Ano_nJoin Date: 2011-01-18
Post Count: 156 |
To whoever it may concern,
I've wrote this letter, or will; whatever you wish to call it, before whatever happened to me that caused me to leave The Spanish Dominium and quit Roblox.
I know that if I tried writing this then, I would have never bothered finishing it. I want to take the time to reflect on everything I've accomplished on Roblox in all my years here on this game.
I'll start with my career with the Continental Army. Ah, CA, the group that started everything for me. Of course I was on this game before I joined CA. For a few years in fact, I jumped through accounts like clothes before resting on this one. My whole purpose for being on Roblox changed when I first entered Stonewind's Port Washington. A base for CA.
I was just searching through Naval games I could play when I stumbled upon his.
When I came to that fort at first I was thinking I would do what I usually did to clan forts: Show up. Raid for a bit, then leave and go play something else.
But I didn't. I hopped on one of his ships, and sailed around for a bit shooting randomly at both Patriots and Raiders alike, when I unknowingly fired at Stone's ship.
He jumped out of the piolt seat and demanded to know why I fired my guns at him; I gave him a crap answer that I "didn't know" which was half true.
Stone seemed to accept this and I was ignored for awhile. Neither me or Stone knew then that event had changed both of us forever.
I decided to help Stone out, since sgccode9's The British Dominion raided him. I fought with the Patriots, hopping on random boats leaving the docks and being a gunner.
Eventually I managed to get on Stone's ship and helped sink British vessels. After awhile the other gunner aboard was killed and I was the only one left.
Together me and Stone sunk roughly 10 to 12 ships. The British retreated, and we won the raid.
I was having fun, I'd never really participated in war clans before, least of all a colonial one. But Stone offered me the position of Admiral in his navy, since he was impressed by my courage and skills with boats.
After that I was SiC in the navy and an officer in the main army. The next few weeks were spent on Roblox, at Port Washington. I hadn't met many other officers yet, and I was the highest rank there besides Stone.
Then, one day, I did. The particular guy I met was named Eman08, he was Stone's General. From what I could tell he was barely on. Since the first time I saw him was about two weeks after I joined.
When I spoke with him it was breif, and the only thing he did was command me to do things. I'm rambling so I'll move on.
Fast forward a few boring, unimportant months of training and disicpline and drama. And I'm SiC of CA, Eman being one rank below me. And guess what happens? Eman goes and complains to Stone about how he's more "loyal" and better than I am. And maybe he was. That's when I started considering to leave CA.
Hell, I almost did too. It seemed like Stone breezed over me, Eman was his best friend and I was the third wheel; I was sick of it.
I told Eman I was leaving, and helped TBD in a raid on Stone's New York fort. Eman was shocked and suprised. (But appearently laughing inside, as he later told me.) He gave me a bull speech about how I "mattered". I didn't exactly listen. I heard the words, but they didn't make an effect. Sgccode had promised me a High Ranking position.
I went to an empty fort and did a slow walkthrough of it, thinking this would be the last time I was in CA. When Stonewind showed up. He seemed concerned, which of course he was. He told me multiple things of how if I went to TBD my potential would be wasted. Things like that. But what really got me, was that he told me he needed me.
Never had Stone ever said that to me. It might seem unimportant, but to me. It was huge. So I decided to stay in CA, but I somewhat stopped being inactive. I didn't login for a week, and when I came back. CA had new uniforms made by camcam24. I didn't know the guy, he made good uniforms, but I really didn't care at the time. Little did I know that camcam would become a great friend to me, and teach me almost everything I know about uniforms and art.
Fast forward a week and I'm at the end of my career. Stone announced he was leaving CA, I was distraught. Depressed even. But a question remained. Who was getting the group? Obviously it was down between me and Eman. Stone didn't say who he was giving it to. At one point he said he might auction it off.
But what he ended up doing was giving Eman the main army, and giving me. His loyal 3iC, the inactive, dead branch of the Navy.
I thought it was a joke. I mean, come on. All that work just to get some stupid dead part of CA? I'll admit. I was mad as hell. A little hysterical even. Eman was gloating of how he got CA, and even at one point debated who would be Lead General. He was going to have a vote between me and 3 other officer who were barely on.
I couldn't take it anymore, I snapped. I Admin Abused the group I used to love, I demoted all of the ranks under officer down to volunteer. It wasn't that bad for AA'ing history. In fact Eman got the whole thing fixed in the span of two days.
But I still get crap for it to this day, even if I don't care anymore. It's still a little stupid.
So that's the fast summary of my time in CA, what got me ready for my own group: The Spanish Dominium.
I actually got the idea for creating a Spanish group while I was still in CA, well before Stone left. It started off as some kind of joke. That kind of group you know won't work, but you want to make it to see how it looks.
So that's what I did. I made a group called "The Spanish Dominion". Copied everything from TBD's group description and edited a little. That same night I set the join option to "Manual Approval" and left. Which was a bonehead move on my part, but ah well.
After I left CA and followed Stone for a month from group to group. I decided I couldn't do it anymore. I didn't like not having a group to be active in. So I decided I would make my own. Me and a friend of mine named Sincerus redrew the whole Spanish Colonial clan.
We mapped out what we were going to do and when we were going to do it. So I made the group, since he didn't have BC. And made him Second in command.
We got a traditional Spanish flag for our group logo and started there. I suppose that was a historical moment for TSD. The birth of the whole thing started there.
