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halflingstew Geriatric Anarchists Racer Renegade Group: Members Posts: 120 Joined: Sep 28, 2007 Greetings to all and sundry! My name's Larry Lange and I've just subscribed (well, a week ago anyway). My gangs name is the "Mizcreantz", named because they're bad and unruly... in a cute and cuddly, rapscallion-ish sort of way. A little on me then. I'm an MRI Technologist in Central NY, near Syracuse (GO ORANGE! not this year...). Being married, with kids, tends to keep me pretty busy. My 8 year old thinks this game looks awesome, so if I seem to be driving or talking funny, just play along. I've played games for many years. Some of my favorite memories are of my old Avalon Hill collection, PanzerBlitz, Gettysburg, and massive games of Squad Leader. I also played D&D since it came out, and still have the original books. I played lots of Car Wars in my day, and it's still one of my favorites. That's probably why Darkwind appeals so much to me. I've been an avid Warhammer player for several years. I've played lots of computer games, but never ventured much into MMOs. Just never had the time to grind out levels in Warcraft and such. Besides, online always seemed so...sterile, compared to actually facing someone across a table. And you're less likely to be surprised by who's actually behind that hot, scantily-clad Dark Elf... Well, that's the thrill-i-ness of me. See ya on the track! ......................... vet ped2 wv Posted Nov 5, 2007, 2:11 am

OrionQ Bourgeois Stalkers Sunday Driver Renegade Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: Sep 30, 2007 Hi there everyone, I'm OrionQ. I'm an environmental geologist living in Sacramento, California. Just so you know, what that means is that I go to places where there might be pollution and drill holes in the ground to see if there is. Mostly that ends up that I hang out at gas stations eating terrible gas station food. I'm 29, married (my wife tells me that I should say that I'm cute, but I'm not sure if any of you would need that info much), no kids but three cats. I grew up in a small town in Iowa (for those non-Americans and for some of you who are, that's the state to the west of Chicago, Illinois where they grow corn), and played lots of games with my older brother. When I was in 5th grade, my brother got the deluxe Car Wars boxed set for christmas and we were hooked. Because we were the only two people playing, we rarely played in arena combats, which I found out later was kind of unusual for a CW group. What we did instead was do some role-playing lite with truckers and later, tanks. The pinnacle was when we played out a revolutionary war in Mexico (US forces supporting the rebels, Texan forces supporting the government) using tanks and all the military stuff that came out at the end of the CW heyday. Anyway, we were fans. The other game that I'd say I'm addicted to is Civilization. Sure, I play a lot of other games, but they're just interludes between Civ binges. A few weeks after Civ III came out, I had to study for university final exams. The sunday night before my first test, I kept staying up later and later until, when I noticed dawn breaking, I thought I'd better just stay up and cram instead of sleeping. That's pretty much my gaming life in a nutshell. Darkwind is the realization of all my car wars dreams, at least it will be once I get to run big rigs and escorts all over evan. Until then, look for me on occasional weeknights and definitely on weekends! ......................... vet Posted Nov 17, 2007, 7:58 pm

*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,780 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Aha sweet, I have to say in my opinion Civilization is the best game ever made I once played it for 10 hours every night for 14 straight nights. And got paid for it. Heh. ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted Nov 18, 2007, 3:48 pm

Flaming savage Mirrored Pain Darkwind Guru Deathrace Mafia Faction Group: Members Posts: 1,788 Joined: Jan 21, 2007 i agre with sam ......................... vet wv raceL1 pvp2 combatL1 Posted Nov 18, 2007, 4:25 pm

Flaming savage Mirrored Pain Darkwind Guru Deathrace Mafia Faction Group: Members Posts: 1,788 Joined: Jan 21, 2007 hi everybody ......................... vet wv raceL1 pvp2 combatL1 Posted Nov 21, 2007, 8:50 pm

Speed_Melon Produce_Vendors Darkwind Guru Merchants Faction Group: Members Posts: 558 Joined: Dec 18, 2007 Let'see, I'm married, with one child (14 months) so if my car veers and keeps on going, you'll know why...I'm the youngest of 7 and fortunately the next two older than me were into the avalon hill games and such, cause that's how I got into gaming. I was into car wars back in the day, in fact, I've still got all the goods, Uncle Al catalogues, ADQ quarterlies, expansion packs, including the armor and aero ones. I ran into DW somewhere about 6 months ago on a tech site, not sure which one, could've been slashdot, macnn, or arstechnica. Looked at it, but at first glance thought it may be a little more than i wanted to get into. Now, I've got a new brother in law who is into warhammer 40000, so over a visit during Christmas I got excited about gamin and diggin out the CW stuff. I sat down and took a look at DW and gave it a try, now I'm hooked. Computer gaming I've been into the whole Battlefield series, Grand Prix Legends, Nascar 1997 on a mac, Dune 2000. Professionally, I do Geographic Information Systems. I've done it on a variety of hardware and software platforms. Look forward to getting to know y'all. Paul ......................... vet wv0,3,0 Posted Jan 16, 2008, 12:35 am

