TheDane wrote:yes i know exactly how he feels, but it was a friendly gesture to offer him a tissue, because that's the only thing that would help him i think?
I try my best to keep it alive also, i run into the same issues as him every time .... come on .. he try one idea, it fails and he cries.
When you decide to do something you do it, you have to push it all the way to the finish line, he failed that. Starting something is far from finishing it. Like everything else in life it's hard work and time consuming, so chose your battles with that in mind.
First off, I didn't want to reply that one above about the "tissue" because I thought it wouldn't worth it or even usefull in any way.
But since this continued, let me tell you that you don't know what's happenning and you certainly don't know "how I feel" in all this.
From what I have seen so far you tried to keep the game alive with mods and other mutators only, since personally I didn't see anything else. I tried to go way more far, I tried to make some communities to know others, events, get some info, etc, to make the community bigger as a whole and not shattered into little pieces.
This WASN'T anyhow the first time I attempted this. I tried to make people know other communities, new stuff, I tried to inform people about lots of events that could make the community actually participate, etc. I even went to BU asking what was the situation of NC, which I hoped not only get an answer, but make people curious as well and willing to help.
I even tried and still try all kinds of servers I find, to see what's good, what's bad, what's still alive and kicking.
Then Myth had a great idea, and with that idea I thought that we could finally manage people gathering together to be accomplished, not only Myth's idea, as something that could seriously motivate people (community and regular players) to join in one spot, know eachothers, have a download center, reviews of all kinds, etc.
So I, with some hope, informed all the communities and clans I was registered in (except one or another for reasons some people know) and the results I described above.
I told some people that I would give until the beggining of this year, or half of it, to wait for replies of people who could give just their 2 cents, nothing more than that.
Well, until now no one stepped in, the admin is busy until the end of times, and I wouldn't be the only one trying this alone because I know people very well to know that I would be bashed and flamed for it (it already happened several times, believe it or not).
So as you see, I tried to take this project until the end, but I can't do anything more than what I did already. It should be done by many more people, people that can be organized and mature enough, but the amount of people expected or even interest didn't took even half of the total of expections.
So, since I fully respect those people that wanted to help, and since they could be waiting for a green light to move, instead of leaving them in the shadows, not giving any news or a damn to them, I informed as shown above that I wouldn't make any further efforts for this, ever, and the reasons why. Because you see, unlike some people, when I try to start something and see it can't be accomplished anymore, I inform them so and why, at least regarding my motives. If you can't understand that, I don't care either.
So I wasn't "crying" of any sort, and you can keep your tissues with you, I was just informing them something and why, because I am the type of the man who don't leave people behind as objects once something doesn't work out.
My mistake here was simple: being a modder, mapper and try to do something regarding the community, without even adding the smallest trace of my doings. Result: I was flamed, bashed, they throw my works to my face when I never mentioned them in this kind of subjects and others stay watching not giving a damn, plus most communities only care about themselves or don't care at all.
And so, from now on, I will just keep playing, and anything I do from now on is either for myself, for people I actually trust and I know they worth my time now, or simply for single player in general. Anything community related, or even multiplayer, I will only give a damn to my own clan some times, and just finish what still needs to be supported, and that's all. I had more stuff in mind to do, regarding personal projects and the community in general, but I simply won't, at least for this game.
And in a last quote, someone said and very well said to me: "No one asked your help", from the same people that was actually fading out, and even "Congratulations, you created a *..." from the same people that wanted something new, but that wanted the old back as well, kinda hard to understand these people.
So tell me from here, what do you think it worths to be done in all this if people either don't give a damn or even blame you for something which only intent was to help (mostly when they agreed at the beggining).
It's pretty f*cked up, isn't it?
nuff said