General Chat / RCT Station gone..

Closed down. Poof. Gone. No more.
I'm quite disappointed and saddened. It was a great community, and I enjoyed many of the regular posters there (most of which also post here thankfully).
I assume NE is gonna be getting more traffic now.

Thanks for the great times.


Edit: Mike Robbins, if you read this, what's gonna happen to Survivor VI? I know it sounds rather unimportant in light of today's events, but I put alot of time into it. There must be an answer.

Shit. Wow. The staff had all kinds of ideas for cutting back on bandwidth.

I feel like crap.

Oh great... Iris will definitely have to start making NE registered-user accessible-only now...

Wow.. it's actually gone.

http://rct.ogresnet.com

RCT Station Has Closed

Yes, it is indeed true that I've closed RCT Station. It's not something I was looking forward to quite frankly.  We simply don't have the resources (money) to continue with keeping RCT Station running.  There are a few fan sites (not in the RollerCoaster Tycoon community) who have been deemed important to their respective game community to warrant the game's publisher to actually pay the server bills. Unfortunately, not all game communities get this treatment.  We have more information and submissions not posted than posted - just think about that for a second.

I apologize for not giving anyone fare warning on this issue. This is not something I planned on too much. All of what I'm saying hasn't gone through a draft, just my thoughts right now.  This no notice shutdown was especially a blow to the staff, no question about that - they always had something going on.

I know there are some questions that will arise, so I'll mention it here:

Q: Will RCT Station come back?
A: No one can truely predict the future, so we'll see. I certainly don't have the cash to bring it back, although I will indeed keep all web content related to the site (forums, site, email, etc) on my home machine, should a comeback indeed happen.

Q: What will "Red Phoenix" do?
A: I really have no immediate future plans that I can divulge (nothing secret, btw).

I would like to take the time to thank everyone who has visited or participated in the site. A great number of people had a hand or two in the site, whether it involved submitting content or moderating the forums, and I appreciate it.  One person in particular I'd like to thank is Eric "Ogre" Lizotte who was responsible to developing the main site and giving it to me some three or four years ago, back when the site was only getting 9 page views a day - it's certainly been a hell of an effort to turn things around, no question.

- Jim "Red Phoenix" Chamberlin
April 14th, 2003

It's not gone. Is it really?

Then why does it say visit back in 2-3 days?

EDIT: Holy shit! It really is. Hey New Element will be crazy now... I mean crazy. I can't believe it. Hehe...I fell sort of sorry for NE forums.

NE might be the next one too go under, its already having trouble with bandwidth...

This is a sad loss for the community.

Fuck this, it's blasphemy! FUCK! Hands down, we've just lost THE best RCT Fan Site of all-time, period. Shit.

What the fuck...

Maybe Red is fucking around with us...... Or not.. Good thing I got banned when I did.

I can't believe it. What's going to happen to all the Clubs and Survivor? I loved that site!

I'm not going to even bother saying that I'm sad, as isn't that obvious? This will have a big impact on the community in general... that could be good, or bad (probably). I hope NE doesn't follow the same fate, as I have heard the bandwith issues have become bad. Bothe here and www.rct2.com are gonna get a lot of new members, and that could even make thigs worse.

What am I gonna do? Most of you here at NE probably don't know me. I was a mod at RCT Station, and, although I didn't post here much, I always liked the site, forums and will (obviously) be here a little more often to check out parks in progress, and stuff like that.

I'll miss the site, its too bad things had to work out this way

Im sure that people will pitch in and offer bandwidth to NE. WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE. But yeah. NE isnt going to go down over my dead body. Why do you think I post so much?

Man what am I gonna do now? I guess Ill be posting here more often now. I am very sad that this happened.


-SFMMXtreme

Well that was certainly unexpected. I feel sorry for all of the regulars there who have lost their community now. That just isn't fun. All RCT fans are welcome here though it'll probably take some time to get used to it.

Haha.

It's all due to Git's departure.

