VANU stands for........... Very Anal Nerds Unite and other such trivialites

[Camping Carl]

The NC is supported by many n00bs from the official forums. The type of people who ask if planetside is an rpg. It's just plain embarassing...

[Airlift]

The problem lies in going to the official forums at all. Mr Vicchio filters out all the noise and reports dev posts here and you won't find anyone acting stupid about any of the empires, except in fun. But don't tell anybody else tho

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Unfortunately the official forums is where alot of the newer people go. They should just send them here first. We'll desensitize them with our nonsense and then we send them on their way to the official forums and they won't even care.

[Hamma]

Just dont start empire flame threads. I will lock them

[BLuE_ZeRO]

I'm not flaming NC and I don't plan on it. I'm just saying that it's hurting their chances to get new people by posting things they do. I chose Vanu over the others but it doesn't mean I hate them. I don't like some of the childish things they post but hey it's the internet not like it's going to do any good to complain.

[Hamma]

I was just saying in general.

[BLuE_ZeRO]

That's why people should start here for forums. You'll actually lock the empire flame threads. Actually they should just be deleted but at least you lock them. Hell the official forums admins dont bother to lock anything hence the large amounts of empire flames.

[diluted]

you know.. we need an empire war board. it would be great - i'm NC - at least i'm telling myself that - and i want to well.. friendily argue about the empires ya know? im sure its alot of work and won't go through but it would be neat-o and topics would get even more heated as the betas and finally full game comes (as well as subsequent expansions and patches)

[Sandtaco]

As good as that might sound, imagine how the flame wars could escalate.

[diluted]

true true.. it's a shame.

[Sandtaco]

It really is a shame. Luckily these boards are somewhat civilized

[Unregistered]

Well there have been plenty of "flames" between the empires here. I mean we have the whole TR=Old People, NC=Hippies, VS=Tin Foil hats thing going for us.

But the friendly banter we have and posting "VANU ANAL RAPES YOUR MOTHER AQND DRY HUMPS YOUR DOG" are two totaly diffrent things. Just use your better judgement when talking about other empires, and don't make it personal is all Hamma is saying.

Flame the empires all you want. Just don't flame each other (over an empire).

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Yeah that's what I was trying to get at. That's why I like this forum better than the official. There is friendly banter here but there it's just all out flames towards everyone. This is one of the better forums to post on even if the head admin is a TR NAZI!!!

[diluted]

... well .. gah we should start a FRIENDLY! empire thread i guess. would be intersting where it takes us, if it ever happened it would go to hell though

[BLuE_ZeRO]

It would most likely turn into an empire flame thread or get hijacked by ninja monkeys.