IWL leadership -I had many fun times on IWL, but I personally belive that the 2nd reset just killed the IWL. I have been in it since the begining, and saw what the 1st reset did, but what is left of it I chose to give to FOSS who had a vital part in making Blackrock what it once was. If FOSS does not want the leadership then it should go down the ladder until someone accepts the responsibility for it.
My strategies for Nowhere to run Nowhere to hide - Allthough I never released my full strategies for this level, I leave them in the hands of White and FOSS to do what they please with. To all you newbie war2 players out there who think this is a shitty level because it small, I say to YOU. You are a shitty player because you cannot come up with more than 1 or 2 strats for this level!!!! Ruuuuuuuuuuuuhahaahahha!
The ONE thing that I know of that could cause the TOTAL destruction of WAR2 as we know it - I intrust this SECRET to Shlonglor, who has always been a good online bud of mine. He had a large part in making war2 what it is today on kali. He is among a circle of my kali friends that have been around, what seems forever, and have always enjoyed eachothers company... whether it be in war or just chatting. This awsome responsibility I place on Shlonglor because he is the one guy that did more than ANYONE else to make war2 "happen" on kali. You could say that he gave birth to war2 on kali, and now I invest in him, the power to TOTALLY DESTROY WAR2 ON KALI. Please don't email Shlonglor asking him about it, if I know Shlonglor, I know that if he CHOOSES to tell anyone he will! But he will not just tell you because you ask him about it (hahaha hex!!!) So to all you war2 players out there who go into a game and act like an ass, return to chat, cuss, and are just overall bad sportmen/ogres. YOU better start acting good or else Shlonglor might just KILL war2:) Ruuuuhahahhahaa!
As a special parting gift to all who recieve this email, I will also send my special kchat.cfg file which contains all my beautiful macros that I have annoyed you with throughout the history of kali..... :)
Ok well thats what I leave to you guys, I hope you enjoy them!!! Below Is the history of my gaming, kali, IWL and War2 as "I" remember it .....
A) The early years................
Well I guess I have always loved games from the begining. My first ever game machine was an atarii "pong" consul. Yes a consul! It came with a "motherbox" and two huge controlers that were permitally attached to the consul. It was great! You could play pong, tennis, basketbal, ect.. of course there were no carterages just a selector switch :) and NO cartrages :) Eventually atarii released the atarii 2600. It was the first breakthrough in gaming. I loved the 2600 and had many games for it. WOW cartrages!! what a concept :) Among my favorite games were "mazecraze" and "battle tanks" .. oh yeah "astroids" and "space invaders" haha.. Then I was amazed by my neibors Clecovision!! It was way cool and had good graphics :) cant remeber much else. Eventually after working for my grandmother (for money haha) I saved up enough money for a atarii 5600 :) WOW!! This was a slick machine, my favorite game on it was digdug :) (I never could get ALL the dirt dug up! A few years went by and then I bough a nintindo. Man nintindo blew the roof off of anything else on the market. It was simply the best game system of its time. The one game I remember from nintindo was Ultima :) an rpg that I spent LOTS of time on ohh yeah also "Dragonlord" (no not on kali :) After the nintindo I bought a sega genisis, which I enjoyed very much, until I got my supernintindo. BTW, the thing I notice about SEGA vs NINTINDO is that sega had some cool sports games, but in general Sega always came out with machines tooooooo early (I dont think they did any market research) and Nintindo seemed to wait and come out with a quality machine. This fact was even proven further when Sega released the SHITTY cd rom adapter that I paid 300+ for and it sucked!!!!
B) The Warcraft days....................................
Well after years went by and 32 bit systems and some 64 bit ones were comming out I started looking @ computers :) And eventually got one an at&t P60 :) of course, it was out of date before payments were done :) I then started looking for games!! And after years or months (cant remeber) I found WARCRAFT, but I did not buy it :) But every time I went into a store I looked at it and looked at it and looked at it haha. And eventually I bought it!! I did not however, ever play it over modem or kali. But I beat the HUMAN (haha) senerio. One funny thing was ... I did NOT know that you could select more than one unit at a time.. so I beat the game by FREAKEN SELECTING ONE GUY AT A TIME ruuuhahah! C) The War2 days.................................
i) Getting hooked up.
