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I signed up to Vendetta roughly three years ago, when we were still going through what is now known as Alpha. The first time I played was on a 533Mhz Celeron, running WinME with an onboard graphics card and approximately 128MB of RAM. The very first time I logged in, I was greeted by an abysmal framerate and completely white space. It was totally unplayable.
Being fourteen at the time, I thought I was Master of the Universe and fired off a short letter to the Devs via the bug reporter. It wasn't much, just an unhappy 14-year-old saying he was unhappy with his game and saying it with words bigger than he really understood. I remember feeling like an idiot soon after sending that bug report.
I had been introduced to the game by one of my friends, and he bugged me to try logging in again. Eventually I caved in and tried logging in not too long afterwards. Lo and behold, after selecting my character "[CFx]Tang" I was greeted by normal black space and a workable framerate. So then, I started playing.
Tang was a Red Team character, as at the time I had some strange fascination with the color red. Didn't talk very much, so didn't really ask many questions on how to play. Just read the manual and got to it.
My EC-88(This was Vendetta 3.1.12, if I remember right.) feebly boosted me towards the wormhole, and I warped through once I was able to. I was prompty dumped into sector 5 and got to botting. I never was really good at botting, and I had to run back to a station often. Eventually, I had botted enough and sold enough widgets(as cargo was called at the time) to afford to start trading some red widgets around.
I traded and listened to chat for some days, weeks, or months, my sense of time in this era is a bit nonexistant. Days rolled by and a gained myself a sizeable fortune for the times, or at least enough to last me a good while. It was none of this one million, ten million, or one hundred million junk we have now. Just a measly 100k. Took my quite some time to build up that amount, what with [AI]Fygar blasting me whenever I went into sector nine to sell some widgets. However, I now had money to spend.
And, to my disappointment, I spent it on station mining. I would go to sector 9(As it was one of the hubs of trading at the time) and drop lightning mines all around the station. Plenty to cover all the docking bays and kill any poor soul that flew too close. Thus begun my fascination with mines as well as piracy.
Station mining came to an end, eventually, and I was completely out of credits. I was rather sick of being Red, as well as the hate that being [CFx]Tang generated. So I started a new character. The new character I chose was Scuba Steve 3.0, of the Gold(Now UIT) persuasion.
I played as Scuba Steve 3.0 for quite some time, and even made some friends along the way. Steve's life was mostly as a peaceful trader, and when I did get myself involved in furballs(Haha! Furball. I kill me.) I usually ended up biting the dust real quick like. And then, we were on the eve of the update into 3.2.
Mere hours before the update to 3.2, I switched to Blue Team(Now Itani) and renamed myself as Scuba Steve 8.0(I think. My memory of who I was is horrid. I know I was a Steve, though.). And went down to participate in a bus war in sector seven. By that time, I suppose I was decently liked, and I remember Lemming remark that he thought Scuba Steve 8.0 was the best version so far. I assume it's because I went Blue.
Then 3.2 came. Many many new features. Railguns did around 2500 damage for 10 energy per shot, and sunflares came eight to a bundle. Nobody used flares, and they were generally laughed at. Vultures came in different colors, instead of being locked into being red. Also, the Valkyrie and the Maurader first came into being. The ship of the time was the Valk with tri-rails. It hurt bad.
Within hours of the update, Phoenix was charging people admission into sector seven with his fancy tri-rail valk. Not too long after, sectors 14 and 15 were found, and the must-have trade route was 14->15->14.
Then 3.2.1 rolled around. Suddenly, rails drained battery real quick, and sunflares were bumped up to 16 ammo either that release, or not long after. People still didn't use flares for quite some time, thinking that they would be horrid when compared to Level Two Rockets from 3.1.
Around this time, I met KAMIKAZE Superbus(Kteln now) and we got into our heads that piracy would be fun. It was fun, and we got a lot of flak for it. I distinctly remember Lin chewing me out for pirating.
Since neither of us wished to tarnish our characters' reputation too much, the Syndicate was formed. I threw off the [CFx] and became [Syn]Tang, and KAMIKAZE Superbus became [Syn]Ikaze. We also recruited n00b at another person who flew by the name of [Syn]Mac.
