Okay, this is getting ridiculous, I woke up this morning and checked this thread, to find 2 new posts since I went to bed.
2 POSTS!? A few months ago a night of sleep ment a whole new page to check, I remember the time when you had 3 new pages to check in the morning. If this continues the CTM Community will degrade to nothing and I don't like that thought, I like it here.
Surely you must've noticed as well, although the previous page had some awesome screenshots, this is becoming rare.
A lot of people left/become much less active since I joined, names like theawesomeonehhh, Baked_Applez, Fangride, Aimoskeeto, Draco_Rogue, Amehtta, Bly, Delthyn, Hybran and of course the big names, Vechs, Amlup and three_two.
I know some of these people are still alive in the community, but the populous has decreased drastically.
Personally I think the decline started around the release of BD2 by Vechs, a lot of people didn't like the map at all, compliments were rare. IM did not at all help that, people complained more, and Vechs left. With Vechs gone from the forums the SH thread became much less active. It used to be a place where CTM players and makers came together and showed their stuff, discussed things, etc. Now it's basically a wasteland. After that Amlup left, I feel he only stuck around to finish UT3. He stated he had some IRL issues, and though that is probably the case, he probably was also becoming bored. Now he and Vechs are pretty much gone, Amlup even seems to have left YT.
I still really like making and playing CTMs, but I am slightly discourages due the lack of community members these days. I want to go back to the "old" days, about a year ago. (Yes, I know I am not by far the oldest/most known CTM person.) I don't think the future holds much progress right now. There are about a handfull of CTM maps coming out soonish, contrary to the upcoming maps list in the OP, which was made before the decline of the community. But is this fixable? Vechs seems to have left the community forever and he's more into YT now, so that appears to be out of the question. The other people that left are busy with IRL stuff or other games.
Anywho, please try to give the community a boost by posting more screenshots/community questions/directing people here.
Well, thing is, once I found Skype my life on the forums was over.
So the issue of people being active on the server has come up.
Whenever I log on, there's 2 or 3, maybe 4 max, people on at a time. Out of about 25 current members, I'm surprised. I know everyone can't be on all the time, and some people are very busy, but at the same time, there are certain members who I've never seen on the server. Obviously, this doesn't mean that they aren't playing on Monumenta, and I am by no means saying that. But I would like to know who hasn't had time to be as active as they'd originally planned on being. I would really like the server to be an active community, which is why I went for a 30 member limit this time (the highest limit of any previous incarnation). So I'm just trying to let everyone know that this server won't be more active unless you are active on it. "Leaving because other people are leaving" just furthers the problem.
And yes, Red, we'll expand the whitelist. I'll get to that later this week.
Also, don't forget; UHC this Saturday! What time works for everyone?
Sorry I haven't been able to get on very much. I have been completely swamped with university and have little to no free time. :/
I couldn't have said it better myself. If you can't get your own story or relationships with others straight, please don't subject the entire community to it. One incident plus overreacting from both sides has caused the server to all but collapse in a matter of days. I'm really disappointed in everyone that contributed negatively to this.
Upvoting even though I'm part of the group that contributed.
Sorry for overreacting guys, it turns out I was misinformed about a few things, and should have talked to Dj is private instead of making it a big deal to everyone. So... yeah. I apologize for that.
I'm still all for Hyst and Eris as new people, so long as Delthyn is willing to play nicely with them (>_>).
They're good people, not too argument-prone, and generally bored enough to be active members. I know Hyst has some votes besides mine in favor of her, not sure what everyone thinks about Eris.
Edit: Gonna make a tally. So far voters are me and DjessNL, so cast your votes too. To people that are here, do a thread post, and I'll poke people that don't read the thread later. I just don't want everyone's vote getting lost in like Skypespam.
Okay, I'm almost done here. I can't stay on a server that endorses a-hole behavior and general douchebaggery. It's been building up over a while, with some of my friends leaving the server because the environment here is too hostile, but the "prank" on a monument a few people built crossed the line for me.
Either DJ, Hybran, and Inferachnid get punished(banned, tempbanned, jailed, whatever), or I leave the server. I'm sick of all the immaturity and bullying on this server.
All in the same time period. The same time period of about 3 weeks. 3 people returning in 3 weeks. Still not convinced? If you remove all the vowels except for "y" (which is only a vowel sometimes) from our 3 names, you get a total of 15. Which is divisible by 3. If you include "y" as a vowel, and count only vowels, it adds up to 6. Which is also divisible by 3.
All these threes. All these "coincidences." Plus the fact that Vechs has apparently not fully abandoned his "old" life on the thread. He still checks this thread it seems, but only...half...the time. Only half of his "internet life" is here.
0
I'm actually surprised you noticed I was gone...
0
0
0
5
Sorry for overreacting guys, it turns out I was misinformed about a few things, and should have talked to Dj is private instead of making it a big deal to everyone. So... yeah. I apologize for that.
0
0
0
Either DJ, Hybran, and Inferachnid get punished(banned, tempbanned, jailed, whatever), or I leave the server. I'm sick of all the immaturity and bullying on this server.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0