Maven
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I don't even know where to start...
I guess if anything I wish I could of seen the server a few months before I joined for the first time. Would of probably been easier to compare then and now. No doubt things have changed, as they always will. Not being around in the past few months I feel really uncomfortable even saying my opinion on the server, nonetheless, it doesn't change the fact of the current state of the faction from a player's perspective. The only real way for me to explain what I mean is by explaining what it used to be like. And hopefully, attempt to explain my theory on what happened.
Feel like starting with the Inquisitors, because they show a very important point in time that I can only ever hope gets achieved again. I joined the server with my friend Gandhi, we pretty much just got done on a CWRP server so it was a pretty good change as we immediately stuck to the idea of sabers and being evil, lol. The dude who trained us did a very thorough job, explaining every detail of the faction, even giving us both the best loot able dual hilts at the time, to this day we still believe it was Croc, but we're unsure and may never know. Either way, three Organizations stuck out to us the most. Inquisitors, Sphere of Sorcery, and Blade Born. We heard that one of them were a RP Org, one a fighting, and one torture. We had to take our chances so we tried SOS first. We literally couldn't even get past the first 5 minutes without hard cringing. But it was good times, so I'm thankful for it. Gandhi actually managed to get into Inquisitors before me (I was super jealous btw, lol). So I made it my mission to join him, only problem was that the Organization was so popular it was actually difficult to join. I asked around for days, even being told that I wasn't cool enough to join the Organization. "Not cool enough". If you don't already see the comparison then you're not paying attention. When is the last time you were jealous of other people being in an Organization that you couldn't get into (and yes, I was well above reqs to join)?
So, regards to items, y'all are crazy spending so much, but I can understand it tenfold. Anyone remember the jackpot machines? This was during a time when I was clicking join on the server before it was even back online, trying to grind my levels to attempt Darth. Shepard put up this text screen that stated, "First person to get a Jackpot will get a Legendary". I instantly lost my shit, I had maybe around 600k at the time with a rare crystal and was just like, "Fuck it, I'm going broke bois". I was too busy spamming the machine to notice that he actually changed the last word in the text screen. 15 minutes, it took roughly 15 minutes for my heart to drop seeing that jackpot. Not even sure how I got so deeply immersed into the server, and addicted to it. Sometimes, to this day, I still forget that it's Gmod. Feels like an entirely different game when you're actually playing...at least it used to. Anyways, Shepard bamboozled me. When I got the jackpot he didn't ask me which Legendary I wanted, he instead asked which Artifact I wanted. Apparently the changed "Legendary" to "Artifact" last second. I can still remember how excited I was to tell Gandhi about it. Excited.
(It was a lukes by the way).
Now that I explained the level of nerd I obtained from these first few weeks, I'll continue explaining something that probably impacted me more than anything. Darth. Darth was the first time I got to truly see a Dark Council. I was once told that fear can both keep you safe, and be the reason you fall. Only later would I learn what that meant in the Sith faction. Before I can tell you about my Darth experience, I have to tell you about Jaffa. He was the closest I was at the time to a DC member, and he was a damn good one too. Single handedly rebuilding the most boring Organization into one of the most powerful. We needed 3 Darth recommendations to proceed to a trial, and I was going to wait a bit before going for it since I didn't really know any of the Dark Council. If any of you remember my Darth recs, Jaffa's was ten times more difficult. He managed to put us under physical pressure to complete it. 100 grammar squats was the first part. This is where you crouch, stand, type a number, crouch, and repeat. And if you missed a number, a period at the end of the number, misspelled the number, forgot to crouch, or forgot to capitalize the number, then you would fail. No way I was doing his Rec, that shit isn't even the worst part. You also had to crouch + walk all the way around Korriban + the inside of the courtyard. If you stood up or didn't stop when he told you to, instant fail. Told myself I would just go get easier Recs. I ended up doing his Darth rec, being one of the only ones to ever complete his Rec, even to this day. And I did it out of respect. I didn't even go for Darth that week. Only a day before when they told me his Rec wouldn't count after a week is over, so I pretty much forced myself to get the other recs. And now we come to the final part.
