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 Glossary
Below is a list of most of the lingo used on the Lionhead websites. This is list is subject to change and we’ll adding more terms as we go along. If you have a question/suggestion about some forum terminology, please email webmaster@lionhead.com.
The administrators control and administer the Lionhead (community) websites and community. If you have problems regarding the forums or one of our websites, then contact them. Administrators work for Lionhead Studios and you can recognize them by their red username.
Members who were High Karma on our previous forums will get the possibility to run their own blog, as do several development team members of Lionhead Studios.
BWGAME was the online and multiplayer section of the original Black&White; members could create and manage their own clans, see websites created by their creatures and look for online multiplayer games. The service seized in 2005.
These are websites ran by community members and dedicated to Lionhead and/or our games. We’ve always been big supporters of our fan sites and so they are very important to us. Sometimes they even manage to publish news before it’s on the official website, but don’t ask us how!
The forums remain the same, with identical sub-boards for all Lionhead games and additional sub-boards that are of specific interest to the Lionhead Community members.
The Lionhead Video Diaries are created by our community manager Sam Van Tilburgh and aren’t overly produced marketing videos. This is the real thing: honest, pure and simple. Starring a vast array of developers in our studio, we will be taking in-depth looks at Fable 2, the Central Technology Group and of course we will also cover many other topics. To download the videos please click here.
Modding refers to user created content for one of our games. It means taking the game as a base but creating your own content that can be used in the game. For example some people created sets for The Movies, costumes for Fable, etc. All our games had a fair amount of modded content made by the community and we’ve got dedicated sub-forums for each of them.
In our new community software we’ve also enabled the Picture Gallery for certain members to upload their snapshots. These members will be appointed by Lionhead Admins and we’re certainly looking at getting members of the game teams at Lionhead to upload some nice shots too!
Our private messaging system can be seen as an internal email for community members. If Private Messaging (PM) is enabled in your profile you can receive messages from other people that only you can read, hence the addition of ‘private’.
Every member has his / her own unique profile page on the community website. It can hold different kinds of information, from your avatar to recent posts and from your date of birth to your favourite RSS feeds. All of this is optional of course, we don’t want to force anyone into giving info they don’t want anyone to know. It will make you look suspicious though if you have a completely empty profile!
In order to get the full benefit of the community website and to add your own content and opinion to it you’ll have to register. The registration is done with a Windows Live ID, which you need to obtain your unique Lionhead Account and username. You’ll also have to login with your Windows Live ID but your name on the website will be your Lionhead Account.
In a well oiled community it’s important to have certain rules. For some reason it doesn’t govern itself and through experience we know that we need some guiding rules. These rules (Terms of Use) will stay the same as on the old forums and we think they’re all pretty sensible and necessary. Also of great value are the " Guidelines to these Forums".
The Terms of Use are the rules of the Lionhead Websites, what is allowed and especially what is not allowed. Please read these terms carefully before posting or adding content to the website.
The Movies Online (TMO) was a separate website from the Lionhead Community website. TMO was completely dedicated to The Movies game and the online part of the game and closed down the 5th December 2008.
Windows Live ID is a "unified-login" service developed and provided by Microsoft that allows users to log in to many websites using one account including the Lionhead websites.
On the old Lionhead forums you could pick you avatar from a set list, or use a custom avatar. Depending on your member rank, you got additional space to upload your avatar to the Lionhead servers. This functionality remains unchanged, albeit that there is now a much wider selection of avatars to choose from.
To bump a thread on a forum is to post a reply to it purely in order to raise the thread's profile. This will typically return it to the top of the list of active threads. Bumping old threads to get them back at the top of the list is not encouraged.
These sub-forums existed on the old Lionhead forums and this remains unchanged. The history of these boards also remains intact; fully searchable and post-able.
These sub-forums existed on the old Lionhead forums and this remains unchanged. The history of these boards also remains intact; fully searchable and post-able.
Flaming refers to directly and deliberately insulting other members of the community. This is absolutely not tolerated on the Lionhead forums!
A moderator is a member of the community appointed by the Lionhead Admin to oversee the community website. The Lionhead forums have always had and will always have members from the community to moderate the content on the forums as we think it’s important to keep them clean and civil. Moderators do not work for Lionhead Studios.
A newbie is often an innocent and new, unsuspecting person seeking knowledge about something he or she knows very little about. When asking their question they will get bashed, or newbie-bashed, by and older member. This will result into, most of the time, crying. Also see Dark Newbie.
Someone with a build-in RADAR to spot newbies, including an auto-lock function. When they spot a newbie they will use every power available to them to make the newbie cry. It is not encouraged, but inevitable with such a large community! Quite often though, they are newbies themselves.
