Building a Community

[NewAgeOfPower]

Oh, an important thing:

There is only one (well, two if you count Simplified) Chinese language, in terms of writing. All dialects- (I speak Mandarin/Hunan-hua, aka Changshahua) use the same character and grammar system when written.

[Buster's Uncle]

Doggonit, I knew that and forgot.

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Are you guys interested in doing a little people searching?  One imagines that some time spent googling Alpha Centauri in particular languages ought to yield many leads on fans who post in those languages...

[Buster's Uncle]

Jarl, I don't know anything about Cyrillic keyboard stuff, but I imagine you could find some workaround software or something online fairly easily if you looked.

[Green1]

You guys are doing okay for a legacy game. SMAX is now in cult classic status. 100+ on FB and 10 to 20+ on forums (all games only 20 percent do forums including blockbusters like some MMOs). Sounds about right.

[Buster's Uncle]

Good to know.

Thing is, my ambition for gathering good people to talk to is limitless - any suggestions in that direction that fall within the site's mission?

[ete]

Hello people. Looks like you guys've got some cool stuff going on. Have been vaguely thinking about continuing with the datalinks update project for a while, which forum do you think would be most appropriate for that? Also, does anyone have a copy of the original SMAX datalinks files (entirely unedited)?

[Buster's Uncle]

Theory of Everything, our general discussion forum - although projects big enough can have their own folders pretty much for the asking, at least temporarily.

I imagine I can find you a copy of the virgin files pretty quickly - refresh my memory about the filenames, please.

Very glad to have you here.  Let me know what you need, and don't be afraid to ask questions.

[Buster's Uncle]

Is this the right file?  It is from my special kept-clean-and-unaltered AC folder.

[ete]

Thread up, and yep, that's the right file. Turns out I still had it hidden away along with the other one needed, but thanks anyway!

[JarlWolf]

Jarl, I don't know anything about Cyrillic keyboard stuff, but I imagine you could find some workaround software or something online fairly easily if you looked.

It's all fine. This way I keep my English up to par, and considering most of the bigger online services and such, games even, are normally in English, I will just keep it as is. That and I am a little lazy when it comes to tiddling with programs.

[Buster's Uncle]

Here I stand. Honor, loyalty and justice will be served. 

(Fairness should be in there -first- but doesn't seem to translate into Latin.)

At last, we SMACers are masters in our own house.  There has never before been an all-AC forum, let alone one run in what I consider the right way.  AC2 is special, the good kind of special.  We've got a great thing going here, and it's only going to get better as membership and content accretes. 

Thanks for keeping me company so far, my friends.  Enjoy the ongoing ride, and keep pitching in however you can.

[Bodissey]

If you need me to act as a moderator for some French speaking part of the forum count me in.

[Buster's Uncle]

The first step is to do some recruiting.  I imagine you know some people - the crowd in the Francaise game last year seems an obvious starting point.  I'll talk to sisko and see about a folder.

[sisko]

new folder created and new moderator appointed!
now let's get to work.

[Buster's Uncle]

Vous êtes maintenant Bod le mod.

The moderator should start a greeting thread...