"I just found this.
Lemme tell my side of things.
Yes, we called ourselves Remnants because we got left behind so to speak when Riz moved to Mid. It was a joke so to speak because I had no desire to move at that time. I had a few other friends that I enjoyed to run with and we formed up. Looked for more people, formed up a guild that could do something.
On Alb we tried to get things going daily at the same time, it was a time that worked for the four of that that were the core of friends. You know, people you enjoy running with every day. I don't suppose there is anything wrong with that. But daily, we'd always be lacking a class. We'd have someone bring out their alt to try to fill in roles, or we'd run caster speed or what not. It got frustrating. No, we didn't have to win all the time. That truly isn't what matters. Believe what you will.
We got tired of being albs after a while. Folks joked around about trying mids out, trying hibs out. So we tried hibs on nimue for a couple weeks. Didn't know the real plan, just wanted a break from being albs. Btw, I'll get to the story about Ascension in a bit. But we found out that Nimue rvr was pretty dead during Euro hours, so that wouldn't really work. Back to alb, but we still weren't happy. We would get 7 people daily, and honestly just couldn't run on 7 people and be able to compete.
So, Mid Guin. Formed up, invited everyone in Remnants to go with us. A couple chose not too, their choice, most did come. Folks didn't really pick classes based on any specific idea, we just threw it all together. Bad idea. We ended up with too many of one class, not enough of others. The officers struggled to try to make it work. We learned our classes, some folks went back to alb cause they couldn't get in the main group. I was on an sm, I chose to exp outside the group so that folks that were lower level could be in group etc. We ended up meeting some cool people, merged guilds for a while, ended up back as Remnants. We hit 50, a couple rerolled cause our class wasn't right for the mix. A few more followed from ALbion, old friends that were in other guilds. The magic idea of 2 groups came up. Something we'd tossed around in Albion a few times.
See, for some reason, it never worked when we ran more than 8. People's brains shut off. Assisting went down hill, afk's were longer, all sorts of stupid stuff. But I always wanted people out there and would try. Even though it ended with folks logging off pissed.
So, here we now have about 18 people, with about 12 active and on daily. Two healers, three skalds, no shaman (for a while) a few people that would show up every few weeks (mostly due to work). So.. we would take out the first 8 people online. That didn't really work to well, someone was always the same one to sit out, and sometimes it was the person that gee, was one of my 3 closests friends. And the second group never started picking up and going out there. We tried. God did we try. We had met more people, we offered to help build it, we offered everything. But it never really took off.
So, yes, we came up with the idea to run a specific 8 people. Why? Because there were 4 of us, and 4 roommates that would come on at the same time. Put us together, thats 8 but thats a crappy group with the classes. So, we halved it. Said we'd build up the guild to accomodate it. That didn't help either. Yes, we went for out of guild people. why? because we needed to build up the guild so we could do this magical 2 groups that sounded so good on paper.
Duine was left out of our group. Why? Well, the honest, brutal truth that was fact is that he decided he was done with pve when the rest of us were still trying ot level up and artifact out people. They were alts you see, even though we said they were the one the person was going to play. He was done with pve. Nevermind the fact that we were all tired of it. It didnt matter. He was done. So he went out to rvr, the rest of us were still trying ot finish pve so we could get out there. Were we upset with him? Damn straight. But he was the one insistent that the other people never ran at his time, when the majority of times they were on when we were.
So, we are finally rvr'ing, trying this group set up. It worked. Loved it. Great classes and we were doing well. But you know what? Guin rvr sucked. We hated it. Pure and simple. Don't believe me? I don't care. And YES, we were frustrated with the guild and that it never quite worked how it was planned. We invited more people to form 2 groups, that was the plan, it didn't happen. So four friends CHOSE to move servers. OUR choice.
We are starting over, with a guild of 8 people so we never ever have that problem of seeing anyone in the guild left out of a group again. I hated that, every bit of me hated that. But people like to win, you can't win with 3 skalds, no shaman and no dps. No one has fun when you run a group like that. NO ONE.
As for Predian's comments. First, I can't imagine anything ever said has ever hurt me as badly as that did. I cannot express how painful that was to read. I will say for the record, YES I LIKE TO WIN, who doesn't? But I built those groups on the basis of whoever was leading them. Back in that time it was Milric and he had some very specific ideas on who he would group with and who he would not. I would not invite people that he would not group with. Call me naive, stupid, whatever you want but if the person I'm building a group for won't run with someone then why would I invite them out?
I am not innocent in many many things. But I will not sit here and take this. I do not deserve it. I have tried very hard to help and be there for many people. No I am not perfect, I've made mistakes, I've been selfish. Tell me no one else is? I challenge any one of you to show me how perfect your life is compared to mine, and how well you lead it.
I'm not laying blame at any one's feet. I'll freely accept it on my shoulders. But sometimes crap happens and you can't really deal with it in any way that doesn't hurt someone. I'm sorry for anyone I have hurt. Especially those that were Remnants on Alb or Mid.
Yes, its long. Don't read it, I don't care. This was all of it, every bit of truth in the whole matter. That Duine/Loellan brought it here, oh well. But I refuse to not defend myself.
The funny thing is? All I want to do is run around daily with 3 other people. I've got other friends that I care about too, but theres 3 people that make my day something special. I'd do just about anything to hang out with them. The game doesn't even mean crap anymore without them there. I could be on any server doing anything from pve to mls to rvr and I'd be content long as they were in my group.
Go ahead, judge me at least by my own words. "
Some people weren't done reading yet, and they DO care about the truth.
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