you forgot yourself off that list @F0RDPREFECT. Long-standing SCC member/nuisance, maker of NS2_frost, WC attendee etc
Also @troops for co founding the SCC, PTing, for giving mapping a good try and being general NS2 comedy Legend
you forgot yourself off that list @F0RDPREFECT. Long-standing SCC member/nuisance, maker of NS2_frost, WC attendee etc
Also @troops for co founding the SCC, PTing, for giving mapping a good try and being general NS2 comedy Legend
Troops! Right, forgot him
And it's hubris to nominate yourself. Also, I'm not really sure about the future of frost. I got a game idea that I want to work on, and I can either do that OR frost besides university, both is just not going to work. And ns2 mapping does not really have a future
i wouldn't have done that if it wasnt for this (from "THE REVIVAL OF SQUAD 5" by decoy):
How do I get nominated for Squad 5? You can nominate yourself or you can be nominated by someone else. If you are nominating someone else, please be sure to include their forum username with your post. The post must include some kind of proof for the good deeds that you have done. Nobody will be awarded a Squad 5 badge without adequate proof.
and i dont see a reason why this would be ashaming: in the end, it's not for the nominator to decide wether the badge is actually awarded or not, so i don't see a problem there.
if you didn't allow self-nominations, some people would ask buddies behind the scenes to nominate them and i don't see a reason why that kind of behaviour should be encouraged as it seems much more lame than a self-nomination tbh.
the badge should be about having contributed to the community as a whole, not for socializing with the right individuals on the forums.
not everyone is posting on the forums and not everyone knows about the squad 5 program. and even if they do:
Troops! Right, forgot him
in my case, i listed stuff that's partially years ago and i don't expect anyone (actually not even myself, i had to do some research) to have an overview there. if you nominate yourself, you can at least get the facts straight.
i wouldn't have done that if it wasnt for this (from "THE REVIVAL OF SQUAD 5" by decoy):
How do I get nominated for Squad 5? You can nominate yourself or you can be nominated by someone else. If you are nominating someone else, please be sure to include their forum username with your post. The post must include some kind of proof for the good deeds that you have done. Nobody will be awarded a Squad 5 badge without adequate proof.
and i dont see a reason why this would be ashaming: in the end, it's not for the nominator to decide wether the badge is actually awarded or not, so i don't see a problem there.
if you didn't allow self-nominations, some people would ask buddies behind the scenes to nominate them and i don't see a reason why that kind of behaviour should be encouraged as it seems much more lame than a self-nomination tbh.
the badge should be about having contributed to the community as a whole, not for socializing with the right individuals on the forums.
not everyone is posting on the forums and not everyone knows about the squad 5 program. and even if they do:
Troops! Right, forgot him
in my case, i listed stuff that's partially years ago and i don't expect anyone (actually not even myself, i had to do some research) to have an overview there. if you nominate yourself, you can at least get the facts straight.
Okay, okay, I nominate myself, as most awesome person of the universe(TM). I haven't done a lot, though, except talking. There's that excuse of a map called frost, and I've been briefly (while successfully) Combat PT Lead. But that's Combat, not NS2.
I'd like to nominate every involved guys who are currently working on the various translations for NS2, but I don't know all of them. I hope they'll be rewarded for their work as well.
I hereby nominate myself for Squad 5 Blue badge. I have currently translated all remaining strings of NS2 into Swedish. They now only need approval to make it into the game. As for proof I think @Mendasp should be able to verify the large number of strings I have submitted.
I'd like to nominate every involved guys who are currently working on the various translations for NS2, but I don't know all of them. I hope they'll be rewarded for their work as well.
I hereby nominate myself for Squad 5 Blue badge. I have currently translated all remaining strings of NS2 into Swedish. They now only need approval to make it into the game. As for proof I think @Mendasp should be able to verify the large number of strings I have submitted.
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edited September 2014
We were just checking over Squad 5, realized that Blind and RedDog were only given blue squad five. It was discussed internally, and they were both upgraded to Gold. There's really no question about it. Both @Blind and @RedDog have given soooo much to the community through casting, refereeing, their work with the NS2WC, and just how genuinely wonderful they are!
Please keep Squad 5 nominations coming - We can't give out the badges without your nominations!
We were just checking over Squad 5, realized that Blind and RedDog were only given blue squad five. It was discussed internally, and they were both upgraded to Gold.
It doesn't sound like a decision but more like a reaction from something, transparancy is always a good thing. Anyway, recognition of their works is a great thing
We were just checking over Squad 5, realized that Blind and RedDog were only given blue squad five. It was discussed internally, and they were both upgraded to Gold. There's really no question about it. Both @Blind and @RedDog have given soooo much to the community through casting, refereeing, their work with the NS2WC, and just how genuinely wonderful they are!
