What happened to all of the people who were on the webboard all those months ago, like Admiral Darkk (ahem.. Fleet Admiral Darkk), and Admiral Dennis, and Bobba Fett and all those people. Those of you who remember the AresCentral.com webboard will know who I mean.

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Fleet Admiral Darkk is gone. From the Ares boards anyway...

I've recently seen him posting topics in Cythera, asking for help in the game...

Replicant is on every now and then...in the Ares Engineering dept.

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We have a different group of people on the boards now. There are still a few old guys like me, but mostly new ones.

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"I can ail what cures you."

Let's see how my memory is. Members M.I.A :

Fleet Admiral Darkk
Cotton mouse
Cotton Moose
Vegeta
Pax
Garm Bel Iblis
Exar Kun
`Rebel
Firebird
Fire Lizard
Igadzra (spelling?)
Lone Igadzra (spelling?)
Xwarp
Some other person whose name began with X
Q-Cubed
Boba Fett
Admiral Dennis
Captain something, I can't remember.
Jimmy Page 1
A group of lame clan members

That's as many as I can remember.

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I have a plan so ingenius even an idiot could have devised it. On my command, we will line up our ships and fly straight into the enemy death-cannons clogging them with wreckage.

Stop Exploding you cowards!

Yeah, that seems right.

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Has anyone seen Adzara recently?

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-Pallas Athene, {M}ilitia Aeriane and Dysian Beta representative to the Obish Consensus

ThinkFish, and good things will come.

Exar Kun too. remember that topic, "exar kun is a traitor"

Well, I'm still here. Or, I'm back to speak the truth. I left, but I came back when I heard that Hera was out and plugs were being made. It kinda renewed interest for me.
As for the others.... who knows?

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Ne Cede Malis Sed Contra Audientor Ito

sigh those were the good ol' days. I see the Ares community as having progressed three stages:

1- The old discboards at the AresCentral.com days: I was around then but only rarely
2- The UBB boards and the absorbtion into AmbrosiaSW.com: The good ol' days of Darkk, the Ring Battle, etc.
3- UBB A.H. (After Hera): now the Ares boards are starting to resemble the bloated EV boards with PS (no explanation needed) plugs, misposts, and all-around evil. tear forms at corner of eye

Yyyyep.

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Well, I wouldn't say things are that bad. We've had a slew of members appearing in the past month and maybe with the 'proper' release of Hera, a few of the oldies will resurface again. Here's to hoping.

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I have a plan so ingenius even an idiot could have devised it. On my command, we will line up our ships and fly straight into the enemy death-cannons clogging them with wreckage.

Stop Exploding you cowards!

I was just looking through my read mail, and I came to an e-mail I got from some guy called Baku with the title "Save Slug", back in May. It went on to say about how Slug had been banned from GR and how I hadn't signed the petition to get him back on yet.
I remember that at the time I'd been off the web-boards for some months, and that these were my thoughts:
1. Who the hell is Slug?
2. Who the hell is Baku?
3. How the hell did he get my e-mail address when I hadn't been around, much less posted, for months?
4. Why should I sign the petition if I didn't even know the reason he was banned?

I remember replying with these questions in my message. Funnily enough, I never heard back from Baku.

The middle two thoughts are still unanswered, but the first... I nearly kick myself now:-) How could I not have known Slug???

Sheppo

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Yeah), so what if I'm an Emo Nerd?

Well, Slug was gone for a long time from the webboards, and it's quite possible even the old-timers could have memory lapses and forget about him.

Yes, the board slowly declined, losing members and maturity over time. I suppose its heyday would have been just after the absorption into AmbrosiaSW.com- the time of Aithon and Darkk and arguments about the nature of the boards themselves. I miss those, even if I rarely posted in them.

That said, not all is bad. We've got some new members who are actually good people- Avatara is a notable example. <Someone else> is not.

I can see us surviving quite nicely for a while yet, with those we have here, our brand new plug-ins, and the few new people who join up. We'll be around a while yet...

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Sundered Angel ,
The One and Only

Ares Webboard Moderator, and all-around Nice Guy

I predict that a time will come there will be another spammer, like MotherLove or Ambrose. I predict also that swift action will be taken from the experience in the past. Trash Talk will slowly decline into a pit of filth and the Engineering forum will be flooded with obvious questions.

And when Nathan announces the sequel to Ares, hundreds of "suggestions" topics will pop up overnight.

K, now my head hurts,
-Slug

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Oh, I'm not saying those Alduran ships are bad. In fact, they make excellent minesweepers. Once.

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StarLance

Say Slug, did you ever get in contact with Baku again?

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I have a plan so ingenius even an idiot could have devised it. On my command, we will line up our ships and fly straight into the enemy death-cannons clogging them with wreckage.

Stop Exploding you cowards!

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Originally posted by Sundered Angel:
We've got some new members who are actually good people- Avatara is a notable example.

Thanks.

Admiral Dennis is still on, occasionally, but not on Ares. XWarp roams GR.

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Originally posted by Laguna:
**Say Slug, did you ever get in contact with Baku again?
**

Well I emailed him, but I haven't gotten any response.

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Oh, I'm not saying those Alduran ships are bad. In fact, they make excellent minesweepers. Once.

-Orion Axis General Marxx
StarLance

I wonder if he ever tried to create that 'FindaGame' thingy he mentioned just before he left. Now that would be interesting.

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I have a plan so ingenius even an idiot could have devised it. On my command, we will line up our ships and fly straight into the enemy death-cannons clogging them with wreckage.

Stop Exploding you cowards!

sigh

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Oh, I'm not saying those Alduran ships are bad. In fact, they make excellent minesweepers. Once.

-Orion Axis General Marxx
StarLance

Laguna: you forgot Xyrus and 8 Lightnings.

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Appearantly Darkk has moved on to other Ambrosia games. I've noticed him asking for help (on certain parts of the game) in Cythera and Escape Velocity so far.

Maybe he might come back if one of you older people showed him Hera was out or something...

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