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the state of -Legacy-
The 4 (that's right 'tard....4) captains of -Legacy- have reached an agreement that we just dont give a rip. The agreement came when Top and myself came to same conclusion that we are tired of the stress involved and really arent phased anymore by getting our shit pushed in during TWD matches. We, then dragged Sir Elim online, who had been avoiding TW, and we all reached the above stated conlusion. Top and I then notified our other captain Pegasis of the direction in which we were heading and Peg basically agreed without incident.
Now this is the part of the post where I will flamboyantly enlighten you all, thus dispelling ignorance through glorious.....uhhh.....philosophical reasoning....or something.
My Return and Scrotals
When I came back from my 4 year retirement in March '05, I was unaware of how the game changed. I joined Paladen because it was one of only a handful of squads I recognized from yesteryear and it had a couple of ancient Scrotalians. I thought the automated matches were cool because you could play whenever you wanted. In the old days we had to wait 'till the weekends, schedule it in advance, and it was often hard to find a ref because there were alot of <ER>s and mods on my squad (conflict of interest).
I left Paladen in the early summer and tried to bring back Scrotal's Horde!! but we had to use the name Scrotals because of TWDBot's inability to read an apostrophe (wtf?). The goal was to amass as many original members from the 99-01 Horde as possible, while shunning anyone that was on the counterfeit Hordes while I was away. We succeeded in collecting 16 of the old members and tried to supplement them with newer talent. After starting off as a top 5 wb squad, then slipping to top 10, then top 20 and below, we found it difficult to maintain a strong team. We were always thin at javs, and success was difficult there as well, albeit we had some highly skilled veteran players.
Ara, Lame (Na$), Connection, and I ran the squad....all original Horde members from the old days. I found that the automated match system created faster roster turnover than the old days. The changes occur more rapidly because when you lost 2 or 3 matches in a row in the old days, it would take 2-3 weeks for this to occur. Nowadays it takes 2-3 hours to occur. If you have a couple of bad matches, members get upset and look elsewhere after only briefly staying in the squad. A new member who stays for 2 weeks is now considered to have stayed a somewhat good amount of time. In my day, that person would be labelled as a hopper and avoided by recruitors. Now it is commonplace.
Sir Elim's Return: Old and New -Legacy-
In the late summer, Sir Elim returned to TW, and, after a couple weeks on my squad, he felt the lust for blood and desired to re-create -Legacy-. A lot of you noobs out there don't know this for some reason, but -Legacy- was a powerful squad back in 2000. It did not last quite as long as Scrotal's Horde!! but it attained elite status before the Horde did and was for a time considered the #3 squad behind Elusive and Siege when these squads were at the top of their game. Several of their best players would go on to become key members in Elusive, Siege, Scrotal's Horde!!, and -Final- such as Poozzman, KickAshMan, hype, nokia 6160, Razor Edge, Treachery, Lag Killer, Skielok, trunkz, seko, SaiyanSoldier, etc. (sorry if I left out a few...I know there were more). -Legacy- was also a major rival to my squad when we did attain prominence.
Sir elim recreated -Legacy- with akiLLa, and they asked me to merge with them. With the problems I was facing in Scrotals, I decided it would be a good idea to take my top 15 players and merge into -Legacy-. The prospect of combining my old vets with Sir Elim's AND combining my experitise with Sir Elim's was too tempting to pass up. Quite frankly, we are 2 highly experienced veteran captains that have taken our squads to the top of the mountain and suckled from the Double-D tit of great success and victory in TW. Sir Elim and I were also hired together by FieryFire as the first group of <ER>s in the zone (little known fact). Although akiLLa did not have the leadership experience that we had, he was also an uber-vet and an early TW smod. akiLLa would turn out to kinda suck balls as a leader, but that's ok....we had me and Sir Elim to pick up the slack. The new -Legacy- kicked some serious ass at first for several weeks in dd and jd....but especially jd with all of our jav vet power. But we began to decline for reasons I will state below.
The Disease of Automated Matches
Finally I am reaching my main point. Trench Wars leagues, through the automated match system has become dominated by 15 year jobless kids that can devote all of their time to playing matches. The old squads were different because our elite players were not constantly online....they would sign on for matches, and kick some noob ass, and play a few times during the week. It wasnt required to be super-active to "own it up," so to speak. Today, kids view the strength of the squad in terms of how many active members they have online to play a match on demand. Because matches or so readily available, players want to play them alot. If they don't get to play them alot, they leave...it's that simple. That's why it has become a 15 year old's game. In order to run a successful squad, you have to have an adequate amount of active jobless punks that are always on to play matches for you. In the old days, with matches on the weekends, you usually turned out twice as many members as you needed to play the game. So your best players could always show up and they could actually have full-time jobs...not so today.