Please keep Squad 5 nominations coming - We can't give out the badges without your nominations!
Aww, thanks Decoy! I do 'lerk' (ha!) around the forums from time to time and I saw this because of the mention. It was a pleasure contributing what I could to this fantastic game! You guys in the CDT are doing an amazing job, keep it up!
Miss you all, really! If there is ever a time I can break away and cast something, I will definitely do it!
We were just checking over Squad 5, realized that Blind and RedDog were only given blue squad five. It was discussed internally, and they were both upgraded to Gold. There's really no question about it. Both @Blind and @RedDog have given soooo much to the community through casting, refereeing, their work with the NS2WC, and just how genuinely wonderful they are!
Please keep Squad 5 nominations coming - We can't give out the badges without your nominations!
Oh, nice, thanks
Is this part of a quest to bring someone back to casting or to drink with you again? :P
While we are on the subject, I would like to nominate anyone that had substantial NS2WC contributions. I saw the list in one of Hugh's "Behind the World Championship" videos. The list was long but I don't know how many people received something other than a name in a credit roll.
Edit: If this has already been addressed, then just nevermind this post. Lol
I would also like to nominate @Mouse for his contributions throughout Natural Selection's entire history, as well as his consistant mapping. His work on ns2_fusion is well documented and keeps those who are really poor at anything to do with software interested in the "how-to's". I'm not sure how active he may/may not have been during ns2 playertesting prior to release as I was inactive at the time, but he's a wonderful friend of mine, of anyone in the AusNS community, and probably of anyone who's ever met the guy.
I would also like to nominate @Mouse for his contributions throughout Natural Selection's entire history, as well as his consistant mapping. His work on ns2_fusion is well documented and keeps those who are really poor at anything to do with software interested in the "how-to's". I'm not sure how active he may/may not have been during ns2 playertesting prior to release as I was inactive at the time, but he's a wonderful friend of mine, of anyone in the AusNS community, and probably of anyone who's ever met the guy.
I would also like to nominate @Mouse for his contributions throughout Natural Selection's entire history, as well as his consistant mapping. His work on ns2_fusion is well documented and keeps those who are really poor at anything to do with software interested in the "how-to's". I'm not sure how active he may/may not have been during ns2 playertesting prior to release as I was inactive at the time, but he's a wonderful friend of mine, of anyone in the AusNS community, and probably of anyone who's ever met the guy.
I would also like to nominate @Mouse for his contributions throughout Natural Selection's entire history, as well as his consistant mapping. His work on ns2_fusion is well documented and keeps those who are really poor at anything to do with software interested in the "how-to's". I'm not sure how active he may/may not have been during ns2 playertesting prior to release as I was inactive at the time, but he's a wonderful friend of mine, of anyone in the AusNS community, and probably of anyone who's ever met the guy.
One of the best Australians! I approve.
Who are the rest of the best?
(you) I don't know, Jackson when he will be moved to your beautiful country.
Hem... Squad 5 badges have colors ? How many ? What does it say ?
Oh, hem... well... What is the color for the most annoying guy on the forums ? I think it's mine.
They are given depending of what you have done on/for NS2. Blue is the first rank players can reach. Then Silver and Gold. The last one is only given to people that have contributed a lot of for the community like those that did receive this badge on the previous posts above. As far as I know, except for some exceptional situations, you cannot be rewarded with a Silver or Gold badge without being given Blue at first. That's why plenty of people are nominating those they think should deserve some recognition.
We were just checking over Squad 5, realized that Blind and RedDog were only given blue squad five. It was discussed internally, and they were both upgraded to Gold. There's really no question about it. Both @Blind and @RedDog have given soooo much to the community through casting, refereeing, their work with the NS2WC, and just how genuinely wonderful they are!
Please keep Squad 5 nominations coming - We can't give out the badges without your nominations!
Alright, so you've pretty much given everyone who've had any upper placements in the NSL Gold, except me. I sense quite the bias for not getting upgraded as well. Is this a reward for how much you have done for the community, or is it a reward for how much Decoy and the gang likes you? To be honest, I don't care if you don't like me or my viewpoints, just don't be shallow and childish about it when you have the position you do. Unfortunately that happens to most people that are handed out any form of power. The first topic clearly states that it's perfectly fine to nominate yourself, I clearly did it with a twist of my own sense of humour.
After all, I was the one who ran the ENSL gathers during beta, I got the ENSL going at launch, thankfully blind and many others jumped on the wagon after I got it going. Not to mention that it was me who was the first flagcarrier for NSL; the idea of removing the European part of the name and making it a global league, though regional split as long as the league could sustain it. Without me, the americans, austrailians and other nationalities would probably not have played in the ENSL, but just had their own seperate leagues. I know some americans were working on a league back then, but it probably got cancelled because ENSL offered what they needed. The austrailians were/are? the only league that I know of, other than NSL.
