> Less than a week left in a 6month grind event and I was losing with no hope to win. I had committed myself though, I promised myself and I promised Zal(my friend and main competition) that I wouldn't stop till the end, regardless of if I was winning with a huge margin, or loosing with a huge margin. So many people had helped me that I didn't want to let them down. After 1.5months of terrible losses I needed two HOFs of 2011ped or higher to regain the lead, and I knew that was impossible but I just kept grinding at a steady and as eco a pace as I could. My only hope was that since THINGs had never dropped a high multiplier that if I continued to the end I may hit an ATH and be able to purchase the Mothership from Zal. (then we would both win :P ) Thursday hope was renewed when we got a small UBER followed by the first big UBER we needed. (2308ped HOF) With renewed hope we knew we only needed one more HOF of over 2011ped to win or at least regain the lead. I got home from work Friday night and my wife (Jessica Riley) told me to skip family time and hunt as hard as I could. We went 6+ hours hard that night without achieving anything higher than a 945ped HOF. As soon as I woke up Saturday morning we went hard all day long with terrible loots again the biggest hof being a 401pedder. I collected guns and left over ammo from everyone and took a short break for supper. After TTing loot and repairing everything I realized we only had about 2k ped left for ammo. Normally this budget would restrict us to just TT Shotguns for support, but this close to the end I knew it was all or nothing, with only enough ammo for the support team to go for a couple hours we started hard into the THINGs again, and wasn't long before we were rewarded with the 2nd HOF required to take back the lead. A nice one this time, 4149ped HOF. (at the time we got this hof there were 30+ support shooters with me) After a 15 minute break for answering PMs and trying to get my heart to slow down we had to decide what our stratagy was going to be. We could either stop and hope that by not 'feeding the lootpool' we would reduce Zals chances of the 2 big hofs he would need to beat us. (at that point he needed to get 2x 1717ped hofs or higher to take the lead again) Or, we could keep going as hard as we could because we only needed one more big one combined with the 4k in-case Zal did manage to get the 2 he needed. We decided to keep going, and hunted hard the rest of the night without any luck. We woke up the next morning to find that Zal's team had more than doubled in size and they had been going hard at it all night. (with time zone differences their day hunts occurred during my nights) My team started showing up and we went hard at it all day again without much luck. Zal and his team got 2x 1k ped HOFs, and each time my heart stopped till I could register the value and realize it wasn't quite as big as he needed. Towards evening Zal and his team went to bed (was late night/early morning for them) and we kept going for a while still with no luck. All profits from the 4k ped HOF were already gone and we were running on fumes again, not only were we running out of ped for ammo, but also guns were breaking. (thankfully Chilax and Rejman both have shops/booths on Rocktropia now and I was able to restock when needed) We broke for dinner and I logged back in for our last hard grind. (this was Sunday night, and I had work on Monday morning so couldn't continue hard like we had for the weekend) After TTing loot and re-distributing guns/ammo to the support team we started the craziest night of my EU carrier. 4 UBERs in just a couple hours one of which topped the earlier 2308 so upped my score even further. (1121, 1259, 1544, 2687ped HOFs) The 2.6k HOF came about 2hrs before we usually break for the night, but I was exhausted, and figured that we had used up all our luck for the night. Stopping there would maybe make it harder for Zal to get any big ones the next day. The event was officially over an hour or two ago, and although there is no Official word from Neverdie yet, I am sure I have won the Mothership. The list of people who helped me is huge but here are some of the names, #1 is my wife Jessica Riley, she put up with me and took care of our 2yr old son with minimal help from me during the course of this event. #2 is my wife Jessica Riley, she supported me through the entire event both emotionally and by shooting and faping when needed. Skeezer, without him I never would have gone to Rocktropia and certainly wouldn't have stayed. He was our main 'Flamer' for the entire event and the only guy that was there week in and week out the entire time. (1-2 week break for cyrene opening) Gor, Wizzo, Thoth, Tamlin, Dragon, OZ, Alhana, etc.... too many names to count for Scouting, Tagging, Dragging, and helping hand out guns and ammo so I could stay busy shooting. Lost Renegades my society, for putting up with my lack of response or involvement with the Society for so long as well as many of them coming and supporting me in the hunts or transporting loot or weapons when needed. The several people who though not involved physicaly with my hunts were always in PM with me helping me to plan and stratagize. Without them my small ped card would not have survived beyond the first month. Zal, Jag, BKK, Tzepu, etc... for being great competitors and making this the challenge it truly was, these people played with great sportsmanship and made this event something enjoyable to be involved with. Zal esp.. as my main opponent demonstrated great sportsmanship the entire time, and I was in pm with him daily comparing notes and making sure we were not stepping on each others toes. During the course of the event different players gave me weapons and ped to the total of around 1kped worth. Each time a gift like this came in was right when I was the lowest and most in need, Those injections into both my resources and spirit got me through each of those stages and without them probably would not have lasted to the end. During my hunts I would spawn my Helicopter next to the revival building and asked everyone who helped me to request access, I used the guest list as a way to track everyone who helped me, and that list grew beyond 200players this weekend. Without these people helping me selflessly for so long, I couldn't have accomplished what we did. I had planned on writing down all 200+ names, but don't know when I will have the energy to do it. You guys know who you are, and you are the crew of the new Mothership when it gets delivered :) Thanks to everyone, its been a wild ride.... narfi
Please show your support for the other competitors by posting in the following thread, http://www.neverdie.com/official-competitions-events/15925-petition-more-prizes.html
Wow, awesome story, narfi. I know you've been working tirelessly towards this, and it's great to see that hard work, effort, and dedication managed to pay off for you.
