Alliance HC´s - would be interesting...

[Kree]

to know what they are doing in RL, or what they were doing at different rounds

i am really interested, maybe they don´t wanna tell, which is understandable as i agree that RL should stay out of games but maybe they don´t mind and tell us? think there are more than me out there who would like to know

why on alliance section ? ...cause its about the alliance hc´s, i know its not the usual AD discussion thing but atleast interesting (more than other threads i have to add)

Regards

[Kree]

might not be just about HC´s also about officers / top ranked players etc. ?

wouldn´t it be cool to hear that the #1 planet is a yoga teacher ? or a business man with his own company who can spend load of time online, or maybe more likely a student

nm all in all i think there could be some nice surprises

[Gumbie]

Well, in our little cluster of friendly alliances, I think I'm one of the youngest HCs at 20, which suprised me at the time. I'm a Law Student , and came back to PA at the end of round 11 after playing rounds 1-6 at school.
And I know both everything and nothing.

[DukePaul]

I was way younger than you when I first became HC. Was 17 at the time, back in... r9. I'm supposedly studying psychology, but it's all a bluff, hiding the truth, which is doing nothing in particular.I listen to music, watch Monty Python, watch movies, drink milk, hang out with friends, eat, play WarCraft, play PA, clean my room, (this is in order of importance) and then I might get around to studying. Started at uni at the same time as r12 started, before that I went to school.

[Gumbie]

2 years is hardly "way younger", and you're not in my "little cluster of friendly alliances"

[Neferti]

That's 3 years and on that scale it's quite significant.

Anyway I was 16 when I was first a HC, in rounds 1 and 2, but unsurprisingly my alliance was crap and folded when by horrible coincidence all the HC took summer holidays at the same time! I was HC again for F-Crew in rounds 3 through 6 (aged 17-18), and briefly again in round 10.5 for IPC (aged 20). But of course I dont count for anything in PA

[Barrow|Pony]

I'm 19 and go to school here. I'm in the Ethics program for my BA.

[Bashar]

I decided that I wouldn't read other peoples posts before posting this, so if it is irrlevant/boring, please forgive me.

Now... where to start.

I guess, the beginning is a good place. I started playing sometime during r4 myself. My approach to the game was always the same, always do your best, but maintain friendships and loyalties.

For those of you who don't know me, my nick is Bashar, and my real name is Chris. My time in PA started off as a newb (as all do) in r4, r5 I had no idea what was going on, but still did my best. I managed to get a cluster NAP after much politics (speak to Morden) for the cluster alliance I was running (c15) with the furgion bashing buggers. Through this, I made a friend in Morden, and as a result, managed to blag my way into Wrath for r6 (during which I got regularly bashed, however loyalty was always a quality I had). R7 I was a full Fury member, and despite being inactive, did OK. R8 I got a promotion to officer (through more bullshit), and when fury ended I was a fury MO. R9 I was given an officer position in eclipse, which I maintained throughout, and at some point (whilst pissed) agreed to do their tools.From their, in another game I became HC, and as a result, ended up being 1up member and coder, then officer and coder and now, HC and coder. Many of you may find this boring, but this history is essential to understanding how I am where I am, and why.

I have already explained that I am 1up HC, and from that, you should all guess that 1up plays a major part in my life.

For me, it all started in r4 when I was speaking to my real life (shit I hate that term) about online games. I mentioned PA, and his response was "who would want to play a game where ytour account is reset every 3 months?". Despite this answer, I ended up getting hooked, and then introducing the guy (who you all know as A2) to PA. From then on it was exponential. At the time, A2 and I were college students. We were both studying an A-Level in Computing (incidentally, we managed to introduce our teacher to it too). The two of us ended up at the same uni (Southampton), and that's where it all started,. From that point, we both were hooked. We spent nearly every spare minute online, and we enjoyed every minute of it too. He went the Virus route, I went the Fury route (at the time, he classed me as a traitor going the fury route, but I was never one to care for other peoples morals). During our first year of uni, we tried our own alliance and all sorts. I ended up being an offical planetarion channel op, and later, so did he.; We bothe cared for the game a lot, and we got great enjoyment from it. That is how we ended where we are now.

