Land Grab Warm Up - Updated

[SammySosa]

Originally Posted by LDS

sorry but WTF!! i just got my boss so far to let me go an houre urly to make it and now i read this meaning ill have to take the hole dam day off i aint upset with the bad time fraim but first 2 days nodes and than change the time with 1 day left

ps: U TRY explain to my boss that u need to take the day of to go and shoot peopel...

Im pretty sure you're boss would be happy to let you go if you told him that :P

[chaps]

I don't know why people are saying that Aussies have an advantage. Starting time is 10:30pm over here and for those of us that have to work the next day we're gonna be zombies if we participate fully in this...

[MrWizard]

Hmm...ok...12:30 GMT....so it'll actually kickoff around 3:30 GMT after several server reboots, endless waiting with no explanation and a general sense of unmanaged chaos! Whoo Hoo...count me in!

[Egg90]

Originally Posted by SammySosa

Im pretty sure you're boss would be happy to let you go if you told him that :P

Yes, let you go for good!

[Kujo]

Originally Posted by Metatron

No offense to Swedish people (I love Swedish people), but not many people in the world interact with Swedish companies on a daily basis... For many of us Mindark represents how Swedish businesses operate. Aside from taking off many more vacation days than most of the world, is this how other Swedish business work? Is it built into the social norm to show such blatant disregard for the customer? Not trying to offend anyone... Maybe I'm just used to the American motto of some companies that "the customer is always right". I'm aware that Mindark needs to "keep quiet" to an extent in order to hide their processes and ideas from competitors, but there is a fine line between operating strategically against competitors and operating sloppily with customers.

Sweden is a small country with about 9million citizens only, and plz dont look at Mindark as a represetative of Swedish business

If your interested there are easy to find info about Swedish companies on the internet if you search, here is a site of the official world ranking of making business:

Rankings - Doing Business - The World Bank Group

Not in top but pretty good for a small country?

[Bagman]

Why not stagger or overlap the land grabs on a weekend?

Lets see how well these well maintained and plenty of bandwidth/capacity server farms do with a full army of LA hungry players on peak time do....

We are all voices in the background.... those that listen are tuned in elsewhere.

Good luck to any who manage to attend.

Bags

[Darker_Star]

*** Please note that this is not an attack on any society, I'm just poking fun at a company that will remain nameless ***

Some place in eternal darkness, with glimmers of fire reflecting off the windows set high in the room, a smell of brimstone waifs through
the cold air…

A conniving voice from the darkness…

“’Hee-hee, snicker’, My Lord, all is set, we start the 'hee-hee' test as you wished at 14:30 UTC...Are you pleased my Lord???...My Lord..."

A cold voice from the darkness...

"The High Lord has partaken a bit to much of the mead....perhaps it would be best to move it back a bit...He has just awaken and will need a few hours to ‘prepare’ himself. Move it to 12:30 UTC, the peasants will not care; they only care for their puny toys and winches…The High Lord must be at his best to observe his Chosen Ones destroy all that would challenge his Champions…”

A shaking voice from the darkness…

“…ah, please my Lords. I know I mis-spoke when I suggested that we try to spread the kingdom’s wealth among all of its subjects, I have accepted my punishment… (Shiver….wince)…but, I must say… (shiver, whimper), that we could upset the masses with this time change…”

The Cold Voice

“ Dog, have you not yet learned, all is for the comfort of the High Lord…Take this Dog back to the “Correction Zone”, he has not yet learned his place…Why should we care what the masses think or feel, all is the High Lord’s ALL!”

Begging and screaming coming from the darkness as the sound of a body is heard being dragged away….

A Deep, slurred, puzzled voice from the darkness…

“‘Burp, fart, burp’….ah, what was that noise, ‘By Odin, my head hurts’,

A cold voice...

“It was nothing my Lord, just some dog barking….all is ready, we have moved the ‘Event’ to 12:30 UTC as you ordered, all is in readiness, your Champions will march across the Field of Honor, proclaiming your power and greatness…..the dirty, unwashed masses, will shiver and flee in terror as they behold your great power…”

A slurred voice…

“‘Burp’, yes, my power must shine forth, my minions will proclaim to all my power and they must be rewarded…they must receive what is their due for serving me so faithfully. Take what you need from the coffers and bestow upon them all that I promised them when they signed their oaths to me in their blood…”

A cold voice…

“It will be as you command my Lord…all will bow to your great and endless POWER…”

[Tidesong]

The timing will be great for me... 8.30pm just nice after work... I guess I can watch (and experience) the set up and server reboots

[desg90]

Darker_Star...

...

That was hilarious!
But this peasant can't help but wonder...

[Darker_Star]

*** Please note that this is not an attack on any society, I'm just poking fun at a company that will remain nameless ***

In some lost gloomy dominion, lost in time and space…….

The night is still and the shadows complete in this forlorn realm….the stench of untold numbers of unburied bodies waifs through the cold darkness, brimstone fumes float along as if they are specters of departed souls, lost forever, seeking release from their eternal torment.
In a cold, sinister stone chamber, voices are heard…

A cold, calculating voice…

“High Lord, tis almost time…you Champions await your words….”

A slightly slurred, deep voice…

“Magnificent! ‘burp’ I look Magnificent! I am the marvel of all, my form, my face, my wonderful garb, YES! I am Glorious!...”

A cold voice…

“Of course you are…ah your Champions?”

A deep voice

“Uh? What? Champions? What are you talking about?”

A cold voice…

“My Great and Wonderful Lord, tis almost time for the ‘Warm-Up’, the battle of Heroes against the unwashed masses to show your power and greatness…”

A deep, confused voice…
“Ah Right….my Champions….ah, a ‘Warm-up’, right, got it…ah, why are we doing this?”

A cold voice…

“My Lord, you ordered it to be so, you demanded that your Champions march forth, destroy copious numbers of the peasants, to demonstrate your Noble and Total Power to all. Your chosen Heroes have gathered, they will march forth to !!!!, pillage and burn all in their path. Then they will reap their promised rewards of new lands to add to their growing realm….”

A deep voice…

“OK, I remember now…YES…I remember…..Power, magnificent Power, how I love it. Yes, this kingdom was started with a promise; I promised the elite that believed in me that riches and power would be theirs…….hummmm….’muttering to himself’….’yes, I must keep them happy…for now… if they departed from my realm too soon, then all could be lost, the future comes unbidden or not, and that future will loosen their hold over me……the new realms that I seek to conquer will allow me to discard of these self-serving adolescent knaves….but that is for a latter date…” Yes, how goes the Demonstration of my Power?”

A cold voice…

“The appointed time approaches my High Lord….all have assembled, all wait for your word to begin the slaughter……”

A deep, malevolent voice…

“YES, let the games commence!!!! Let the squalid inhabitants of my realm lose their essence of life to fuel and renew my powers, let their unfilled dreams and desires be crushed under the heels of my invincible warriors….Let the coins of the realm roll into my coffers, to enrich my minions and myself…LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!”