Toribash
View Poll Results: Special Servers?
No. That's unfair.
32 Votes / 54.24%
Yes, in the registration variety.
28 Votes / 47.46%
Yes, in the large number of textures variety.
5 Votes / 8.47%
Yes, in the toribooster subscriber variety.
4 Votes / 6.78%
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Can we make the game cost money again? Or at least bring back "registered only" servers? Seriously. When you make a game free you really bring in the idiots. Let them have their buyable colors and such but at least let the oldbies play with oldbies ONLY. [/rant]


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Poll submitted at 6:50 -8GMT time.
Last edited by hitman; Feb 19, 2008 at 03:52 AM. Reason: poll submitted at 6:50 -8GMT time.
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When you say idiots, do you mean noobs or assholes?

We have Black belt servers to hold back the noobs..

And for the assholes, you could just pm a mod..


I think the game is okay in my opinion though.
Originally Posted by Scarvin View Post
When you say idiots, do you mean noobs or assholes?

We have Black belt servers to hold back the noobs..

And for the assholes, you could just pm a mod..


I think the game is okay in my opinion though.

Anyone with a lesser intelligence usually. Assholes go in that category. Noobs usually go in that category but not always. We all know for a fact that everyone who has registration loves this game enough to pay for it. People who play it for free; don't care two shits about this place. They'll say anything they want, act any way they want. And PM a mod? That's like tattling. We shouldn't have to tattle on idiots. As for black belt servers. It doesn't take an intelligent person to play a certain number of matches. I liked the way things used to be around here. Before the newfag flood. Honestly I resent Hampa for choosing to let it be free. But it's his choice and I still have an insurmountable amount of respect for him but at least give us a haven.
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Originally Posted by hitman View Post
Anyone with a lesser intelligence usually. Assholes go in that category. Noobs usually go in that category but not always. We all know for a fact that everyone who has registration loves this game enough to pay for it. People who play it for free; don't care two shits about this place. They'll say anything they want, act any way they want. And PM a mod? That's like tattling. We shouldn't have to tattle on idiots. As for black belt servers. It doesn't take an intelligent person to play a certain number of matches. I liked the way things used to be around here. Before the newfag flood. Honestly I resent Hampa for choosing to let it be free. But it's his choice and I still have an insurmountable amount of respect for him but at least give us a haven.


Your right on that part hitman, but the sad thing is that many people can't do anything to stop them from acting like idiots and think that they can do blah blah blah...

I know I don't have much to say but I think you just have to deal with it :/
Originally Posted by hitman View Post
Anyone with a lesser intelligence usually. Assholes go in that category. Noobs usually go in that category but not always. We all know for a fact that everyone who has registration loves this game enough to pay for it. People who play it for free; don't care two shits about this place. They'll say anything they want, act any way they want. And PM a mod? That's like tattling. We shouldn't have to tattle on idiots. As for black belt servers. It doesn't take an intelligent person to play a certain number of matches. I liked the way things used to be around here. Before the newfag flood. Honestly I resent Hampa for choosing to let it be free. But it's his choice and I still have an insurmountable amount of respect for him but at least give us a haven.

That's a pretty pathetic speech, in my own (very humble) opinion. Such elitism disgusts me.

You're suggesting stratifying the server system to match with supposed intelligence? Since when did intelligence have any sort of link to money, and buying the game? While I can partially appreciate your point of view - these players do irritate me on a regular basis. But at the heart of it, Toribash - and, indeed, any of Nabi's games – is a business product. By stratifying the system in such a manner, you're not only limiting potential capital and subsequent profit, but you're also - as I stated - pandering to elitism.

Granted, with a means of creating your own servers this problem could theoretically be solved - members with such so-called "intelligence" could create their servers and have their tea parties and tender breakfasts there - but that hope is broken now, as the server-creating application will probably never be released to the public again.

