Wiki: XenoTech

Post by **TheBored** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:14 am

Figurehead, guy who has to deal with admins, chump, whatever you guys like to call it /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

TB

Duckwarrior · Post by **Duckwarrior** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:00 pm

Can anyone edit this? I don't know where this version of the reformation came from, but unless I'm delusional the squad was re-established after a conversation between Elephanthead and myself. Romeo was one of the first in though.

Post by **BlackViper** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:06 pm

The original emails from Mad, Romeo, Raindog and you are dated from Dec 18 to the 23rd of 2003 concerning the move to the new XT. So that should help with your timeframe. Yeah, I still have them archived. /cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

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Weedman · Post by **Weedman** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:35 am

Why is the formation of ace in my xsquad profile

You can put that on your ace profile,. I want nothing but horse thievs and murderers on the xt profile.

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MadAccountant · Post by **MadAccountant** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:35 am

It was right but lacked some info about the next phase of XT's evolution. I edited it a bit and hope it meets your recollection of history. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Duckwarrior · Post by **Duckwarrior** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:38 am

Then that is an incredibly strange coincidence.

Elephanthead was in, I think GB, I was in BS, playing a euro daytime game. Ele at this time was using an XT avatar on the forum, pretty cool, since the squad was defunct at this time, like wearing an Atari T-Shirt, but better. I made some wisecracks about how XT wouldn't have lost that base or miner or constructor or something, Ele said. "Shall we reform XT Duck?" I wasn't sure if he was joking when I agreed, but he dropped from the game there and then, he said to PM Pook. I log in the next day to find a squad forum for XT that I have access to, also, when I join the game with an @XT tag, I have the SL symbol before my name. After asking around, (Pook mainly) apparently Ele and I are joint Squad leaders, of a squad of two... go us! I remember Romeo joining pretty soon afterwards. Several old school XT joined up at about the same time, I can vaguely remember Ele saying he had sent out some PM's, MadAcc, BV and Raindog moving over from BS, Kummy from SysX, ugli joining, etc. Agri joined because he was mad at the LWMS/SysX merger, Snack, well, because we were actually engaged at this time in real-life, oh and he had had a tiff with GB over them not liking his idea for the squad to wear matching pink leotards for squad games, or something. Fullmark came onboard after TCX19 imploded.

My reason for being a part of XT's re-birth was that SysX and LWMS, two of the strongest squads, at a time when the games playerbase was diminishing, had just amalgamated. To me they now appeared to be pretty much unstoppable. This was slightly ironic, since SysX had originally been formed to combat the rampant dominance of Jihaad in game. There had been an informal SysX v the world game relatively recently, and a pretty, ahem, hotly debated thread on the boards. Basically it boiled down to some SysX guys, I seem to remember FoxFour, Ircy and Spunky being fairly vocal over SysX beating massively overwhelming odds, and some others.. OK, Snack, (alright there were others, but it was a long time ago) having at them, over what they saw as SysX gloating after beating a lot of less experienced players.

Anyway, in my mind at least, a big part of why XT was reformed was to give some competition to SystemX, and in that, it has been succesful.

If my facts are incorrect, it is unintentional, as far as I knew, this was how it came to pass. Did we contact you to form the squad BV? I remember speaking to Pook and it seems like it would have been before he passed any of his powers over, but like I said, it's a long time ago. In my memory at least, there was no real discussion about forming XT, it just happened, like a train crash.

Maybe Ele or Romeo can shed some light, perhaps they had been speaking and I was unaware of it.

MadAccountant · Post by **MadAccountant** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:39 pm

Feel free to put it in the wiki Duck. I obviously wasn't aware of all that, I just put down what I did know or remembered. The BS thing was taking a few more players as at the time some of us were dual squadding until we knew XT had legs which was very much still in question. I think you yourself were in the same decision mode. Romeo was basically the recruiter for a bit as Ele just did the stuff you mentioned and then disappeared (that bastard!). Kumquat took over the recruiting at some point and had a good eye for spotting young talent and pursuing them (in some unholy sammich fashion for all I know).

Post by **BlackViper** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:56 pm

Pretty accurate from what I remember. The emails I have from you guys basically told me the same thing. XT reforming, that you guys would like to move over and me releasing you from the BS roster.

Pook was the one who created the forum and squad for you.

MadAccountant · Post by **MadAccountant** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:46 pm

meh, was bored at work and wanted to faithfully capture your comments Duck. I paraphrased what you said and then added in your very own "interview" since the flavour of your post captures the history best imo. I may have edited Weed's comment a tad...

Duckwarrior · Post by **Duckwarrior** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:07 pm

Whatever, it wouldn't have flown if you guys hadn't kicked it up the ass in the begining. I miss you, come home you bastards.

Do you have any idea what it is like to be in XT these days?.....they do things to me. I'm like a Mogwai living in a Gremlins frat house...