Alliance with the most veteran players?

BEM684

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May 9th 2023, 14:19:47

So I've been playing for the past two weeks and I noticed that a bunch of the alliance tags are the same names that were active when I played Earth 2025 20+ years ago. Which alliance has the most active players from the early days of Earth 2025, if any still do?

Tmac

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May 9th 2023, 14:24:56

Pretty much everyone here is from the old days =)

BEM684

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May 9th 2023, 14:28:30

I was wondering about that because it's been so long. Even somebody who was here since 2010 would be way after I quit lol. I think I played 1998-2003.

Edited By: BEM684 on May 9th 2023, 15:20:22
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Rasp

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May 9th 2023, 14:39:50

did you play in any clans back then?

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Tmac

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May 9th 2023, 14:40:26

I started in 99 too when I was 12. I was in ccsgn which changed to un4given to evolution, you?

BEM684

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May 9th 2023, 14:59:00

Wow I remember un4given. I should mention I went by the name MAZ back in the day. Somebody else has taken that name here so I couldn't use it.

I started in TALON. I played maybe two sets there and then broke away with a guy named Arka to form Veni Vidi Vici (vVv), which merged with GiM to form Phoenix. Phoenix eventually merged with CNA to form Divine Justice where I played until I dropped off. I read somewhere that DJ merged with somebody to form VieNNa a while after I left. I have not kept in contact with anyone. I was active on Alliance Talk 20 years ago, when ARROW had 300+ countries and MD, MONSTERS, Omega, Genesis, etc basically held the whole top 10. I played one set in RAGE but I think I was mostly spying on them and trying to learn stuff to bring back to DJ.

I spent a lot of time trying to get pacts for DJ so I was somewhat in contact with FAs and Presidents of the big alliances but I don't remember many of them.

Link

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May 9th 2023, 14:59:37

Elders currently houses all sorts of vets.. a fairly large group from 2025's ICN and others

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BigP

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May 9th 2023, 15:06:46

I remember Veni Vidi Vici and TALON. I think i started playing around 97 or so.

- SoF

Rasp

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May 9th 2023, 15:18:25

Tmac recruited me to CCSGN back in the day.

I think they merged with Unknown Soldiers to become Un4given.
Then Evolution came about somewhere.

BEM684

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May 9th 2023, 15:21:10

Is there any actual warring these days? Seems like if one alliance wants a war, the whole server ends up warring due to the small player base?

BEM684

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May 9th 2023, 15:43:22

From reading posts on the forums it's clear there are still wars going on.

Havoc

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May 9th 2023, 17:51:14

Yeah I would imagine most tags are mostly comprised of old vets. Warring still happens pretty well every set, the tags have less members, but there's enough of them that some tags can usually still net if they choose to stay out of it.

I started in '99 when I was 9 years old hah, mostly in FFA, then started Alliance when MPE (Mad Phoenix Empire) moved to 1a... I forget what year that would have been. Lasted there a couple sets then joined Omega.

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HEMPMAN1

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May 9th 2023, 17:59:52

Wow.. so when i started in 1997 i was 28.. lol.. apparently i was playing this damn game with a bunch of kids.. lmao.. wish i was as young as you all.

BEM684

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May 9th 2023, 18:02:09

I was 14 or 15 when I started. And now I'm 38 and my oldest kid is 13. I started playing Team Fortress Classic during COVID too, after a 18 year hiatus. Maybe revisiting old video games is my midlife crisis :)

henrik

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May 9th 2023, 18:04:19

I started in Omega 99 and I think Pteppic started around there as well. We're still there :)

The Vegemite Coalition won over AVC through walkover :D

KoHeartsGPA

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May 9th 2023, 18:14:14

Yeah we're all vets about 99% of us :-)

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May 9th 2023, 18:17:27

Originally posted by HEMPMAN1:

Wow.. so when i started in 1997 i was 28.. lol.. apparently i was playing this damn game with a bunch of kids.. lmao.. wish i was as young as you all.

Get off Hempmans lawn!

mdevol

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May 9th 2023, 18:40:33

I would say LaF but ::looks around:: I don't see them around here. They must be taking summer vacation early this year.

SoL and Elders both have a decent number of pre-2k players. Pretty much everybody playing is a longtime vet.

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Buch

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May 9th 2023, 18:44:11

Originally posted by Link:

Elders currently houses all sorts of vets.. a fairly large group from 2025's ICN and others

Pen 15 is 100% veteran

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May 9th 2023, 19:22:49

Retired Army Veteran here

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Pteppic

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May 9th 2023, 19:26:34

Originally posted by henrik:

I started in Omega 99 and I think Pteppic started around there as well. We're still there :)

The Vegemite Coalition won over AVC through walkover :D

Yeah indeed 99. Treehugging forever

Requiem

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May 9th 2023, 19:52:59

Originally posted by Coalie:

Retired Army Veteran here

Should have been Air Force or Navy.

Coalie

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May 9th 2023, 20:27:59

Originally posted by Requiem:

Originally posted by Coalie:

Retired Army Veteran here

Should have been Air Force or Navy.

