Raven Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 (edited) Y'hear me? Good. For those unfamiliar with RTU: RTU = Rate the Unit. It's happened in just about every FE game forum so far, except here. I'd appreciate it if people held off until FE13 released in Europe and we've had a decent amount of time to play it and get to know the units enough to contribute to such topics. Edited February 7, 2013 by Raven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruity Insanity Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Okay. ... Not that I had any intentions of starting an FE13 RTU thread anyway... But yeah. Okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinRei Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 I could understand if they were made en masse or the titles contained spoilers, but why shouldn't people make such a topic just because some others can't contribute to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Better idea: don't make RtU topics even after FE13 comes out in Europe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Mir Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Better idea: don't make RtU topics even after FE13 comes out in Europe. Agreed; the last thing I want to see is the same crap that went down in the Tellius games' RTUs. That alone is more than enough reason for RTU's to cease entirely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CinderSkye Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 What terrifying thing happens in these topics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinRei Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 I'm slightly curious too. Especially since rating in this game should be different, since it'd basically be Class choice + Parent choice + Skill selection, since you can cap every stat anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLeafeon Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 What terrifying thing happens in these topics? I can only guess flamewars of the worst kind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samias Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Rating the children would be an exercise in awful, if that wasn't enough discouragement. There isn't any standard to expect from them at all, except maybe Brady. Plus, I can already see people who rate Donnel as low as he deserves fighting with the people who go "well, my Donnel was awesome after grinding!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silith Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Rating the children would be an exercise in awful, if that wasn't enough discouragement. There isn't any standard to expect from them at all, except maybe Brady. Plus, I can already see people who rate Donnel as low as he deserves fighting with the people who go "well, my Donnel was awesome after grinding!" Less of this. The goal of this topic is to NOT have any talking about the usefullness of characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Mir Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 (edited) I can only guess flamewars of the worst kind. Yeah... Long story short, RTUs also bring out the worst in people. Edited February 7, 2013 by Levant Fortner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duff Ostrich Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 The FE4 RTU was fun back when we did it. I'll take any excuse to trash Dew and Aideen for being terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 You could just not click on the thread if you are not ready to discuss... I think you should encourage people to speak their mind on the forums at all states of the game regardless of the accuracy down the road. I think it's healthy for people to make statements and being supported / proven wrong by other members. It accelerates progress -- more beneficial than trying to not offend some members' feelings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 You could just not click on the thread if you are not ready to discuss... I think you should encourage people to speak their mind on the forums at all states of the game regardless of the accuracy down the road. I think it's healthy for people to make statements and being supported / proven wrong by other members. It accelerates progress -- more beneficial than trying to not offend some members' feelings. Look, dude, there's MY SACRED FREE SPEECH and then there's creating threads that have historically proven to be little more than a hotbed of bad blood and flamebaiting. We didn't even learn anything useful from the previous RtUs except that they were a really bad idea that should stay dead. Plus, this time I'm the guy who would have to deal with the inevitable butthurt fanboys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckingbird Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 You could just not click on the thread if you are not ready to discuss... I think you should encourage people to speak their mind on the forums at all states of the game regardless of the accuracy down the road. I think it's healthy for people to make statements and being supported / proven wrong by other members. It accelerates progress -- more beneficial than trying to not offend some members' feelings. It's progressive to (admittedly unintentionally) exclude people from conversations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espinosa Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 I think it would contribute to discussing the new game and circulating the more advanced knowledge of mechanics and LTCing specifics (to which a few people consistently contributed in the former RTU threads). But yeah, do wait for us Europeans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZemZem Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Basically, flame wars happened. -Wil, Nino, and Priscilla (for a stupid reason) got a bit of heat in the FE7 RTU. -Someone bumped up the results thread in the FE8 RTU which stirred up a debate -MU didn't get a 10/10 in the FE12 RTU, which pissed off quite a bit of people. -And in the FE9/FE10 RTUs, shit went down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riariadne Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Better idea: don't make RtU topics even after FE13 comes out in Europe. This would probably be for the best at the very lest they should be kept to one thread. we never needed 50 per game, they were a waste of space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volke29 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 How about you DONT CLICK ON RTU THREADS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 How about you DONT CLICK ON RTU THREADS. You seem to be missing the point that all the RTU's did were bring up flamewars no matter who clicked on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volke29 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Not true: http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?app=forums&module=forums§ion=findpost&pid=2275673 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 How about that's not a RtU thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espinosa Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 I don't see why flame wars that occurred at some time in the past (often involving users who misbehaved or got into trouble consistently) would put an end to RTU threads as such, especially considering how much information could be derived from those threads as a whole. It's not RTU that's the problem, that's flame wars and people who start them. If we were to avoid every risk of conflict, we'd either be completely aloof or completely silent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 I'm being selective in my judgment because running the FE8 and 6 RtUs made me hate them a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 I'm being selective in my judgment because running the FE8 and 6 RtUs made me hate them a lot. Not to mention the Tellius ones later on kinda exploded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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