My route took me to 1up. I had a LOT of friends there, and came back to play purely for 1up (as I know many others did). The situation for me was it was well into my final year, and I came back purely to help out (my tools for eclipse had been very popular), with no intention of beineravctive. However, like many others, I got dragged in. Despite having other things I really should do, I ended up doing PA. As a result of this, I am now a 1up HC, and I commit more time than I have to helping 1up.

So what does this mean for me now? I am still in my final year. I have a dissertation due in in two weeks, an essay in one and another essay in 3. I also have 2 exams in about 6 weeks. I wil almost certainly end up with a 2:2. I am doing a politicsn degree, and needless to say, this is fairly average, yet the PA universe is fascinating. Whether it is accepted or not, there is info to be gained, and many lessons to be learned. My best friends at the moment are A2 (who I introduced to PA) and Kloopy who I met through PA. Like many people, I have had my bad experiences through PA, yet I have also had some of the best experiences of my life through PA. I have spent 4 years at uni, and I don't like uni, I've had enough. I failed a year, almost certainly because of PA, yet I have no regrets. I am still at uni, but I hate every minute, but despite this, I have met friends such as Kloopy who I will probably retain as a friene for my entire life.

This post is a strange one really. I have more friends through PA than most people have full stop. I am in a rare position to be an HC in what is arguably the most successful alliance ever, and yet as a result my life is fked up. I have a couple of months to sort out a career, and I have no money, yet I still enjoy my time online. My time now is spet mainly at uni, trying to do my best, yet PA fks that up completely. The only thing I can now get is a 2:2. Yet I still hold no regrets. I have met too many great people through PA. I currently spend my time between my course, trying to earn a bit of monent, and socialising. Most of the socialising is with Kloopy, who I met through PA. I am one of these people who cannot escape PA.

To be honest, life as an HC is hard. I think I have already shown the conflicts it has with a normal life, yet it is different for me. When not at uni, I live with my parente, and they permanently bug me for spending too much time online (an hour a day would appear to be too much), yet I have so many commitments. I have commitments as a 1up HC, commitments to make sure 1ups technical side wrks, commitments to do well for the alliance. When I am at uni, these things are easy, outside that, it is nigh on impossible. I do my best, yet there is always more to do, always people who need things soting. Being an HC is no easy task, you are under constant siege to keep things wrking. My real life alows for this whilst at uni, but when I am at home, life is a strain. It is a constant balancing act.

I realise that in this post, I have said very little of substance, and it is difficult to do so. In the end, I am an HC, and it is one of those things that just happened. To ask me how it feels is like asking a horse what it;s like to be a horse.... it is just one of those things that is. I have tried to offer an insight into my life, as that is the best way to show what an alliance HC's life is like. PA becomes a part of your life. My real life is now as much online as offline. It just seems normal to me, I couldn;t explain to you what it is like any more than you could explain what it is like to have a job.

To many of you, this thread will probably make no sense, but in the end, it is like asking someone what it is to be normal. The best they can do is show you what their real life is like, and what they see as normal. The rest is up to you.

I hope this thread wasn't too waffley, and that some of you actyually gained some insight from my post, but the treads point is actually impossible to answer. When you are an HC, your real life is the same as your online life. There is no distinction. Examples are the best way to learn.

Bashar
1up HC

[Treveler]

All I can say is; if you think this game take more then you gain, sit down and ask some difficult questions. Since I started 5 years ago I’ve been working in a psychiatric hospital (I had my best round working full time) and I’ve finished my major in biology. I have a few offers to start working after the summer hollyday and I suspect I will take one of them. None the less I have no doubt I will continue playing pa at the same level I do now. If you make a strict timetable there is nothing that says you cant compete at the highest level, tho it takes allot of discipline.

