Flipper
Knight
but i need support from the community
Introduction
Not many of you know me and the rest of you have likely forgotten who I am for the most part. I reinstalled yesterday and have been impressed by the number of people who recognize my name. Sadly, most of them don't really know who I am, or they think I'm someone else, or a GM, or that I paid rl money/sucked dick for the item which has found a place amongst the most famous items in the server's history (don't I make it sound way more impressive than it is?!). It was kinda flattering at first, but in a day and a half it has already become tiring explaining all the same things to everyone who recognizes my name.
It's been three years so I figure a re-introduction is in order. Some factz:
-I used to be a Senior Counselor and forum mod. I am neither at present and have not been a staff member in any shape for over four years.
-I am really not that great at PvP but I post so much on forums that I offer guilds a bit of free recognition and a bit of approval from non-PvPers just by being in their list (often blocked from Rage vent and not told where the fights were)
-My sandals were a gift for being the first forum mod/ingame staff after I quit ingame to focus on RL stuff and forums
-I may not have done the type of hard work that Mark/Ryan/Krrios and the rest of 'em do, but I consider myself a part of a relatively small group of individuals on this server who were/are very active in the community and do as much organizational/background work as possible to contribute to the positive and fresh environment here. I have put in countless hours staffing, nazi-ing forums, organizing player events, running a community vendor mall and a player creation service with Addicted, and have formed multiple guilds during dry spells of faction action that have helped keep things from dying completely. I don't mention this to attempt to alter your opinion of me, but to offer some credence to the ideas I am proposing and to let you know that I am not just some random dude posting the first fifty chapters of his novella on the forums.
-I am the king of long, involved forum posts that tend to go into too much detail about things nobody cares that much about (like myself, ideas I have, what I had for lunch, this parenthetical statement, etc).
Fight Night Background
In the spring of 2007, faction PvP was at its highest peak in a long time. Many old names had come out of the woodwork to reform guilds long since thought forgotten; there were four active factions with multiple competitive guilds in each for the first time since Entourage was zerging against P F/Luv, Ck6 and YES/Rage in 2005. Even ODB, long thought dead from burst blood vessels whilst trying to tear a phone booth in half, returned with his scrub squadron MDK.
This was much a reaction to the failure of Divinity to take off as expected. Many players came back to try it and were disappointed (despite it being an fucking amazing server, I don't know why it didn't take off) at the lack of players but still needed to quell the UO itch. In this time, I was glad to discover a very active group of fielders who were constantly looking to test each other outside the pits and on the field, 1v1-anything-goes.
I gathered some of the most devoted 1v1ers. Sinfall will be mad if he reads this and does not see his name mentioned at this juncture. Sinfall. Every week we met at Wrong to duel. There was an incredible level of respect. Massive guilds would show up from opposite factions, one would rush in on the other and just wait; a few seconds of no spells cast, and they'd all line up together to watch the fights. Of course, there was some side action, and plenty of 2v2/3v3s going on, but for the most part I was amazed at how respective everyone was being towards the setups. Even at a time when faction points were recently re-added and super leet, nobody got ganked that I can remember.
Until it spread. Soon fifty+ people were showing up on Wednesdays. It was talked about on the forums constantly and that meant one thing: trolls. E. and Ck6 came and ruined the setups by constantly harassing and ganking us. At one point someone even gated to a private location, which caused the multiple GMs who were regular spectators of the fight nights to pop out and start whipping out bans to everyone marking runes, etc. It was chaos, and I just didn't feel like keeping it going when I had to deal with people ruining it at every turn. The night that Ck6 ganked fight night at Jhelom farms and everyone got gated to the secret GM room, I posted a message on the forums explaining that I would not host it any more but would love to see it continued. It never happened again.
The question, then, is simple:
Would you like to see this happen again?
A night where everyone meets at a particular spot and for a designated length of time there is no combat unless agreed upon. This must be done outside of the duel pits. It is much akin to the Yew Duel Roof or whatever place your server used to hang out at and respectively duel. It is a really cool thing to be a part of, chatting with enemies and focusing on having fun, talkin some smack and improving your skills.
