Forum posting restrictions

[Duuude007]

Some people still don't seem to get why beta forums restricted forum post size.

If you cannot say it within 1000 characters, it is very often either:

• Not worth saying.
• Too verbose and full of fluff to be worth reading.

This made it important for people to get to the point, else rethink the need of said post. (re:duplicate topics)

^the above post used 355 characters.

[Delsus]

Some people still don't seem to get why beta forums restricted forum post size.

If you cannot say it within 1000 characters, it is very often either:

• Not worth saying.
• Too verbose and full of fluff to be worth reading.

This made it important for people to get to the point, else rethink the need of said post. (re:duplicate topics)

^the above post used 355 characters.

I understand why the beta forum was restricted, we basically had a job to do, whilst this forum is mostly a discussion forum about the game, not designed for bug reports and feedback, they didn't even have to give us a general discussion forum in beta, but they did, you also forget that due to the need for an active main character when you log on, we will get much less of the spam already because of that.

Let's not forget we won't have as many people as beta, and most people on here will want to play the game, rather than spam the forum with "I'm not playing because it has a sub."

*snip*

Also let's not forget that quotes are included in the 1000 character limit so expect a mass of this, (used Jinko as an example, no offence) making the communication even worse (when people are just too lazy to click on the link to the quoted posts.)

[Azimov]

Also let's not forget that quotes are included in the 1000 character limit so expect a mass of this, (used Jinko as an example, no offence) making the communication even worse (when people are just too lazy to click on the link to the quoted posts.)

People often block quote an entire post to respond to a single point, or just to carry on a conversation.
It is lazy and bad practice, and I am all for more concise quoting, rather than reams of pointless text.

[ogopogo]

Some people still don't seem to get why beta forums restricted forum post size.

If you cannot say it within 1000 characters, it is very often either:

• Not worth saying.
• Too verbose and full of fluff to be worth reading.

This made it important for people to get to the point, else rethink the need of said post. (re:duplicate topics)

^the above post used 355 characters.

Yes, god forbid anyone tries discuss lore and game mechanic or for that matter any topic that would most likely require more than 1000 characters to have a meaningful discussion, and who in their right mind would ever attempt to do any sort of creative writing on these forums. Seriously, just because you don't need more than 1000 characters to "get the point across" doesn't mean others would feel the same way especially when there's such a diversity of sub-forum here. While the restriction makes sense on the beta forum I find it absolutely ridiculous to use the same restriction here.

[Dungin]

I agree with your post here. A lot of the times people will write a wall of text, and then TL;DR it at the end in a succinct paragraph or two. Why not just post the TL;DR and call it good?