Quiet... Too Quiet...

These forums seem to be dying, lack of posters and such. I'm just curious as to why.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

I've got a holiday job during daylight. The rest of the time is well spent sleeping. But hey, I'll finish my map.

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

I've just joined. :evilgrin:

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In a world without fences and walls - who needs windows and gates?
A dead letter is a letter that has never been delivered because the person to whom it was written cannot be found, and it also cannot be returned to the person who wrote it

OTHER: After our mishap with the loss of .com, I think our active posters population was almost cut in half.

Since then, due to a lack of people, it sort of snowballed into more
and more people losing interest, due to a lack of interest (get what
I'm saying?)

I'm home all day and I post whenever I can to stuff that's relevent to my interests. I want a job though...

Same as Forceflow I've got a job during a few weeks now.

I post when the topic interests me and when I feel like I can add
something to it. I have my posting periods, sometimes I post more
frequently and sometimes not as often.

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

Ah damn i'm the only traitor :/

Well I go to other forums cause this one has hardly any action. I mainly come to see the maps which are also dying :sad:

Places like iwannamap and ozone11 which are simple have many visitors :biggrin:

TWHL is my all time favourite because they always argue :wink:

I have noticed that the forums are quiet but mainly because people are
away on hollidays or haven't the time to sit down and slowly read away.

I would normally be at school but my exams are over and we get an early break.

I post in my EQ2 guild forum, but id hardley call myself a traiter. im
mostley playing EQ2 and only post on things that "peak" my intrest. I
know that KoRn is keen on coming back soon

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Other - I'm not making any maps atm.

Cant come up with any inspiration.

Anybody here got any ideas they wanna throw at me?

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www.senshiserve.tk

Been busy with work, Guild Wars, and to be perfectly honest - the lack of decent threads to post in these days :sad: Also got me an ickle kitten which does nothing but bounce off the walls so I have to keep an eye on him!

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You Got To Get Through What You've Got To Go Through To Get What You Want But You Got To Know What You Want To Get Through What You Got To Go Through

I spend a lot of times at
Fortress-Forever
forums. I like going there because there are a few people there I
really disagree with so it ends with good debates over everything.

I often find myself typing whole posts and then clicking away the tab,
simply because I think it's just not making sense to post what I
intended. I don't really know why, I have it on the VERC forums as well.

Just weird.

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Create-ivity - a game development blog

Battlefield 2 and work.

I feel as though the SnarkPit needs something new to bring in new people, we are just losing the old regulars, but aren't making new ones as fast.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

Porn Forum. That'll bring people.

Myrk- said:
I do post j00 fewl!

what's that mean???

l337 speak = I do post j00 fewl!

English = I do post you fool!

assumes affronted expression

With my post count? AS IF...

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Well, I'm not going anywhere :smile: I agree it has been somewhat quiet as
of late (though credit where credit is due - people like Satch and
Moneyshot seem to be trying to keep up a relatively frequent stream of
new threads), but I think its fairly common for us to have a lul during
the summer period. Nice weather, summer jobs, holidays, etc... all
combine to steal away people's computer time. I haven't been on mine
much at all as of late, or at least it feels that way. Hopefully it
will pick up again from around August time, as the summer drops away. I
don't really see what could pull in more punters, though perhaps more
tutorials (they seem to have dropped off lately) would be a good start.
Perhaps post-contest we will see more visitors looking for levels too.

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Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net

I'm not going away anytime soon, I don't have anything better to
do. And besides, once the drifters fade out, we're left with some
hardcore personalities frequenting the board. Good stuff.

My goal is to hit 10,000 posts and fade away....

For some that will be a day of celebration perhaps, but who really cares what they think?

As it stands right this moment. There are more people missing than here whom I visit this site to see... I miss the Snarkpit of 2 years ago... Fights and all.

Snarkpit was more interesting before we all fell into our complacency.. :/

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The best things in life, aren't things.

I don't have HL2 and I have no interest left in HL1. I'm a rare case though.

I think the main problem is that we have too few experienced people
left who are actively working with HL2. I remember a couple of years
ago there used to be a new "hawt-and-seksee" map almost every other
week from someone or other on the map forums. Not too much of that
anymore though. Maybe it'll take a year or so for the community to
mature a bit, but right now I don't see a whole lot of exceptional work
being done. Not many mods work over here, etc.

I'm on the other side of the world!

That is all.

my house burnt down.

Been with my girlfriend for quite a bit recently coz she's just
finished her exams and we haven't seen each other a lot. Also i've
started A2 at college (we start it for a month after we finish AS
level's then have summer holiday). and i've got a couple of pieces of
coursework i've been working on.