You’re not wrong. There’s a reason why most army vets tell kids to go Air Force. My niece is headed for the naval academy right now.

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HEMPMAN1

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May 9th 2023, 20:33:57

Wow.. so when i started in 1997 i was 28.. lol.. apparently i was playing this damn game with a bunch of kids.. lmao.. wish i was as young as you all.

Get off Hempmans lawn!

lmao.. dont care about the lawn.. stay out the private garden... lol.. And i still drink like a fish!

Thunder

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May 10th 2023, 3:38:54

I'll be 52 next month. I first started at the end of the winter reset in January 1998. Ended up in ICN, over the course of the years, I next joined Netters Anonymous. Spent some time in SOF. Played FFA in LaE. Team I got with my boys and we created Elders. Left the game thinking I would never play again. But as 2025 is very near, I let my brotha Link drag me back in this set. Much like riding a bike it seems I didn't forget as much as I thought I would.

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Murf

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May 10th 2023, 6:43:00

I remember warring DJ with Rage lol back in the day

The arrow v sof war was pre 2000 if I recall, that was fun too

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May 10th 2023, 13:52:25

Originally posted by HEMPMAN1:

I was 21 and felt old LOL, Sunday my girlfriend and i watched "Otto" on Netflix and she kept laughing and looking at me....turns out I'm turning to that guy 😂

BEM684

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May 10th 2023, 14:25:37

Originally posted by Murf:

I remember warring DJ with Rage lol back in the day

The arrow v sof war was pre 2000 if I recall, that was fun too

I remember warring with RAGE. And I think I remember ARROW v SoF too. It's really sad that the old AT archive is gone. Pretty much all of alliance history was written up over there.

BigP

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May 10th 2023, 16:31:35

I was around for the ARROW wars...good times

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Snoopdawg

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May 10th 2023, 22:18:59

I started in the second week i believe it was in october 1996 and played until it was sold to Omac then hung around for a couple more years after QZ and Pang aquired it then retired for health reasons and came back about 4 or 5 yrs ago so earth vets everywhere you look

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May 10th 2023, 22:22:42

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major

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May 11th 2023, 1:57:17

The first war I was in was the SLIT war.

llaar

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May 11th 2023, 2:05:03

lol the SLIT war i think i remember that!

1998 there were 10, 20, 30k players? or tons of bots? who knows but clans late 90s did have hundreds of members. was a very different time for this game thats for sure

welcome back, i'm newly reacquainting myself with whats going on here as well, haven't played much since 2010-2012 or so I can't even remember.

elvesrus

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May 11th 2023, 2:27:19

Started at ~15 in 98 shortly after the change from solaria to, I think, eesite and never needed to borrow a plat email for whatever tag I wanted to get to know in limited. Swear it wasn't a commitment issue, just ended up with friends hanging out in public IRC channels and wanted to play with them here and there. #NeoFederation was the best

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May 11th 2023, 11:37:48

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Kevro

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May 11th 2023, 11:47:48

Originally posted by BEM684:

Damn, I am in the exact same boat. 38, oldest is 13, just started playing this and Diablo 2 again. Am I in crisis mode too? Lol

HEMPMAN1

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May 11th 2023, 13:08:43

Thunder, were you in USIMP?

BEM684

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May 11th 2023, 13:43:05

Originally posted by Kevro:

Originally posted by BEM684:

Damn, I am in the exact same boat. 38, oldest is 13, just started playing this and Diablo 2 again. Am I in crisis mode too? Lol

I think it's because Diablo 4 is coming out next month and 2025 is just around the corner. Your psyche couldn't resist coming back to these old games.

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May 11th 2023, 14:11:56

Originally posted by Thunder:

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Havoc

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May 11th 2023, 19:42:21

any old The Club members still around? We had a short but fun run in the mid 00s.

Also not quite AT archives, but I'm getting a lot of nostalgia looking at some of the country names/old tags going through the top 100s on here.. has every 1a set from 98-06: https://wiki.earthempires.com/index.php/Earth2025_History

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Garry Owen

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May 15th 2023, 8:21:34

Originally posted by HEMPMAN1:

Wow.. so when i started in 1997 i was 28.. lol.. apparently i was playing this damn game with a bunch of kids.. lmao.. wish i was as young as you all.

LOL - back then it was frustrating doing any kind of FA because it was SOOO obvious that most clans were run by frustrated teenagers!!

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May 15th 2023, 8:27:25

Originally posted by Link:

Originally posted by Thunder:

Thunder was my president for 3-5 days in roughly 2001.

zygotic

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Sep 14th 2023, 8:19:47

Originally posted by henrik:

I started in Omega 99 and I think Pteppic started around there as well. We're still there :)

The Vegemite Coalition won over AVC through walkover :D

The AVC will rise again!

table4two

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Sep 14th 2023, 10:51:51

Originally posted by BEM684:

Hey I have a super vague memory of playing in vVv, GiM and Phoenix! We may have crossed paths. Welcome back.

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Sep 14th 2023, 14:10:18

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