The true experience of being a Sith. Fear, when fear used to be relevant. As much as everyone hated him, Moxxi had fear down perfectly. Probably from his immense experience of being Emperor, for a normie Sith Apprentice like I was, he sure knew how to scare someone. One way he did that was the Blood family. Phaze and Tupac. Even though Wrath was challengable, from my entire time playing Sith, I never actually saw anyone challenge Tupac. Oh and Phaze, jeez. I was in the temple once when Moxxi literally just sped through to go to warp, not really caring about anything, and for a split second this lord didn't bow like everyone else did, so the ENTIRE Dark Council turned around and chewed his ass a new one. Mostly Phaze. When they were done with him, his forehead was on the floor lol. They did this to everyone, even me. Especially during the Darth trials. At the time I was a Dark Honor Guard on duty at the Imperial Sanctum checkpoint. Everybody knew Croc, he's the Vizier, it was pure instinct to let him through the checkpoint to the meeting. Croc passed all guards, went into the Darth trials, and began to boss the Lords around. Getting in their face and telling them what to do. Maybe 15 minutes later, Phaze stood up and asked everyone why they were talking or even moving around. They all answered that they were following orders. "From who"? Turned out Croc was on his Grey Jedi life the entire time. Anybody that wasn't in on that trick was mind blown. 100% thought I was losing my DHG rank for letting him pass in the first place. Fearful of losing my rank. When it was my turn to attempt Darth, I knew everybody in there was in it to win it. One of my competitors was my really good friend, we literally would go into Discord every day with Gandhi and hang out. In the trials he ended up betraying me to get that Darth power. He worked that hard, sacrificed that much, to get Darth (Dw it was all jokes and we're good now). But why? Why would somebody go that far to get a rank that isn't even bowed to? Honestly probably the cape, but nonetheless, that was a thing. Obviously Darth trials still happen, and I can only hope they are of this quality. I know the time I was given as Emperor, I was never truly able to achieve that level of Darth Trials. Mostly because my mind was so caught up on who was going to Overthrow me that I forgot the reason I wanted Emperor in the first place. Only wanted it because, as a newer member to the community, I saw things that would make Sith even funner. Boy was I wrong...
My theory as to what happened is Emperor. How many times has there been a new Emperor since Moxxi was removed? WHY work so hard for Darth when I could just go straight for DC or even Emperor. This is the mindset that ruined Sith. All the best leaders and hard workers don't care anymore about the faction itself, the people. Their only interest is power. Whether that's sucking up to the new emperor which was way more often than it should have, or simply waiting for the next OT to claim a DC spot. I miss hearing IGT talking about one day hoping they might become a DHG. I miss hearing the screams of Jedi hourly because INQ captured a new padawan. I miss being asked if my knees are broken for not bowing to DC. Again, maybe I haven't been around enough. But every time I come back for even an hour, I'm always being told how a new emperor killed Sith in a new way. Obviously I don't believe them, the Sith couldn't be killed? ... Right?
I guess my point is that everything that made Sith fun for me is gone...
Why is the Sith faction 70% memes now. Where did the respect go.
It's just a Garry's mod server they say
For a lot of us, it's not. It's more of a second life. Hundreds of dollars, thousands of hours, even tears. I've heard a man cry over being PK'd.
The Emperor job is thrown around too much...nobody knows who to follow anymore. I don't think anyone hates Caitlyn for who she is, maybe even how she got it.
I think everybody wants the Sith back. And when Caitlyn got it out of thin air, with no experience as to what it means to have fun in Sith. I don't even care who has Emperor at this point. Give them more than a week. Whoever it is. A week is not enough time to revive Sith organizations, state your opinions, get familiar with your faction, and find all good leaders to run the Dark Council properly. Obviously a lot of people would be angry if grace was extended, but honestly, at this point, it might be the only way to revive Sith back to the glory days.
All of this is just my opinion, and my final voice in the Reborn servers for awhile.
Good luck Caitlyn, and good luck to any future Emperors.
