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1: NC

2: NC and TR

3: NC, TR and Vanu

[palsch]

O, so what does signing up for the beta do? News and updates?

Without a key? Lets you know when open beta starts.

They are supposed to be doing a character wipe and mass release of some goodies soon. Then roll out the second continent not long after that. I wouldn't expect OB to start until after the third continent has been released and tested. They are probably going to need that, along with a lot more optimisation, to accommodate the population levels.

[DrPoo]

I suggest we pick 3 servers and have different factions on each server. That way we can all have the faction we want without fighting each other.

This won't work, yeah. We pretty gotta team up. And again, US-EAST-2 NC is the place to be right now!

I DID IT! I FUCKING DID IT!

Got in the beta? What's your name? Form an NC char on East 2 if you want to be part of the outfit.

Edit: Derp, East 2

Im from Denmark, in Europe
Might get horrible lag.

But yeah NEW CONGLOMERATE FOREVER!

Also my name ingame is SpaceGoat.. or SpaceGoitur.. cant remember. I have a character named SpaceGoat.

[Micro102]

So, the poll states if we want to play in 1,2,or all 3 faction groups, but specifies them. What is the majority of players don't want to play NG?

[timferius]

So, the poll states if we want to play in 1,2,or all 3 faction groups, but specifies them. What is the majority of players don't want to play NG?

That would be a bit persumptious though. I want to play NC, but I voted for all three, just because I felt that it was fair enough for whomever didn't want to play NC to still be able to play in a Bay12 Outfit.

[sluissa]

Damn it... dick guns...


Slightly NSFW just from the players, not any actual nudity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REyQEgejnDY

[Paul]

That happened to Sensei the other day, but only I could see it. Graphical glitch I guess.

[Sensei]

Funny enough I did happen to see it on someone else.

Anyway, for those of you who weren't here, we decided (I proposed and nobody complained) that we were going to choose an outfit leader (so far, myself, though I can still be open to elections) who would then arbitrarily choose a server and a faction, just for the purposes of getting people into an outfit above all else. So the server is East 2 and the faction is temporarily NC. However, since I still feel weird just going dictator on the faction choice, I have decreed Sensei McMayor has issued a new mandate: There will be a short story contest to choose which faction we play as after the next character wipe. The next wipe is expected to be in a couple weeks.

[Sordid]

Slightly NSFW just from the players, not any actual nudity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REyQEgejnDY

There's also this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwt7S5swU1w

[nenjin]

I had to pick this moment in time to investigate the thread. :|

[lastverb]

Any other outfit on eu servers? Im not going to play fps with latency i got with useast.

[Simmura McCrea]

Any other outfit on eu servers? Im not going to play fps with latency i got with useast.

Rock Paper Shotgun has NC and VS outfits on EU1. I believe the VS outfit's pretty disorganised, though.

[Paul]

Is the lag any better today? Thinking about getting on a bit.

Having some issues actually getting my new computer parts ordered. I'll be glad when I get my new video card in. Then I should be a much better bomber/gunner for planes (I'm sure Sensei will be happier with me gunning for him when I don't freeze up for 5 seconds right as we get into prime bombing territory). I might even be able to fly planes without freezing up as I'm doing a turn and end up barrel rolling into the dirt. Hopefully it'll help a bit with the crashing too, since other folks don't seem to have it near as bad.

Spoiler: Unrelated rant on my wonderful banking institution (click to show/hide)

Gah, my debit card is damned worthless. I thought I had ordered the parts for my computer Saturday, but early this morning I get an email saying the charge was rejected (you'd think that would have happened immediately, but no - that would be too convenient). I checked with my bank this morning, and it turns out they just recently put a $500 daily limit on my card *without telling me* and they rejected it as "potentially fraudulent". And it just so happens $30 worth of sales and promotional coupons expired Saturday/Sunday, and both the motherboard and memory I wanted is now out of stock. I'm so glad my fine financial institution was so proactive in screwing me over protecting the $1500 I had in my account by neutering my card without informing me or asking me. They never did figure out why last time I tried to buy a game on sale for $5 it rejected it repeatedly until the game went off sale, then suddenly started working fine again - but surely adding a daily limit to the card will help me somehow. Thankfully they can put a temporary allow on the card to let me make a single large purchase.

