Toribash
Kyure was an example of how bad staff can be and there will be people backing them up, to be fair he was reported plenty of times to be kicked, not just the scam, from memory he has what it seems unreasonably banned, ruined betting servers, of course scammed, just did things without much evidence.

most of what I say should be taken with a grain of salt, cause player to staff, we most likely have clashing point of views, I talk from experience with staff, and I haven't had the best experience in the first place. I've been fucked over a few times like many others.

For example, I can't even bring up the whole tbashboii incident without being told "it's old news, should've brought it up when it happened" well the funny thing is, I brought it up plenty of times for over a week, nothing was done.


There seems to always be a devide with staff and player, when it's brought up staff doesn't seem to like hearing about it, neither do I but if it's being brought up there's something wrong. It's probably just the personality of people who end up being staff, yet lately I haven't seen many complaints against the more recent staff, it's been against older staff, and the most recent was of course the trial flaming on a server which was handled, and that was 3 weeks ago.

Also @duck, how much of player involvement is there in the development of TBN or Tb generally? I haven't really seen much, most decisions are held with higher ups. Most of the time players are kept in the dark about stuff until it's basically being released. Most I've seen are server suggestions and whatnot.
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TBN is in the hands of Hampa. I don't see why the community should be involved in his personal project at all, we aren't exactly involved that much either. Despite that, TBN is taking things from player suggestions, namely 2v2/3v1 fights.

TB's development is hugely just UI at this point, and people can always make suggestions for the game and they are always considered.

I like talking about the divide between staff and players. But the only thing that ever gets talked about is that there is a divide and that staff are bad. There will always be a divide, because you can't expect someone who is your overseer to be on the exact same level as you. But, the divide shouldn't be something negative towards any side. So the question is, what is the divide? Why is there a divide? Why do you think staff are bad?
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The community/game staff have practically nothing to do with what ends up in the game, when we do it's after a lot of pushing over a long period.
The same applies to knowing what's going on with development, the majority of the time we're in the dark just like users until a new version lands. The rare time we do find out something is happening is because it's mentioned in passing, or we spot something new appear.

Wasn't always the case, turn back the clock 5+ years and it was a very different story.

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Originally Posted by duck View Post
Mcfarbo: If you have any sort of evidence that supports your "hrm staff are power fuelled fuckwads" viewpoint you can present it to literally any of the higher ups, me included. Or, if it's about us, you go higher (suo/skul/sir). And higher if you feel like those 3 are the worst, straight to hampa. Peddling this stance of "I can show you that staff are bad but I'd get banned" is a) unfounded and b) literally useless aside from broadening this gap between the playerbase and staff members that you lot like to talk about.

I never stated I can show you how staff are bad, but that I could list some (in my opinion) biased staff members.

And if you can read the issue I had with my ban in that exact post to see what I believe to be total bias for natejas (staff)

Originally Posted by duck View Post
So the question is, what is the divide? Why is there a divide? Why do you think staff are bad?

The divide, in my opinion, is due to egos of both parties involved. Someone like me would be intimidated by a staff member, and some staff think they are better than others.

And I personally don't think ALL staff are bad, but I think there can be over policing, and just simply don't handle instances right sometimes and refuse to admit they are wrong.
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But we do have communication between us and devs. We have known about every major change in the releases ever since, discord got around to us. We even playtested the newest update. Skul is not around on the discord and that's most likely why he feels like we are in the dark about it.
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From all this, past staff and even present just stained the staff name, if it was a perfect system where everyone is treated like an actual person instead, this wouldn't be brought up every so often,

I do agree a lot with @notele, I couldn't put my thoughts into words but what was said seems pretty spot on, there's obviously power abuse, you can't even argue or having an opposing conversation to a staff member on a human level, they pull the "i'm in power so I'm ending this argument and if you don't comply you're being punished" route, it's perhaps the only reason I don't even try involving myself with most staff unless I really need the help, not to say I haven't met any cool staff. Their view goes, you can barely change it.

There really needs to be a change though, I don't have the answers on how, and of course a lot of players are also toxic in the toribash community so perhaps in the eyes of someone with staff privileges, you don't know how to really react to someone without thinking they may be toxic or a decent person, I will admit, staff aren't as toxic as before, but there's always a new crowd of players so being toxic either way is bad.
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Originally Posted by duck View Post
Skul is not around on the discord and that's most likely why he feels like we are in the dark about it.

