My Journey into Mechwarrior. by TCB

Was it a Journey?  Who knows.  Was it fun? Yes!  Will I go on? Yes! 

I started playing Mechwarrior 2 when it first came out.  I never played online so I doubt that I was

ever any good at Mechwarrior 2.  Could you play it online?  Really I can't remember.  Is it a bad

thing to get old? Only the memory lost gives it away for me. I finished Mechwarrior 2 and forgot about

it.  One day I saw Mechwarrior Compilation at Best Buy and I remembered the fun I had playing

Mechwarrior 2 so I brought it.  The first thing I wanted to do was play each game.  Vengance, BK and

Mercs before I would play any of them online.  I did this starting with Vengenace, then BK, and last

Mercs.  I finished each of them.  Now I wanted more, so I started online with Vengenace, then BK and

lastly Mercs. I played them, got to know them.  Vengeance, and Mercs had many servers running and many

players, each was nice but they didn't have the one thing that BK had.  You know what it was.....It

was a small group of people who really loved the game and they were all friends.  They chatted and had

a great time playing.  They were like family and you could tell that even though there was only one

server that ran most of the time called Falcon Claw that these people didnt care.  They enjoyed each

other and they enjoyed the game. My Choice... my new home would be in Black Knight.

When I first started playing I wasn't any good.  I didn't know anything.  lol,, I thought sometimes

that all these people were Hackers because I couldn't kill them and I died many times before I could

even kill one of them, but I stuck with it, because I loved the game and I liked the people who played

it.  After a while I learned a few things.  How did I learn it?  I always thought it was kind of

funny.  I singled this one player out (Sid) that I knew was a good playing and thought that I would

learn from him.  I wasn't in Jade Falcon.  I wasn't in no clan.  I was asked to be in a few clans of

which I can't remember the names, but for me there was only one clan I wanted to be in and that was

Jade Falcon.  How was I to learn anything then?  I thought, Well Sids good, so I need to learn what he

does.  To do this I would wait until Sid picked a team and I would pick the other Team.  Everytime I

saw Sid I would go after him and try to learn the moves he made, how he fired weapons and how to avoid

being shot.  After many lessons I had learned the Sid shuffle, the center torso shot and not to move

my slow Dashi out into the open.  I was getting better, so I did this to a few other players, Dragon,

Cloud and Outlaw.  Cloud was good at helping people and he gave me a few good mechs even though I was

not in JF yet.  Sid also gave me a Daishi and told me to drive it around for a year. By the end of the

year I was pretty good in that mech.

Getting into JaDE fAlcon was not easy for me.  Number 1 I had decided I wasn't going to ask.  I

thought that when I got good I would be asked.  Well the pretty world of BK cracked one day and a few

members left to form a new clan.  After these members left I was asked to join Jade Falcon by Sid and

I was put in White.  After a few weeks these players that had left came back into JF and everything

was cool again.

I wanted to give back to my BK friends so I started running a Server called Angel One.  Back then we

used DEA for the server controler.  Now we use EvilBot, but on my server its Angel Bot.  lol  I

traveled alot so I was not always at home and I thought about my BK friends while I was on the road so

I decide that I would make a few decals with the Players Name and League Decals for the legs. I called

these Combat Decals. I spent many hours on this, but they turned out nice.  Later I make other decals

I called dress decals.  Find them in the downloads on this site.

After I finished that I learn how to make Maps.  The first map I made was ok, but the one thing I

still enjoy to this day is going into the map and looking at the Mech holding field.  I made a mech

for every player in Jade Falcon standing with their League.  These mechs were over three football

fields long.  JF was the Biggest Clan in all of Mechwarrior.  This included Vengs and Mercs.  Jade

Falcon in all its glory. Soon after BK and JF would start falling apart.
See the Jf HeadQuarters Map in the downloads here.

A few Players left again, but this time there were words, and feelings got hurt.  I was on the road

and I thought BK would be gone when I got home again.  The thing I could never figure out was... why? 

