Yep, somebody needs to be on it otherwise what's the point of having it?. 99.999% of the US server players don't bother with the Forum. If it weren't for me, and a very few others like me, you wouldn't have a reason for being. Look at it as though we few not "Well Known Members" are keeping this thing going. Once the coyotes run out of rabbits they turn on each other.
You don't know how a poster gets to be a Well Known Member do you?
Current stats for the forum show over 11K active registered users. Your 99.999% is only off by a factor of 1000.
Wrong. Again.
I invite you to go through this and the equity thread and note how many posters there were in each thread and how many agreed with anything you had to say.
It was not a "backroom deal"
The one you titled 'Private follow up' and did as a PM after I specifically said that anything you have to say to me say in public?
Wrong. Again.
Most, if not all, of you have very low battle numbers which means you do not participate in GBG or PvP
Did you ask anyone? You didn't ask me. I did rabid plundering. Got bored with it. I did rabid GBG got bored with it. Did HQS got bored with it. Done everything in this game, got bored with it.
But that's just me. You'd have to have either read the forums for the last 18 months to know why most of the regular posters think the way they do or ask them.
You've done neither.
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I see you declined my invitation to swap info on who has been more helpful to new players.
Any player who has responded to you has a long recorded history of being helpful.
You don't.
Wrong. Again.
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You've been blithering about and deleting your posts about the general topic of players with expertise and experience.
Why is it you've never once tried to prove that Well Known Members give bad advice or are frequently wrong about the game?
Several of you seem fixated on the "experience versus expertise" debate. Good. I certainly got that implanted into your collective long term memories. How many times will it take until you get it into you head that I don't care about what you did back in the day? None of your cities are active. Most of your cohorts cities are either inactive or very poorly developed given the amount of time that you all have invested in the game. Most, if not all, of you have very low battle numbers which means you do not participate in GBG or PvP. Some have low level CFs meaning they didn't bother to adopt heavy questing. I haven't looked very hard but don't remember seeing any ARCs beyond 80. Many of you want to pontificate about forming guilds, I ask "so what?". Any player can form a guild but what's the point? This whole thing started when I was advised to pay attention (meaning respect) to the experienced players. As far as I am concerned, your experience and $4.99 will get me a grande cappucchino mocha latte. It sure isn't going to help me advance my game. Just speaking for me, others may be more gullible.
There's a simple way for any person reading this to decide the issue.
You've been demonstrated wrong on dozens of different statements over the last few days to the point where you've twice deleted scores of posts.
Feel free to point out where others have been wrong.
You can't point to anything you've done to help any other poster.
The posting history of almost all Well Known Members has many examples of them helping others.
Let's sum this up: