Thanks to the Squad Development Team and The Forum Moderating Team

[ZooNamedGames]

I just wanted to take some time out of my day today to personally make a thread saying thank you to @SQUAD, and all the developers helping to make this fantastic game. Despite the fact that there are a few problems going around I still wanted to thank the team for everything they've done the last few years. I can say from personal experience that this game has definitely changed my life completely, and without a doubt it has changed my life for the better. It's been a ride for nearly five years now since the first public release, and it has been a wild ride for both the game and the community behind it. Kerbal Space Program is no doubt the result of many hours of care and hope put into the game for those of you behind the development of it, and it shows. This is a beautiful game that has brought some many to learn the awesomeness of spaceflight and aerospace engineering.

Speaking personally, I was begging for a game of this kind nearly 6 months before I discovered it, and from first hearing of the game's existence, it wasn't 48 hours before I owned it and was playing it for myself, and four years later, I'm still playing it, and still loving every second. This game challenges the mind in a fashion that other games can only dream about, not to mention having the comical humor the game posses. Squad has done an amazing job carrying for it's game, it's fans and it's community.

The fact that Squad's developers such as @NathanKell, @Arsonide and @RoverDude have been so active in the growth and development of this community has only helped improved what the game has to offer. Squad has always listened to the community's hopes and dreams for this game, and not every game developer does. Some keep simply to the idea in their own head and never listen to what the people might have to say. Thanks to this, Squad has gone down paths they might not have without the community's input. That input may be through requests, successful mods for the game, or even, the one off comment by someone that happened to be interesting.

Speaking of this community, I want to make a call out to the amazing moderating team managing this very forum. We have 28 fantastic moderators who have been looking over this community very closely, and more to their credit, they've been more than just moderators, they've been dear friends to me. I have to give a specific shoutout to @Snark and @Deddly as both of them have been there to let me explain myself when I've had a bad day and it showed here on the forums.

Many of us may want to be upset with the moderators for some of their actions, but having known so many of them for so long I can finally say that they do in fact do it with good reason. One of the curses of being a moderator is that you might have to be the bad guy if you must establish order. When they do something, they have reason, so if you ever have a question as to why they did something then I highly suggest you ask any of them as to why they did what they did. As harsh as they sometimes must be, there is a person on the other side of that forum avatar, and they understand why you might be confused or upset and they want to help allow you to enjoy the forum more.

The moderators hope that by pointing out your wrongs and misdoings, that you will avoid them in the future. They don't mean to do it to be mean, but rather to allow you to learn your boundaries and with them known, enjoy the community they have for you. They're like "bumpers" you use for bowling when your a kid, they're not they're to ruin your fun, but rather to provide a guide as to what they want you stay within, for your own enjoyment (and others) using the forums.

That being said, the moderators are of course, human. They can make mistakes and as such I would make a simple comment as a normal nothing special member of this community. One of the things that made this community so great when I first joined was that moderators used their power selectively based on the issue at hand. As written in the community guidelines (specifically the second sentence of 1.4), moderators should look at every infraction individually. Simply put, moderators should look at every offense and judge whether it; could lead to further offenses of the same kind or greater; if it poses a current harm to the forums; or if it could to additional offenses by the poster or others. I'm more than certain that the forums could find a robot to filter through all posts made on this forum and find if each of those posts had content that would be violating the rules, but Squad would not do that because again, they want to judge each offense fairly, and humanly.

I will admit that with all my personal life issues and past infractions, I'll likely never be moderator material. However, being a person that will spend the rest of my time here dreaming about one, I can only ask that moderators just keep doing the best you always have. Some of us will be ripe material for moderating this forum, some of us, like myself, will not.

Like all communities, members will come and go. Some will be loved, some will be hated, some will be memorable, some will unknown. I personally hope to be at least a friendly face that most can enjoy talking to. Having said that, make sure to enjoy having those members you have, since they may end up vanishing from this forum. I know I've lost several cool friends that I only knew through this forum, such as @zekes and @_jack. So make sure to talk to them while you can as you might not have the chance some time from now.

 

Shoutouts to some of the biggest members of this forum to me (that haven't already been pinged): 

@MK3424, thank you for being a good friend and being so helpful for so many years. Offering to run so much stuff for me for so little (so little it should illegal), and especially for being there when it was at it's darkest for me.
@adsii1970, thank you for being there recently as I've struggled. As well as providing wisdom and even, a good game of chess.

@Vanamonde, thank you for being one of the first moderators to actually understand me as a person when I got here.

@Spartwo / @gag09, I know I don't speak to you guys often much anymore, but still thank you so much for accepting me into your roleplaying communities and letting me one of the idiots to parade our egos. Negativity has spread over what was a decent friendship at first and as the moderators say (and we know first hand now), roleplaying can be fun, but it can also bring out the worst of us, and it can even harm good solid friendships.

There are so many others I want to credit but sadly I cannot due to my browser breaking. I will say to those I cannot individually credit, I still thank you so much for being apart of my experience here on the forums.

 

 

This all said, I simply want to say yet again, thank you Squad for what is now, 4 years and growing of entertainment education, and thank you, the Forum Moderating Team for keeping this place happy and healthy for as long as it has.

Heck, thanks for the fact if you actually read all of this.

[Spartwo]

Bruh, don't hold grudges.

[ZooNamedGames]

4 minutes ago, Spartwo said:

Bruh, don't hold grudges.

I don't  . To me, everything we did during those stupid RPs is water under the bridge and hundreds of miles out to sea! I just hope we can still hold a decent Skype discussion around KSP, laugh and enjoy it like we used to.

[adsii1970]

Did RSP finally get pulled?

[ZooNamedGames]

31 minutes ago, adsii1970 said:

Did RSP finally get pulled?

Nah, just had a launch not too long ago.