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FT Classic Op
Registered Member #39
Joined: Fri Dec 02 2005, 10:30PMPosts: 1545 |
I'm going to try to fit some pieces together here. Sorry if this seems disorganized. I made a few asinine comments concerning "scrims" before disconnecting from FT Classic last week. Nothing too vicious, but some bitterness should have been obvious. In short: I get the perception that priority is placed on anything related to competitive play. It appears that many players wouldn't give a second thought to disconnecting from FT Classic to do anything related to competitive play, and will even persuading others to do the same. I do not necessarily think of competitive play as a "threat" to FT Classic, or the only reason that FT Classic is less populated than it might be at any specific time. The reason I am making this public is because some people saw an incident between Ninca and I on Saturday night. Unfortunately my opinion has been speculated upon and this resulted in Ninca suggesting that I "permaban all the people in FTe, FTc, and all the scrimmers." I did not initiate any discussion with Ninca, but it was obvious that he was upset and wanted to provoke me. I strongly suspect his motivation was based on discussion he had with other people, and had very little to do with anything I have said around him. If anyone has questions about Ninca's public comments then I am more than happy to discuss and/or post logs of what was said via text chat (you can see most of what ninca said on HLSX anyways) and my admin chat of FT Classic. My fear is that other people have taken Ninca's limited understanding of my opinions as fact. While I see a drain on FT Classic connections due to competitive play elsewhere, I have also tried to help with the competitive aspect in some ways. Remember when FT's tried and true loyal members were setting up competitive clans outside of FT? I do: -[link]- That was last year, though. More recently I made an account on serversponsors.com and voted for FT several times in March. When FT won that first server I sat with Goose for a few hours and tried to figure out the fucked up web interface for the parent hosting company of serversponsors.com. When that looked sketchy and borked, I offered to throw together a temporary SRCDS on my illustrious 64.83.52.226 system. Both Goose and Omni were aware of this, and I believe the system was actually utilized for a few nights. I even ended up putting some money into upgrading that system "just in case" it needed to be a serious hosting machine. Did I advertise this and appear profess how I was doing so much to help FT? No, I tried to help where I could just as many others did. None of this was at great personal cost or responsibility to me but it was not anything that got taken care of in 15 minutes either. This is why it irritates me to no end that some folks, such as Ninca, think that I only have FT Classic's interests in mind. I have helped others configure their (often short-lived) servers, donated a significant amount of money to keep Surf going, and done my duty of administering the fishtankclan.com forums for several months. Please do not discount what I have done in the past simply because I piss and moan about FT Classic connections being on a downward slide for a few nights in the month of May 2008... and I cite competitive interest as a reason. Ninca or others have absolute no cause to suggest that I "permaban all the people in FTe, FTc, and all the scrimmers." So, while a few negative comments have crept into my parting comments before leaving FT Classic last week, I definitely made some rude comments (in private) to Evilpig. For that I am sorry, and I want to stress that this was not anything personal towards EP. I hope you can forgive me, Piggy. I also apologize for my general comments of FT Classic which have been nothing positive concerning FT's competitive interests. I will do my best to keep such comments to myself in the future... there's nothing to gain from saying them in public. |
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| Knightrider |
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Meteor 2016
Registered Member #316
Joined: Mon Jun 26 2006, 09:14PMPosts: 3503 |
Ohhhh. So that's what happened. | ||
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01nk3d bY tEh P1g
Registered Member #531
Joined: Thu Jan 04 2007, 05:27AMPosts: 707 |
Ah... I really do appreciate it man. No hard feelings at all. I completely understand where you were coming from which is why I chose not to get involved where I could. And... LOL I think I just had the funnest 10-20 minutes of office in a while. It's me, syntax and someone. Then the whole FT crew joins up and we sure had some intense knife battles. Edited Mon May 26 2008, 06:41AM |
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| NoSkill |
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Sir
Registered Member #457
Joined: Tue Oct 10 2006, 01:13PMPosts: 2628 |
Yah hopefully the exposure to other groups and teams will bring more traffic to fishtankclan.com and our servers. We probably shouldn't have fielded two competitive teams though, 1 good one could have been made. That way it'd only be a 7-8 person draw on the servers as opposed to the 15-16 that it is. |
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| gLiTch |
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Anal Assassin
Registered Member #455
Joined: Mon Oct 09 2006, 04:58AMPosts: 3848 |
Its cool alex. I for one, do know that you contribute everything you can to every part of FT. You did help us out with the competitive things like you said. While i do not hate ninca, he does have a temper, as everyone knows. He can get irrational. Its only human to respond the way you did. You also have to keep in mind, the rise in good warm weather, the end of the school year, the scrims/matches, the vacations and holidays, all play a part in the lowering of FTC connections. Ive been around to a few other office servers, as well as D2 servers... and i see them also having a downward slide lately in ppl playing. I know you are not blaming us CAL players, i know that. Alex, you are on the FT pedestal. Everyone looks up to you as the guy who started it all. Your still that guy, and im sure everyone feels the same way i do. Dont sweat it bro. Crack open a seltzer or something, and enjoy the weather. Enjoy the weekend. Ill c ya around bro. Edited Mon May 26 2008, 06:34AM |
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| Kcow |
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Registered Member #643
Joined: Tue Apr 10 2007, 04:44PMPosts: 1921 |
I don't care if you make the most offensive comments on earth and spam this website in them, I am totally grateful and appreciative for the support you have given to the surf server even though you rarely surf, if at all. I thank you for myself and the rest of the surfers. Big gay love <3 |
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Sup son?
Registered Member #720
Joined: Fri May 25 2007, 01:09AMPosts: 1326 |
It's cool dude, I was thinking all the constant rude comments towards me and Pig was you just being a random hater. I'll admit, they really started to piss me off... But i'm totally glad you apologized to us, and that you had a reason too. And, thanks so much for the help on the surf server: as Kcow said. |
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doctorphate
Registered Member #724
Joined: Wed May 30 2007, 03:50AMPosts: 699 |
That is why when I first showed up and first nomination failed a year ago although I was upset with others for giving an uninformed no, I respected your decision. You really seem to be the most mature person here. Given, with all the gay jokes, sexual innuendo, etc its not too difficult to shine but you really seem to be at the top of the 3-4 people who really keep this community in working order. I am glad your absence was short live AP and I hope you return to us in full soon. |
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| Glas4d |
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Registered Member #756
Joined: Sat Jun 23 2007, 10:49PMPosts: 1717 |
I am glad you made this thread. Me and the other FTc players have used your server you set up for us many times and are truly grateful that it was there. I also appreciate you supporting surf regardless your of your interest in surfing. It is quiet obvious your interests are in this community and not in one server. Thanks. Glas4d |
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| nostie |
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Registered Member #185
Joined: Thu Mar 30 2006, 10:42PMPosts: 3167 |
I don't think that a fifth of the people here realize how much Alex has put into Fish Tank. To be ungrateful is blasphemy and/or madness. |
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