General Chat / Hiatus.

Well, I know that not a lot of you know me very well. I only just became a member two months ago and have posted less than 200 times. I don't mind if there are 0 responses to this, and no one really has to care. But...

I realize now that the attitude here is much too serious for me. RCT is a hobby, it's a pastime, it's a fun thing to do, but it's nothing to get stressed over. The view of RCT and parkmaking here is too serious for a simple computer game. And I have become far too obsessed with this website. I log in every couple hours to check the updates. So I realize it is time to take it easy and concentrate on more important things in life, like schoolwork and extracurricular stuff.

In the forums, I have tried to be serious and wise, and a good guy all around. I now realize that I am getting too worked up over a website based on a fun little computer game. This is no place for flaming or rude remarks. But it appears to have become that to me. I claim that I can be eloquent and all in my sig. But I actually don't enjoy writing those kind of posts. My favorite kind of posts have been simple, short, posts following up on some kind of humorous remark, in which the attitude is light and cynical. I'm tired of trying to be the wiseman, when in reality all I want to do is have some laughs and fun.

So I will go back to a pattern I did in the summer, which is what I call "superficial surfing." Back then I was reluctant to go into the forums, so all I did was browse the front page and the links from that, like Parkmakers and Spotlight. It wasn't an obsession then because it didn't appear serious. I would check back every few days to see if the front page had been updated. This is now what I will do. I won't be interfering in the forums anymore. My number of posts will stay locked at 189 for a while. It will take discipline to get out of this habit, to try and forget all the flaming and arguments.

Since my view towards RCT has become so serious, I have decided to stop posting and, of all things, start playing. I haven't played with the spirit of a true RCT engineer in over 2 years, when I built a 16-coaster park off Evergreen Gardens. So that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna play RCT with a light and positive attitude, as a hobby and something that I enjoy. And the wounds of seriousness will heal and I will forget how seriously people look upon RCT here. Because it is just a game, people.

I don't imagine that too many people will care, but sometime late this year, probably at the end of summer, I will release a full-scale park. In an effort to combine current resources with respect to the roots of this website, I will be working on a semi-throwback park, a rather pitiful attempt at bringing back the parks of the old days, Shanghai DisneySea. I know that Disney has plans in Shanghai and it seems like a reasonable goal for me, given an indefinite time limit. It will be built using RCT2 and custom scenery, but not overloaded with it. I will take some inspiration from Meretrix and other parkmakers but will try to keep it more simple and realistic, always. I may contribute a post or two around that time, but none until.

Thanks everyone for the good times.

And I really mean this, sincerely and honestly, take it easy. It's just a computer game.

Adios amigos,

P@n!c.

I think it is terribly depressing when people leave NE partly based upon atmosphere. It really is disgusting right now. I have had it with the bullshit, and I'm glad people are starting to realize it aswell. Moderators need to be brought in to suppress and stop the bullshit. It really is turning away members who could turn out to be beneficial to NE. And it's turning away people who've been here for awhile.

I

totally[/B] agree!


I used to come to NE to look at and download (sometimes rate) the parks that become Spotlight, and share my view on 'em. I like the Advertising District, aswell as the "Help" forums, such as "Ask the Experts", and "Masters of the Beast".

...Yet now I find myself logging in EVERY day to check if someone's replied to my posts, which are usually nothing but crap based upon crap. If I spent HALF the time I spend on this website, actually PLAYING the game, I reckon I'd almost be masterful at it.

New Element is a great website, but I agree that it'svery easy to become "obsessed" or "addicted" to it, which is not healthy, not at all.

There's my peice

I agree with everything that has been said here.

Sorry to have to see you go. I hope I didn't contribute to it. I tend to be overly honest at times, but I'm really a good guy.

I think RCT has caused the weight on people's shoulders here at NE to grow recently, but like every storm, it eventually will lift. Come back when the waters have calmed, ok?

Dammit Underground. You made me write one last post.

You had no negative influence on my decision at all. In fact, I can rest assured knowing that there are people like you who can write honestly and clearly.

And I will be back when the waters have calmed. I see calmer seas ahead, warmed by the heat of the summer sun. In fact, I will be contributing a little "Sea" of my own.

