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Originally Posted by Finalgenesis
I'm one of those who bought the game recently, and was wondering what the "incident" was that sounds like it chased away a lot of old vets.
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To me it seems the problem is/was people that tend to incorporate very black-and-white views and group people into "factions" that they then see as rivaling sides competing against each other. Pick a side, define "good" and "evil", done. Rules and morals that would apply when dealing with "members" of your side can be broken or ignored when you deal with the other "faction" because they're outlaws where those no longer apply. You don't even need to listen to argument anymore because it's void when it comes from somebody you identify as belonging to the rivaling faction.
I am a member of the tuna-eating faction and I strongly oppose all those from the non-tuna-eating faction! 
This partition into warring, rival factions automatically leads to perceived ongoing quarrels instead of seeing everybody as part of the community and using informal dictate of the better argument and adopting the motive of a cooperative quest for truth to reach a consensus, i.e. rational discourse. Eh, I'm coming from academia, it's no wonder I come up with stuff like this.
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Originally Posted by Finalgenesis
I'd like to ask what other forums are there that I can refer to for strategy, but there's probably a rule here not to name them or something  |
Before I registered on here, I've been playing and hosting a fair number of Dom3 MP games games on the
OctopusOverlords forums, which had a handful of users that would engage in continuing MP games, though this stopped as far as I am aware when they decided to dissolve their "Multiplayer Games" subforums. The most recent Dom3 thread that they have is
this one, where I recognize a couple of the former players.
Another very big community that plays Dom3 games is the
SomethingAwful crowd, though these forums require a small access fee, as far as I am aware.
Dom3 threads can be found on other gaming forums, for other strategy games even. There's a recent
"Let's play!" thread on the PA forums.