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Rather surprising we don't have one of these yet, stop hiding we all know. What did you watch recently, what are watching etc. that sort of thing. Don't post links to certain places however as that is still against the rules but there is nothing about sending them in other forms of communication. No spoilers though, nothing good will come of that and keep an open mind because it's healthy.

I finished Assassination Classroom over the last 3 days. (Cold and rain, what else does one do?) Wasn't really sure what to expect but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

On 8/30/2016 at 5:08 PM, Outlawed said:

The Devils

I don't mind the devils despite me being a fan of the Flyers and Sharks (I've been a fan of the sharks long before their playoff run last year so don't give me that crap). The only team I honestly tried to like and the fanbase pretty much ruined any chances of that happening are the Penguins but no means are they a terrible team either, I just don't like them.

On 9/26/2016 at 9:59 PM, LeMaddog said:

Mods, please lock this thread.

I'm not sure why you keep asking to have the thread closed, the season hasn't even started and hockey has always been the minority sport around here along with futbal compared to football, basketball, and baseball. No reason to give up on the thread so easily but I would advise against getting your hopes up of it being a very active thread. This is the most pages/people I've seen in a hockey thread on here. Not sure when it starts but usually we end up with some sort of fantasy hockey league usually through ESPN since it's the most simple one.

1 minute ago, acdcfan56 said:

ROR has been dead. Sim-Monsters will die soon. Sorry to say it, but it's gonna happen, I mean it can survive, implying you guys can even go a day without fighting....

Edy fern has a point. What I've seen from people is OLD projects that havnt been touched since the last time it shown here. so it was a worthless post to begin with. If he updated it then that's different. but since it hasnt been touched and he's asking to do bring it back when he already has 100 things on him is pointless.

Obviously you do care that you are making so many things at once since you end rushing them and then get annoyed when people point out the mistakes edy. Take your damn time. 

I seriously don't understand the whole, I GOTTA BE FIRST crap. Most stuff on this place is junk because you all rush the crap out of them just to be the first. ITS YOUR TRUCK, TAKE AS LONG AS YOU WANT TO SO YOUR TRUCK IS UP TO YOUR LIKING. IF OTHER PEOPLE DON'T DRIVE IT, IT SHOULD MATTER BECAUSE IT'S YOUR TRUCK. Learn to make trucks for yourself, so you can enjoy... Not what other people want.

If you're not making content for yourself first and foremost then you shouldn't be making it at all. The bits about having to be first dates all the way back to MTM2 and I'll never understand it, if 10 people want to make the same thing why not let them? They'll all be different and it's a part of learning to create better content as a whole.

RoR has been slowly dying for awhile now but this site doesn't have to die too but it will if everyone keeps fighting over meaningless things. It doesn't just have to be a monster truck or RoR specific community. You'll never be able to please everyone so if you can't take any form of criticism whether it's warranted or not then you shouldn't be making content anywhere. You earn respect over time and you also lose it, I didn't see anyone be singled out but some of you always seem to think it applies to you when it doesn't. All of the useless arguments on here are why most of us rarely log in or don't even care if the game dies off completely anymore.

TL;DR: If you like it then you shouldn't care what others think since you didn't make it for them anyway.

On 6/6/2016 at 8:30 PM, Jon Cannon said:

I would be interested, but I would see if it comes down in price at the time of the Steam Summer Sale, which will possibly be around the end of the month.

Considering it's still an Early Access game I wouldn't get my hopes up for it.

I know I can't run this game specifically but if you ever added in some other games I'd be interested. Also here's the store page for it. http://store.steampowered.com/app/228380/

Not to sort of steal your thread (which is basically what I'm doing ~<3) there are also plenty of other games that we could all race in such as rFactor. You could turn this and potentially others into a weekly or bi-weekly racing party with a different game each week for variety?

On 5/2/2016 at 3:57 PM, rockgod88 said:

Alright then, from now on small textures it is, I have tried it a few times, Marks ETL, old GD14, ect any ways ...

