Metropolis Herald: 2016

Thursday 8 December 2016

ORS is effectively Mothballed.

Hi

I have mothballed ORS, until, I assume March when I return, I needed a break. Have not had fun in this game for a long time and was only wasting money on it.

There are a couple of members still in ORS, and Kaya is there but pretty much inactive. Da and Jupiter Tonans have left as I asked them to, as it was unfair to hold on to them while I was away.
Today I found out they joined Freaks n Geeks league, I'm sure Akbar Khan (present league boss at time of writing) will look after them. I know Khan.. we're friends, he's a good dude.

Sigma

Wednesday 23 November 2016

A Very Personal Dissatisfaction..

Hi guys

AFIII was launched on the 17th of Nov 2016, I don't relate to magic content, with the exception of Doctor Fate/Robert Newell, whose voice acting just pulls me right in, it is the only reason I like and play HoF (Hand of Fate).

A couple months ago, I became fascinated by the idea of a Lantern Healer.. this fascination has not left me yet. Everytime I am online I think about it.. and even the moment of clarity I had was so sharp, before I would log I would forget it wasn't real already. This.. persuasion of my heart has not stopped in all these hours and weeks; months now even, I have been logging and wondering why I am still playing, and AFIII has crystallized this even more, i am sad to say. WHY? becuase even though the content is well made, and much of it 'enjoyable'.. I feel that I just can't relate to it.

It becomes more and more evident to me, as pour money into this game, that I'm not happy. I think more and more about Borderlands Pre-Sequel, that wouldn't cost me anything to play as I've bought the season pass, and there is matchmaking and I can meet new people, and have a good time, not feeling bad for the hundreds and hundreds of pounds I've spent on DCUO in the last 5 months.

I'm not saying DayBreak have done anything wrong per se, I mean the content is not 5 months worth (3 months and 22 days to be exact) but generally people are pleased, if a bit miffed it took so long, and so wasted our membership.. and then gave a free DLC month to non members. ouch!

I'm wasting my money opening those boxes (time capsules) because I am not satisfied with the game, and while i realize why; lack of content for so very long, nothing is going to fill this hole i have now, except, perhaps leaving or taking a step back. I have not been happy in DCUO for many months.

As I write, I struggle inside myself, whether or not to leave my hobby of many years.

I don't know..

Sigma

Thursday 15 September 2016

Lantern Healer (Reworked)

System One, Ring Switching:
I would like to be availed a lantern healer whom I could switch rings at will, but that leaves us with the caveat that only females are allowed to be Star Sapphires.. which suits me fine. I have a female nature healer I would much prefer to be a Lantern and I would buy a extra char slot to make a male Blue Lantern, with both being able to switch to Indigo Tribe.

A 'ring cooldown' like an armory cooldown could be implemented to give time for the servers to load each blue/violet/indigo variant. this also sticks with lore, as removing your ring (for the other corps except GL and YL) is said be very 'draining'. Within the style menu in the section for skin colour etc an option for up to 3 colour squares, each one representing a ring.

System Two, Permanence;
If it was decided this would be technically expensive to switch rings, that the new coding would cost too much to implement.... and IF it was decided you could not switch beyond; the character power select screen or power switching token..

Then this would be MUCH cheaper to implement rather than a ring switching system. Power choice directly. All three powers would be near identical, with only cosmetic changes, esp. the power colours and ring colours.

The ideas put forward here, are the culmination, of RL/GL/YL, with a sympathetic emphasis on the Red Lantern 'damage-out-healing', and the Infinite Combos of the GL/YL corps. Like the RL 'Infuriate', the damage-out-healing for all group members, but is now without the need of a super charge. Of course there is a HoT and Priority heal, which is restoration based, but the other powers work together to make an effective healer while encouraging much damage.

Male ---
| Blue Lantern
| Indigo Tribe
--Hero--> |
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|
Female --
Blue Lantern
Indigo Tribe
Star Sapphire

Male ---
| Indigo Tribe
--Villain-->|
|
Female --
Indigo Tribe
Star Sapphire

It's within current canon inside the game due to vendors and (an) instance.

