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Website and Forum Issues / Re: More of a question on the steam group

« on: February 17, 2014, 08:09:14 am »

Join the official community for event updates and info, plus a chance to win prizes for every 100 members that join!

Prizes? Can someone clarify? Never noticed that text before. (This is under "Official GoIO steam group")

Well maybe it's a SurPrize!

What??? Can I actually marry Sir Prize and squeeze him till eternity if I am good at timing?? *checks out member counter*

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: PLEASE Stop the screen from spinning.

« on: February 14, 2014, 11:50:33 am »

It's when ships get blown up, not when you fall. Personally, it doesn't disturb me, but can be annoying for others, I kinda understand that.

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The Lounge / Re: Surprise speculation

« on: February 14, 2014, 10:10:36 am »

that feel when countdown hits 0:00:00

then nothing happens

It feels as if you had birthday and then arrived at your own surprise birthday party waaaay too early by accident.

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General Discussion / Re: Rating System

« on: February 12, 2014, 12:49:51 pm »

The thing is that those playing in an extremely casual and/or intentionally disruptive way have paid for the game just like everyone else has, and would probably not be happy about being labelled or "numbered" based on their extremely casual/just-messing-around playing styles. If you pay for a source of entertainment you don't do that to be judged by it later on. Nobody states on the game's website or on steam that "this game is only for those who mean to play nicely and seriously, and will learn everything about game mechanics, and will always contribute their best to the team, and listen to their captains, or else we'll give them a low score and booom, so much about being respected by the community!".  It's another thing that the game has its own policy of conduct, and players violating that can be held back from the game through an official process (you automatically sign up for that condition when you buy the game and accept the terms).

Also, if the score system that you suggest is based on players' judgement, how can you make sure that some players won't use it to abuse novice players/anyone else because they messed up something during their matches? A raging captain would hand out low scores to all of his/her crew at the end of a bad match. Will players have the right to protest against those points and say "I was doing my best, I shouldn't have received those points"?

And then imagine what would happen to a guy with a very low score in a lobby. People would start hating on that player immediately, and this system would not even give a chance for a "second start", at least not immediately. Let's say somebody manages to talk to the trolling player and ask him or her to stop it. Let's say the person actually agrees, but can't start it with a tabula rasa because the scores say otherwise.

I think we have ambassadors, the leave counter, the commendation system, the block system, even a report system. We also have tools of communication to talk things over.  All these should be quite enough to solve in-game issues. If still not, you can always switch lobbies, mark players you dont wanna play with, and avoid them easily later on.

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The Docks / Re: Hey there GoI! Do you like Cake?

« on: February 12, 2014, 06:54:09 am »

Oh look, some marshmallows Cutemallows!

And this is what will happen to them here at Cake.

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The Pit / Re: SQUIRELS

« on: February 10, 2014, 02:44:55 am »

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The Pit / Re: SQUIRELS

« on: February 09, 2014, 02:58:03 pm »

nice are you a squirel doctor.

I specialize in naked squirrles exclusively. I give them away for free in global chat while inviting people to my matches. Want a free naked squirrle?

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The Pit / Re: SQUIRELS

« on: February 09, 2014, 10:29:08 am »

A naked squirrle. Quite common on Junkers I heard. It may remain invisible though throughout the match.

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The Docks / Re: Hey there GoI! Do you like Cake?

« on: February 08, 2014, 10:04:36 am »

Pilcrow and Fryghdstar, welcome to Cake! Don't forget to change your tag and join our steam group. Make sure you read the OP in this thread too, to learn about our usual clan guidelines and see if it's the kind of clan you are looking for. It takes only a few minutes, although Kirk tends to ramble a lot. 

Also, while our application process is not something totally strict (note to other readers: but do ask us about it first before you change any clan tag, please), I'd like to join Sandy and the others, and recommend flying with as many of us as possible for you guys to see if our playing styles match. This is just to let you know about the kind of things we tend to do (and things we don't do) while playing.

After all, you are probably just as interested in getting to know all the arsonist, crazy, mrauing, kamikaze  nice, kind, friendly people you are about to join as we are interested in you and your arsonist, crazy, mrauing, kamikaze nice, kind, friendly ways. 

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The Gallery / Re: Fan Art Thread

« on: February 08, 2014, 09:22:46 am »

Just made these for fun out of some old screenshots I had. 

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Spotting Mines

« on: February 07, 2014, 12:02:59 pm »

I don't think most crew members would have the time to spot all the mines thrown around their ships, especially since it is possible to throw mines in a way that nobody on the ship would notice them. In the heat of the battle people don't have much chance to spot so much anyway, as they gotta shoot and repair, so this idea could in fact work. It could give captains an extra tool to fight mines. They would still have to rely on their crew, and most of them would not spot mines, but once or twice this could save a ship. It's the same as yelling "Mine behind us!'" in chat, but this one would allow people without mics to contribute, and spots could stay on to help captains navigate out of mine fields. Worth a try in dev app. I'm just worried about having too many spots on the screen, as they could get messy and they take away the realistic feature of the game (the same arguments that were brought up against spotting ships can be echoed here basically).

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The Docks / Re: Hey there GoI! Do you like Cake?

« on: February 07, 2014, 09:08:06 am »

So... am I captaining my own ship of Iron Fork? If so, can I get the crew I'm assigned together about 3:30 for some practice?

Also Iron Fork seemed to be quite a popular lobby in the past weeks (quite fortunately I would say), so I'd recommend arriving early if ya wanna participate as a pilot, because captain spots fill up quite quickly, and the event works on a first come, first served basis. 

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The Docks / Re: Hey there GoI! Do you like Cake?

« on: February 06, 2014, 07:21:32 am »

9pm UTC is the usual time.

Shhhhhhh....! Don't give it away just like that! Uhmm..hey folks! Iron fork starts at...ugh...uhmm... Hey, the cake's done! Who wants some? 

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The Lounge / Re: Sea battles like GoIO?

« on: January 31, 2014, 07:49:46 am »

The game East India Company is also about this period, although not all feedbacks are positive about it, and I'm not sure how much it's involved in actualy battles, seems more like a trading game. Anyway, may wanna try it, if you like that period of history, and want to experience something similar.

This is one of the trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrPk3qEcX3I

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The Gallery / Re: GOI - Screenshot Gallery!

« on: January 27, 2014, 05:42:49 am »

Selfieeeee

Hm....the balloon and the hull were down. And what was the engineer doing? Taking poser shots of himself?

Therefor bring me your selfies fellow shipsman

Took me some time to find the perfect angle. Also, Muse, please allow frontal camera angles. I never get to fix my hair midmatch If I can't see it properly.