Here is the list of successful competetions I arranged:
NSL Season 1
NSL Custom Map Cup #1
NSL Invitational
NSL Season 2
NSL Nations Cup #1
NSL Summer Cup #1
NSL Season 3 (Shared with Zefram. Though the majority of the work was my doing, starting a new season is the most work you will get during a season, I quit one week before the playoffs)
To compare, here is the list of successful competetions Zefram arranged:
European Open
NSL Season 3 (Shared with me)
NS2WC
NSL Season 4
NSL Season 5(though it's pretty much been dropped on the floor, no updates for over a month)
The facts that I wrote here can be confirmed by blind and lots of other people that were following what was happening behind the scenes of the early ENSL/NSL.
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@Swalk, @Ironhorse is in charge of Squad 5, not me. I was just around when the posts needed to be done. Your most recent post is more detailed than your first and actually includes what all you've done instead of just generalized ideas. The pissing contest with Zefram is really unnecessary imo. And you missed a couple of his Custom Map cups and the draft tournaments.
@Swalk, @Ironhorse is in charge of Squad 5, not me. I was just around when the posts needed to be done. Your most recent post is more detailed than your first and actually includes what all you've done instead of just generalized ideas. The pissing contest with Zefram is really unnecessary imo. And you missed a couple of his Custom Map cups and the draft tournaments.
Well it's not a pissing contest, I appreciate that he kept it going for so long. He simply took over where I left off and it is the best thing I have to compare my achievements with.
My bad, I went through the NSL NS2 History, must have missed it.
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edited November 2014
Hmm I'm not sure if it is just how humor translates across the pond or what, but none of your posts have ever appeared humorous to me. Mostly smug and entitled.
Seriously though, chill man, I have run just as many 'events' as you and even help out with the NSL AU division back when it still existed and I 'only' have squad 5 blue as well. You don't see me trying to convince other people that I deserve more than that or that they were wrong with their assessment because I honestly don't care about the badge itself. There are also a lot of people that also deserve squad 5 that don't have it at all, so sometimes its good to eat the humble pie and be grateful that there are people in the community that are grateful.
Honestly dude, the whole blue/gold/silver squad 5 thing isn't even the point, its more the gesture of recognising good acts and people, and that sentiment doesn't change at all depending on the level of squad 5. Yes, people know how much you did, and they get it, you were a huge part of the NSL and NS2. That's what you wanted to hear right? Zefram has nothing to do with your squad 5 either.
Hmm I'm not sure if it is just how humor translates across the pond or what, but none of your posts have ever appeared humorous to me. Mostly smug and entitled.
Seriously though, chill man, I have run just as many 'events' as you and even help out with the NSL AU division back when it still existed and I 'only' have squad 5 blue as well. You don't see me trying to convince other people that I deserve more than that or that they were wrong with their assessment because I honestly don't care about the badge itself. There are also a lot of people that also deserve squad 5 that don't have it at all, so sometimes its good to eat the humble pie and be grateful that there are people in the community that are grateful.
Honestly dude, the whole blue/gold/silver squad 5 thing isn't even the point, its more the gesture of recognising good acts and people, and that sentiment doesn't change at all depending on the level of squad 5. Yes, people know how much you did, and they get it, you were a huge part of the NSL and NS2. That's what you wanted to hear right? Zefram has nothing to do with your squad 5 either.
Well, that's pretty much my homour, it's pretty damn dark. You may not like it, but that doesn't change my intentions. My initial line in my first post is a prime example of it.
Yeah, sure I am not alone in being somewhat misrewarded, you too should be upgraded in my point of view. You did an amazing job with the australian community, there is no doubt about that. But yes, as you say, there are alot of other unrewarded people out there, I actually indend to look through the squad 5 awards and bring forth names and reasoning to why they should be awarded/upgraded. I just didn't get around to find all the lists since they are not gathered in one place. My previous position in the community means I was dealing with alot of these people, who were spending so much time on it, like you and I. Yes, I was deeply humbled and grateful with the squad 5 when I initially got it, and I still am. So few people actually get one. But looking at the rewards that are given out after the revival it just seems to me like the values of the different levels of squad 5 have shifted and it feels like my previous award wasn't up to par with the new values of the Squad 5 levels.
