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Rymdkejsaren
Wootah! I figured I'd introduce myself! Hi.

This game looks like it's going to rock a lot. I'm definately sticking around.
Flyer
Hello all NS lovers. Just thought I'd say hi to all of ya :) I'm just new to the forums, but been tracking the mod's progress for about some time now. The mod looks sharp and promising, can't wait to play it myself, guess thats all. Later folks.
Jack-0
Hey there ns community i thought i would introduce myself...

i've know about ns for sometime now... (befor there was the offical site and the info was on overmind.org) from
crinity's page. i just want to thank the dev team for making a mod that is gonna ROCK!! :D

So hello people
Crisis
How did you learn about Natural Selection?

- I dont really remember, but I now it must have been like in Oct 2001, or something. Probably a post on PHL.

I only just signed up on the forums for some reason, but this games going to kick some serious ###. Its like a whole new game. I bet if you said "What engine is this?" they wouldn't have a clue. Brilliant. It will wipe CS off the top for sure. About time as well.
Spyder_Monkey
Welcome to the community guys. Enjoy your stay here with us, and watch out for rob... he's frisky.
SNAFU
I'm new to the forums, so... don't know what to say. I'm not very good at introductions.  :p

Anyway... glad to be a part of the community.
Thorkos
I am 18.

I am from Boston, Massachusetts originally, but I now live in Salt Lake City.

I heard about you guys from Penny-Arcade.

I surfed over, saw "commander mode," went into conniptions (well, not really), and have been watching you guys ever since.  I decided to post the other day, just because.
Spyder_Monkey
Welcome aboard guys, good to have you. ;)
Hollow
Hello everyone.  I'm a (very) active member at www.Shiftify.com.  I go by the name Sauron of Mordor over there.  Its a cool site.  NS looks hot. It looks to redefine the mod world with its atmosphere, creativity and awesome idea of blending RTS with FPS:).  And it looks damn fun.  I am a Science and Industry expert.  Thank you very much.
richard_of_richardland
Hi

How did I learn about NS?

Well here's some irony, I found it while sniffing around DOOManiac's webspace on the desertcrisis (though the webspace has gone since they moved hosts it seems D: ) and saw some really cool maps, which the textures looked really detailed and stuff, and the maps kinda reminded me of WH40k, well I saw they were actually NS maps in worldcraft so I found my way here.

Where did I come from?

Well right now I play flf, cos it's like crack, (hell it's nearly as bad as everquest, but you don't need it all the time, you just can't quit completely) and until NS is released I don't see myself going anywhere.

ack, I'm bad at introductions but that's cos I tend to ramble in my forum posts, there aren't any stats packages but I expect if you were to take average post length on the FLF forums mine probably rate fairly high now, I just am really bad at making a point so I circle around it about 6 times to make sure everyone gets what I am on about when I make a wacky suggestion and people start to wonder what I am on.

Abridged: Hi.
SmokeMasta
Welcome to the community  enyoy ur stay here
please read the ALL the FAQ's that will probably prevent lots of annoying posts
RhoadsToNowhere
Hey Hollow, what's your Science and Industry name?  I don't play SI much anymore, but I'm wondering if I've seen you on a server before.
KrunCh
Hey... First time poster, long time reader. I'm a big fan of Gloom for Q2 and I'm really looking foward to this mod. I have been visiting this site ever since it opened.

Anyhow maybe some of you remeber me from Gloom. I made a soundpak for it which got me some attention for a while. It's a shame that it's fading away cept for the hardcore players. I'll look foward to adding my own sounds in this mod, though I highly doubt that I would have the desire to, based on the quality of sound editing/developing I have heard and read about here.
;)
Naughty_Brembo
Hi guys,
I´ve been following the progress of NS for quite a while now and it´s very exciting to see how far you´ve come now. I just can´t wait to get my grubby little hands on this mod...

Not from the RPG/RTS scene myself, NS seems to offer a new experience for FPS players like myself. Getting to play with a human doing with me what I did with the fremen in Dune II (hey, it´s the last RTS I played, ok?) is just...amazing.

Anyway, Naughty Brembo is actually my biker name ("Brembo" being an Italian brakes manufacturer), my real name is Erik...I´m from Sweden and I´m currently on my last year of med school. Apart from playing a number of HL mods (and recently some AvP) I enjoy riding my bike way too fast into corners and feel that rear tyre spin...

