Lars Zandor

Lars_Zandor

Your first video game

August 30 2015
The very first Age of Empires on my father's pc, back when my parents had the shop (I think in 1996 or 1997), I was about five or six years old, maybe even younger, I'm not sure anymore.
One of the clearest memories I have from back then (at this point I was just watching what my father was doing) was that I was surprised by the fact that if a building got destroyed seemingly without reason, meant there was an enemy archer or something in the fog of war (remember, I was only about five years old :P ).
I think it was Age of Empires II that really got me addicted to games. Played that game for years (always with cheats back then :blush: ).
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Brandon Felczer

CapnBranFlakes

Your first video game

August 30 2015
Mine: 2 years old - 1988 - MS-DOS - Sesame Street ABCs - sitting on my dad's lap at the computer smashing on buttons. I literally can still remember this. I bet that's why video games play such a huge part in my life :)

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=
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Edited August 30 2015 by CapnBranFlakes
Brandon Felczer

CapnBranFlakes

Your first video game

August 30 2015
What was the first video game you ever played?
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Edited August 30 2015 by CapnBranFlakes
Pnutt Buttah

pnuttbuttah

Guild Wars 2 goes Free to Play. Today. Right Now!

August 30 2015
Quote by Keioel
wow those are some restrictions lol...is world pvp so serious in this game that people would go to those lengths in mass pnuttbuttah?

The more competitive a game mode is, the greater lengths players will go to grief and exploit. The problem with opening up parts of a game to F2P is that it guarantees anonymity with no accountability. Those types of players will do anything when there's nothing to lose by being caught.
Mic Spicer

Pinkscarab

Recruitment

August 30 2015
I need an invite to the guild, does it matter what server you are on?
David

Keioel

Guild Wars 2 goes Free to Play. Today. Right Now!

August 30 2015
wow those are some restrictions lol...is world pvp so serious in this game that people would go to those lengths in mass pnuttbuttah?
Pnutt Buttah

pnuttbuttah

Guild Wars 2 goes Free to Play. Today. Right Now!

August 30 2015
Sincerely hope they limit F2P players to EotM and not grant them access to the regular WvW maps. There will be endless legions of F2P accounts created expressly to sabotage enemy servers:

  • spy/report on enemy communications, troop movements, defensive posture, etc.
  • raise enemy servers to WvW population caps to prevent new players / transfers
  • queue maps to population caps to prevent enemy players from joining
  • misbuild/misplace defensive siege so area siege caps prevent legitimate siege placement
  • suicide enemy golem siege
  • waste supply in enemy depots
  • etc. etc. etc.
Shawn Birch

Parker

[Roleplay] Character Bios

August 30 2015
2015/8/29
The Admiral gave the crew of the Cloudnyne some needed shore leave while the Phantom took a short trip to DS9 to drop off a diplomatic envoy. Join us next week for the promotions and preliminary voyage of the USS Phantom and its new crew.
Ryan

Planets9

Hangar pets

August 30 2015
Thanks. I haven't seen the hangar pets at a starbase, but then I haven't really looked at the ship weapons and other stuff either. I have the max Romulan rep on all characters, and I did see those hangar pets costing 35,000 dilithium.
Andrew Stanley

AndyStan

[EVENT] MIRROR BIOs (Part Of Reflection Day)

August 30 2015
Name: Jarvis Draconis Stanley
Species: Terran
Date of birth: 10th June 2383 (Standard Terran calendar)
Place of birth: Unknown planet - Badlands
Age: 27 earth years old
Height: 1.82 meters
Weight: 102kg in standard 1G gravity conditions.
Terran armada rank: Squadron Commander
Current posting: I.S.S. Goresaber - Patrol Escort - Prometheus Class.
Previous assignment: Second in command of the 12th assault fleet operating out of Terok Nor in the hunt for the remaining Cardassian resistance forces rumoured to be sheltering former Alliance Regent Worf.
Current assignment: CLASSIFIED
Career distinctions:
  • Youngest ever Terran to ascend to captain rank after killing his captain following a mutiny during his first assigment on his first ship.
  • Was a part of the 8th assault fleet that fought in a battle against Klingon forces near the Kahless Nebula which resulted in the capture of Alliance Captain Elim Garak who was put to death for crimes against the Terran Empire.
  • Served with distinction in the task force assigned to the subjugation of Nukara Prime and the Tholians and with the assault fleet sent to conquer Ferenginar.
  • Led multiple raids into the "alternate universe" to acquire wide varieties of Federation technologies.


Jarvis was born in the badlands, no one - even him - knows exactly where. The badlands proved to be one of the few safe places from the dominant Klingon/Cardassian forces of the time, he saw some of his family including his uncle, sister and mother killed by raids from the Klingon/Cardassian alliance forces in a single day which some claim affected his mental balance.

Jarvis then became eager, even obsessed with repaying the alliance for the hurt they'd caused him, to the point that he killed a fellow applicant at the age of 15 just to guarantee his placement on a warship.

3 weeks after the funeral of his mother and sister he accepted his first official warship posting on the I.S.S. Potempkin (an old Miranda class destroyer) as a security enforcer. The Potempkin moved from operating in the badlands to Terok Nor immediately after it was seized from alliance forces.

