My Tribes experience could be made into a movie.
I was introduced to the game (when it first came out) by my brother, who had burned me a copy of it.
I played exclusively on HaVoC servers in a borg skin under the name "S']['U of Borg" (I stole the '][' from ']['ANGO).
I specialized in long distance mortar-spamming and manning assorted cloaked turrets from command stations. I SUCKED at flying vehicles.
When the HaVoC servers began to dwindle, I lost interest in the game and stopped playing for several years.
One day I was checking out a hard drive from one of my old computers and found Tribes installed on it. I clicked the exe to see if it still worked and was surprised to find there were still a few active servers, but no HaVoC
(uhh, Crow... why is the tag for that emoticon called "stu"???)
So I began to play around in Annihilation as S']['U. I soon discovered that the vehicles had been speeded up and began flying them just for fun. I found out quite by accident that you you could kill players by running them over. This had never occurred to me in HaVoC because the vehicles were too slow to even consider using them as weapons. I began to run people over just for the lulz and eventually became quite good at it. Someone (can't remember who) began calling me the "Death Pilot" and I adopted the name.
I soon began to annoy a few people with my unorthodox playing style and was being vote-kicked too often for no reason, so I sent an e-mail to Owner who gave me "untouchable" status. This lasted until the "Great Admin Clean-up" about a year later.
I became popular and well-known on BR server. I was even admitted to OZ clan without even trying-out.
(I was kicked out about a month later for killing a base-cloak as my teammate's requested.)
Around the same time, perrinoia began a smear campaign against me in the forum, claiming I was TKing and picking up teammates without their permission. The trolling and rep-bashing got way out of control and I was eventually banned from the forum because it was easier to get rid of the victim rather than ban all the attackers.
The harassment continued on the server where I was constantly being TKed and trolled by other players and abused and smurfed by certain BR Administrators until I was banned from the server for "raging" about it.
I was eventually able to prove that I was being smurfed and abused by Bongwater and was allowed back in the server after Bongwater's
discommendation.
When I returned to the server, the Infamous Bo'sdad took over his "abuse duties".
Bo began harassing,
admin abusing me and then lying about it. He also went out of his way to make sure that I had no access to the forum so I would have no way to refute his lies about me. (name, password and IP ban)
One day I noticed a new player called "Wig Bro" in the server. He was constantly asking stupid noob questions like "What button do I use to speak globally?" or "how do I deploy turrets?"
People were falling all over themselves to help him, ...then I saw his IP. IT WAS FISH!
I tried to warn the other players that it was only fish trolling, and I was told to shut up by Bo'sdad who swore to me that Wig Bro was NOT fish.
When fish's deception was exposed in the forum the next day, I went in the server and mocked Bo'sdum, saying "Tell me again who Wig Bro isn't".
I was immediately banned for over a year and a half.
Other BR players and administrators realized that my ban was unfair and helped me to gain access to the server several times. Meanwhile, Bo'sdud made it his personal campaign to continually ban me on sight.
I began
my own campaign to expose,mock and discredit him.
Someone finally came to their senses and removed Bo'sduh's admin, and I was finally allowed back in the server and the forums.
With Bo gone, the server and forum trolls no longer had anyone to back them, so the harassment and abuse eventually stopped.
I was able to regain my reputation and the respect of the community, and in a few short months I applied for and got a position as Public Administrator on BR server.
Contact me if anyone wants to write the screenplay.
I want Liam Neeson to play the part of S']['U.
(this was 01/02) ), and we formed a clan called {IHOP} in nappy mod together. My brother was also in the clan with us. I was Storm and he was Trooper. We later split the clan into two different clans called -|X|- and -|MK|-, and hosted a custom edit of nappy mod for our server. Also played Shifter v1G with my mom in a clan called [FU!]. Yes my mom also got into the game for a while after watching me and my brother play it.