If it's something barely visible 512x512 and lower works just fine, anything that you see promptly like the body most usually go with 2048x2048. The biggest with lag from textures is certain trucks that have every single texture being 2048x2048 or larger even if it's just a solid texture that could just the same be 1x1. So generally anymore you usually see 1-3 2048x2048 textures and everything else will be lower which helps with performance and file size.

If no one is able to find it I'll see if I can later but I would start with either of these, not sure if there is currently a version available for OS X however.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/rigsofrods/files/rigsofrods/

https://github.com/RigsOfRods/rigs-of-rods/releases

The main reason most leagues run on weekends is due in part that most of the people running any league either have school or a job if not both. There are other leagues and no one is stopping you from running one yourself, if you want to run in a league that it's guaranteed that you will be able to run at all times then you might as well run it yourself because that's the only way it's going to happen. Can't make an event? Oh well, get over it. It's happened to all of us whether it was intentional or not, not much use in complaining about something out of your control. Forgive me for saying this but if you're so concerned with running in a league then quit your job, but that doesn't make sense at all now does it? You have valid complaints but I feel like a lot of time no one wants to see things from both sides of the picture.

As for saying you're not pointing fingers at anyone you're clearly doing just that by mentioning it here, anyone with half a brain already knows about the problems with SMRA which they're trying to fix, not to mention are largely a reason why we're even on a different version in the first place. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, nothing wrong with that and no one is going to give you a hard time for complaining about something that bothers you. As far as the SMRA thing goes perhaps a reset on the points that voids the first week.

In the past we tried having 2 different leagues so people from other countries outside of North America could race which sort of worked but it didn't last very long. Most everything you can think of doing to get everyone to race in one league at a certain time has been tried, it just simply can't be done. I'd personally love it if we could all race together at a set time but it's been tried and what we have is really the best that it's likely going to get. Let's try and turn this into a discussion to try and actually improve something.

TL;DR: If you don't like the league, don't participate in it.

6 minutes ago, Charlie H. said:

Honestly I'm conflicted on the truck because I know it'll look awesome Will, but god do I hate that truck with a burning passion XD

Also Edy mate it may be a good idea if you stepped back from the community for a while, and I'm saying that for your sake not like "fok u mane get out". You've been really on edge recently, some time away to just breathe and chill would probably do you good

Honestly it's not a bad idea, a lot of what I think has been bothering Edy on here is one of the reasons I stopped posting in the projects threads since I got sick of a certain someone only ever wanting to give me a hard time that rarely offered anything useful but still excused as "constructive criticism" which it largely was not. I do however find it strange that a lot of you that have given Edy a hard time are the same ones who constantly state that it needs to stop yet the same ones saying it needs to stop are the main culprits causing the problem in the first place but they won't come out and tell you so they do it behind everyone's backs (you know exactly who you are).

Best advice I can give you is work on your projects as you wish and as long as you're happy with how it turns out then try and ignore some of the other things, if you miss something and someone points it out don't worry about it, it happens to all of us. This game is supposed to be about all of us having fun and anymore it seems like an overly dramatic high school.

8 minutes ago, Outlawed said:

Edge splitting is not going to fix the fact there are faces missing and the body looks like a sketchup rip that needs to be stripped to the wireframe and re faced.

It looks to be exactly that and considering the amount of times I've done that myself in the past it's honestly more worth to just use the wireframe as a loose base and completely rebuild it exactly how you want versus trying to make something with so many obvious problems manageable for the same amount of time and effort you will put into it. Sketchup models aren't all terrible but the amount of work you have to put into making them usable I never found worth it, they can be a great base to start with but I wouldn't recommend using it as your final model.

21 hours ago, 1029Eric said:

Just going to put this out there. The large amount of people I talk to on Skype who make tracks and trucks and who have an account on here say everyone is "annoying and full of $hit." I feel stricter rules would make people hate this website even more. I am going to be honest, I hate almost all admins and administrators on here (no offense). Most people on here, Not just admins or mods, Need some major attitude adjustments. For example, If you make one mistake you are immediately hated among everyone and if your new to site, you are considered to be the worlds stupidest person. As for the asking for when tracks are going to be done, I do not see what could be wrong with as long as it is not asked repetitively by the same person. People should have the right to know when they will be filled with happiness to have a new truck or track to drive or drive on.

