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Well its interesting what's happened while I've not been looking at the thread. All the random off topic and all that, but I am pleased to see that people do/want to play old ed. But it seems you cant find any one to play with. So why don't you all use player finder? Ask who wants to do 40k the old way, that way you can all have fun, and wont be so annoyed at gw changes. They will no longer affect you.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

RAWRAIrobblerobble wrote:
There's a reason there's not a "real" 40k computer game. Computers need precision and for the rules to be clearly articulated. GW doesn't do that.

Imagine if GW did actually make a 40k computer game, we'd get so many answers to questions that we currently just randomly guess at

Not if GW is programming it.

public bool TheMostImportantRule() { result = GetRandomNumber(1,6); if result >= 4 { return true; } else { return false; } }

 Grimtuff wrote:

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
Oh for goodness sake, another complaint thread about people harking back to old editions.

What purpose doe this post serve other than to increase your post count? You knew what you are getting from the title.

It serves to inform people that this is an overused discussion. What does this thread serve other than to increase yours, and everyone else's here's post count? Just search some of the key words in the searchbar and you'll find similar threads to read through.

Well its interesting what's happened while I've not been looking at the thread. All the random off topic and all that, but I am pleased to see that people do/want to play old ed. But it seems you cant find any one to play with. So why don't you all use player finder? Ask who wants to do 40k the old way, that way you can all have fun, and wont be so annoyed at gw changes. They will no longer affect you.

Because basically what you end up with is finding out that the next-closest person who wants to play the Edition you want to play lives 300 miles away from you. Which is, perhaps, worse than not knowing.

 BrotherOfBone wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
Oh for goodness sake, another complaint thread about people harking back to old editions.

What purpose doe this post serve other than to increase your post count? You knew what you are getting from the title.

It serves to inform people that this is an overused discussion. What does this thread serve other than to increase yours, and everyone else's here's post count? Just search some of the key words in the searchbar and you'll find similar threads to read through.

Purple monkey dishwasher!

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
It serves to inform people that this is an overused discussion. .

For what purpose?

However many times it's been discussed in the past, it's obviously still a topic that the people participating in the discussion want to discuss. If you're tired of the discussion, you have the option of not opening the thread. The topic of discussion was fairly clear from the title.

 insaniak wrote:

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
It serves to inform people that this is an overused discussion. .

For what purpose?

However many times it's been discussed in the past, it's obviously still a topic that the people participating in the discussion want to discuss. If you're tired of the discussion, you have the option of not opening the thread. The topic of discussion was fairly clear from the title.

And there's a rule about necro-threads, so ergo, there are new threads on similar topics.

 MWHistorian wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
It serves to inform people that this is an overused discussion. .

For what purpose?

However many times it's been discussed in the past, it's obviously still a topic that the people participating in the discussion want to discuss. If you're tired of the discussion, you have the option of not opening the thread. The topic of discussion was fairly clear from the title.

And there's a rule about necro-threads, so ergo, there are new threads on similar topics.

Why does there need to be a new thread when there is already one, if not several, older threads?

 BrotherOfBone wrote:

 MWHistorian wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
It serves to inform people that this is an overused discussion. .

For what purpose?

However many times it's been discussed in the past, it's obviously still a topic that the people participating in the discussion want to discuss. If you're tired of the discussion, you have the option of not opening the thread. The topic of discussion was fairly clear from the title.

And there's a rule about necro-threads, so ergo, there are new threads on similar topics.

Why does there need to be a new thread when there is already one, if not several, older threads?

A new thread appears when the stars are right and the Old Ones return.

Because there is the full knowledge that the older threads are full of vitriol and re-opening those cans of worms is a sure thing by necroing those thread and members just picking up where they left off.

With a new thread, there is always the hope that "this time around, people will behave". It is also the matter of consistance, it you let one thread get necroed, why not another, and another...

Anyone seen the topic lately?

 EVIL INC wrote:
Because there is the full knowledge that the older threads are full of vitriol and re-opening those cans of worms is a sure thing by necroing those thread and members just picking up where they left off.

With a new thread, there is always the hope that "this time around, people will behave". It is also the matter of consistance, it you let one thread get necroed, why not another, and another...

I'm not implying that people necro old threads, I'm saying that people should just read through them instead of making new ones.

I was thinking about trying to get people to play 3rd for a while, but I think I've finally settled on 5th. IMO 5th was well-received and reasonably balanced, plus my Ork and DE books are still the older copies. Now, I just have to the immensely difficult part of getting people to invest in relearning 5th!

 BrotherOfBone wrote:

I'm not implying that people necro old threads, I'm saying that people should just read through them instead of making new ones.

That's not how discussion forums work...