Well, it's a weird time of year to see Elimination end so early - that said, was a great pleasure working with so many amazing people from my Leads in natty, mike and whitemafia, to the council which was the lifeblood of the team. Push CAPS-tains, you all kept showing us that you do know how to count backwards, which ngl, sometimes on torn I question if people can even do that. Amazing group from top to bottom, proud to have my name in all caps next to each and every one of you.You all put in a great effort, we knew there would be target on our heads from early on when the teams were sorted out, but that's what elimination is all about.
To Flower Rangers, yall stuck with us to the end, well done and sadly, would suspect your petals will be plucked next. To the dual backstabbing teams NOT named backstabbers, am sure M-pact will have you do their dirty work for the next couple of teams out as they should. Enjoy the extra energy spent and no chance at 1st.
M-Pact, yall had it locked early and we had a 4v4, unfortunately, teams were not skewed in our favor in terms of attacks, so you guys got to do your thing. Best of luck and if it isnt 1-3 this time, yall messed something up.
Given the holiday season is approaching across the world and the inflammatory nature that the forums typically take. Let's try to talk about what/who we are thankful for in our torn journeys!
Myself, I am thankful for those that convinced me to join all those years ago (undontwanna)
Those that have helped support my growth (deft/penicillin/PMV)
and those that have helped me grow as a leader and a person (Vicarious/sinisista/VShack and countless others)
If I didnt include you, it doesnt mean I am not thankful for you, it's just that there are innumerable people who helped me get to where I am today.
Special category: Those that have made me laugh: Be it fidelcashflow, KK, Evaline, Zach or any of the crazy forum dwellers along the way
Ladies and gentlemen of the forum, faction mates, lurkers, passersby, and even those who only clicked this thread because the title was long enough to pique their curiosity—today is no ordinary day. No, today we gather in collective celebration to mark an occasion of such magnitude that even my verbose words will struggle to capture it fully (though, rest assured, I will try).
For it is with great honor, admiration, and perhaps just a dash of awe-struck humility, that we welcome the one, the only, the indisputably illustrious, and delightfully long-winded MeanMike to our corner of Torn.
Now, it’s worth pausing here—because when one speaks the name “MeanMike,” it carries with it not only a reputation but a rhythm, a cadence, a kind of literary thunder. A man not content with a mere sentence when a paragraph will do, a player for whom the word brevity exists only as a cautionary tale in a dusty dictionary, long since ignored. His forum posts are not simply posts; they are events. They are odysseys. They are the kind of epic scrolls you need snacks and hydration to get through, the sort that make you wonder if you should be jotting down notes for a midterm after reading them.
And yet—despite their length, or perhaps because of it—every word carries weight. Every tangent winds its way back to some shining nugget of insight. Every flourish reminds us that the written word can still have style in a world increasingly reduced to emojis and acronyms. (Though, to be fair, he probably has an opinion on emojis too, and it would likely take three pages to explain it.)
So, let this thread stand as both a tribute and a warm embrace:
To welcome MeanMike into this space, where he may stretch his eloquence across the digital canvas.
To prepare ourselves for the literary marathons that lie ahead.
And to celebrate the rare gift of a player who makes even a routine announcement feel like the opening chapter of a novel.
Welcome, MeanMike. May your posts remain long, your words remain plentiful, and your audiences remain patient (and caffeinated).
Now then… who wants to place bets on whether his first reply will be longer than this introduction?
Keep in mind if you are using that one that a large % of the public is using, the guy basically does a mustache villain TOS about what they will use your API key for. So while it may make some things easier for you, it also puts your info at risk
Unfortunately when you remove the rewards as they currently are, you will see a DRASTIC decrease in enlistment, ESP if the rewards are things like (caches can be sold, special perks and so on) because you have a faction who goes and had a massive war, then gets ZERO monetary gain for it, who is now upside down on the war, pulling from their own pocket for a win? You will have "business decisions" left/right/center to avoid having to actually fight a good war due to going into the poor house
I feel like this is some SERIOUS recency bias considering places like MMCP, SMTH, Unrelenting, Relentless and countless other factions who have had the club taken to them over time.
There are over 100 attendees going to Amsterdam in March and likely over that going to Boston in August, so not simple to name them all, but as Alexea suggested, check out the discord
Well done Maks, keep up pushing hard, just be sure to have those goals out there, the game gets stale fast when you achieve and dont have good goalposts to shoot for
I mean if you WANT to make more action on the map, I am sure I can swing in with a couple of my friends and crap you back to whatever corner you crawled out of, keep staff and any of that nonsense out of your mouth
This is one of the hardest parts of torn, when you have grown to know someone over the years for them to suddenly be taken from your circle. I did not know Warcrypt as well some others in NS did, but the outpouring of shock and sadness I have seen at this passing show that he will be deeply missed for a long time.
Hold close every moment you share with those you care for and cherish them fully, because; as we’ve just seen, any one of them could be the last.
Pretty sure Adam did purchase the faction so it's his to do with whatever he likes, regardless of what most of the social conscious would say because of everyone's hard work. Most people would see a faction built up like that as a function of the members vs a piece of property to take, ESP given that only 1 of the 3 primary founders remained in it
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