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Topic Started: Jun 11 2008, 08:54:10 PM (292 Views)
Archon


Hello everyone. I'm Archon, also known as TheNeverender, and I'm the current King of the Mushroom Kingdom. I've been playing this game for nearly two years now, which is approximately two years longer than I probably should have. I'm going to be writing on the fly here, but I will be brief.

I entered the game in the midst of the First Great War. I was hung over and in a daze, having just asked out a girl while quite intoxicated. So what did I do when I got home? I went on internet message boards, of course. *cough*. Anyway, while browsing the somewhat-infamous luelinks, I came across one of many recruitment topics for a browser based game called Cybernations. I was warned that a big war was going on, and that I should probably lay low, so I proceeded to lurk the forums for a while, rolling a nation and promptly ignoring it.

I took laying low to an extreme and wound up not doing anything in LUE til about October, where I decided I should get on IRC and see what was what. Encouraged to be active, I saw quickly that Foreign Affairs was the way to go - all I had to do was post with some rudimentary intelligence every now and then and I was an active member! Yay laziness. Or so I thought. God was I wrong x.x

Apparently I came to the attention of some of LUE's leadership, and became the second in command (Commissar of Foreign Affairs). The next election cycle I won as an underdog and became their Minister of Foreign Affairs. 5 days later I became Co-Leader. Then there was Great War 2. (Fun Fact of the Day: There actually was a LUE-Fark MDP prior to the GOONS attack. I should know - I stayed up late to write it. Why it was never posted is something I'll always wonder, but at the time I did not feel I was experienced enough to assert my views).

From there I became one of the faces of LUE (and interestingly, of the LUE 'old guard' I was by far the newest), and then came what was probably my biggest contribution to CN - the founding of AEGIS. In a nutshell, Chris_Kaos comes to me saying GATO will be hit that night. And then promptly did nothing. Same with his allies. So I wound up having to gather up the old crew and throw them into a room. Voila - AEGIS. On the bright side, I did get to meet a lot of awesome people.

LUE lost, and I wound up floating around unaligned. I briefly helped coup CDS, and from there I came to the attention of the GOONS (in a positive light, for once). A bidding war began between Dilber and DarkSol to get me to join their respective alliances - GOONS won out mostly because Dizzay came up to me and told me he just got me off of every ZI list. I couldn't exactly refuse :v:

It was in GOONS that I actually learned to play the game, mechanically speaking, and my nation went from suck to awesome. It was fun being on the other side, but of course WUT was crumbling and once again drama abounded. This is getting longer than I expected, so I'm going to fast forward here - MK founded, UJP signed, UJW, surrender, end of terms, WAPA wars.

Yeah, that was kinda crappy. Sorry. So if you have any questions, I'll try to be a bit more informative in my answers.

Oh, and sorry I'm late.

As for my topic, I think I'm going to discuss Failures in Cybernations. I've been a part of many of them, and yet I'm still around. One thing I've learned is that people don't learn, so I figure I might as well tell some cautionary tales.
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Wow I didn't know all that about you. Guess some of it was before my time.

My question for you is that since you have been on some...most of the wrong ends in your history, do people still judge you based on that? You said your name was off the ZI lists, but do you still get negative vibes from CNers because of your past?
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Archon
Jun 11 2008, 08:54:10 PM
(Fun Fact of the Day: There actually was a LUE-Fark MDP prior to the GOONS attack. I should know - I stayed up late to write it. Why it was never posted is something I'll always wonder, but at the time I did not feel I was experienced enough to assert my views).
Probably for the reason the GATO-BTA PIAT wasn't announced. What that may be, I don't know. Stupidity, maybe.

Welcome, Archon!
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Dilber


o hai.
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Dilber
Jun 12 2008, 08:07:20 AM
o hai.
hai secksi
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Golden Boy
Jun 11 2008, 10:56:22 PM
Wow I didn't know all that about you. Guess some of it was before my time.

My question for you is that since you have been on some...most of the wrong ends in your history, do people still judge you based on that? You said your name was off the ZI lists, but do you still get negative vibes from CNers because of your past?
Excellent question.

Nearly no one actually remembers that I was on ZI lists, and so that isn't held against me. However, I have often found that previous alliance affiliations have been held against me. Some often still label me as a LUEser, despite the fact that LUEN went away a long time ago. It's a mostly-baseless sweeping generalization, but it is held by many nonetheless. You get used to the fact that some people are going to be closed minded and move on, and after a while you barely notice it.
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