These "people" you speak of were likely banned from the site years ago due to their poor behavior or inability to play with others and you're doing yourself a massive disservice by associating with them if I'm honest. If you want to be part of their group that's fine but if you don't think it will cause you problems just ask some others that eventually decided it wasn't worth it. As far as the rules goes I was the one that rewrote a lot of that years ago with the permission of Brian and Casey to try and make it easier to understand and lower the amount of content that had to be deleted or modified on a daily basis but as you can go and read for yourself they're outdated but almost no one on the site has even read them either so you can't put full blame on the staff.

19 hours ago, Mark Colineri said:

I mean, you do you, but you have never actually interacted with us. You don't actually know us and what we are actually like. We have to, and have had to, deal with repeated stupid crap that could very easily be avoided if new members bothered to read the rules. We aren't yelling at you, it's just we see multiple of the same thing every day, and it kind of needs to come off blunt so people get the idea to stop doing what they are doing.

Feel however you want, but to hate us because we are doing our job is quite ignorant.

The way every mod and admin is on this site is ENTIRELY different compared to a personal private conversation but anyone with a grudge and the people that have a negative attitude towards any of them never learned from their previous warnings but refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions. The only people that really see or understand how much repetitive subjects appear on the site daily are the ones that take care of it in some form. If a thread was deleted there is a 99% chance an identical one already exists.

18 hours ago, Outlawed said:

I edited this into numerical points so we can enjoy breaking this down:

1) I can already hazard a pretty good guess that those "people" have either already been banned once off the site or have earned their reputation on the forum for being annoying or pestering. But I do agree, it is annoying to log onto the site everyday and having to clean up other peoples poo. Either way glad to hear you guys are doing something constructive with your time. (PS paint bucketing over a png does not mean you make "trucks" nor does converting someone else's track to 4.5 mean you make "tracks").
2) Proof you were not around for how the site was for the first couple of years, trust me, as much as you complain about me abusing my admin powers. Roll back the clock and you would have been removed from the site almost as soon as you joined.
3) I know right! Those jerks who do a thankless job that no matter what happens people will complain and nice lady about their actions. Thanks Obama!
4) What is the going rate for a internet psychologist these days?  
5) Oh the irony (you realize that means you would be removed from the site again if point 2 was put forth right?)
6) No, it is not your right and the fact that you would state it as such paints a pretty good picture of why everyone on the site is the problem and not you...

2) Absolutely true and even though a ridiculous amount of people still blame me for banning them while I was a member of the staff and no one can really deny abusing their powers although some were far worse with it than others. Anyone with a reasonable mindset to try and help people would always warn them first but there was (and maybe still is?) an issue where it doesn't actually send the receiving user a private message like it's supposed to.

3) #Obamacare

4) About $3.50

3 hours ago, 1029Eric said:

Lots of unnecessary force is used. For example, Why would you even need to lock a thread? It just stops the newbies from getting questions answered on where everything is. 

You ever heard of preventative measures? We used to stop arguments before they even happened by doing that but now they just spiral out of control until someone decides they've had enough and clean it up because everyone starts whining if their thread or post gets deleted. If it's deleted (or edited for that matter) there's always a valid reason for it.

3 hours ago, 1029Eric said:

I feel admins could do your job without telling people to leave the site or die. I have dealt with this before from admins. If admins are nicer they wont have the same reaction from other people.

From a few moderators in the past that may have been an issue but it doesn't seem to be the case anymore since most of them removed even before I was. Unless you're referring to other sites with that statement you just admitted to breaking the rule of having multiple accounts. That's actually not the case at all, they're only going to be as nice to you as you are to them. Treat others how you want to be treated, can't really explain that one any simpler for you.

3 hours ago, acdcfan56 said:

You can quote numerous people in one post.

My post is a nice example for you, just click the little + sign next to quote to compile a list of quotes which you can later reply to in one message.

I constantly still get asked questions about the site, game and content despite having not been a mod for years now. If I don't respond or answer someone than it means I can not answer that question (like everyone that asks me why the site is down) or it has already been posted and explained better than I'd be able to.