Lung Aristocrats Sunday Driver Renegade Group: Members Posts: 44 Joined: Jan 17, 2008 Ok; here?s my story ? I think I?m the oldest gamer here. I?m in my mid 60s and have been playing games since my beginning. I am originally from N.Y., spent 20+ years in Vermont and currently live in Florida with my wife, dog and 2 cats. I have been a property insurance adjuster most of my life. I like to fish and play golf but my heart has always belonged to gaming. I have a Playstation II and 2 computers. One of the computers has Windows98 on it so I can play some of the early PC games like Colonization and Sim Farm. My other computer is an Alienware WindowsXP hot rod. As a kid I played with the original Erector Set, Lincoln Logs and Pick-Up-Stix. I made up my own games with my Lionel and HO trains that involved timetables for passenger and freight stops along my line(s). When slot cars came out I built drag strips and road courses in my attic and basement and hosted races with my friends. In my early teens I played card games (War, Knucks and yes Old Maid) and board games. I got into Chess and put in MANY hours at a Chess display table in the Macy?s toy department in Roosevelt Field Long Island, N.Y. The store manager let me play anyone who challenged me and for as long as I wanted as it attracted people to the toy department and probably help his sales. In my 20s I played board games Monopoly, Gettysburg, and Stratego but also played a lot of sports; Baseball, Football, and Soccer. In my 30s I moved up to Risk, PanzerBlitz and PanzerLeader. I then played them by Play-by-Mail but as soon as possible I started with the electronic games; Intellivision, Nintendo (Donkey Kong anyone), Pong, Missile Command, you name it. Around this time I realized I was losing control and was becoming addicted to games in general. I liked war games the most and found myself mostly playing WWII type games. Ever hear of Global Supremacy? A Play-by-Mail war game that I got so interested in throughout my 40s that I bought a franchise from the author, started a game company and GameMastered my own Global Supremacy games. Of course I still had time for PC games such as Zork. I don?t know where I found the time to get into R/C boats, planes and cars. I still run my gas powered R/C 10GT from time to time. In my 50s I went over the edge with gaming; The Jagged Alliance series took over my attention and to this day I believe it is the best war game ever produced. WHY don?t they come out with Jagged Alliance 3? Of course Civ I & III, Capitalism, Sim everything, Pirates, Industry Giant, and Steel Panthers are still on my hard-drive somewhere. I could go on and on with the list of games I liked to play (an asset of being 60+ years old) but this Darkwind is a breath of fresh air. It is the 1st MMO that I have ever liked. I found DW in a Games for Windows magazine listing Free Games but when I checked it out I was hooked into subscribership immediately. Now all I have to do is learn how to deal with the pesky NPCs. Enough about me already; I?m going racing. ......................... vet Posted Feb 10, 2008, 4:17 am

*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,780 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Heh, and I thought I was early into computer games! My earliest would have been pong and space invaders, and 'adventure' on a big university mainframe in my Dad's office, around 1979-ish. And Tunnels & Trolls / D&D around the same time. I have always been into making games rather than playing them so much though (started making crazy boardgames with dice and little scraps of paper when I was about 5 or 6) ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted Feb 10, 2008, 7:57 am Last edited Feb 10, 2008, 7:58 am by *sam*