We pirated according the the Syndicate code of honor at the time. The code was sacred to me, never to be violated. We made traders aware of our presence, offered them a way out of dieing, and never killed one person more than once. We were flamed up and down the forums.
And then KAMIKAZE/Ikaze/Kteln decided to call the whole thing off. He thought that the time was not the right time for the Syndicate, and he was getting rid of his computer anyway. And then he left, and under my very inexperienced hands, the Syndicate crumbled. n00b never once dropped his tag, ever. Sometimes I wish I had his perseverence.
I returned to Scuba Steve, and made Scuba Steve 8.1, around this time. And then I traded. Traded all day and all night. After weeks I had amassed roughly 50M in legit credits and was one of the richest players in the whole game. Trading that much you ran into the real pirates of the time, Phoenix and Icarus, and you learned to outrun them and escape their clutches. Not all the time, those two knew pirating, but most of the time I was able to get away from them.
And then, one day, I decided that I was sick of trading. After amassing that much money(I estimate that worth about 200M now), I had no idea how I wanted to spend it all, nor did I think I could. And then I remembered the Syndicate.
I sought out n00b one day, and told him that I was reforming the Syndicate(I don't remember who each incarnation included, but over the times I've had Katarn, Silent, and Roguelazer be the most loyal of members). I don't quite recall, but I imagine n00b was pleased at the time. He was yet the cynical Genka everyone knows on the forums now.
The new, reformed Syndicate caught a bit less flak when it came about, but was still heavily attacked. Trading so much taught me how to run though, and run I did. I ran a lot during this time. Also, the intrinsic paradox that a pirating guild with an honor code presented began to rear its head. The guild literally and bitterly shook itself apart again, this time because of my rather draconian additude towards enforcing the Code.
So once again, the Syndicate was trashed and I went back to trading. And trade, and trade, and trade, and trade. I became more and more of a recognized player, and gained more friends in VO. Talking over general chat numbed the boringness of trading, but eventually I could take no more.
At the time, I found out about the moneybug, and the Frigate in sector 16 was made dockable. Sometime before, sectors 16, 17, and 18 were put in and found. Frankly, I was irresponsible with the knowledge of how to work the money bug. For people I favored, I dropped billions of credits into their hands, and for my close friends, I shared knowledge of how to abuse the bug. And then, since I had more money than one character could hold, I started fighting in Sector 16 nonstop. Special ships were buyable there, so I homed, and took on a person who had completely trashed my ship every time I tried to fight him. The name was LeathaL.
I copied his ship loadout, the infamous triflare valkyrie, and dueled him over and over and over and over and over. A good 300M(I'm certain that figure is exaggerated, but no matter the price, I didn't care. I know the moneybug) I must have spent on ships and fighting him with triflares. I learned from experience the ins and outs of triflaring and rocket ramming.
And then suddenly the frigate was no longer dockable and my training was done for. That was fine, I had learned how to beat LeathaL, beat him soundly, and beat him often. So I created a new character.
This one was named Shadow of the Last, and flew a triflare valk. I revived the Syndicate once more, this time I tossed out the code of honor. It shook my guild apart last time, no need for it this time.
Once again, n00b was in this incarnation of the Syndicate, whether he liked it or not. He didn't drop the tag, and therefore was implicated in all the evils of the Syndicate. As LeathaL had trained me in the ways of fighting with flares, the traders trained me in the ways of pirating. And then, after I brandished my failure of relationship skills, I disappeared. (I'm skipping over a few other characters I had at this time[Various Cargo Reclamation Units, Skrail, Akkisti] for the sake of...uhh...brevity. It's long enough to read this as is.)
I did not come back to Vendetta for a few months, and did not rejoin the #vendetta IRC channel for roughly a year. But come back I did, this time as Yukinari. I recreated the Syndicate, again, and pirated in Azek J-1 with Shape, Katarn, Silentsuicide, Aon, and a few others. And then production rolled around, and I changed my name to Thesaadri, leveled, and tanked my UIT standing by shooting TPG atlasses. I became a reaver. If you were in a ship, and that ship had a cargo hold of any size, you were mine.