I don't write that much, i prefer to read you all, because i'm ignorant
and you are 31337 for me... :smile: i visit this page almost every day
because i spend a while in front of the computer every day, and got an
-eight hours- job and all :razz: But besides all this i like this forums,
and i don't care about if there are not much new posts going. If i have
a doubt of anything, about mapping hl2 (thats what i am interested) , i
always enter here and search for it.

Oh, and my holydays begin next week so i will have more time to waste
coming here even if i have to look the same posts or the same
tutorials. :S

Sorry for my 'typographic' errors if i had any. :wink: You know, my 'mother tonge' is not english :razz:

Most of the times i just read, since im having a hard time expressing
myself as good in english as im able to do in Dutch. Just the same as
with cp, most of the times it doesnt makes sence in english to post
here.

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RUST Gamedesign
pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Other: playing HL2: DM, mapping, playing HL2: DM...

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Fundamental particle - TAU neutrino.
"Every map is a box, only differently-shaped one."

Excuses! "My house burnt down", "I'm on the other side of the world" :razz:

Funny how it sounds so far fetched, yet its the truth!

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

I've been working on the ship "Sheldon" in the Eternal Silence mod. A new job. A few family emergencies. And?school above all.

Myrk- I think it hasn't been an absence of posters, but rather everything is in the general board about houses burning down, or getting married, or about what new program to use because it "r00x0rs". The snarkpit I'm afraid has drifted from being a mapping site to a general site about anything. These are just my observations. :razz: So don't get pissed at me.

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Posting And You

Lot of times in Pricewatch estonia, mapping, countryside and doing other stuff (like doing japanese-style things :wink: )

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other: i tend to listen more unless someone comes out with something interesting to say.

Add me to the list of alive but non-contributing members.

i'm still here with my unintelligable offerings, but any actual content creation has been at a standstill for a while. i started digging a small fish pond in a mates garden a couple of months ago, but i went mad and ended up landscaping all around it too. it was pretty hard without the displacement tool, but it's turned out as a nice place to enjoy the little bit of good weather we're getting.

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i eat paint

Im trying to get my character to level 60 in world of warcraft.

Im busy getting ready for DragonFlight in Seattle WA. Im hosting the GoldenHammer there. ( google DragonFlight for more info )

Im also busy painting the house.. amoung other stuff.

I just came back from San Francisco, where we had our second wedding
banquet for my wife's family this weekend. I am just exhausted,
and I can barely keep my eyes open at the moment.

Yeah, overall, work and the wedding took most of my times. I'll
be back at the forum soon. In addition, I am trying to finish
Medal of Honor (I know it's an old game, but I have yet to beat it).

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

I like to lurk. While uni's on I wont post at all generally, but I read at least once every day.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Me too, I'm another silent listener. And my english is not getting any better, which doesn't help either: by the time I got a sentence right, the people have usually moved to another topic...

It's because I haven't posted in a while.

Oh shi --

Im trying to get my character to level 60 in world of warcraft.

That plays a role in my "abscence" as well. What server are you on?

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Posting And You

Dude, its f**king 30 degrees celcius out in the shadow. IN SWEDEN.. so who the f**k stays inside and map..

(me)...

nah im at the beach. cu later

Well, uhm... I have never been active on this forum but i have followed
it somewhat in about a year. I have aswell noticed the absence of
people lately and

I can only think of one reason, Half-life2 which i think marks a new "era" for the half-life community.

There are alot of new guys learning Hammer v4, and alot of old ones leaving.

Perhaps snarkpit isnt attractive enough compared to other new fresh mappingsites or its just because its summer. Who knows?

I think the site needs a new skin, one that looks good and people will use.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

I think the site needs a new skin, one that looks good and people will use.

Yeah a new skin would help out a bit.

Byt to be honest, i think the whole site needs to me changed.

Ive always thought of snarkpit as some kind of to rapidly mutating germ.

It seemed to have a good backbone a long time ago and then the admin
added lots of new features and somewhere along the way he forgot about
the new users.

I still have problems with finding the stuff i am looking for from time to time.

But that doesnt make this site a bad site. It has some really great
features that has inspired me and my colleagues at www.leveldesign.nu
in our quest to bring the site back to life again.

The default skin whoops hard ass.

Anyways, it's coming about time around my house for us to start
feverishly packing up for the move ( to a different house) so I
may be a little less active. But it's all good, because once we
move, I get my laptop :smile: