Managing Communions - the sombre challenge.

[Maerlande]

Originally Posted by Peter Ebbesen

I would beg to differ. If you are running around with 140 member communions without having equipped them with armour and fire/frost resistance equipment, it seems very likely that you either don't know how to keep them alive and need advice or you are unusually blessed with enemies, who don't take advantage of the weaknesses you present them with.

Alternatively, you are using your so-called "irony" again, which seems to stand for "wasting other peoples' time".

Ahh, well it's only wasting your time if you are stupid enough to read it and reply and fail to understand the real meaning of the entire thread. But I'd never call you stupid. That's a banning offence.

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally Posted by Maerlande

Ahh, well it's only wasting your time if you are stupid enough to read it and reply and fail to understand the real meaning of the entire thread. But I'd never call you stupid. That's a banning offence.

As I am not, unfortunately, possessed of telepathic abilities, the odds of understanding your "real meaning of the entire thread", which appears to be something completely different from what you actually posted in your first post (or relies on information only known to a subset of the posting population), are low to non-existent.

Cross-indexing against your other posts on this forum might give me a hint as to what you are really talking about, but that really is no fitting replacement for choosing an appropriate subject and posting the thing you want to discuss in the original post of a thread. This includes giving sufficient information in the original post that people can discuss what you really want to talk about. If this (as Graeme Dice seems to suggest) is a particular game with constraints relevant to that game, the appropriate act would to either discuss it in a thread already dedicated to that game or to indicate the relevant constraints when you post in the general discussion forum.

Failing that, you can act like a real smeg-head, though I'd never call you a smeghead. That might a banning offense (depending on the amount of Red Dwarf sympathizers amongst the moderaters).

[vfb]

Originally Posted by Peter Ebbesen

As I am not, unfortunately, possessed of telepathic abilities, the odds of understanding your "real meaning of the entire thread", which appears to be something completely different from what you actually posted in your first post (or relies on information only known to a subset of the posting population), are low to non-existent.

Cross-indexing against your other posts on this forum might give me a hint as to what you are really talking about, but that really is no fitting replacement for choosing an appropriate subject and posting the thing you want to discuss in the original post of a thread. This includes giving sufficient information in the original post that people can discuss what you really want to talk about. If this (as Graeme Dice seems to suggest) is a particular game with constraints relevant to that game, the appropriate act would to either discuss it in a thread already dedicated to that game or to indicate the relevant constraints when you post in the general discussion forum.

Failing that, you can act like a real smeg-head, though I'd never call you a smeghead. That might a banning offense (depending on the amount of Red Dwarf sympathizers amongst the moderaters).

Peter Ebbesen, I suggest you lighten up. People have been banned from these forums for being sombre, you know.

[chrispedersen]

guys, you're making fun of people whose first language isn't english, and who'se only offense was trying to be helpful.

I understand that people are frustrated - but I don't think thats a profitable or appropriate response.

[Radio_Star]

To get back on topic, your problem is that even though you're using hundred mage armies, your strategy is too diverse. Moderation will only get you a seat at life's loser table. You need to commit to your course and never stray, regardless of the consequences.

It's like the old quote .. "All things in moderation, including moderation."

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

guys, you're making fun of people whose first language isn't english, and who'se only offense was trying to be helpful.

I understand that people are frustrated - but I don't think thats a profitable or appropriate response.

There is no proper or appropriate response, the mods are taking a sombre mood to further discussion of the subject.

Originally Posted by VFB

Peter Ebbesen, I suggest you lighten up. People have been banned from these forums for being Sombre, you know.

Fixed.

[vfb]

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid

There is no proper or appropriate response, the mods are taking a Sombre mood to further discussion of the subject.

Fixed.

P.S. What, the mods called someone a dumb ****?

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

guys, you're making fun of people whose first language isn't english, and who'se only offense was trying to be helpful.

Nobody is making fun about anything. Everybody is a bit sad... Sombre even.

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by Soyweiser

Nobody is making fun about anything. Everybody is a bit sad... Sombre even.

You've got it totally backwards. Nobody is Sombre on these forums anymore, and that is the problem in a nutshell!

[Peter Ebbesen]

And now for actually being sombre for a moment: I appreciate the Dom3 forum because it is usually a helpful place, where people stick to discussing topics related to the game in the appropriate subforums. When somebody has a problem, he can post about it and people will try to help.

I despise the sort of in-jokes that has made the OP post three (or more?) different threads all including the word "sombre", which has the rest of you who are "in" on it in stiches, trolling this thread and finding it highly amusing that people actually tried to give answers based on what the OP wrote in his first post. We've ended up with a five pages (and growing) thread where probably only Verjigorm, Graeme Dice, chrispedersen, and Radio_Star are not in violation of the forum rules and with a signal to noise ratio so low that it is nearly nonexistent.

And if that seemed excessively sombre for some of you, well, so mote it be. I can only hope that this and Maerlande's other recent threads are a temporary aberration and not a sign of things to come.