I rarely get on here, but for this I just had to post it. This is my entire life story playing Tremulous.
This is my life story in Tremulous. At the end of each section, I will list a bunch of cool people from that time period, and then clans I was in during that time period.
I started out on SST, for like one game. Then I left. I started playing on #BoomBoom#Virginia,USA even while it was out of date just because of the great friends I made there. Anyone who EVER played there knows what I mean
I would say more about #BB#, but I can't remember that much, to tell the truth. I can remember one thing over everything else: =USA=JBOMB. He was my best friend for a while there. Cool people: Flattire, C Kretz, ZEL, Coffee, OblivionLost (leader of {OL}), CU|KIRBY, and MANY others. Clan(s): =USA=
I still miss that server.
When it started dying down I switched to SST, where I made many more friends, some from #BB# came with me. The old clan with most of my friends in it named Oblivion Lost, then the best clan in the game, has now left Tremulous for another game, and I miss them greatly. Recently I had the great luck of seeing {O##}Coffee on KoRX where we reminisced about the old days (## because I forget his real numbers).
SST was a whole new game to me. #BB# (R.I.P.) didn't have anywhere near as many noobs to murder violently. I stayed due to the many friends there and because #BB# was dying. I was known as a troublemaker, and yet many admins (who didn't hate me) were my friends. I was banned many times, but never for long. I had a secret weapon: my brother. He also was a regular on SST, and a popular one at that. Since when one of us got banned, the other would too, they would never ban me for long so he wouldn't have to stop playing there because of me. During that period, I also started playing on TremX occasionally.
That went on for a while, until they made a new admin command: !immunity. It was made specifically to get rid of me while keeping my brother. Before they banned me, an admin I won't name muted me, denybuilded me, and slapped me around Karith for 15 minutes. Then he permabanned me. While I still think that was abuse, and he should have gone straight to a permaban, I do realize that I deserved it. However, I was still immature back then. I moved from SST to another set of servers that I'm sure you all will know. Cool people: Will be listed later, so as to not put people in sections they weren't in.
Clan(s): =BAK=, <|LS|>
^5Letter. That's what I call those servers. X, M, L, Z, P, A, all of them are, or at least WERE ^5Letter servers (^5 = light blue, for you color-noobs). So yeah, I played on X to start, played there for a long time. I became great friends with Xpectator and a bunch of other admins. All of them were great friends of mine, some still are. Anyways, I stayed on the servers for a while. I pointed out the flaws, I still hate a lot of those flaws today. In retrospect, the servers were crap. Some of them still are. But Xpectator and Sex managed to make a community larger than most. However, SST's community was still much better. The ^5Letter community, while some of the people were cool guys (and gals), a majority of the community was made of frickin' retards. Also, the cool people were spread thin among the admin levels. Later on, only about half of the higher level admins actually deserved that admin, and I was demoted to the middle ranks for inactivity caused by Platform Racing 2. But anyways, that's not the important part. Occasionally, I would go to TremX to escape the noobage. Eventually, I trolololol'd on |KoR|Layouts, getting banned from all |KoR| server (including TremX). Because of that, I was stuck with the ^5Letter servers. I could be found in any of their servers, depending which was running the best mod at the time. Mostly, this ended with me playing on the ^5A server, especially when they ran my favorite non-KoRx and non-Nuts mod of all time: Ambush, which was run on the A server for a while. Another mod I loved that they ran on A was the original TremRPG which used !rollthedice and !buyhp to get you high HP aliens/humans. Best match ever there: >20000 HP dretch vs. >30000 HP sawsuit. I was the dretch. I lost. But anyways, after a bit over 6 months of those servers, I went to the SST forums, where I appealed my ban. Cool people: X-chill, XEyekey, Xpectator, Sex, The Makai, Veloci1992f, a torret, xConguitoX, WolfMaster, Gohan, and MANY MANY OTHERS!!! Clans: =[L]=, [BnK]