Good job, team!
eBnar
I love the way all the new people catch up with my post count in matter of hours. Greetings all of you.
pielemuis
hmm we've seen a lot of eBby posts lately, you're spoiling us ^_^
Lazarus
just thought it wasnt worth it to make a new topic and it might help new people. I tryed to look for this in the FAQ and older posts but didnt find it. What should I type in the box where the red circle is to be able to join the #naturalselection channel? (I feel like a noob)
richard_of_richardland
There should be a network that is gamesnet, then connect on irc.gamesnet.net

However try this direct link which more modern mirc should actually be able to cope with.
eBnar
Just clickity the IRC Network window and select Gamesnet. When connected to server join channel #naturalselection.
RipNChewNMaim
Ummm,...HI!!

I'm Rip,..and I am an Ultra N00b

<"Hi Rip!">

The AA intro sounded nice enough to break the ice...Oh well.

I'm RNCNM,... I'm From a weird place called Ohio.
I've always loved games since I was a little kid, just never had the income to invest in them,...which led to many years of feeling behind in my lonely childhood years.

<crowd sniffles>

BUT! I recently acquired a job at a very huge retail electronics store, and was propelled faster than a donut to a cop's mouth, into the gaming world (with the help of a recently obtained UBER-ADSL Modem)

<OOoooOoo>

So I am here, and I have played. I have gotten over my 3d motion-sickness (thanks from the help of Quake 3), and I am READY to R0x0r J00 @LL !!!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!

Eerrmm...

I learned about NS from a link posted in another community which some of you might have heard of,. Infantry. The game (in my opinion which was not great because of the gfx [which sucked compared to H-L], but because of the community). If you do not know of infantry's plight, and what led me here,. I shall tell you.

In a nutshell, infantry was owned by Harmless Games way back when (before I even played it). Then, when HG ran out of dough to support the game (which was free), Sony Online Entertainment, stepped in and bought it, thus 'saving' the game and its great community from the depths of the abyss of the forgotten (sorry, writer's flair comin' up). Anywho,...SOE polished dup the game, allowed the head guy known as Yankee, along with some of his remaining crew to stay on with the game. I joined in around the beginning of the summer of '01 and was amazed not only at the community, but the sheer size (over 2000 players on at peak times, which rose when the Chaos on EOL zone came out. EOL alone held 500-1100 players at peak times). There were the mod wars and of course the board wars as well with trolls and such (neither of which I was fully aware of because I wasn't and still am not elite).

Then, out of nowhere (well we all know how it goes in big business, everything is set in stone before the public knows), but nonetheless,...FIVE, count them, FIVE days before the game that I adored and spent a lot of time on trying to become one with the L33tn3ss was to go Pay-toPlay,.. they announce it. The community as a whole was ripped asunder by butt hole-licking sn00bs who were going to vie for mod spots in the ensuing era, and complete n00bs who flamed with very little brainpower (E.g.>SONIE IZ G@Y,...OMG OMG OMG P2P SUX!!;).

I was stunned,...crushed and angry. Threads began to fly all over the boards, people mostly spamming their new-found hate for SOE, calling for a boycott of Sony products or whatnot, and the brown-noses flaming them away with their 'good, p2p will wipe out you losers' posts.

May 1st rolls around and Infantry dies. I look at the zones in despair (none have broken 350 people on simultaneously yet). So to the boards I went,.. combating the brownnosers and stomping their digital faces in with my very p!ss3d off intelligent n00bie foot. Until I came across a threat that contained alternative games to flee to now that There was no hope, and poof! Suddenly I was dropped at the Doorstep of the NS site, and beckoned inside further by the radio chatter of the little flash movie.

Hoards and hoards of info came smacking into my synapses before they cou7ld even process it. I realized in a week or so that I had found my new home, and it wasn’t even finished yet.

So here I am,. never having played half-life a day of my life, but having heard great things about it, and finding out that this plays right into my field (if you hadn't noticed,. I like being on alien teams). I was and still am inspired to play H/L and patiently await the coming of NS.

