Yep folks, i'm officially retiring from nationstates. I've had a good run, and i
think given my RL circumstances, this is a good time to leave. Unless we make up
our minds on how the Dyriiad Federation is going to collapse, if at all. but
yeah, an explanation first.If i were to stay, it would be delaying the
inevitable, and i can't think of a more convenient time the when i've already
been away for a week. As much as i love this region, and kicking much ass here,
in a year i'll be going to college, and i'll have to focus all my energies on
that. I need to focus everything on this upcoming YEAR to get my GPA up and
such. I hope you all understand, the old NS maxim that RL comes first. Thats not
to say i wont be around, of course. theres always my email (xrscott1x@yahoo.com)
or msn (tylusV@hotmail.com) that you can contact me with, and i'd be glad to
help you out and such. But, i think it would be a good time to reminisce about
my long history here. So if you dont want to read all this crap, then skip to
the bottom when i say goodbye. Otherwise, after the upcoming line, is a (almost)
year long history of my life in
Caprecia.
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It all started, actually, with the region Cingeta. I was there for a long time, but
thought i'd take advantage of the provincial rule and make my own region, the
New Byzantine Empire. I tried to maintain ties, but they had a lousy ambassador
service, and i was busy making the NBE kickass and look cool. It was a
dictatorship, of course, but had a large enough following. I think i recruited
Sheen from there, and he's been following me around since. Anyway, that region
sucked, we had issues with possible spies and inactivity, and despite our
regional conquests we weren't doing too well. So, we split. I can't remember if
i went to VESN from here or to Empire incorporated (both regional upstart
attempts). VESN is where i recuited EM, i think that was...AFTER the NBE, and
maybe before Empire Incorporated. i can't remember. Anyway Empire Incorporated
was SSDD (same sh*t different day) and was doomed to failure from the get-go.
So, i decided to make a re-appearance in an LKE affiliated region and cause some
more havoc (my history with the LKE is a different story.)So i went to the
region Great Britain and Ireland. WOW whata mistake. i applied for citizenship,
and was denied, so i made a big fuss under the alias "THe Hub Republic" and
eventually i stormed off, to empire incorporated in hopes that they would follow
and see that it was me. I dont remember why i chose caprecia as my next place to
go, but i came here, and said i was a n00b. Then i decided to make ANOTHER
region, Theyst VI (my sixth attempt at a region named Theyst) so i took EA and
ran it by here, apologizing for lying and going on my merry way, when Dominion
was good eough to invite me back and suggest i look at the region more
seriously.So i did, since it was less work than the alternative, making my own
region. And MAN this place rocked, so i stayed. I think my first major post was
some international radio broadcast thing, probably still in national
developments. I started also dabbling in cartography and making friendly with my
neighbors and such. It took me a while to realize i had a hihger population than
alot of you, so i was playing safe by pretending i was weaker, and i was since i
wasn't familiar with the game. My first war was the first Andro-Zaran war. I
think it was because of a treaty i made with South Totowa, but i didn't realize
that i needed an army for defence so i moved my army of 19 million (back before
the 1% rule) into Erid'Lor, and wulfenstein and verenberg kicked my ass. From
that point forward, i kept Home Guards in all my cities. Then, when they had
gone, i grew a bit more, OTE moved next to me, EM came to Caprecia, and i
introduced Hadarism. AZW 2 ensued shortly after, with the holy war and such.
Then OTE went inactive, and decided to make himself a vassal state. After more
growth and a civil war and blah blah blah, hadarism died, i became more
prominent, and world events had happened. Soon after the introduction of Novreal
(or days before), erid'lor decided to go imperial-communist, and i kicked his
ass with OTE's and verenbergs help. Then there was TGE and all this other stuff
in andresia, lot of tensions, but nothing major. That saw the expansion of the
theyst republic, with the incorporation of Ialocin and Tellaria as provinces of
the republic. THat was pretty cool, people started to get worried. Then i
acquired brachion, kicked eyyguii's butt somehow, and jumped on Odersty while he
was young and stupid, and before you knew it the Dyriiad Federation was born.
the rest is hsitory, really.
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suffice to say,
i'm incredibly proud of my accomplishments here, and i'm really pleased with how
EM and OTE have helped the federation grow and become what it is today. Brachion
was also a good addition to the team, but he hasnt been around, and i dont
remember alot of his participation (sorry!).
So i'd like to say that its not
something that i want to do, but its something i had to do, this retirement
thing. Dominion, as long as you're around, this region will prosper, and as long
as the dedicated members that are here right now stay, this region will be
unstoppable. who knows where the next year will take you. Everyone, you've been
great, you've put up with alot of crap, and dealt with my unstoppable trend of
achievement that you couldn't hope to reciprocate (:P) just kidding on that last
thing, i'm sure the geography will do some more changing, i'm looking forward to
seeing what the future holds.
So....so long everyone! i'll be around.
PS
Erid, dont get too comfortable...
Anyway, thats that.
I guess i'll tak this time to list what positions i've held.
Prime minister (x2)
Head Cartographer (x2)
Delegate to a Conference
Regional Delegate (x2)
Senator
Minister of Defense
Co-Founder of the Repellican Party
Founderof the Dyriiad Federation
among others, but i can't think of them all right now.
Anyway, i've been there for a long time and now i'm leaving. See ya, nationstates. time to be productive.
3 comments:
So why exactly are you retiring from this? Need to work on your golf swing??? Just curious.
no, now that tiger woods is out of the game my golf swing will seem alot better...
but seriously,i'm leaving for two reasons: the first, because i had just been gone a week, visiting family in canada. things were pretty chaotic when i got back, and i didn't feel like doing all that work to get things back to where they were.
Second, because of college. i'd have had to leave at the end of the year if i didn't leave now, so i figured i could leave now and spend all that extra time working on bringing up my gpa, or on equally unproductive things like facebook :P
Hah! The GPA thing is a good idea, especially that first semester... Then if you get in where you want to go, you can coast a bit at the end of the year and focus on facebook, or maybe a short-lived Nationstates comeback...
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