When so said I havent HC`ed in pa since r8

[Stifler]

I joined PA end of r3 when some college friends were playing it, andin r4 we made outr own gal (although none of us used irc and we only logged on in college ) Around the middle of r4 I "discovered" IRC, and hence got more involved in the game and at the end of r4 I joined my first alliance (name unknown.)

In r5 I joined a galaxy with some of them, and through them got it silver middle-end of r5. r6 I cant remember what gal I was in other than some silver one. During R6, silver merged with Elysium and I was one of the people who was allowed to join. All this time was during college.

At round 7, I was in a Year in Industry placement and living on own near cardiff, which meant I could play "properly" without my parents saying "Dont spend so much time online" or "Have you seen the time, goto bed" etc, My couputer had been downstairs at home, under my parents bedroom. R7 gal wise I was in a sister gal network with dropt|afk and daemon, ministry officers, so was making ore contacts ad being good frieds with people in Elysium. I was promoted to BC during r7. R8, R9, R9.5 were all spent during that year/ the summer before uni. (My first year in uni was r10) R9 or R9.5 I became MO in Elysium.

R10 I was in halls and so found it hard to get online during the day as much (was only on dialup and was sharing it between 3 others.) After R10, I started playing pia waiting for r10.5 and with some other ely officers/hc we decided we wanted to set ely up properly, so I became HC in Elysium there. R10.5 was the 2nd half of my first year of uni.

R11 I joined LCH when Ely disbanded in PA as attack officer, must have been playing during my 2nd year cos I was in prvate house, not halls. Actually had broadband for the first time which meant I could commit more time and when i wanted cos i didnt have people saying "I need to use the internet etc" I am currently redoing part of my 2nd yeat exams, which like Bashar, I blame on PA!!! R12 was first semester of 2nd yr take 2, was LCH AO, directly below HC.

NB: Bashar I agree with your point its much harder to commit to PA when home from uni. My reason is my dad nags me and I live in a small village at home, so when I want to go out anywhere one of my mates or me must drive, and the last one playing PA to quit did so in r0.5 , If i go out drinking I must stay at mates house so again, cant commit (£30-40 taxi home from swansea.) Last point aabout commiting to PA at home, until this year we couldnt get broadband here so was stuck on dialup that my dads taiff was only free nights/weekend :s

Stifler
LCH AO / Elysium HC (pia)

(sorry if its very long, and dates may not be exactly right its just rough)

[Seth Mace]

Hi my names Ste and im a PA addict.

Maybe us HCs carry on HCing in a vain attempt to cement some kind of online legacy, maybe hoping that the community will carry on way past our lives and into the next century.

And if PA lives on past our current generation, I wonder if net identities like sid will be remembered as some kind of founding father?

Anyway, ive HCed since Round2 and im still waiting for a millionaire member to send me some cash, until then ill also be looking to start a career this year (since finishing uni about 9months ago now;P).

[Hicks]

Barrow you always seemed so mature like an oak tree <3

[Neferti]

Originally Posted by Seth Mace

Hi my names Ste and im a PA addict.

Maybe us HCs carry on HCing in a vain attempt to cement some kind of online legacy, maybe hoping that the community will carry on way past our lives and into the next century.

And if PA lives on past our current generation, I wonder if net identities like sid will be remembered as some kind of founding father?

Anyway, ive HCed since Round2 and im still waiting for a millionaire member to send me some cash, until then ill also be looking to start a career this year (since finishing uni about 9months ago now;P).

Round 2. Was that -=42=-?

[Barrow|Pony]

A sapling, maybe. I like the sound of that, [ND]"Sapling"Barrow.

[mazzelaar]

mazzelaar = Gareth

Started round 3
Eclipse Attack officer => Tech HC round 9

Founded 1up with Sid

Up until a couple of weeks ago I was working in a school which gave me huge amounts of time to be an effective officer/HC/player. I now work for Orange UK and suddenly find myself having to work like a real person.

