Talic - The end of the road

On Dec 25th 2005, Talic announced his retirement.

Talic Player Dec 25th, 21:50 GMT After 4 years and 8 months playing this game, it's time for me to call it quits. I've been wanting to quit for a few months now, and I finally made the decision. No matter what happens in game during the current round, at eor I will have my account deleted for once and for all. I consider myself one of the better players that have played this game overall, but probably one of the most controversial players as well. This round I've been flamed for playing the way IC was played ten rounds back. PP being the main opponent, he has flamed me for napping a tri, for playing a clever strategy that would get us the round win, if not for the inactivity from some people – result remains to be seen. Hey, it's a strategy, just like any others. We've fought fams too, and haven't raped any fams. Sure we're being accused of that, but not a single fam or player has stepped up and confirmed that we actually raped that player or that fam. Due to the lack of actually raped players or fams, I'll have to declare that argument as void, thank you. I don't think I should explain myself for any actions, because I simply haven't done anything wrong. I'm not responsible for the vmode crap, and pmode is a friggin game feature that has to be removed asap. I've been screwed by pmode many times over, as if I don't know pmode is just messed up? There are close to no fair players left in this game, most will only argue with others as long as it's in their favour. Otherwise those people ignore, lie or try to ruin someone else's game. I have never ever done anything like that, and I fear that if I continue playing I'll end up using such "tactics" as well. 5 years is a long time, and I've learned a lot during that time. Not only about the game, also about other people in general. I've had to privilege to get to know some great individuals. I won't list them all as I'm bound to forget some of them and it'd be too much work. I wanna say thanks to some people, the players I've played with over the rounds. In round 3 I got to know some players to the likes of Impire, WAD, Cobra, I like pie and Maloeran. Most of them have kept contact up until now. One special thanks to Mal, who was a great guy... Too bad he left IC for other matters. I wish him the best of luck in his new game and his life. [I was Frankenstein at that time] The next rounds I got to play with Sardaukar and his kiwi's (like EvoIII, Tong, Offspring, etc). I consider those rounds the ones I learned the most. Got to know some other people a lot better then as well such as Darrk, Bo0, Umbringer, spooky, daydreamer etc. I'll always remember those rounds. [High Heaven, Sinister Dragons were my names] Had a short stop in Impire myths fam that last round before the shuffle, where I was the main pax for a week or 4 A few rounds later I started working on my own fam for the first time. Those 3 rounds turned out to be the best I've ever played in this game, as they were about fun and fun only. PLF (and in the third round LoS), with players like dookie (I LOVE YOU), Silver (Sexy aussie), Thunderlen (you were a great man, len, you definitely were), revenge, Jinsk (Canadian ARE lovely people!), exco, beetle, demosquad, lizzy (one great dutchy female) and many more. It was during these rounds that I got to know PP, multiple and some others. I actually disagreed to join an illegal alliance against PP in one of those rounds, and saved his ass that way. Well, PP probably disagrees, but ah well. [I was PLF Coda/Ulan Bator] Along with another shuffle, and the chaos round, I once again got to play in new fams. The next one was EOD-fam with Solle, EOD, EM, Silver and others. The first round I played with EM, who is actually just a funny lovely English man. I'm sorry we were somewhat on the wrong sides this round. [I was EOD Taxim at that time] Round after was the FUBAR round, which basically was one fucked up round lol. Everyone remembers FUBAR - the best fam ever made, although it was because the game was screwed and we got 16 drafts. Dispo, EM, genesis, Tsunami, Silver, Jinsk, Derry, Lizon, Spam, mongo, etc I was forced to leave early that round, which I'll always remember as the round I really regret missing out on. [FUBAR Coda] The next round, I don't think I played, but after that I had the best round I've ever played. Maybe not as fun as the PLF rounds, but it was one of my personally more successful rounds. The Poodle Skirt Mafia together with people such as Primo, Ricstan, again Jinsk, Ammo, and others. All of them were great players, not only because of their skills, but also because of their personalities. I loved that round, and regret I never joined them earlier. Maybe what I'll remember the round the best for is probably that I won wars against fams like Dyslexics and Munchers. Have to mention I also had a draw with the Dyslexics earlier that round, have to be fair of course Many wars, great fun, amazing players. If Ric and Primo get back together again one day and they want me, I'll have a hard time refusing. [I was Don Devi] Next round I quit early in the round, because Uni started for me, was too busy to spend time on this game. Round after was pretty disastrous and funny, as I wanted to random and just play an easy round. I ended up drafting fam Four together, with some random drafted people including royan, nico (RIP), chutty and others. Of course there was SneakySnake as well. Generally a nice guy, a dreamer just like me Great to get to know you in this game SS Was the round I was bound to kill Sink, but I royally screwed up back then. [I was Devi] Then one of the stranger choices of fams I've made: Adeath undercover. Was an ok round, although we had to deal with inactivity and some other kinky details. Was the round where I realized Adeath really is a good collection of players, just activity wise they have problems. Zaizuney, Zaifox, fie, Mitico, nevermore, etc. I'll probably remember that round as being the one where my fam would have had a chance to win the round if not for the NAP break by the smurfs. I also had a solo-war that round. Got to know Love, Bloodtide, Terror etc during that war. I bet they'll still remember me too [Ethos was my name] Round after was again: disastrous. Didn't