he did had a purpose: to make a coridor so he can build all 3 lines toghether.

When playing into singleplayer, this is a common way to build and you get used to it. When you play on multiplayer for the first time, you tend to keep up the habit. What he did is not against the rules and no admin should react to this. The reason is very simple: we have a terraforming limit.
The terraforming limit is based on an algorythm and we implemented so we can finish the debate about "this guy terraformed 3 tiles when the rules used to say 2 tiles max, please warn him"

So if he chose to wait hours and hours in order to terraform his line, then it is his decision. Personally, my oppinion is that he lost time...but..that`s me. According to the rules he did nothing wrong.

In order to consider that he blocked, you must prove his clear INTENTION of blocking.
This situation is in no way related to the one where a player terraforms around an industry in order to prevent others to build there. That is indeed blocking and forbidden.

Avoiding such situations is very simple and you can do it by planning your line before you build and investigating what are the obstacles that you face. On bigger servers this is very useful in order to avoid big water surfaces.

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General Chat / Re: EPIC FAILS
« on: January 09, 2014, 01:36:28 am »
:))  I was trying to give imus an idea about the commands...I checked s9, and right after that you entered :) I didn`t notice that, so beeing sooo sure of myself cause I knew I checked before, I tested the command. And the result was totally un-expected  but at least it`s worth to enrich this topic:)))
Sorry about it :)

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General Chat / Re: EPIC FAILS
« on: January 07, 2014, 11:27:48 pm »
haha. You should have posted the whole log meaning when I started explaining to you and i checked if the server was free:P In the meantime that guy started playing without me noticing that :P . And the finalle came when I showed you the command being very confident that the server is empty:))

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New Server Proposals / Re: Temperate CityBuilder
« on: January 06, 2014, 03:10:40 pm »
Yes, there are chances in the following days. It all depends on the date we have our 2nd machine operational.

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Apply to become an admin! / How to apply
« on: December 30, 2013, 10:19:20 pm »
1)Please create a topic in this board with your nickname

2) In the new topic, please create a post containing the following information:

- Nickname (in game and on IRC if the case)

- Age

- Location (Country where you currently live)

- Explanations (If you ever had problems with admins or have been ban, here you can post the explanation for the situation)

- The main reason that made you want to become an n-ice admin

- How much are you online weekly (how many hours)

- What is your current domain of work/ study ( General domains like : Computer Science; Architecture... no need for details)

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New Server Proposals / Re: CHANGING SERVER 7
« on: December 24, 2013, 01:08:08 pm »
Airplane cachment zone can be solved through one problem my dear imus: station size is 7x7 ....it is the exact size as a standard airport(not the small one), so once you placed an airport, you can`t add anymore stations :)

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New Server Proposals / Re: CHANGING SERVER 7
« on: December 24, 2013, 01:41:24 am »
#5 can be done with raising the lake and water option. This may mean that your ilustrious highness might accept it :P Altough, we solve a problem and reach another:P You don`t like water:))

#2 and #1 would be 2 good options.

#7 could be taken as a reserve solution and lowering the goal would be the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the lastof the lastof the last of the last of the last of the lastof the lastof the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the lastof the lastof the lastof the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the lastof the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last of the last solution that I would consider. Also, not to 15 MIL, but to 22 MIL....after to 20 MIL....to see what is the required value.

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Complaints / Re: Forum behavour
« on: December 23, 2013, 06:14:39 pm »
2nd part of the reply

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    If you ask a question, be prepared to listen to the answer, even if it does not come in the exact way you want.
    You don't have to follow the suggestions, heck you do not even have to ask to begin with


First if all, of you read what I say in stead of what you think I mean, I agree with you.  :o yeah really agree! :o ;D

Secondly, as I have repeated to my own boredom by now, what you asked and what you wanted were 2 different things. You asked for scenarios while what you expected were settings. This in itself is no problem at all. The way you react to it thoug is. In stead saying: please provide settings for your suggestions, you start being sarcastic and saying that we are 'discussing the meaning of life'.

Despite that, I tell you that I do not appreciate your tone, and summarize what has been said earlier. You then go ahead and reply with: 'was that so hard'!
Seriously?!