On 3/8/2016 at 5:43 PM, mrgravedigger23 said:

3 hours ago, Jon Cannon said:

It's silly to display a truck with a body that's supposed to remain "secretive", allow pictures, but NOT want them posted on social media. I understand that they want it to remain a secret, but you can't expect everyone to abide by a request under those circumstances. Human beings by nature are curious. It's like really wanting something for Christmas, and then finding that your ladyfriend got it for you but hid it from you until Christmas, and knowing that it's there but not being able to express your appreciation or much less use it, because she will cry and be upset because it was supposed to be a surprise.. 

 

3 hours ago, acdcfan56 said:

 

Hmmm, perhaps these two things are related...?

On 3/11/2016 at 1:39 PM, Charlie H. said:

You're really making yourself quite annoying already. Nevermind you put "deez nuts" as your location already makes me wretch

Yes I know that Alex does, but Pablo was known for driving Blacksmith. 

You know you miss the immaturity this place used to have rampaging about every time a new post was made, don't lie.

8 minutes ago, mrgravedigger23 said:

i was just saying his truck sits high, im working on some of the things,as much as i can right now

That's because in the description of the post that picture is actually from that's the truck's suspension at full travel, not how it normally sits.

35 minutes ago, 1029Eric said:

Anyone in the process of making Syracuse 2016? And when will any 2016 tracks be released?

http://sim-monsters.com/index.php?/forum/65-requests/

21 hours ago, Discorded_Official said:

I'm having a problem in 4.5 with everything being in fog, I don't know how to fix it or etc... just seeing if anybody can help

Raise the draw distance/visibility range to something over 300.

8 hours ago, ShawnVallance said:

From what I know, it's because the forum's activity has declined to a point where only a few dozen people were left, and the majority of the rest moved on to BeamNG. TDev noticed this and decided to just end the forum's life after all this time. The forum community there used to be massive, but again, as years passed by, the popularity declined as well. It was only a matter of time before this would happen, but I did not expect it to happen today.

I'm surprised something like that didn't happen sooner with how against new members everyone on their forum was ever since I first joined it. You can't really expect to have a long lasting community when they're main goal in almost every thread was to drive away any new members curious about learning and god forbid you tried to ask someone for help. Not saying SM is any better but at least some of us try to welcome to new members and gently push (or sometimes violently shove) them in the right direction for what they're looking for.

I don't think RoR is going to actually die though... not just yet at least.

By the way if you register your game to World of Trucks you can customize the license plate that's on your truck instead of having the one stuck in the windshield if you'd prefer.

I see I'm the weird one that went the other way with the lights...

Sine this has finally been released, I think this one deserves a minor bump. Feel free to post screenshots here as well.

Decided to get one more run in before I fall asleep, don't think I could have gotten any closer without hitting something. Entire trip was in-cab and the screenshot is exactly what my view was parking it.

Yes, I know my computer sucks and the game looks worse that it actually will for 99.98% of you, leave me and my 15fps alone...

10 hours ago, steiale said:

The use of "You Guessed It" seems a little inconsiderate and a little bit disrespectful in my opinion...

RIP.

I think you meant incredibly disrespectful.

18 hours ago, fernBurn said:

Doesn't mean its accurate. Just like the flames, too bright to match the actual truck.

wow, i sound like "that" guy.

go figure xD

Shut up Fern.

<3

I know a lot of people on here have already gotten buried by this storm, over 2ft here and still calling for 9-13" more before nightfall...

Blame the El Nino too, it's pushing cold air very far south in the U.S and contrary to popular belief it can be too cold for it to snow, it can actually cause it to be blocked from certain areas entirely in some cases which is likely what you've been experiencing and remember it's only January, winter only officially started about a month ago so I wouldn't be too concerned with it. Also with the cold air being pushed further south the storms that normally bring you snow will also be pushed south.

This, and if you need an example just look up the Bad Medicine crash in New York. You can't prepare for the unexpected if you refuse to allow anyone to believe it is possible therefore you should always expect the worst to make sure safety is above all else or you're just asking for trouble.