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Today marks my 3rd year in =(eGO)=
Man, these have changed since I have joined. I joined before we had houses in DoDs, before Dominion, Gardengrove, Mostly Harmless, Fluffy the Destroyer, USCG Hammer became council members, before we had a TF2, CS:s, CoD, or INS divisions. I have been very active in Edge gamers, being an advisor for over a year, split up by being one the original three DL's that started up INS for a few weeks, going back to the Css division, then to becoming a regular eGO again due to college time constraints.
When I first joined, I was member number 251 on the forums and we had a single DoDs server, Avalanche. eGO was just started in the summer of the year I joined and they started off small. In addition to the DoDs server, we had a TeamSpeak server (Thank god we have Ventrilo now!) that could hold 25 members. JohnT once told us in a meeting, of about 20 people, which was considered a HUGE turnout, that he paid Deacon, the guy who provides the servers for us, in cash. Our operating expenses were in the area of about $100 a month. It took weeks of deliberation and discussion to add a second server, DoDs Donner. We worried about server expenses, being able to keep it populated, and if we had enough admins to cover both that and Avalanche.
With our 2nd server, DoDs started to grow by leaps and bounds, and soon we had houses, and that created a whole lot of good things and bad things, but I would rather not talk about the history of houses, they had their purposes and downsides, and I am glad that council has done away with them.
Around this time this new game, called Team Fortress 2 came out, and eGO quickly sought to add servers to the demo before the release and they were a HUGE success. TF2 started off a little slow, but soon became a juggernaut of a division and quickly expanded.
Then later on, eGO had the idea of expanding into Counter Strike Source. Along with Mostly Harmless as council and Wal-mart Security as "Co-Council" (Currently title is now Division Leader) and myself, Crimson, and a few other people as division advisors. We started with our Dust2 server, and became quite popular.
After the success of the CS:S division, Insurgency became a full game on steam, and the idea was pitched to start a division for it. I was asked to help start this division as a Division Leader, along with The Big Herm and Sixxgun. We started off highly succesful, but for personal reasons, a few weeks into the start of the division, I stepped down as DL and became a regular O.
After a few weeks of milling about, I was asked to become a CSS advisor again to assist in final battlegrounds (www.finalbattlegrounds.com) I stayed as a CS:S advisor until I started College in late August and I could not devote the full time needed to be act in a leadership capacity. So in November, I stepped down due to time constraints and am happy playing as a regular O.
I love Edge gamers and what we have done. The ideals behind what we do are solid and I stand by them 100%. I feel that what we do is a great thing for the gaming community because I do not need to see naked girls being sprayed on the walls of a level or people cursing until they are out of breathe.
Thanks for the great 3 years eGO and hope to be here another 3 years!
~Blackhawksniper
p.s. Ruthless and me are BFFs, <3 4ever
Man, these have changed since I have joined. I joined before we had houses in DoDs, before Dominion, Gardengrove, Mostly Harmless, Fluffy the Destroyer, USCG Hammer became council members, before we had a TF2, CS:s, CoD, or INS divisions. I have been very active in Edge gamers, being an advisor for over a year, split up by being one the original three DL's that started up INS for a few weeks, going back to the Css division, then to becoming a regular eGO again due to college time constraints.
When I first joined, I was member number 251 on the forums and we had a single DoDs server, Avalanche. eGO was just started in the summer of the year I joined and they started off small. In addition to the DoDs server, we had a TeamSpeak server (Thank god we have Ventrilo now!) that could hold 25 members. JohnT once told us in a meeting, of about 20 people, which was considered a HUGE turnout, that he paid Deacon, the guy who provides the servers for us, in cash. Our operating expenses were in the area of about $100 a month. It took weeks of deliberation and discussion to add a second server, DoDs Donner. We worried about server expenses, being able to keep it populated, and if we had enough admins to cover both that and Avalanche.
With our 2nd server, DoDs started to grow by leaps and bounds, and soon we had houses, and that created a whole lot of good things and bad things, but I would rather not talk about the history of houses, they had their purposes and downsides, and I am glad that council has done away with them.
Around this time this new game, called Team Fortress 2 came out, and eGO quickly sought to add servers to the demo before the release and they were a HUGE success. TF2 started off a little slow, but soon became a juggernaut of a division and quickly expanded.
Then later on, eGO had the idea of expanding into Counter Strike Source. Along with Mostly Harmless as council and Wal-mart Security as "Co-Council" (Currently title is now Division Leader) and myself, Crimson, and a few other people as division advisors. We started with our Dust2 server, and became quite popular.
After the success of the CS:S division, Insurgency became a full game on steam, and the idea was pitched to start a division for it. I was asked to help start this division as a Division Leader, along with The Big Herm and Sixxgun. We started off highly succesful, but for personal reasons, a few weeks into the start of the division, I stepped down as DL and became a regular O.
After a few weeks of milling about, I was asked to become a CSS advisor again to assist in final battlegrounds (www.finalbattlegrounds.com) I stayed as a CS:S advisor until I started College in late August and I could not devote the full time needed to be act in a leadership capacity. So in November, I stepped down due to time constraints and am happy playing as a regular O.
I love Edge gamers and what we have done. The ideals behind what we do are solid and I stand by them 100%. I feel that what we do is a great thing for the gaming community because I do not need to see naked girls being sprayed on the walls of a level or people cursing until they are out of breathe.
Thanks for the great 3 years eGO and hope to be here another 3 years!
~Blackhawksniper
p.s. Ruthless and me are BFFs, <3 4ever
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may it rest in peace. Congrats on 3 years and many more.