However, I won't bother if I don't have support from the community.
Ideally, I would eventually like to have something like we had last time. Players brought beetles and left kegs out. Nobody stole them. It was amazing. People came, restocked what they needed, and went back to fight. It took time for those players to learn that the environment was worth supporting, and I don't expect that level of assistance right off the bat (I'm broke, or I'd totally fund it for the sake of trying).
All I need right now is people saying they'd show, wouldn't mess it up and would bond together if someone tried to fuck with it. This worked twice last time, and actually turned into some great fights, but I would like to avoid it. The third time there were too many and they wiped us out, ending the event. The intimidation factor was important. People DID try to fuck with it at start, but they never got a kill off before eating the dirt so fast. I took counts protecting it!
My Really Cool Request of Staff That Won't Get Approved But A Guy Can Dream, Can't He?
I would really like to host it on the island that I am currently in ownership of via a timeshare agreement with GM Fain (I have it until April 23rd, 2013), though it would need a slight expansion from a creative person with powers to do so.
While having a duel arena on the island would be cool, it wouldn't fit the theme. What I would really, really like is a little more open space, maybe with an interesting layout or w/e. I don't know what the deal is with Fain's property entirely... however, I feel that it wouldn't be an entirely random and unfair gift to bestow, seeing as he and I have put a good amount of volunteer work into helping this server however we can AND the purpose of this addition is solely for the community. I would love to see it become a hangout spot, and those who know me realize that I am not the type to abuse the location. Again, I don't expect this, and we can find another place to host it, but it would be a dream and would make moderation of the event a little easier.
This event is player-run, meaning I am not solely responsible for it. I would love for us all to shape the rules of the club. I haven't been around lately, so I don't know the current meta very well. Maybe nobody even 1v1s any more. Do they?
Feel free to AIM me with questions, comments and offers of large sums of money: Flipper The Band
<3 flip/shulgin
Introduction
Not many of you know me and the rest of you have likely forgotten who I am for the most part. I reinstalled yesterday and have been impressed by the number of people who recognize my name. Sadly, most of them don't really know who I am, or they think I'm someone else, or a GM, or that I paid rl money/sucked dick for the item which has found a place amongst the most famous items in the server's history (don't I make it sound way more impressive than it is?!). It was kinda flattering at first, but in a day and a half it has already become tiring explaining all the same things to everyone who recognizes my name.
It's been three years so I figure a re-introduction is in order. Some factz:
-I used to be a Senior Counselor and forum mod. I am neither at present and have not been a staff member in any shape for over four years.
-I am really not that great at PvP but I post so much on forums that I offer guilds a bit of free recognition and a bit of approval from non-PvPers just by being in their list (often blocked from Rage vent and not told where the fights were)
-My sandals were a gift for being the first forum mod/ingame staff after I quit ingame to focus on RL stuff and forums
-I may not have done the type of hard work that Mark/Ryan/Krrios and the rest of 'em do, but I consider myself a part of a relatively small group of individuals on this server who were/are very active in the community and do as much organizational/background work as possible to contribute to the positive and fresh environment here. I have put in countless hours staffing, nazi-ing forums, organizing player events, running a community vendor mall and a player creation service with Addicted, and have formed multiple guilds during dry spells of faction action that have helped keep things from dying completely. I don't mention this to attempt to alter your opinion of me, but to offer some credence to the ideas I am proposing and to let you know that I am not just some random dude posting the first fifty chapters of his novella on the forums.
-I am the king of long, involved forum posts that tend to go into too much detail about things nobody cares that much about (like myself, ideas I have, what I had for lunch, this parenthetical statement, etc).
Fight Night Background
In the spring of 2007, faction PvP was at its highest peak in a long time. Many old names had come out of the woodwork to reform guilds long since thought forgotten; there were four active factions with multiple competitive guilds in each for the first time since Entourage was zerging against P F/Luv, Ck6 and YES/Rage in 2005. Even ODB, long thought dead from burst blood vessels whilst trying to tear a phone booth in half, returned with his scrub squadron MDK.