It is rumored that I have a human designation (Jon)that is quite common amongst the cattle upon which my superior species feeds,...but perhaps the translation was wrong. Also in these human rumoring-type things,.. it is said that someone with my designation will be starting a web comic with his very n00bish drawing and software skills (any recommendation on software that can help design  logos would be greatly appreciated). He also strums an instrument of some sort that is called a guitar. (more to come on these strange rumors in the future).

In closing (I know you're bored with me already), I request humbly, that I be guided and corrected by the powers and vets that be in my quest to become t3h r0x0r of j00 @ll. Any tips or suggestions (like a good place to get a web page and doing my sig file n stuff, so I can look a little more stream-lined) would be deeply, and truly appreciated.

Now, ONWARD to find a CD-RoM drive because the one that I had has currently and permanently expired...and there are games UNPLAYED!!!!!

Thanks for reading this if you made it this far.

RipNChewNMaim (Just call me Rip).

"In a matter of moments, all you'll be is a satisfying lump in my belly..."
    --cool saying before a duel.
"RAAARRR!!!"
f3rret
Yo.

I'm f3rret, I followed NS for a while, forgot about it, then found it again. :) Now I'm here for good. :)

I'm getting so ancy for a new game, today I'm going out to buy Soldier of Fortune 2. I hope it doesn't suck.

--F3rret
Flayra
Hey RipNChewNMaim.  I'm glad you have a new home, I think you'll like it here.  What a great way to enter our community. :)

I'm about to give you a "...from the ashes" title (but thene everyone would be screaming for one).  Welcome.
Spyder_Monkey
Welcome aboard f3rret. RipNChemNMaim... not much left to say except welcome... very nice intro. :)
RipNChewNMaim
Heyyy!!! Thanks folks! I'm Very pleased that I was officially welcomed. I held back on posting in other topics because I didn't just want to "appear" from nowhere.

I must say I'm very impressed with the coming of NS,..it's sure making quite a buz with all these people. Oh yes! I have a webbie now. T3h |)3|\/

Be kind. Like I said in my first post, I'm an Uber N00bie on the everlasting path to |_33ty|\/3ss. I do believe Dramwaver will help me out, as well as a few *coughsuggestionscough* from you you nice people.

Well...Wish I could stay longer, but there is more to learn, more to see and stuff to DOOOOO!!!!

<Rips (pun intended) a hole in the ventilation shaft and scurries back to the hive.>

Rip

"Attention everyone %killed was tricked into paying to be 0wned by a guest. As the old saying goes, "There's a sucker born every minute."
               ---my favorite saying as a P2P Assassin.

"Mass NME rape squad comin',... Move your exoskeletons and bring the BBQ sauce, its gonna get messy!"
Tactician
NS sucks, let's all play Doom 2.

(lewl.)
Spyder_Monkey
^^^^Blasphemy.
Tactician
Hey, doom2 has guns and aliens.  What's the big difference?  It's just that I can play doom2, while I can only salivate to images of NS :D right :D?
pielemuis
playing doom2 usign doom legacy is really fun, good ol' deathmatch fun d:D
SentrySteve
it lags way too much to accualty get an enjoyable experience.  Not even fam's sister lags that much!
Unknown
Quote (Spyder Monkey @ April 28 2002,10:31)
Who are you?

Where are you from?

How did you learn about Natural Selection?

I am -|SUF|-Unknown.  I am the 2nd Defence captain for my TFC clan (Soviets Under Fire).  I learned of NS through one of my websurfing friends. I have been following this mod for 2 (TWO!) days now and so far it looks like a sweet mod.  Hopefully I might beable to join the NS team because I am a programmer just like Flayra but no were near as good. (Which I know this will highly be unlikly) I've only been at C++ for a year now with a freashman college book (I'm in highschool going on to 11th grade) and I'm taking an AP C++ course next school year.

Well, cya at the forums.
Fam
Welcome Unknown. Have fun, make sure you read all the Forum and other assorted FAQ's if you havnt already. Have a nice stay, I'm sure you wont be disappointed. :)
Unknown
Oh yea I forgot www.clansuf.com is our website.  http://suf.whateverchannels.com is our forums and www.clansuf.com/Sagestat.exe is were you can get a sample of my most complex C++ program so far.

(Its a 85KB program)
Seraphic8X
Hey.  I learned about Natural Selection through Planet Half-Life.  Pretty excited to play the MOD.

