I would like this forum more if we were allowed to host an anual chess game.
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As a lurker/casual FEU enjoyer, itās pretty good. However thatās because I can look from the outside whenever thereās anā¦ incident and just laugh it all off. It must be hell for moderators to handle those (there were two particular incidents over the last few months. I think you know which ones). Personally I never had any problem (unless thereās someone out there that absolutely hates me in particular for something)
Only issue is, this forum is about Fire Emblem. And I absolutely hate Fire Emblem with a burning passion
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I feel it doesnāt really do a good job of keeping harmful users (harmful, not just annoying) out, obviously naming names is a recipe for disaster but yeah, I do think there are some big problems here.
It is all we have however so while I donāt find it great I do appreciate it as a platform for releasing works.
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Why do i only get to vote for one option?
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This forum is very good for getting into hacking, its why I joined. However I wish some of the wizards shared their knowledge with us commoners in a language we can understand. Some hacking knowledge is guarded like a Sphinx guards their secrets
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Like what?
If your gripe is about a lack of sharing:
Itās essentially impossible for someone with some kind of specific knowledge to know that they should be the one to specifically make some type of resource/document/tutorial on a topic, especially a niche one. Youāre probably sitting on a bunch of knowledge yourself that you deemed too mundane to try to teach.
If you want to know something, asking about it is the best way to get an answer (bonus points if the answer might also benefit someone else). One of the big benefits of a forum (rather than Discord/Skype/etc.) is their relative permanence and ease-of-searchability.
If your gripe is about not understanding whatās already been shared:
Thatās another opportunity to ask questions! Itās equally as hard to find the right way to talk about something as it is to find a thing to talk about. Gauging the knowledge or experience of someone is really hard, and itās all too common for the person receiving some kind of explanation to simply go hmmm I see without actually understanding. Youāve got to ask for things to be broken up into finer and finer pieces.
And then, if youāre still not getting it, it might be because youāve got some research to do on your own. A large number of hacking questions get roadblocked by needing to know some kind of programming language (generally, THUMB assembly or C for GBA code, or some other language for tools or other systems). Sometimes you really do need to justā¦ write the code yourself.
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@Brober Learning to code is not an easy nor a quick process. I think you should instead be grateful that we usually share our code publicly, include comments/documentation, and answer questions people have. Just because I havenāt written a guide on every hack Iāve made doesnāt mean Iām trying to guard some secret knowledge - itās just a lot of work to create more documentation and tutorials. I sometimes joke that doing something is āwizard exclusiveā, but itās not some club: itās just people who have put in the work and asked questions over and over until they understood more. Information is not guarded: you can only get the @help:wizardry role on discord by actively helping people in #gba_coding_help, so I disagree with your opinion.
You also have to keep in mind that there are only so many of us and that we do other things than help people all day. Iām always happy to go over snippets of code with people when I have the time, but I canāt help much if someone says āthis isnāt workingā and doesnāt give me anything to go on. There are going to be things you need to try out on your own a number of times if you want to get anywhere with coding.
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Right, I merely meant thereās a huge learning curve of terms/ a lot of jargon and a lot of people just talk in terms that are assumed to be common knowledge. Took a while to learn the ālanguageā of hacking I guess is what Iām saying.
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I find the community (I say that because a lot of this happens on discord too) overwhelmingly helpful and supportive when it comes to helping people learn the ins and outs of modding. Iāve never asked a question and not got some feedback and help. Sometimes what Iāve wanted to do has been too complex so Iāve had to give up, but by and large people are there and they are very generous in how willing they are to take time out of their day to help.
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So a week has passed. Iām planning on closing the poll soon. If you have any last minute regrets on your answers, change them. If not, you are happy with the answer you made.
I think now may be a good time to close this topic, before we all end up discussing things that are not immediately related to the topic.
Whilst I appreciate a discussion for benefit of the site, I think that is more of a place for that in DMs. It always makes me a bit dissapointed to see topics that are meant to be fun, lighthearted or just a simple poll with question and answer evolve into a discussion.
I know about closing a poll, but donāt know how to close a topic. Only the mods can close it, would rather have it close before it gets crazy again.
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Ah right, I forgot we mere mortals donāt have the power for that! 
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the illusion of choice
making a thread
posting a hack
three years of FEU discourse either way
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Thereās always the one 
that spirals it out of control
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