I'm 28 and getting Married June 4th

I too am an addict.

[Kree]

congrats on the marriage mazzelar !!! question: is your future wife playing aswell ?

[Kjeldoran]

When I started Pa I was a student with alot of time ...

Now I'm 24, I'm a SAP Consultant specialized in Business warehousing and Business Intelligence.

[Legator]

Hello,

my name is Marc and im 28.

at the time i founded vision and was hc for vision (r7 to 10) i worked for a company which was a supplier for the automobile industry. I think in r7 i was 23/24.

it was/is (dont know if still around) a small company and my jobs was to do sales and to be buyer. But that took like 2 hours a day . I had full irc-access from work and were able to build/lead the alliance from work. I did meetings/defcalls everything from there.

My job was like 2 hours working and 6/7 hours of irc-chatting lol. But over the time i got married and a baby and a better job (in a proffessional company) and had to stop most of these activities.

All in all i managed to work and playing pa and founding an alliance (with alot help of course) and getting a a great family.

Its possible, but you need to be damn addicted for it lol :/

[NitinA]

NitinA = Nitin (Yeah, my frist name is 'Nitin'). I started PA in round 1, though just as a n00b. Round 2 I joined a small group w some mates--Gandalf/Ent/ect.--after which we all collectivly joined RB. I eventually got my own wing in RB called 'Flame', and was RB HC (During the RB/VtS/Fury triad). In some deluded half-assed scheme, I decided to form my own alliance claled Knights, and betrayed the trust of Forest, and many other people I shouldn't have. When that failed, I joined an alliance named Silver, and ended up as their military HC (by this time it was round 6), and then I was involved in a car accident, and a series of unfortunate events caused me to have no internet access for quite a while, at which point (I later learned) alot of people thought I had died.

In round 11 I rejoined Planetarion (under some small idiotic alliance), and eventually joined Wolfpack. WP ranked 8th or so in the final rankings in Round 11, the round in which i was promoted to a WP Fleet commander (Did defence). About half way through Round 12 I was invited to join the WP HC as the military guy, which I accepted. At the end of round 12 WP ranked 5th overall. As round 13 started, I was quite pleased with WP as an alliance & how it has been preforming, and decided to play r13 as my last round, before my girlfriend kicked my ass. (You know you're a PA Addict when.... your girlfriend tells you to go have sex with the computer instead of her!)

Mabye one day I'll get a sponsorship to play Planetarion (@ 1 cent per point of score per tick)

I've been studying psychology, and plan to destroy it from the inside out, and replace it with something that works (A premise of a science can *not* be to postulate that there are abnormalities within humanity). I'm also a poet, and am a featured poet at a cafe in NYC (Where I live) this weekend. My work has been published a few times, and I plan on continuing to write more. I do go to school for psych, but currently work designing websites (PHP, mySQL, ect. self-taught) in NYC. I'm also working on a book currently called 'Karma Psychosis.' I'm active in politics and very much so classified as a liberal. I really hate the U.S.'s reprioritization of saftey over freedom, since historically the creativity and insight this alloted by free expression caused the U.S.'s current wealth and prosperity, though our arrogance will be the death of us.

I'm a lisenced drug counciler, and was a drug user (though I started taking a break about a month ago for a year or two, as I have more important things to do), but I still help out by counciling at the local YMCA. I also administrate a website of about 1.1k members (essay required for membership), where I get an income of $100/month (donations rock!) for running the website for so many years A nice closenit community of harm-reduction drug philosophy (as opposed to prohibition).

I reject your petty, linear conceptions of identity, and therefore I plan on being alive when the solar system burns out.

-NitinA

[Seth Mace]

Originally Posted by Neferti

Round 2. Was that -=42=-?

Yeah and later in R2 i was also HR HC too.

Originally Posted by NitinA

I reject your petty, linear conceptions of identity, and therefore I plan on being alive when the solar system burns out.