A couple weeks later when we were still working on getting the whole thing organized and set up.
I set about making a fort: Fort De Scott. It was actually the first fort I ever made, and I was proud of it at the time: Detailed, nice weapons, good looks. Almost completely lag free. But looking back on it now, Fort De Scott sucked.
Don't get me wrong and all, it was TSD's first fort; but man, was that place unfair. But nevertheless it was still important.
Remember how I said Camcam24 was going to be an important part in my life? Well here is where he comes in to play.
In my opinion the most important thing about a group is it's uniforms. Sure you got the flashy flag and and the pretty forts, but your uniforms are who you are. It's the first thing people see when you visit them or raid them.
You want people to think: "Who are those guys? They're uniforms are detailed..." Not: "What the hell? Is that a lizard on his chest?". And of course I had to find someone to make me uniforms.
I first thought about DominiumHex, since he made TBD's old uniforms. I even sent him a request. But he was taking a month to get it done. So I remembered Camcam and decided to have him make it.
One problem: Camcam quit. I almost panicked. Until I realized he switched accounts to LivingAnomaly. We tried to get his attention for a week, but he didn't respond to PM's.
Finally, one day he showed up to Fort De Scott to check it out. I suppose that was a blessing, because he never would have found out we wanted uniforms from him if he hadn't done that.
He agreed to make us a set of three uniforms.
Fast forward maybe a half a month and TSD is inactive. I was stumped. I didn't know what to do. Stone never had this kind of problem in CA because the men always had something to do.
Then something happened the kick started TSD: War. War is generally thought of as a bad thing. Death. Tragedy behind every corner. But in Roblox, War is the single most productive thing a plan can want.
GeneralLunar, the leader of the Empire of Imperial France declared war on my tiny little 20+ group, thinking he could have an easy victory. You see, Lunar wanted to dominate the Colonial Robloxian community. Starting with me. The only raidable Spanish group in Colonial Roblox.
So naturally I'm scared as hell, because this super clan just decided to step on us. But, EoIF had lots of enemies. The Great Red Isles volunteered to help us, as did RBRN and Mexico. Suddenly we were getting memebers crazy fast. We got around 50+ new soldiers that first two weeks.
And the best part was we were winning the war. Eventually Lunar ordered a cease fire, and decided to stop fighting if we did. I thought about this awhile and decided no. I mean, Lunar's war had boosted our activity immensely. If he just stopped, we could loose all these new men.
So I decided to finish the war with Lunar, by myself. With no allied help.
It's somewhat hard to determine who won that war. As the score was even and eventually both sides just stopped raiding. There was never an agreement to stop. It wasn't discussed. We just stopped fighting and silently removed eachother as enemies.
That's just a breif summary of the birth of TSD and of my career as a leader. I know I don't say or describe too much, but this is for me. Not you.
I want to take some time to thank people for helping me accomplish what I have. You all did something that either helped me or hindered me:
Stonewind: Stone, you're my bro. You taught me almost everything I know about leading, and I thank you for that. TSD's foundations would have crumbled if it wasn't for your advice and guidance. Stay in touch, man.
LivingAnomaly: Wow, you are the craziest man I've ever met. But I also owe a lot to you. You also taught me more than that. Plus you're somewhat crazy and that's extremely funny. Keep talking to me on skype man.
Cool1943/PhysicalBeta: Dude, you tell some weird stories. You're pretty funny too. I hope we stay friends. I'll skype you and Cam when I can.
Sincerus: Bro, what happened? One day. You were just gone, I never found out why you left. But you and I founded this group. Let that be known. It wouldn't exist without you.
Z2008: Z, you're the only reason TSD's military was strong. Sure the other HR's and SC's contributed. But you took the time to scout our forts and find amazing tactics to defend it. You also taught me how to sword fight. TSD would never have won anything without you.
Descripto: You may not actually be my son, but you are as much as an heir to my throne as a real son. I know you have what it takes to be a leader. Hell, you might even be better than me. Just make sure I'm not forgotten. Put some flowers on my grave at Del Guerrero.
tacos12: You are, without a dobut, the most stuck up person I've ever met. Have fun being a preist or whatever.
goodrice: You were there at the beginning of it all. In fact you were the first person to join this group, I think. And now look at you. Senior Command. You earned it, Good. Great job.
Detti: I didn't hate you. I'll admit that. But you did start both TBD wars. So maybe that's a hint at your bloodlust?
99Tristan99: You left CA to join my group. That takes some guts. You're not the only one. But I respect you for that. I'm sorry you got hacked.
RawBatista: No.
Eman08: You sir, think you're such an amazing person, when you didn't do anything to CA. You claim credit for it. But your HR's and your men get all of that. You're inactive as crap. Good riddance.
Nuclearsombrero: Still don't understand why you could be allies with us. But if it was that big of a deal to you, I'm sorry.
ina70: Wow. You're my oldest friend on Roblox, Ina. I wish I knew you in real life. Then this wouldn't be so hard to type. I won't ever be able to talk to you again. I don't have Steam like you and John. And I just want to say I love you man. You were always there for me. And I hope that was the same for you. Ever since we met on Caleb's game we were like best friends. For the longest time, you were the reason I got up on 9 in the morning to play this game. I'm really going to miss you man. Peace.
All Spaniards: I hope my legacy will live on throug Descripto, and I won't be forgotten. But remember, fight on. I tried to make this group the best, and I think I came close to doing so. Hell maybe I even did. I'll miss you all. Por Espana! |