want a leading role, which was taken by Solle. He deleted though, what a shame Played with such other great players as Dispo (the most intriguing norwegian I know, too bad the game isn't his thing anymore), EM (yes again LoL - the honour of having played most rounds with me is yours ), Jang0, crypze (hilarious german) and others. I think I got put into pmode twice that round, will be the only times I didn't come out of pmode willingly... then again I was a banker…[the name was Asra] The last two rounds I've played were quite a success. For rounds I had been working on a new start strat and using that one on a massive scale got us number 1 in explo phase twice. Was a great success. The Phobias round, we had other problems due to which we dropped somewhat in rankings. Won the round individually with an eor jump, but that was a fam effort of course. The current round, well we all know what's going on atm Played with great players such as Machiavelli, fnord, TMK, WinME, DDK, Hellz, DOOKIE!, EM (lol and again), Chill, Jang0, JadedFalcon, Timmy, crypze yet again, jubi (my fav physics pal ), stuff and Lnsect. I consider the last round my personal masterpiece. Reason: our fam did perfect eco wise, having the best eco all round (well of course we were competing with 44 all round, not sure if we actually had top income all the time, probably not), having a great diplomacy (I made a controversial choice of allies - getting to know such players as elayne, Rand al thor, eraser, equinox, famelco, iluvatar - it got us the perfect position on the map and the possibility to rule s1 and s3, hence the large size of my tri), NAP wise made good choices getting us a path of roses towards eor. I was Kymophobia, and still am Talic. Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank the Harkonnens big time. They are responsible for me playing this game for so long and for my personal style of play. They have taught me the first things about attacking and have made me realize the old style of play from the beta's is much more valuable than anything else. Rounds 1 and 2 were one of the best for me as a newbie player, being carried into the game by my family. And later again, when drafting was legal, we were together as Harkonnens, doing a marvelous job. Inactivity and a play style that was not for the Harkonnens anymore made us quit after two rounds though. I was The Goranition Empire, the Cult of Storms, and later House Sinister in these fams. I value my rounds in the Harkonnen family the most of all and will remember them the longest for sure. I wanna thank Zeratel for being a nice guy and sending me my first aid and helping me infra wise the very first days I started playing. I wanna thank Terror of the Night for involving me in the war of wars: the Donut Rumble, showing me that this game is great fun in its own way, even for smaller players and new players. Enterprise for being my leader the first two rounds, and popping up here and there from time to time during all those years and amazing me again and again as a player. Other Harks - Ireland, Altruist, Sogil, Starstrike, Hades, Mr Meany, etc. All of you, thanks for the great time you've given me, and for teaching me the game. I’ve been partly responsible for some strategies – such as the core strategy (still regret that ), different start strategies (thanks to Jinsk) I've also been responsible and part of a few top fams that have done their share in this game. I've tried to uphold honour for a long while, until the time it got too much getting screwed over many times due to dishonour. I've never broken a NAP without good reason, I've never screwed up allies, I've never insulted anyone up until this round [probably with the exception of PP *cough*]. I've had respect for the people that have respect for me. And much more. As you can see the current round has been very frustrating for me. I've not been respected because of god knows what reason. I've been dragged through the dirt for no real reason, or for reasons I was not responsible for, and so on. Hence I decided it'd be better to quit, especially because my RL needs more attention. Not to mention I could spend my time better on studying. If I missed out on someone not mentioning the person, don't feel forgotten, because I haven't forgotten you. Just wrote up some names from the top of my head. Community wise, I've done my part. I've always been someone who doesn't like to stick to conformances. I'd never abuse any powers due to modding/fmodding for my own personal good, but I've done things I shouldn't have done according to the set of rules written down for this game. I was the one that deleted the IC3 forum to give a signal. No one misses the IC3 forum, heck fmods and mods alike were quite amused to see it happen. It's the reason I lost fmodship two days ago. I expected to lose it of course, but was not a reason for me not to do it. I’ve had my reasons for doing it, but most people won’t understand anyway. The fact I lost fmodship proves mods don’t understand either. IC3 is dead. Stefan decided to do some work on IC again, and wanted to officially announce the IC3 belongs to the past, when he would insert changes to IC. Wishful thinking is what I call that. The mod team fails to communicate with the whole staff of IC - which includes fmods and rookies, and that is one of the reasons why IC3 forum got deleted. I've always been a skeptical man when it comes down to how this game is ran, and I've always supported lizzy in this matter as well. I will continue to do so, if the need ever arises, but I do plan on staying away from the game for good. Jang0 - I want to apologize publicly to you, if you were disappointed in me when you got to know what I did with the IC3 forum. You were the one that put a lot of trust in me, suggesting me to the mods for an fmod-position. I was hoping to be of some help for IC's community, and this way being able to do something for the good of IC, for the future of IC. It turned out differently. I hope I'll be remembered for the good things I've done, more than for the bad things. Even if I say so myself, I've done a lot more good than bad, but it's the bad that gets the most attention - probably because of such players as PP. Ah well, it's the way life goes. Au Revoir, and the best of luck to everyone!