Post by shelix on Jan 28, 2008 3:17:07 GMT -5
Greetings to those who read the boards.
I'm Shelix; veteran player from MMOs all the way back to Ultima Online and certain MUDs before that. Since most of my professional life (retired army officer) was spent in leadership, for a long time (up through and including World of Warcraft) I played a leadership role in my guilds/clans/etc, generally as either the CFO or as the guild leader.
They've always been notable places to be; most notably the guild I started in WoW - Praetorian Guard - virtually every one of our members worked their way into the top 50 PvP rankings simply because we worked so closely together with planning, coordination and strategy - they were my love child and pet project - turning an online guild of players into a competent group of PvPers who were flawlessly executing militarily precise maneuvers without knowing that they were was absolutely priceless.
Then again, steamrolling all competition was great too.
By the time I got to Eve Online, I quite felt like being a guild leader (corporate CEO there) was taking my work home with me, and I stopping taking leadership roles outside of consulting. I did a lot of write-ups there to outline corporate mining operations, PvP operations; how to effectively distribute shares in a guild, recruiting policies and...blah blah blah. Quite the paperpusher.
Picklewen is my significant other; we both currently live in Florida, having just recently moved here from New Jersey, where as a mostly new civilian I was the Marketing Director for a Defense Contractor. Prior to that, my first civilian job after the army was as the program manager for CECOM - I spent lots of time in Jordan overseeing intergovernment agreements.
In LOTRO I'm a soon to be 50 hunter. I can't run past a node without harvesting it, and I'm always looking for an edge on everything simply because of my competitive nature, but I'm keen on pulling (sometimes forcibly) those without the same means or desires up with me. Picklewen can attest to how many times I've made her stop to harvest something, or spend money on rep items to attain something better than she's wearing.... =p
I've been in the kin for about two weeks now, and am quite pleased with the reception that we've received, as well as the quality of the members in the kin. I look forward to being 50 and repaying some favors.
-Shelix
I'm Shelix; veteran player from MMOs all the way back to Ultima Online and certain MUDs before that. Since most of my professional life (retired army officer) was spent in leadership, for a long time (up through and including World of Warcraft) I played a leadership role in my guilds/clans/etc, generally as either the CFO or as the guild leader.
They've always been notable places to be; most notably the guild I started in WoW - Praetorian Guard - virtually every one of our members worked their way into the top 50 PvP rankings simply because we worked so closely together with planning, coordination and strategy - they were my love child and pet project - turning an online guild of players into a competent group of PvPers who were flawlessly executing militarily precise maneuvers without knowing that they were was absolutely priceless.
Then again, steamrolling all competition was great too.
By the time I got to Eve Online, I quite felt like being a guild leader (corporate CEO there) was taking my work home with me, and I stopping taking leadership roles outside of consulting. I did a lot of write-ups there to outline corporate mining operations, PvP operations; how to effectively distribute shares in a guild, recruiting policies and...blah blah blah. Quite the paperpusher.
Picklewen is my significant other; we both currently live in Florida, having just recently moved here from New Jersey, where as a mostly new civilian I was the Marketing Director for a Defense Contractor. Prior to that, my first civilian job after the army was as the program manager for CECOM - I spent lots of time in Jordan overseeing intergovernment agreements.
In LOTRO I'm a soon to be 50 hunter. I can't run past a node without harvesting it, and I'm always looking for an edge on everything simply because of my competitive nature, but I'm keen on pulling (sometimes forcibly) those without the same means or desires up with me. Picklewen can attest to how many times I've made her stop to harvest something, or spend money on rep items to attain something better than she's wearing.... =p
I've been in the kin for about two weeks now, and am quite pleased with the reception that we've received, as well as the quality of the members in the kin. I look forward to being 50 and repaying some favors.
-Shelix
