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Greetings, Players!

On our site we started a little project about the history of oa players.
It would be nice, if you could support our idea, to make the flow and connections between clans more visible for all.
The idea behind, is to see, wich players played in which clan.

Feel free to write all about your clan history but be neat enough to _not_ insult your old pals ;)

The thread can be found here: http://god-oa.de/smf/index.php?topic=1389

thx for your support!

GoD|Clan

Started playing in autumn 2007. Joined =SC= after 4 months or so, and I am a member ever since.
Boring or stable?

I guess "stable" :)
As you can see in the above link (http://god-oa.de/smf/index.php?topic=1389), many players just joined one clan and stay there.
So: support them and write your own thread there :)

I found out about OpenArena around October 2007 from doing a Wiki search of portable games. This was version 071. After I installed and played it, I thought it would be cool to past the time. Plus, I got my GF (Hitwoman) to play as well. After playing on my LAN, we decided to play against others. At that time, the big name teams were /V/, Brutal, *SS*, ThD that I knew of. The top teams collaborated to make a group called [N] for Noobs so that clans can train new prospects and recruit them.

Some of the [N] players back then was Myself, Hitwoman, sns, Alma, BillGates. I learned the game from many good players (Odigo, bogie mainly) and was asked to join /V/ about 4 months later (early 2008). At that time, many people of V  (Wii, Gerbil, Bogie, Repta, Mobster) left the group to formed their own team (-X-) at that time before starting oAN later on.

During the 2008 year, all that was left was Myself, Hitw, ME, Ikemon, Twizzler, RashDawg, sns, Vile. Later we recruited Drunken^Master, RoboJew, JessicaRA, Shishio. Robo Left joined *beer*, Vile quit playing and Shishio disappeared after moving to version 081. Then we began recruiting people like Alma, Specious, RoOster, Hairball (early 2009). We were a powerhouse team with our new additions. But toward the middle of 2009, members left the group for different reasons (tension between each other, lack of interest).

 At the end of 2009, I decided to leave /V/ and go solo for awhile. Alma, Jess, and Hitw were the only ones that kept /V/ alive (Later they recruited dsd). I played more on EU servers, instagibbing, All Rockets using multiple aliases (CloudStrife, Orochi, {C}easar). Now in 2010, I joined up with small groups (Kozaks, Moto's) but officially in the d/p clan with Wii, Butters, RashDawg and 2 others. So far, its been interesting ride. I plan on continuing to make more history with this game.

I can't load the god website, couldn't at home and can't here (and it are different ISPs) :s

Clans are lame, and nothing  makes  me smile more than beating  a bunch of clan boys in their  own  server. LOL

to generalize is the right way to bring up our society!

Good shot ! XD

Most clans and clan members I run into are ok and helpful but some are aholes and sore losers but there will always be these types of people in any game I just say nothing and let them rage.

I just  don't  see the  point...

Communautarism is bad, but communities is good, and necessary for human. Else, you wouldn't talk in a forum.

Being in a  clan with a silly  little clan tag is quite  different  than chatting on a  forum.  I see  what you mean about the  social aspect, but I can chat with other players and  use MSN or  whatever to keep  in  touch  with them without being in a clan. Like  I said,  I  don't see  the  point.

The point is playing team games, like TDM and CTF.

Much like you play in a team when you play football or basketball. Having a team of players, who work on strategies, and play in leagues, is often more interesting than eternal random matches with random people against random people.

All team-based games have, well, teams :)

Well you know what? That makes sense. I still enjoy the eternal random matches with random people though, unless I can get a few friends from MSN or something.

Seeing as how I am not a team game player though, it makes even more sense now why I'm not into clans. :)

So do I, in fact this is all I do.

If you only do casual FFA and duel, then there is really not that much need for a clan at all, other than the social aspects, should you desire them.

Ah, but I'm not casual, I play OA and Quake 3 every day for at least a couple hours. This doesn't make me want to go join some clan though.

I meant "casual" in the sense of playing for fun, not joining leagues, competitions, going to lan parties, playing for money, etc.