Well, sure you may not care about the levels, but I think there is a bit of symbolism to it, like there should be with such things imo. I feel like the levels should somewhat be an indicator of the impact of the person on the ns2 scene in general. Well, I couldn't have asked for more praise from the people of the community for my work, I already had more than I deserve of that. It's extremely rare to have someone personally contact you for a thing like that and that is what I've been the most humbled by and it kept me going for a very long time. Squad 5 is more of an official reward from UWE's side, which should reflect people's amount of contributions to the scene. I never said Zefram had anything to do with my squad 5, I know he doesn't. I simply compared my achievements to my successors achievements, which are the most similar to mine.
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edited December 2014
Okay, I've tried to make a complete list of all current squad 5 awards. Here is the result I came up with:
BLUE
@Plasma | Creation of the wicked developer tracker @fsfod | The non-flash menu mod that added lots of useful functions / For his work on LuaJIT @Evil_bOb1 | The custom map Turtle @FMPone | Outstanding contributions to NS2 mapping @Zeikko | Positive contribution to the community through Archaea and balance debates @Grissi | Conistently measured, positive and well argued contributions to balance discussions @InternetsLive | Streaming gameplay via the twitch.tv/naturalselection2 channel @Kouji_San | For being an unrelenting all-encompassing positive unfluence on the community @invTempest | Starting the NS2Servers.com server offering @endar | Running the Australia Pure NS2 servers at significant personal cost @[=Alex=] | The map Triad @Ybarra | Graphics design for the NS2 community @dePARA | Service to EU players by running the HBZ servers @sr.Lance | Contribution to playtesting by running the Skulkrush servers @dushan | Creating Skycam in his spare time @Huze | Taking Dushan’s Skycam mod and turning it into the brilliant Insight @Dgelneshi | Taking Dushan’s Skycam mod and turning it into the brilliant Insight @[Dr]Leto | Effort in organising and commentating weekend play on Twitch.tv @[HEI] Spade | Writing the Kharaa guide on MMGN, contributions to the French NS2 community @ÒŗăNģё | Outstanding help to new players in Pubs @Heller | Writing the Kharaa guide on MMGN @McGlaspie | Fostering comraderie, good sporsmanship, launch of one of the first good NS2 servers, Team #156 West @Mr. Arkanti | Commentating Twitch.TV casts and contributions to the Australian NS2 community @Acid_Rain | Outstanding contributions to NS2 music and playtesting @SabaHell | Oustanding contributions to NS2 playtesting @supsu | Efforts in organising competitive games @Ulmont | TSA – TSF Texture work @Security | Creating and maintaining naturalselection.de @Fanatic | Outstanding contributions to competitive play @Nadyli | Contributions to ensl, organising night cup @vlnc | PlayitLive article, contributions to HEI website @ScardyBob | Above-and-beyond positive and effective community contributions @swalk | Oustanding contributions to competitive NS2 @tankefugl | Outstanding contributions to NS1 community @Insane | Nanogrid server browser @Onos Ate Me | Radiance mod @Devicenull | Providing servers and auto-update mod @ChickenBoy | Comprehensive guide to NS2 commanding @ssjyoda | Tanith remake for NS2 @hookeyed | The map Tengu @zombiehellmonkey | The map Kleos @Narfwak | For being a thoroughly dedicated PT Lead who puts an unbelievable amount of hours in and keeps the gears moving @Loki - For creating and now maintaining ns2_kodiak @Yaluzan - For tirelessly refereeing many hours of matches for the NSL @CannonFodderAUS - For creating an awesome and detailed manual of ns2! @DC_Darkling - For providing years worth of attentive and helpful technical support to all members as well as making commander guides in our Wiki and helping out in the mentorship program @Taz - For actively maintaining the AusNS2 website (which includes news posts, forums, and all the league info) & the AusNS2 League (which had 10 teams last season). @bondage - For actively maintaining the AusNS2 website (which includes news posts, forums, and all the league info) & the AusNS2 League (which had 10 teams last season). @Jekt - for getting the AusNS2 scene started @philogl - for getting the AusNS2 scene started @Person8880 - For fixing the "Unknown" in server browser issue @Sebb - For his work with Ausns2.org & twitch.tv/ausns2 @ghoulofgsg9 - For his contributions with NS2 Stats @sint - For his contributions with NS2 Stats @GISP - For the newbie NS2 tournament he put together and for pulling double duty and coming to both EU and NA playtests @ItsSuperEffective! - For all of this awesome newbie tutorials and various community contributions @soul_rider - For his mod, Gorgecraft @evil_ice - For the awesome custom models for NS1 fade, knife, and LMG @Pelargir - For his work with the NSL, NSL Maptesting, and contributions to NS2-FR @xtcmen - For his work on Jambi - both helping to create and then continuing to support and update the map
SILVER
@Player | Creating and consistently updating the GameOvermind admin mod @Obraxis | For his rock solid direction of the PT group as PT lead @pSyk0mAn | The creation of the most played map in the NS2 Beta – Summit @Jiriki | Maintaining ensl.org into the NS2 age, contributions to NS2 playtesting @Matso | The source of many an awesome code change
GOLD
@Blind - For his participation in the NSL, to including administration & casting as well as major contributions to producing the NS2WC stream. @zefram - For his work with the NS2WC & the NSL @xdragon - For his contributions and continued work with the NSL competitive mod, DAK mod, NS2WC mod, & NS2 Classic mod @samusdroid - For his many many unpaid hours he's put into the last few builds of NS2 @Mendasp - For the crazy amount of work he's put into maintaining maps, NSL maps, NS2+ mod, and his gardening skills @WasabiOne - For the many hours he's poured in to both playtesting and the NS2WC @RedDog - For casting and getting so many new people interested and involved with NS2 and his work with the NS2WC @Sewlek - For the contributions to NS2 & his Factions mod
First of all, I support ALL of the current nominations in this thread, all these people have spent great amounts of time to please the community. Here is my list on who is missing, I might update it if I realize that I forgot someone. These are mostly based around the competetive community, but these people deserve praise for their work.