Yeah man, lets escapse our feeble bodies and live forever in the wide open space of the cyberworld \o/

[mazzelaar]

Originally Posted by Kree

congrats on the marriage mazzelar !!! question: is your future wife playing aswell ?

Thanks and hell no! She has been a gem for the last 4 years though - never once complaining about my phone going off at 3am or me staying on the PC til some stupid time. What else could I do but ask her ot marry me?

[Kjeldoran]

Originally Posted by mazzelaar

Thanks and hell no! She has been a gem for the last 4 years though - never once complaining about my phone going off at 3am or me staying on the PC til some stupid time. What else could I do but ask her ot marry me?

Could you tell me how you trained her to be like that? I bet you could earn money for that skill

[Rc mayhem]

I expect no one cares about a Fcrew HC but still, here I am.

I (Cm/Complete_Mayhem) started in round 4 (I tried to play in round 3 but sign ups were closed) after my Biology teacher told me about the game and set up a lunch time club to play it. I was in year 9 (I think, that means I was 12/13 years old) at school. As there were about 20 of us, me and my mate (some of you may remember him. His nick was Telescope. He eventually joined CeLL) set up our own alliance called the FOOT alliance (don’t ask why the name ). We got up to around 35 members which was great, until you realise that half of them only logged in once a week and were never on IRC. When we decided to disban FOOT, my mate and I joined the European Union (run by Unimatrix I think) and I became head of communications. When I left there I went on to join Justice, which then changed to Justice777 after a merge. Somewhere around here I joined GLX as well. Finally I ended up in F-crew in about round 7. The end? No. After doing some spying on alliances like Acid and trying to create a small alliances merging together to take the big ones out thing called Ring Of Power, I decided that Fcrew was not big enough for my needs and that I was not going to become HC. So, I joined Virus in about r9. When they disbanded I got into Eclipse. I hated Eclipse. When I got lucky and landed in a gal with Alch, HC of FAnG, I had my ticket out. I agreed to leave Eclipse and hand over my access so that they could use my account to spy. Unfortunately, their bloody stupid head of military and I decided to have an argument about something (not sure what now but I know I was right ). However, despite my access been removed from Eclipse I was still allowed to join FAnG, and there I stayed until the start of this round. With around 3 months of downtime approaching I decided to go back to where I had most fun and try to help Fcrew regain some of its former glory. So I am now HC of Fcrew and having lots of fun in the most community conscious alliance in the game. I am doing my second year of A levels, studying Maths, Further Maths, Physics and ICT. I have accepted an offer (grades permitting) to study Computer Science at the PA Uni, Southampton University.

Hope that makes sense, I have lost my full history I started writing in round 7. I know I have missed some alliances out but I have got all the main ones I think.

[DJet]

Oh the joys...
Started round3 all those years ago in IAS
Round4 was a member of TX and p19 later as the round ended p19 became ROCK
Round5 just ROCK peon, missed round6 for exams, round7 back to ROCK round7.5 ROCK DC, round 8-10.5 ROCK H-DC, round11 started as a ROCK peon but left and joined vision for the reminder of the round due to certain disagreements with the VGN command staff who effectively took over ROCK during rnd11. Never got my "round 12 starting soon" mail fron vision so missed round12... rejoined ROCK for rnd13 and beyond, just stepped back into the role of Head-DC again as of yesterday

In real life since i was 16 ive been a qualified lifeguard and did part-time work there all through my A levels (sociology and ICT if anyone is interested)
I didnt feel like going to university after school so went full time lifeguarding for a few months while i did my assist swim teachers training and exam.
May last year i finished my full swim teachers qualification and have now been teaching full time for just under a year. This september im planning on going to college todo a foundation degree in IT and business with the plan on carrying on into a third year top-up at Hertfordshire university in business information systems or similar...