I'm a Starcraft fan myself, so I'm quite interested in seeing the RTS mode of NS.   :D
Imperial_Syndicate
Hello. I've been watching NS for quite awhile now but I've just started posting here. I've read the FAQ's so don't worry about that. NS seems to have a really great community here, and I think it would be nice to be a part of it. So, hello all!

I was wondering if anyone else here is going to be running an NS server when it's released? I will, so I was just curious as to who else would be. Later!
Daywanderer
*walks in while looking around nervously*

Bob around? No? Okay, let's get this over with.

Who are you?
I'm Pete, and I'm a game-a-holic. Most people just call me Day, or Dave (long story).

Where are you from?
Norway, home of polar goats and ballistic bovines.

How did you learn about Natural Selection?
Probably some Half-Life modding site. Every now and then I look around for new, interesting mods. I spotted this one a while back and got all hyped about it. Now, for no particular reason, I figured it was time to snoop around in the community :) Not sure how active I'll be, seeing as how I'm a "Usenet Guy". Forums scare me. Especially when they have an alien roaming around. Even moreso when said alien is commonly known as 'Bob'.

*shudders*

Anyway, Natural Selection looks extremely promising, to say the least. Good luck to the team: May your eventual release be painless and the reviews spectacular!

*spots something moving in the shadows and runs off*
:bob:
gage
:D~/
XTS_Highlander
/me sneaks quietly into the room, and spies Daywanderer

Eep!

/me begins backin away slowly, but Daywanderer whirls around

Uh.. Daywanderer, buddy! Pal!  I remember you from the Ghostrecon Forums!  You had a stick-waving Fetish, ya know...

/me waves a pointy stick at Daywanderer

Like that, see?

Seriously though, glad to see you've noticed NS.  Hope this place fulfills your desires for moose-tipping and stick-waving good ole fashioned fun.
JasonBostwick
Right. And get yer rear over to our IRC channel. #naturalselection on Gamesnet.
Daywanderer
LOL, small world, huh? I have to admit, this is the last place I'd expect to stumble across one of you XTS boys.

BoZ: Mind if I bring my front instead? I prefer to make a good first impression and my rear, well, let's just say it's not up for the task.
Trojan_Rabbit
I be a lonely Half-Life player, mostly DoD and a little CS.

From Seattle, Washington.

Found out about NS about 3 months ago, but the game really didn't catch my attention at the time.  Came back a few days ago to the site, realized how darn cool it was lookin' and decided to take an active interest.

I love how the game looks so far, and would like to take an active role in helping the mod, but I don't have any skillz of the mod-makage category, so I'll just give moral support.

Go NS team!
SmokeMasta
all welcome
make sure u read ALL the faq's to avoid posts that we have already discussed
Kheldar
hello everyone hope u have a pleasnt trip from sanety to flayritus... and hope u have a good time here in the forums and mIrc... thats about all hu?       :bob: :asrifle:   :bob: hahaha u can run but u cant hide!
Flayra
Welcome guys.  I hope you enjoy your time here.
Spyder_Monkey
Welcome guys, be sure to read the now-slimmer Forum FAQ's located... here for any information concerning the mod, forum, or general information you might ask. :)

SmokeMasta
was time about for a FAQ update :)
Titan
lo all, i was just wondering if anyone could tell me how to make myself ans avatar ???? or even a sig??? thx any help will be appreciated.
Spyder_Monkey
Well, for the avatar, you can use any 64x64 image and link to it from the "Your Control Panel" you see up above. Signatures should be kept to 600x125 or below. You can make them using paint, photoshop, or anything you got lying around, and as long as it's clean, you'll here no complaints from us moderators.

Welcome to the community Titan, enjoy your stay here with us. :)
Khaim
Hello, just signed up on the forums yesterday. I heard about NS from a friend and I'm allready hyper-excited about it, and I love the name bob.
:asrifle:  :bob:
Spyder_Monkey
Well lemme be the first to give you a "welcome to the community". Have fun, and most of all, fear teh bob.
Longtooth
Good day gentlemen,
  I am Longtooth and I am a CSaholic *pauses for applaude* I actually heard about this mod from Firearms, someone on one of the servers was spamming the website link so I decieded to check it out, I have played all the other mods on the scene and none of them have "it" but this game does,  also for something to hold off the bob killing hunger for now look up a mod called Train Hunter.
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