Credit must be giving where due,
Congrats Ben.
Were the comments just? At the time, yes.
Where they professional? No.
I mean, I must give great credit towards Thom and Ryan.
Ryan, you saved the tribe initially by bringing in the people you did, without Ryan, Ben would have been long gone.
Thom, I underestimated you, a lesson I'll never repeat again, for anyone, cept some folk.
The downfall of Regime came around Feb period, a key north member had a kid, RL > TW so off he went. This trend continued, the disease of RL taking key member after key member, suddenly Regime wasn't looking good on the inside as it was on the outside.
A quote once said, all the people who want to play 80, are in Ben, this wasn't true. Many fresh faces joined Regime and many left. It was proving quite difficult to plug the holes when the age old question lies, is it truly that hard to leave and not say good bye?
As Regime continued, we plugged holes best we could, there is tree containing TW players after all. Both sides played the propaganda card, some more successful that others. I shan't dwell on those days, they are behind us. What we know, the activity of Ben currently was enough, people kept leaving and not saying goodbye, then magically reappear to chuck a sit at you and expect miracles. Some miracles were possible, then more holes appeared.
I think, what I'm trying to say, I've never seen a Tribe do more than Regime have, and I don't think I will ever see another tribe do anything similar, we brought it back from 69.5% to I believe, about 40% for Ben. This in itself took about a year of hard work, bravo to Jen for at points carrying Regime on your back, the amount of sits you dealt with is unreal.
Ben players, you can say what you like, many comments have been traded over the course of this world, most of which came from the fresh players, I don't know any original players in Ben who saw the start of Destiny from start to finish, if there are any, I'd like to talk to them. I myself, as the oldest remaining Regime player became at points the heart and soul of Regime, I did enjoy chatting and such, I'd like to think that I made a difference to people's days.
I think however, recently I discovered as RL took me even more, this is just a game. A game that is almost over for W80, its been a blast. I can't lie, it got quite tiring to play for about 20 hrs a day a periods.
I wish the players from both sides the best, and can't wait to follow certain individuals.
If I may leave with one comment, to the players who were cracked in Ben to return at a later date, which may be a few who posted recently, I don't really see how you have any reason to gloat or can go around parading off the win, your win may be true, but it wasn't due to your hard work, you did leave after all, and came back skipping the hard work to potentially help finish off Regime, but just remember, Regime broke you. I consider only those who stayed from start to finish plus those who truly made a difference to have the ability to parade the win.
I invite those who were once broken to bring forward their claims why they should be able to parade. If its just a comment regarding anything but a valid reason, I take it as you have none.
I also invite anyone who wants to catch up with myself from either side, my skype will remain active, pm me for it.
Peace,
Rob.