Why -Legacy- Failed
Make no mistake about it. If Sir Elim and I had combined forces and -Legacy- and Scrotal's Horde!! had merged in 2000, the result would have been the most powerful squad TW has ever seen. We did not have our key players from the old days, so we were just in the "pretty damn good" category at our best in 2005. Sir Elim and I are old players. We have been retired or semi-retired for several years. The only players we know are old players, and alot of the players we used to know don't play anymore; or if they do, it is rare indeed. When some of those old players began to leave -Legacy- and go elsewhere, we could not replace them because we are not in touch with the "15yr old I-don't-know-how-to-play-defense-in-a-TWDD-match player" or just noobs in general. By the way, does anyone play defense in wb matches anymore or use complex strategies? That use to be the law of the land, but now, thanks to the automated match system, noone bothers to learn or practice complex strategies. The only strategy is rushing because it's easy to remember and easy to do.
So anyways, the 2005 -Legacy-, the squad with the most experienced elite leadership ever, failed because we could not relate to the younger noobs and adequately use them to fill in the gaps left by departing veterans. We just didn't know any, and they didn't know us. Once vets started leaving, the writing was on the wall. Vet innactivity kinda hurt too. About 25 of our members are completely innactive. The automated matches only hastened the roster turnover among the youngins that we did pick up. Our teaming was never good in twdd because we arent familiar with this noob rushing trend. Javs were awesome for a time until they started going innactive. Top did a good job as captain during the 6 weeks I was innactive, but he just ran into the problems that I had already seen.
So now you all know why we are breaking apart....it is futile to go on. When none of the caps can resurrect the situation or just dont care, and the members dont care either, the beast must be destroyed. The squad will remain registered with TWD and any member reading this can wear the -Legacy- tag, but we will not be recruiting anyone new or actively trying to "own it up."
I hope all this crap has enlightened and educated you. If you just glanced at it and decided to scroll to the bottom to see how long this monster is, then this message is for you: Print this up and read it, while you're taking a dump. Life is a collection of experiences, and if we can create a more memorable experience for you while on the pot, then in some small way, Ive done a bit of good in this world.
Now this is the part of the post where I will flamboyantly enlighten you all, thus dispelling ignorance through glorious.....uhhh.....philosophical reasoning....or something.
My Return and Scrotals
When I came back from my 4 year retirement in March '05, I was unaware of how the game changed. I joined Paladen because it was one of only a handful of squads I recognized from yesteryear and it had a couple of ancient Scrotalians. I thought the automated matches were cool because you could play whenever you wanted. In the old days we had to wait 'till the weekends, schedule it in advance, and it was often hard to find a ref because there were alot of <ER>s and mods on my squad (conflict of interest).
I left Paladen in the early summer and tried to bring back Scrotal's Horde!! but we had to use the name Scrotals because of TWDBot's inability to read an apostrophe (wtf?). The goal was to amass as many original members from the 99-01 Horde as possible, while shunning anyone that was on the counterfeit Hordes while I was away. We succeeded in collecting 16 of the old members and tried to supplement them with newer talent. After starting off as a top 5 wb squad, then slipping to top 10, then top 20 and below, we found it difficult to maintain a strong team. We were always thin at javs, and success was difficult there as well, albeit we had some highly skilled veteran players.
Ara, Lame (Na$), Connection, and I ran the squad....all original Horde members from the old days. I found that the automated match system created faster roster turnover than the old days. The changes occur more rapidly because when you lost 2 or 3 matches in a row in the old days, it would take 2-3 weeks for this to occur. Nowadays it takes 2-3 hours to occur. If you have a couple of bad matches, members get upset and look elsewhere after only briefly staying in the squad. A new member who stays for 2 weeks is now considered to have stayed a somewhat good amount of time. In my day, that person would be labelled as a hopper and avoided by recruitors. Now it is commonplace.