Well it was about that time when war2 came out. Of course as soon as I saw it I rushed to the store and bought it! About the same month (or before) I remeber my going over to my geek friends house (haha donny! aka DrDon) and watching him play some 3d game called Descent. I never really like it too much. But he was determined to get me hooked up to kali! So he told me how. Then in a week or so I went to cyberhighway (in Boise Idaho) and got hooked online. If I had only know what was to come...... . . .
My first nick on kali (as my friends so fortuantly name me when setting up kali for me) was .. get this... "Newbie" haha !!! at least it wasn't "Icecube" or whatever rapper yours was shlongy :) Well those were the kali Central days!! I remember them well. I was always getting kicked off after 15 min because I hadn't registered.. So I called up and registered by credit card.. but Jay never sent me my # ... so what did I do? haha I caught JayC on kchat and /msg him and told him about it!!! (like you could do that anymore) haha YES Jay used to come on all the time ! But STILL no #... so I finally emailed him and "reminded" him of our conversation and FINALLY a reg #2692 :) also do a /whois DrDon! hes the one that showed me kali :)
Well it was this time that I started to play war2 over the internet. At first I would only play with about 6 guys that were in my town :) and MAN!! were those the fastes 6 player games that I have EVER played :) Then eventually I ventured out into the unknown. I remember only making 1 baracks (cause that is all you need you know ;) also I remeber playing humans allot. But slowely I was introduced to ORCS :) Usually by an asskicking. I cannot remember allot of games ever going past the grunt stage though.. Well.. after many games I slowly switched over to orcs and began to get allot better!
ii) Intro to IWL
This was when I first heard of IWL .. some guys were talking about it on a seperate channel... so I barged in :) and started asking questions. The funny thing was, back then, it was kinda a secret so noone was telling anyone, but these guys offered my a internet ulr :) THEN I joined the IWL... I remember now that the funny thing was this quotation on the IWL hompage: "IWL brought to you by the makers of the NWL" hahahahaha you see the NWL actually came before IWL, but!!!! it was not the same league as you are probably thinking.. it was NOT the "Newbie Warcraft League" (that you probably know) but rather the "National Warcraft League" (thus the IWL = International Warcraft League being the next logical step :) )
It was funny, because back then noone was playing games (kinda like now;) and only a few clans had more than 1 member (if even 1!) So why did I sign up on Blackrock? Well.. I was NOT the first leader of Blackrock....
It was rather a guy by the name of Tyrsis, a guy that was a member of an orginization called TIC (the inner circle), which was kinda like the {{sk's}} (shadow knights). And back then , his named apeared Tyrsis[TIC2]. I played a game and got wased by him and a friend (yes I did have partner too) they had ogres when I had grunts :( (this was before wallin strat was around). I kept on questioning Tyrsis after the game about TIC ..(I though it was some sort of insect;) He was very kind and talked to me about war2 and warchat:) "Warchat" was a program he was writing that would basically replace kchat for war2players. I think i would of been cool. Anywayz... warchat didn't happen because Tyrsis's computer crashed and he was disconnected for awile.. during this time I recieved an email from cplwill saying "Tyrsis has not replyed to my emails, therefore you are the new leader of Blacrock" haha its easy to become leader !! :) Back then Blackrock was ranked dead last (before the 1st reset) and I was the only member.
iii) My rise to glory.
