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Cronin's Law----The New Flood Drinking Game

Posted by: Lt Devon
I would absolutely love to stop the constant flood of new members.

Now thats a little harsh... we shouldnt prevent new members, just force all new members to read everything at the halo and marathon story pages, pass a test on it, and then "lurk" for several weeks, then they would become full-fledged B.net members!

  • 10.17.2004 9:03 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

I'm lucky. The only problem that I've had so far is that I'm torn between wanting to hear details about the game and not wanting anything major to be spoiled. It's kinda hard to only find stuff like how many levels there are in single player, or how many guns there are without the names...
Lol, so far the not wanting it spoiled has been winning.

  • 10.17.2004 9:23 PM PDT
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It is a very sad thing for those of you who have had the game spoiled, especially to the moderators who must walk through the mindfield of New Mombasa. Fortunatly, I haven't come across any spoilers, and hope that I don't see anything until the game is in my X-Box. I do agree though that we should shut down the forums and take a break from all this crap if it is still necesarry. But if you don't want the game spoiled, I suggest you stay out of New Mombasa, and do not look at anything that even sounds Halo related.

  • 10.17.2004 9:23 PM PDT
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The United States of America-- STILL more rights than North Korea!
--New official U.S. motto.

Cronin's Law----The New Flood Drinking Game

I only want to know 2 things:
which, if any, old maps are back (so far all I know is -CENSORED-)
how many new guns
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and I can wait a few weeks for that! jeez... jerks.

  • 10.17.2004 9:35 PM PDT
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Even though this is not a poll if they were to shut the forums (aside from the groups) to prevent spoilers I would be in favour. Bungie could still keep all the other site information up like news, updates, etc. That (I hope) would keep new and old members busy until the release date. And maybe by posting some sort of explaination as to why the main forums are off limits they would lessen the impact of shutting them down.

I -blam!- hate thieves :(

  • 10.18.2004 3:16 AM PDT
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Wow, my Internet's down for a few days and people are talking about shutting down the forums. I am really sorry for everyone (including mods) who have had Halo 2 plot points ruined for them. I, for one, haven't been able to spend much time on the forums since the leak and haven't had anything ruined for me. However, those of you with XBoxes should consider themselves lucky. I don't have an XBox. I will be ducking from spoilers for months, probably years, before Bungie released Halo 2 for PC (if ever). I am fervently hoping that they will release it for PC and Mac as they haven't let down that audience yet. I am all for a shutdown of the forums for several weeks prior to and after the release. Until then, I'm gonna start digging my foxhole and prepare for the long haul of avoiding spoilers.

-Baerdog7

  • 10.18.2004 5:02 PM PDT
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Baerdog, I don't know how you and all the other PC gamers do it. If I were you, I would run out and pick up an XBOX right now. If you come back to the forums after Halo 2, the plot and all the secrets that have been kept secret for years will probably be ruined for you once you return. There are going to be tons of members that are going to reveal all their stories about how awesome the game was and their favorite things that happened. I'm sure Halo 2 PC will eventually come out, but will it have been worth it by then? It could possibly turn out dissapointing like Halo PC.

  • 10.18.2004 5:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: halo beast
Baerdog, I don't know how you and all the other PC gamers do it. If I were you, I would run out and pick up an XBOX right now. If you come back to the forums after Halo 2, the plot and all the secrets that have been kept secret for years will probably be ruined for you once you return. There are going to be tons of members that are going to reveal all their stories about how awesome the game was and their favorite things that happened. I'm sure Halo 2 PC will eventually come out, but will it have been worth it by then? It could possibly turn out dissapointing like Halo PC.


Really? I enjoy Halo PC. I actually like the keyboard and mouse better than the XBox controller. As for how I do it: I just remind myself that if it comes out on XBox, it will eventually come out on PC. That has happened with the three games that I wanted for XBox and those games were Halo, KOTOR, and Morrowind (got both expansions and the original game in the GotY edition). As for after Halo 2 comes out, I may have to take a sabbatical for a while. If I don't do that then it looks like I'll be surfing the forums through squinted eyes for a while. I really don't think it will be too hard as I never go into New Mombasa anyway and all of the threads in the other forums will probably have subject lines that say "OMFG CAN U BELIVE HOW HALO@ ENDED????/??!!!1!!!" And if worst comes to worst, I've got friends with XBoxes that I could play Halo 2 on if I need to. If something really bad happens and Halo 2 doesn't come out for PC then I'll just have to save up for an XBox now won't I?

