RATTY524'S PROFILE

Hali's is my favorite so far

author=LordBlueRouge

author=Yellow Magic

author=Deacon Batista
their community was 5 % old mommies older than 55 years (those were their staff by the way X-D) a

The only one I remember fitting this description is Kaz, who IIRC was genuinely cool. Wonder how she's doing now...

...Yeah, I felt like I didn't need to mention this in the topic thread, but I'm going to mention it anyways:

Guys, please try to keep your comments positive or at least "neutral". A lot of these rpgmaker communities have their own share of problems, I get that, but I want to try and present both sides equally, the bad and the good, when talking about these old rpgmaker communities.

Stuff like Kentona's, Darken's and Nessiah's comments are fine, because it shows the tone of the site, it's interactivity, as well as the experience level of most of it's users.

You can still make negative comments, you can even write about negative experiences, but nothing scathing or mean spirited, okay? I don't want someone to get into a fight over this. I'm just trying to gather info here.

RRR had many different members, from many different walks of life, with many different opinions and perspectives, I want to try and capture all of them, if possible.

See, Deacon is butthurt even after all these years because he got banned from the site for essentially being a jerk to other community members and mods, with a particular love for whining about a perceived reluctance for the community to accept RM2k/3 games on the site. Also idk how you are going to really get a "neutral" opinion on this because the RM community as a whole is pretty much discourse after discourse. :P

But with that aside, I was a mod of the spam(?) forum there for some time during the iEntry phase and a member their since the latter days of Rydin's ownership at the time, so yeah I have some insight, particularly of the iEntry situation as I had firsthand knowledge of what was going on. The front page's project hosting capabilities were a great feature, as others have mentioned, but it kept breaking and we, the staff, couldn't edit it without iEntry's permission. This would be fine if the service rep for iEntry was responsive, but they weren't, so we often went for weeks, if not months of having broken page features that we couldn't fix due our dependency on the new site owner.

What also happened was a major discrepancy between the site users and iEntry's terms and conditions, where it was perceived that noone would own the rights to their resources if posted on any site hosted by iEntry. From what I remember, this wasn't exactly the case, but it still drove away the bulk of our major resource contributes, playing a part in the death of the overall community.

Eventually the site began to slow down in terms of project discussion, people posting projects to begin with, and other things, and the lack of control was getting tiring for the staff so they eventually gave up on it and most of them moved to moderating other forums, namely the VX/Ace communities iirc, and I just sort of low-key stopped going there since I didn't feel like it offered much to me as a developer anymore. Also, as Sai mentioned, RMWeb made RRR completely obsolete as well as many other individually owned RPG Maker sites.

author=Darken
Tbh I saw it as sort of the divide between the 2k3 to XP/VX transition and a "noob community" that seemed leaned on people posting their games without worrying about reputation, standards or drama (though I'm sure its had its share).

PFFT The iEntry fiasco I mentioned, Lyric's departure that lead up to a disagreement with her and the staff over confidentiality, BizzareMonkey's "turth" spamming that lead to his ban (he was legit calm and not very talkative until that point. I don't know what turned him into the psychotic monster he is now), that one mega-spammer who threatened to turn RRR into a porn site and had a personal outburst, and Rydin kicking out a spiteful staff member are still fresh in my mind after all these years.

author=harmonic
You guys are completely unable to do this calmly. You're just using me as a lightning rod for your angst. I'm out.

Good riddance :)

The quote page is full of gold.

author=Archeia_Nessiah
Hey guys, I just realized. Liberty's real abilities aren't stated upon death. Does this mean the role got passed to someone else or...?

That's actually plausible, especially when you consider this line in the flavor text:

"But, as long as man lusts for freedom..."

"I will never disappear."