Dixi

Name: ?
Age: ?
Location: USA
Playing for how long: Since beta 3
Favourite Ship: ?
Favourite Race: ?
Your mentor: Blackadder and Church
Something about yourself: Also known as Stile, DragonPrince

Beta 3:

It all started when I was playing a completely different game with Katrina. She had me make a few jumps for her while she was asleep and tried to get me interested in the game. Being my usual contradictory self, I did my best to seem and be uninterested. Eventually, she got me to join. So I take a look at the manual, decide "Looks easy enough," and sign up. I get in, look at all the pretty buttons, and hightail it back to the manual. Read over it a little, gained some confidence, then logged back in to spam LC CalJohnston (blackadder), who was a good sport and helped me out. Joined Church's squad, and with his help, mentorship, and leadership, proceeded to die thrice in Dreadlar in a relatively short amount of time. I had not yet realized that Church wasn't that good with maps. As there wasn't a safe way to join Church without going through Dreadlar, and as I had developed an almost debilitating fear of Dreadlar, I decided to hang around PK for a while.

I believe my first ship was a Microw Fighter, because that's just the kind of sick bastard I am. ^_~ Spent the rest of my time as a Kril arguing with Church over the merits of Microw Fighters and Black Knights. Unfortunately, the rest of my time wasn't very long, as we got dead because of the screamings of a very loud, annoying newb that made a good portion of our legion rush to their untimely deaths. Cal had a good plan to keep us not dead, but we had no choice but to rush to /our/ untimely deaths on the tail of the other half of our legion. I ended up as an Ajaxian and, following Cal's plan to help the Boraxians, proceeded to get killed by David several times. Being the persistant level 1 that I was, I kept going back to Boraxus and yelling at David. We still haven't had that duel that we promised each other.

Unfortunately, after that beta, blackadder didn't talk to me much. But I found solice by spamming Wingee at every chance I got.

During both Beta 3 Frantics, I ended up being a Tib. I took a liking to the Tibs; after all, they were cute, cuddly, and slimy! What more could you ask?! During one of those frantics, we proceeded to rape sleeping people, which was fun. We did that a few times; wiped out the ships in Ajaxus. ^_^ During these frantics is when I sat almost by myself in Krilgore in the middle of the night trying to bring the Tibs over to help me take it out (yes, I was taking out a planet all by myself.. in a level 5 cloaker). I didn't get much done there, but I did manage to rack up a ton of kills and the enmity of a pilot.. don't remember who. He had fun trying to kill me. :-) I believe I was LC at the time, with Caesar as my field commander; he was far better than I at the whole leadership thing, but for some reason I was LC. Go figure. Hadn't even had a full beta, but was already leading people to their dooms!

I had Kat with me, and sometime in there, I rogued a good 3 or so times to get away from her. This was during the part of my life when I was persuing something romantic with Kat, and being the hypersensitive idiot that I am, I tried to get away from her every time that we had an argument.

Beta 4A:

Think I started as a Kril; had another fight with Kat, and decided to 'quit'. I couldn't stay away though, so I signed up again as DragonPrince. This was when I realized that you could still sign in to old accounts because all that setting your account to be deleted did was change your password to 'deleteme'. Clever, Wingee. ^_~ It took me a good long time to get Wingee to fix that. But back to my story: With Morgana and Caesar leading the Ajaxians, the team that DragonPrince ended up on, I had a blast floating about the universe killing planets. I joined when they were killing Tibrar. We owned.

Beta 4B: Don't remember what I started as, but I eventually made it onto the Kril legion. Picked up a repairship.. AHH CRAP! I forgot to tell my repairship story.

---BREAK IN 4B STORY---

I picked up my first repairship as Planet Krilgore was being blown up during Beta 3. Didn't get past level 1.. and spent a lot of my moves trying to repair the planet. As you can tell, I became somewhat disillusioned with repairships, and did not take one again for a little while (at which point I loved it).

---BACK TO 4B STORY---

Yes, well. Ahem. So I picked up a repairship and proceeded to hang around Chopper, making her my top priority. That was fun. Wingee was leading, and what a leader he was! I loved the man. He stopped after our planet got blown to itty bitty bits, and I stepped up to be LC. I figured, what the hell? The legion was dead anyway; there was only so much more that I could hurt it. ^_^ That was when I realized that "Hey, you CAN blow up a planet that doesn't exist!" and proceeded to start the self-destruct countdown for nonexistant Planet Krilgore. During this time, there were a couple of cheats on the Boraxian team that were blowing people up in single shots. So Wingee set everyone back to their home planets. I moved everyone back toward Boraxus (where we were going to begin with) and immediately proceeded to flail as the database got wiped and Beta 4B came to a rather abrupt end. We all got to sign up again for Beta 4C.

