[JackOften]

Originally Posted by Luke

Heh, of course I remember Ulysses. He was one of the first ammo nixes on the server (it used to take FOREVER to level up to fighter). I was in OV with him. He was always 20k ahead of our newb fleet (ya, we sucked horribly) and usually died to MS spam before we closed the gap Quite fearless.

Ulysses>permission to shoot down _______
Fellblade>NEGATIVE! DO NOT ENGAGE WE HAVE A NAP
Ulysses>ok, he's down

Heck Luke I remember fighting you for the first time at LL. Rostam, PalmPilot and I hit an OV fleet. I took out some member of OV at LL, Rostam had engaged Fellblade and palmpilot had you in Far Point. You waxed Palmpilot about the same time Rostam sent fellblade running into LL. I had disposed of some OV guy and was finishing off Fellblade when Rostam yells "help" over bcom. I come out into far point just when you had wacked Rostam, then I came in to hopefully finish you off... nope. We all found ourselves back at QC wondering who that f'er was... We went to the "If you can't beat him, recruit him" so we didn't have to deal with ya again. haha.

[JackOften]

Alright, i'll do my 5 most influential -

1) Primate (EU) - Guy was a sim master but would never fight in space. I finally convinced him to join Nazgul and he didn't like the way we picked fights. He'd complain about our occasional civ kills. Then something happened and he went on a killing spree from SC to OC to QC, killing anything that moved. We had to convince him to stop killing. At the time he was unkillable in a intensity (the size 3 pp one).

2) Iorm (EU) - I had just joined Jumpgate and was running around doing missions at level 10 or so. Iorm had just engaged some -eF- with his buddy jockster and were taunting them on f3 as the -ef- guys couldn't dodge missile spam. Made me laugh and I wished I could be him. I went on to scout for them a bit, mad me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

3) MadMonkey (EU) - Leader of Praetorianer, EU's version of OEC. He killed my buddy enforcing there beacon policy. This is my "turned me to the dark side" PvP guy, I went in there afterwords and got in my first PvP fight. Turned out to be more bark than bite, musta POD'd him a dozen times afterwords, never did wack me. Pretty much led to the first time EU saw server wars.

4) Rollio - Made us try new tactics to kill him, pushed us to be bigger than 6 pilots. One example - We had him trapped at TicTacs hook. We knew he'd be all ff's in his modx, so we put a nazgul at TicTacs, another at Quadrangle and Quanus Crossing, and at Callows and DarkEnd so by the time he'd use up his ff's we still have a guy waiting for him in sector. Another example: I got fed up with his civing new quants, so I declared war on all sol newbies. It got QC attacked by every sol on the server... I had everyone from ekoo to my own guys yelling at me on f4. It did result in my real goal, getting the first anti-griefing rule implemented by 3DO.

5) Rostam - He actually got me to practice trying to be as good as him. Never got there, but it kept me better than 99% of the server.

Honorable mention: -PJ-. He called me out on f1 for a dual back in EU at Wake. I was all the way down at TicTacs so we went back and forth verbally as I flew all the way there with Rostam and Radagast. By the time I got there, the whole server was in the sector to watch (there wasn't much action back then, pretty early in EU beta) with about 50+ pilots in sector. I wacked him, but he knew he was going down, got us both pretty good names (and Nazgul) on the server. Since he knew he was going to lose, he paid two guys to kill me after i was damaged in the fight. haha. Rostam and Radagast took care of them.

Honourable Mention: Karash, he ran a tight RP ship over there, and it caused us (well, me to push anyways) Nazgul in a anti-RP direction, running a "bunch of freelance pvp-jock a**holes" route of an RP instead of emulating some militaristic structured route.

[Sephiroth]

Hmm... this is tricky!

Let's see...

1) Delerium - this is the guy that got me started PvPing when I joined the Syndicate way back when. I still remember my first kill was Rix and I was in the Sol LF FFed up behind him and took one shot and he blew up lol

2) Tritian - after a short while in Syndicate I realized that the factionalist life wasn't for me. I was flying around Solrain space when I ran into Tritian with a massive bounty and asked him about it/talked to him for a little while and decided that I wanted to join Pay or Die. Eventually I did join but sadly by then most of them had moved onto Neocron. Kronic was pretty much the only one that flew regularly, though others hopped on now and again.

3) Ridgeway - After a short period of time in PoD I was sorta tired of being on by myself so I left and joined up with ISU because I thought there RP was awesome, Ridgeway was a fantastic leader and a great teacher. He really helped me learn PvP and there were many fun times flying with the guys in ISU.

4) Zaltys/Hadur/Nicator - not many people were quite at his level. He understood the PvP aspect of this game better than most and was really good at passing that knowledge to other players.