And then, roughly a month later, I vanished again.
I returned months and months later, was there for a week, and vanished into thin air.
I repeated this.
Then I came back after a rough ride with a psychotic girl I fell in love with. Now, all this time, n00b had been tending the Syndicate, and was doing a good job.
And KAMIKAZE/Kteln/Ikaze showed up again. He noted that the Syndicate was, frankly, empty and inactive, and wanted to revive it. n00b, remembering Kteln as being other other person that first founded the Syndicate, thought that he would be cool to have as a leader again.
Shape had fallen from n00b's graces during my long hiatus, and had been kicked. The never got a long afterwards. And then, Kteln invites Shape back into the Syndicate, as well as all of Shape's cronies. n00b was rightly angered, and began to retaliate. I stepped into a maelstrom I did not see when I first decided to return.
I came back slowly, as I was busy with the massive timesink that is FFXI, and learned of the scope of the situation. Rusty I was, and am still, I couldn't do much force-wise, but that wouldn't have been effective anyway.
So, we reformed BLAK. That is where things stand today.
I signed up to Vendetta roughly three years ago, when we were still going through what is now known as Alpha. The first time I played was on a 533Mhz Celeron, running WinME with an onboard graphics card and approximately 128MB of RAM. The very first time I logged in, I was greeted by an abysmal framerate and completely white space. It was totally unplayable.
Being fourteen at the time, I thought I was Master of the Universe and fired off a short letter to the Devs via the bug reporter. It wasn't much, just an unhappy 14-year-old saying he was unhappy with his game and saying it with words bigger than he really understood. I remember feeling like an idiot soon after sending that bug report.
I had been introduced to the game by one of my friends, and he bugged me to try logging in again. Eventually I caved in and tried logging in not too long afterwards. Lo and behold, after selecting my character "[CFx]Tang" I was greeted by normal black space and a workable framerate. So then, I started playing.
Tang was a Red Team character, as at the time I had some strange fascination with the color red. Didn't talk very much, so didn't really ask many questions on how to play. Just read the manual and got to it.
My EC-88(This was Vendetta 3.1.12, if I remember right.) feebly boosted me towards the wormhole, and I warped through once I was able to. I was prompty dumped into sector 5 and got to botting. I never was really good at botting, and I had to run back to a station often. Eventually, I had botted enough and sold enough widgets(as cargo was called at the time) to afford to start trading some red widgets around.
I traded and listened to chat for some days, weeks, or months, my sense of time in this era is a bit nonexistant. Days rolled by and a gained myself a sizeable fortune for the times, or at least enough to last me a good while. It was none of this one million, ten million, or one hundred million junk we have now. Just a measly 100k. Took my quite some time to build up that amount, what with [AI]Fygar blasting me whenever I went into sector nine to sell some widgets. However, I now had money to spend.
And, to my disappointment, I spent it on station mining. I would go to sector 9(As it was one of the hubs of trading at the time) and drop lightning mines all around the station. Plenty to cover all the docking bays and kill any poor soul that flew too close. Thus begun my fascination with mines as well as piracy.
Station mining came to an end, eventually, and I was completely out of credits. I was rather sick of being Red, as well as the hate that being [CFx]Tang generated. So I started a new character. The new character I chose was Scuba Steve 3.0, of the Gold(Now UIT) persuasion.
I played as Scuba Steve 3.0 for quite some time, and even made some friends along the way. Steve's life was mostly as a peaceful trader, and when I did get myself involved in furballs(Haha! Furball. I kill me.) I usually ended up biting the dust real quick like. And then, we were on the eve of the update into 3.2.
Mere hours before the update to 3.2, I switched to Blue Team(Now Itani) and renamed myself as Scuba Steve 8.0(I think. My memory of who I was is horrid. I know I was a Steve, though.). And went down to participate in a bus war in sector seven. By that time, I suppose I was decently liked, and I remember Lemming remark that he thought Scuba Steve 8.0 was the best version so far. I assume it's because I went Blue.
