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18 Jul 2014, 21:19
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Inquisitor
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: England
Posts: 2,207
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Goodbye to Spore
Posting this mainly to reach former Spore members:
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Originally Posted by Spore Internal Announcement
Dear All,
We are writing to you tonight to let you know about the future. As you will all be aware, this round has been a very inactive round for Spore. Indeed, right from before the round we knew from an Exec/HC perspective that this would be the case; real life is a priority for us all. However, we were persuaded to continue and make the best we could of the round by members and officers who felt that we should keep Spore going. To all those of you who are disappointed with the way this round turned out, we can only offer our apologies, the standard we achieved was well below what Spore has been capable of.
From our very first round we were thrust into the limelight and the expectations from Spore have simply continued to increase each round. For a brand new alliance in the game we did extremely well to build Spore up to the influential alliance that it was. We fought hard when we were just a small core in order to protect Tortu, showing our mettle to where our resistance was surprising to Vikings who had thought their victory was in the bag. To the rounds where we were at the forefront of politics, narrowly missing out on one round win due to recruitment and bouncing back from that disappointment to win the next convincingly. We became an alliance that were the jack of all trades, showing no overall weakness unlike some of the current main alliances in the game today.
So what about the future? For the Execs and HC, we are still not in a position to commit to hardcore playing. Seeing the way Spore turned out this round pained us as much as the rest of you, consequently we have taken the decision that this round was Spore's last. As of the last tick, we will be disbanding the alliance. Will Spore be back in the future? We won't rule it out, but it would need to fill certain criteria. We will not revive the alliance to play as a second-tier alliance; if we do come back, it will be because we can equal or beat our best which we reached last round.
So, what now? It has been a real pleasure to meet up with so many old friends and play alongside some great people again, we will leave #private access in place and open the channel up so past members of Spore and 1up can use the channel as a meeting place. If in the event Spore does return in the future, we will use this channel as a rallying point. For future alliances, we will let you all decide for yourselves where to go. If you want to get somewhere but don't know anybody there, speak to one of the Spore command team and we will help get you into wherever you are trying to go.
It has been an incredible ride and we want to thank every Spore member, officer and HC, present and past. Thank you for your hard work and commitment, especially to those who made sacrifices for the greater good of the alliance. We also want to thank all of our friends and enemies, both present and past. It has been a pleasure to share this journey with you all and we wish you all the best for your futures, wherever they may take you.
Zhil & Bashar
Spore Executives
On behalf of the Spore High Council
PS: Parrots FTW forever (as well as Max Ryder)
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Best wishes to all, I'm proud of every Spore member (past and present) to what was achieved for a brand new alliance in the game. We were told it couldn't be done and yet we persisted.
Regards,
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[20:19:04] <mazzelaar> I have to say a big up to Zhil - without those 8 def calls you covered we would've been screwed. | r12 End Ceremony
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18 Jul 2014, 21:21
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Seraphim
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 196
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Had fun during R56 guys, some nice people and some good people there. Stay in touch
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18 Jul 2014, 21:24
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: holland
Posts: 44
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
well shame 2 c a good ally go i hope you guys come back so we can kick eachothers but again.
have a good one guys.
darts
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18 Jul 2014, 21:26
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Don't make me declare war
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Portsmouth
Posts: 2,913
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Good luck to all Spore members. It was a pleasure and an adventure playing with you all.
I will play havoc (yes I know I am retired) to make sure I am around on IRC and will help anyone who may need support finding a new home.
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18 Jul 2014, 21:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 73
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
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18 Jul 2014, 21:55
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 77
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Byebye Spore!
You brought back some needed characters into this game again and i hope most of you stick around for aslong as i bother to play this game, we certainly dont need a smaller playerbase
Most of you spore people was totally anonymous to the planetarion community and that was quite boring but players like Zhil and Forest atleast put some colours on things
Hope you keep playing Snowseal!
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18 Jul 2014, 23:57
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Blah Blah Blah
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 622
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Awwww the queen didn't achieve her goals?
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19 Jul 2014, 02:22
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Propaganda Chief
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Under the Rainbow
Posts: 4,740
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
A lot of the old gentleman club of Spore, atleast me knew this announcement was comming.
Spore prooved to planetarion, atleast the rounds i was there, that the level of the playerbase in the alliances was not what won wars.
The unity of the members, and level of capability of officers and HCs was perhaps the best planetarion has seen the last 10-15 rounds.
Perhaps key people in Spore were threated the wrong way by the Execs, wich made them choose paths diffrent from Spore.
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19 Jul 2014, 08:17
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Idle Git
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Wandering
Posts: 1,550
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Good bye everyone, it has been an enjoyable journey.
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19 Jul 2014, 08:18
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YAAARRGH!
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Scotland
Posts: 481
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Good bye spore! It was a pleasure both fighting against you, and with you (:
Good luck!
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19 Jul 2014, 19:29
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BlueTuba
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 6,339
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
gg
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20 Jul 2014, 19:46
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 3,489
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Well played Zhil. Seeing as Fury came and went, I'm sure you'll be back
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20 Jul 2014, 20:20
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Propaganda Chief
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Under the Rainbow
Posts: 4,740
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Quote:
Originally Posted by Androme2
Well played Zhil. Seeing as Fury came and went, I'm sure you'll be back
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So did Eclipse and 1up.
Fury first, Fury last, Fury will never be a thing of the past
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22 Jul 2014, 18:38
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 18
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Shame to see the this. Thanks for all the rounds with you and im allways around when you guys are ready to Return!
/golden
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22 Jul 2014, 22:02
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Norway
Posts: 26
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Max Ryder FTW!
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24 Jul 2014, 15:08
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Mastermind
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 430
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
thanks for the effort n all. it has been fun
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26 Jul 2014, 15:38
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old spy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: norway,oslo
Posts: 122
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
i had the feeling this would come, we are to old now ;-)
thanks all for the fighting spirit and the wars we won and lost ;-)
/aif
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28 Jul 2014, 19:48
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MadeMan
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 20
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Thanks for taking me in when i got back.
Met alot of nice people and great players.
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29 Jul 2014, 21:09
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: UK
Posts: 601
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
Disappointing to see you guys leave again. Good luck.
You didn't come 2nd due to recruitment though
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8 Aug 2014, 12:16
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 1
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Re: Goodbye to Spore
For me it is funny
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