Discord is one means of communicating, not the only one.

Need a GM? Tell user they're all on Discord. User isn't impressed.
Different user asks me for info on TB Next, I tell them images are being passed around on Discord. That also doesn't seem to please them.
So on so forth.

Sure things may have improved in the past couple of months, and the recent releases even get a news thread with proper info.

Yet I'm getting complained at by users over poor dev transparency. Why? Because it's all on Discord. Hell I'm not even a developer here and I get the finger pointed at me because the info isn't available without using a 3rd party program.
Same applies when they want to get hold of someone.

Personally, I agree with them.

TB Next images from Discord posted in it's thread by users - take a minute to let that sink in. USERS.
Of course there's no context info to go along with them, but hey, it's better than nothing right?

At least someone put in the effort, shame it had to be the community yet again. I shouldn't have to be pointing out this shit.

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<Erf> i think
<Erf> i think i hate you
Are we happy about the creator of this game and his actions (or lack thereof)?

Hampa is gamedev. He doesn't have to supervise the actions of players playing "community games". Moreover, ninjas are here for outstanding situations, not for regular stuff. That's their work.

You already have admins to handle situations if staffs are acting wrong.

If the point is about red guys being out of your expectations you can always complain
in the correct board for it.

All statements about "show" can be avoided if you state your opinion properly. This board is monitored 24/7 by higher-ups. I personally seen much cases of staffs being punished hard.

As a part of almost every staff positions 5 years ago, I can clearly say, that power abusing is not a deal nowadays. For ex: ESes can't even op you on not your server, while everybody left and so on.

Toxic language can only be caused by stupid behaviour of user.

Can't get justice? Use support email.

In Toribash you can talk to admins or even gamedevs by clicking one button, and they will respond to you in a day. In other online gaming communities to catch guy with powers is hard option. Not talking that people are not busy here, but somehow with that small community we know each other so well, that it makes an illusion we can just pm Hampa saying "Hi help pls". That's not how it works.

Usually it should be like:
"Hello, dear blah blah, we have read your complaint and blah blah"

But as what I can see now you guys are transforming such conversations as: "omg they act like they are better than us."

About that "sucking NOgang", well, people take players to staff by their behaviour. If person is known as a good guy, why not to try him as an admin/orwhatever. I bet nobody will be accepted if he applies for a smod or something w/o any background. It's not about hanging with higher-ups, it's more about a person. And, talking about sucking etc, I don't think that it can give you colored name. I tried.

Since this thread became an opinion thing, I'd say that staff is improved a lot.

I shouldn't have scammed, but how are you going to tell me a duel isn't valid and close my report but turn around and ban me for the same exact thing?

Trying to use "non-supported USD scams" exploit =/= regular USD scam.
Yeah, the first guy had to be punished, but it's all up to admin decision, since it's not supported and on your own risk.
The other situation is you, who clearly knew that it's not bannable, and tried to avoid punishment, by using that precedent.
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Originally Posted by SkulFuk View Post
Discord is one means of communicating, not the only one.

Need a GM? Tell user they're all on Discord. User isn't impressed.
Different user asks me for info on TB Next, I tell them images are being passed around on Discord. That also doesn't seem to please them.
So on so forth.

Sure things may have improved in the past couple of months, and the recent releases even get a news thread with proper info.

Yet I'm getting complained at by users over poor dev transparency. Why? Because it's all on Discord. Hell I'm not even a developer here and I get the finger pointed at me because the info isn't available without using a 3rd party program.
Same applies when they want to get hold of someone.

Personally, I agree with them.

TB Next images from Discord posted in it's thread by users - take a minute to let that sink in. USERS.
Of course there's no context info to go along with them, but hey, it's better than nothing right?

At least someone put in the effort, shame it had to be the community yet again. I shouldn't have to be pointing out this shit.

In what way is it bad that we have an easy to access (remember, discord is browser too) chat service where you can ping a staff member and they will get on whatever you needed? Isn't it the same as it was with irc?

Also, the TBN images are, as of right now, hampa dicking around with the most barebones build of the game, in VR. It's meant to be just a teaser, nothing substantial
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Originally Posted by Wattr View Post
I'm pretty sure I found it on YouTube when it was all the rage, and all the big names were playing it, with Markiplier probably being the biggest. There were also the YouTubers who had a series of these Toribash LPs going, such as NerdCubed and ZeRoyalViking.