Then 3.2 came. Many many new features. Railguns did around 2500 damage for 10 energy per shot, and sunflares came eight to a bundle. Nobody used flares, and they were generally laughed at. Vultures came in different colors, instead of being locked into being red. Also, the Valkyrie and the Maurader first came into being. The ship of the time was the Valk with tri-rails. It hurt bad.
Within hours of the update, Phoenix was charging people admission into sector seven with his fancy tri-rail valk. Not too long after, sectors 14 and 15 were found, and the must-have trade route was 14->15->14.
Then 3.2.1 rolled around. Suddenly, rails drained battery real quick, and sunflares were bumped up to 16 ammo either that release, or not long after. People still didn't use flares for quite some time, thinking that they would be horrid when compared to Level Two Rockets from 3.1.
Around this time, I met KAMIKAZE Superbus(Kteln now) and we got into our heads that piracy would be fun. It was fun, and we got a lot of flak for it. I distinctly remember Lin chewing me out for pirating.
Since neither of us wished to tarnish our characters' reputation too much, the Syndicate was formed. I threw off the [CFx] and became [Syn]Tang, and KAMIKAZE Superbus became [Syn]Ikaze. We also recruited n00b at another person who flew by the name of [Syn]Mac.
We pirated according the the Syndicate code of honor at the time. The code was sacred to me, never to be violated. We made traders aware of our presence, offered them a way out of dieing, and never killed one person more than once. We were flamed up and down the forums.
And then KAMIKAZE/Ikaze/Kteln decided to call the whole thing off. He thought that the time was not the right time for the Syndicate, and he was getting rid of his computer anyway. And then he left, and under my very inexperienced hands, the Syndicate crumbled. n00b never once dropped his tag, ever. Sometimes I wish I had his perseverence.
I returned to Scuba Steve, and made Scuba Steve 8.1, around this time. And then I traded. Traded all day and all night. After weeks I had amassed roughly 50M in legit credits and was one of the richest players in the whole game. Trading that much you ran into the real pirates of the time, Phoenix and Icarus, and you learned to outrun them and escape their clutches. Not all the time, those two knew pirating, but most of the time I was able to get away from them.
And then, one day, I decided that I was sick of trading. After amassing that much money(I estimate that worth about 200M now), I had no idea how I wanted to spend it all, nor did I think I could. And then I remembered the Syndicate.
I sought out n00b one day, and told him that I was reforming the Syndicate(I don't remember who each incarnation included, but over the times I've had Katarn, Silent, and Roguelazer be the most loyal of members). I don't quite recall, but I imagine n00b was pleased at the time. He was yet the cynical Genka everyone knows on the forums now.
The new, reformed Syndicate caught a bit less flak when it came about, but was still heavily attacked. Trading so much taught me how to run though, and run I did. I ran a lot during this time. Also, the intrinsic paradox that a pirating guild with an honor code presented began to rear its head. The guild literally and bitterly shook itself apart again, this time because of my rather draconian additude towards enforcing the Code.
So once again, the Syndicate was trashed and I went back to trading. And trade, and trade, and trade, and trade. I became more and more of a recognized player, and gained more friends in VO. Talking over general chat numbed the boringness of trading, but eventually I could take no more.
At the time, I found out about the moneybug, and the Frigate in sector 16 was made dockable. Sometime before, sectors 16, 17, and 18 were put in and found. Frankly, I was irresponsible with the knowledge of how to work the money bug. For people I favored, I dropped billions of credits into their hands, and for my close friends, I shared knowledge of how to abuse the bug. And then, since I had more money than one character could hold, I started fighting in Sector 16 nonstop. Special ships were buyable there, so I homed, and took on a person who had completely trashed my ship every time I tried to fight him. The name was LeathaL.
I copied his ship loadout, the infamous triflare valkyrie, and dueled him over and over and over and over and over. A good 300M(I'm certain that figure is exaggerated, but no matter the price, I didn't care. I know the moneybug) I must have spent on ships and fighting him with triflares. I learned from experience the ins and outs of triflaring and rocket ramming.