Nekojin Cats Laughing Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Contributors Posts: 1,039 Joined: Jan 19, 2008 I didn't even realize that this was here... =^_^= My RL name is Jason. I'm 37, and I'm a jack of all trades - and I do mean that more literally than most. In the course of my life, I've been (in no particular order): A pizza chef, a pizza delivery driver, a bowling alley scorekeeper, a process server, a data entry operator, a Magic Mountain employee, a receptionist, a Las Vegas Blackjack dealer, a gas station cashier, an eBay seller (yes, I paid my bills with it), a paid playtester for Interplay, a warehouse stock clerk, a California Conservation Corps member, a security guard, and probably other things that I can't recall. I'm currently working as a Parts salesman for a company that makes service beds for trucks. I've been into games for as far back as I can remember. From vague memories of playing with a neighbor's slot car track at age 2, I've been through almost all of the age of electronic entertainment. My father owned one of the early Pong consoles. I hung out in video arcades, mini-golf places, and pizza parlors that had arcades for most of my youth. I was given an Intellivision for my very first game machine, and a Commodore 64 a few years after that; the Commodore 64 was one of my major sources of entertainment as a teenager. Aside from computers and consoles, I've been into board games, card games, role-playing games, and so on. Again, if it's fun, it's likely that I've tried it at one point. My grandmother used board games and phonics games to teach me things at a very young age. I learned Tripoley and Mille Bournes from my parents and grandparents, as well as other games like Cribbage. I played Dungeons and Dragons as early as 1978, and played that and many other role-playing games over the years. I especially like the Hero System (Champions and Fantasy Hero, mostly), Rolemaster, and Shadowrun. I am, at best, a mediocre Game Master for any game other than Teenagers From Outer Space. I presently live in a one-bedroom apartment with my girlfriend, Andara. If we were "normal" people, we probably would have gotten married a few years back, but we really don't see any rush for that. We also have a cat. ......................... vet deathrceL1 wv cont Posted Feb 10, 2008, 11:00 am

Lung Aristocrats Sunday Driver Renegade Group: Members Posts: 44 Joined: Jan 17, 2008 I got so involved in telling you about my love and history of games I never mentioned my dep love for mechanics and cars -thus the attraction to customizing DW cars. My gang the Aristocrats is named after a Hot Rod Club that I started in 1960. Yes I was a "greaser" in high school. Some of my drivers are named after actual members of that gang/club. ......................... vet Posted Feb 10, 2008, 4:25 pm

Victor New Cal Rangers Racer Renegade Group: Members Posts: 151 Joined: Jan 10, 2008 This sort of thing is tough for me to write, but here's my attempt. My name IRL is Victor, and I'm a long-time gamer, former game developer, and former programmer (yes, there's lots of things I used to be). I'm 39, a 'murrican, born in California, and living there again now. I'm trying to figure out what to do with the rest of my life, and in the mean time helping take care of my father after his stroke and valve replacement surgery (which is why on occasion I have to timeout or go AFK without much warning). Let's see... games I've worked on that actually made it to market; Shadowcaster, Forced Alliance, Dominant Species (briefly), Force 21, Anne McCaffrey's Freedom: First Resistance, and Morrowind. I got my start with gaming in general with Chainmail, a few months before the first D&D Boxed Set came out (which I promptly aquired), and it spiralled out from there. I also got my start with computers about the same time, playing Trek, Adventure, Hunt The Wumpus, and such. It wasn't long before the computers (VAXen of some sort running early BSD UNIX, IIRC) started to interest me as much as the games, so I picked up a bit of programming skill just from playing with scripts. Then in high school, I had an apple ][+ and later an apple //c, and continued my gameplaying and dabbling on those, while playing AD&D, and Champions, and Car Wars (and GEV/OGRE), oh my. Then I got a break at Electronic Arts, doing scripting for Bard's Tale IV, my first computer game dev gig. Sheer heaven-- except for the fact that it was cancelled, and thus didn't ship. Let's see... I was a rabid Amiga fanboy, a registered developer (even though I never worked on a title for it), but between the actual lack of support, and the communal persecution complex, eventually let it go for PC's because that's where all the non-console game development was happening, back then (read as, "I sold out", if you like). Not much else of importance (like sleep, socializing, etc) happened while I was working on the titles that DID ship (as what little "spare" time I had went into playing EverQuest, and later CoX/WoW), so that pretty much leads me up to now. Oh, I've also always been a fairly devout turn-based fan. Early favorites being things like Wizardry I/II, X-Com, most of SSI's games, X-Com, 7CoG, X-Com, Civ I-IV (but particularly Civ2 and CivNet), X-Com, M.U.L.E. (I got to meet Dani Bunten at EA, briefly, and am glad for that chance), X-Com, etc. And also X-Com (the first two, particularly, the third not so much). ......................... vet wv Posted Feb 11, 2008, 10:40 pm

Dr Mathias Wasteland Extravaganza Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Contributors + IP Posts: 1,418 Joined: Oct 9, 2007 Victor said: Oh, I've also always been a fairly devout turn-based fan. Early favorites being things like Wizardry I/II, X-Com, most of SSI's games, X-Com, 7CoG, X-Com, Civ I-IV (but particularly Civ2 and CivNet), X-Com, M.U.L.E. (I got to meet Dani Bunten at EA, briefly, and am glad for that chance), X-Com, etc. And also X-Com (the first two, particularly, the third not so much). Man I love X-com, nearly as much as you by the sound of it. Nothing like unloading several blaster launchers into a UFO. ......................... vet combat1 ped1 wv cont Posted Feb 11, 2008, 11:47 pm