During this time I figured out if I was going to be leader I had better start getting good :) so I practice and practiced on everyone. I did not focus on how to "eventually win" but rather how quickly to win :) I became a good war2 player (not great yet) It was about this time that I burst onto a channel called #iwl on kchat. There was where I found some of the greats of war2. Including Shlonglor, who had made a reputation for himself through his war2 page. It was here where I took my first step as a warior :) I was just sitting around minding my own business on #iwl with shlongy and some {{sks}} and some other guy (who was pretty good but I cant remember now), anywayz this guy challanged me to my first iwl match :) it was some small level for 2 players whith long land bridges (forgot it :) and it came down to.. him going for knights waaay to early and me :) going for massive grunts level 5 :) he was only level 1 or 2 with knights! heh so I won. We then went back to #iwl and shlongy was still there and when everyone asked "so who won" , I didn't say anything, but rather forced the other guy to say "umm Jonny did" well to say the least.. everyone was amazed becaue I had 0 pts and this guy had a few ... it was only about a minute before a guy named ChrisM, who at the time had THE highest score on iwl, joined #iwl. I think I remeber shlonglor asking me something to get my attention and then provoking ChrisM to challage me. You see, the thing was that when I won the previous game it was REAL close so shlongy probably knew that ChrisM would waist me.
iv) The Battle!
Well ChrisM ended up challaging "anyone" to a match so I said "ok I will play you" Everyone kinda laughed ("hehe") because they also knew that I was no match. We ended up playing GOW on low. *gulp* I knew that these guys were real good at low, and still no wallin strat yet!! Chrism ended up @ red (5) and I was @aqua (6:30). I actually was soo intimidated by ChrisM that I ended up launching the first attack. I got kinda lucky and ended up waling right over to him with 3 grunts (noone knew colors yet either). But he defended sucsefully and then launched a counter attack with about 6 footmen. I had managed to produce about 5 to kill his six off :) I think this made ChrisM kinda worry cause he though I was a newbie and an easy kill. Well this was before the time of long games, and what ended up happening (to make a long war short :) is we mined just about every damm mine in the whole map!! The game ended up going for 2 hrs ++ and the center mines had changed hands 4 times. Me, him , Me, him, then mined out. I was just about to give up several times, when I was saved by some lucky peon being able to build a great hall in time. But Chrism still poured out the knights and basically killed my whole town. :( I really though I was gone, cause all the mines were gone right? WRONG!!! (remeber I was @ aqua 630) and I hadn't even mined Purple yet!!! (8:00) haha!!! so I sent an army of my last peons over to put up a town hall and start mining :) Luckly my buildings were so eradically placed that ChrisM hadn't stumbled upon the vital buildings yet (mound, smith, 2 baracks) so I started pumping them out ogres once again. During this time he had sent most of his forces over to a mine on the other side of the map (black 10:30) that was already mined out and contained only a few farms and 1 barack. I secretly started to build up ogres and hide them just outside of center. Then, after he had totally killed al the buildings he send the knights (his remaining force) over to my main town. I then moved my ogres in a postion to flank his knights as they went to my town. My counter-attack was sucsessfull and I heard a "ohh shit" :) ruuuhhahaahha! He then realized that it the fat ladie hadn't sang yet :) and he rounded up EVERYTHING he could find and moved it to his main town to defend (he also though that all mines were out) I sent everything over and he defended :( so I made more :) and sent them over and weakened him. then I only had a few ogres and 0 money when one of his knights discovered my peon line @ purple :( so I rounded up the 3 and killed his one knight :) but then he knew he had to leave his town to kill the remaining hall @ the mine .... I pumped out about 10 guys and split them into 2 groups of 5, 5 went to mine and 5 went to center for a surprise attack (so much for making this a short war2 story:) The 5 guys managed to take all but 2 of his men at the last mine but peons had enough gold to make 2 more ogres to kill his 2 :) and in the meantime ... the other set of 5 ogres ravaged his town. He spent his remaining gold pumping out futile efforts to kill the ogres. so ........ I WON :) RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUhahahahhahah!
