Mercenaries Guild

    Last night a played a bunch of good matches on the MG MercenariesGuild server.  Ironically, I think I also played more beta maps than I ever did when it was the Beta Server!  It was a great deal of fun and I am very greatful that it happened.  It's very refreshing to see that there are a lot of people who just like a good game.

    I have a tendency to want to wander.  In all things. I will learn about it and then wander off into the wilds.  Sometimes it's a great thing, I'll find something new or find a little used path to an interesting place.  Sometimes I get lost though, and can't find my way home.  The first time I got (literally) lost I was 4.  My parents found me about a mile from home, pretty far for a 4 year old.  I am like this in all things.

      I'm pretty sure I wandered from the good servers, the MG servers, the other clan servers.  I even wandered from myself, which is a strange though common occurence for me :)  I used SpiritHawk or Cranky Franky or, one of my favorites, "a proverb".  Tuple was gunned down by a proverb still makes me chuckle. :)

      I think I looked for mindless fun.  Noone begging for recs, scrims, etc.  As they say, the grass is always greener on the other side.  Uh, in this instance, it's not :)  I really missed playing with the other members and the server regulars.

    The larger public servers have become a cesspool anymore, sadly.  Oh for the days of playing on the big server, AKKA.  The fun thing then was that there was 1 or 2 servers that were always busy.  16 slot servers actually, AKKA may actually have been an 18 slot server at the time.  You could ALWAYS count on just about every match being fun and challenging with a good mix of us noobs learning the ropes and the old guard showing us the ropes.  This is what the clan servers feel like to me, Old school tremulous! (Old school for me anyways :) )  I certainly am glad that it still exists.

    Last nights games did bring something to mind though, I need to update the server!   I've gotten SVN 894 as well as Vcxzet's backport patch, so I think I may load that up and see how it does.  Some of the "add ons" appeal to me and I would like to have the option of enabling them, but generally I wouldn't have them on.  I guess maybe I'm a bit of a purist in that way, though some may say prude :P

    Some of them affect how the game is played in unforseen ways in my opinion. 

    For example, share and donate.  If I am a great player, I will be donating/sharing evols/money with my team to help them advance more quickly so that we can win.  However, I am also less likely to help my teamates to improve there gameplay so that they can get more evols/money since my suggestions are not likely to help significantly on any particular match, at least not as much as my focusing on getting more money/evols to share.

    If I am a poor to mediocre player I can count on the superstars to donate/share at least some and my motivation to seek out ways to get them will be slightly less if not a great deal less.  I will definitely improve in the begging category though :)

Anyways, enough for now, back to work!!