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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.

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I think I'll stay here for awhile longer! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I think I will stay here as well Wade. The new site is fine, but honestly its forums such horribly and I just simply don't see any need to go there and be frustrated by a bad forum program. I like it here, its a nice place to be. I love it here, its home.

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Both.

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And we would to that because...? I happen to love my brother-in-law. He makes a great pot of chili on football Sunday (even though the sofa is beginning to smell).

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That's just the research on Biological Weapons level I. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Shrapnel will always be the official forums to me.

We've got:
- great forums
- friendly admins
- nice people
- most of a decade of history
Overall: Totally awesome, with 7+ years of empirical evidence.

The new place:
- weak forums
- unknown admin(s)
- shortly to be filled with flash-in-the-pan retail gamers
- zero history
Overall: Wouldn't be signed up there if I wasn't a beta

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I'm not even going to sign up there until I hear the forums have improved. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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He calls it "sharing the love". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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This board will always be the home of the First Ones. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Yes, us Vorlons will stick around here. hehehe

I vote to not abandon ship. If you really feel that you want to abandon this place (which isn't really necessary), it'd be better to go to a site running mature forum software like phpbb (SEnet comes to mind, sorry for plug) than the oddity that is Drupal on spaceempires5.com.

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Burn, Heretic!

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Nah, just leave him to the (corporate) Shadows.

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I enjoy lurking here. Nice place. nice people. Interesting posts. Why move?

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C'mon, it took me almost four years to get the paltry post-count I have now; why start over again..?

Besides, the weird beige color scheme here has kinda grown on me.

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Yep, not moving. I might start to check in on the spaceempires5.com boards if they begin to... well, not suck. But, Shrapnel is the place to be.

And hey, I'm not leeching, I've bought other titles from them, and am thinking over a few more. But not for a while, my plate will be full of grad school, SEV, and Dom3 until the new year. Plus, we're all free advertising. We see all the other titles they have and perhaps buy them, and we bring more people to Shrapnel's site, who may also buy titles. And besides, they actually LIKE us http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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I have no plans to leave either, and unless I find a compelling reason, I have no intention of joining that 'other place'.

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Thanks, but no. I'm happy here.

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It's a silly suggestion.

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Such sarcasm...I know that considering change is difficult but it can open new possibilities.

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I guess when I was overtly negative about the forum software there I was told that I was being un-constructive. I ask you, can you think of anything constructive to say about that antiquited POS forum software they have? No offense, free is a very good price indeed, but come one guys, if that site is too become the flagship site for the SE franchise, at least you could use some decent forum software.

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"Burn, Heretic!" - AgentZero

R O T F L M A O - That was truly an exceptionally funny thing to say. Thank you for making me laugh histerically. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

And I too am not entirely a complete leech. I too have bought games from here and will eventually by Dom 3. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Just need to save up money. (Why are we all seemingly always broke?)

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Such foolishness. You are new here, and simply don't realize what you are giving up.

I hate to break it to you, but the grass is NOT always greener on the other side.
Is there a single good reason to move over there?

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If it ain't broke why fix it? I like it here as well http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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If they want people to use the forum software, they will use good forum software and encourage a friendly and open forum...

...Which is exactly what we have here. So, given that there are literally years of memory here, well, you have an uphill battle.

(Also - No need to be hostile, people. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif )

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I like it here, too. I'm staying. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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spaceempires5.com makes me sad, I plan on staying here unless they completely revamp the forums and give admin to a few major SE community members. Also I hate change, remember when they put the side bar into the shrapnel forums? I almost had a heart attack, thats all the change I can take.

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I understand. I am mostly trying to get people to visit there and contribute their minds at least every once in a while.
I, too, will visit here and there.

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Cease and Repent!

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Erm... that's not at all what the first post and the topic title suggest. It's a tad more drastic than visit every once in a while.

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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.

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

Nanny nanny boo boo.

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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.

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Wow! Thanks for the show of support.

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. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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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.

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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

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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.

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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???

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Nice invitation, but I *like* drinking the Shrapnel beer ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
Plus the new forum software is really cra.. hmm not that friendly http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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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

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Change the forum software to real forum software and the rest will take care of itself.

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One of the great features of this community is that you don't have to use the search function.

Just ask, and the easier the question, the faster it is answered. No guff, just answers, and quite often you get more than you asked for.

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Yep, rather than do a search here you just have to summon SJ or AT to have all your questions (and more) answered. And they come in a matter of seconds http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Sorry wade, I may pop in the SE5.com site now and then to see what's up, but in all reality...

Shrapnel has Chili and Boomsticks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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I've heard (through rumors) that SEV is gone gold.

But I heard it here, not on the "official" site which doesn't even have an up to date listing of any pertinant info on the game (release date, bugs fixed in the demo, etc).

Until that other site has more information (and a better BBS), I'll just stick here...

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Not only is there a comfy sofa, Shrapnel has a kegerator.

Scoot over Narf and happy birthday.

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Only a occasional poster, so far less perspective than some of the seasoned players here. I come to this site for game advice, formulas and tips. For years, the advice and information has been good here. Since there has not a been a problem with Shrapnel, why suggest the move? So far there is nothing to suggest that the information will be better elsewhere. When there isn't an apparent reason for moving, it makes one wonder about other motives for suggesting a move.

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Thanks.

*Scoot*Scoot*

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lol, we should put together some mac vs. pc style ads based on this thread.
Just poking fun at Strategy first
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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OMG I have got to say how funny those Mac vs. PC ads are. If you watch the latest one, where the PC is hiding his identity to stay away from spyware, take a good look at the Mac guys face. It looks like he can barely stop from laughing out loud! It must have taken like 20 takes to get that commercial done...