CriticalKat

Originally Posted by Amygdala

The 18 minute evac-less raid was done with no nukes, or 'gimmicks' other than people working together exceptionally well that night and having an ideal mix of ATs that happened to show up. Since the first evac-less raid we tried, we've continued to use it as a strat on a regular basis. Our times generally range from 20 to 30 mins from entry into the jello to merits/HOs.

Since we've done more than one, that's why I took it to mean blueside raids in general. Apologies.

Originally Posted by Silas_Gray

I'm game for some PvP and helping out.

Originally Posted by Inferno_Fusion

**Raises Hand** I would like to help. And you can put me where ever it is needed

Originally Posted by EnD_Reitanna

RIP my red rep

Originally Posted by Marut

I hate to say it, but LS was also responsible for one of my favorite experiences in game. After much huffing and puffing about Daytime raiders and how evening raids not on his schedule were bad for the community, he swore that he’d grief every one of them. To the point where he vowed to cause a yellow dawn at one. However, when the time came to gather for the raid, there was less than a full team with him in the Hive… Not really a real threat, as far as griefing goes.

A couple mins into gathering, though, I got a tell from one of my SG members that there were a LOT of SFers in Warburg, gathering nukes it looked like. Odd, but considering how handy those could be, it wasn’t really concerning. Until, that is, I got two tells out of the blue from SF members, or more specifically, former SF members. Apparantly, LS had called out the SG to gather nukes for the purposes of nuking Hami during the hold phase, specifically to lag the raid out and cause a yellow dawn. They’d never liked the griefing behavior, but they liked the SF group, so they’d tolerated it. Having the SG turn out like that for the purposes of sabotaging a raid that wasn’t his was too much for them – they were out of there, and just wanted to give a heads up.

This was a problem – Bud and PON had turned out in force to provide manpower for the raid, and we had a strong veteran presence as well, but it’s hard to prevent a mechanical lagging of the zone. What do you do about that? Then I got a tell from the same SG member that told me about them being in Warburg, saying that he was taking out as many as he could with his Stalker, but there were just too many of them to stop them getting keys. Light bulb! Looking at who was online, I found Ping, and asked if he could help said Stalker out. Ping replied with something akin to “We’ll see what we can do”, grabbed a few others, departed Eden, and started whacking SF in Warburg.

Unfortunately, a little later, I was informed that it was just slowing them down, not stopping them. There were a LOT of SF in Warburg, and numbers added up; they were killing em left and right, but it actually looked like all that had done was call more SF into the zone to help. So, with about 10 mins to raid time, I put up a Hail Mary, and sent another SGmate to Test. Why Test? Because that was where our at the time almost universally hated coalitionmates were spending all their time.

A few minutes later, I remember seeing “PVP?” pop into Arena chat as a team of HVND loaded into Warburg and began swatting bumblebees with extreme prejudice. And of course, when they showed up, a whole bunch of ESK and VORI dropped whatever they were doing and piled into WB as well to fight them, with more SF collateral damage . I never had the pleasure of seeing it, but I’m told that the carnage in that zone that night was epic.The raid went off without a hitch. Despite LS’s best efforts to taunt Hami (no one steals UMann’s agro), there was no yellow dawn.

Next to the first successful raid on this server, this raid was my favorite. Not because it was a particularly amazing raid, or because of anything I'd done myself, but because it demonstrated just what this server community can do as a whole when differences get put aside. Everyone may have had different reasons for participating, but the end result was the same. It reminded me of the fact that Superman’s greatest power (according to him) isn’t super strength, or invulnerability. It’s his friends. And this community has those in spades No SG, no matter how willful or angry, can beat that.

-M

Originally Posted by Demobot

I never did.

I even made a demotivational poster mocking him after a failed raid.

Originally Posted by Marut

He was also responsible for uniting the sea of daytime raiders that has long been forgotten and ignored against the greedy evening players, and swearing a solemn vow to cause any raid that he didn't schedule on their behalf to fail. And when he vowed to do something, you better believe it was going to happen.

Cause if you didn't believe it, you got put on the black list, and no one wanted to risk that.


Hi Kat .

Originally Posted by CriticalKat

Why? Because what I say makes sense?

Because it would actually help the PvPrs on that particular team wanting competition, the Ladder, and the other PvPrs in the Ladder?

Random statements don't need to be given up. At least the **** I said was constructive towards something, hopefully. Unlike your response. Don't bother trying to shut me down, when all I'm doing is trying to see what's up, or help it along. I don't give a **** what server you're from.... You're not helping ****. Just leave it alone. Seriously, if you wanna pretend to care about something, send a tell. Don't ******** on the forums.

I'd like to see a semblance of organization in PvP, and that's my angle, obviously. Never tried to disguise it. What I'm saying isn't negative towards anyone, so **** off.