Let me start with the ones already awarded that I think deserve a higher rank: @fsfod - He was awarded Blue twice, I think he should be ranked up instead for his massive efforts. @dePARA - HBZ is the oldest remaining team out there, all thanks to this guy. He have also provided the best servers in europe for a very long time, mostly out of his own pocket. The european community would not have been the same without HBZ and dePARA. @GISP - For continuingly, actively supporting UWE in their endeavours, setting up events(and getting me to be a part of it) to spread awareness to NS2 and NS2:Combat. @Pelargir - His engangement in the competetive community and continued help in the NSL deserves a rank up I would say. @Yaluzan - For his prolonged support as a referee to the NSL community, using countless hours to show up to countless matches sinces the early stages of NSL. @Seb - For quickly taking over where Elodea left off with managing the Austrailian part of NSL, refereeing and casting matches and keeping everything in check, while also managing the Austrailian league.
Now for the ones that are not nominated or awarded already: @huhuh - For quickly jumping at my side after I had announced the first season, maintaining and improving the ensl website in the early stages. @noway - For quickly jumping at my side after I had announced the first season, being a great division admin, advisor and referree in the early stages of NSL. @bHack - For quickly jumping at my side after I had announced the first season, doing alot of problem solving and helping with starting and running the league and being division admin. @Aioros - For arranging the Balance Mod Cup and calming the competetive community in a hectic period with massive changes. csm (not sure what he is called on these forums) - For using countless hours building the new NSL website. Fr33K1LL - For his countless hours and dedication to refereeing NSL matches and in general helping where help was needed. @Gamerkatze - For managing the gameservers in the early stages of NSL, refereeing many matches and helping where he could. @Ryne - For his many high quality livestreams and spreading awareness about the game. @GohanZeta - For his many contributions to the community, in form of livestreams, refereeing for NSL, his visionary improvements for visuals of livestreams and much more. @Argosh - For his prolonged support to NSL as a referee. Elodea - For being the Australian division admin in the early stages of NSL, doing a great job. @Kaneh - For his longtime support to NSL, doing Referee jobs, casting matches and now managing the servers. @Virsoul - For his countless livestreams, teaching players how to play and bringing insight into competetive play. @Vindaloo - For his many livestreams, refereeing for NSL, all while persistently running the team onFire for a long time. @Talutha - For bringing many great livestreams from NSL and arranging other events. @Soleanthia - For doing many livestreams from NSL, with great interest in the community and the game. @ArcL!ght - For being a long-time livestreamer and referee for NSL.
It's a pretty long list, but these are some obvious ones I see missing from the nominations
How many hours did you spend to make a such awesome list? Just a thing, you missed @Rantology in the Gold section.
Took me a couple of hours to find all the old newsposts here and going through the NSL NS2 history and spreadsheets I made back when I was league admin. Wierd, I didn't find her name in any newsposts/announcements. I knew I would forget alot of people :P But good that she already got her well deserved award!
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I already have Silver
I do however actively promote all UWE products (And NS2:Combat). I think i get a few people to buy all 4 games each day on average
I already have Silver
I do however actively promote all UWE products (And NS2:Combat). I think i get a few people to buy all 4 games each day on average
Then you need to be upgraded to Gold! You deserve an upgrade
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Also @troops for co founding the SCC, PTing, for giving mapping a good try and being general NS2 comedy Legend
Troops! Right, forgot him
And it's hubris to nominate yourself. Also, I'm not really sure about the future of frost. I got a game idea that I want to work on, and I can either do that OR frost besides university, both is just not going to work. And ns2 mapping does not really have a future
if you didn't allow self-nominations, some people would ask buddies behind the scenes to nominate them and i don't see a reason why that kind of behaviour should be encouraged as it seems much more lame than a self-nomination tbh.
the badge should be about having contributed to the community as a whole, not for socializing with the right individuals on the forums.
not everyone is posting on the forums and not everyone knows about the squad 5 program. and even if they do: in my case, i listed stuff that's partially years ago and i don't expect anyone (actually not even myself, i had to do some research) to have an overview there. if you nominate yourself, you can at least get the facts straight.