Yes, because I wasn`t being sarcastic....I consider it to be a little ironic perhaps...but not sarcastic. And in nowhere near enough for your reaction. I tried to read your oppinions but I simply had no idea of what you were referring too because I have different criterias of appreciating "low" "high" so, my intention with that comment was to ask you to re-write your oppinions...and not "disregard them" as I saw a bit earlier in your comment.

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I perfectly well understood your irony, and I thought it was misplaced. With arguments I pointed out why, and even took the trouble of translating our opinions into settings for you. The only part that could be considered aggressive about my first reply to your irony was calling you to lazy to read. That was not called for, but neither was your irony. The reason I get irritated with you (note irritated, not aggressive) is your condescending tone, and tendency to  put the blame on others or other circumstances.

Further more the reason for my reply was not that I was 1 of the people it was directed to. If you recall correctly I allso pointed out another topic in which you were condescending in which I had no part. Being negative for no reason does not only insult the people taking part in a discussion, but allso all people reading it and considering to reply or not.

This type of tone is only for people that know me....and with who I`ve had more then a few conversation. This is not for people which I don`t know. Also...the ironic tone was mostly directed on imus, with who those kind of jokes and ironies are normal, but since you both wrote the same way, I adapted it to both. Those types of comments do not mean anything. They reflect a state in which I`m partially amused of how could this happen. They mean no disregard, no casting blames. It was absolutely no blames. I was tired , tried to read your comments...and my head was turning in "low" values and "high" values.

I know this maybe off-topic, but these are the ways in which I discuss with Imus. I hope that by seeing them, maybe you can understand why I chose to reply in that way.

In channel OpenTTD:
[19:43] *** imus (~imus@94-224-82-251.access.telenet.be) joined
[19:43] *** ChanServ sets channel #openttd mode +o imus
[19:44] <@imus> hi alex =D
[19:44] <~alex879ro> oh no
[19:44] <~alex879ro> hi imus =D
[19:44] <~alex879ro> oh no
[19:44] <~alex879ro> hi imus =D
[19:44] <@imus> oh, wrong chat XD
[19:44] <~alex879ro> doesn`t matter :P

After moving to channel OpenTTD.Chat

[19:44] <@imus> hi alex (in right chat) =D
[19:44] <@imus> lol
[19:45] <~alex879ro> hi imus (in the right chat) =D
[19:45] <@imus> XD

This is irony. Totally different from sarcasm. He knows that I hate him flashing my name everytime he joins. But he does it and I take it with amusement. I don`t think any less of him for doing it. We`re both amusing of the type of salute that imus uses :)

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    Now correct me if I may, but what part of your first post were specific answers, because I still don`t see that part.

Once again, you did not ask for settings, and secondly read my reply #6 again

I did not ask for them...that`s true...but in your first answers, you told me that you gave me specific answers, but I failed to see them.

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    For my references for small servers: I wrote a few examples of the EXISTING servers which are considered small to prove that there can be more then one option about how to juggle a server . You told me that by saying "small server", I already define most of the settings. Those existing or past servers prove that I don`t define most of the settings.


At no single point in time did I say that most of the settings were defined. What I did say was that if you only want to tweak individual settings it is better to just mock up a server and test and adjust till you are satisfied. What I was trying to point out is that settings cannot be regarded individually, you have to view them in context, which is why determining the outlines before coming to specific settings is a good strategy. there is no need to tell me that there are different possibilities. I allready know that.

Understood

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    I don`t know how you group the servers but a 30 mil goal is small server. By small servers, we are discussing about completion time nevertheless. Would you compare server 9 to server 4? Or even better, to server 5?

My point was, and still is that a 30 million goal server can be a medium goal as well. Steamer world already takes 3 hours, with some adjustments, still leaving the goal at 30 mln I can make it last 6 hours for an average player, THAT is my point, just a goal in cash says nothing.

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    Tip: A hilly map would increase difficulty, but if you go with a large loan and monorail or maglev trains , it compensates.

And here you exactly illustrate what I already said: settings influence each other, and have to be viewed in context. That is why shouting just some settings and then making that into a server has a really low chance of achieving what you would like to achieve. It is the same as me saying that with doubling train speed you can double the goal and still do it in more or less the same time. So what are you trying to prove here? Or is this just to show that you understand some game mechanics as well?