Back to chat! We both went back to chat and .. to #iwl and shlongy was still there allong with allot of others (no life shlongy :) haha ) they were all anxious to hear who had won because we had been playing for over 2 hrs (which was unheard of at the time) Well then the awnser came........ (I made him say it :) "Jonny won :( " ruuhahah! then confusion strikes.. "what who?" "Jonny?" "really?" "how?" "are you kidding?" "wow!!" " you guys Jonny is really good!!!!! " haha I was luvvvving it :) my head began to swell to 3 times its normal size :) Then to even make it better ChrisM had got a pic of the stats that remains on shlonglors page until this day :) (about time for a story ehh? haha!)
Well from then on I was readily accepted into the untangiable good-players-list and started to hang out with the greats :) Well time went by and IWL became more famous. All of the sudden I stared getting email for people to join my clan (recruiting was a thing of the past) they came to me now.. Among the people was a guy named FOSS who ended up making THE best clan homepage in the IWL, and was always comming up with new ideas including the "shitlist" my favorite, in which he had little midi songs and a little animated cartoon telling why a certian person was soooo shitty! FOSS's page was to IWL wat shlonglors page was too WAR2 :)
v) You reap what you soe :)
During this time the IWL experienced some tradegies... for it was now that shlonglors stormwreaver clan had risen to the top of the ladder (this is when shlongy was in his prime, he was the top guy on the top clan!) But after shlonglor reached the top, he got tired of the responsibilities and b.s. that go along with being in a league and made this famous quot... "The IWL is 0% fun and 100% pain in the ass" haha! I was kinda dissapointed in shlonglor at this time. One of the reasons that the iwl was having problems was infrequent updates, because there was no automated system, and CplWill never realized the amount of workload that it would bring him. One man just couldn't keep up with all the wins reports, rule making, (and also playing war2, you see shlonglor discovered that cplwill was actually playing as zima of the twilight hammers at this time :) So anywayz the IWL died :( and the like to shlonglors page from the iwl page dissapeared :)
One thing that I haven't told much people about during this time was the email that shlonglor sent me during this time: It seemed that Shlonglor was trying to convince me to quit IWL because it was dead (hindsight is 20/20 haha) but I resented him more for this, he said that him, Azure, and Marshal (some war2 greats) were going to all quit IWL and start up a new league. Well I was kinda of concerned about this, and leaked some of this info to cplwill (sorry shlong :).. and then Shlonglor and Cplwill had about a 3 replied emails going from one to another saying stuff like.. Q."Why do you want to quit IWL?" A."Becase its no fun and a pain in the ass" Q. "Well so your kicking the IWL while its down?" A." Yes, I enjoy kicking things while their down" So basically, in my eyes, Cpl was just trying his best to keep the IWL up and running and all shlonglor was doing was complaining cause it wasn't good enough, but shlonglor was kinda doing this in a non-serious way, but I dont think that cplwill took it that way........
So what resulted? Cplwill got real pissed and basically left the same message on the IWL homepage, about "people following shlonglor like little lost puppies" and left it there for almost forever....
One other relevant issue worth talking about, which occured around this time, was Shlonglor's depression. (hehe) As Shlonglor told us later, one day he got tired of people writing negitive email to him, when all he was trying to do was provide the best strategy guide and entertaining war2 stories on the web! People were just emailing him allot of shit. So shlongy got pissed and decided to basically shut down his page!! (sound familar?) The only thing he left was a comment saying to email him "if you care about his page" As much as I wanted to email shlonglor saying "Hey I love you page, but does this give you some clue to how cplwill might of felt when you where 'kicking the IWL while it was down' ?" ... haha! ... but rather I decided to just say "Hey man, I love your page and I really hope you don't let the neggitive guys get to you too much!" Well shlonglor decided to bring his page back up about 3 or 4 days later telling us why he shut it off. The funny thing was that allot of people asked to use his hard-earned-time-consuming strategy page since he wasn't going to!! I belive that this pissed shlonglor enough to bring the page back to bitch out the asses :) BTW, that is why you see all the copywrite stuff on his page now :) hehe..