Okay, okay, I nominate myself, as most awesome person of the universe(TM). I haven't done a lot, though, except talking. There's that excuse of a map called frost, and I've been briefly (while successfully) Combat PT Lead. But that's Combat, not NS2.
I hereby nominate myself for Squad 5 Blue badge. I have currently translated all remaining strings of NS2 into Swedish. They now only need approval to make it into the game. As for proof I think @Mendasp should be able to verify the large number of strings I have submitted.
I can confirm this statement.
Please keep Squad 5 nominations coming - We can't give out the badges without your nominations!
It doesn't sound like a decision but more like a reaction from something, transparancy is always a good thing. Anyway, recognition of their works is a great thing
Aww, thanks Decoy! I do 'lerk' (ha!) around the forums from time to time and I saw this because of the mention. It was a pleasure contributing what I could to this fantastic game! You guys in the CDT are doing an amazing job, keep it up!
Miss you all, really! If there is ever a time I can break away and cast something, I will definitely do it!
Is this part of a quest to bring someone back to casting or to drink with you again? :P
Edit: If this has already been addressed, then just nevermind this post. Lol
One of the best Australians!
(you) I don't know, Jackson when he will be moved to your beautiful country.
Hem... Squad 5 badges have colors ? How many ? What does it say ?
Oh, hem... well... What is the color for the most annoying guy on the forums ? I think it's mine.
They are given depending of what you have done on/for NS2. Blue is the first rank players can reach. Then Silver and Gold. The last one is only given to people that have contributed a lot of for the community like those that did receive this badge on the previous posts above. As far as I know, except for some exceptional situations, you cannot be rewarded with a Silver or Gold badge without being given Blue at first. That's why plenty of people are nominating those they think should deserve some recognition.
After all, I was the one who ran the ENSL gathers during beta, I got the ENSL going at launch, thankfully blind and many others jumped on the wagon after I got it going. Not to mention that it was me who was the first flagcarrier for NSL; the idea of removing the European part of the name and making it a global league, though regional split as long as the league could sustain it. Without me, the americans, austrailians and other nationalities would probably not have played in the ENSL, but just had their own seperate leagues. I know some americans were working on a league back then, but it probably got cancelled because ENSL offered what they needed. The austrailians were/are? the only league that I know of, other than NSL.
Here is the list of successful competetions I arranged:
NSL Season 1
NSL Custom Map Cup #1
NSL Invitational
NSL Season 2
NSL Nations Cup #1
NSL Summer Cup #1
NSL Season 3 (Shared with Zefram. Though the majority of the work was my doing, starting a new season is the most work you will get during a season, I quit one week before the playoffs)
To compare, here is the list of successful competetions Zefram arranged:
European Open
NSL Season 3 (Shared with me)
NS2WC
NSL Season 4
NSL Season 5(though it's pretty much been dropped on the floor, no updates for over a month)
The facts that I wrote here can be confirmed by blind and lots of other people that were following what was happening behind the scenes of the early ENSL/NSL.
Does this seem biased to anyone?
My bad, I went through the NSL NS2 History, must have missed it.
Seriously though, chill man, I have run just as many 'events' as you and even help out with the NSL AU division back when it still existed and I 'only' have squad 5 blue as well. You don't see me trying to convince other people that I deserve more than that or that they were wrong with their assessment because I honestly don't care about the badge itself. There are also a lot of people that also deserve squad 5 that don't have it at all, so sometimes its good to eat the humble pie and be grateful that there are people in the community that are grateful.
Honestly dude, the whole blue/gold/silver squad 5 thing isn't even the point, its more the gesture of recognising good acts and people, and that sentiment doesn't change at all depending on the level of squad 5. Yes, people know how much you did, and they get it, you were a huge part of the NSL and NS2. That's what you wanted to hear right? Zefram has nothing to do with your squad 5 either.
