What the heck is CircvsMaximvs?

[Kax Tuglebend]

It's also a game set in FASA'a old TOG setting. Based around the old Roman chariot races, and insane amounts of fun to play.

completely off topic.. but actually that was called Circus Imperium ~ there was an Avalon Hill chariot game called Circus Maximus tho

 

[JVisgaitis]

It doesn't require mandatory registration. There may have been a brief period where the system was requiring it, but I'm looking at it right now without being logged in.

It did for me. I couldn't view the forum without registering first. Maybe that's a bug with Mac users or something, but I did try Firefox...

 

[Belbarid]

completely off topic.. but actually that was called Circus Imperium ~ there was an Avalon Hill chariot game called Circus Maximus tho

Nuts- you're right. <foreheadslap>

 

[Aries_Omega]

Interesting

Hmm...on everyones recommendation I am going to go register. Sounds interesting.

 

[J_D]

I go to the main CircvsMaximvs site and get the main page just fine. I click on the Forums link and see the forums links just fine - the Senate, the Amphitheatre, the Coliseum, etc. Then I click on the link to the Senate, and I see the list of thread links just fine. I click on a thread link, though, and here's what I get:

You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
1. You are not logged in. Fill in the form at the bottom of this page and try again.
2. You may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
3. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Now, if the people running CircvsMaximvs don't want just any anonymous person on the Internet hitting their server and reading their fora, that's fine (well, not really fine, but at least acceptable since it's their server to do what they wish) - I'll accomodate them by neither registering nor reading - but they should save everyone the time and effort by putting the refusal up top on the Forums link from the main page. To tease me by letting me drill down through the links all the way to an interesting thread title then refuse me access to merely read it, well, that just annoys me all to the lower planes! Makes me want to kick someone!

Oh, and it's not just a Mac issue - it does it to me on a PC platform in both IE and Firefox.

 

[Crothian]

To tease me by letting me drill down through the links all the way to an interesting thread title then refuse me access to merely read it, well, that just annoys me all to the lower planes! Makes me want to kick someone!

Make you want to register there so you can cuss someone out?

 

[Raven Crowking]

The amount of whinging on CM rivals the amount of thread wars here. Be warned.

 

[BOZ]

What happened with CircvsMaximvs with the mandatory registration, anyway?

seriously - i haven't been able to browse that place nor NTL for a bit now. makin me have to sign in and all...

 

[J_D]

Make you want to register there so you can cuss someone out?

Never.
As I already said, I will not register with a site that I have to log in just to read. My m.o. is to browse, read, then log in if I want to post a reply.

Too bad, too, because if things had stayed as they were over there I might well have registered in a month or two to contribute. I'm not going to do so just to cuss someone out, though. That won't change anything about how the site is run.

My purpose in posting here now was not just to complain, though, but to get the question of my o.p. answered since I know many people here also are also active over there. Why did they do this? What was wrong with the way they were doing things before, the way ENWorld still does things here?

Not that I post much here anyway - I mostly lurk - but if ENWorld ever adopts the same policy that'll be the end of my reading the boards here too.

 

[Rel]

My purpose in posting here now was not just to complain, though, but to get the question of my o.p. answered since I know many people here also are also active over there. Why did they do this? What was wrong with the way they were doing things before, the way ENWorld still does things here?

(EDIT: I now think I misinterpreted your question which I think was aimed at the management not the userbase. So you are free to read what I wrote below from a users standpoint but I don't think it really addresses your question. I blame the lack of coffee in my system at present and promise to rectify that. )

I'll field this one but it gives only my perspective so I don't know how useful it will be for you.

My usage of ENWorld has evolved significantly over time.

When I first found the site (way back in early 2001 I think), I had just picked up 3.0 D&D and decided to give it a try after a dozen years of playing other systems (principally Rolemaster). I had TONS of questions about rules interpretations so I almost exclusively posted in Rules.

After a bit I was in full swing as a GM and began to start browsing around for plot ideas and GMing techniques in General. I did most of my posting in there, especially after 3.5 came out and I didn't shift to the newer edition immediately (because all the talk in Rules at that time was about 3.5, which I wasn't playing). I also started a Story Hour so I was reading, writing and posting in that forum quite a bit.

A year or so went by and we got the NC Game Days started from a core group of posters here at ENW. As I got to know people better, I began to post more in Off Topic because I was interested in knowing and sharing about stuff other than gaming. In particular time just before GenCon 2005 I was hanging out in there.

After GenCon 2005 I had met loads of folks from here and felt much more like I "knew" them and my posting was much more focused on Off Topic. Not long after that "The Nut Test" (which eventually became Circvs Maximvs) opened up and most of the people I talked to in Off Topic migrated over.

The atmosphere over there suited the off topic conversation better for me because you didn't need to make sure that your posts were not "over the line" with regards to certain topics or language. I didn't go there with the express purpose of being mean or using foul language. But on the occasions where such things were my response to the situation at hand I had no need to censor myself on account of any rules.

To me, ENWorld and CM serve two very different purposes. ENWorld is to talk about gaming. And the rules here serve that purpose very well because they ensure that conversations can focus on the topic rather than sniping at one another individually. CM if for talking about other stuff (though I do discuss gaming over there some) because I can just say whatever I feel like saying without it being governed by external rules. What I say IS governed by internal rules however and I don't use it as a place to be cruel to anybody.