vi) The return of IWL
Well the next major landmark event that I can remeber was the reincarnation of the IWL. A guy by the name of RTM took it upon himself to write a program which automated the iwl and made it possible to handle the loads of information being poured through the page everyday. RTM did a great job getting the IWL back up and making it better that it ever was before! Man did people start racking up points.. I think i got about a million points off of "Nowhere to run, Nowhere to hide" ruuuuaahaa! Basically the reason I picked this level to master, was for 2 reasons. #1) Some pepole in the IWL seemed to have allllot of time on their hands. #2) I didn't have time on my hands :) ... soooo... basically I looked at all the levels and figured that Nowhere would be the most time efficient level to master. And boy was I right! I even remember one day I think I stole about half of ChanmanV's points during 6 straight games on nowhere, haha! But like everything else, the IWL started getting allot of loopholes in it. Cirtian levels were too unfair to play, do to starting positions, or some people would only "accept challanges" and not issue them. And the Bloodmatch ended up being more trouble than it was worth. But through it all, my clan and I had managed to be on top of the ladder once and nearly always withing the first 3 positions. This was the hight of the IWL, it was catching the wave at just the right time. People where happy that they were earning points, and I was getting nearly 10 applications to Blackrock per DAY .. this was partly due to FOSS's page :) I ended up running a very organized and caring clan in IWL. We had newsletters, secret pages, pornography :) haha!, and lots of cool music!
vii) Trouble in Paradice
BUT THEN...... right when everything was going good.... RTM decided to put out a questionare.. and one of the questions was " How long should the IWL go before we reset the points" .. ohhh man was I pissed!! I mean I had waited it out and belived that IWL would come back after the 1st reset ... had put up with people telling me that "its nevvvvver comming back" and gave my clansmen hope.. and now when things were going better than they EVER had before, RTM was asking for a reset????????????? Ohh man was I pissed!
Now, I dont know why or how RTM judged that poll. But I belive that he might of done it by popular vote. Now let me ask you this! If I have low or no points, and you have high points, am I going to want us to both have the same points (or 0pts?)???? YES! and unfortunaltly most people had lower points and not higher points sooo obvoisly most people would vote for the reset. Imagine, if you are poor as allot of people are, and there are some really rich people out there, would you be opposed to distributing the wealth (damm sociallists :) ? well duh! haha ... anywayz.... enough politics.. what ended up happening is that RTM just decided it would be easier for everyone if he reset the points. END OF IWL .... unfourtuantly what good players that were left from the 1st reset didn't both racking up many points after the 2nd reset, and who can blame me! umm I mean them! haha
So I dont know if IWL will come back during the future, however my personal belive is that IWL was like a big snowball rolling down a hill in the middle of winter. And during the 2nd wind of IWL it was a really big snow ball gaining snow as it rolled, but now the snowball went over some hot coals and now its small, also its running out of hill to keep it rolling; and spring is around the corner. Spring being the realease of some new video game :)
viii) Back where I started !
Well what did I do after the IWL? Well mainly I didn't do much. I didn' even try to look for an IWL game, however I did play one I never reported points. I was just out of energy to start racking them up again. But what I really did is go full circle and ended up where I started out. I began to have fun again! for awhile there were about 8 of us who would meet every night and play a 8 player pos game :) ohh boy were those fun, it would be me (Jonny*), shlonglor, {{Nate}}, {{Megatron}}, {{Dragonlord}}, HKUser, Longsword, and a whole bunch of others that I cannot remember right now :) anywayz man when you have 3 teammates that are awsome it makes the game soo much funner. You never have to worry about telling your partner what to do, cause they already know :) Those games where NOT a battle of who KNEW the best strategies (cause we all knew em all) but rather a battle of which ones you used! Well that lasted for awhile but eventually I could no longer play those early games around 10pm :) haha.. So what did I do after that for fun?