Yeah, sure I am not alone in being somewhat misrewarded, you too should be upgraded in my point of view. You did an amazing job with the australian community, there is no doubt about that. But yes, as you say, there are alot of other unrewarded people out there, I actually indend to look through the squad 5 awards and bring forth names and reasoning to why they should be awarded/upgraded. I just didn't get around to find all the lists since they are not gathered in one place. My previous position in the community means I was dealing with alot of these people, who were spending so much time on it, like you and I. Yes, I was deeply humbled and grateful with the squad 5 when I initially got it, and I still am. So few people actually get one. But looking at the rewards that are given out after the revival it just seems to me like the values of the different levels of squad 5 have shifted and it feels like my previous award wasn't up to par with the new values of the Squad 5 levels.
Well, sure you may not care about the levels, but I think there is a bit of symbolism to it, like there should be with such things imo. I feel like the levels should somewhat be an indicator of the impact of the person on the ns2 scene in general. Well, I couldn't have asked for more praise from the people of the community for my work, I already had more than I deserve of that. It's extremely rare to have someone personally contact you for a thing like that and that is what I've been the most humbled by and it kept me going for a very long time. Squad 5 is more of an official reward from UWE's side, which should reflect people's amount of contributions to the scene. I never said Zefram had anything to do with my squad 5, I know he doesn't. I simply compared my achievements to my successors achievements, which are the most similar to mine.
BLUE
@Plasma | Creation of the wicked developer tracker
@fsfod | The non-flash menu mod that added lots of useful functions / For his work on LuaJIT
@Evil_bOb1 | The custom map Turtle
@FMPone | Outstanding contributions to NS2 mapping
@Zeikko | Positive contribution to the community through Archaea and balance debates
@Grissi | Conistently measured, positive and well argued contributions to balance discussions
@InternetsLive | Streaming gameplay via the twitch.tv/naturalselection2 channel
@Kouji_San | For being an unrelenting all-encompassing positive unfluence on the community
@invTempest | Starting the NS2Servers.com server offering
@endar | Running the Australia Pure NS2 servers at significant personal cost
@[=Alex=] | The map Triad
@Ybarra | Graphics design for the NS2 community
@dePARA | Service to EU players by running the HBZ servers
@sr.Lance | Contribution to playtesting by running the Skulkrush servers
@dushan | Creating Skycam in his spare time
@Huze | Taking Dushan’s Skycam mod and turning it into the brilliant Insight
@Dgelneshi | Taking Dushan’s Skycam mod and turning it into the brilliant Insight
@[Dr]Leto | Effort in organising and commentating weekend play on Twitch.tv
@[HEI] Spade | Writing the Kharaa guide on MMGN, contributions to the French NS2 community
@ÒŗăNģё | Outstanding help to new players in Pubs
@Heller | Writing the Kharaa guide on MMGN
@McGlaspie | Fostering comraderie, good sporsmanship, launch of one of the first good NS2 servers, Team #156 West
@Mr. Arkanti | Commentating Twitch.TV casts and contributions to the Australian NS2 community
@Acid_Rain | Outstanding contributions to NS2 music and playtesting
@SabaHell | Oustanding contributions to NS2 playtesting
@supsu | Efforts in organising competitive games
@Ulmont | TSA – TSF Texture work
@Security | Creating and maintaining naturalselection.de
@Fanatic | Outstanding contributions to competitive play
@Nadyli | Contributions to ensl, organising night cup
@vlnc | PlayitLive article, contributions to HEI website
@ScardyBob | Above-and-beyond positive and effective community contributions
@swalk | Oustanding contributions to competitive NS2
@tankefugl | Outstanding contributions to NS1 community
@Insane | Nanogrid server browser
@Onos Ate Me | Radiance mod
@Devicenull | Providing servers and auto-update mod
@ChickenBoy | Comprehensive guide to NS2 commanding
@ssjyoda | Tanith remake for NS2
@hookeyed | The map Tengu
@zombiehellmonkey | The map Kleos
@Narfwak | For being a thoroughly dedicated PT Lead who puts an unbelievable amount of hours in and keeps the gears moving
@Loki - For creating and now maintaining ns2_kodiak
@Yaluzan - For tirelessly refereeing many hours of matches for the NSL
@CannonFodderAUS - For creating an awesome and detailed manual of ns2!
@DC_Darkling - For providing years worth of attentive and helpful technical support to all members as well as making commander guides in our Wiki and helping out in the mentorship program
@Taz - For actively maintaining the AusNS2 website (which includes news posts, forums, and all the league info) & the AusNS2 League (which had 10 teams last season).
@bondage - For actively maintaining the AusNS2 website (which includes news posts, forums, and all the league info) & the AusNS2 League (which had 10 teams last season).