So... what happened?

What happened is that Toribash is now a game that got initially released 12 years ago in general and 4 years ago on Steam in particular - and mainstream Youtubers mostly make videos on stuff that just got recently released to stay trendy. How many of them do you see playing old games?
That's just a natural way of how YouTube works, if Toribash got released just today then you'd see all those videos from 2014 popping up in the coming weeks/months.

Originally Posted by Alpha View Post
I think the lack of advertising is one of the main reasons toribash is dying.
I mean come on, the game didn't get a trailer since 4.8 and the main website page contain the trailer of TB 3.7.dfuq?
I mean, they could just make a video comp for a new TB trailer or hire a pro vfx artist to do it. A little steam advertisement wouldn't hurt as well.

To put it simply. Nabi should take some responsibility

As Smaguris said earlier in this thread, there's not much use in advertising when player retention is as low as it is in Toribash. We're working on making the game more beginner-friendly but that's going to take time - and I'm not even sure we can reach a point when retention is similar to that of bigger games with more "ordinary" gameplay.
I agree that www.toribash.com is outdated though, that one is getting remade in future.

Originally Posted by Lucy View Post
You couldn't put it any better, staff do ruin the fun as time goes on, seeing rules being implemented, or rule changes that made the forums "fun" is just this thing where you can't really express anything, you have to make your own art boards on discord or clan threads and that won't even guarantee exposure or real basic cnc, no one really has the time to make a basic criticism a piece of art cause public forum is just annoying.

I assure you that staff aren't adding new rules just for the sake of "ruining your fun". All the rules we have are a result of 12 years of experience of working with this community - and they're here to assure everyone stays happy and gets best experience from using forums. There were some overly-moderated boards in past (e.g. Art board as you mentioned) but that's not an issue anymore. Also the official discord is like super relaxed - the only thing we're asking from you is to be nice to others, not to post NSFW stuff there and keep offtopic chat away from #support. Unless you want to showcase your porn / hentai drawings you should be alright to do it (and if you do, Toribash-related chats are probably not the best place to do it in).

Also seeing these new features without public polls and whatnot, I personally don't like random things being added without further discussion with the public.

There are things that, obviously, aren't going to be discussed with the community for a lot of reasons. While you may think that you know what's best for the game without ever developing games / administrating game community, there's a pretty huge chance that you are in fact wrong.
Lots of new additions to the game have also been taken from Suggestions & Ideas board, so if you want to have something added / modified in Toribash, please post there and we'll be able to discuss it.


Originally Posted by Lucy View Post
rules are good but too many just pushes everyone away, wibbles 2.0 was pretty good for the most part when it was free, I personally didn't see anything bad other than the occasional goatse, that was easily fixed with a ban or just a thread deletion though, wibbles is meant to be cancer for the most part, and it was fun cause it lacked rules, it was one of the only places where you can say anything without having some staff breathing down your neck and threatening you with infractions. If I remember, wibbles was extremely active, until a paywall was added, many didn't like it but those that made the decision didn't really show remorse. I still don't even use wibbles cause I'm against that decision.

Wibbles was a shithole and it shouldn't have been reinstated in the first place. Current wibbles is slightly better because regular users aren't exposed to thoughtless (and often provocative) posts; yet people who want to spam got a place where they can spam at a hilariously cheap price (you literally just need to log in for 6 days straight to be able to buy yourself a wibbles subscription).

Also this gets brought up a lot, but many players have issues with staff, shouldn't that mean anything?
Should it be adressed?
I try to give the benefit of the doubt but some staff tend to get some sort of complex,
Even with community changes/additions/decisions there doesn't seem to be much staff to general population communication, I know there's the suggestions and ideas board, most of those are player ideas, would be really insightful to know what's being worked on and if it should be continued since what really makes the forums live is the players itself, when nothing is addressed or acknowledged that just seems to cause people to withdraw from posting.

You know, it's pretty hard to address something that even users who complain can't describe.
"Staff aren't providing us best experience and something is wrong about the way they do their job so please address that". Like okay, can you tell what exactly is wrong with the team we have today? Are there administrators who do their job poorly? Smods who abuse their powers and ban random people? Do ES not host enough events? Give us names and examples, something we can actually work with and fixed. I don't remember any single user that got banned for calling out specific staff members for doing shit. Just please don't bring up examples of "I did a shady thing trying to abuse a loophole in rules and didn't get proper support".
inb4 Ele brings up the fact that he can't post here and it's unjust (spoiler: it really isn't when you consider how many times he was warned and how much of a nuisance he was to staff in general).

