JUNKER CONGRESS

[worldstrider]

Thank you Tinkerbell, shows serious commitment and intention.

Hood

Lol--embarrassingly--I'll admit I am forty-seven and have been a science fiction reader since I was seven years old. I read eight novels a week from that age until the internet came long and distracted me ; )

I was in California when the D&D movement began along with the Society for Creative Anachronism (they were really weird guys) . I had a general disdain for rp games and my response to people who asked me to play them was, "So we all sit around and pretend like we are doing stuff?"

In a bathroom stall one day I heard two guys talking about D&D and though they were discussing "Zork" which was one of the first comp games made. Mainframe programmers passed it along to customers--it was a text based adventure ("you are likely to be eaten by a grue"). Anyway, they explained it was D&D and I gave it a try. I was an old board strategy gamer at that time and liked the combat part but thought the RP was goofy. Eventually someone asked me to help them set up realistic miniature combat and I ended up DMing. People kept showing up at my apartment asking me to do it. Who knew?

"Traveller" was the first detailed rpg to come out with a scifi theme and I loved it--also played the old PBM games where you build a space empire and design your own species/purpose. I had a friend who knew Gary Gygax (D&D) and another who worked for GDW (Traveller)--which I contributed some material for one of their own adventure mods too.

When I saw RP server, I thought it meant "not a pvp whore" (I hate that phrase fyi) server. I hate the "circle fights" servers where people just fly around, "I'm bored?" Wanna pvp?" so I picked Discovery.

It was then I realized, "Oh--ROLE_PLAY." Hehe--I'm a bit slow ; )

So I thought I would give it a go. Junkers were not real visible when I came on and I liked the no-limits behind the scenes action as a trader. I started thinking about my own group when people started telling me "What I couldn't do with a Junker"--basically, you are allowed to gather scrap in a CSV and never fight.

Kinda irked me--especially since it was always expressed with rancor and publicly. It wasn't until Oniros and I talked and shared some ideas that I saw how many people want to tell you "what you can't do with a Junker".

HaHa--what real Junker would put up with that?

So we are here simply to help people do what they want to do with their Junker--while hopefully being able to POSITIVELY steer their actions towards reasonable balance.

My point in sharing my life history is this is my "one" hobby". I sacrifice sleep to play cause I have to work. I don't play multiple servers or server hop--I'm planted here. I'm gonna work at it cause I like it.

So I'm not here to reinvent Freelancer and tell everyone what to do. Just to have fun and do something creative.

Word of advice, negative comments preceded by the phrase, "I don't think..." really are usually a waste of time.

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