And then suddenly the frigate was no longer dockable and my training was done for. That was fine, I had learned how to beat LeathaL, beat him soundly, and beat him often. So I created a new character.
This one was named Shadow of the Last, and flew a triflare valk. I revived the Syndicate once more, this time I tossed out the code of honor. It shook my guild apart last time, no need for it this time.
Once again, n00b was in this incarnation of the Syndicate, whether he liked it or not. He didn't drop the tag, and therefore was implicated in all the evils of the Syndicate. As LeathaL had trained me in the ways of fighting with flares, the traders trained me in the ways of pirating. And then, after I brandished my failure of relationship skills, I disappeared. (I'm skipping over a few other characters I had at this time[Various Cargo Reclamation Units, Skrail, Akkisti] for the sake of...uhh...brevity. It's long enough to read this as is.)
I did not come back to Vendetta for a few months, and did not rejoin the #vendetta IRC channel for roughly a year. But come back I did, this time as Yukinari. I recreated the Syndicate, again, and pirated in Azek J-1 with Shape, Katarn, Silentsuicide, Aon, and a few others. And then production rolled around, and I changed my name to Thesaadri, leveled, and tanked my UIT standing by shooting TPG atlasses. I became a reaver. If you were in a ship, and that ship had a cargo hold of any size, you were mine.
And then, roughly a month later, I vanished again.
I returned months and months later, was there for a week, and vanished into thin air.
I repeated this.
Then I came back after a rough ride with a psychotic girl I fell in love with. Now, all this time, n00b had been tending the Syndicate, and was doing a good job.
And KAMIKAZE/Kteln/Ikaze showed up again. He noted that the Syndicate was, frankly, empty and inactive, and wanted to revive it. n00b, remembering Kteln as being other other person that first founded the Syndicate, thought that he would be cool to have as a leader again.
Shape had fallen from n00b's graces during my long hiatus, and had been kicked. The never got a long afterwards. And then, Kteln invites Shape back into the Syndicate, as well as all of Shape's cronies. n00b was rightly angered, and began to retaliate. I stepped into a maelstrom I did not see when I first decided to return.
I came back slowly, as I was busy with the massive timesink that is FFXI, and learned of the scope of the situation. Rusty I was, and am still, I couldn't do much force-wise, but that wouldn't have been effective anyway.
So, we reformed BLAK. That is where things stand today.
Hi Steve.
Uhh. Hi.
YARRR.
How are y'all still playing Vendetta?? It's been like... forever... such a long time...
Do they still use words like 'issued'? :P
Do they still use words like 'issued'? :P
It is indeed where things stand today. An interesting parallel to be sure.
Syn, run by one of the original members, populated with a few ex-BLAKs, and a bunch of newer players.
BLAK, run completely by bitter ex Syndicate members and their alts.
I was wondering why you three didn't just join back up with Syn (although it would seem like the two of you just got caught up in n00b's chest thumping attitude towards Shape).
Regardless, the invitation is open. It would be better for the community and the game in general (I think anyway) to have one solid pirate guild.
Syn, run by one of the original members, populated with a few ex-BLAKs, and a bunch of newer players.
BLAK, run completely by bitter ex Syndicate members and their alts.
I was wondering why you three didn't just join back up with Syn (although it would seem like the two of you just got caught up in n00b's chest thumping attitude towards Shape).
Regardless, the invitation is open. It would be better for the community and the game in general (I think anyway) to have one solid pirate guild.
[edit : bad taste!]
More seriously, this belongs in the RP forums.
More seriously, this belongs in the RP forums.
And who are you to say where this belongs?
I'm not saying you're wrong, not my place, but this is one of the bigger problems I have with you, your guild, and shape in particular. All of you ALWAYS act as though you're privileged to judge and dictate. Believe it or not, you're not up above the rest of us on some sort of moral or intellectual pedestal. If you were, you wouldn't act like it.
So, from my factual position of moral privilege, I now tell you: STOP IT.
