KnightAttack
01-01-2009, 05:24 AM
So, here we are, a few days away from Christmas. School's done, and I really haven't been gaming enough to write a decent review. Instead, I've been at home, busy with lots of work, although I had a chance to reinstall Battlefield 2142, and play it for the first time in probably close to a year [and get my ass kicked], I began thinking about my turns with clans in Video Games.
To most people, the amount of clans I have been in, quite small to how many they have been. My own personal amount of clans, is 7.
But each clan I have been in was quite fun, or at least, while it lasted it was. I thought this post should explain some things, my actions, so that you people will know a little more about me.
[I posted this here, instead of the user review. Think it's a decent read.]
So, the 7 clans I have bene in, are:
* -=JO=- - The Jedi Order - [Game:] Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
* eXe - [didn't really stand for anything] - [Game:] Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
* <Ca> - Clan Apathy - [Game:] Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
* I have to leave this one blank, because I don't remember the name. [Game:] Counter Strike Source.
* .:AFW:. - Affinity For War - [Game:] Counter Strike Source
* ^ESC^ - Exiled Soldiers Coalition - [Game:] Battlefield 2142
* <uFo> - u Fear only - [Game:] Battlefield 2
Each clan has had signifigant impact on where I am today.
So, let's start with a little history.
After coming back to Jedi Knight II online after my area finally got DSL in late 2004, I was way out of touch. Eventually, someone came on, recognized I was new, and helped me understand the controls, and better basics of the game. In May of 2005, I was able to join a the clan of -=JO=-. I got my new tags, new colors. About 3 weeks after I joined however, the clan folded, as we ran out of money, and could no longer pay for a server.
For a few months, I bounced around and around, going to different servers. In September, I eventually found my way to eXe. The server was always fairly busy. They were announcing that the clan was recruiting, when I met a fellow Canadian, and member, Teh_Nemesis, who recruited me into the eXe ranks.
I was fairly well liked, active, and moved up the the first few ranks quickly. Soon, I began recruiting some new people, and at almost any given time, there was 5 members on. By November of 2005, the money once again ran-dry. Our server was gone, as was most of the members.
Except me.
I kept playing. Wearing the tags, and kept in constant contact with our leaders. I began playing on another clans server, known as -[KoTp]- (Keepers of The Peace), where I soon made friends with one of their clan members, Chop_Sticks. Soon, I regularly played with him, keeping the clan alive. Members started to come back, and, in January of 2006, we launched a server hosted by a member on a spare computer. It only held 16 people, and was occasionally unstable, but it worked. And the clan expanded.
The clan, moved to a new site, new forum, and new web page. I was unofficially put in charge of recruiting, and clan relations. As many members will atest to, I helped refound this broken clan. The membership, which was struggling around 15 active people, jumped to 40. All of them, good members. 2 new alliances, one with -[KoTp]- and <Ca> were established. However, it was during this time, a fracture began in the clan. Many of the original members were gone, some less active. One of our leaders, got involved with a "Guild" in the game. Originally this wasn't a problem...Until later. Members who I had recruited, good people, such as Teemu, Vanilla, Deathy all were chosen over me to council us, as that was how the clan worked. I wasn't bitter. I was a step below council, and most of these people confided in me, discussing what was going on during the meeting, or in the forums.
I was still actively taking part in recruiting, and admining the server, as I was one of the few on in my timezone. During the spring months of 2006, a membership swelled to 80+ members. We spand all over the world. However, structure problems began.
The council changed policies, allowing them to have the power to choose who to recruit into the clan. The council also began promoting people, which, to an untrained eye seemed random. New recruits were being brought up faster than members who had been there for months. However, these new recruits, were fellow friends, and members of people on the council. They were now hoisting admin on the server when they should have not been.
The man hosting the server passed out admin not just to members, but to his friends as well. New members were getting upset, but no one on council had enough balls to admit that there was problems, or go against our founders wishes.
In May of 2006, my first problem with another member occurred. While admining the server, one new member was cursing, laming, and doing everything that broke the rules in the server. I first tried to control him, but he refused to listen. I removed him from the server 3 times, but he refused to listen again. I went online, found one of the guys who I had recruited who was on council, and had them Ban him from the server.
I went on to Post in the members only forum about the lack of respect in the clan. No one was respecting the elder members of the clan. It was the way how we worked. However, my post after only about 3 members had seen it, was removed from our Members forum and put in the council forum. Later, I shown the logs from the post. The people who I had recruited had defended the actions I had taken, while the founder ripped them for agreeing with me, and eventually unbanned the person.
I was taken aback. This clan, which I helped keep alive, was going down a very bad path. And I wanted to stop it. However, I pled my case with one of the council, and they thought I was stupid. "Admin to friends was fine", I was told. What set me off last however, was the day I found out our leader was showing his buddies, who were not in the clan, our "Members Only" Forum. This is detailed information, where we discussed important clan topics. Privid information. I lambasted the leader for allowing this, where he basically told me to "F**k off" as he thought it was fine.
