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December 30th 2010, 05:42 PM
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EvilEarl
Peasant He/Him United States
In memory of Skull. 
Can't blame ya, this community wants to cling to a decade-old game engine that needs some major improvements to keep it good.

I'm not hanging around much any more because not only are we stuck cracking the same jokes about people who have moved on from this, but the outlook for improvement is poor at best.

No active person with site admin permissions, random quotes still going back to somewhere around '03 at the latest and a dwindling community are resulting in a game that may go to the grave within a few years.

My personal advice for trying to save yourselves is:
1. Get whoever is active and has the highest permissions admin powers somehow so stuff can actually happen.
2. Update stuff, this place is becoming more and more of a museum.
3. Try to attract some more attention to the community. Not everyone is gonna see Dink in the games list for Linux.
4. Make some changes to the actual game, think outside of the box. I felt my creativity would have been limited by our current screen-by-screen setup. Try something like something that scrolls to the movement of Dink. Also try things like extra inventory slots. Why shouldn't you be able to sword ducks while wearing herb boots?
5. Stop looking like a dying community.

This is just how I see it. I'll still hang around to try to dominate pollocracy but other than that I'll be generally gone.