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Since phago got sort of inactive I decided to invest a part of my time in the ducati league and opened a team for new/weak players:

http://league.bzflag.net/index.php?link=teaminfo&id=1246

Since it was phago's 4th birthday on the 21st (\o/), I thought I'd take some time to talk about the my position in the team and what I've experienced in phago.

Joining phago was basically a dream come true. At that time (it's gotten a lot better ) I was pretty obsessed with BZFlag (GU). I mean.. crazy about it. There were times when I couldn't wait 'til I got home so I could match. I'd basically be online 24/7, which is one of the reasons why I have about 100 days of online time since starting GU. I always admired phago, even when I didn't know much about them. Whenever I saw Saturos or benji 13 (only ones who talked ) online I'd immediately start talking to them. About one year ago I talked to Satu on Skype for the first time. Even though we barely knew each other we talked about different things for almost an hour. The proceeding couple of weeks I got closer to benji and we finally we decided to meet. We walked around town for 3 hours while ben mostly told me about phago and the things he had experienced. I was thrilled and expressed my obvious interest in joining. About a month after that, in march, I was invited to phago. Read the full story after the jump!

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Heya!

Wanted to wish all you guys a great christmas and happy holidays!! We've been a little lazy lately.. even though there's been so much going on. I'll just give you guys a brief idea of what has happened.
So, 3 weeks ago I decided to make my own team. I was desperate for some change and thought that was the right thing to do. Last Saturday however, I realized that what I had done wasn't really helping anyone and that I had been much happier on phago. I rejoined that day and am incredibly relieved that I did so. Last night, we finally played our 2000th match! (don't worry we won ) Special thanks goes to Elemental Chaos for making it happen. Bachiii, benji 13 and Saturos played vs. fastkill, hjphysioman and CE.
Another big thing coming up, is the Phago-New Year LAN! benji and I will be coming up to Berlin next weekend to for a big LAN. I'm really excited about this trip, since benji is coming along this time, too. The highlight of this trip will be the Rikers Cup taking place on January 3rd. I'm really looking forward to the Cup, especially because it's during the time of our visit! Sitting in the same room with 4 other players will double the fun. As usual we have a lot of cool things and projects planned for the LAN...that might or might not come to life.

A big thanks to everyone who contributed to my awesome birthday picture. Saturos designed a phago-tshirt. It looks amaaazing. Whenever he gets around to it, he'll upload some pictures.

Peace!

A lot of people, that are mostly involved in online games, forget how nice it is, to play an offline game from time to time. You aren't preoccupied with what other people think of you or have to make sure you always follow the rules. There's really no pressure involved at all. You have no obligation to preform in front of other players.
Save and load at any time you want, or just quit the game. No "cya guys, gg was fun" bla-bla stuff. You end the game and you can think of something completely different within an instant. With online games, a big part is being social. Good online games have good communities. Communicating with other players, constantly asking answering questions and all that. When you're in the right mood, this can be very enjoyable. However, being grumpy is basically frowned upon and does not really help your reputation. Not saying hello to somebody can cost you a round of "omg y didnt u say hi earlier 2day??" or something similar. Often, one can't quite get their mind off of something that happened earlier. When you sit down and play a round of Fifa, there is no such thing as an unexpected incident. Everything is very predictable. Which is exactly what makes it relaxing.
Another thing is, you don't have to deal with "lag" "thru" "hax" or some other accusations that are just annoying and tiresome.
After a couple days of offline gaming, you can also appreciate a good BZFlag funmatch a lot more. So, don't just stick to one game all the time, try to mix it up a bit.

Let us know what ya think!

Dear HiX,

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The best part about being in [phago], is by far the great LANs we have.

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A couple of months ago, I realized, that I see a lot of BZFlag callsigns/team names when I'm walking through town or other places.
I thought that it would be really cool, if I could take a picture of that callsign or name and group all of these pictures together after a couple of months.

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There's a contest for a new BZ-Shirt in the bzbb.

Now that is exciting! It even has a prize for the winner. *fires up inkscape*