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Re: What this place needs

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From: TekVideo
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:43
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"Chicken" <n...@no.net> wrote in message
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>
> I speak from much experience here. Lets get one thing straight, I do
> not think because I have been arround that I am better than anyone, or
> that I know any better than anyone. I can only speak from what I have
> seen, in sadly what is several years now.


Oh ho...



>
> When I started out in the ol NG , q2,  agq2 actually, there were no
> clans really, but this guy named sigil started a server just for folks
> on the NG to play on. There was much talking about who could kick
> who's ass and so forth. Sigil started a server and the "who could kick
> who's ass"  threads turned into "man that was fun last night"  or
> GG's at sigils, gg's at the backup haus threads. Was always fun. Other
> folks such as ford and Killer tossed up other servers for people to
> play on and the fun continued.


Even I had fun whilst being flogged from the rear with a hot spatula.




>
> Then Q3 came around and PIT fired up his servers. There was a lotta
> crap going on in this NG at the time, but after there was a server for
> everyone to play on it was really very fun. There was IG, DM, and CA.



Oh ho.. Hot soup!




>
> There was a community. People played and had fun. Even folks from
> across the seas joined and despite the outrageous pings seemed to have
> fun. Well I had fun lag killing them anyway, but I am silly like that.

me too.





>
> The thing that ruined it for me was the introduction of clan nonsense
> into it all. I was part of a NG clan and quickly quit while denouncing
> it at the same time. Others sadly did not listen. they formed clans
> and displayed this holier than thou attitude while quickly abandoning
> the NG, only to come back at their leisure expecting to be treated as
> royalty in the imaginary kingdom that the felt they created ,but had
> left behind.
>
> What this place needs is a place for regs to play on. No clans, no BS,
> just some fun.


Ya got that right slappy.





>
> Whatever has offered a server, I can offer servers as well. Maybe not
> the best pings, but that never mattered before when playing amongst
> friends.
>
> I am sure there are others here that have bandwidth that can offer up
> some servers. What mods, maps and options do you all want?
>
> Let's get something going /


I'll play if you can turn off punkbuster as it crashes my PC.
/me hasn't played since the last PR.
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