Rayman Pirate-Community

Xenon wrote:I noticed the funny ranks yesterday when I visited the forum. At first I thought lots of people had donated tings, then I realised...

I guess I was kinda fooled...

rolesfamily wrote:It must take a good few years to get that many posts.

rolesfamily wrote:I think the gold (as you describe it) should be more accessible.

rolesfamily wrote:I still think a lot of people are out of touch here because they've been members here for years and have earned all their tings, so it doesn't seem like a problem to them.

Hunchman801 wrote:

rolesfamily wrote:It must take a good few years to get that many posts.

Exactly. The limit's the sky.

rolesfamily wrote:I think the gold (as you describe it) should be more accessible.

Would you also suggest that we start giving gold medals to the first ten at the Olympics? Once again, the top ranks are not meant to be accessible to everyone. Only a handful will ever make it there, after years of participating.

I work out but I don't expect to be a champion one day. Does it make it pointless? I don't think so.

rolesfamily wrote:I still think a lot of people are out of touch here because they've been members here for years and have earned all their tings, so it doesn't seem like a problem to them.

It took them years to earn all those Tings, how unfair would it be if it were so easy for a newcomer to reach the same level in a few months?

Shrooblord wrote:Pfft it's just as active as it ever was, bar Record Days.

rolesfamily wrote:

Shrooblord wrote:Pfft it's just as active as it ever was, bar Record Days.

Maybe I've interpreted this wrong.

Xenon wrote:You'd be surprised at how easy tings actually are to come by. They're not just gained through submitting posts. Many of our members earn more tings on record day than they do in a year's posting.

Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem quite obsessive about them at the moment. The most enjoyable part of the rank list is working your way through the avatars, climbing up the ranks. You'll find that when (if ever) you reach the top ranks, tings will become less valuable and you'll be far less enthusiastic about collecting them.

Adsolution wrote:

rolesfamily wrote:

Shrooblord wrote:Pfft it's just as active as it ever was, bar Record Days.

Maybe I've interpreted this wrong.

No, it's true. In fact, around the time you joined was one of the most active time the board's ever seen.

Hoodcom wrote:RaymanPC is a community that is very easy to have various conversations on, despite it being based on Rayman himself and the series. The layout is clean and simple, easy to navigate. I wouldn't change a thing, honestly.

rolesfamily wrote:You could of made an awesome pun there man!

*I wouldn't change a ting

rolesfamily wrote:Admittedly this isn't always a very difficult forum to contribute on, sometimes it is. But I'm part of other forums that are much harder to post on. I think that's fair to say I'm seeming obsessive about the ranks at the moment :p - I'm quite an obsessive person! I know that ranks aren't everything, it's just that it's a really nostalgic element which I really connect to. Back on the old RZ I always loved the original rank list, and I remember as a kid really enjoying working my way through them. That's what it is for me, a real nostalgic thing.

Xenon wrote:

rolesfamily wrote:Admittedly this isn't always a very difficult forum to contribute on, sometimes it is. But I'm part of other forums that are much harder to post on. I think that's fair to say I'm seeming obsessive about the ranks at the moment :p - I'm quite an obsessive person! I know that ranks aren't everything, it's just that it's a really nostalgic element which I really connect to. Back on the old RZ I always loved the original rank list, and I remember as a kid really enjoying working my way through them. That's what it is for me, a real nostalgic thing.

I understand where you're coming from. Raymanzone was a great forum in its day and the Lums Quest was a really cool feature. The problem was it was rather spammy and quite poorly managed, as I'm sure you can remember. The way I see it, slightly less activity is the price we pay for a more tidy, sustainable and interesting forum.

Plus, while the Lums Quest was awesome, it was pretty vulnerable to cheats and hacking. I remember, in some detail actually, the discussion we had about using the refresh cheat to gain 5 Lums to reach better avatars. Do you remember that?

Adsolution wrote:

rolesfamily wrote:

Shrooblord wrote:Pfft it's just as active as it ever was, bar Record Days.

Maybe I've interpreted this wrong.

No, it's true. In fact, around the time you joined was one of the most active time the board's ever seen.

Shrooblord wrote:

Adsolution wrote:

rolesfamily wrote:

Shrooblord wrote:Pfft it's just as active as it ever was, bar Record Days.

Maybe I've interpreted this wrong.

No, it's true. In fact, around the time you joined was one of the most active time the board's ever seen.

I guess, looking back, this is correct. However, I remember it as active as it is now, which was about when I joined (for real, not when I posted the R3 savegame thing xP), I believe.

This place comes paired with waves of activity and inactivity - like a sinoid, really. I guess media hype from the Rayman franchise (think Origins, Legends) contributes to this. Also Record Day is a good Google bumper.
But what I really like about the RPC is that we're all a group of, dare I say it, friends! And I use the word cautiously, because, in the end, we're all behind our computer screens and not many of us actually know each other in real life, so it's not definitive that when you like what you read from a person, you'll also like who they are ... but I digress - people come here to look for others to talk to and they find people they really like, and naturally, sometimes people they really don't. However, it's a community and while some may leave from time to time, they will eventually stroll around back to this place in time (I'm looking at myself as a prime example, neo, Hoodcom, even Hunch, it seems) - and some users like just reading posts and not saying anything in return. And all of that is absolutely fine; we're incredibly tolerant for a bunch of people, which, sadly, usually isn't the case.

I guess what I mean to say is, come join us, people, and be nice and friendly - it's the RPC's heart-felt motto, its essence, even.