Understood

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    Another aspect: Me looking for your answers in the previous posts. Maybe you don`t want to consider 2 things:
    - it maybe very hard for people to stay and look for the standard settings and then to compensate them with the" aditional settings" because they simply do not have the time or the mood for that


I did not say you have to do that. If you want settings, ask for settings, not for scenarios. If you do not have the time, mood, or whatever for it, ask, and you might just get help. I am more than willing to mock up a game, play around with settings and provide you with a complete config file, and I am quite sure I am not the only one.

So actually, all that, including this:
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-goal: TEST IT: one 30minute game with the settings you want to use for the server will tell all you need to know.
ment that in fact , you`d do a test for me and tell me the result? Then why write it like this "TEST IT" ? Hard to believe this was your original intention....but ok.
Also...I`m not a fan of testing a server a million times before implementation because it wastes a lot of time which I don`t have and can be done much simpler. I doubt that testing server configurations everytime you want to update the settings of a server is something that anybody would want to do.

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    - maybe I wanted to hear a full oppinion from everybody. That is why I suggested it in an ironic way with the emot-icons properly placed to clearly show that it was a joke. A joke that you didn`t quite understand.

So what? What part of what I said inhibits other players of expressing their opinions? And joke or not, there were other ways you could have chosen to express yourself. Now, you call it a joke, a while ago it was irony, I call it sarcasm. Still don't see what this has to do with other opinions.


Irony; joke with irony; Ironic joke - a way in which to express something that doesn`t please you, but in a funny...showing that even if it dis-pleases you, it doesn`t upset you so you`re willing to let the owner of the idea to correct his idea and tell it again. (Done between friends, people who know each other for some time)

Sarcasm: Superior way of treating someone that you consider to be less man than you...or stupider then you. It also goes into association with ignorance. Usable with persons that you do not want to take contact with, but you`re forced to . (Done between different people who regretably meet where one of them (usually the stupidest) tries to prove that he`s superior....so the other treats him with sarcasm)

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    This having been said, I consider that maybe behaving a little more polite and understanding this would be more proper.

Pleas explain what I did that was not polite or understanding? I did not demand anything from you, except that you behave polite. And as I have pointed out a few times earlier: please stop accusing people of stuff you do yourself aswell!

Bothering someone even if there are official ways to contact the admin team is considered impolite. This is what I tried to describe here. I simply tried to ignore that outburst, but afterwards you ask me to be polite. Sorry, but in my oppinion an ironic reply is quite polite....while bothering someone with my own personal problems in the forum with him  is not so polite (My oppinion)

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[2013-12-14 15:41:12] <@alex879ro> unfortunately i got no spare time today to test it, so I asked Chucky
[2013-12-14 15:41:12] <@Der_Herr> oh ok
[2013-12-14 15:41:20] <@Der_Herr> no problem
[2013-12-14 15:41:20] <@alex879ro> chucky, what did you propose
[2013-12-14 15:41:22] <@alex879ro> more exactly
[2013-12-14 15:41:28] <@alex879ro> maybe der_herr can change it now
[2013-12-14 15:41:31] <@alex879ro> so you can do a test
[2013-12-14 15:41:35] <@Der_Herr> just someone test it, and then we can roll it out at least to the cb servers
[2013-12-14 15:42:09] <@alex879ro> that`s what i intend too
[2013-12-14 15:42:13] <@alex879ro> chucky chucky chucky
[2013-12-14 15:42:16] <@Chucky> yes
[2013-12-14 15:42:27] <@alex879ro> can you msg the formula to der_herr in private?

I honestly think that here you`re entering a world that you do not know, but you consider that seeing a mere fragment of it describes the whole situation.
But since you brought it up, I can offer you the required explanation.