Edit: Gavan, to quote a poet, "Druzhek, ya vsie znaiu, ya sam brat is etih, no v pesni ne ponial ti uvi ne huia"
I'm not saying you're wrong, not my place, but this is one of the bigger problems I have with you, your guild, and shape in particular. All of you ALWAYS act as though you're privileged to judge and dictate. Believe it or not, you're not up above the rest of us on some sort of moral or intellectual pedestal. If you were, you wouldn't act like it.
So, from my factual position of moral privilege, I now tell you: STOP IT.
Edit: Gavan, to quote a poet, "Druzhek, ya vsie znaiu, ya sam brat is etih, no v pesni ne ponial ti uvi ne huia"
What I find hilarious n00b, is that you, and the other Alphas, have been standing on a pedestal above EVERYONE, for years now.
I think I get the most flak because I'm the beta that has the most notoreity. Its fine for Alphas to posture, but when you suspect that I don't respect you for the Alpha you are, I am "arrogant", "egocentric", "Stepping out of my place".
I don't go around looking for ways to prove myself. I look for challenges and see if I can pull them off. I have confidence, but I don't subject anyone except n00b to it unless people challenge me. (N00b is just fun to mess with)
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I was frankly stunned when, immediately after accusing me of being arrogant and egocentric, Thesaadri went ahead and started offering an open challenge to anyone, in Verasi, to PROVE how Alpha he WAS.
Furthermore, when I pointed out that I trained people, and that I suspected that THAT was why I had developed a rep, he stunned me again by suggesting, (paraphrased) "That's why everyone around here sucks now."
Look Thes, there are a number of very strong people on here who are NOT alpha, and can BEAT many alphas. The statute of limitations on Alpha Dominance has, for the most part, ended.
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I may be walking into a troll-bait, but since you actually seem sincere n00b, I'll go for it. Here we go:
When I make statements, they are COMPLETELY open to criticism. But, I'm not going to shut up about perceived problems in the game out of some random faith that "everything will work out".
I'm a player, its my job to be vocal. I may often be wrong. But you seem to get pissy everytime I make a point. As if I'm somehow NOT entitled to an opinion.
Its not arrogance, I don't believe I stand on an intellectual pedestal. To be honest, most of the people on here are BRILLIANT. I have no illusions that I've got them pegged.
Game-wise, I've seen far too many new players kick my ass to believe that I've got the monopoly on it.
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EDIT: And as far as BLAK?
There's no need to keep bringing it up. Go for it, its yours.
If you want to join Syn? that's fine too.
n00b and I don't get along because of exactly 1 encounter back in beta (everything else is just a snowball effect).
You left, n00b was in power, and we had few players. I suggested the idea of having a command structure based on the strongest fighter (totally flexible, if someone was surpassed by another in the group, that player would take over)
I never got any real reply from n00b, and so I pushed the issue, ONCE. At which point he kicked me from the guild. I was a little shocked.
He assumed that I knew that he only flew a bus (which I didn't, I was still young), and that I wanted to take the position from him via killing an EC-88. Which wasn't true at all, I was looking forward to a good fight against an ACTUAL ship, Him being Alpha after all.
He also argued that he didn't HAVE command. But that would have been easily rectified by an email to the devs.
n00b has nurtured his vision of me as the great destroyer of all things traditional ever since. Which, while flattering, is totally false.
I think I get the most flak because I'm the beta that has the most notoreity. Its fine for Alphas to posture, but when you suspect that I don't respect you for the Alpha you are, I am "arrogant", "egocentric", "Stepping out of my place".
I don't go around looking for ways to prove myself. I look for challenges and see if I can pull them off. I have confidence, but I don't subject anyone except n00b to it unless people challenge me. (N00b is just fun to mess with)
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I was frankly stunned when, immediately after accusing me of being arrogant and egocentric, Thesaadri went ahead and started offering an open challenge to anyone, in Verasi, to PROVE how Alpha he WAS.
Furthermore, when I pointed out that I trained people, and that I suspected that THAT was why I had developed a rep, he stunned me again by suggesting, (paraphrased) "That's why everyone around here sucks now."
