I have thought of stopping on and off for the last 2 years. Until now there was always something new to motivate me to keep playing. When I first thought of quitting I decided to change my playing style and starting actively farming. Before this I was relatively unknown. After this people started noticing me
Next time I thought of quitting I stayed because I started to sell stuff for real money. I did so well that I seemingly inspired many others to do the same, lol. It's a free market
Next challenge to keep me in the game was becoming leader of Alpha. I cleaned things up a bit and reorganised some what until Su returned to active duty.
Not long ago I decided I wanted to have rank 1 at least one in my playing career. I did that not so long ago.
My last challenge was to have biggest army in the game. A daunting task considering the lead S T I and reborn had. But because their recent spat with admin I achieved way sooner than expected and it didn't really feel like an achievement.
For the last few months I have been looking for a new challenge but I haven't found one. SGW has become more of a burden than a joy.
I reamize the timing isn't great, but as I see this war lasting at least 5 months, probably way more, there's no point in waiting until it's over.
My massing yesterday was a n00b mistake on my part. I mistakenly thought I had put myself on PPT yesterday and hadn't logged in until this morning. Probably forgot the selection box or something. But still well done to TJP. A quick look at the logs seems to indicate the strike was well coordinated (although no nox simplfies things
).The massing was just the final straw. I lost all my planets, which were pretty nice and I don't feel I have it in me to get my account to the top again.
I would like to thank the following players (in no particular order):
REK - one must mention one's god, right? Great guy and great leader
RepliJake - ultimate villain and great guy
EnterTheLion - founder of the best alliance the game has ever seen and great leader
geisha - can't stop massing and never understood how she was with DD before joining Omega
GunZ - most loyal guy in the game, and the oldest one I know
reborn - probably the smartest player in the game, and patient when explaining
S T I - was rank one and the biggest for so long, also a great guy to talk to
Draleg - great character and is rising fast in Omega's ranks
Orpheus - MayHem leader, because of his work always considered by me to be the best 'small' alliance in the game
buck - great guy, helped him out a lot, was disappointed by his leaving
High Empty - crazy red haired Canadian, lol, also one of the best players in the game
Profiteroles - maybe not as well known as the others, but I used to talk to him all the time before he left, great player
Zarakai Kenpachi - always thought he'd be the next Alpha leader, but he became inactive
Mordack - great personalty and player, always sensible on the forums and has his own fanclub (for membership one must talk to geisha)
Visentinel - ultimate raiding machine
Hammond of Texas - great sense of humour (that a lot of people take the wrong way, lol), also made my infamous sig
Corkscrew - crazy Irishman
GenLucky - great leader and player, I wish you luck in the new game
Blahh - kind of my successor in the farming department, had many talks when discussing NAP extensions, also good to talk to when you don't want to speak about SGW
Svarun aka Aesir- has been a foe for a long time time, but has established himself as one of the leading figures of the SGW community, also the only one to consistantly keep up the Romans vs barbarians roleplay
Mojo Rising - probably the biggest n00b in the game, lol
Some advice:
For admin: Try getting some more people to actively help find cheaters and judge cases. This is a constant frustration for all players. Also, maybe you consider putting inactive accounts on vac mode after a time, like a month. Have the admin meetings at different times so other players can be there.
For players: If someone is spamming or just posting stupid things, use the foe function. It doesn't work with mods, but does for the rest. This function has enhanced my forum reading quite a bit, especially the big war topics. Also try and avoid personal insults. If you want to insult or taunt another player keep it to game related things like n00b, traitor, coward or whatever.
About my account: I will be giving my naq, turns and transferable UU to a select few, no need to ask for stuff in this topic. I will be selling the shell for real money in this topic: http://www.herebegames.com/StarGateWars ... 1&t=116337
To all the players who feel wronged for not being mentioned, tough luck, after 3 years of playing and not having a great memory to begin with I'm bound to forget a few.
Sad to see you go. You will leave a big hole in SGW 
Take care.
