Welcome! Stay out of the basement and all that...
Official greeting aside, judging by some of your posts you'll fit right in around here. The thing is, you came at a bad time because March Mayhem just started up. March Mayhem is of course the Escapists way of drawing in new crowds by making them vote for their favourite game developers. This brings in some good and some bad users, but overall it creates too much traffic for their servers to handle and too many arguments and flame wars for their mods to handle.
Good luck, if you survive the month you'll...well you'll survive.