On the Potempkins first patrol along the edge of Cardassian territory several of the senior officers attempted to mutiny to take command of the ship, Jarvis helped to defend the Captain (James Kurland) who elevated him to first officer when the mutiny was defeated, only for Jarvis to kill Kurland later in the day for reasons unknown. After this incident Jarvis was controversially awarded the permanent command of the the Potempkin.

The Potempkin was later re-assigned to the 8th assault fleet and fought in the battle at the Kahless Nebula, where the potempkin destroyed four klingon vessels and crippled the primary target ship which contained the fugitive Elim Garak.

The Potempkin took extreme damage in the battle and had to be towed back to the nearest base. Rather than wait for 8 weeks for the repairs Terran commanders offered Jarvis the Command of a new combat vessel that had just come out of the shipyard which he accepted - on the condition he could name it.

The ship was named by Jarvis as the I.S.S. Goresaber which was officially commissioned 1 week later when both it and Jarvis embarked upon their first mission on his 22nd birthday, the Goresaber served in multiple sectors and participated in several assaults into Tholian, Cardassian and even Romulan space.

4 years later Terran central command detached the Goresaber from the 8th fleet and assigned it to a task force to steal technologies from the federation "prime" universe, this culminated in several incursions by Terran forces against Reman bases which were distraction tactics while the Goresaber raided lightly guarded Federation bases to acquire technology for the Terran armada.

After several successful raids the Goresaber moved back to Terok Nor where Jarvis was promoted to the rank of Squadron Commander. He was tasked with serving in the 12th assault fleet as second in command to Admiral Shon who is tasked with suppressing the remnants of the Cardassian forces left over from the Alliance.

As the calendar year 2410 dawns much of the remaining Cardassian resistance has been stamped out. The Goresaber is again being reassigned, this time to a top secret project devised by the very highest levels of Terran command.

No one knows for sure what the project entails but Jarvis is making preparations to confront the Federation once again.....

On a personal level, Jarvis life has proved to be just as eventful as his professional one, including 2 marriages (both ended in divorce with no children) and rumours of a relationship with a trill who serves aboard his ship as a junior armory officer. There was also a past relationship with an unnamed Terran admiral who may have had a hand in Jarvis keeping his command after bypassing almost all of the lower end of the chain of command in his early career.

[Picture: Jarvis leading an Assault Squad searching a base for former Regent Worf]
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Edited August 31 2015 by AndyStan
Jay

Carpenter

Guild Wars 2 goes Free to Play. Today. Right Now!

August 30 2015
Quote by calx
*is there pizza? :woohoo:


http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cheese_Pizza

Yep. That's how we roll. B)
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Cal

calx

Guild Wars 2 goes Free to Play. Today. Right Now!

August 30 2015
Quote by SiranNataan
* Is the game more PvP or PvE? I'm a PvE guy, so if it's mostly PvP, it's kind of lost on me.

* Is there a lot of story, or is it mostly just fighting?

* Is the Stonewall guild really active/talkative in-game?


*is this kinda LOTR with techy stuff?

*is there pizza? :woohoo:
Whittier Strong

SiranNataan

Guild Wars 2 goes Free to Play. Today. Right Now!

August 30 2015
I'll think about it. But I already have so many unplayed games. But the reason I don't play most of them is there's no one to talk with.

Unknown Person

Guild Wars 2 goes Free to Play. Today. Right Now!

August 29 2015
It's a PVE & PVP game. There's PvP but you would never have to see it if you didn't want to.

There's a whole lot of PvE content which includes a main story line you do as you level up your character. Then there's living world story when you reach end-game.

The Stonewall guild is quiet at the moment but there's normally a few people online. I hope things will pick up when the expansion launches in October.
Whittier Strong

SiranNataan

Guild Wars 2 goes Free to Play. Today. Right Now!

August 29 2015
* Is the game more PvP or PvE? I'm a PvE guy, so if it's mostly PvP, it's kind of lost on me.

* Is there a lot of story, or is it mostly just fighting?

* Is the Stonewall guild really active/talkative in-game?
Shawn Birch

Parker

[EVENT] Reflection Day

August 29 2015
*Activates Site-To-Site transport*
Edited August 29 2015 by Parker

Unknown Person

Guild Wars 2 goes Free to Play. Today. Right Now!

August 29 2015
They just announced Guild Wars 2 core game will be going free to play .... immediately!

If you've ever wanted to give it a go, then download it for free!

https://welcome.guildwars2.com/en/play-for-free

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Edited August 29 2015 by Unknown Person
Lars Zandor

Lars_Zandor

[EVENT] Reflection Day

August 29 2015
There is a pizza party on the bridge? One to beam up please :P
Michael

Mstfrancis

[EVENT] Reflection Day

August 29 2015
**steps off the shuttle after a quick shore leave and notices the ensign station in the shuttle bay was unattended.** Ensign Cody, must have a case of the space Monday's. **walks into the corridor and the soft glow of Red Alert pulsing on the walls, denoting an intruder alert. Reach for my phaser in my bag and slowly continue on tip-toeing across a floor laden with charred phaser fire. When arriving at the lounge my attention is taken by a lush and a Klingon laying facedown in the dirty carpet.** You want ants?! this is how you get ants!

**over the comm system I can here Cal calling for a pizza party at the bridge**

What a way to start a Monday.
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Edited August 29 2015 by Mstfrancis