Victor New Cal Rangers Racer Renegade Group: Members Posts: 151 Joined: Jan 10, 2008 Ah, yes... "recon by fire", always a favorite. ......................... vet wv Posted Feb 12, 2008, 12:12 am

Jam Mudflaps Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: Dec 25, 2007 *viKKing* said:   One of the most famous and greatest Ronins was Myamoto Musashi, also called Sazaki Kojiro (as in Japanese you can read names in two ways). You can find his life in a novel form (in French, sorry I don't know the english title): "La pierre et le Sabre". The movie used that term and referred to Robert DeNiro as a Ronin, a rogue samuraï serving with honor a distant Daïmyo: USA. Nice movie BTW, very impressive shotguns and driving. Love the movie Ronin so much I bought it. (If you don't mind I think I am going to pass out now-DeNiro). I love how Myamoto Musashi, once carved a sword out of a wooden oar as they rowed to an island for a duel.  He kill the other samurai with the wooden sword.  He wrote to book that still can be found, 'A Book of Five Rings', I read it about 25 years ago, but its a quick read and very good. ......................... vet Posted Feb 20, 2008, 6:21 am Last edited Feb 20, 2008, 6:23 am by Jam

Jam Mudflaps Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: Dec 25, 2007 Well give a little about myself, though I am fairly new so doubt too many are that interested... I am 48 years old, I work for an airline in the United States. Live in Texas, but still have most my personal stuff in storage in colorado, still clinging that one day I will return, hehehe. I started playing back in the early 70's when my older brother was able to get me to become a member of his Wargame club made up of vietnam viets and college kids, while I was 13 and by far one the youngest in the group. We played at time mainly Avalon Hill games, though also Strategy and Tactic games and tons of panzerblitz which later would evolve into 'blind' panzerblitz which made it a whole new game! I first became aware of D&D here as I was fascinated by the funny dice. We would eventually develop our own system, partly D&D, partly Empire of the Petal Throne and partly our own design, stealing alot of ideas from Steve Jackson's melee. This led us to Traveller, where we would later combine carwars to it after Mad Max came out and thats my introduction into Car Wars. Since, I have played many games, favorite computer game would be Kampfgruppe, though I too was addicted to Civilization. I worked and played several years with Jim Dunnigan on his Hundred Years War online game on Genie and later AOL. Favorite Online roleplaying game Ultima on Siege Perilous shard before it was nerfed. Playing Austerlitz online now, but in my 40's I find I just don't have the killer spirit anymore. ......................... vet Posted Feb 20, 2008, 7:03 am

*viKKing* Skulls And Bones Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Marshals + Contributors Posts: 4,249 Joined: Oct 12, 2006 Quote: I love how Myamoto Musashi, once carved a sword out of a wooden oar as they rowed to an island for a duel.  He kill the other samurai with the wooden sword.  He wrote to book that still can be found, 'A Book of Five Rings', I read it about 25 years ago, but its a quick read and very good. Hehe, yeah, and I posted a terrible mistake, Sazaki is not Myamoto (I will correct that). I found the book and its sequel recently and read it completely at last! First time I could not, it was 20 years ago, and the book was not mine. ......................... vet cont zom slay2013 marshal wv Posted Feb 20, 2008, 9:14 am

ralphy Revenants Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: Feb 16, 2008 Hello, my name is Mark, and I play Darkwind too much. I first found out about the game during the beta testing, played for several weeks, and dropped out when it went live as I couldn't (at that time) justify the cost to SWMBO. She and I have come to an agreement, and I'm back. Personal info; At 41, I'm a proud member of the old-farts' club. I live with my all-but-wife, 2 daughters (9-13), 3 cats, 3 snakes (the wife's), and 2 fish in Minnesota, USA. I'm a technical writer/librarian professionally, and a bicyclist, linux geek and homebrewer for the fun of it. Glad to be back. ......................... vet wv Posted Feb 20, 2008, 4:10 pm

*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,780 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Quote: SWMBO Heh, I had to look that one up. Good to have you back ralphy  ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted Feb 20, 2008, 7:57 pm

*Chase Bansi* Team Bansi Darkwind Guru Merchants Faction Group: Marshals Posts: 693 Joined: Aug 13, 2007 ralphy said: ...SWMBO.  She and I have come to an agreement, and I'm back. {pssst} Don't name any characters after her. She'll think it's flattering; until she dies.  Like I get some kind of twisted pleasure out of killing her off again and again.... ......................... marshal vet gateautumn wv e2g0,1,0 Posted Feb 22, 2008, 2:07 pm

*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,780 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Heh, reminds me of this ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted Feb 22, 2008, 2:18 pm

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