Take care everyone,

P@n!c

Panic, I'm sad to see you go. Please consider to come back in the near future when NE might have managed to change.
I understand your reasons. This is, after all, the site of the best RCTers in the world and if you consider RCT as a hobby then it might be best to just download stuff and play the observer.
What I don't understand is why you had to play the wise-ass when it's so tiring for you? Why couldn't you just be yourself?
I'd like to thank you for the "Troubled times, but..." thread in which you really managed galvanise people a bit in my opinion and I hope that something will come out of it.
I hope you will have fun with whatever you're going to do.

...Yet now I find myself logging in EVERY day to check if someone's replied to my posts, which are usually nothing but crap based upon crap. If I spent HALF the time I spend on this website, actually PLAYING the game, I reckon I'd almost be masterful at it.

Holy crap, it's like you're reading my mind. I've been doing that for a year now.

Holy crap, it's like you're reading my mind. I've been doing that for a year now.

What's sad to say is I that I can third that.


NE is sort of like a soap opera series, if you start watching it, you can't stop, but when you stop and pull out of it, you have to catch up on huge amounts of missed things when you start watching it again.

Dude, if you can't ignore the various petty arguments and stuff then maybe you're right to leave. They're not worth peoples' time so just ignore and be done with.

John - there are moderators and I think it could be a LOT worse if there weren't.

I visit the forums a lot because i'm interested in what's going on and I think it's important to give people input. Plus this is a community, not just people posting parks. It's fun. But I play RCT when I feel like it and it's fun too. You just need to do what you feel like, not what you think you should feel like. (warning: this does not apply when you feel like killing a toad or fellating various garden implements).

Sorry to see you leave like this because you were a cool member and it was good to see you around. If it really was arguments and stuff that made you do this, then it really IS a shame, because not only in the Shitpile and Freespeak (the hint is in the names, dude) but also in the main forums, any arguments are petty and not worth your time.

If it's because you think we take rct too seriously - well, that's just a conflict of attitude. I love rct and i love talking about it and I love seeing people having fun with it. Just because some people analyse things and have high expectations doesn't mean others should feel obliged to do things they don't have fun doing.

I'm blathering.

Sorry to see you go, dude. You're welcome back whenever you want, but if you don't want, then that's cool too.

With my final suggestion unveiled, I will finally be taking that break, after maybe a few more comments in that thread. I can breathe easier now, knowing that this site is better off than we make it out to be.

Take care everyone,
P@n!c

Holy crap, it's like you're reading my mind. I've been doing that for a year now.

I must say I do it too. Its so sad to be obsessed with a site. I sould be only on this thing at night or when im on AIM. I mihgt not be on here that much anymore then. This topic changed my additude. Let's get on with our lives and just not let RCT consume our time. Jst when you cant do anything else play... Ill shut up before a controversy begins.

John - there are moderators and I think it could be a LOT worse if there weren't.

Well, I guess I really haven't seen a whole lot of moderation being done. But then again, most of the bullshit is in FreeSpeak...

Somewhere out there I can see an NE Anonymous for all the addicts of these Forum. When I actually think about it, it is realy sad. Im always waiting for the next post so i can then reply and by doing so get my fix. Maybe I should go too. Ive lost all interest in RCT. Now I just sit my fat ass in a computer chair and drool over my keyboard as I browse these forums. Ill be back though, maybe.

Don't leave because you feel like its too serious, just change your ways. If you hate how seriously you are treating it but obviously love the site, then it sounds like you may benefit from.... not being so serious about it. There is no reason to mold yourself to the community, just be yourself and enjoy it as the game it is. We are here to have fun and the second you lose site of that its no longer fun, but you have to be the one deciding how you take the game, the site has nothing to do with that.

And John, alot of the stuff the mods do never gets noticed because we never make a big deal about it... but I think we do our share when its needed. NE is just mainly a low maintinance site when it comes to stuff that needs to be modded.

EDIT: Fuck this. I love talking to you people and that is nothing that I need to give up.

What I will maintain is a casual attitude, not signing on every hour, but maybe once a day.

I now realize that my obsession was really with RCT, not with the site. So I won't be playing RCT too much. It's a computer game and I sense its limits as one. I don't consider it as that important.

But I have made many friends here and I will continue to post.

I hate how I am so indecisive.