Firnas
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Posted - 2007.09.24 03:00:00 -
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I decided to just tell the truth. I figure thats the easiest way for someone to judge worthiness of a thing.
I've played mpogs for a long time, cut my teeth on Ultima with some good friends and my little brother, and that's where a significant chunk of my gaming life was kept. We played for years and as anyone can tell you, the longer you play, the more things your game style encompasses. My friends and I built up rather a well respected guild, and had generally one of the more enjoyable times ive ever spent with friends, at least out of real life. We did a fair bit of everything, alliance related pvp, crafting, and some good old fashioned RP hehe.
Some friends rolled on to Asherons and other games, but Star Wars Galaxies loomed on the horizon, and we all prepared to start up and start strong. 3 months before Galaxies debuted, my little brother died when a semi lost control and hit him on the way home. I won't get into what that did to me in depth, I'm sure people's imagination is suitable to the task, but when Galaxies started, we dedicated the corp to him, and did everything we could, to make Ian Industries a name known throughout the entire server. I'm obviously biased, but I'd say we did a fairly good job, and we had managed to keep virtually all of our RL friends togethor thru a game switch, while I and we all felt my brothers loss and noticed his absence, we kept his memory alive well and honored it in a way that all of us could help with, and it opened the path for me to make a closer relationship with his twin brother, whom I had never been as close to, when he started playing with us in the guild named as my brothers memorial.
Then Sony destroyed the game.... and we lost our memorial. People scattered to the winds, some came here to Eve, some quit for awhile, and I decided to focus on getting things on track. Years later now, I have finished my degree, have a decent job, and on a spontaneous decision, started playing Eve again with the 2 friends who came here after Star Wars. I immediately fell in love with the game, and after some talking with others, we managed to get all of our friends back in the game. We've got some grandiose plans, including in the seriously long term, placing an outpost named in my brothers memory in a defendable point. I think we can do this with the RL friends that have come back to us, and some of their friends. We've just been working in our respective alliances and corps to this effect, working towards the day when we can set up our own group again.... we are setting up a good infrastructure, when we play togethor we always play 100% shared, but we cant seem to keep the ISK flowing in more than the need, we're always buying things for invention or other aspects of the game that we're putting infrastructure in. Now that we're about ready to make an attempt to make the Ian Industries alliance, I find that we need a capital pilot, both for carrier jumping and for defense of the system... and I have been looking for one, but despairing of the costs.
Its a critical component of my dream,,, regardless of whether or not I could win this contest, I will continue with the dream, I made a promise to keep the memorial going, and Sony took that away from me, so I plan on rebuilding it here, but this would mark off one important checkmark, and especially one that I can't solve no matter how hard I work. I can't MAKE skillpoints accumulate faster than they do, so it's a fixed amount of time before I can get the needed carrier/dread capability.
I'm lucky enough to be playing with my little brother and my friends again, and I think this could possibly be one of the best chances I have to help solidify our possibility to properly honor Ian. I didn't post this to intend to tug on people's heart strings, it's just the simple truth, and I thought that would be best if I was going to ask for something this important. Thank you for reading.
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