ix) The return of the King :)
RRRRRRRRuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhahahaaaha:) I proceeded to make not only a name for myself, but turn myself into some sort of legend :) I went to central and started shaping the minds of new war2 players :) I would join a game with 2 people already in it (they are waiting for 4) and tell them that I'll play them both, then watch them laugh and then watch them be amazed when I win :) haha... In my luckier moments, during the 2 on 1s, both of them would leave their messages on. and I would get to hear "ohh shit he is attacking me with ogres already!! Help!!" partner replies "Damm I cann't he's attacking me too right now!" aww this was by far the biggest head sweller of all :) On very brave days I would venture into a game an challage some decent guys to a 3 on 1. Now this was no picnic, but I managed to pull it off a couple of times :) and boy was it worth it ! One day feeling especially cheery, I came upon a game of gow on high, that was full w/ 4 players, but I managed to get in. The creator said "sorry Jonny full game" then I replied "wait! what If I take you all 4 on?" haha now I was kinda just kidding, but they accepted and though they would make short work of me! Well they did at first. they totally desroyed my fisrt town but fortuantly I had a back up going and then a 3rd. I managed to kill 1 right away, then another, but then got hit bad with a combo ogre and griphen by 2 players and that hurt! But it was no match for the mighty lusted ogres and lusted axethrowers :) then it was a simple 2 on 1 :) and they were gone :) RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUh hhhhhhhhhhahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Another game I remember I had 1 partner vs 6 of them, they totaly wiped out my partner at the begining and payed no attention to me. So did I save my partner? NO !! haha (I kept a couple of peons for him though haha) instead I built up and hit the opposition at it's source hehe 1 by 1 killing them all off. Taking out their single cannon tower with a dragon and then proceeding to lust thier town :) haha town of lust :)
Well those were my last days as a war2 player, I ended up making a name for myself and actually being quit feared. I saw people on Central imitating me :) with names like "MEvsANY2" haha so I would join :) and then they would say umm nevermind, Jonny can you please leave ? haha. Or just to join a game and people that I dont know to say "hey Jonny!!" "I remeber you!" "remember when we played, you killed both of us?" ohh man for awile I felt like "Norm" on "Cheers" haha; I would come into a game "hey Jonny" or "Jonny!" or "hhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrs Jonny!" (my favorite Nate:)
x) Final coments
Well I guess thats about all you can hope for, and more, in a game. To be able to show your superior mental power over your opponet. To insult them with lusted peons finishing off thier last farm :) or maybe just going into a war2chatroom and having everyone recognise you as if a big banner popped up telling them who you were and why they should be nice to you :) But... also ... to have great friends that share in your agony and rejoyce in your victories. It dosn't get much better than where I have been and what I have done with war2. So I guess you could say I'm getting while the getting is good :)
I've also saddly noticed that there is an overwhelming population on kali now, and now its as if the nice little Kali town was turned into a dumpy Kali city. A city which is poluted with jerks and just plain asses. :( I would hope that ther would be a reffuge from all the idiots on kali, that was suppose to be starlink after central, axxis, and castle got too big; but saddly even starlink is dieing by poluting jerks. I partually blame the polution on kali95 because all they have to do is click on the kali server rather having to FIND the server by asking someone. You see, as simple as that was, it was an easy way to ensure that all the jerks weren't on "our" server. but alas.. who knows the future?!. . . . . . . . . ... .
Now that I am free from the chains that once binded me to my computer hours upon hours everyday, I have chosen to invest my time in establishing a marketing bussiness that I belive will ensure my financial future. Among other things I love to practice Wing Tsun, a stlye of kung fu, once a week. I highly recomend, if you have ever been thinking of joining a martial arts orginization, to check out a Wing Tsun school near you (do a web search). I also enjoy spending time with my girlfriend, who is as beautiful as any guy could ever think to ask for. I guess you could basically say that I plan on experiencing life more! I hope this tragic tale of a war2-kali-addicted guy named Jonny* has help you to understand why you spend so much time online and give you hope someday on kicking the habbit! :) hahah I love you all !!!! However if you are ever playing war2 on kali years from now, and someone named Jonny* appears on you screen, do be frightened, for he is a good spirit and he will do his best to aid you in your quest!
Sincerely,
Jon Williams
Jonny*
Bye Jonny... snif snif :(
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Shlonglor