By limiting servers by registration keys as was done in the past... well, I do partially support the idea, but RbLcK's point stands true. The idea of limiting server access by ToriBooster subscriptions is a marginally better concept, but the new credits/items system that Boosters concern has rendered the necessity of limiting server access obsolete anyway, and with the game as a freeware product, mass numbers of members are joining - which, you obviously might tell me, is the root of the problem - but greater numbers of members equals a greater number of members buying ToriBoosters, ergo more profit than was being created in the first place. Nabi has no need to do this, and, hopefully, they are intelligent enough to understand that open servers are earning them more money.

In short, if access to servers was limited to those who paid - by any means, removed or no - less members would join, and then less members would be paying Nabi money to fund future projects or earn them profit. Nabi has discovered a better means of making money, and so have no need to return to their previous methods of doing so.
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Originally Posted by 3vi1 View Post
Since when did intelligence have any sort of link to money, and buying the game?

Well your half wrong there, usually smart people make lots of money. Education is the key to success my friend. ^^,

BUT, I'm wrong too, the majority of the players here are (taking a guess 10-20), so I'm guessing about 10-13 year olds don't earn their own money. You should have specified what age group you were talking about. :P[/makes_no_sense]

Anywho, check around...us old-schoolers have made times to randomly meet up to be away from most of the 'noobs'. Just tell like five friends of yours to go to server 15 and play some games. :P
Originally Posted by 3vi1 View Post
That's a pretty pathetic speech, in my own (very humble) opinion. Such elitism disgusts me.

You're suggesting stratifying the server system to match with supposed intelligence? Since when did intelligence have any sort of link to money, and buying the game? While I can partially appreciate your point of view - these players do irritate me on a regular basis. But at the heart of it, Toribash - and, indeed, any of Nabi's games – is a business product. By stratifying the system in such a manner, you're not only limiting potential capital and subsequent profit, but you're also - as I stated - pandering to elitism.

Granted, with a means of creating your own servers this problem could theoretically be solved - members with such so-called "intelligence" could create their servers and have their tea parties and tender breakfasts there - but that hope is broken now, as the server-creating application will probably never be released to the public again.

By limiting servers by registration keys as was done in the past... well, I do partially support the idea, but RbLcK's point stands true. The idea of limiting server access by ToriBooster subscriptions is a marginally better concept, but the new credits/items system that Boosters concern has rendered the necessity of limiting server access obsolete anyway, and with the game as a freeware product, mass numbers of members are joining - which, you obviously might tell me, is the root of the problem - but greater numbers of members equals a greater number of members buying ToriBoosters, ergo more profit than was being created in the first place. Nabi has no need to do this, and, hopefully, they are intelligent enough to understand that open servers are earning them more money.

In short, if access to servers was limited to those who paid - by any means, removed or no - less members would join, and then less members would be paying Nabi money to fund future projects or earn them profit. Nabi has discovered a better means of making money, and so have no need to return to their previous methods of doing so.

[Offtopic] wow someone read the dictionary lol [/Offtopic]
i like toribash the way it is now, free
Last edited by Brain112; Feb 20, 2008 at 07:01 AM.
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So everyone who spent $20 once to get the fullversion should be able and people who spent far more on credits/boosters/... shouldn't be allowed to join these servers?
The only 'fair' thing you could do is set a limit on how much you spent for the game. Like paid >$20 server. And that's just stupid in my opinion.
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hmmm i'm not sure i would have got the game to start with if it wasnt free...

now if i had to pay to keep on playing, i would.. but i think that making it free enlarges the community, which has to be good for the game.. but "subscribers only" servers dosnt sound like a bad idea.
Originally Posted by Scarvin View Post
Your right on that part hitman, but the sad thing is that many people can't do anything to stop them from acting like idiots and think that they can do blah blah blah...

I know I don't have much to say but I think you just have to deal with it :/

Here's the thing though. We can make a difference. Simply allow like 4 "registered only" servers AT LEAST. So people who really care about the game can play there.

Originally Posted by H4rl3quin View Post
hmmm i'm not sure i would have got the game to start with if it wasnt free...

now if i had to pay to keep on playing, i would.. but i think that making it free enlarges the community, which has to be good for the game.. but "subscribers only" servers dosnt sound like a bad idea.

I still agree with part of it being free. But in runescape concept; some free, some purchased. I would pay monthly (you heard me monthly) $20 to have access to registered only servers.
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