I'll take the blame for this situation- you see, there have been a spate of abusive "OMG I HATE YOU AND YOUR GAME AND YOU'VE KILLED MY CREATIVE SPIRIT AND I'M QUITTING!" posts, which have been contributing to an increasingly negative and hostile environment on our forums.

And so, I asked our forum moderators to be on the lookout for these kinds of threads, and once discovered, to move them to that special place where we store... well, those special threads.

However, not every "I'm Leaving" thread is a bad one- I just spent some time looking over the thread you are discussing here, and it appears very reasonable with some thoughtful insight.

We are going to make an extra effort to discern between reasonable departure discussions, and those incendiary threads where folks are simply looking to draw some blood.

In the meantime, please also understand that Danicia isn't the only moderator here on the PotBS forums. I've noticed some misplaced ire of late, but Dani is far too much of a professional to engage in a debate or correcting people's misconceptions on how forum moderation works.

The bottom line is this: At the end of the day, the buck stops with me. If you don't agree with a policy or the way something was handled, don't take it out on our fantastic forum team. They are just doing as they have been asked- a damn fine job of it, if you don't mind my saying so.

So there you have it, if you really feel the need to kick someone in their soft-parts, aim for mine. Or, better yet, you can accept our combined apology and re-engage with the interrupted thread, already in progress: Thanks for all the fish

Either way, I'm wearing a cup.

Best,
Aether

We're committed to responding in some way to appeals within one week, as has been posted numerous times.

If I edit an appeal to note it is "in discussion," it's because it looks like I'll be able to respond to later appeals before everyone in the 2DSC has gotten to comment in our admin area. The forum doesn't allow many options for sorting threads.

Also keep in mind, I'm the only one obligated to work on appeals... the rest of the 2DSC are volunteers, and flung far and wide across the globe. That's why some appeals take longer than others.

What server, what time?

I am aware of some bluescreens on Vista when you try to quit the game. I was wondering if the bluescreen happened while while you were playing the game.

What is the stop error code? Also, you may want to run memtest (http://www.memtest86.com/) to make sure there are no problems with your RAM.

The list of ship changes will be available soon.

To be clear, the speed changes in 1.2 are the result of fixing a bug. It's quite likely that there will be follow-up changes based on how those play out.

There are thousands of daily transactions on the auction houses for all servers except one.

Are you on Vista? Can you post a dxdiag? So this happens while playing and not on client shutdown?

@ Xeos

Are you still running through your tests with 2 clients running on the same machine or 1?

I hope you'll test out the changes we made when 1.2 goes to testbed. Let me know if you still see any of these- I think we fixed them all.