Vector Instance Revisited.

Alright.

This is the last thread I will be starting for a very long time. Most of the community is aware of the fact that I am quitting, but more and more every day I give thanks to myself for making the decision when I did. As time passes and I continue to read the new threads that pop up, I am a little bit saddened as the most prevalent topics include Syntax Vs. Vector, I Pwn Joo, and OMFGSPLOITZ. Is this what it's degraded to? My beloved Vector.

I started playing MXO back in August 2K5, when Justero told me to. When I joined the game, I immediately fell in love with the system as it was nothing like what I'd seen before. Eventually, I would join the Jokerz around level eight as it was destined and then I would begin making friends. Unlike the Syntaxians that have invaded with the delusions that because they were oh so loved on their home server that they would automatically be the best there is on Vector, I made a name for myself by actually learning the system from the ground up and learning from the leadership of Jokerz -- its captains and crews. Not just that, I would also learn through trial and error, and I would fight even when a mere level 42 at Mara Central, running around with the big boys regardless of being a target.

It was fun to get used to the game and it was fun to let others in the opposing organizations get used to me. I grew to love this community, although so many times since I've been here I've seen it picked apart from the inside on out. It's rather sad, seeing players go away, come back, then go away again (possibly for good). It's very grating on my nerves to see forum threads that depict a Syntaxian beating Krytical in a duel when I know that on Vector a duel means an interlock build. So if anything, I've lost all faith in these carebears coming here to participate and have fun; the carebears are only trying to abuse the system, so to speak, by abandoning any form of etiquette.

And some of you might not want to hear it like that, but it's only how I see it.

Why not get along with us here on Vector? As a member of the community myself, I'd like to think of us all as paying customers... But unfortunately, the collective is going to see you as one thing: a guest on our server. So don't wear out your welcome. Krytical is a respected member of our community, carebears. Zion, Merovingian, and Machines of Vector will no doubtedly back him up even if they fight him at all other times. It's not a matter of "I pwn joo" when it comes to us. Vector sticks together, and I'd root for ILLFACE before I'd root for you simply because he is a member of the community, even if he's not the best we have to offer. No offense, ILL. :-p

The fact of the matter is, you're in Vector and therefore you follow the Hostile rules but you also follow what rules we've established in these parts. In the Vector instance, certain Merovingian and Zion factions won't attack me because I've established certain relationships with them. The same applies to a great many of us. Does it mean we're carebears? No, it doesn't. It means that we know how to work together when we have to, even if there are exceptions to the rule. But if you hadn't noticed, there was plenty of smack-talk pre-CR2 and yet when we'd arrived on the QA server, the majority of us under one banner, nobody put up -- everybody shut up.

So let me be the first to show unity amongst Vectorites. You've grinded on Syntax, like you said. But you didn't grind here. You've made a name for yourself on Syntax, but you have no name here. No name. You have won a great number of duels on Syntax, but so far I've seen no honorable wins to your name through Vector. I'm leaving after tomorrow, but when I return I expect to see none of this garbage. It sounds like you're desperately trying to prove something, while we've got nothing to prove to you.

Now get along or go home.

- W4rbl4de - Machines {Ronin}