Blue Lantern for both hero genders, available from the vendor in Mogo (cr 97 'Shepherd of Adara')
Indigo Tribe available for both genders and both factions in WT/HoD (iirc around 110-120 cr 'Vesture of Proselyte')
Star Sapphire for Females of both factions as a reward in Love and War (iirc 97 'Heart of the Predator' )

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The only remaining Lantern power would be Orange with the 'Avatar of Ophidian' available in HoD.. but since it would most likely be a controller power (Mepps once said this on a live stream) and the only person in canon that is supposed to have a Orange Lantern ring is Larfleeze, Agent Orange.. IMHO I can never see it going to be a powerset in DCUO, much like White and Black are too OP, Larfleeze isn't deputizing (giving rings to..) anyone.

Morality vs Faction

On the subject of Star Sapphires..and if they are hero or villain, they are both, Carol Ferris is a hero.. and The Predator is a villain.. a being who encases other beings in crystal with a view to brainwash them using a ring to continue the influence over them into mindless drones. So yeh.. villain.

Actually it's quite a dynamic between Carol Ferris and the Predator.. the Predator's number #1 lantern is a hero. This is smart, as even as Carol will not always obey.. she can inspire love easily.

Fwiw, I have never seen a male Star Sapphire amongst the mobs. This correctly fits the lore.

Indigo Tribe work with Sinestro corps Red Lantern Corps, Green Lantern Corps & Blue Lantern Corps; and see no difference between them. They are neutral. This is the story told in DCUO and part of our world.

Hope and Life can only be heroic.
Compassion is neutral.
Love is both hero and villain.
Avarice is villainous with shades of neutrality.
Death is double villainous even to the villains.
Fear is heroic to themselves and villainous to others.
Rage is Neutral.
Will is heroic.

Will and Morality of the User

Fear
Will
Hope
Rage

Will and Morality of the Ring

Death
Avarice
Compassion
Love

Morality of the Ring and then User

Life

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DCUO Banned List:
White Lantern
Black Lantern

Canon Breaking:
Agent Orange/Orange Lantern
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Observed Power Moves

Larfleeze (Agent Orange)

Is observed to be identical to the Hard Light Power aka. Green Lantern / Sinestro Corps.

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The following pictures are screen caps from Jens Andersen's video, and for non-profit educational purposes only. besides.. why not go and hit him up with a sub on his YT. Jens Andersen
:Video Here: credit also to 'Select Few' for taking part in the raid :)
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Carol Ferris (Queen Star Sapphire)

While The Star Sapphires have 'Fan' from GL/YL, Carol herself shows many more moves.

She has a unique variant of 'Lightblast'. ..like RL Ragebringer, these are similar. In the video this is called 'Violet Light Blast'.

here is a picture:

During the power, the blast targeted allies and enemies, and after the above move, the Star Sapphires had a defence buff, meaning it could be an opposite to Lightblast in Controller stance. And be a Healer defence buff.

Another variant is called 'Passionate Embrace', with wavy lines instead of straight.

See Pictures:

There is also a unique variant of 'Handclap' which has two sets of hands.
In the video the name of the power is 'Hand Clap'.

See picture:

One set hands claps the first target and the second the next closest.

Carol has a variant of Azure Shockwave also, this is a power of Saint Walker (Blue Lantern). In the Video the name of the power is 'Absolute Devotion'.

See Picture:

She also has a unique variation of Temperance/Lantern Ward, which has Star Sapphire insignia's searching the ground.

See Pictures:

On second thoughts this *may* be a separate move.

The Pictures are in the wrong order as it was another SS that cast the second one.

Another power may be the Star Sapphire equivalent to Green Lantern and Sinestro Corps 'Ram'. It Corkscrews through the ground towards enemies.

See Pictures:

I did not observe these were infinite combo's like GL/YL, however even the mobs with GL/YL rings do not perform infinite combos. Much is unknown, but given that GL/YL/RL are precs based, it would follow that the other lanterns are too, including the Star Sapphires.