-Baerdog7

  • 10.18.2004 6:44 PM PDT
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Sorry if I offended you about the Halo PC version being a dissapointment. But that would be hell for me if I couldn't look at the forums because of everyone talking about Halo 2. I mean being away from the forums for 1 day makes me crazy. But if I was dedicated to the PC version like you are, I would most likely do the same. I hope nobody spoils it for you.

  • 10.18.2004 6:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: halo beast
Sorry if I offended you about the Halo PC version being a dissapointment.


None taken.


Posted by: halo beast
I mean being away from the forums for 1 day makes me crazy.


Yes, I can hardly stand to be away from the forums either. I had to, though, for am onth up at summer camp (I came back and was like, "Hey, new mods! Hey, new forums! Hey, why isn't Rip Saw a mod?").


Posted by: halo beast
But if I was dedicated to the PC version like you are, I would most likely do the same. I hope nobody spoils it for you.


I hope so too.

-Baerdog7

[Edited on 10/18/2004 7:31:46 PM]

  • 10.18.2004 7:30 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

I'm not worried at all anymore about "spoilers" in new Mombasa anymore. Everything that I've read has been either something that I already knew anyway or an obvious lie.
There still isn't anything really worth talking about in there though.

  • 10.18.2004 10:05 PM PDT

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Forum Tutorials --- WATCH THEM AND LEARN

I suggest, a few days or a week before halo 2 comes out, making a perma sticky (permanent sticky) especially for halo 2 spoilers, that has been ultra modified, so the the subject line in the forums, is twice the size as the others. This way, new members could easily pick it out from the rest of the posts and hopefully do the right thing.

The way they handled the ILB and now Halo2.com things was actually pretty good too. That's why i think this plan might work. I've never seen a thread fill up past 1000 posts so fast. I think if people can do that for halo 2 as well, it might be just that little bit safer.

Also, I think it's just a matter of knowledge. I doubt some of these new members even know what a spoiler means. Maybe if we use some more 'easier' words instead of words like 'spoiler', we might have more luck. I don't know of any synonyms for that word in particular, but i'm sure that we might find some in the next two weeks.

A forum lockdown though, would give mods a chance to play the game. But it would deter new members from comeing in. And the bungie fan base, as stated before, is ever growing. I sware there are at least 50 new members a day here. Some who've been here for about a week, or some who've been here for more than a year, but only joined recently. And no doubt, that theres gona be a bungie.net link somewhere in the game weather it be the credits, or the main menu which would bring them here. But who wants to join something, if it's not doing anything?

And finally, just as a random suggestion for mods, if the place doesn't go into lockdown, I would like to see a 'Donate to Bungie/Mods' or a 'Tips' button somewhere on the page. I would donate for sure. Mods deserve to get paid. They do a lot of work, and sacrifice there eyes to all the coughbull-blam!-cough that goes on in the forums, and I see it as the least we can do to repay them. Or at least so they can buy some sorta drug so they forget all about the spoilers that they read.

edit - this post was suppost to be short =/ heh.

[Edited on 10/19/2004 3:26:03 AM]

  • 10.19.2004 3:12 AM PDT
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i had suggested to stosh that they should make linking your XBL gamertag a part of the registration process for new members. that way, if you muck around and get banned, there is a definite consequence. anyways, it sounded like this would take too much time to implement.

EDIT:
oh, and we came up with an idea for another forum, too. it'll be called "Halo 2 Spoilerz!!! Post links to pics, vids here!!!" the only post will be a sticky that has a link, that when pressed, permabans the user. any attempt to post, auto-permabans the user.

[Edited on 10/19/2004 9:27:43 AM]

  • 10.19.2004 8:58 AM PDT
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Permanently ban? I think a lot of New Mombasa secretly wants to read the spoilers.

  • 10.19.2004 11:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: Vella
Permanently ban? I think a lot of New Mombasa secretly wants to read the spoilers.

then they will... die.

[Edited on 10/19/2004 11:49:45 AM]

  • 10.19.2004 11:38 AM PDT
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here is my method that i've used for avoiding spoilers on b.net forums.

if i'm unsure of a topic i either:

1) don't click on it
2) click on it and skip reading the main post. instead reading replies further down the page. if it was a spoiler you can tell pretty quick by other people's reactions.

  • 10.19.2004 11:52 AM PDT
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While that does work, the best defence is to stay out of New Mombasa.

  • 10.19.2004 11:56 AM PDT

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