piL posted:

Between the signup from the thread, a friend of mine, and his wife, I should be good for the beta. That said, part of me wants to have a nice guild with no goons in name that's friendly and cooperative (though secretly in league with goons-as-bandits), only to reveal after a long while that your friendly helpers and nighttime raiders were really the same all along.

Edit: Perhaps a good way to train up characters for goonery without a "kill me" floating next to their name.

piL posted:

Between the signup from the thread, a friend of mine, and his wife, I should be good for the beta. That said, part of me wants to have a nice guild with no goons in name that's friendly and cooperative (though secretly in league with goons-as-bandits), only to reveal after a long while that your friendly helpers and nighttime raiders were really the same all along.

Edit: Perhaps a good way to train up characters for goonery without a "kill me" floating next to their name.

Colbear posted:

Anyways, signing up for all these things. I tried to get myself a beta slot using alt emails, but I don't know if that ever actually worked.

Community Manager on 4-12-2012 posted:

To all eager souls waiting for the BETA-confirmation emails.

We are hoping to have them sent out next week, so don't worry if you haven't gotten any confirmation yet.

I recommend keeping an eye on the twitter and facebook-pages for updates:
http://www.facebook.com/SalemGame
http://twitter.com/SalemTheGame

Apple Craft posted:

The developers seem to be having a hard time telling one week from the next.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...=1#post13688402


You'll note the date of that post is today... So, it looks like another week to go. And then, maybe another if things keep going this way.

dvorak posted:

I can't wait to join the "secret MMO society" and "ruin every game we touch".

Going to try to get in as soon as I can.

Crazy goddamn pubbie posted:

With all that being said, I am afraid that you guys should be bothered about Goons, because I highly doubt that you will be able to organize as powerful community as Goons are to have an opposite force against them. Goons exist for a while now and they are very organized, as I said, with its hierarchy and stuff. Not many of them even know most of their secrets. For example, you will NEVER...again..you will NEVER see or hear their leader or high-ranked members to give out orders directly to somebody. Instead they do it (as far as I know from spying on them in UO and some other games) in a chain..one gave it to another, that one gave to another etc so that when you guys gonna cry and break your keyboards on forums you wont be able to accuse key members of their community..you will only know little names, usually those who COMMITED the criminal act, but not those, who stand behind all this.

Nuclearmonkee posted:

Nuclearmonkee posted:

The potential for driving pubbies to insanity seems pretty tempting. Might have to try it.

Insane Pubbie posted:

like in any other organization out there they do not inform every memmber of their organization. Because if they would there would be no point in organization as such. Try working for any big company, for example Southwestern. At first glance, you will be introduced to a summer job in USA where you would spend your summer selling crappy books door-to-door. Later, you will find out that ur actually a member of a cult. And if you will work several years for SW you might eventually become an official employee and will be told way more info about their true activities, rather what regular individual contractors are told (and once you start working for SW you become an individual contractor, which means that if u are mugged, raped or killed during your summer job the company does not have any responsibility for it).

Same with Goons. Goons and Somethign Awful is not actually the real name of their society. The real name is something that I wont say here because well..I dont want my house destoryed in the first week in Salem, but Im just saying. Former members of their Guild have way more power and I bet you dont know their names. They never grief for fun sake. THey only do it on purpose. If theres an interest for them. In EVE they tried to help to destory another alliance so as to become #1, not because they are actually trying to fight evil.

They are VERY organized. Being a simple member you are rarely told you the clan is gonna do tonight. They just say you where to go and what to do...not why, not who is behind it and of course, everything done is under responsibility of those goons who do it, not the former members who make ENERMOUS profit from avarage goon actions. After Goons do theor business ppl get on forums and make billion threads crying and tyring to persuade the staff to ban them. And they can only name only few ppl who they saw doing this. And they are usually randomly generated names, not actual characters.

Salem will be a game when everybody will eventually have to pay for their actions...and believe me, Gooons...or what they are really called name I wont say here...are highly organized to do whatever they want. In the first month or so there will be a huge alliance formed which will become the largest trade center in Salem. If there will be another one - there will be war. Ppl who would decide to not to join any of them and live on their own will soon be offered protection money..so better take sides guys.

I don't care what you might think. Im not a part of Goons and I am not going to join them. This is just what I know since I and few of my friends were investigating them for years. We managed to get to the high ranks...not the top of iceberg, of course, but still...we have way more to say than I did. Im just trying to warn you now. Why? Because its not just a crowd of griefers. THey do look so because they hire random 13 years old whiny kids who only want griefing. But this army of kids is ruled by several VERY experienced MMO powergamers and they are smarter than all of you all together. Even if you manage to drive them away you might soon find out that people who you trusted all the time will dry loot you. And yes, they do send spies to every potential enemy and/or place to make profit at.

Action-Hank posted:

This loving pubbie...

Stoic Commie posted:

We're going to do all of these horrible things and more, but the poor bastard just can't figure out why.

Snatch Duster posted:

Oh, he knows why.

Stoic Commie posted:

We're going to do all of these horrible things and more, but the poor bastard just can't figure out why.

Insane Pubbie posted:

With all that being said, I am afraid that you guys should be bothered about Goons, because I highly doubt that you will be able to organize as powerful community as Goons are to have an opposite force against them. Goons exist for a while now and they are very organized, as I said, with its hierarchy and stuff. Not many of them even know most of their secrets. For example, you will NEVER...again..you will NEVER see or hear their leader or high-ranked members to give out orders directly to somebody. Instead they do it (as far as I know from spying on them in UO and some other games) in a chain..one gave it to another, that one gave to another etc so that when you guys gonna cry and break your keyboards on forums you wont be able to accuse key members of their community..you will only know little names, usually those who COMMITED the criminal act, but not those, who stand behind all this.

Bozonofski posted:

Also I think I'm out of the link or something because I haven't gotten any goonchainmails. Is there a mailing list or something?

PhantomZero posted:

Why do the horses look like some kind of hosed up Dali painting.

The character faces look kind of hosed up too.

Is this a horror game?

Action-Hank posted:

This loving pubbie...




How does he know all the goon secrets?! He must have been a spy Prince Dragon rank or a Grand Crusader rank on the thou-shall-not-be-named goon hierarchy.