I guess if anything I wish I could of seen the server a few months before I joined for the first time. Would of probably been easier to compare then and now. No doubt things have changed, as they always will. Not being around in the past few months I feel really uncomfortable even saying my opinion on the server, nonetheless, it doesn't change the fact of the current state of the faction from a player's perspective. The only real way for me to explain what I mean is by explaining what it used to be like. And hopefully, attempt to explain my theory on what happened.
Feel like starting with the Inquisitors, because they show a very important point in time that I can only ever hope gets achieved again. I joined the server with my friend Gandhi, we pretty much just got done on a CWRP server so it was a pretty good change as we immediately stuck to the idea of sabers and being evil, lol. The dude who trained us did a very thorough job, explaining every detail of the faction, even giving us both the best loot able dual hilts at the time, to this day we still believe it was Croc, but we're unsure and may never know. Either way, three Organizations stuck out to us the most. Inquisitors, Sphere of Sorcery, and Blade Born. We heard that one of them were a RP Org, one a fighting, and one torture. We had to take our chances so we tried SOS first. We literally couldn't even get past the first 5 minutes without hard cringing. But it was good times, so I'm thankful for it. Gandhi actually managed to get into Inquisitors before me (I was super jealous btw, lol). So I made it my mission to join him, only problem was that the Organization was so popular it was actually difficult to join. I asked around for days, even being told that I wasn't cool enough to join the Organization. "Not cool enough". If you don't already see the comparison then you're not paying attention. When is the last time you were jealous of other people being in an Organization that you couldn't get into (and yes, I was well above reqs to join)?
So, regards to items, y'all are crazy spending so much, but I can understand it tenfold. Anyone remember the jackpot machines? This was during a time when I was clicking join on the server before it was even back online, trying to grind my levels to attempt Darth. Shepard put up this text screen that stated, "First person to get a Jackpot will get a Legendary". I instantly lost my shit, I had maybe around 600k at the time with a rare crystal and was just like, "Fuck it, I'm going broke bois". I was too busy spamming the machine to notice that he actually changed the last word in the text screen. 15 minutes, it took roughly 15 minutes for my heart to drop seeing that jackpot. Not even sure how I got so deeply immersed into the server, and addicted to it. Sometimes, to this day, I still forget that it's Gmod. Feels like an entirely different game when you're actually playing...at least it used to. Anyways, Shepard bamboozled me. When I got the jackpot he didn't ask me which Legendary I wanted, he instead asked which Artifact I wanted. Apparently the changed "Legendary" to "Artifact" last second. I can still remember how excited I was to tell Gandhi about it. Excited.
(It was a lukes by the way).
Now that I explained the level of nerd I obtained from these first few weeks, I'll continue explaining something that probably impacted me more than anything. Darth. Darth was the first time I got to truly see a Dark Council. I was once told that fear can both keep you safe, and be the reason you fall. Only later would I learn what that meant in the Sith faction. Before I can tell you about my Darth experience, I have to tell you about Jaffa. He was the closest I was at the time to a DC member, and he was a damn good one too. Single handedly rebuilding the most boring Organization into one of the most powerful. We needed 3 Darth recommendations to proceed to a trial, and I was going to wait a bit before going for it since I didn't really know any of the Dark Council. If any of you remember my Darth recs, Jaffa's was ten times more difficult. He managed to put us under physical pressure to complete it. 100 grammar squats was the first part. This is where you crouch, stand, type a number, crouch, and repeat. And if you missed a number, a period at the end of the number, misspelled the number, forgot to crouch, or forgot to capitalize the number, then you would fail. No way I was doing his Rec, that shit isn't even the worst part. You also had to crouch + walk all the way around Korriban + the inside of the courtyard. If you stood up or didn't stop when he told you to, instant fail. Told myself I would just go get easier Recs. I ended up doing his Darth rec, being one of the only ones to ever complete his Rec, even to this day. And I did it out of respect. I didn't even go for Darth that week. Only a day before when they told me his Rec wouldn't count after a week is over, so I pretty much forced myself to get the other recs. And now we come to the final part.
