A run-in with The Ghost Ship

[Xog]

Not to be confused with "Ghost Ship"

Yes, rootbear75 was wrong on a couple things here.. but read carefully

So i found this guy on an IRC channel (playing the Real version of IdleRPG)

[17:39] <TGS> I just saw your class on the bot. By SubSpace vet... do you mean the old online space shooter?
[19:38] <rootbear75> why yes
[19:38] <rootbear75> surprised you actually know that lol
[19:38] <TGS> I played it back in the day myself.
[19:39] <rootbear75> we're still around
[19:39] <rootbear75> u should come back and play
[19:40] <TGS> lol nah I left for a good reason.
[19:41] <rootbear75> y?
[19:42] <TGS> lol you won't believe me.
[19:42] <TGS> Most people don't.
[19:43] <rootbear75> try me
[19:45] <rootbear75> try me
[19:46] <TGS> Well... I use to own Trench Wars.
[19:46] <rootbear75> no one owns trench wars dude
[19:47] <rootbear75> or ever owns trench wars
[19:47] <TGS> Uhm PriitK does. Or did. I owned it before him and DoCk.
[19:47] <rootbear75> O.o
[19:47] <rootbear75> orly?
[19:47] <rootbear75> well if you owned it, then a) why did u give it up, why did u leave?
[19:47] <TGS> Yeah. I actually gave it to them... temporarily as I needed to step down to rethink things.
[19:48] <rootbear75> what year was this>
[19:48] <TGS> I gave them the sysop password. Told them to keep me informed of it if it were changed. They decided to change it without telling me.
[19:48] <TGS> Probably 98-99?
[19:48] <TGS> They changed it and basically pretended that the conversation never happened.
[19:48] <TGS> It happened in a private arena
[19:49] <TGS> At the time they were my head SMod's
[19:49] <TGS> PriitK had just started developing roboref at the time.
[19:50] <rootbear75> as far as me and the subspace community knows, PriitK 1) made the new continuum cient
[19:50] <rootbear75> and 2) made Trench wars
[19:50] <TGS> He did make the new client. He didn't make trench wars.
[19:50] <TGS> Neither did I in fact.
[19:50] <TGS> It was given to me to run by Baudchaser. Who at the time ran most of the zone's in what is now SSCU
[19:50] <TGS> It was iNet back then.
[19:51] <TGS> Thing is the history has been blatantly misrepresented.
[19:51] <TGS> DoCk flat out lied about me repeatedly. Claiming I was an abusive admin and the worst cheater in trench wars history.
[19:51] <TGS> Which I can see how he came to that conclusion. Though it's grossly inaccurate.
[19:52] <TGS> That's why I have some what of a... aversion to going back.
[19:53] <TGS> I love the game don't get me wrong. But I got screwed several times.
[19:54] <rootbear75> dude
[19:54] <rootbear75> im going to pass this on to the community...
[19:54] <rootbear75> if thats okay with you
[19:55] <rootbear75> its not that i don't belive you
[19:55] <rootbear75> its just well... we are trying to get a complete history written down
[19:55] <rootbear75> priitK and dock both are essentially non-existant
[19:55] <rootbear75> so if that was a problem (mostly them) you could probably be fine coming back
[19:55] <TGS> Yeah I've noticed that.
[19:55] <rootbear75> we only talk to priit to get server updates
[19:55] <rootbear75> what was ur ss nick
[19:55] <TGS> The Ghost Ship
[19:56] <TGS> (Not to be confused with Alex... Ghost Ship)
[19:56] <rootbear75> ok i was about to say
[19:56] <TGS> Yeah it was confusing back then too lol.

The Ghost Ship ran trench for quite some time. Dgus (sp?) and Silent Dragon created original Trench. And if I remember right TGS made trench wars dark which eventually merged into the zone, though not 100% on that. But I do remember the 2 zones, and remember The Ghost Ship running trench wars.

And yes, him and Alex got confused all the time. Read Ghost Ship's 20 questions for the GS and TGS confusion quote.

Pretty damn interesting that he ran into TGS like that. Cool stuff.

[Infrared]

really interesting actually, nice find. Would be nice to see what the higher ups have to say about this.

[Adman]

i used to hunt him as he levi'd through pub back in the day. That's what most of upper staff did back then. They LT'd. When it was fun.

[duel pasta]

He's online at this moment

just had a small convo with him in public

[Ara]

From what I've heard TGS was an idiot who abused his powers and lacked any interest in developing the zone. TW became popular and more professional under PriitK's and Dock's leadership, they built a more professional staff than any other zone has had to this day. Polix is right PriitK and Dock> didn't make the original ship settings.

Only after the new SysOps the bots were created, SubSpace's first automated elim was created, staff was more organized, TW events were being created. In other words TW was made a real zone.

[Kid Kaos]

I remeber The Ghost Ship running the zone but running it unproffesionally. Ara is right this zone didnt truelly take flight until Priitks and DoCk> took over control. It might have been messed up the way they did it but it was for the better. Without Priitk and DoCk taking over we may never of had all the great history that we have now.

[Arobas+]

Interview with DoCk> back in the days in 2002, by Fallen Angel
http://www.subspacedownloads.com/interviews/dock.txt

And another with Baudchaser
http://www.subspacedownloads.com/int...baudchaser.txt