An introduction
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My name is Seerow.
You may or not be familiar with me. I've been around this game for a long time. Far longer than I ever thought I would be. Some of you may recognize the name from the book series I sniped it from and have used as my internet handle almost exclusively for over a decade. So that answers question one, yes Seerow is the same as the Seerow from the Animorphs. In that series, Seerow was a character out of lore, who gave advanced knowledge/technology to another sentient race that became a plague upon the galaxy because of it. Why does this matter to you? It doesn't really, except that that act gave way to the law of Seerow's Kindness, forbidding the gift of technology to other races. And now you know the origin of the name of this Blog. Only this kindness I hope won't have such catastrophic consequences. You never know though.
More of you however probably know my name not as an obscure reference from a series that's been dead and over with for years, but from my place in CN history. I've played CN for a long time. Not the longest lasting player, not by half a year or so. But much longer than I ever expected to stay here. I got brought in by a group of friends from outside the game, including Monorojo, Roquentin, and Ayrrie, none of whom are at this point active in the game any longer. And yet here I still am.
I was really active during those first few years, and it's that time that I'm still remembered for in some places. Probably most notably, my time in service to the NPO military, and my subsequent leaving the NPO to join MK, which resulted in a substantial amount of butthurt. As of the last I heard (about 2 months ago), NPO still has a "$%&@ Seerow" thread that is being actively posted in. Yep, 4 years after the fact, nearly half a decade, and I still have a thread dedicated to how much they hate me. You may also remember back in the noCB war, I had a surrender term all to myself, declaring I was to be kicked out of MK.
Yeah, to this day I'm not sure what I did to piss them off THAT much, but there it is. That's pretty much my most famous act, leaving an alliance and causing some ruckuss. I also had a stint as Lord High Treasurer in MK, where I reformed the bank, instituting the much of the core structure still being used today.
But all of these events are years past now. So what have I been doing with myself? Honestly, other things. Since my time spent at ZI (about a year total all told) via NPO before being whitelisted, my interest in the game has been tangental. I get active for a month or two, then disappear for 4-6 months. Eventually something happens that draws me back in, I get active again, then either I get bored or real life comes up.
Okay, so that was a longer intro than I intended. Like I said, I've been around a long time and left plenty of people and details out. Point is in this game, I've been in high government, and I've been a nobody. I've been on both sides of the hegemonic fence, working for the NPO during its prime alliance rolling days, then being in MK when it was getting rolled, then in MK when it is rolling alliances. I've been the crazy active guy spending 80 hours on IRC trying to put out fires and get the other innactive $%&@ers to do what they're supposed to, and I've been the guy you need to email 5 times to do something as simple as buy a couple extra nukes. When it comes to this game, I've experienced pretty much the full spectrum. About the only thing I haven't done is try to head up foreign affairs, and anyone who knows me can say that's a damn good thing.
The reason I say this is because many people who play the game get stuck in one mindset. They play the game their way, and they find it hard to imagine a different way. People who are active often find it hard to comprehend anyone logging in and only spending 5 minutes a week. I mean, you'd miss out on all of the fun and hilarity on IRC, who could do that?! I mean why play the game if you're not paying attention to the forums or IRC? The game itself is pretty lame, and everyone more or less agrees on that.
Well, I'm here to give my thoughts on these things. I'll be making a couple of blog posts over the next week or so, going in depth into what I think it is that gets people playing, and what keeps them playing. What the appeal of this game we all share in common is. I'll admit straight up, I'll be making up at least 50% of it as I go, and it will probably be only marginally useful for all that. But let's face it, none of these blogs mean a whole lot, and if I have the time to waste on it, why not?
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