I was just wondering - why isn't there a forum for UK and European simmers like there is for the Australian & New Zealand simmers?? I'm quite new here so I don't know if there has been one in the past or something but it seems like there should be.
I joined this forum to meet new people & share my love of the Sims but the time difference means I can never really have a real-time conversation with anyone, since it seems like so many people here are American or at least live in North America. If I post something you can guarantee I have to wait 12+ hours for a response.
Having a forum for those of us in GMT or other such timezones would be a huge help.
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A quote from SimGuruDrake when she had posted the changes to the forum back in 2016... http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/891676/changes-coming-to-the-forums#latest
We actually do have a lot of members from the EU sector that's probably on when you're one during those hours...
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I agree though, as a UK member, I find in many game forums across the board, including multiplayer games, both EA and not, that I can feel isolated from all of the action that goes on in opposing timezones. Meh, at least we don't have Trump.
I am from the future European States Union. CEST time tomorrow ahaha so one hour more than in the UK.
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Just as the UK section was eventually dissolved, the ANZ one will do the same one day.
It's not allowed to discuss politics here, so you might want to edit your post.
Was there an explanation given as to why that Australian forum exists? I feel like as long as you're speaking in English you should just do so in the main forum.
Half the time, we don't speak american english.
So grab your togs, put on your thongs, and let's drive by maccas on the way for a dip.
Actually, my point wasn't about having a forum so we can talk about stuff, it was mostly about the fact that conversation here (for me at least) sometimes feels stagnant because of the time difference. To have somewhere we can talk about things in real time would be helpful and even if you're not living in the UK or Europe - say you're in the US but you're up late nights/early mornings - you could join in as well. Anyway, I'm not demanding we need one, I was just wondering why there isn't one.
Luckily I know lots of Aussie friends on the web and understood half of that.
au/nz have a forum for themselves because we 7 hours ahead of america, most of the time when we are awake, theyre asleep.
also because au/nz is better
I feel I should be making a comment about kiwis and sheep, but I won't.
You guys aren't the only ones. The UK is around 6 hours ahead of the US - depending on the state or daylight savings time. Usually, when Americans are just waking up, we've already gone through half the day.
Is American a language now?
The only words I know is sidewalk for pavement, trash can for rubbish bin and mail box for post box!
On a serious not though I see nothing wrong with just one forum for each language. There are a lot of English speakers here who do not speak English as a first language but can still speak it and would have more people to talk to than on a forum with only a minor number of Simmers in a certain language. I can imagine that the Spanish speaking community is quite large as well as is the German community
"American English" is a thing
"wahoo" - aquaman
It is a variety of English like Australia English or South African English
According to the forum rules (however I could be mistaken about this) everyone has to post in english on the forums anyway - except for sections created for a specific language. That being said, I do understand that if we ever did get our own forum, it would be up to us as UK/EU players to keep it alive by regularly taking part, there's no point in having an empty/dead forum.
It's not about time zones, we can all post in the main parts of the forum at any time, keeping the whole place active 24/7.
The ANZ forum only really exists because we used to have a completely separate forum, the little corner here is for transitioning to the big scary US forum.
thread by state. The only thing I get out of this is that some ppl feel discriminated and sort of socially excluded and virtually blocked from such subdivided threads.
I'm German and never felt the need to have an extra thread here. Yes, there is a German Sims Forum, but to be honest, I feel more comfortable here than over there which is why I have stopped using the German forum since july 2017. Especially after the latest ongoing over there where t-rated forum rules weren't taking serious enough. Although a few things have changed now, (thank you EA), but the bitter taste remain the same.
Here I've always loved that rules were taken very serious and that Moderators here "live by what they preach."
I had never ever to wait 12 hours on an answer to my question as someone posted here. Whether from moderators nor from forum users. I'd even say that questions asked here, public or private, receive faster answers than in my native language (German) forum. I find it not recommended to subdivide this english speaking forum, because some ppl feel offended and I can understand why. Just by reading some sarcastic replys from some of you should tell the forum owners why it isn't such a good idea to subdivide this forum. Whether you are ahead or behind of central US time, for the sake of freedom separation or subdividing in a forum is wrong. Especially in todays times. BTW, I'm 6-9 hours ahead of US time and it has never bothered me.
If you guys want to meat up with ppl from your state to chat, create an extra chat thread and meet, but leave the forum global. The english Sims forum should not be devided by origin like a chat software.
This all been said, for any gramatical mistakes I apologize in advance. At least I'm trying to get my point across. And last but not least I want to give out a huge THANK YOU to rosemow who has been very helpful through all these times here. I don't know how she manage this very time consuming job, but she's a sure blessing to this forum!