In June of 2006, I left eXe. The clan had taken a road I could not follow. It was going to implode. It was only a matter of time. Other people in the JK2 community saw it, and that's why they didn't join. The leader told me I was "next" to be on council, if that was why I was leaving. He thought I was power hungry. It just proved how little he did know me. I later learned that there was several votes on myself becoming a council member, with the decision split right down the leader. Half thought I was too rash, too angry to be one, while the others thought i would bring exactly what was missing. Ironically, my biggest ally in the clan, was one of the founders, a man who went by the name Ste- or disrupti0n, the seldom heard, and rarely played member (usually, only with me, despite the fact he was in England). He and I discusses everything with the clan, including expansions into the sequel game.
By November of that year, eXe was dead. There was several attempts to revive it, but it was never right. Ex-Members agree, when I left, eXe might as well have closed shop. Some members followed me, others simply quit playing.
However, my time in JK2 does not end there. After being asked to join a various amount of other clans in the game, I eventually decided to join our old ally, <Ca>, or Clan Apathy. Clan Apathy was one of the original JK2 clans. They had been around since shortly after the game went online. The clan was/and is still more or less ran by a man name HaunTed, although the clan structure is set up to spread jobs around.
When I joined in September of '06, I quickly found a place at home. Soon, I became actively involved on the forums, and then found myself working on the recruiting team. I worked dillegently with the other members, bringing new members into the fold.
Everything was fine, until......May of 2007. In our scouting department, I saw something posted that made me very upset, as it reminded me a lot of what happened in eXe. A member came on the forums, lambasting us for recruiting someone while he was away for a week, because he thought they were "weak" and "not worthy" of being in the clan. This particular member, had been giving me some grief before, and I just went off on that post. I told him to get "STFU" and "GFO" if he was going to be like that.
He began a massive war of words, with him accusing me of not being nice to his "Girlfriend" when she tried to join. [Point of Fact: We had an emote with a smily face guy holding the sign of "lier". I used this icon on her post, when she had posted that she had played the game for 2 years longer than it had been out. It was just for fun, and I still wished her "good luck", as was our policy]. I tore the member a new one for that.
By the end of it, I eventually decided as long as this member was still in the clan, I could not be. So I left <Ca>, until January of 2008, when I rejoined, after the two members left. I don't play a huge amount of the game anymore, or am all that active in the clan, but I'm still around.
That about wraps up the JK2 saga. However, I also was in more clans at the same time.
To most people, the amount of clans I have been in, quite small to how many they have been. My own personal amount of clans, is 7.
But each clan I have been in was quite fun, or at least, while it lasted it was. I thought this post should explain some things, my actions, so that you people will know a little more about me.
[I posted this here, instead of the user review. Think it's a decent read.]
So, the 7 clans I have bene in, are:
* -=JO=- - The Jedi Order - [Game:] Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
* eXe - [didn't really stand for anything] - [Game:] Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
* <Ca> - Clan Apathy - [Game:] Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
* I have to leave this one blank, because I don't remember the name. [Game:] Counter Strike Source.
* .:AFW:. - Affinity For War - [Game:] Counter Strike Source
* ^ESC^ - Exiled Soldiers Coalition - [Game:] Battlefield 2142
* <uFo> - u Fear only - [Game:] Battlefield 2
Each clan has had signifigant impact on where I am today.
So, let's start with a little history.
After coming back to Jedi Knight II online after my area finally got DSL in late 2004, I was way out of touch. Eventually, someone came on, recognized I was new, and helped me understand the controls, and better basics of the game. In May of 2005, I was able to join a the clan of -=JO=-. I got my new tags, new colors. About 3 weeks after I joined however, the clan folded, as we ran out of money, and could no longer pay for a server.
For a few months, I bounced around and around, going to different servers. In September, I eventually found my way to eXe. The server was always fairly busy. They were announcing that the clan was recruiting, when I met a fellow Canadian, and member, Teh_Nemesis, who recruited me into the eXe ranks.
I was fairly well liked, active, and moved up the the first few ranks quickly. Soon, I began recruiting some new people, and at almost any given time, there was 5 members on. By November of 2005, the money once again ran-dry. Our server was gone, as was most of the members.
Except me.
I kept playing. Wearing the tags, and kept in constant contact with our leaders. I began playing on another clans server, known as -[KoTp]- (Keepers of The Peace), where I soon made friends with one of their clan members, Chop_Sticks. Soon, I regularly played with him, keeping the clan alive. Members started to come back, and, in January of 2006, we launched a server hosted by a member on a spare computer. It only held 16 people, and was occasionally unstable, but it worked. And the clan expanded.