Look Thes, there are a number of very strong people on here who are NOT alpha, and can BEAT many alphas. The statute of limitations on Alpha Dominance has, for the most part, ended.
...............................................
I may be walking into a troll-bait, but since you actually seem sincere n00b, I'll go for it. Here we go:
When I make statements, they are COMPLETELY open to criticism. But, I'm not going to shut up about perceived problems in the game out of some random faith that "everything will work out".
I'm a player, its my job to be vocal. I may often be wrong. But you seem to get pissy everytime I make a point. As if I'm somehow NOT entitled to an opinion.
Its not arrogance, I don't believe I stand on an intellectual pedestal. To be honest, most of the people on here are BRILLIANT. I have no illusions that I've got them pegged.
Game-wise, I've seen far too many new players kick my ass to believe that I've got the monopoly on it.
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EDIT: And as far as BLAK?
There's no need to keep bringing it up. Go for it, its yours.
If you want to join Syn? that's fine too.
n00b and I don't get along because of exactly 1 encounter back in beta (everything else is just a snowball effect).
You left, n00b was in power, and we had few players. I suggested the idea of having a command structure based on the strongest fighter (totally flexible, if someone was surpassed by another in the group, that player would take over)
I never got any real reply from n00b, and so I pushed the issue, ONCE. At which point he kicked me from the guild. I was a little shocked.
He assumed that I knew that he only flew a bus (which I didn't, I was still young), and that I wanted to take the position from him via killing an EC-88. Which wasn't true at all, I was looking forward to a good fight against an ACTUAL ship, Him being Alpha after all.
He also argued that he didn't HAVE command. But that would have been easily rectified by an email to the devs.
n00b has nurtured his vision of me as the great destroyer of all things traditional ever since. Which, while flattering, is totally false.
Yeah you're definately not gonna find that one on iTunes eh? Good tune though. DDT right?
Here, my turn. Shouldn't be too hard for you, its in English.
Baby talk it comes across as innocent, innocent
But when these words start forming you'll hear stupid shit
I swear you will.
Another great band. You should check them out.
Here, my turn. Shouldn't be too hard for you, its in English.
Baby talk it comes across as innocent, innocent
But when these words start forming you'll hear stupid shit
I swear you will.
Another great band. You should check them out.
genka says : And who are you to say where this belongs?
me says : I am an Alpha! I have the right!
me says : I am an Alpha! I have the right!
But *I* have the responsibility.
[moved to RP]
(and, keep it cool. There's positive exchanges going on here... please don't turn it ugly.)
[moved to RP]
(and, keep it cool. There's positive exchanges going on here... please don't turn it ugly.)
>_>
So, as far as pirate guilds go, there's BDC, Syn, BLAK and CLM. CLM and Syn are pretty active, BDC has seemed to peter out for the most part (sadly) and BLAK is comprised of a small group of people with many alts, a la Dread Pirate Roberts and BotH.
So, as far as pirate guilds go, there's BDC, Syn, BLAK and CLM. CLM and Syn are pretty active, BDC has seemed to peter out for the most part (sadly) and BLAK is comprised of a small group of people with many alts, a la Dread Pirate Roberts and BotH.
I expected to see some DOOM in this thread. Where's the DOOM?
Gavan, maybe next time, instead of trying to impress me with your 1337 google skills, you should try and find out what I was actually saying? Or not. Your choice, really. None of my business if you like being an ignorant, but blissfull, "person."
I was frankly stunned when, immediately after accusing me of being arrogant and egocentric, Thesaadri went ahead and started offering an open challenge to anyone, in Verasi, to PROVE how Alpha he WAS.
Furthermore, when I pointed out that I trained people, and that I suspected that THAT was why I had developed a rep, he stunned me again by suggesting, (paraphrased) "That's why everyone around here sucks now."
Look Thes, there are a number of very strong people on here who are NOT alpha, and can BEAT many alphas. The statute of limitations on Alpha Dominance has, for the most part, ended.
Er, well, wonderful, Shape. First off, I don't need to prove how "alpha" I am, I have a badge for that. Second, and I'm certain you agree with me on this: Camping wormholes is boring. And ragging on you brought a few pilots to deal with myself and 0.
