07-24-2003, 02:19 PM
As much as I hate to see good friends go, let's remember folks that these same good players were noobs once. I for one still make it on at least a half hour to an hour per day and am seeing a whole bunch of new players. If we help train these new guys and gals to get good, then we will have our competition back in no time.
Of course we are going to have players leave. We only play 1 friggin map!! It does get old, I am not the first to say it.
On top of that there are other games and of course as pointed out , other summer time activities.
So... it's not so bad. Positive sides to such changes are:
1. You are now the mentors to these new players. You will get the credit later on for inspiring them, like you all have given to the prior greats here on the forums.
2. As noobs poor in and veterans poor out, you have the chance to demonstrate the best available skills around! Noobs talk like we do and used to. Enough of them say you are the best, and guess what!! You are the best. G-Boy and RWS weren't the best until the rest of the previous bests had filed out. Now is your chance to climb the ranks.
3. They will come back. Maybe not today or even tomorrow. Maybe they will not play at the regularity or the calibur at which they did a month ago. But they will come back and see how greatly you have improved.
All I am saying is that if you thought we would have the same great players for ever, that was kinda' naive. Only a small handful of players have played for more than a year. I have taken absences that have lasted months. Hell in the small time I spent away getting my computer fixed, I came back to find 2 new clans and names beating me I had never heard of.
The state of the game is as good as ever. Please realize this.
Beastie
Of course we are going to have players leave. We only play 1 friggin map!! It does get old, I am not the first to say it.
On top of that there are other games and of course as pointed out , other summer time activities.
So... it's not so bad. Positive sides to such changes are:
1. You are now the mentors to these new players. You will get the credit later on for inspiring them, like you all have given to the prior greats here on the forums.
2. As noobs poor in and veterans poor out, you have the chance to demonstrate the best available skills around! Noobs talk like we do and used to. Enough of them say you are the best, and guess what!! You are the best. G-Boy and RWS weren't the best until the rest of the previous bests had filed out. Now is your chance to climb the ranks.
3. They will come back. Maybe not today or even tomorrow. Maybe they will not play at the regularity or the calibur at which they did a month ago. But they will come back and see how greatly you have improved.
All I am saying is that if you thought we would have the same great players for ever, that was kinda' naive. Only a small handful of players have played for more than a year. I have taken absences that have lasted months. Hell in the small time I spent away getting my computer fixed, I came back to find 2 new clans and names beating me I had never heard of.
The state of the game is as good as ever. Please realize this.
Beastie