5) Gent - after flying with him in the Weekend of War I found him to be one of the most enjoyable and fun pilots to fly with. He just makes everything so damn entertaining

[ZeroZ95]

Influential on RP of Jumpgate Classic:

Early days

• Ixholla - EEA... so many egos to manage and so much equipment to stock. Boggles the mind actually.
• The_Tyke - proving once and for all time just how stupid intolerance really is.
• Tesrend - the face of the QDA, and the poster boy for all things Quantar. He was always a primary target, survived most battles while still getting tons of kills and calling targets as fleet leader, and didn't fly like a total pansy. Boggles the mind actually.
• Ambrosius - Brotherhood was the heart of the QDA, and remains as THE good-guy generalist/moderate Quant squad.
• Merchant - the first flux hugger, and the best.
• Nelson - could have made Hyperial interesting if only he had 5-10 pilots who would really join him, and if he would have been a bit more consistently in space.
• RazorsKiss/other New Dawners - usually at the center of Moll's official flux RP clique, though she really shaped it.

Later days

• GrimGriz - THE great miner.
• InterOrka - THE great economy manipulator.
• CaptainCow and GreenDrazi - DDZ was sometimes quiet, but always there and always willing to do non-glamorous work for Quantar.
• Chewcacca - almost a second incarnation of Ixholla, if on a somewhat smaller scale due to lower server numbers.
• Solidarity - revived the long-dead Solrain faction, for a year at least.

Influential to the community/game, but not really for Jumpgate's RP

• Gossip - PJG
• Jumpdemon - JSR
• LadyDraco - famous in :help
• Regan - famous in :help
• Innominate - Sp+ Tensy (the great balance mistake that made every other ship have to get significant boosting which lost some of their interesting individualities), plus he proved once and for all time how stupid low-mass Haven Rangers were.

[xerout]

Good question.....there are so many influentials but here's my list:

Valen - The best and most committed Solrain battle commander I ever flew against. Valen and (SOL) Navy defended the interests of Solrain with honor and deadly purpose.

Russian - My own squad Captain (The Gang). He knew exactly how to make big money with the Pirate RP without griefing anyone. Also, there are so many battles where The Gang was outnumbered and Russian kept us alive against impossible odds. Russian took a group of mostly "average" PvPers (with some notable exceptions) and turned us into one of the most powerful and feared squads on the server. He was simply a brilliant battle commander, the best I've ever seen in any game I've ever played.

Tesrend - When I think of Quantar warrior commanders Tes is the first name to pop into my head. He and his pilots were among the best I've ever flown against.

Ridgeway - The MS blockade was great. Since the devs couldn't or wouldn't take this overpowered weapon out of service Ridgeway and ISU did it themselves. I can still remember when Russian announced to us that The Gang was hired to attack ISU and end the MS blockade. We were all supportive of what ISU was doing and we weren't happy about attacking them but hey...boss said to fight and business is business so we fought them hard.

Alphabet - Personally, one of the best guys I've met in any game. We were enemies but Alph always conducted himslef with honor.....he pretty much represents what you'd want any gamer you are fighting with or against to be like.

Xerout

[Karash]

Saw Innominate's name here quite a few times...he is playing Eve these days with a metagame group called Goonswarm, it fits him to the T. Luckily I am on the other side shooting them...and its always nice to see his name come up on our killboards. Every time it makes me want to do a shot of whiskey in celebration for what he did to the Tensity start of retail.

[Eraser55]

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[DynamiK]

First time I ever met a Nazgul was Dong52 and he told me to prepare to die. Ended up beating him and upon entering Outpost Station sector I ran into JackOften and he let me dock before we fought. Beat him and then I was supposed to meet Hand at Wake but Beta ended on the flight over =(

[ilk]

Originally Posted by Karash

Saw Innominate's name here quite a few times...he is playing Eve these days with a metagame group called Goonswarm, it fits him to the T. Luckily I am on the other side shooting them...and its always nice to see his name come up on our killboards. Every time it makes me want to do a shot of whiskey in celebration for what he did to the Tensity start of retail.

I've seen a number of references to Innominate causing the Tensy buff - but I have to say I never knew the full story behind this as I missed the start of retail. Did he bend a dev's ear or what?

[Ambrosius]

There were any number of people whining about the Tensy in beta, and Inno was one of them. But in fairness, when the uber-Tensy appeared, Inno and others' reaction was "are they crazy?" . . . followed by "cool!"

The drastic change to the Intensity, occurring between the end of Beta and the beginning of Retail, after a two-plus years of testing and balancing, was one truly bizarre event.

[ilk]

It's not like they learned their lesson about radical unbalancing moves before Istvan showed up either. Sz2 Shield Rangers, bombers etc. And that glorious few hours when they decided that doubling flashfire duration was a good idea - the only time I've ever gotten close to mouthing off enough on a forum to get banned.

Not to dwell on the negative - after seeing Istvan's dev blog I'm hopeful that the relative sanity he brought to balance in Jumpgate Classic will apply to Jumpgate Evolution.

[GrimGriz]

Everyone was complaining about the Tensy on the good ole red ND boards. Innominate was the only one crazy enough to think they'd put a size 4 PP on the intensity and he begged for it nearly every day. Personally, I was asking for the size 4 engines back

Rumor has it the devs did it just to shut him up.