I was given two warnings from Simon Appleton today...neither was justified...here's the proof:

first one:

Dear General4Hire,

You have been warned for one of your posts, which violated The Guild Rules. The reason you have been warned is because:

Minor
(Warning Type = Minor)

For this violation, you have been given : 1 point(s).
The point(s) will remain in your account for 31 days.
After that, they will be removed automatically.

The post for which you are warned can be seen here:

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Quote:
Originally Posted by player1
Whoe said that conquest of 128 provinces is objective.

If that was true game would have more turns.
It all seems to me that it's as paced as RTW, since usually you get 50 provinces in less then 200 turns (but has 500 turns for some reason ).


some of you need to stop saying that most games take less than 200 turns. when people play on H or VH (especially vh/vh) games usually do span 450-500 years. Many times it's a close call at the end.

When you play on "sandbox mode" (medium) it shouldn't take you very long...it's the default difficulty pretty much designed to be a shorter, easier campaign.

It's posts like these that give CA the idea that people want a faster campaign...for the most part (look around here and the .com) people do not.

I personally would like MTW2 to be 4 turns per year, 600-700 turns. I would LOVE RTW's campaign map strategy combined with MTW2 and building a major empire in europe over the course of months of playtime.

I really wish some of the obviously "younger" and more interested in "candy" clickfest players would just shuffle on to other games. This game was never about your AOE berry gathering 1 hour game.

All you're doing is convincing CA that you DO want a dumbed down game...stop, and graze elsewhere.

Again, the bottom line is that if turns replace years (sorry, but whoever thought of this first should be drawn and quartered, not debatable either) and the campaign is limited to 225 turns (again, only a totally incompetent developer would even consider this...he should be shot) They're going to lose about 50 percent of their fanbase for MTW2 before the game even ships. Nobody is going to accept the entire game being dumbed down and changed, with absolutely NO explanation as to why from the devs.

I swear it...unless this changes, I will never play another TW game. However, we have been here before as a community, not knowing what the future holds in the series and what not...but CA is not saying that this is something they're "considering"...they said openly "this is the way it's going to be" before they got ANY feedback from anyone. So the fact of the matter is 1) they couldn't care less what the community as a whole wants, they only create the kind of game THEY envision and we already know they're incompetent and 2) They're just stuffing an AOE clickfest down our throats...don't like it? tough. They are basically destroying the sub genre that this game created. Why? I simply will not stop posting why all over the .com until it's answered.

All I see is sidestepping by wiki and the other CA reps. That's it. They will read 500 posts all going "NO WAY!! you're NOT doing this with this game, I won't buy it!!" and then they finally reply, to the 500 posts by saying something like "seiges look good"...nobody cares. It's just avoiding the issue.

I personally don't want to see Wiki post one more time, anywhere, unless it's going to be to fully and honestly explain why they just destroyed the series. I have to be honest, other than to get this question answered, I don't think anyone would even care if wiki dropped off the face of the earth, know I wouldn't. He has one purpose to this community...answer the questions. His 2c and socialising are not what he's here for.
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The admin/moderator who warned you, entered this comment:

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Wishing Org members fall of the face of the earth is flaming and unacceptable. I am going to edit the offending part of your post.
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Your total Warning Level at the moment is: 1 point(s).

If you reach the maximum of 3, you will be demoted, for 2 days.

To see details about all the warnings you have received, until now, please click here.

Please reply back if you have a dispute.

as you clearly see there I did NOT wish anything upon anyone. I said that people couldn't care less if he did or not...that's different. The point I was making was that we're not really concerned with his personal opinions on life, we ONLY want direct answers regarding MTW2...responding to 250 people's concerns with "im loving the game so far" is unacceptable. This is an unjustified warning, and the warning message itself proves that. I was warned for wishing that org members fall off the face of the earth. I didn't do such. Please remove the warning or I will just leave the community...I will not be bullied by an anal moderator you simply....doesn't like the post personally.

second warning:

Dear General4Hire,

You have been warned for one of your posts, which violated The Guild Rules. The reason you have been warned is because:

Minor
(Warning Type = Minor)

For this violation, you have been given : 1 point(s).
The point(s) will remain in your account for 31 days.
After that, they will be removed automatically.

The post for which you are warned can be seen here:

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Servius1234
"This game was never about your AOE berry gathering 1 hour game."

That was pretty funny though.

Apparently this guy Prasthereaper (CA guy?, check the post "CA clarifies turns") posted about the turns, saying "The game is currently paced to be a 225 turn game, and is optimally played at that length. All this information is still being kept in .txt files." To me at least, that implies 2 important things:

a) The games is "paced" to end around 225, but not capped at 225 turns.
b) Turn and time variables are in a .txt file, which if they're like the MTW .txt files, means this aspect of the game will be easily modable.

Time will tell, but I think that gives more than a glimmer of hope that, if you don't like how CA does it, you can easily change it to what you want.


the problem is exactly that...it "implies" things. Why do they flat out refuse to just tell us what they're doing?

1 reason: Because they ARE doing exactly what 99.8 percent of the community is stating is enough to make the definitely not buy the game. So now they have to think of a new marketing strategy to effectively "fool" the majority of the community into believing that our suspicions are not true (aka lying through their teeth).

remember when the load/save/siege bug was a "feature"?

this is the exact same kind of garbage going on
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The admin/moderator who warned you, entered this comment:

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Accusing CA of lying through their teeth and spouting garbage constitutes CA bashing and is against the forum rules.
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Your total Warning Level at the moment is: 2 point(s).

If you reach the maximum of 3, you will be demoted, for 2 days.

To see details about all the warnings you have received, until now, please click here.

Please reply back if you have a dispute.

I would like someone to show me ONE place that it says in the terms of usage agreement that "accusing CA of lying through their teeth" is against the terms of service. I feel they are...and they've been caught in lies in the past (seige bug was a feature, remember...they got caught lying since they fixed it). Another unjustified warning.

I just want this fixed....he has absolutely NO right to just make up his own rules as we go along.

Keep in mind, both warnings were disputed, acknowledged as disputed (here's what he wrote back on one of them): Dear General4Hire,
Thank you for PM. Please reflect a little more on what you posted. Imagine I posted in public about you using the same words you applied to Wikiman. Can't you see that it would be rude and offensive?
best wishes
Simon

but the warning point is still there.

If this post is deleted, I assure you, I will just repost it...if however, it needs to be re-routed to a different forum, that's fine and understandable. I won't have forum misconduct by a moderator swept under the carpet though.