Things were bad, so bad I really don't want to remember it.  Servers were ran, people Smurfed, people

fought like there was no tommorrow, but tommorrow did come and things got bettter.  Members came back

to JF and a few left for good, but things were somewhat better, but I missed alot of the players that

had left.  This was the really last time I remember every having to wait to get in a BK server to play

a game.  Others asked me to join them, but I was Jade Falcon and my Honor for JF conts. today.

JF was hurt and needed time to heal.  I thought about making another map that would play like Ghost

highways , but instead of a road I would use a river.  I would also make a StrongHolds game for the

map that would have a Falcon Claw fort and a Angel One Fort.  You can see it in the downloads on this site.
I was very proud of this map, but to this day only a feel people every played it with me, so my map

making days are over.

When all of this was going on some players went to Mercs.  Sid joined TUA, Bolo and Hazer went also, 

De Ja Vu, joined USA along with a few others.  Some players like De Ja Vu I only see in Mercs now. 

Some players like Cloud, Red, OutLaw and Dragon left the game all together. Some play Both BK and

Mercs now.

BK was dieing and I was going to try to save it.  I figured that most of the websites out there were

all about mercs and we needed a Website that was all about BK.  I worked hard on this Site giving

myself sometime to get it going.  It would take a while because I was new at putting up a site of this

kind.  I worked on it and when I got it halfway finished I got Sid and Empress to look at it to give

me the ok to cont on with the site.  I told them how BK needed a BK only site and we could use it as a

support site for our servers running BK.  Everyone would be welcome, but JF would have there own

downloads, and Forum section.  They liked it and I cont. on working.  About 3 days later the Microsoft

closing the zone note came out.  At this time there was no way it would be finished to help save BK. 

I was to late.  TCB got Sad and depressed.  Sid tired to cheer me up with the IP thing.  It gave me

hope, but I didn't believe we every would be playing BK regularly after the 19th of June.  Its the Angel One site.

Since the announcement from Microsoft I have cont. to run my server or play on Falcon CLaw when it is

around or I'm not on the road for my Job.  I wrote a few messages to the JF Forums on how to connect

using IPs, but the truth is I feel Like I am on a sinking ship and the 19th of june I will go down

with it.  I feel like her Captain now.  I have giving what I could to Jade Falcon.  It had taught me

Honor, respect, Leadership and Control with the use of gentle persuasion.  I'm not giving up hope,  I

know we will play BK on IP sometimes.

During the last month I have run Angel One server for people to play.  The most I have seen on my

server in the last month is about 10 players.  Most of the time there is only about 3-5 of us with our

Bot friends.  My server, if you add up all the days together with out stopping has run over a year for

just BK.  Sometimes it ran for weeks and sometimes I was on the road and it was closed.  I would come

home very tired from driving and I would walk to the end of the house and crank my computer up so you

guys could play BK. I took alot of pride in running Angel One for Jade Falcon. I'm going to miss it. 

With work coming around fast.  I see only about 5 days left for the Angel One Server.  Parts of 3 days

this week, and 2 days next week.  After that I will be gone when the zone closes down.  On the road

for a month with my job.  I figure when we do play by IP it will be on Falcon CLaw.  My IP changes

when Im gone because I unplug everything so lighting doesn't hit my computer.

What will happen to Angel One?  I'm thinking on it.  Maybe go to the New Zone for Mercs.  Run a BK Map

Server in Mercs.  I got time to think about it.  I want be back until the 20th of July once I leave

next week. 

What will happen to Jade Falcon,  I don't know.  I will remember the Honor and Friends that I have

maded in BK for the rest of my life.  I had hoped at first that Jade Falcon could go to Mercs together

as a group.  I had talked to Serval people, but with so many already in different Merc clans its very

hard to do.  I had talked to Jehosephat the creator on the New Zone for Mercs.  Can he help us? 

Myself and many others have talked to him, but so far there is no New Zone for BK and Veng. I can

still hope can't I?

What will happen to TCB's jouney?  It will cont. on in Mercs.  Join a Clan?  I've been asked, but

right now my Honor is still with Jade Falcon until the End.

That's my short story and I'm sticking to it.  If you got a story, I would love to read it.
        
          Hugs to all, TCB

Sorry about the spellings but I, got to much stuff to do today and I wanted to get thi