The true experience of being a Sith. Fear, when fear used to be relevant. As much as everyone hated him, Moxxi had fear down perfectly. Probably from his immense experience of being Emperor, for a normie Sith Apprentice like I was, he sure knew how to scare someone. One way he did that was the Blood family. Phaze and Tupac. Even though Wrath was challengable, from my entire time playing Sith, I never actually saw anyone challenge Tupac. Oh and Phaze, jeez. I was in the temple once when Moxxi literally just sped through to go to warp, not really caring about anything, and for a split second this lord didn't bow like everyone else did, so the ENTIRE Dark Council turned around and chewed his ass a new one. Mostly Phaze. When they were done with him, his forehead was on the floor lol. They did this to everyone, even me. Especially during the Darth trials. At the time I was a Dark Honor Guard on duty at the Imperial Sanctum checkpoint. Everybody knew Croc, he's the Vizier, it was pure instinct to let him through the checkpoint to the meeting. Croc passed all guards, went into the Darth trials, and began to boss the Lords around. Getting in their face and telling them what to do. Maybe 15 minutes later, Phaze stood up and asked everyone why they were talking or even moving around. They all answered that they were following orders. "From who"? Turned out Croc was on his Grey Jedi life the entire time. Anybody that wasn't in on that trick was mind blown. 100% thought I was losing my DHG rank for letting him pass in the first place. Fearful of losing my rank. When it was my turn to attempt Darth, I knew everybody in there was in it to win it. One of my competitors was my really good friend, we literally would go into Discord every day with Gandhi and hang out. In the trials he ended up betraying me to get that Darth power. He worked that hard, sacrificed that much, to get Darth (Dw it was all jokes and we're good now). But why? Why would somebody go that far to get a rank that isn't even bowed to? Honestly probably the cape, but nonetheless, that was a thing. Obviously Darth trials still happen, and I can only hope they are of this quality. I know the time I was given as Emperor, I was never truly able to achieve that level of Darth Trials. Mostly because my mind was so caught up on who was going to Overthrow me that I forgot the reason I wanted Emperor in the first place. Only wanted it because, as a newer member to the community, I saw things that would make Sith even funner. Boy was I wrong...
My theory as to what happened is Emperor. How many times has there been a new Emperor since Moxxi was removed? WHY work so hard for Darth when I could just go straight for DC or even Emperor. This is the mindset that ruined Sith. All the best leaders and hard workers don't care anymore about the faction itself, the people. Their only interest is power. Whether that's sucking up to the new emperor which was way more often than it should have, or simply waiting for the next OT to claim a DC spot. I miss hearing IGT talking about one day hoping they might become a DHG. I miss hearing the screams of Jedi hourly because INQ captured a new padawan. I miss being asked if my knees are broken for not bowing to DC. Again, maybe I haven't been around enough. But every time I come back for even an hour, I'm always being told how a new emperor killed Sith in a new way. Obviously I don't believe them, the Sith couldn't be killed? ... Right?
I guess my point is that everything that made Sith fun for me is gone...
Why is the Sith faction 70% memes now. Where did the respect go.
It's just a Garry's mod server they say
For a lot of us, it's not. It's more of a second life. Hundreds of dollars, thousands of hours, even tears. I've heard a man cry over being PK'd.
The Emperor job is thrown around too much...nobody knows who to follow anymore. I don't think anyone hates Caitlyn for who she is, maybe even how she got it.
I think everybody wants the Sith back. And when Caitlyn got it out of thin air, with no experience as to what it means to have fun in Sith. I don't even care who has Emperor at this point. Give them more than a week. Whoever it is. A week is not enough time to revive Sith organizations, state your opinions, get familiar with your faction, and find all good leaders to run the Dark Council properly. Obviously a lot of people would be angry if grace was extended, but honestly, at this point, it might be the only way to revive Sith back to the glory days.
All of this is just my opinion, and my final voice in the Reborn servers for awhile.
Good luck Caitlyn, and good luck to any future Emperors.
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