SpawnPoint - Where Game Begins

So,

Today is my second anniversary of being registered on spawnpoint.com, and, contrary to belief, I've NOT been here forever.

I still remember the exact time I signed up to the forums. I'd been playing on the UK Assault server for some time and had probably seen two admins play on it in about 2 months :(

There was a clan on at the time (vVv) Phil should remember them well, that were causing chaos and angst with their Team Attacking and Team Killing and had plunged to the mighty depths of three scores of -11, -9 and -7.

I signed up, posted in the RAI and thought nothing more of it, reckoning that, as admins rarely appeared that little would be done about it. I was pleasantly surprised to find, the very next day that Phil popped on to the server and chatted to me for a bit...apologising for being out the night before and giving me his email and steam friends id's.

It progressed from there........I met Sinnocence the admin on Assault then. I received admin the next week for the Assault server, which, trust me when i say, had a much more amateur set up than it does now. We had to use our c-exec bind at the start of every 45 minute game to sort out the round time, restrict the weapons and suchlike :eek:

Things progressed to the rest of the UK servers where I met Skydavo and Davie whoring it up on Dustfest and common Grounds.....:)

I then met Alpha, and, well.....there's a lot I could say about that time but I'll save that for a seperate Blog sometime soon ;) Let's just say that that "lady" deserves a whole heap of praise and thanks for the sheer amount of stuff she does behind the scenes. The late night ventrilo sessions with Alpha, stefan, Sapphy etc etc google Earthing each others houses were some of the funniest times....

It was January 2007 (Actually found out it was same day as my birthday) that I was invited to join the "staff" at spawnpoint. I was very proud, honoured and happy....See until then I just played on any SP server I felt like, my ping really didn't bother me or anyone else for that matter. I had become a regular on 174.5 and 108.4 by then and some of you must have really wondered why I persisted with a 200 latency and seven hour time difference ;)

Up until joining the staff, the then management, just kept giving me admin on the servers I asked for and, on hindsight, I really need to thank Starlog, Bullet, Hitman and Phil for answering my persistent questions as I looked to be "firm but fair" in my rulings. Perhaps my "stance" on rules made some people uncomfortable. Perhaps it made me appear to be "hard" but I guess I must have showed something.....

I'd especially like to thank Marty for his help in the earlier days. I know my "style" of rule enforcing is somewhat different to his, I know that my "attitude and mentality towards some things" also differs from his, and also know that we rarely actually "met" on any server at that time but, everytime I had a point of view on something, invariably, Marty would back me :)

Spawnpoint has been in a constant evolving state since I joined....It's evolving for the better I reckon.

With our new staff members, we have the core of a brilliant community.

Our community moderators make my new job that much easier.

Our server admin do a great job and, honestly, I don't think we tell you that enough....

Our community members (well most of you LOL) are great to play with and debate with and argue and bitch with....it's all part of the overall big picture.

Lastly to Tony, Thanks a heap for the trust and faith. You've brought spawnpoint on leaps and bounds since your appointment and you should be really proud of your achievements. I know you've taken a lot of flak in the past for some of your decisions but I reckon most of them have been for the greater good of spawnpoint.

Here's to the next few years of gaming.....onwards and upwards.....