[mazzelaar]

Originally Posted by Rc mayhem

I expect noone cares about an Fcrew HC but still, here I am.
_sentance_

It'd be easier to care more if you cared about grammar

[mazzelaar]

Originally Posted by Kjeldoran

Could you tell me how you trained her to be like that? I bet you could earn money for that skill

Minature cattle prods.

[aNgRyDuCk]

Well, I'm 37, father of 2 boys (10 and 8) and on my second marriage to a wonderful woman who also plays PA as of this round. I started PA in Round 1, right about the time of my first divorce, as it was a good way to stay out of the taverns. I'm ex United States Army, and was a cop for 12 years, and now I do sattelite system/phone system/ cable installations for homes and small businesses. Currently on long term disability , had 2 disks in my neck fused last summer, having two more fused this summer, which is why I have a lot of time for PA.

As for what I get out of PA....well I've always been involved in training people, Drill Sergeant in the Army, then stayed in the training command, also a field training officer when I was a police officer. I have some things to offer I believe, and I see a lot of people who can gain important experience with teamwork and leadership skills, that possibly I can offer something to because of my experience. If people apply what they learn in the alliance environment, they are able to improve their skill sets, and utilize what they learn here in the real life world. Allthough it is just a game, the community aspect of PA can be of benefit to everyone, as long as they keep it real. And if I can be a prt of someone's improvement through coaching, or example, then I take something positive from the game, and hopefully it takes something positive from me.

[Legator]

Originally Posted by mazzelaar

Thanks and hell no! She has been a gem for the last 4 years though - never once complaining about my phone going off at 3am or me staying on the PC til some stupid time. What else could I do but ask her ot marry me?

you could have taken me :/


but your complete right, hehe, mine never accepted that - so i stopped such things. (shes still a gem !)

[Rc mayhem]

Originally Posted by mazzelaar

It'd be easier to care more if you cared about grammar

Theres no need to be mean. I know I am crap at English and I forgot to put it through the spell checker. If you want to go through it and pm me the corrections, I would be happy to change it.

EDIT - Now put it through Word and it is happy with that sentence.
EDIT2 - ah, its the "an". how stupid can I be to miss that.....

[Kjeldoran]

Originally Posted by Legator

you could have taken me :/


but your complete right, hehe, mine never accepted that - so i stopped such things. (shes still a gem !)

The real skill is to make sure she doesn't know you play online games. It's hard thought when you get sms from Irvine every night asking to get online ... But so far she still believes it are my retarded drunk friends who send me sms's at 04:00 during the night ...

[Gate]

Originally Posted by Rc mayhem

Theres no need to be mean. I know I am crap at English and I forgot to put it through the spell checker. If you want to go through it and pm me the corrections, I would be happy to change it.

If I was you, I'd have picked up on Mazzelaar's subsequent mis-spelling of the word 'miniature', and abused him for it.

As for me, I'm not HC so I doubt I'm welcome, but I enjoy ranting, so...

First proper round was PaX, where I was a complete n00blet, but ND luckily took me in. I BCd a very small BG which had some memorable attacks (roiding top Elysium players with fakes. \o/ ) and was then given a BCing post.
10.5 I was quite inactive, besides which, the round sucked. Round 11, I was a DC and occasionally BCd, same for round 12 where I was more active and felt I made a better contribution (with another handful of attacks I'm quite proud of)

Now I'm a NewDawn Military Officer and occasionally do some Internal Affairs type stuff; my life is pretty much split between college (where I'm studying maths, physics, history and chemistry; and considering picking up further maths, geography or politics next year), PA and games, my girlfriend, my mates and going to the gym.

For money to fund my habits, I buy and sell on ebay. \o/

[Rc mayhem]

Originally Posted by Gate

If I was you, I'd have picked up on Mazzelaar's subsequent mis-spelling of the word 'miniature', and abused him for it.