@Jekt - for getting the AusNS2 scene started
@philogl - for getting the AusNS2 scene started
@Person8880 - For fixing the "Unknown" in server browser issue
@Sebb - For his work with Ausns2.org & twitch.tv/ausns2
@ghoulofgsg9 - For his contributions with NS2 Stats
@sint - For his contributions with NS2 Stats
@GISP - For the newbie NS2 tournament he put together and for pulling double duty and coming to both EU and NA playtests
@ItsSuperEffective! - For all of this awesome newbie tutorials and various community contributions
@soul_rider - For his mod, Gorgecraft
@evil_ice - For the awesome custom models for NS1 fade, knife, and LMG
@Pelargir - For his work with the NSL, NSL Maptesting, and contributions to NS2-FR
@xtcmen - For his work on Jambi - both helping to create and then continuing to support and update the map
SILVER
@Player | Creating and consistently updating the GameOvermind admin mod
@Obraxis | For his rock solid direction of the PT group as PT lead
@pSyk0mAn | The creation of the most played map in the NS2 Beta – Summit
@Jiriki | Maintaining ensl.org into the NS2 age, contributions to NS2 playtesting
@Matso | The source of many an awesome code change
GOLD
@Blind - For his participation in the NSL, to including administration & casting as well as major contributions to producing the NS2WC stream.
@zefram - For his work with the NS2WC & the NSL
@xdragon - For his contributions and continued work with the NSL competitive mod, DAK mod, NS2WC mod, & NS2 Classic mod
@samusdroid - For his many many unpaid hours he's put into the last few builds of NS2
@Mendasp - For the crazy amount of work he's put into maintaining maps, NSL maps, NS2+ mod, and his gardening skills
@WasabiOne - For the many hours he's poured in to both playtesting and the NS2WC
@RedDog - For casting and getting so many new people interested and involved with NS2 and his work with the NS2WC
@Sewlek - For the contributions to NS2 & his Factions mod
First of all, I support ALL of the current nominations in this thread, all these people have spent great amounts of time to please the community. Here is my list on who is missing, I might update it if I realize that I forgot someone. These are mostly based around the competetive community, but these people deserve praise for their work.
Let me start with the ones already awarded that I think deserve a higher rank:
@fsfod - He was awarded Blue twice, I think he should be ranked up instead for his massive efforts.
@dePARA - HBZ is the oldest remaining team out there, all thanks to this guy. He have also provided the best servers in europe for a very long time, mostly out of his own pocket. The european community would not have been the same without HBZ and dePARA.
@GISP - For continuingly, actively supporting UWE in their endeavours, setting up events(and getting me to be a part of it) to spread awareness to NS2 and NS2:Combat.
@Pelargir - His engangement in the competetive community and continued help in the NSL deserves a rank up I would say.
@Yaluzan - For his prolonged support as a referee to the NSL community, using countless hours to show up to countless matches sinces the early stages of NSL.
@Seb - For quickly taking over where Elodea left off with managing the Austrailian part of NSL, refereeing and casting matches and keeping everything in check, while also managing the Austrailian league.
Now for the ones that are not nominated or awarded already:
@huhuh - For quickly jumping at my side after I had announced the first season, maintaining and improving the ensl website in the early stages.
@noway - For quickly jumping at my side after I had announced the first season, being a great division admin, advisor and referree in the early stages of NSL.
@bHack - For quickly jumping at my side after I had announced the first season, doing alot of problem solving and helping with starting and running the league and being division admin.
@Aioros - For arranging the Balance Mod Cup and calming the competetive community in a hectic period with massive changes.
csm (not sure what he is called on these forums) - For using countless hours building the new NSL website.
Fr33K1LL - For his countless hours and dedication to refereeing NSL matches and in general helping where help was needed.
@Gamerkatze - For managing the gameservers in the early stages of NSL, refereeing many matches and helping where he could.
@Ryne - For his many high quality livestreams and spreading awareness about the game.
@GohanZeta - For his many contributions to the community, in form of livestreams, refereeing for NSL, his visionary improvements for visuals of livestreams and much more.
@Argosh - For his prolonged support to NSL as a referee.
Elodea - For being the Australian division admin in the early stages of NSL, doing a great job.
@Kaneh - For his longtime support to NSL, doing Referee jobs, casting matches and now managing the servers.
@Virsoul - For his countless livestreams, teaching players how to play and bringing insight into competetive play.
@Vindaloo - For his many livestreams, refereeing for NSL, all while persistently running the team onFire for a long time.
@Talutha - For bringing many great livestreams from NSL and arranging other events.
@Soleanthia - For doing many livestreams from NSL, with great interest in the community and the game.
@ArcL!ght - For being a long-time livestreamer and referee for NSL.
It's a pretty long list, but these are some obvious ones I see missing from the nominations
There will be another round very soon (that will be larger than normal) so be sure to poke others to contribute more names
I do however actively promote all UWE products (And NS2:Combat). I think i get a few people to buy all 4 games each day on average
Then you need to be upgraded to Gold! You deserve an upgrade