Originally Posted by SkulFuk View Post
The community/game staff have practically nothing to do with what ends up in the game, when we do it's after a lot of pushing over a long period.
The same applies to knowing what's going on with development, the majority of the time we're in the dark just like users until a new version lands. The rare time we do find out something is happening is because it's mentioned in passing, or we spot something new appear.

This is very wrong. With all due respect, the fact that you stay away from all the other staff by refusing to join Discord just keeps you in the dark. Literally whole staff team (including minor groups like ES/HS/MS) were aware of all the changes that happened within last 4-5 months weeks if not months prior to them becoming public. They playtest new game builds before public betas are released, they get to see/test new forum features before regular users receive access to them and so on.

Originally Posted by Lucy View Post
From all this, past staff and even present just stained the staff name, if it was a perfect system where everyone is treated like an actual person instead, this wouldn't be brought up every so often.

It's like we're thinking about two completely different gaming communities. Toribash is one of the few games where you can contact an administrator or an actual game developer in a public discord and chat with them. Yes we may not respond from time to time (I usually don't respond while I'm working on code and later I frequently just forget to respond) - but this doesn't mean that we treat users as some numbers in statistics. Yes, you shouldn't expect a friendly welcome when you're a user with 5 pages of infractions and several bans, all received within the few last months. Yes, if you're known for causing issues to staff you will receive more harsh punishment for breaking rules again. This isn't the case for a regular user who stays out of trouble though - and I don't remember it ever being one.

I do agree a lot with @notele, I couldn't put my thoughts into words but what was said seems pretty spot on, there's obviously power abuse, you can't even argue or having an opposing conversation to a staff member on a human level, they pull the "i'm in power so I'm ending this argument and if you don't comply you're being punished" route, it's perhaps the only reason I don't even try involving myself with most staff unless I really need the help, not to say I haven't met any cool staff. Their view goes, you can barely change it.

You can argue with anyone - you just don't need to be an asshole about it. Ele got his access killed because he kept shitposting in Staff Complaints and Off-Topic after being told to stop numerous times in past. Just keep in mind that arguing usually involves finding compromise between two opposing opinions - it isn't just you pitching an idea that's different from what staff think and staff instantly agreeing to that. If you can't defend your opinion with proper points and just keep reiterating same exact thing after being told that it isn't possible to be done / is just wrong - well yeah, there will be a point where we'd go "fuck it" and just stop caring about whatever you're going to say next.


Originally Posted by SkulFuk View Post
Discord is one means of communicating, not the only one.

Need a GM? Tell user they're all on Discord. User isn't impressed.
Different user asks me for info on TB Next, I tell them images are being passed around on Discord. That also doesn't seem to please them.
So on so forth.

Discord is pretty much a standard way of communicating for any gamer in 2018.
Obviously it isn't the only way of communication between staff and playerbase - that's the reason why we still have forums. And hey there's also ingame chat.
And please don't tell me there's more people today who (at least) know what IRC is than people who use Discord. That just isn't true, no matter how much you may dislike Discord for whatever reason there is.


Yet I'm getting complained at by users over poor dev transparency. Why? Because it's all on Discord. Hell I'm not even a developer here and I get the finger pointed at me because the info isn't available without using a 3rd party program.
Same applies when they want to get hold of someone.

Personally, I agree with them.

TB Next images from Discord posted in it's thread by users - take a minute to let that sink in. USERS.
Of course there's no context info to go along with them, but hey, it's better than nothing right?

At least someone put in the effort, shame it had to be the community yet again. I shouldn't have to be pointing out this shit.

There is a reason why none of TBN gifs get posted by staff / hampa himself - they are not an actual depiction of what's going to be in the game. TBN isn't even in its alpha state yet, anything you might have seen was hampa or me goofing around with physics / VR / game engine. Once there are things that hampa wants to show because he's dead sure it's going to be in the final release - he will do that. But for now there are only images / gifs to tease the general outline of the coming game - and those are unlikely to get posted anywhere officially because they're not yet worth receiving publicity.