Sir Elim's Return: Old and New -Legacy-
In the late summer, Sir Elim returned to TW, and, after a couple weeks on my squad, he felt the lust for blood and desired to re-create -Legacy-. A lot of you noobs out there don't know this for some reason, but -Legacy- was a powerful squad back in 2000. It did not last quite as long as Scrotal's Horde!! but it attained elite status before the Horde did and was for a time considered the #3 squad behind Elusive and Siege when these squads were at the top of their game. Several of their best players would go on to become key members in Elusive, Siege, Scrotal's Horde!!, and -Final- such as Poozzman, KickAshMan, hype, nokia 6160, Razor Edge, Treachery, Lag Killer, Skielok, trunkz, seko, SaiyanSoldier, etc. (sorry if I left out a few...I know there were more). -Legacy- was also a major rival to my squad when we did attain prominence.
Sir elim recreated -Legacy- with akiLLa, and they asked me to merge with them. With the problems I was facing in Scrotals, I decided it would be a good idea to take my top 15 players and merge into -Legacy-. The prospect of combining my old vets with Sir Elim's AND combining my experitise with Sir Elim's was too tempting to pass up. Quite frankly, we are 2 highly experienced veteran captains that have taken our squads to the top of the mountain and suckled from the Double-D tit of great success and victory in TW. Sir Elim and I were also hired together by FieryFire as the first group of <ER>s in the zone (little known fact). Although akiLLa did not have the leadership experience that we had, he was also an uber-vet and an early TW smod. akiLLa would turn out to kinda suck balls as a leader, but that's ok....we had me and Sir Elim to pick up the slack. The new -Legacy- kicked some serious ass at first for several weeks in dd and jd....but especially jd with all of our jav vet power. But we began to decline for reasons I will state below.
The Disease of Automated Matches
Finally I am reaching my main point. Trench Wars leagues, through the automated match system has become dominated by 15 year jobless kids that can devote all of their time to playing matches. The old squads were different because our elite players were not constantly online....they would sign on for matches, and kick some noob ass, and play a few times during the week. It wasnt required to be super-active to "own it up," so to speak. Today, kids view the strength of the squad in terms of how many active members they have online to play a match on demand. Because matches or so readily available, players want to play them alot. If they don't get to play them alot, they leave...it's that simple. That's why it has become a 15 year old's game. In order to run a successful squad, you have to have an adequate amount of active jobless punks that are always on to play matches for you. In the old days, with matches on the weekends, you usually turned out twice as many members as you needed to play the game. So your best players could always show up and they could actually have full-time jobs...not so today.
Why -Legacy- Failed
Make no mistake about it. If Sir Elim and I had combined forces and -Legacy- and Scrotal's Horde!! had merged in 2000, the result would have been the most powerful squad TW has ever seen. We did not have our key players from the old days, so we were just in the "pretty damn good" category at our best in 2005. Sir Elim and I are old players. We have been retired or semi-retired for several years. The only players we know are old players, and alot of the players we used to know don't play anymore; or if they do, it is rare indeed. When some of those old players began to leave -Legacy- and go elsewhere, we could not replace them because we are not in touch with the "15yr old I-don't-know-how-to-play-defense-in-a-TWDD-match player" or just noobs in general. By the way, does anyone play defense in wb matches anymore or use complex strategies? That use to be the law of the land, but now, thanks to the automated match system, noone bothers to learn or practice complex strategies. The only strategy is rushing because it's easy to remember and easy to do.
So anyways, the 2005 -Legacy-, the squad with the most experienced elite leadership ever, failed because we could not relate to the younger noobs and adequately use them to fill in the gaps left by departing veterans. We just didn't know any, and they didn't know us. Once vets started leaving, the writing was on the wall. Vet innactivity kinda hurt too. About 25 of our members are completely innactive. The automated matches only hastened the roster turnover among the youngins that we did pick up. Our teaming was never good in twdd because we arent familiar with this noob rushing trend. Javs were awesome for a time until they started going innactive. Top did a good job as captain during the 6 weeks I was innactive, but he just ran into the problems that I had already seen.
So now you all know why we are breaking apart....it is futile to go on. When none of the caps can resurrect the situation or just dont care, and the members dont care either, the beast must be destroyed. The squad will remain registered with TWD and any member reading this can wear the -Legacy- tag, but we will not be recruiting anyone new or actively trying to "own it up."
I hope all this crap has enlightened and educated you. If you just glanced at it and decided to scroll to the bottom to see how long this monster is, then this message is for you: Print this up and read it, while you're taking a dump. Life is a collection of experiences, and if we can create a more memorable experience for you while on the pot, then in some small way, Ive done a bit of good in this world.
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