Ty: RCT Station closed. HAHAHAHA.
Prisoner416: OMGOMGOMG!!! Let me see.
Prisoner416: .. It's all because they banned me, you know?
Prisoner416: I was the catalyst.
Prisoner416: For it all.
Prisoner416: No forum can survive without my genius sustaining it.
Prisoner416: I'm like.. The backbone.
Prisoner416: Gardner agrees.
Ty: Indeed you are.
Prisoner416: He called me a fifth column. I felt all warm and fuzzy inside.
Ty: I will blame YOU for it's downfall.
Ty: I am devastated.
Prisoner416: It's always nice to be responsible for something horrible.
Prisoner416: I say, burn everything to the ground and build something beautiful from the ashes. Just so I can be king, you see.
Ty: Kings suck.
Prisoner416: Unlike queens. Of the stoneage.
Prisoner416: Just ask QOTSA!!!!
Prisoner416: I'm trying to decide whether or not to post a "I don't give a shit about RCTStation and their shitty-ass fucking forum full of retards" post.
Prisoner416: It might be 'insensitive'.
Ty: Do it.
Ty: Since when do you care.
Prisoner416: Since Iris started to bite my ass everytime he got an angry erection.
Ty: Iris is sexy.
Prisoner416: I saw a picture of him once. He is overrated. I will toss NeViS' salad anyday.
Ty: Sick.
Prisoner416: Oh come on. Anyone who claims they don't want to fuck NeViS is a liar. Or an Adix.
Ty: ...
Ty: Adix is cool, brofo.
Prisoner416: While I respect his newfound nihilism, he is about as interesting as wet sponge. But without the cleaning ability.
Prisoner416: Don't even get me started on that Fatha' fag.
Prisoner416: What a fucking pod.
Ty: Yes.
Ty: Fatha' Grinch.
Ty: He should have never changed his name from... KryptoKing. Or whatever.
Prisoner416: Kryptic Master, or some shit.
Ty: Yes.
Ty: That is the ticket.
Prisoner416: I remember one time he invited this fagass into the chat, and his 'friend' proceeded to flood attack the place. Later, Fatha' got all depressed. It was hilarious. He was sulking and everything. How I laughed.
Ty: Kelly Clarkson is hot.
Prisoner416: Remember when he used to "typ like dis. word up homez mala is the best parkmaker and buster is the best parkmaker and of course nevis is the best, but lets not foget that ty is the best."
Ty: That was me.
Ty: Not really though.
Ty: It was hilarious. I was there.
Prisoner416: Ahh, you were? Good times.
Ty: Indeed I was.
Prisoner416: I think it's great how Fatha' has reinvented himself into a pseudointellectual of Gardner proportions.
Prisoner416: Considering he could barely type until two months ago.

And that was heavily edited to make me look even cooler, if it's possible.
Yes indeed.
And the closure is whatever. As for the new members... It's always nice to have fresh meat. Especially when fucking Iris warns everyone he respects about me, telling them not to take me seriously.
What an ass.
I could have had a lot of fun, mocking that Snowbound fag.
Oh well.

Time to set fire to Mike Robbin's cat.

But seriously. Anyone remember NEChat? That place was cool. If only because it was a neat little arena for me to antagonise various sexually insecure NewElement moderators.
Specifically Nessy. I spent countless hours just shouting at him. No reason. Just shouting. Cussing. If this wasn't the interweb, I would have been hitting him with sticks and biting his leg.
No reason.
Just to look cool.
And then he banned me from #Thrillspot.
What an assgibbon.

Anyway. Those retards at RCTStation are right. The mods here are too tolerant of my bullshit. I get the feeling that I can say anything I want, just as long as I don't insult that crazy stoner fag. You know the one. Dressed in white. Had a beard.
Ah yes. Jesus. I hate that fag.
What NewElement needs to be a real, massive community is a dicKtator to push us about, make us grovel, and ban us when we get out of line. You see, something has to change.
I'm being entirely serious here. Sometimes it's nice to know that The Man Behind The Curtain is paying attention, watching closely, waiting for us to fuck up, so he can stamp his authoritarian bootheel into our collective face.
This gives security.
This gives us our hypocritical luxary of morality. Somethine we so desperately need, being the virtual equivelent of Amsterdam that we are.

The truth is, there is a need for lines. Lines you do not cross. Lines of acceptability and respect. Retards need it because it prevents their narrow minds from being offended and shocked into thinking clearly.
And people like me? We need it so we can dance upon that same line, trying to see how much we can get away with, and who we can diss next time.
And how many retards we can shock into thinking clearly.
How I long for a Nessy-figure to tell me I can't have a dick in my avatar.
Bending rules just isn't fun if there are no rules you're in danger of breaking.

Mike Robbins, if you read this, what's gonna happen to Survivor VI? I know it sounds rather unimportant in light of today's events, but I put alot of time into it. There must be an answer.

I have already thought about this. I have PM'd iris about hosting the download file and the voting here. Maybe he'll agree. If not, I'll try to see if rct2.com will do it.

Great....I'm goona hafta post my parks here....Chocobogo's site had the EXACT Same fate as RCTStation.
But they got back on-line.
I couldn't believe it when I was goona do my basic surf on RCTS.
We'll get used to it.

I have already thought about this. I have PM'd iris about hosting the download file and the voting here. Maybe he'll agree. If not, I'll try to see if rct2.com will do it.

Good stuff mike !!

Glad your trying to keep it going, its fun voting on survivor.

Anyway i can believe it shut down !! Straight out of the blue.
I didn't visit as regularly as usual but i still enjoyed going over their and helping a few of the newer people out

Yay. No all the fuckers from RCT STation will be here. Woo.

Damn lol. There goes my dream of getting a RCT station spotlight lol.
Hmmmmm.......

The RCT community is slowly getting smaller. But im sure another site will pop up soon enough.