I do try to stay in character on all my characters as much as possible, and I slip quite often. However, Shape, I as a person have no beef with you as a person. My character, Thesaadri, is another matter, however. This thread was written as a sort of a condensed version of the History of the Syndicate, which not even your leader-for-the-time-being, Kteln, knows much of. Granted, it's splotchy, biased, and generally somewhat incomplete, but I tried to keep it so that it contained facts as I remember them.
Back to the subject being in-character: Thesaadri would seem odd without his egocentric rambles and cocky attitude, but it doesn't mean I want to start anything outside the game. Try to take it a bit less personal, Shape.
EDIT: Haha! Second time is the charm on the italics.
EDIT2: And beyond that, Gavan, it is my opinion that right now a single pirate guild would die of boredom. If all the two and a half(BLAK really isn't a whole guild.) pirating guilds merged together before there was enough traders to support a unified pirating force, then we'd be picking at bones. At least seperate there is each other to blow up to keep our skills sharp.
Furthermore, when I pointed out that I trained people, and that I suspected that THAT was why I had developed a rep, he stunned me again by suggesting, (paraphrased) "That's why everyone around here sucks now."
Look Thes, there are a number of very strong people on here who are NOT alpha, and can BEAT many alphas. The statute of limitations on Alpha Dominance has, for the most part, ended.
Er, well, wonderful, Shape. First off, I don't need to prove how "alpha" I am, I have a badge for that. Second, and I'm certain you agree with me on this: Camping wormholes is boring. And ragging on you brought a few pilots to deal with myself and 0.
I do try to stay in character on all my characters as much as possible, and I slip quite often. However, Shape, I as a person have no beef with you as a person. My character, Thesaadri, is another matter, however. This thread was written as a sort of a condensed version of the History of the Syndicate, which not even your leader-for-the-time-being, Kteln, knows much of. Granted, it's splotchy, biased, and generally somewhat incomplete, but I tried to keep it so that it contained facts as I remember them.
Back to the subject being in-character: Thesaadri would seem odd without his egocentric rambles and cocky attitude, but it doesn't mean I want to start anything outside the game. Try to take it a bit less personal, Shape.
EDIT: Haha! Second time is the charm on the italics.
EDIT2: And beyond that, Gavan, it is my opinion that right now a single pirate guild would die of boredom. If all the two and a half(BLAK really isn't a whole guild.) pirating guilds merged together before there was enough traders to support a unified pirating force, then we'd be picking at bones. At least seperate there is each other to blow up to keep our skills sharp.
Ahhh I remember then old Synidicate. Pretty sure only a select few remember me (i.e. Scuba, Shape). They were fun times. It was a lotta fun during Alpha, I pretty much vanished during Beta, but came back for the last 2 monthes, but have been limited to 8 hours each character now. But here's some news boy's, Im comin back XD. Lets hope this is still as fun as I rememeber it.
Awsome-o steve.
Yeah, some pilots can beat alphas, but, not as many as there all alphas, and only the people who in the alpha, where noobs.
(Like me, though, I usually pwn most people I run into, there are people whome I must change my ship/style, or I am 75% pwnd by;aka, shape)
still, the alpha players who have been playing almost non-stop (such as RelayeR, Miharu myself, ect) still will be better then most other players (at a 1-5 raito; it after five diffrent alphas trying one guy, one of em' will kill him)
Yeah, some pilots can beat alphas, but, not as many as there all alphas, and only the people who in the alpha, where noobs.
(Like me, though, I usually pwn most people I run into, there are people whome I must change my ship/style, or I am 75% pwnd by;aka, shape)
still, the alpha players who have been playing almost non-stop (such as RelayeR, Miharu myself, ect) still will be better then most other players (at a 1-5 raito; it after five diffrent alphas trying one guy, one of em' will kill him)
Honestly, I've beaten many Alphas and Betas. It's not the badge but the skills a person has, whether s/he's Alpha, Beta or not.
*is impressed with the speed zamzx can invent statistics*