Chucky has been telling both me and Der_Herr about his idea for scoring. Der_Herr has a lot of activities to do and doesn`t always have the time to reply. In that day, both of them were online and Der_Herr replied to me and asked me to test something. Since I didn`t have anytime, but we were in a time crisis because Der_Herr was leaving on vacation till the end of the year, I considered more important to contact Chucky and to ask him to do a test since he insisted a lot about his algorythm. Afterwards there was some bad communication between them (formula was different at chucky then at der_herr) so I asked him to msg it to him. This was an important situation, otherwise the new scoring would not have been implemented until January 1st. I wasn`t polite there and I know it, but I considered it is ok to do it sincer that was an emergency to correlate both Chucky and Der_Herr for the scoring that both of them developed. As a result , after this , they talked on their own and the scoring was implemented and tested.

I did this for a specific purpose, not because Chucky didn`t answer to me, but because they already tried to talk themselves, but when one was here , the other one wasn`t. I knew the whole story...so when I saw them both there, i tried to connect them. I would have helped too, but they caught me with an important project in a moment when I didn`t have time.
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In order not to derail that topic I moved my reply here. I will edit my replies in the other topics this afternoon.

I understood and agreed

Sorry if there are some odd phrases, but this reply is way too big to correct the spelling.

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Complaints / Re: Forum behavour
« on: December 23, 2013, 06:14:21 pm »
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In my point of view two topics with you recently turned into an argument  because you disregard opinions of others because of the persons expressing them. You say that you move on, yet you keep referencing to things from the past. What motivates people to start a discussion does not influence the value of their arguments.
Since you start taking my posts apart and out of context to turn them into accusations, I will answer each of them for you to place them back in context.

I am moving on..... but this doesn`t mean I`m not looking at behaviours in the past and comparing them with the current ones. This isn`t "Taking posts apart". This is a normal way of debating....refering to what you actually say.

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I went to far with including "your corrupt" indeed. On the other hand, at that point you  have reacted quite sarcastic to my contributions twice allready!

I guess this is what also angered me and made me ask you about the ban. I never insult someone about the  things that he is born with (Defects of country in which he lives ; Body defects; parent defects) because he can`t change those as much as he would wish. I wish I could change Romania into being a better country....but I can admit to myself that I can`t. I can`t fight a war alone.

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Here you seem to fail to note the difference between arguing and discussing in a constructive way. Let me explain:
Imus suggests something, and I agree with that, at this point, you have the opinion of 2 individuals that agree with each-other. Additionally I give a reason for my opinion, which is generally considered as positive in a constructive discussion. Since the whole purpose of your topic was to gather opinions and discussing possibilities, I would expect you to be pleased. Apparently you are not, and you see this as something to attack me about. Please explain why...

I agree with this. Here you are right and I apologise for my behaviour. It was indeed a comment of agreeing and I took it the wrong way.

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To begin with: maybe I should have said: city size, my mistake there I did not have a config file available at the time I wrote that, neither was the wiki an option because I was typing from my phone. The setting I meant was city size. You could have asked me what I meant in stead of calling it public rephorma (sill no clue what that means) and disregarding it.
As for what low means: since the setting is between 1 and 10, 5 would be considered medium, and 2 or 3 low. Setting it to 1 would be a bit harsh, because there would be no initial difference between towns and cities.
Besides that, in your first post you ask for scenarios not settings. I have searched the definition of a scenario for you: An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events
To explain: a scenario would be something like the following: Server with a small, flat map, with some water, late starting date for monorail, low population, high initial loan, and a high density of industries.

The settings to realize that scenario would be something like: map size between 512 and 256, terrain type flat or verry flat, sea level low, starting date 2010 and so on.
If it were settings you wanted, you should have asked for them. Also it is hard to predict the outcome of the combination of settings, because of that I think a scenario is more useful than settings because you have a global idea of the goal and can adjust the settings to achieve that goal. If you would have asked for a config file I would have been willing to mock up a game and hand you the config. It is hard to discuss the bigger outlines that way though.

Yes, I do agree that I asked for a scenario. But my comment of discussing public rephorma was ment to be taken in a funny way. From it, I wanted you to understand that I`m requesting for you to re-write your suggestions with numbers so I can understand what you`re talking about.
Example: Low population: I can understand that as 2500-4000 population. Imus can understand it 500 to 1000 and so on. Everybody has different value of "low" this is why i posted that comment. If I would have disregarded your oppinion, I would have just said so like I told to imus in the topic about server 7: From now on, I won`t take into consideration any proposal that has "reduce the goal" in it. The purpose of that comment ment that I want to see numbers in order to understand your oppinions and not at all that I`ll disregard them

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Yes please, I would like it if you would point it out to me, because I see nothing improper here. I do not say that it is a bad thing to disable the perf. part. All I did was express things you might not have considered. You could have sufficed with an answer like: yes I did hear people complain about it, or: no I do not have specific examples, but I think that it might be the case, and I want to test it.