Guess it might be for the best. I went ahead and splurged and got a 670 instead of the 480 this time around, twice as much money but it's a better card and way more energy efficient to boot. Anyway, got everything re-ordered again. Hopefully it actually goes through this time and I'll eventually have my new rig some time later this week. Although with my luck the video card will be DOA and I'll have to ship it back.

[Aklyon]

I'd suggest getting a better and/or different altogether card with that kind of problems, Paul.

[_forgotten]

Because of effin issues with CC payments that are happening with Alpha Pack i literally spent whole day emailing and talking between SOE and my Bank,then created NETELLER for Prepaid CC and it still didn't work so i had to swing back and forth with SOE and now NETELLER . My issues are still not resolved . I was never frustrated like this in my life. Rubbish customer support on all three sides ....

[sluissa]

Funny enough I did happen to see it on someone else.

Anyway, for those of you who weren't here, we decided (I proposed and nobody complained) that we were going to choose an outfit leader (so far, myself, though I can still be open to elections) who would then arbitrarily choose a server and a faction, just for the purposes of getting people into an outfit above all else. So the server is East 2 and the faction is temporarily NC. However, since I still feel weird just going dictator on the faction choice, I have decreed Sensei McMayor has issued a new mandate: There will be a short story contest to choose which faction we play as after the next character wipe. The next wipe is expected to be in a couple weeks.

I was going to stay out of it, but hell, why not? More people away from those nasty blues is always a good thing if I can do it. I'm hardly a fiction writer, but here it is, my little piece of TR propoganda.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"This isn't what I signed up for."

I've heard it all before.

"Peace and prosperity..."

This conversation had happened many times before.

"...that's what they said, right?"

"Yeah..." The hull of the galaxy pinged with small arms fire.

"Then why are we out here, going to the same little outpost to fight the same soldiers for the..."

Why does he bother? He doesn't have enough fingers.

"...for the who knows which time?!"

Why won't he just shut up?

"I'd know the enemy on a first name basis if they didn't shoot at me before I had a chance to ask."

He remembers the fights, but not these conversations?

"I remember their faces though... those same faces... always looking down the sights of those guns... I've seen those faces... a million times."

He can count the faces but not the battles? I wonder if these spawners are messing with our memories... mine seems fine... but I guess it would.

"Are you listening? Probably not..." [A long pause] "You know, it fucking hurts to get shot, even with the shields and the armor."

I'm going to have to say it... It sounded cool the first time... but now, it's just stilted...

"Not to mention the explosions... I remember feeling my limbs being torn off... I remember feeling my skin charred to a crisp... that's not something anyone should remember."

I don't want to say it... not this time... I'm done...

The hull of the galaxy pinged with small arms fire. "I'm done..."

What? "What'd you say?"

"I said I'm done, through, finished, I'm not going to fight anymore. Whatever happens, I'm not going to pull that trigger again, or take another step toward someone who's shooting at me..."

Oh... I guess I wasn't really paying attention...

"I'm tired of the blood... I'm tired of the pain... I'm tired of waking up an instant later and doing it all over again... all for 'Peace and Prosperity.'"

Fine... fine... I'll say it... I don't need the guy next to me just dropping out of the fight. Besides, we're landing now... may not get the chance to say it again.

"What peace? What prosperity? Only peace I get is when I'm dead, and that's a scant few seconds by my clock... Prosperity... only enough to buy more bullets with... Yeah... I'm done."

"And what are you going to do, let those corporate anarchists put a price on you and your family, or those crazy alien-worshipping cultists plug you into a computer and make your brain do math for the rest of your life?" Here it comes, I might vomit... "We all started out Terrans, the proof is in our veins, the red blood we all share. The same blood you hate seeing. They brought us peace and protected us just fine for hundreds of years and now you're saying we should just forget about all that and convert to anarchy and idol worship?"

"N-no, that's not-"

"Then stop complaining, put your finger on the trigger and follow me out that door to end those that wish to do the same to us and the way we choose to live our lives." [A hatch opens.] Perfect timing. Okay, maybe it is a little cool.

"O-okay... one more time. What's the worst that could happen?"

"Brother, you've seen the worst that could happen already."

"Right, let's go, who are we fighting today?"

"As if it matters, they all started out red... they'll be red again, even if it takes a bullet to do it." I'll have to remember that line for next time, he won't.