What's making someone a VET ??

[Twerp]

mansion map?

Are you talking about blackout or twcity/town? Or is there a new map?

[Buja X]

Dudes. Vet has no meaning anymore. It is one of the most bastardised words out there. Think about it. What does newbie mean? These are now simply derogatory/honourary terms used for instant gratification during inane arguments/conversations.

You can have your own meaning of vet, but there will never be a single true meaning. For consistency, I prefer to use Troll King's definition as it at least has some roots in the real world, where the word originated (veteran).

However although you can't explicitly define a vet/newbie, it is possible to say some people are more *likely* to be a vet than others. It's just a fuzzy term that has a blurred meaning. When starting a squad, you could say "I am just going to recruit vets". People will kinda know what you mean.

There are probably a set of definite factors that would make someone more likely to call someone a vet. These are, how long he has been around, skill, experiences, etc etc. Mostly, people will give a different weighting towards each factor.

So in conclusion, if you want to be correct, use the topic title "What is your opinion of what VET means ??" and you would be more objective. However who cares since this is an internet game forum where objectivity means nothing and everyone just wants to splurge undefined things such as "WHO IS THE BEST" only because it provokes some sort of emotional feeling that is just bait for replies.

Holy shit do you still play nockm?

[StarKitty]

omfg i don't post for a while and i have to read alllll that ^^
lol

So to summarise...
A Vet (good version) is someone who:

1- has played a long time
2- wins a lot in leagues =P
3- Is known/respected/liked by many people
4- Has a good attitude
5- doesn't like to be called a vet
6- Helps the nub's instead of cussing them
7- Is just generally a cool guy/(gal)

And the other type of Vet:
lol quote

-When a vet loses at elim, they were never trying anyways.
-When a vet wins at elim, it was easy as pie.
-Whenever a vet dies, they respond in laughter, apparently vets think it's funny when they die.
-Or, whenever a vet dies, they become tired and begin to yawn, alot. On average 1 per death.
-Or even, whenever a vet dies, they are apparently "newbed". They in fact state that a player "lesser" than them has successfully killed them, and no matter how many times more the "newb" kills the "vet", it is still always "newbed".
-Vets never have numbers, underscores, or other symbols in their names.
-Vets never communicate with players below their skill level outside of "ez", "newbed", "racial slur", etc*
-Part B to the said above: you must be lonely.

And then there's the other group of people the "we don't like the word vet" people..
Most of this group of people conform somewhere on my first list (the good vet)

So lol... in one way or another.... we're all vets

[Twerp]

So lol... in one way or another.... we're all vets

Doubt it

[Stultus]

mansion map?

Are you talking about blackout or twcity/town? Or is there a new map?

I think he means ghoulgames.

[Sting]

i hate the word vet. no one should be proud to be playing this game for so long.

on that note, heres a list of people who were in leagues right after twl season 2

http://home.swipnet.se/mikie/nosurrender/ns1/roster.txt

Commodore Army:Commodore Stinger81:stinger@netzero.net

I found my name! w00t!
wow, that e-mail addy is very old

[Rosstones]

Joined cripples november 11th 2000 ... when it was the best squad in TW


...in crips for over 4 yrs


...and i know i suck now.. but fu - i dont care

[Sting]

Joined cripples november 11th 2000 ... when it was the best squad in TW


...in crips for over 4 yrs


...and i know i suck now.. but fu - i dont care

lmao, eyyaz Ross

[Leaf]

How do you prove vet-ness, eh?

-When a vet loses at elim, they were never trying anyways.
-When a vet wins at elim, it was easy as pie.
-Whenever a vet dies, they respond in laughter, apparently vets think it's funny when they die.
-Or, whenever a vet dies, they become tired and begin to yawn, alot. On average 1 per death.
-Or even, whenever a vet dies, they are apparently "newbed". They in fact state that a player "lesser" than them has successfully killed them, and no matter how many times more the "newb" kills the "vet", it is still always "newbed".
-Vets never have numbers, underscores, or other symbols in their names.
-Vets never communicate with players below their skill level outside of "ez", "newbed", "racial slur", etc*
-Part B to the said above: you must be lonely.

I'm not saying that players who have been around the game for a while can't be nice or whatever, I've met my share of cool people. But generally, the players who call themselves "vets" fall into one of those actions if not more or all.

HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH AHA! :up:

[crazi]

lol you guys are all stupid.

a vet is only a vet because they have alot of friends in the game. they've played long enough to gain friends in high places (such as upper staff or squad captains of top squads) and then have their friends talk about them when they aren't there. you can do this by either playing really good and having people wish u were there, be a total dumb ass and make people wish u were there to entertain them (i fall into this catagory), or you can be a total asshole and piss everyone off and make everyone talk about you because your such an asshole (catid)

im not even a vet and i dont see many left. i dont get why anyone gives a shit, its just a video game!

and yea raw, cripples + nipples 4 life


Veteran of the Year : SuperDAVE(postal)

If you don't know who he is, don't even call yourself a newbie. You're just scum.

Big props to Rob Dougan, he did it like a man.

and more props to..........

Wix, Sabe, DanyalDenyo, Louis XV, Rosstones, Spiderfarts, Hellkite, Phyre, Badboyz (traitor), Ephemeral, and all you other bitches i havent seen in a few years. Remember, warportal was on crips b4 disoblidge bitches.

CRIPPLES 2000 - 2002 4ever rest itz legacy

[Anduril.]

Yo crazi !! where is my name ?!?!
I feel sooooooooooo left out .... Well .. My time for writing is over now, gotta go back to the game to become a vet.

[Galleleo]

7- Is just generally a cool guy (gall)

See I am a vet.

[Anduril.]

Why do people keep on confusing vet and FAT ?!?!

[Acidmouse]

Being a Vet has nothing to do with skill level or if u been on staff or not.

If you been here from virtually day 1 and stayed around your a Vet.

Tw has fewer and fewer peeps that have been around for years.

Most Tw people declare themselves vets if they win a few league games, lick arse to get staff and join a squad thats "flavour of the month". Get real.

[Izor]

To me a good dueler means nothing, I dont concider duelers "elite/vet" the dueling part is created for newbies who just enter the game, shoot, hey i got a kill! lets play this some more.. you play this on your own. while basers play together, all have their own purpose in a team. I think this is way more elite then just having 5 warbirds shooting 5 other warbirds, and no I dont base because I think it is elite, I like it. I have been playing this game for about 6 years, had allot different zones entered TW after 5 years of playing this game, I heard about the basing wich was very good organized and I liked it allot so sticked here for the basing only.

You mean, the basing part is for newbies who just enter the game, because basing is ezer to learn. If some aznrandomguy13 logged on pub and just got in a wb and someone on my level was there, he'd just get owned and humiliated till he left, whereas in basing he can get in a spider and camp the entrance to fr and hold ctrl for win and think 'omg i like pwn this game lolz'. Given a week or two, any good dueler can learn how to base well cause it just isnt as hard. At least with the wbs one hit kill bullets you have to aim at them, not at some hole in the wall. The newbies are the ones that get the ez kills basing and realize that it takes much more skill in a wb. FFS half of a baser's 'skill' is based on knowing how to camp the entrance of one map. Say that the base layout was changed and you were playing on a new map to everyone. Would you really be as 'good' then? How would you cram if the entrance was made bigger? The quality of the game would be like the quality of a game of TWDD between DG Tryouts and DragonGuard, even if the current basing 'gods' were playing each other.