I wouldnt want to lower myself to the level of a 1up HC. F-crew HC are far more noble

[Wakko]

im 24 and study medicine. off computer i use my time for go climbing or mountaineering, all kind of ways to have fun in the vertical world like bouldering, rockclimbing, alpine climbing, ice climbing, mixed/dry, or high altitude mountaineering. until now on three continents in the world.
atm im waiting for good weather and conditions in the alps to give a **** on PA.
http://wakko.pilgerer.org/Klettern/c...o/IMGP0301.JPG bouldering 7a in cresciano.... some other pics there if u r relly interested in
about my PA career
started middle R3, was in [LotR] R4, R5 didnt play, was by accident able to join ToT end of the round for playing R6. middle of the round i became HC of their trialwing. after coming back from a 2 month mountaineering trip Marduk promoted me and since then i am HC of ToT.

[Rumad]

i am 31 and my name is jhn and i cme from he uk.

I am a business analyst for goodyear.

I am a addict, but one who has learned that my family and gf must come first.

[Bashar]

Originally Posted by NitinA

I reject your petty, linear conceptions of identity, and therefore I plan on being alive when the solar system burns out.

I have similar plans too.

[Legator]

Originally Posted by Kjeldoran

The real skill is to make sure she doesn't know you play online games. It's hard thought when you get sms from Irvine every night asking to get online ... But so far she still believes it are my retarded drunk friends who send me sms's at 04:00 during the night ...

lol - and then you get up and go to your pc ?

[Bashar]

Originally Posted by Rc mayhem

I have accepted an offer (grades permitting) to study Computer Science at the PA Uni, Southampton University.

lol! Have we really got it that reputation? That is really quite sad on our part. Still, it is nice to see that there are people following the tradition. Most PA people at Soton uni will have left this summer (myself included), there are 2 (A2 and snow) who have already left. We have had some fun there, and it is perfect distance from Newbury for i-events!

[Kjeldoran]

Originally Posted by Legator

lol - and then you get up and go to your pc ?

no, I ignore Irvine's calls

[Legator]

Originally Posted by Kjeldoran

no, I ignore Irvine's calls

who wouldnt .



i think if i would still make such things, i could sleep in the livingroom.

hm, afterall not a bad idea, hm...

[Neferti]

Originally Posted by Seth Mace

Yeah and later in R2 i was also HR HC too.

I was in -=42=- for most of round 2, and remember you and Willow^web and the others, but I doubt you remember me. I dont think many, if any apart from the two of us still play PA.

[MiX]

19 years studing for biomedical engineer, playing PA goes real easy with net connections everywhere at uni

[Kree]

Originally Posted by mazzelaar

Thanks and hell no! She has been a gem for the last 4 years though - never once complaining about my phone going off at 3am or me staying on the PC til some stupid time. What else could I do but ask her ot marry me?

thats love

[demiGOD]

I'm the Recruitment Officer and Pubilc Relations for Veneratio.

My name's Duane, 26 years old. Started playing PA in round 2, thanks to the likes of Roborat, Colenzo, emil, n3cro, etc. I'm an Electrician PettyOfficer for the US Navy. Stopped playing sometime in R6 when I got deployed to the Persian Gulf for Operation Enduring Freedom and directly involved with the "Shock and Awe" that we demonstrated a couple of years back.

Now that my schedule is a little bit organized again, I came back in R12 to see and dwell the changes of PA - here I am still playing, still addicted and still enjoying this infamous PA that pretty much killed most of my sleep, just like it did 5 years ago.

[Xeno]

I'm hirr HC, a PA vet with Spinner's cellnumber right next to my speed dial, 32 years old, one kid, lovely girlfriend, currently working as an editor. I've been a communicator all the way while playing Planetarion, meaning I've worked either as a journalist (radio/net/newspapers) or in the information departments of anything from small businesses to multi-billion dollar companies.