The clan, moved to a new site, new forum, and new web page. I was unofficially put in charge of recruiting, and clan relations. As many members will atest to, I helped refound this broken clan. The membership, which was struggling around 15 active people, jumped to 40. All of them, good members. 2 new alliances, one with -[KoTp]- and <Ca> were established. However, it was during this time, a fracture began in the clan. Many of the original members were gone, some less active. One of our leaders, got involved with a "Guild" in the game. Originally this wasn't a problem...Until later. Members who I had recruited, good people, such as Teemu, Vanilla, Deathy all were chosen over me to council us, as that was how the clan worked. I wasn't bitter. I was a step below council, and most of these people confided in me, discussing what was going on during the meeting, or in the forums.
I was still actively taking part in recruiting, and admining the server, as I was one of the few on in my timezone. During the spring months of 2006, a membership swelled to 80+ members. We spand all over the world. However, structure problems began.
The council changed policies, allowing them to have the power to choose who to recruit into the clan. The council also began promoting people, which, to an untrained eye seemed random. New recruits were being brought up faster than members who had been there for months. However, these new recruits, were fellow friends, and members of people on the council. They were now hoisting admin on the server when they should have not been.
The man hosting the server passed out admin not just to members, but to his friends as well. New members were getting upset, but no one on council had enough balls to admit that there was problems, or go against our founders wishes.
In May of 2006, my first problem with another member occurred. While admining the server, one new member was cursing, laming, and doing everything that broke the rules in the server. I first tried to control him, but he refused to listen. I removed him from the server 3 times, but he refused to listen again. I went online, found one of the guys who I had recruited who was on council, and had them Ban him from the server.
I went on to Post in the members only forum about the lack of respect in the clan. No one was respecting the elder members of the clan. It was the way how we worked. However, my post after only about 3 members had seen it, was removed from our Members forum and put in the council forum. Later, I shown the logs from the post. The people who I had recruited had defended the actions I had taken, while the founder ripped them for agreeing with me, and eventually unbanned the person.
I was taken aback. This clan, which I helped keep alive, was going down a very bad path. And I wanted to stop it. However, I pled my case with one of the council, and they thought I was stupid. "Admin to friends was fine", I was told. What set me off last however, was the day I found out our leader was showing his buddies, who were not in the clan, our "Members Only" Forum. This is detailed information, where we discussed important clan topics. Privid information. I lambasted the leader for allowing this, where he basically told me to "F**k off" as he thought it was fine.
In June of 2006, I left eXe. The clan had taken a road I could not follow. It was going to implode. It was only a matter of time. Other people in the JK2 community saw it, and that's why they didn't join. The leader told me I was "next" to be on council, if that was why I was leaving. He thought I was power hungry. It just proved how little he did know me. I later learned that there was several votes on myself becoming a council member, with the decision split right down the leader. Half thought I was too rash, too angry to be one, while the others thought i would bring exactly what was missing. Ironically, my biggest ally in the clan, was one of the founders, a man who went by the name Ste- or disrupti0n, the seldom heard, and rarely played member (usually, only with me, despite the fact he was in England). He and I discusses everything with the clan, including expansions into the sequel game.
By November of that year, eXe was dead. There was several attempts to revive it, but it was never right. Ex-Members agree, when I left, eXe might as well have closed shop. Some members followed me, others simply quit playing.
However, my time in JK2 does not end there. After being asked to join a various amount of other clans in the game, I eventually decided to join our old ally, <Ca>, or Clan Apathy. Clan Apathy was one of the original JK2 clans. They had been around since shortly after the game went online. The clan was/and is still more or less ran by a man name HaunTed, although the clan structure is set up to spread jobs around.
When I joined in September of '06, I quickly found a place at home. Soon, I became actively involved on the forums, and then found myself working on the recruiting team. I worked dillegently with the other members, bringing new members into the fold.
Everything was fine, until......May of 2007. In our scouting department, I saw something posted that made me very upset, as it reminded me a lot of what happened in eXe. A member came on the forums, lambasting us for recruiting someone while he was away for a week, because he thought they were "weak" and "not worthy" of being in the clan. This particular member, had been giving me some grief before, and I just went off on that post. I told him to get "STFU" and "GFO" if he was going to be like that.
He began a massive war of words, with him accusing me of not being nice to his "Girlfriend" when she tried to join. [Point of Fact: We had an emote with a smily face guy holding the sign of "lier". I used this icon on her post, when she had posted that she had played the game for 2 years longer than it had been out. It was just for fun, and I still wished her "good luck", as was our policy]. I tore the member a new one for that.
By the end of it, I eventually decided as long as this member was still in the clan, I could not be. So I left <Ca>, until January of 2008, when I rejoined, after the two members left. I don't play a huge amount of the game anymore, or am all that active in the clan, but I'm still around.
That about wraps up the JK2 saga. However, I also was in more clans at the same time.