A virtual wooden or metal tube used by certain newbie bashers and sometimes even oldies, to smack newbies around the head.
This is the opposite of a newbie; someone who has been around in the community for quite some time (more than most people) and thinks he or she knows it all.
The post count is the number of posts that you have posted on the Lionhead forums, excluding sub-boards where the post count is disabled.
Polls are threads with voting options. Certain members can create these polls to get the opinion of all members of our community.
Each member can have its signature which can include images as well as decorated text. Signatures are displayed at the bottom of your forum posts. So every time you post you’ll leave you signature behind. For example you can include a link to your homepage for people to click on.
Simply Nubert is a comic strip dedicated to the Lionhead community. Written by Mortalitis Infinitas and drawn by Travis Lovett, the comic focuses on things happening in the community.
If you think a certain thread or blog is very interesting and you’d like to stay up to date on new posts or comments you can subscribe to it. This means that any new posts will be notified to you by email. This way you can be the first one to read and reply to it.
These sub-forums existed on the old Lionhead forums and this remains unchanged. The history of these boards also remains intact; fully searchable and post-able.
The Movies On Air Show is a weekly online radio program, run by famous Roger and Ken. Members can call in as well and special guests make an appearance every now and again.
Because not every thread is the same, some are more interesting than others, members can rate threads. You can rate threads between 1 and 5 stars according to how good you think it is.
A troll on a forum is someone who intentionally posts derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages just for the sake of it. Trolls have a very negative attitude towards an established online community.
These sub-forums existed on the old Lionhead forums and this remains unchanged. The history of these boards also remains intact; fully searchable and post-able.
This is something we didn’t have on the old Lionhead forums, but the Community Level is to show other members how active (or inactive) you are. A lot of factors feed into your level; from posting on the forums to adding blog content.
The ‘forums leaders’ as they were called on the old forums, are being replaced by the system of community level.
A founding member is someone who’s been a member since the early days of the forums.
The old Lionhead Forums had something called Karma and reputation. It was basically a way to rate other people’s behavior on the forums. High Karma was used on the old Lionhead forums to mark a member with highly conceived of contributions to the community and other members.
This is the day, month and year when you registered with the Lionhead Community.
Your Lionhead Username is unique to you on the Lionhead websites. Once logged in with your Windows Live ID you’ll be represented on the websites as your Lionhead username.
The old Lionhead Forums had something called Karma and reputation. It was basically a way to rate other people’s behavior on the forums. If your behavior was poorly and received a lot of bad ratings, you’d eventually end up in the Low Karma group.
The old Lionhead Forums had something called Karma and reputation. It was basically a way to rate other people’s behavior on the forums. If you posted a few good threads or posts and got positive ratings for it, you’d eventually end up in the Medium Karma group.
Members are all the people who registered in the Lionhead community.
We don’t want to label people into certain groups, but we do want to point out to all members of the Lionhead community what certain members do or what they’ve achieved. This is why we’re using images, called badges, which are displayed on a user’s profile. For example Lionhead employees will have a Lionhead Dev badge, etc. Badges are given to people by Lionhead Administrators.
As said before we don’t like putting people into groups, but sometimes we have to. It’s not just to give people certain badges (Member Badges) but also to give members different permissions. Like our forum moderators; they need to be in a different group so they can moderate posts and threads, etc.
Icons are given to members who reach a certain Community Level (see above). Member Icons are given by Lionhead Admins.
By participating on the Lionhead Community website members earn points; when you post on the forums, blogs, picture gallery, etc.
The old Lionhead forums used to have custom Member Titles for users who reached Medium Karma. This meant they could pick their own title which would be displayed in their profile. Your post count determines your Member Title.
Reputation on the old Lionhead forums was inevitably linked to the Karma system. Members could give each other reputation for their actions on the forums. Reputation could be positive as well as negative. The Reputation and Karma system is no longer available on the new community website; however, your old Karma Value will be displayed on your profile.
Reputation Ranks were High Karma, Medium Karma, Low Karma and Very Low Karma.
Depending on your status in the community and the user-group you belonged to; each user had a reputation power. This power is a number that’s used when you give someone reputation. This is no longer used on the new website.
On the old Lionhead forums the Roles were called user-groups. From now on we’ll be talking about different Roles; such as Administrators, Moderators, Members, etc.
The old Lionhead Forums had something called Karma and reputation. It was basically a way to rate other people’s behavior on the forums. The Very Low Karma group was created for the very rude, arrogant and basically useless members of the community. Members in the VLK group got automatically banned.
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