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Damn it squad? Who came up with the joke? I seriously need help with a convincing april fool's prank on my friends.

Remember to pull it at a time not even related to April Fools.

Because why shouldn't you!

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Btw, I've been sniffing KSP and found unusual traffic heading to 23.45.42.121 and 23.50.66.76. I've got some nifty screenshots showing that KSP is generating considerable upstream traffic to those IPs. Perhaps someone on reddit might know who lives at those locations?
You could take this over to the unmodded or modded support forums as appropriate. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a mod checking for updates.
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Damn it squad? Who came up with the joke? I seriously need help with a convincing april fool's prank on my friends.

I believe it was Kasper's idea mostly.

The rest of us are planning a little something else for April Fools' ;)

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Okay, this seems to have mostly cooled of by now, and so have I.

It completely sailed over my head that it was a joke because:

A) There have been plans for a forum change for a long time.

B) It wasn't anywhere near April 1st, and besides, I'm not the kind to prank or be pranked on that day.

C) It didn't sound entirely far-fetched. Social media and subscription things are EVERYWHERE today, and actually, it was quite frightening.

D) The post came from Kasper, who, in my own experience, had never joked around before, being an official account and an administrator. Had it been a moderator account or a popular forum member I would have been a little bit more suspicious.

I'll admit that I was gotten, and gotten good, but I didn't find it funny in the least. I'm glad that I'll be able to stay with you guys here. Or wherever the actual new forum comes up when they switch. :)

EDIT:

This thread needs to be purified in a sea of dragon fire.

I can help you there. :D

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Hearing all of these people's anger is astonishing. One little joke...

It hit a sore spot, on a lot of people, very hard, at the wrong time.

Hopefully this doesn't spread farther than SQUAD can handle... I'd be sad if we lost chunks of members because of all this.

EDIT FOR BELOW:

It might have been planned as a joke but it was NOT funny. It felt like being kicked in the nuts and then being told it was just for fun. Some would say 'forgive and forget'. I might someday forget but until that day I will never forgive.

I think that the issues that have arisen for SQUAD and Kasper are compensation enough for me. I felt the same until I realized just how serious this had become.

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It might have been planned as a joke but it was NOT funny. It felt like being kicked in the nuts and then being told it was just for fun.

Some would say 'forgive and forget'. I might someday forget but until that day I will never forgive.

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Last night after being

http://media1.giphy.com/media/8dGP6ex3Es45W/200_s.gif

I was totally

http://media.giphy.com/media/RkYUak4iSTbTq/giphy.gif

Now you have a fire to put out, Squad. Hopefully not enough people will spread this around so that it gets out of control. :)

It may be a good plan to help as much as possible by making it clear, wherever you see someone that still thinks it's for real, that it was a joke by posting there and PM-ing them.

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You could take this over to the unmodded or modded support forums as appropriate. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a mod checking for updates.

Lol. The IPs I mentioned belong to FBI.gov and NSA.gov. I was suggesting that there are also bad jokes we can play on squad, such as manufactured evidence that KSP is an NSA front.

One of the codes for any acceptable April fools joke is a nearby mention of april 1st. The cover of a paper can carry a joke because the date is right beside the story. That same joke on march 20th falls flat. If you want to run a joke early then you start it with "With April fast approaching, we are today announcing that the forums are to be sold to EA." THAT's how you phrase an april fools joke.

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Lol. The IPs I mentioned belong to FBI.gov and NSA.gov. I was suggesting that there are also bad jokes we can play on squad, such as manufactured evidence that KSP is an NSA front.

I'm sorry, but I couldn't NOT post this:

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Lol. The IPs I mentioned belong to FBI.gov and NSA.gov. I was suggesting that there are also bad jokes we can play on squad, such as manufactured evidence that KSP is an NSA front.

I actually did look them up, and both of them trace back to Akamai, not the FBI or NSA (www.nsa.gov uses one of them in my location, but it's an Akamai system that's acting as a CDN).

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Wait, if i read the first 5 posts right, then soon we will have to pay 25$ or about £16 to access threads older than three months? This scres over everyone on the forum who has a rocket builder company.

Who thoight this would be a great idea? If Sqaud, then go ahead and don't listen to your fanbase again, go shoot yourself in the foot.

Edit:

Oh sh** it was a joke.

Not funny kasper, not funny.

Althoigh if your plan was to make people leave the forums, well don,e im sure it would work.

And just to let you know from now on anything you post will be 99.9% suspicious from my point of veiw, good luck getting my trust back.

Sqaud syill haven't earned my trust for switching to curse and going to 1.0 with no updates inbetween yeah good luck Sqaud as well.

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Wait, if i read the first 5 posts right, then soon we will have to pay 25$ or about £16 to access threads older than three months? This scres over everyone on the forum who has a rocket builder company.

Who thoight this would be a great idea? If Sqaud, then go ahead and don't listen to your fanbase again, go shoot yourself in the foot.

Ahem. *poke* *nudge* *coughjokecough*

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