I would have signed earlier but I had to register. That damn captcha crap!! And then the activation email didn't come before I went to bed. Found the activation email kinda interesting though. Hope the petition helps :)
Now that could start some rumors! But anyway, great to have this thread...all who read, please go to this link and make your vote: http://www.neverdie.com/official-competitions-events/15925-petition-more-prizes.html A lot of money from all was put into this, and the 2nd and 3rd place winners should get something for all the money they put into this event plus the loot at the end not being all that good. Please give them at least one global.
I went and posted.... Great job and great story Grtz to you and Jess... Glad I could help a lil and experience some of the craziness... sorry to those I screamed Narfi's down at ;) lol
I just got the guest list for my helicopter back from Support. This is the list of most of the people who helped me during the event. (I am sure there are more who never got around to requesting access or on nights I forgot to spawn it at the revival) Greed Ollebolle Kalab Scarface Hawk Blazed Red Sac Goatts Me Dutchman 24 Bamm Taylor Quattros Leprechaun Urthur420 Spaceguy Zeus Guinness Mademoiselle Oztwo BHB Rampage Trencherman Thoth Aphrodite Mayday Chubs Blue Eyes master chief AxeMurderer SoftHart Azrael O2 James Nite ZZ AuntyAnna Dark Nine Askeptic MZ Ace Striker Rigu Hash Zettai Core Khay sarrob Genious Xanur Hype SPLITTER Ron beastical Delarea Giant Loorden theNoiseMarine Wizzo Minxy Doer Appointed Sinanya Tubalo Villa Rata Caver tamlin Skandis Raydrin Radioman Goldmoon toker Sam TheTank TheRipper kman Rathcroghan Kitty IV Mal Xan Lucky sister cstar Shin Skeezer Zentious Nalwiet Xavrok SEXY Taris Deebo Narfette Rauski MadCat Krackers Worst Ten Lokia PrestoDanno KenUSMC RockMan Dozer Bad Apoca gor Bhavani mac Munka Quantum Kat BB Maple Huju Expo Chaz dimebagdave Ghost BULL Jayborg William Dr Jarrdhead MoRsE Quar Nageto Angel CZ Marvin Toom JessiJay payIT4ward HellRoach robotechmaster metal Serenity Mitchos Rookie Lee Orion Mary Greed jim ci Acolade Rufen Luni Etna KhaosBring3r David Puzz Solo Ac Farmer Candydog NL TunerS Anal KYLENESIUM The Banans Slim Tene nutrageti Mavonian Danex lol Brtsk Birdman kimling Linx Blondie NATASHA SpikE NLNFOREVER Rae Andrew AzGarot oookers Paine Plesh Skers Chippe Mella Andromeda Jul Darkman Von Web Lazarus Isaac tinker sheen BigDawg Obmidian MindStar9 Cool Death Fishsticks A big thanks to all of you guys narfi
The short time I jumped into the THING mix to support the efforts, I did have fun for sure, and even got to stand in for Skeezer as the flamer of the mobs when he wasn't present to show what was currently being attacked per Narfi's direction. Everyone I saw participating were true die-hards for the cause and went the distance. And sorry, I'm guessing I left quite a bit of purple splattered across the tundra, but oh well, it looked like it needed a bit of color. I only have two things to say: Gratz Narfi; and Softy? ... you missed an opportunity! *thanks for the invite*
... I move around the universe too fast. Oh, Narfi ... did I say Gratz? Hey Blanche ... let's not take this more and catch up elsewhere! *consider this an unconventional *
I hear by spank, Mindstar and softwith my and NARFI too, because I tried to log into EP with his name as my password for some unknown reason .... takes another
Hey Narfi, I read that entire thread on Calypso about you know what - with reference to this event. *SIGH* Newcomers need to wait 5 years or so before they know the truth of how the system works, don;t let it get you down bud, nobody is in Kahoots with the ND flipped a magical switch and Nafi was its name for HoFs .... Enjoy the loot and help out some more newcomers :) take care and cheers to you, Viper
haha and who is the one that took it off topic? Looks like I missed the after party, ohh well I still get to drive it
Ya, me guilty, sorry Narfi, but we take our moments when we can. And dammit ... I missed the party too! I'm sure it was fun ... maybe next time.