Xeno

[SteInMetz]

Hi everyone

Im Jonas, lives in Stavanger, Norway.
For the time being im Newdawn HC and has been that two rounds.. (This and last)..
Im 18years old, goes to school, have a work at side, still playing PA :/
Currently studying something called "Service Electronics", which is printers, copymachines and office electrical articles basicly.. That means i can fix your printer if its broken, but ill have to charge

Basicly i started off playing R2-R4, with some friends of mine..
I didnt have internet connection at that time, so iplayed at school and at my friends house.
Did play only for fun that time.. wasnt organized a bit

When the payrounds started, i quitted, cause i was only 15-16(?), and didnt have a credit card or anything.
So then i had a long break untill r9.5, when i heard there was a free round again, so ofcourse i signed up.
Talked to some of the people in my galaxy, i joined Magma (Recruitment wing of rock), i quickly found out that it sucked awfully much.
So at one of the quests, i talked to my galaxy mates, and they told me to join a specific tag, and there i met people like The_Fish, which said that i would be joining ND O_o
So he told besteman that i was joining, and beste contacted me about it.. All done..
Early R10 i became a DC and a bit later a BC..
Started to get more and more insight into the games politics and stuff, and before i knew it, i joined shared alliance channels and stuff.

Then i skipped R11 cause of vacation, would have been a crap round with that little inet connection anyway, but i stayed as active as i could on IRC, so at end of R11 i was choosen as HC for Defence Department in NewDawn for round12, well i did my best, but didnt feel too much at home in defence department, so at end of R12, we also had some HC switches in ND..
I got moved to Internal Affairs, and to this day im still there, and i like it there Can be busy at some times tho..

How PA has inflicted with my real life?
In every way possible.. Constantly thinking i cant be too long away without having it sorted with others and stuff.
So basicly you can say PA is a part of my real life...

I think thats all..
Long and boring i know

-SteInMetz

Oh, btw, im Spritfire's brother too

[Kree]

anyone get Sid to tell us his dirty rl secrets

[Lei~]

lol

[Squidly]

Err... fk. my turn I guess =/


1 of the ND HC as the definition goes... was one for WP once upon a time too. Joined PA in R2... stayed with DAMMIT and to some extent llamas for a while, finally joined WP sometime in R5/6... and ND sometime later {how's that for descriptiveness }


IRL... I'm Rob, 21 yrs old... I'm in computer science at a tech college here, and am a manager at a local Laser Tag arena. In my spare time, I'm usually out playing frisbee, or doing a number of online writing projects {including PA columns} Yes. I am a geek. But I'm a squishy one!

/me twangs with a tentacle.


*wanders back to his research report*

[Clogg]

Looks like a nice thread. So why don't I add something.

I'm Clogg, Joost in real life. As the nick already kinda gives away, is that I'm Dutch, the nick windmill seemed more lame, so I sticked with Clogg.

I started playing in round 5 and eneded up in a farm gal. Less fortunate, but still was fun. Because my school wasn't going as planned I forgot all about Planetarion for the next few rounds. So when I got a mail from Jolt, which told me that round 11 was soon to start I continued playing then.

During round 11 my gal got incomming almost every night which irritated the hell out of me, so along with other GC's we founded a clusteralliance which had the name IronLegion. THis cluster alliance rapidly grew out into a normal alliance thanks to Tippity's post.

During round 11 we came in contact with SiN and during my talks with them I found out what kind of organisation there was behind the horizon. So when round 12 started I wanted to play more active, so I made the step to join SiN. Because I was online quite often and one of the more active members I become MO for SiN in round 12.

And apperently they liked my MO'ing so much (or not it depends how you look at things) they ask me to become an HC for round 13.

So here I am, a shinny new HC in round 13 responsible for recruitment and members well being.

The later part is quite odd, since my major is business and computer sciences, no psychology. A study for which I'm almost graduated, and hopefully will be graduated before the end of this round

[Kree]

great posts so far, keep it going pls, still so many who didn´t post here yet

ToT HC`s
LCH HC´s
1up HC´s ( except Bashar lo ty m8)
etc. etc. etc.