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Unread 18 Feb 2007, 12:11   #1
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DC Appreciation Day

I was sat thinking about the job that i have done for many rounds starting when i learned DCing for TSU in round 5. This is, and well known that it is, the most thankless job the community has to offer. No other role in the running of an alliance is so time consumeing and demanding on a person. it is the only role that comes to mind where you are asked to sacrifice your sleep and in some cases aspects of your social life to benefit others and your team as a whole.

So i got around to thinking mabey people should appreciate the DC's a little bit more than they do at present.

When a call goes wrong or a dc makes a mistake or a player doesnt get defence, it is the DC's fault and they get all the blame etc. but nobody ever thanks a DC when they get covered from a fleetcatch or saved from 6 or 7 waves of incs.

Its easy to make a DC a scapegoat and shame on those who do. at the end of the day a DC can only co-ordinate what they are given to work with and they bust their ass to save everybody they can. its not all our fault ya know :P

so in future can we all be a little bit more thankfull to these hard working players who give their time to save YOUR asses and roids.

on behalf of DC's around the planetarion community.

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Unread 18 Feb 2007, 12:14   #2
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Re: DC Appreciation Day

Nice post, and a nice sentiment.

I am wondering whether you ahve been dc'ing for the wrong alliances?

I often get thanked, people rarely moan, and I find it quite satisfying.
And I know others ni the aliances I have been in get the same from HC/each other/members alike.

Wonder how others have found it?
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Unread 18 Feb 2007, 12:15   #3
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Re: DC Appreciation Day

Thanks to all the DC's in Orbit and those of other alliances who have helped with def of galmates and put up with me!

Depends, for example I DC'ed for Elysium and got thanked too but blame sometimes was put on me but rarely but then again Elysium people were nice bunch .
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Re: DC Appreciation Day

100% agreed

so to everyone who bitches at DCs: STFU

and to all DCs: thank you for doing the worst job available in this game
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Re: DC Appreciation Day

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Nice post, and a nice sentiment.

I am wondering whether you ahve been dc'ing for the wrong alliances?

I often get thanked, people rarely moan, and I find it quite satisfying.
And I know others ni the aliances I have been in get the same from HC/each other/members alike.

Wonder how others have found it?
not saying i have never been thanked, i just feel DC's arent thanked often enough. could probably count on 2 hands the number of times somebody has said "cheers for saveing my ass" etc
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Re: DC Appreciation Day

Tbh id rather not thank Forest because then he may think we like him. Same sentiment echo's around most of us CT'ers.......
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Unread 18 Feb 2007, 12:21   #7
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scanners and dc's are poor bastards and anyone who volunteers to do it should probably be put to death for their own good
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Unread 18 Feb 2007, 12:32   #8
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Every day should be DC/Scanner appreciation day
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DC'ing makes me horny
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actually i take that back about dc's, a good number these days care a lot more about their own defenses

well i suppose it's not "these days" really either
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Re: DC Appreciation Day

I remmember when i used to DC \o/ Casued a lot of alliances to disband :/

But i think this is a good idea. DCing is harder then BCing. I used to be a good BC, but sucked at defence.
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The Ultimate Reward for DCing is the chance to eventually become HC. Then when you're HC, you can make some other poor sap do the defenses. The pre-r6 ship stats were easy to use and do defense for. (spiders*3 + bit extra sometimes depending I believe) - if we returned to them I'd rock so hard.

As it is, I think Sid said it best, he'd rather have no defense than myself running it.
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Re: DC Appreciation Day

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I remmember when i used to DC \o/ Casued a lot of alliances to disband :/

But i think this is a good idea. DCing is harder then BCing. I used to be a good BC, but sucked at defence.
blowing our own horn again?
best to wait for others to give praise to your PA skills.
thought you would have learned that by now


oh and i dont find it neither hard nor without compensation. it is when it becomes a job you MUST do rather than a hobby that you should stop.
as for whining, whoever whines is a nub, and nubs dont matter much do they?
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I just tended to sit in the DC chan not doing any calls until toot or Cedlind noticed and made me do some. I'd then DC calls regularly for the next few days and slack again.
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omg. nubila DC-ing. with his suicide ratio, no wonder sid had to merge into TGV
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omg. nubila DC-ing. with his suicide ratio, no wonder sid had to merge into TGV
What? TGV? When was this?

I only DCed in r4-r5 (quite well). Military then became shit for me since, though Ive done the occassional attack/defense since throughout Eclipse and 1up.
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omg. nubila DC-ing. with his suicide ratio, no wonder sid had to merge into TGV
**** you, I wasn't in SiN when they merged with TGV
And I only suicided like 3 times in round 18, 2 of which were defending you shitty romanians and one was a suicide of my Fi fleet right before I went on holiday

The only bad defcall I remember doing was in round 16 where I mistook something that Elviz had sent at Kronos-v. Gate was being FCed by them so my galstatus was full of red and I didn't notice the incs on Kronos when they first appeared. I noticed them the next tick and did the defcall thinking that they were Co as opposed to Fr (or something)
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Hoo-ray for all DCs! It's a tough and exhausting job and sometimes requires more skill/speed than given credit for. Go you guys
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Nice post although DCs should be appreciated every day!
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Re: DC Appreciation Day

