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wutangfan1990
Joined: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:11 pm
Posts: 543
Location: The hood
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 Corporation Evaporation Consternation Whatever happened to Corps?
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| Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:48 am |
 
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leadpumper12
Joined: Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:50 pm
Posts: 419
Location: KS
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Re: Corporation Evaporation Consternation They don't matter.
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Ultric
Joined: Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:23 pm
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Location: Lurking somewhere around here...
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Re: Corporation Evaporation Consternation Valid question. I'm new, so I've never seen these Corps that people talk about. Sounded pretty neat. I'm guessing they were like usergroups or something and had uploading capabilities so that only a few people could DL the corp product. Nevertheless, would've liked to see some more of that.
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ProjektODIN
Banned
Joined: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:09 pm
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Re: Corporation Evaporation Consternation They were eliminated because all they did was encourage infighting between people in different corporations.
They weren't anything more important that a few users having their own subforum to discuss their projects. No one received special privileges, insofar as you got to give yourself a homemade avatar and signature that "aligned" you with a corporation.
Couple the hostility it caused between certain groups, the fact that most members were a part of every corporation, and that moderating twelve different subforums (each of which having varying levels of activity or language barriers) was very difficult.
The ruling that was made was that if people want to collaborate like that, they are to do it externally to the forums. That way it prevents rivalries from coming to the surface on this board, and that its someone else's problem to moderate.
The idea was very unique to the boards, but we also have a--unique--user base that prevented it from being wel-received.
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Geti
Joined: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:57 am
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Location: some compy
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Re: Corporation Evaporation Consternation why do we have so many angry people? also i dont think it would be very "wel-received" to bring them back anyway, not that there would be any possibility of that anyway.. as the first post rightly sums up: leadpumper12 wrote: They don't matter.
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Lord Tim
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:55 pm
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Location: America!
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Re: Corporation Evaporation Consternation There's nothing stopping anyone from having corps right now. Consider my own corporation. It is still going strong. Just as many members as it had at it's peak.
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| Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:20 pm |
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ProjektODIN
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Joined: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:09 pm
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Re: Corporation Evaporation Consternation There's nothing preventing someone from having an ad hoc corporation, but its not something that is facilitated by the forum.
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The Fat Sand Rat
Joined: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:56 am
Posts: 1191
Location: outside the shithole called the University in the Forest
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Re: Corporation Evaporation Consternation Really, it just became a dick-waving contest.
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| Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:34 pm |
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Exalion
Joined: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:59 am
Posts: 1726
Location: NSW, Australia
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Re: Corporation Evaporation Consternation The official corporation failed because:
- It discouraged new modders (even more than the likes of me do)
- They hardly ever produced mods
- They were mostly inactive, moderated by the often not-here leaders
It was a waste of time, some corps were impossible to get into, others just sucked, but all of them were directionless and produced nothing.
Unofficial ones are much better.
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