So I posted on the SST forums that, after 6 months, I thought I deserved a second chance. They agreed, with the addition that if I screwed up once they'd just permaban me again. I was cool with that. To make a long story short, I didn't screw up. After a long enough period of time, and after switching over to Nuts (same people played there as SST, but run by Khayman [then known as Mr. Peanut] instead of Confess/Meow and Paradox), I even managed to get L4 admin. Cool People: seeeker, Overdose, Khayman, IAmNotANewbie, Doc, Kirby, Luis, Lawlylicious, Gamee, Link, most other SST members/regulars. Clan(s): {SST}
Unfortunately, Bissig got captured by Russian Mafia (no, not really) and Nuts (and SST) died. After that, the {SST} clan was scattered. Most of us moved to KoRx (where I had to appeal another permaban), another large portion quit Trem forever, never to be seen again. Except if they were. But anyways, long time on KoRx, long time away from Tremulous on AssaultCube (fuck yeah!), and when I came back I'd lost a lot of skill and gotten a bit bored of KoRx. Eventually I drifted to AA, a vanilla server with a ton of older players (Einstein from =USA=, Flattire from {OL}, Denton from AoD [I think], and Yahoo, Yarou, and Dracone from a hell of a lot of clans). As it is, I don't play much anymore, due to homework and Skype, but on weekends I can be found playing AA, KoRx, GBA Clan Server on rare occasion, sometimes Z, etc. Cool People: If I say "hi [your name]" when I get on a server, you're a cool peoples. Clan(s): {SST} (still, even though it died); |GBA|, led by GLAMEOW and Bor., the two supreme dictators of |GBA|
Well, then I got banned from KoRx for trollolol'ing-ish. Again, my mouth got me into trouble. I stopped playing for a few days, deciding what to do. I was lost. My community was gone. I played on AA on very rare occasions. I didn't play on Z at all. And then I did the one thing that saved me: I opened up Tremulous GPP, the Game Play Preview of Tremulous 1.2. One of the first things I saw when I got on US1, the official US server for 1.2, was Rezyn, one of the old SST server admins, now a Tremulous developer. I decided to stay a while, and saw another old SST friend of mine, WarLock. So I kept playing, and I came back there the next day. At the time I wrote this, it was a month later or so, and I'd made a lot of friends, and joined the amazing clan Sir|. Cool People: If I say/said your name when I/you get/got on a server, either in a long list of names or individually, you're a cool peopleseses. Clan(s): {SST}; Sir|, made by Anonymoose and HeAdHunTeR
I became one of the good players on 1.2 (maybe I'm exaggerating a LITTLE bit…) and helped cofound .oP: (since then renamed to .7th'|) with a few other cool members. Everything was pretty steady for a while. I managed to get into GT (hhhhhh). And then stuff happened. I usually refer to it as…clan drama! Firstly, let me say this. "I didn't do it!" Secondly, I was not directly involved in most of this clan drama in any way, shape, or form. But since this is MY Tremulous Life Story, I won't go into all that. The only 'drama' I was involved in was the slow breakups of Sir| and .7th'|. I continued to wear those tags, though, for a currently undetermined period of time. Some of the important events that happened were WarLock and Pup Tentacle quitting and the awesome GPP clan tournament (GT came in 4th place!). Probably the worst thing that happened was US1 getting rid of semicolons, which drastically lowered the creative possibilities for smiley faces, namely two of my favorites: ;_; and
. Oh, also, marazap. Just look up "zap rush" on the forums. They made Mara's zap the most overpowered thing on the face of the granger. They then fixed it after many, MANY complaints. There also was a bot that somebody made for 1.2 that they used and got permanently banned for. It was fixed in under a day. Since then there has only been the normal drama, and otherwise everything has been just about normal. People come, people go. There are a lot of awesome people in 1.2, and I feel sorry for all you 1.1 players who don't join in on this awesome community (although the clan scene could still be better). I also recently reached a full 5 years playing Tremulous, so I'm probably in the top 90% longest playing players. Cool People: If I say/said your name when I/you get on a server, either in a long list of names or individually, you're a cool peopleseses. Also, if you are in GT or are a friend of mine, you are epic
Clan(s): {SST}; Sir|; .7th'|, cofounded with Logitech and Taco/kiingnoob; GT, begun by a bunch of awesome people!
Well, that's my Tremulous Life Story, if anything new and big happens I will probably forget to update any posted versions, but I will likely update the hard copy.
Menace13, OUT!
