Players you've always admired

[Batallion]

Prodigal_Chieftain of course.

[Ray Matveyev]

milo for his undying commitment, ability to govern and to interact with his membership. A lot of how I view government should be is derived from him. I certainly wonder where he is now

[KainIIIC]

AlterEgo, Mr Damsky, Penkala and Voytek.



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[Sandler]

Asriel Belacqua, Nintenderek and Legion-x when I started on CN. Their efforts laid a solid foundation for me.

[Randalla]

KaitlinK, Dame Hime Themis, Hoo.

[Bill Wallace]

My first BC. His name was Jack Christ. A true warrior.

[The Corrupt Teacher]

Personally I've admired a few people who were big in my early CN days and got me into the game politically. Among those would be General Vengeance, Grugbug, Trace, Tamerlane, JoshuaJames, and Lord Jay. All of those guys were people I admired in my early CN days and who I learned from. There are a quite a few other players I got advice from but I'd say those guys were the main go to guys that I'd say I put up as not my equal and more mentor early on.

[Mustakrakish II]

I've always looked up to PanthePiper and Gran from my ole TTK days. Kind of showed me the happenings of CN gov.



I also stalk them.

[Hepzibah3]

Barix9,Joe Stupid,Hyperion321,Hoo,Yukon Don,Bershama,Penkala,Keve69.

Edited August 22, 2010 by Hepzibah3

[Fallen Fool]

In no particular order:

Moldavi, Sponge, Tyga, Doitzel, and Musso.

Edit:

Also Vladimir. Can't believe I forgot him...

Edited August 22, 2010 by Fallen Fool

[HalfEmpty]

Frans Josef, RV, AlterEgo, Tyga and Azaghul.

Edit to add killer dwarf.

Edited August 22, 2010 by HalfEmpty

[Hymenbreach]

Tygaland, Moo Cows, VL, Toroaji, Madalchemist, Shadowphoenix, Licongrad, Ayrrie and Archon.

[Lord Caspian]

Probably Doitzel.

[HellAngel]

Since people have upsides and downsides I always only admire some specific abilities

Syzygy - For thinking outside the box, having a lions' heart and political foresight (although sometimes delusional)
Steelrat - For establishing the first alliance wide Credit Card system in CN, which has been copied multiple times
Bob Janova - For always holding high the flag of justice and reason. And for his neverending patience with the OWF. And for his programmed alliance coordination tool.
Opethian - For doing his own thing and sticking to it, including humorous topics when he calls out an alliance

[Arrnea]

Dotizel, Schattenmann, AirMe, Cataduanes and Finnish Commie in no particular order.

Edited August 22, 2010 by Arrnea

[deathman1212]

Schattenman, Rebel Virginia and Electron Sponge all spring to mind.

[Cataduanes]

I consider many in CN to be worthy of my respect and some cases affection, but as for people I have actually looked up to Pingu would fit the bill.

[welshgazza1992]

Dan123123 - Aurora Borealis currently. Brought me into the game years and years ago and has always been a great alliance leader, probably the best i've ever served under. ALWAYS puts his membership's interests before his own.

KaitlinK - Back in the good 'ol MA days. Awesome leader and an awesome person in general.

Hoo! - Again an awesome leader and a great player.

well, they are the three that have most influenced my time here in CN. [img]http://forums.cybernations.net/public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif[/img]

[der_ko]

Doitzel, Electron Sponge and Mpol comes to mind.

[Bob Janova]

The 'big names', even if they've been on the other side to me through a lot of history. Dilber, Sponge, Ivan (before he came back, the NSO experiment hasn't really worked), Archon. Every Viridian who kept the flame alive after the disbandment, and although I don't know them, the same for IAAers. Within Citadel, Syz and Steel made Grämlins great, and Feanor of TOP always did an excellent job of keeping the factions working together. For self-sacrifice in the name of a good cause the 11 founders of Vox Populi, particularly Doitzel for blowing the gaff on NPO with De Profundis. And really, anyone who can deal with back channel diplomacy without getting rolled, heh. (There's a reason I spend my time in domestic positions.)

[Lizzardtheone]

Tygaland, for being the voice of reason.
Also an honorable mention for Uhtred, for being Tyga's lapdog.

[Ashoka the Great]

Hmmm...."players you've always admired"....

This implies that I admired them from the start and continue to do so.

Hmmm.

In the case of many of the players listed already (and whose names will continue to be mentioned) there have been incidents that showed either a dark, duplicitous or otherwise objectionable side to their personality.

So nobody, I guess.

[xoindotnler]

Schattenmann, Mhawk, Vladimir, Peggy_Sue, Sal Paradise, Rebel Virginia.

And me hehe.

Oh and that annoying guy that visits #Avalon once in a while hehe.

Edited August 22, 2010 by xoindotnler

[CRexx]

I could name names, but half of the people have left the game or are on rerolls so their names are meaingless and I'd just offend the ones I forgot anyways. So I'll simply nominate the NAAC officers assigned with helping training Fark between GWII and GWIII. How they handled dealing with up to 700 newbies and didn't put a brick through their screen I'll never know.

Also Dilber, the greatest Emperor Pacifica has ever had.

Edited August 22, 2010 by CRex of Gulo Gulo

[Blue Lightning]

Kind of cheesy but there's a bunch of people in TOP who've had a profound influence on me. I look up to a whole bunch of them for a whole variety of things. I don't want to name them in case I miss some (and cause I'm lazy).