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not saying i have never been thanked, i just feel DC's arent thanked often enough. could probably count on 2 hands the number of times somebody has said "cheers for saveing my ass" etc
Thanks for DCing me back in er.. R15 It's a little late thanks but oh well heh.
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So i got around to thinking mabey people should appreciate the DC's a little bit more than they do at present.
Agreed. Any given hard-working alliance staff members should be appreciated a lot more than they are. Scanners, military officers, high command staff alike. The pathetic thing is, nowadays, a fair share of members tend to be mercenaries who expect 100% service and feel the alliance is responsible of working for them, not vice versa.
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Re: DC Appreciation Day

Crikey was i the only one to kinda vaguely enjoy it? I did it mainly r8 r9 and r9.5 and saw both sides of it, in r8 i struggled to cover calls which wasnt much fun yet in r9 it was easy to cover calls and was quite nice to be able to move millions of ships when i wanted to, and r9.5 was just silly trying to defend me and storebo from in cluster attacks 3 times a day, heck but it was all fun when i had no real life and could stay awake til 7am every day, all changed now, thankfully to be honest....

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God bless the DC's. I love them.
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Hug your DC today!
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Re: DC Appreciation Day

In the name of all DCs, I would like to say the following.

Stop wanking us and start saving your own asses.

Thank you for your attention.
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Not to mention...stop prelaunching and get online to launch so we have a better chance of protecting your roids.
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Does it cound for Ex-DC's aswell?
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Even worse. Being HC and doing DC duty aswell. You simply get the shit for everything. It at thoose times one must blame the bottle!

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- to all DCs who sign up and only appear when they have inc on their own. Thank god its easy to figure out who they are
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This was my first round as a DC and i never realised how tough a job it can be, until now. Thanks to all the DC's that have help me in the past and sorry to all the ppl i sent def to this round
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The pathetic thing is, nowadays, a fair share of members tend to be mercenaries who expect 100% service and feel the alliance is responsible of working for them, not vice versa.
couldnt agree more with you on that!
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The problem is that these days, DC'ing has become a largely tedious and reasonably more straightforward job. Easier is debateable now there are alliance limits.

In the days of 3 tick attacks a good DC wasn't just one that got defence, but one that defended smart (for example a tick 3 backstop could make incoming recall before it landed because the activity of the attacker demanded it), that worked with galaxies to swap fleets around and worked with newbie alliances to get defence for his alliance when his own alliance was tapped. A great DC used to be a military officer, a tactician and a politician all rolled into one. It is a shame that getting defence lacks the depth that it once did, because I found it riveting, rewarding and exciting because you were never truly out of it and if you were stubborn enough, you could get things covered.

A good DC who HC's in his alliance would also set up his alliance to be extremely difficult to attack. The last alliance to be truly defensively set up was HR in round 12, who spread their members out so it was impossible to attack them as an entity. As much as I was their enemy in r12 I admire them for it, it's the kind of thing that back in r5 I would have thought of.
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Re: DC Appreciation Day

DC's are often in the middle of things
Members often feel the vibe of the war going on to a much lesser extend,
they really miss out on alot imo

I sometimes used galmates to help with counter-attacks and fleetcatches on calls that couldn't be covered

That's why I loved DCing, because you can really see what's going on
and if you really want you can get any attacker to die
just try to use all resources you can get
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Even worse. Being HC and doing DC duty aswell. You simply get the shit for everything. It at thoose times one must blame the bottle!

<3 all DCs who give a damn and does a job

- to all DCs who sign up and only appear when they have inc on their own. Thank god its easy to figure out who they are
Thats pretty much just you Jonas </3
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DC's are often in the middle of things
Members often feel the vibe of the war going on to a much lesser extend,
they really miss out on alot imo

I sometimes used galmates to help with counter-attacks and fleetcatches on calls that couldn't be covered

That's why I loved DCing, because you can really see what's going on
and if you really want you can get any attacker to die
just try to use all resources you can get
Very true, but its relieving to not having to watch the numeral incomings that comes with it just about every tick at night in hard war times. -.p
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The thought of DCing again gives me chills... I got burnt out so hard after R8 when we were fighting a losing battle and all the other DCs went inactive :@ 16 hour solo shifts FTW :\
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Kileman is the suck at dcing
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It was a pain in the arse though when you didn't get offers for def, sort of made you feel you had let the member down, as absurd a thought as that may be.

Not exactly fun for hours on end (I always found 3-8 to be the most difficult hours). I have also always had the deepest respect for those that could put in inhuman shifts, God knows how they did it.

I blame PA making me miss lectures for my repeat year!
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Dcing is fun.
When i first played this game in round 2 and there was like 500of us playing that round (well 10000000000 accounts but 500 ppl) I was that good a DC in Ark I didnt have to spam guild chat because i would just wake my cat/dog/ferrett/4 sisters/7 brothers/9 uncles/couple of ants out the ant farm and get them to log on :P

But seriously you do a good job ye all.
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