As you all know. I like stats. I like numbers. Anyone who has ever discussed builds with me knows I get into the fine details and the nitty gritty associated with builds, efficiency and effect. Building is no different. The number of objects in the Damocles is actually difficult to count given that the inventory of the enhancement bins, salvage, and inspiration bins are also taken into consideration in the 20k object limit. Which, to those who have never really read up on it is not the limit for the decorative items, but the functional limit of the Database for storing information on the base.
18,151 Objects (18,851 with inventory)
There are many levels of basebuilding. There are three kinds of bases. I have built them all. There are the simple functional bases for Taskforce and content-running SGs. There are pure RP bases which may have some game mechanical functionality, but that is not their primary purpose. And then there are the Hybrid bases which seek to combine all of the functionality of all the potential game mechanics tie-ins while still maintaining the full immersion of an RP base. I have built them all. I can proudly say that the Damocles was my first, and always my best, Hybrid base.
31,372,760 Prestige Spent - Damocles
Ultimately, I will miss the Damocles the most. Characters come and go. Heroes are born, live, and die. But I had always said, and always hoped, that no matter what happened to our members, both real and virtual, that the Damocles would Endure. I had hoped that no matter what, we would always have that rock, that solid foundation of our supergroup that we could come back to, that we could fall back to. That we could depend upon in any hour, in any way to have our backs. I am ultimately saddened that the one thing that would eventually take that away was something that we had no control over. No maddening OOC arguments among the Aegis, no crazed councilor with a delete button, but rather, bean counters and the arch-villiany of the Accountant AT were the ultimate downfall of the Damocles. I have a story in mind, a small, probably poorly-written bit of fiction that will put some closure in for the one member of the SG that we can't take with us, at least not yet.
4 Bases
I cannot express to you all how humbled I am to have been your builder. To have been given the keys to the Damocles, with short instruction and the freedom to do my best was a dream come true. My work was a tribute to all who walked the halls of the Damocles. Every room that was built that evoked an emotion in anyone who walked into it was a room I built well. And, to be honest, my secret is that I built from the heart. Every room that we loved, that we cherished and went 'hot damn' was a room built with as much, if not more, emotion than all the skill and raw talent that were poured into them as well. And that is why we loved the Damocles. Honest effort given to hard work. Built with Emotion, Love, Pain, Pride, Skill, and Talent, the Damocles will forever be my masterwork base. To that, I owe a debt of gratitude to each and every member that ever RP'ed, good or bad, in those halls, without you all I never would have had the heart to finish, nor the emotional drive to pour into those rooms.
650 Hours of work is what I put into the four bases for the Aegis. In three months time, the world will go dark, and absent a miracle of epic proportions, we will never see that world again in the same form. This is not the first time that this has happened to me, nor I suspect will it be the last. I said before that I would never again put that sort of time and effort into something that could so easily be lost. But for the Aegis, I did. I regret nothing. 650 hours lost, but not wasted. Every moment, every minute, every memory that we built together made that effort worth it.
The Damocles was built not by my hand, but by all of our hearts.
650
As you all know. I like stats. I like numbers. Anyone who has ever discussed builds with me knows I get into the fine details and the nitty gritty associated with builds, efficiency and effect. Building is no different. The number of objects in the Damocles is actually difficult to count given that the inventory of the enhancement bins, salvage, and inspiration bins are also taken into consideration in the 20k object limit. Which, to those who have never really read up on it is not the limit for the decorative items, but the functional limit of the Database for storing information on the base.
18,151 Objects (18,851 with inventory)
There are many levels of basebuilding. There are three kinds of bases. I have built them all. There are the simple functional bases for Taskforce and content-running SGs. There are pure RP bases which may have some game mechanical functionality, but that is not their primary purpose. And then there are the Hybrid bases which seek to combine all of the functionality of all the potential game mechanics tie-ins while still maintaining the full immersion of an RP base. I have built them all. I can proudly say that the Damocles was my first, and always my best, Hybrid base.
31,372,760 Prestige Spent - Damocles
Ultimately, I will miss the Damocles the most. Characters come and go. Heroes are born, live, and die. But I had always said, and always hoped, that no matter what happened to our members, both real and virtual, that the Damocles would Endure. I had hoped that no matter what, we would always have that rock, that solid foundation of our supergroup that we could come back to, that we could fall back to. That we could depend upon in any hour, in any way to have our backs. I am ultimately saddened that the one thing that would eventually take that away was something that we had no control over. No maddening OOC arguments among the Aegis, no crazed councilor with a delete button, but rather, bean counters and the arch-villiany of the Accountant AT were the ultimate downfall of the Damocles. I have a story in mind, a small, probably poorly-written bit of fiction that will put some closure in for the one member of the SG that we can't take with us, at least not yet.
4 Bases
I cannot express to you all how humbled I am to have been your builder. To have been given the keys to the Damocles, with short instruction and the freedom to do my best was a dream come true. My work was a tribute to all who walked the halls of the Damocles. Every room that was built that evoked an emotion in anyone who walked into it was a room I built well. And, to be honest, my secret is that I built from the heart. Every room that we loved, that we cherished and went 'hot damn' was a room built with as much, if not more, emotion than all the skill and raw talent that were poured into them as well. And that is why we loved the Damocles. Honest effort given to hard work. Built with Emotion, Love, Pain, Pride, Skill, and Talent, the Damocles will forever be my masterwork base. To that, I owe a debt of gratitude to each and every member that ever RP'ed, good or bad, in those halls, without you all I never would have had the heart to finish, nor the emotional drive to pour into those rooms.
650 Hours of work is what I put into the four bases for the Aegis. In three months time, the world will go dark, and absent a miracle of epic proportions, we will never see that world again in the same form. This is not the first time that this has happened to me, nor I suspect will it be the last. I said before that I would never again put that sort of time and effort into something that could so easily be lost. But for the Aegis, I did. I regret nothing. 650 hours lost, but not wasted. Every moment, every minute, every memory that we built together made that effort worth it.
The Damocles was built not by my hand, but by all of our hearts.