Our Heritage
I should start by giving you a little of my gaming history. When I first started getting serious about computer gaming the first run of Doom was just starting to hit the shelves. I ended up staying with first person shooters for a very long time. A few years ago I got involved with a pretty significant Guild or Clan as you might refer to it known as the Lan Party GoDS. They at the time were organizing one of the largest LAN parties on the east coast of the United States. They had formed an association with two other groups and formed a consortium called the GXL. The purpose of this consortium was to plan, promote, and execute large LAN parties on the east coast. They went to a large Amblance Squad located in Milltown. New Jersey. The ambulance squad had some elecrical restraints in their building at the time. The ambulance squad also would have to train harder in order to be able to respond to a local emergency in the same time as they could with their equiptment being parked in the garage where the LAN party would be ongoing. With the proposition of adding electrical power to their building to support several hundred computers for a local area network party.
The first LAN party I attended with the GoDS was set to be a 512 Man LAN. The Lan party itself was 50 hours of continous gaming from Friday afternoon till Sunday evening. We played several FPS (First Person Shooter) games such as Doom 3, Battlefield Vietnam, Half-Life 2, Halo, Unreal Tournament 2004. It was sponsored by D-Link, Synergy, ATI, Chenbro, Running with Scissors, and Crucial to name a few. We were able to give out approximately $ 10,000 in prizes and donated almost the same amount to the Ambulance Squad for having us.
As time went on after the party in between playing FPS games at some point I picked up a copy of Guild Wars. It was not long before I was hooked on it. I joined a guild online called at the time Mystic Warriors. I soon grew to the Officer rank within that guild. The majority of that guild came from a different gaming backgroud then I did. They used to play alot of Star Wars Galaxies in a group called Rage.
When the game developers changed Star Wars to a point that some people in that group no longer wanted to play it they found Guild Wars and started up Mystic Warriors. The guild I had become an officer in was going through some growing pains and decided to change their guild name to reflect where they came from and to try to reunite like a family might.
Their new name was Mystic Warriors of Rage. When they adopted the new name I went out and personally bought the Domain name to try to help promote the guild and give us another medium of communication and advertizing. I then took on the task of creating a web site to do this. My old Guild leader and I were sharing ideas on how to make the site work for the family atmosphere. When he aquired a different Domain name he came to me and said he wanted to change the web site completely to a different appearence. He also wanted me to set the primary Domain name on the hosting provider to be the newly aquired name. This might not sound like a major thing to some of you but it was a major thing to me. I had spent 3 weeks of time and effort to make the site functional. I even set up Forums and a DataBase with the original name that I had purchased.
We were hosting the website on an account the Guild leader was paying for. I even offered to put up my site as a mirror site until he got the other pages up and running. That was not an option in his mind. He took that as a threat. I could tell by the conversation it was not going well so I did a backup of the website. Shortly thereafter I received an email from him through the forum stating that he had changed my password on the web server. I don't think he realized what that would do but basically it would not even allow me to log into my own forums or access my files or source code for my pages that were stored on his hosting account. I contemplated it a bit and logged into the game to find he had also demoted me to member status.
I realized being separated from my source code and domain name that I had no other choice but to buy another hosting account and move my domain name to it. At that time I posted copies of the website on another of my existing web server accounts with the addition of the copyright designation to protect from losing it completely. When I did this the hosting provider emailed the old guild leader informing him I was taking back my Domain name to be hosted on a different account. It was at that time that I bought the same domain name in the .net and .org extensions as well.
Later that night, the hosting administrator literally shut down the website on his account. I logged into the game again a short time later to find I was no longer in the Guild. I decided to start up my own guild as I already had a website with this theme to promote the guild. I also had 3 characters in the game that have beaten the game and my fourth cahacter was not far from it. Experience was not an issue. Chosing a name similar to the current web pages was a different story. I asked myself why I wanted the website in the first place and realized it was because I thought of all the people in that like they were all a part of my family. I wanted to help them out in anyway I could. I knew Icould make a nice website for them. People in families may argue at times but real family will always stick togeather.
Realizing that time might change things and one day this group might be in the future a part of what I once knew as family I decided to create the Elite Mystic Warriors of Rage. I kept the same guild tag as well. I designed a cape similar to theirs as well but ours actually looks better in my humble opinion. The next day I logged into the game and saw an old friend online who asked me for an invite to my new guild. I sent him one and he accepted. We then went out and chose then bought our Guild hall.
I am dedicated to provideing all of the members of this guild with a nice place to go online for information and communication about this game. I want this guild to grow rapidly and remain close and tightly knit like a family of gamers should be. I believe though helping each other to level in the game we will all become better players. I would like to see us get pretty heavy into PVP and GVG in the near future as that is how you aquire Faction, Fame, and Rank in this game.
I know we can become "the best Guild in the game" if we are willing to work hard enough at it and stick togeather. I believe we will be able to support many other games as well in the future though sponsors and advertizing links.
We now have Ventrilo chat servers to help us to communicate while in game easier. I also believe in the future we will have our own gaming servers to practice other games that can be played on local area networks as well as over the Internet.
