Okay, folks!

We're gonna be moving NAC (the Forum) to a new server host soon.

Some minor forum upgrades, chiefly back end stuff, will be addressed, including SSL.

And there may be some interruption of service, but no worries. Things will keep trucking along.

Further details will be provided as they become available!

One of our regulars, Dragun, is heading a Master Duel Tournament for members of the forum to participate in:

http://neoarkcradle.net/forum/showthread...#pid507937

For more details.

Please make sure you have the time and resources to dedicate to playing in a timely manner.

The tournament is an unofficial event, not hosted by Konami. It will be Round Robin format, and will be played throughout the month of February 2023.

Again, please make sure you have the time to participate, and the resources to build a Deck that satisfies the tournament's restrictions and requirements.

Yu-Gi-Oh! is historically bad with regards to female character wiring.

It has always been poor with regards to its female character cast.

This is not because of one fairly par-for-course and average screen writer being at fault for female character writing in Yu-Gi-Oh! being poor.

The one time we had a different head writer, Kamishiro Tsutomu with ARC-V, the show was still terrible with regards to its female cast writing.

This is due to a long series of things regarding Japanese culturally ingrained sexism, how toy IPs are laned between genders, and the target and periphary audiences simply do not want female characters to have significant focus in what is a power fantasy for boys.

Correlation is not Causation.

Blaming Yoshida for the lack of strong prominent female characters will get you Warned by the staff going into the future.

Please do not continue to perpetuate this myth.

Hi everyone!

I've previously talked about this before, but since I'm seeing Stop Forum Spam doing a damn fine work, among other things,

users now no longer require admin verification when registering. The only thing new users need to do from now on is verifying their email address.

We required email verification & admin verification for a long time. This has been primarily due to certain troublemakers repeatedly getting past their bans, so we had to slow them down somehow. Thankfully, such times are behind us, but the practice just kind of stayed. However, spambots were now an issue, which were also held back by the system, until I figured out how Stop Forum Spam worked on MyBB.

Unfortunately, it also wasn't a good practice in the long term. We've had several users emailing us or DMing our Twitter account regarding their account registration. I'll also admit that I haven't always gotten back to these inquiries, and that is on me and me alone. I want to apologize for causing inconvenience with my negligence.

Hopefully, with the new settings, the registration process will be less problematic from now on. There have been reports of the forum sending multiple verification emails, I'm not sure what's the cause behind that. If anyone's experiencing such issues, please let us know! I'd want to see how frequently it happens.

Lastly, Happy Easter to everyone! Consider this an Easter gift, perhaps?

Arynis

That is all.

Hi everyone!

If you don't know yet, Cloudflare had a security breach. You can read about it here in detail:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-rep...arser-bug/
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero...il?id=1139

You can find an unofficial list of affected sites here: https://github.com/pirate/sites-using-cloudflare

If you have accounts on any of the affected sites, change your passwords, just to be safe.

What does this mean for Neo Ark Cradle?

• I have already taken the necessary actions. Everything relevant is secured!
  
• You don't need to change your passwords on NAC. Our site is fine.
  

Hi everyone!

As I previously said, our warning system has been updated after discussing it with the rest of the Staff. We felt the previous warning expiration dates were too short and thus too lenient, so we increased the expiration dates. The new values are the following:



Everything else is unchanged - warning levels stay the same, so do temporary ban times. No new warnings have been added.

Forum Warnings and Levels thread for the full system overview here: http://neoarkcradle.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=4903

Hi everyone,

This is a heads-up announcement that we'll be changing the way warnings work on the forum very soon, we are still working out the final details with the Staff. This is to ensure that people who violate our rules enough will be sufficiently punished by the system and not dance around the fence. Hopefully that should ease the issues surrounding the forum discussions.

We are also aiming to change our registration settings, so signing up for our forum will be much less of a buttpain.

Details coming soon on both matters, once everything is sorted out and is implemented.

Furthermore, if you feel anyone is causing trouble in a discussion, please use the report button.

This cannot be stressed enough, please report any post or member who you feel are causing issues. Alternately, you can contact the Staff Members either via Private Message, our Discord Server, or Twitter.

The Staff is not omnipresent, but we are more than happy to resolve any issues. However, if we don't know of these problems, we can't help out.

Me and Ark, as well the other staff members, want this place to be an enjoyable site for everyone.

If you have any comments or feedback on the matter, please don't hesitate to share your views.

Arynis

Probably should of put this up, but happy holidays everyone.

Whatever domination, religion, or culture, happy holidays. And a happy New Year to all of you.

2016 might of sucked, but let's hope for a happier 2017.

Love and Best Wishes!

http://neoarkcradle.net/forum/showthread...#pid412649
And for those who care:

The Duel Terminal Master guide's lore as a Christmas present

Hi everyone,

In the past months, we have gotten several inquiries and emails from newly registered users. Users thinking they were immediately banned, or thinking they may have done something wrong. Basically people being confused and worried. In reality nobody did anything wrong, and unfortunately it is my fault this confusion came to be in the first place, as I was the one who made the setting in question.

Basically, our forum requires newly registered accounts to be activated by Administrators, as we've had history of some notorious ban evaders. Users awaiting activation could browse the forum, but not being able to post until their accounts were activated. However, an issue started when an user I won't name would create accounts to avoid bans, and while they were able to view the forum as an user awaiting activation, they'd use that information to harass our members, rather persistently. In order to avoid this happening, I went ahead and changed the permissions for the User Awaiting Activation usergroup so they would not be able to view the forum at all, save for the same sections they'd see as a Guest - or at least that was the plan.

Unfortunately, what I didn't anticipate was that instead of seeing an empty forum page due to the way I changed the settings, newly registered users would get a No Permission Page or something along the lines. This caused many a worry and confusion for a long time, which I feel pretty bad about in retrospect. After talking it over with the rest of the Staff, the account activation is not going away, but hopefully as of today, the permission issue should be fixed and there should not be any error messages anymore.

I deeply apologize to every new user, be it a posting newbie or lurker alike, for the confusion and complication. As always, if anyone has problems with their account, you can use our Contact Us page or send us a message on Twitter.  (If there are still issues, I'll give it another check.)