This was much a reaction to the failure of Divinity to take off as expected. Many players came back to try it and were disappointed (despite it being an fucking amazing server, I don't know why it didn't take off) at the lack of players but still needed to quell the UO itch. In this time, I was glad to discover a very active group of fielders who were constantly looking to test each other outside the pits and on the field, 1v1-anything-goes.
I gathered some of the most devoted 1v1ers. Sinfall will be mad if he reads this and does not see his name mentioned at this juncture. Sinfall. Every week we met at Wrong to duel. There was an incredible level of respect. Massive guilds would show up from opposite factions, one would rush in on the other and just wait; a few seconds of no spells cast, and they'd all line up together to watch the fights. Of course, there was some side action, and plenty of 2v2/3v3s going on, but for the most part I was amazed at how respective everyone was being towards the setups. Even at a time when faction points were recently re-added and super leet, nobody got ganked that I can remember.
Until it spread. Soon fifty+ people were showing up on Wednesdays. It was talked about on the forums constantly and that meant one thing: trolls. E. and Ck6 came and ruined the setups by constantly harassing and ganking us. At one point someone even gated to a private location, which caused the multiple GMs who were regular spectators of the fight nights to pop out and start whipping out bans to everyone marking runes, etc. It was chaos, and I just didn't feel like keeping it going when I had to deal with people ruining it at every turn. The night that Ck6 ganked fight night at Jhelom farms and everyone got gated to the secret GM room, I posted a message on the forums explaining that I would not host it any more but would love to see it continued. It never happened again.
The question, then, is simple:
Would you like to see this happen again?
A night where everyone meets at a particular spot and for a designated length of time there is no combat unless agreed upon. This must be done outside of the duel pits. It is much akin to the Yew Duel Roof or whatever place your server used to hang out at and respectively duel. It is a really cool thing to be a part of, chatting with enemies and focusing on having fun, talkin some smack and improving your skills.
However, I won't bother if I don't have support from the community.
Ideally, I would eventually like to have something like we had last time. Players brought beetles and left kegs out. Nobody stole them. It was amazing. People came, restocked what they needed, and went back to fight. It took time for those players to learn that the environment was worth supporting, and I don't expect that level of assistance right off the bat (I'm broke, or I'd totally fund it for the sake of trying).
All I need right now is people saying they'd show, wouldn't mess it up and would bond together if someone tried to fuck with it. This worked twice last time, and actually turned into some great fights, but I would like to avoid it. The third time there were too many and they wiped us out, ending the event. The intimidation factor was important. People DID try to fuck with it at start, but they never got a kill off before eating the dirt so fast. I took counts protecting it!
My Really Cool Request of Staff That Won't Get Approved But A Guy Can Dream, Can't He?
I would really like to host it on the island that I am currently in ownership of via a timeshare agreement with GM Fain (I have it until April 23rd, 2013), though it would need a slight expansion from a creative person with powers to do so.
While having a duel arena on the island would be cool, it wouldn't fit the theme. What I would really, really like is a little more open space, maybe with an interesting layout or w/e. I don't know what the deal is with Fain's property entirely... however, I feel that it wouldn't be an entirely random and unfair gift to bestow, seeing as he and I have put a good amount of volunteer work into helping this server however we can AND the purpose of this addition is solely for the community. I would love to see it become a hangout spot, and those who know me realize that I am not the type to abuse the location. Again, I don't expect this, and we can find another place to host it, but it would be a dream and would make moderation of the event a little easier.
This event is player-run, meaning I am not solely responsible for it. I would love for us all to shape the rules of the club. I haven't been around lately, so I don't know the current meta very well. Maybe nobody even 1v1s any more. Do they?
Feel free to AIM me with questions, comments and offers of large sums of money: Flipper The Band
<3 flip/shulgin