Well, when your in a clan some of that still doesn't happen. I have talked to quite a few clan people over the years, and generally there are no prizes or money or anything like that if you win in a clan. Things could be different now, but generally clans are just the opportunity to put a tag in front of your name and a few new dudes on your buddy list.

PROJECTS HAVE SEX?  :-X

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Guess something got lost found in translation....

and this topic goes belly up  :D

He meant "A history of its players"...

Arena is female, so its right form has to be "her" - but i am not a native and if you like, we can write all the stuff in my language...
I do _not_ like this kind of wise ass.
(and yes: there is also a m (Turnierplatz) and a n (Stadion) form, but as i told above...)

PS: i do not mean Gig oc! thx for your hint!

AFAIK:
For males: his
For females: her
For things: its

I guess OA is a thing. :P

My native language (Danish) does not have three options... it has four.

Many languages does only have two sexes so that everything must be either female or male. The sex usually moves with then speaking other languages.

Don't get that last part, but how do you mean 4? He (male), she (female), it (neutral), and bi (bisexual) or what :P

Male, female, neutral and none (ham, hende, den, det). Technically the last one isn't a sex but it still has its own word. A boy is male, a girl is female, a car is neutral and a house is neither. Nobody can explain the difference between the last two and therefore "none" is dying.

Just like it can be hard to explain neutral ("it") to someone with a language with only he and she.

German is even more funny because they got three sexes: A boy is male, most animals are female and a girl is neutral.

The above things can't be explained logically they just are there for historical reasons.

Disclaimer:
I am not good at languages. I every test I had in them was a near failure.

Like i did... :)

Hungarian is the simplest in this aspect. Not only do we lack grammatical genders (der, die, das) but we also lack the different pronouns like he/she. We only have different pronouns for living persons and objects. That creates funny situations when Hungarian English learners ignore the genders, like: "My girlfriend is pretty and _he_ loves me." :)

In Italian we have only 2 grammatical genders (all is male or female... for example, usually a certain tree is male, and its fruit is female). But a lot of words change by gender (like actor/actress in English... we can say "gatto" for a male cat and "gatta" for a female cat), and there are some words that change gender when going plural! And there are many particular cases, for example, to say "you", there is a word for singolar and one for plural... but when talking in official-impersonal way, you can say the plural word for "you" also to a single person, or even the word for "she" (still meaning "you")!

Dutch has two genders: 'de' and 'het'. De is male, het is everything else - or something. I (ofc) use it naturally right so I'm actually not really sure :P IIRC actually we also had a third 'des' but that's like 100 years ago (or something in that order, could be 50 or 200 as well).

@Udi, lol. In Dutch we not only have he and she, but also two variants for 'you': 'je' and 'u'. U is more formal (ur boss, grandparents and/or parents - depends, teachers), and je is for friends and children. Nowadays it's less often formal than in the past, but still u is used enough (think it'll take some time to really disappear).

This comes as an assist for a general rule that should be received as the most important thing while learning a foreign ( non native ) language : the first you learn to _THINK_ directly in the foreign language without translating in your native language , the first you will be able not to make those kind of mistakes and to talk/write correctly the language itself.

This has sense for me . Maybe "den" is used for "animated" , mobile things and "det" for static things.


Neutral gender has its historical roots in the ancient roman latin language , which has 3 genders : male, female , neutral and names have cases ( nominative, genitive, accusative , vocative , ablative ) which makes it a language with a strict logic.

I've studied it for 5 years at high school back in the days , and surprisily at a scientific oriented high school. When I've tried to understand why we studied 5 years this ancient language at a scientific oriented school , it seemed to not find any reasonable enough motivation for that.

For sure the influence of the Roman Church gives a lot of contribution for mantaining it and so also for studing of the Roman law which is the base of our juridic system.

But by a scientific point of view , there are at least two reasons for studing it :
- the strict logical structure of the language , which makes the language itself a good mental train for building logical processes.
- because the Roman Latin was the official language for international scientific pubblications and it was replaced by english language only in the 20th century. If you want to read the original Galilei's or Newton's pubblications you need to know Roman Latin language.

Of course this has not any sense for the mass of "the inter<<D>>et people" or even all the "post-'89" european generations, it's waste, spam for the other side of the Atlantic ocean.

ymmd!