A Request To The Ns Community
MonsieurEvil
Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor Posts: 8,282

Everyone was new once
Heya NS fans,Lately, the forums have been getting a little, well, snooty. People have tended to reply a bit more condescendingly, or perhaps treat new players with less respect then they are due. There's also been a tendency to try and moderate threads by people who aren't mods. And there've been too many flamewars, by NS forum standards.
This needs to be stopped pronto.
A lot of effort has been spent in the NS community to keep it very friendly, social, and PG. We want our forums, channels, and servers to be a refuge from the majority of the online world where anarchy reigns, and admins are nowhere to be seen. We can only do this with YOUR help.
In the next few weeks, the countdown to NS 1.1 is going to begin. This means that the publicity campaign is going to swing into high gear. All those screenshots, movies, battlefield stories, and the rest are going to bring a lot of new faces into the NS community. A lot of new faces that are not NS experts, who have not been playing since October 2002, have not been following the mod since July 2001. Basically, a lot of 'newbies'.
These players are what will keep NS alive!
They need to be welcomed, and treated with patience and respect. Again - patience and respect. This means that when someone asks some silly question for the 20th time that day, and you have nothing good to say, then you have no reason to post. First impressions are what counts in the online world, and if the first response someone gets to 'how do I evolve into an Onos?' is 'SUYF read the manual, n00b!' then that player is likely never to ask anything again. You and the NS team cannot afford for this to happen.
So, on behalf of the dev team, the mods, and the ops, I am asking you think before you post that flame. My moderators have also been told that we're tightening up, and they are going to enforce this new mindset with extreme force if necessary. This means you will get a thread lock and a PM if we find you getting out of hand. Then a temp ban. Then you will be gone forever. We don't want to ban anyone, but this is what it will take to maintain the peace and goodwill in here, we will.
That's all. Please make sure your friends and mates read this post (it will be stickied in a while). Ignorance will not be an excuse.
Thanks, and get ready for NS 1.1. It's going to be affecting your grades and work performance sooner than you think!

msleeper: "I'm not a huge fan of the new CC design. The old one felt like a race car into the future. This one is just a giant steel coffin with a built in TV."
Chris0132: "Dunno I kinda want my own titanium pneumaytic stabilised doom cubicle. Kinda wish you could upgrade it though so it can stomp around on the hydraulics and shout anti-communist propaganda at the aliens."
Chris0132: "Dunno I kinda want my own titanium pneumaytic stabilised doom cubicle. Kinda wish you could upgrade it though so it can stomp around on the hydraulics and shout anti-communist propaganda at the aliens."
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"BRING IT ON! ... but not too hard please or I might die." - Wunderbar
if ppl only would listen and read the manual. almost everytime i play public i have to scream at someone because they go second gorge and build something stupid.
n00bs are welcome, just listen to eachother ppl cuz its a teamplay game.
Try and get 3 welder kills in a row, email me the pictures, and then, become known as the 1337 gowlden weldz0r!!!111oneeleven
1.1 should be the old version. The newest version as of today, December 24th, is 2.0 (though the server version is usually referred to as "2.1")
3.0 is the brand new version in development, to be released somewhere in the near future, or as the development team prefers to say it (though I wholeheartedly agree
K. Yakuzami
"Never underestimate your opponents"
Kofusio
(theres been lotsa times that weve been knifed by noob when onos)
I WILL MISS NS SO MUCH
#battery on gamesurge.