About the scoring part you could have said: I do not consider that important at this time of developing the server, or: we are changeing the system anyway, or you could have ignored it alltogether. It is your right not to answer, or to answer in any way you like, just as it is my proper right to ask. If you go through all the reactions again, at no point I demand an answer, or even mention the fact that you did not answer, because I respect the fact that you do not consider it part of the discussion. That does not however mean that it is in any way improper for me to ask. In adition, I am not the only one that had doubts about that aspect, as you could have seen from the reactions of Imus.

Last but not least: you are not the one to start about staying on topic in a discussion. I remember a recent case in which you did not like that somebody posted an answer to your question in a different topic to stay on topic. Expecting people to do something you fail to do yourself is not a good point. (and also an argument I have recently seen you use against a player)

In this comment, I was really annoyed by another phrase in your answer that said that I do not have to take your oppinions into consideration. I`m not some kid that asks because he has nothing to do and then he just goes and does whatever he wants. I ask because I can get valuable oppinions from those threads. Also...I gave importance to Imus`s oppinions because this was his favourite server and I hope it will still be. I actually configured the server with him that evening and I tried to comply to as much of his oppinions as I could. So your oppinions do count. You shouldn`t treat it so harsh as to "you can ignore our oppinions" . Perhaps I can do that...perhaps it would save time, but in the end, the players are the ones who play mostly on these server, not me.
Reasons for taking performance out:
1: The new players have a really hard time with it (Everybody says it, but most of us ignore the importance of new players) OpenTTD players go through a cycle. A lot of the players stop playing it for a while. This is what it happened to me too when I was a simple player. After a while, they re-become interested. Most of them forget or stop getting informed on what the rules mean and on what performance means. Personally, I agree mostly on BTPRO`s oppinion : Cheating can be stopped with admins, not by limiting the whole game with performance. And I also consider performance to be the reason why a lot of the new players went to BTPRO. I wanted to try this for a long time, but unfortunately, the majority was against it. Now we shall see the results
2: We do not have nowhere near as much explanation for performance as we should have and also, we got players who don`t even bother to login. What we can say about those? If they don`t even login, how can we expect them to understand what performance is? Until OpenTTD can introduce a proper way to advertise the Communities, we simply cannot even post a link because nobody can copy it in the modern way. They have to write it. So we simply cannot give them access to enough information for them to understand what performance is.
3: CV is a goal that represents the amount of transportation systems that was built by a player. Performance does not. For performance a players must get out of the normal OpenTTD rythm and build something extra (reaching all the cargos) and so on. This is an extra effort that it is very little rewarded.
4: Even if the Performance criteria was attached to the xShunter package, I don`t know about any other community implementing it then us which makes me ask specific questions. Why did all the others chose to remain to CV only?
5: Performance has been implemented for about a year or even more. During all this time, we never had a counter-test. To have 1 server without it to see if indeed this is what influences the players to quit or at least not play till the end. During all this time, we have added performance to every server which , in my oppinion was a mistake.

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What is wrong with this? Imus said that he would like it to be a contest of money making lines, and we discuss about what train number goes together with that goal. This is actually an illustration of the difference between scenarios and settings. Imus thinks train numbers should be 'unlimited' (500 is virtually unlimited in a small server) I think they should be 'limited'. You have to agree, with arguments, on the setting being limited or  unlimited, before you can decide the specific number. If imus just went ahead and said 500 in stead of explaining and I said 25 the same way, nobody would understand the reasons for that, and therefor could not react to that in a constructive way.

As I said, agree or disagree. I honestly fail to see the way this is an example, reason or justification for threatening me with a forum ban for turning things into an argument!

It wasn`t. You replied to me with a lot of anger that you were being specific, and I simply asked you if that is an example of being specific.


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