The_Cajun

Originally Posted by ELF_STALKER1

Guys have a milk shake and set on toilet cause cause every player has a preferrence on how they want to play the game.

Originally Posted by Meowtch

Ditto...the good, the bad, the ugly, heck I don't care but should be very interesting to say the least

I swear I saw Super Jimmy the other day in game but I could be crazy...we were in Croa...

Anyway, free-to-play should be a ton of fun for returning players!

Originally Posted by Meowtch

True, but I hate to see everyone putting marriage down for someone that hasn't experienced it yet...Acey and I were fortunate enough to be married when we were already 30+...I KNOW I'd be divorced if I had married in my 20s...thank god for Acey!





And Cajun, you had one truly wonderful thing come out of your experience, a beautiful little girl!

Originally Posted by Myrmydon

Tell MR to enjoy his indentured service.

Originally Posted by Marut

That was definitely an epic beatdown Great focus and teamwork, guys.

Originally Posted by ELF_STALKER

Raiders is totally different team and mind set.. AL davis is not holding the strings no more... he letting the coach run the team.

Originally Posted by Marut

I hate to say it, but LS was also responsible for one of my favorite experiences in game. After much huffing and puffing about Daytime raiders and how evening raids not on his schedule were bad for the community, he swore that he’d grief every one of them. To the point where he vowed to cause a yellow dawn at one. However, when the time came to gather for the raid, there was less than a full team with him in the Hive… Not really a real threat, as far as griefing goes.

A couple mins into gathering, though, I got a tell from one of my SG members that there were a LOT of SFers in Warburg, gathering nukes it looked like. Odd, but considering how handy those could be, it wasn’t really concerning. Until, that is, I got two tells out of the blue from SF members, or more specifically, former SF members. Apparantly, LS had called out the SG to gather nukes for the purposes of nuking Hami during the hold phase, specifically to lag the raid out and cause a yellow dawn. They’d never liked the griefing behavior, but they liked the SF group, so they’d tolerated it. Having the SG turn out like that for the purposes of sabotaging a raid that wasn’t his was too much for them – they were out of there, and just wanted to give a heads up.

This was a problem – Bud and PON had turned out in force to provide manpower for the raid, and we had a strong veteran presence as well, but it’s hard to prevent a mechanical lagging of the zone. What do you do about that? Then I got a tell from the same SG member that told me about them being in Warburg, saying that he was taking out as many as he could with his Stalker, but there were just too many of them to stop them getting keys. Light bulb! Looking at who was online, I found Ping, and asked if he could help said Stalker out. Ping replied with something akin to “We’ll see what we can do”, grabbed a few others, departed Eden, and started whacking SF in Warburg.

Unfortunately, a little later, I was informed that it was just slowing them down, not stopping them. There were a LOT of SF in Warburg, and numbers added up; they were killing em left and right, but it actually looked like all that had done was call more SF into the zone to help. So, with about 10 mins to raid time, I put up a Hail Mary, and sent another SGmate to Test. Why Test? Because that was where our at the time almost universally hated coalitionmates were spending all their time.

A few minutes later, I remember seeing “PVP?” pop into Arena chat as a team of HVND loaded into Warburg and began swatting bumblebees with extreme prejudice. And of course, when they showed up, a whole bunch of ESK and VORI dropped whatever they were doing and piled into WB as well to fight them, with more SF collateral damage . I never had the pleasure of seeing it, but I’m told that the carnage in that zone that night was epic.The raid went off without a hitch. Despite LS’s best efforts to taunt Hami (no one steals UMann’s agro), there was no yellow dawn.

Next to the first successful raid on this server, this raid was my favorite. Not because it was a particularly amazing raid, or because of anything I'd done myself, but because it demonstrated just what this server community can do as a whole when differences get put aside. Everyone may have had different reasons for participating, but the end result was the same. It reminded me of the fact that Superman’s greatest power (according to him) isn’t super strength, or invulnerability. It’s his friends. And this community has those in spades No SG, no matter how willful or angry, can beat that.

-M