First, let's start of with the groups I have been in and tried to start on my own.
Ah painful memories arise when I think about the groups I started. I have actually tried to start two of my own group, both of which, have failed horribly. We shall start with exhibit A: Troops of Onyx. It was the first group I created, if I remember it was back in August of 2007 I think. The premise of the group was pretty simple, ALL THINGS HALO as stated in the group description. I know really original isn't it? The rank structure was really simple...and boring...and overused, standard military ranking. So a new member would be called a recruit or Private, whichever way you went about it. However, if I remember correctly I think that the administrator and moderator ranks stayed the same. Eh I don't remember; all I know is that it had 10 members and was pretty much dead. About a month after failed attempts to bring it back into the living side, I found out how to delete the group and did so.
Now for the next group, Legion of Elites. The ranking was very similar to the way the Elites(hence the name of the group...) have theirs set up. A new member was I think an Elite Minor and I forgot what the rest of the ranking structure was like. I pretty much don't remember a whole lot from the group. I do know that it was my largest with like 50 people, which was the most I've ever had. Sadly though, it suffered the same problem that Troop of Onyx(or ToO that some people dubbed it as, don't ask.) and died(became inactive) after a while.
That's pretty much it for my created groups...sort of. I've created another group, but that was with the help of someone else. Which I will explain in a bit, but now, onto the great groups I have joined.
My first group that I joined was ODST Recon. Which was(and probably still is) an active group when I joined. They did all sorts of things from, forum games, role playing threads(they were really fun) and a whole bunch of other stuff. I took part in most of, if not all of these events, but I didn't do much in the group. So a few months after I joined the group and spending time there, I left. Yes it was a short stay, but it was well worth it since it was an awesome group.
Now the second group I joined that I'm still in, here's a little story to it. It all started on May 10th, 2007 when I log on one day and see a message from someone named StrikerSniper77. I open the message and read it, well, it's a recruitment form and I'm sure you all know how much I don't like those things now. This one was different though, it actually got me to think about joining the group. After thinking about it a while I did finally join the group, and, I'm actually glad I did. It is by far one the best groups I've been in. The members are actually nice and don't treat you like a piece of garbage.
Umm...anyways, moving onto the actual group and what I did in it now. When I first joined it I didn't post much or do anything. That was mainly due to the fact that they liked to play online a whole lot and I didn't have Live at that point. I finally get the courage up to post more than usual and I get promoted. Sweet, fast-forward a few more months and I get a message asking if I would like to moderate the forum and be part of the first batch of moderators for the group. So I say sure, why not and stick in that role for a couple more months. Fast forward a couple more months and I am asked if I wanted to become an Administrator for the group since they were thinking about expanding a little bit. I asked what I could do to help out and was told that I could help recruit. Well, I don't recruit members that well as is obvious with my two previously failed attempts at my own group. So instead of recruiting members, which we had our own department of 5-10 members that did that, and went to doing things around the forum. Such as organizing the pinned topics and accepting news articles for the front page of the group. So then the founder saw I was doing a good job at keeping things organized and working he tasked me with like "Member Support" or something like that. All I basically did was help keep things organized and when members ask things about ranks and where things are, answer their questions. It was pretty simple and I enjoy doing it.
About May of 2008 one of the moderators opened up a database thread that contained a small little Q&A section, threads of interest, links to favorite videos and stuff plus a whole bunch of other things. Well me and another Admin(I'm sure you've heard of him, Sgt Riffle, I refer to him quite a bit on here...well earlier posts) started getting it into shape and adding all sorts of things to it. We were tasked with keeping it updated on semi-regular basis.
And that's it pretty much for that group, it's kind of quiet right now. Moving on.
There were few smaller groups I joined, but not much worth noting. The other large group that I joined was The Upper Echelon. Oh yes, that name sounds familiar doesn't it? I've talked about it quite a bit since I joined it back in December of '08.
It's a pretty simple group, the only thing I've done for it really has been organize a couple events for it. One of which was the campaign challenge, which was probably the second most successful even done for the group...mainly since there has been only three "major" events in the group. The campaign challenge was pretty popular up until about the 7th level. Then there was only two people at the end of it. I was considering bringing it back once ODST was released, but once I thought about it after a while, I just figured it wouldn't work out.
So once I made that decision I shifted gears and went to work on another idea I had. The TUE Racing League was originally proposed to the group on July 4th, but beforehand I had asked the staff if I could go about this. They said sure and I got right to work on it by finding maps to use and setting up the day of the week and time to have it on. It officially started on the second week of Sunday and went until the week before ODST was released. However, the last couple weeks nobody showed up for it. That in turn, led me to cancel the event. It was worth it I believe, a few people did enjoy it while it lasted.
There was also a third event that I was helping with, but never got started. It was called the 441 Tournament. Simply put, you gathered a team of 3 other members from the group and played four games of Action Sack and one campaign mission. The only limit to the teams was there could only be two of one rank on a team. So there couldn't be a team full of 5 Star Generals competing. Anyways, scoring was based upon the team who had the most kills at the end of the tournament. My job in it was simple, manage the campaign portion of it. I was also able to get the games from the teams and send them to the other tournament administrator. We got about three full teams of four and that was it, no one else signed up or decided to team up with others. After that Bren decided to postpone the event for a later date. However, there is rumor that it could make a return later this year.
That's pretty much my history there are TUE. Anyways, moving onto that other group I mentioned somewhere else in here.
Not sure if any of you remember this post way back when. Here, it was announcing the opening of the one group called Halo Gaming Association or HGA for short. The main purpose you ask? Well we took all the sports for Halo(Rocket Race, Grifball and a few we created...Grifball, no we didn't create Grifball) and were planning on gathering a whole bunch of people and form teams to compete in these seasons, just like normal sports do it. We got pretty far with this group, just no far enough where we could open it to the public. The co-founder(Riffle) was the forger of the group and was the leader of Team...something I forgot the name. He ran the basketball and football portion of the group among a bunch of other things. We each had our own teams(so he had his and I had my own) along with the founding team. Which consisted of both him and me and a couple other people we selected. I do remember that team name however; Team Flaming Death. Yeah, we never got far enough to actually challenge any other teams from within the group, but we did hold 2v2 scrimmages to test out new maps. I ran the Grifball and Jumpball(my own created gametype...lame name) part of it.
As a matter of fact, the map in the background here is one of the many attempts I tried for a tennis map for the group. I think I got rid of it since I didn't have a way to get the ball back into the court once it went on the other side of the wall. Perhaps I can fix that with Sandbox and the Crypt.
I think that was probably one of the best time I have ever had on B.net. I really enjoyed contemplating ideas late at night and asking Riffle about them and then working on them the next day.
That is pretty much my history in groups. Now to move onto some posts....well actually all of them. No, not all of my *insert number here* amount of posts. I'm just going to give you the really good ones that I have dedicated a post to on here. So if you do want to check out some of my older posts, feel free to check out this tag. Forum Fails, some of the posts contain things that aren't forum related so just don't pay attention to those parts.
And that is pretty much my complete history there at Bungie.net. Hope you enjoy this somewhat longer post that has been in the works for just a bit over a month. My three year join date is coming up March 29th, which I am looking forward to.
1 comment:
wow! You r 1 busy person.
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