But there isn't a year#s work to do on the insimenator?

Surely Brittanyhocake is a socktroll?

Wanna nip over to the other place for a nice cuppa?

Who are we talking about?  Who did what?

The tomatoes.  I may have a page I can link you to...

Yes the 2nd one.  Someone used that as the palette for the winning colour scheme for the site that I won't talk about any more  The colours were nice though!

I like tomato red, tomato green and cream.

And besides, some of us quite like watching people fight

Exactly.  Even if you have to start completely from scratch, keeping the same staff and "rules" will ensure the community remains distinct.

Maybe it phones home?

Delphy I promise you it is a complete fluke that I came on here to post this and found you happened to have just posted, so bear in mind my post was actually inspired by Pescado's talk about expenses he might incur!  I don't want to stir up any old arguments we might have had

My position is that once any project like the Pescado-Insimenator starts to look like costing serious money, I am right back to my day-1 stance which is why can't the creators from InSim just start their own free/pocketmoney sites, or accept the many offers of space on other people's small sites, at no extra cost to the community?

Ok so InSimenator was also a community that wishes to continue having an entity, but surely the community is the forum posts - why ever must an online community require there to be hundreds of game content attachments taking up expensive space and data server resources in the forum?  Links to the new homes of the refugee downloads can be posted instead, and they can carry on being *discussed* and supported in the new community forum.

If there is any comfort in this, I think the time when E&K stopped hanging out with us all was when they started to cream off the money, and it could indicate they felt a bit guilty.  So that would have been about a year back?

Not only that, but VB is notorious for being heavy on resources and getting hosting accounts suspended!

Anouk, I tend to be a bit sparing with the emoticons, but that was meant to be a joke.  Pescado has already stated that he would not insist on changing the ambience of the site.

Pes, if you're worried about exceeding resources, can't you just bludgeon the admins into killing all those nightmarish Who is On Top of Me threads?   That should halve the load, and might induce me to visit more often (which will put the loading back up - you can't win)