Your Biggest SG Meltdown

Personalities were always the hardest thing. There seems to be more internet cupcakes and internet tough guys than those that land in between.

Now I just login and play - kinda nice. SGs/VGs are moot where I play. Everything is ran on globals.

Hmmm been a while but I actually kicked out an old friend over an incident.

I've been involved with bases for years and had a great deal of salvage stolen which sort of left me leery of anyone I didn'f know well. My "friend" wanted to do the Valentine Day missions in Pocket D and this was back before SSL so low levels were still hooking up with higher level characters, running low level missions with a 40 or 50 along to blast through everything fast so you could get the badge and rewards. Well he sent me a tell asking me to invite this guy into the SG I'd never heard of and from chatting with my buddy he'd just met. His reason.. They were going to team up and the guy wanted to use our TP direct to Pocket D cause it was too risky for him to try to get from Atlas to the Pocket D entrance in KR.

Well my paranoid alarm started ringing.. This guy can't make it from the train station to the pocket D entrance safely? Anyone can do that just by hopping a few walls and running in practically a straight line from the train. Also if the guy is THAT low what's he worried about anyway since he's obviously way below 10 and not getting any debt anyway.

Anyway I explained my concerns based on all the stuff we had in base and told my friend I'd prefer not inviting someone into the SG neither of us knew just so he could get a couple badges. I THOUGHT I had made my self pretty clear and given him the reasons I didnt feel comfortable with it.

Well I logged off for dinner and when I came back my "buddy" had switched from his Villain to one of the heroes in the SG, invited the guy inspite of everything I'd told him and then LOGGED off and left the guy alone in the base. Now I rushed to base and was relieved to find that nothing was missing but I was very upset. I spent 6 months basically alone in that base building up all the things that were there. Those Tier three inspirations were a direct result of a number of my characters running TFS and cashing in all their Reward Merits. Same with the rare salvage.. now I had no problem sharing with him but I had no desire to see all that stuff i worked hard to earn get stolen because HE wanted a couple Holiday badges.

I went to bed that night and couldn't sleep worrying that by the time I got back from work the next day everything in the base would be gone. At 1AM I couldn't stand it and got up and kicked the new guy oout of the SG. I emailed my friend and told him what I'd done and why and informed him that I was kicking him out as well. I felt betrayed and like he'd completely ignored my feelings on the matter and went behind my back and did whatever he felt like doing. After I sent that email I logged back into the game and kicked him out as well.. every single one of his characters.

For a very long time after that I joked with friends i played with that I was Batgirl with my own well equipped Bat lair.. I had ethat huge base and no one to share it with at all. Eventually I made new freinds and a few joined the SG.

I never had one, really.

I met an alt named Treah that invited me into my SG back when I first started here, took it on a whim more than anything else. Hung out with him on occasion, a few times with other members - then RL got in the way and activity dropped for all of us.

I was on maybe weekends, once or twice a month and two years later that alt Big Chill finally hit 50. Interestingly enough the only 50 in the SG at the time.

At some point I got my friend that got me into this game over on Champion and into the SG along with me when I got my own account. The rest of the SG wasn't that big either, but I didn't mind then, though during it all activity just kinda died off. Some long time after hitting 50 I finally heard from Treah whom left me an e-mail congradulation me on 50 as he was leaving the game - which pretty much marked everyone shy of one stray other member in the SG inactive. To be honest I never even met her (I think its a her cause of the name) only cause activity times are kinda opposite. I only know she logs once in a blue moon.

That pretty much left a SG between me and my friend. We kept playing in SG mode and kept it up with the old Prestiege costs and earnings... then the change of that left us with an incredible ammount and nothing to do with it. Kinda slacking off SG mode now that the rent's a joke, but its not like we need it.

I think I finally got it to look nice, but its really been nothing but a storage bin, nearly-free travel and a place to call our own these last few years. Not sure it counts as 'drama' but that's my only SG experience here in Champion.

Wow Amy,

I never realised until reading your post that you were the model for the Statue of Liberty. hows the phrase go again? Give me your tired, poor, huddled masses yearning for pink ponies?

And as for Horus?..three words...Up the Voltage.

Dragon

*sip*

I usually avoid SG meltdown by not being on much.

I had an interesting experience with my first SG. It was sometime after I3, I joined the SG because my roommate had run some missions with them and thought I would be a good addition to the group.

The group was well-organized with an official website, rules and regulations, and a formal command structure of 3 leaders and 6 sub leaders. They introduced me to TS, and we became vast friends as we would meet up on line each night and form play teams. The leaders were fair and just, and while they maintained order, they also kept a sense of humor.

Things were going really well, and eventually we decided to get together for a real-life meeting, so we spent a long weekend partying in Chattanooga, Tennessee with 14-16 folks from all over the US including one fellow from Belgium!

Everything collapsed quite rapidly with the release of World of Warcraft by Blizzard and Enhancement Diversification in this game. There had already been talk on our forums about who was going over to WoW, and nearly half the members agreed to transition to WoW but stay in CoH. Then one month later, ED came down like a hammer in this game, and everyone in the SG who was thinking about staying with CoH threw a fit on the forums and completely left!

So there we were with about half the SG in CoH, and the other half with all the leaders completely quitting CoH for WoW. I was close to the SG leaders and had been exchanging some pms with them during the whole SG collapse. One of the leaders and I exchanged some pretty angry words. He felt we were being ungrateful when I told him and the other leaders that SG rules and leadership were going to have to change since there were no leaders playing CoH anymore. We remaining CoH players were not going to submit to leadership decisions being made by people who weren't even playing our game anymore.

To this day, I don't know if I was being ungrateful to the fellow. To admit; I was quite angry and feeling a bit abandoned. He was the one who set up the forums and TS. He organized the real-life get-together, and he ran the SG with a fair hand until he held that SG emergency TS meeting. The emergency meeting was to be a vote on my and another fellow's continued membership. I was ok with that. I wanted the opportunity to state my views to the SG. Problem was though, the leaders excluded me and the other guy from the meeting and the vote about our membership.

It worked out in the end. The remaining CoH players were so appalled by the leader's behavior that they all quit the SG and formed a new CoH only SG, and I and the other fellow were the first new recruits of that SG!

Most of it boils down to miscommunicatoin and misunderstanding! No Merits for squabbles or nonsense..

Where most would let their pride get in the way, what happens in the aftermath?

Love having you back Miss Shay!!!! Goodness comes when pride can go to one side.. I'm living proof.. (shock and amazement)

DG for life, B!

If we can't drop our egos in honor of friendship we might as well move to Freedumb.

Love being back too!

SG Meltdown! SG MELTDOWN!??!!... this is a stupid @!$ thread!!!!!!! All your SGs are smelly!!!!! Mine is the BESTEST of ALL!!!