Beta 4C:

Don't remember Beta 4C. Good times.

Frantic 4?:

Somewhere in there, there was a frantic. I think it was after 4D. This was where I met Talon. We got raped over and over again, but still managed to rebuild our fleet to decent size in the middle of every night. This was the frantic that WOULD NOT END. Just to clarify which I'm talking about. Anyway, Talon spent random parts of every day sleeping, leaving us with me to lead. And boy did I lead! I lead people exactly where I did not want them to go, EVERY TIME! Ever said the Three Suns when you meant to say Canopus West, or vice versa? Well, I did my best to do that every time I gave jump orders. Whoo, that was fun! After a while, we were pretty gone. As soon as I got my cruiser, I rogued (did I self destruct Ajaxus or not? I remember planning to, but I think that I ended up not because I felt bad about it) and ran around the universe for a while. Esperandus and I had had somewhat of a personal rivalry thing going on, very friendly, and I kept slipping through his fingers. It was fun. I remember him telling me that he finally told his ships not to fire on me because I got through so quickly that it didn't harm me much but still made him have to wait another tick to move. This was also the frantic that Espy grabbed a carrier and showed us what it could really do.

Hrm.. so, what else happened? Ah, yes. I ended up as a Kril, got elected LC, and proceeded to self-destruct Planet Krilgore. People weren't too happy about that, but my goal was to self-destruct as many planets as I possibly could. Wingee said that he'd put it into the archives that I managed to self-destruct three planets if I actually accomplished it. Come to think of it, I think I /did/ blow up Ajaxus! So, I got killed and became a Boraxian. Don't remember how the game ended (I hear Bad Boy self-destructed Tibrar?) or if I became LC of the Bors or whatnot, but I do know that I spent 45 minutes sending over 700 messages to the Bors in an attempt to crash the server. Won't say who told me to do that (as I don't remember his name anyway; the fact that I said I wouldn't tell would hardly keep me from doing so ^_~), but it all started with the fact that EOCO would crash from an overload of messages atimes, and I, the experimenter that I was and am, decided to test to see if I could do that in TVS. Didn't realize at the time that there were a heck of a lot more people playing EOCO than TVS, and they could send more messages in a minute or two than I could dream of sending in an hour. So, I changed my name to dixi. ^_^

Beta 5

While Ajaxus was still alive during the last frantic, Talon had come up with an experiment: Squad 525. It was just an idea during the frantic, but we decided to tell everyone that wanted to do it to join Krilgore (back when we could still fool around and become whatever legion we wanted to) and join our squad. I don't know if anyone actually did that, but I ended up Krilgorian on first try, and I think that Talon did as well. We made The 525th Talons and proceeded to kick much butt. We were going to elect Talon as LC, but for some reason that I can't remember, we couldn't just then. I think someone broke an arm and he had to go visit. Regardless, we elected VoxDei (an excellent leader and someone that I consider a very good friend, just like many of the other people on TVS) as our LC. I was part of the inner council and kept pushing to continuously move and take on the biggest threats to us in the universe. I didn't want anyone building up power, and I knew that we could take on anything they threw at us at the time, so I wanted us to have opportunities to get the most the most points possible while ridding ourselves of our major threats.

At one point, there was a choice of going after an active blob or a smaller blob of inactives, and VoxDei chose to go after the inactives, then went offline after giving the orders. People were very upset with this order, and I came online to find a lot of messages of people complaining and considering going to take on the active blob regardless of orders. Being the idiot that I am, I supported them and even named the movement a 'mutiny'. I never stopped regretting naming it that. Vox came back and, needless to say, wasn't very pleased. When ChiliDog (the VC) came back (before Vox did), he also wasn't very pleased. That was when I lost ChiliDog's respect, who had looked on me as a mentor. I regret that as well. It made me feel very good to have his respect like that. He is a great player and a greater person.

Somewhere in this beta was when I stopped playing seriously. I tried to join again and play actively this beta (beta 9), but forgot about it a few days in and was like "Aww crap.. oh well" and gave up again. I'm not sure if I'll ever play actively again, but I hope I will. I miss all my old friends.. and a lot of them have left TVS. I did get the following message from defeatious this beta, which made me feel good, and besides that, I don't think I really have anything else to say. TVS is one of the best online games there is, and Wingee is god.

Bio submitted to www.theunchartedsector.co.uk by dixi on 23/02/03