Saint Walker (First Blue Lantern)

Walker already has a legends character, I used : this : video by Kreese2007 to find out his moves. thanks to him.

Salvo of Adara, is a very loose variant of 'Ram' with a few improvements for DPS. The shot is 5 fold and becomes wider the further out your are.

Munk seems to have a non-supercharge variation of the blue lantern 'Hope'.

The move can be seen : here : in Balkan's video @ 8:44
Which Indigo-1 has also in Corrupted Zamaron duo.

Ever been in a raid.. and the healer prefers to spectate rather than participate? yeah, that's Indigo-1.

I am of course joking. I have been in that duo many times and she has helped. however after researching a few YT vids.. and her just standing watching during a boss fight, i thought it was funny.

Indigo-1 has a second variation of 'Hope', this time it blasts a huge circle of blue light from the epicenter.

can be seen in ApoSenseii's vid @ 7:30/31 .. look : here : and use YT slow-mo. :)

I will try to find the names (and pictures) for these, might be tough though.

Kyle Rayner

Having both a Green and Blue ring limits our knowledge of available Healer class lantern Heal/DPS abilities. but here are his powers.

While Construct Pencil is green, it could be retconned into DPS equivalent/variant of 'Entrap' if a book was added to snap close on the enemies. Variants could be : Construct Rose; entrap enemies of Love in light construct heart shaped chocolate boxes and let them know the pain they cause with a single construct rose. Construct Rubber Baton; entrap enemies of compassion within light construct rubber balls and make them feel the pain they cause with a construct rubber baton.

"Inspired Blast" is a variant of "Azure Shockwave" and the seemingly devastating "Absolute Devotion".

FWIW, Lantern Ward is my preference for the Lantern AOE Damage-out heal. With a 'Pull' instead of 'Push' effect, for making a 'Tank Mat'.. (the healer lays down the mat and Tank stands on the mat pulling mobs toward the center, while the group, gets damage based healing, players do not need to be in the AOE but mobs do)

Mind Over Matter, is a construct shield, I could easily see this being you + 3 group members, much like the other healers. Imho should time based, and damage in + power in.

Conflagrate is a power very unique to Kyle, I would think it like, Amon Sur's Yellow Lantern pet. Only he can do that.

A 'Inspired Blast' variant imho, should be the HoT and a variation of 'Recharge' for priority heal.

~~Already we have 17 of the 24 powers. 2 trees of 12 powers, I would suggest that they are called 'Peace' (healer) and 'War' (DPS)~~

^ With the #statsmatter updating coming we will not need to have separate trees.

Violet Light Blast
Passionate Embrace
Hand Clap
Absolute Devotion/Inspired Blast/Azure Shockwave
Temperance/Lantern Ward
? Insignia
? Corkscrew
Salvo of Adara
Mind Over Matter
Recharge (Rejuvenate)
Hope Indigo Variant 1
Hope Indigo Variant 2 Supercharge

Fan and Spikequake are part of the Star Sapphire powerset.

Update: Found a CC from Star Sapphire called 'Dust Cloud' very powerful CC. would make excellent attack buff. Also they *seem* to have 'standard' Lightblast, the same one as the GL/YL's. If so, they have 2 Lightblast variants and the original. There is also 'Construct Grenade' adding one more power.

Another 12 7 could be taken variants of GL/YL.. or even RL. For example a variant of 'Infuriate' for group healing supercharge. The Star Sapphires seem to have a variant of RL 'Dreadful Blast' but it was very difficult to see in the video. Update: this seems to be simply their 'range' attack and not anything special. However, a cloned variant of Dreadful Blast (Hopeful Blast/Passionate Blast/ Empathy Blast) would suit as a good DPS power. non-infinite combo.

A variant of 'Violence', could be used as a priority heal.

A variant of 'Snaptrap' with two huge pillows, balanced for *very* strong CC and not strong damage.

I'd like to see a 100% SC variant of 'Triage' as a raid heal; you + 7, time based.

Re-list:

Violet Light Blast
Passionate Embrace
Hand Clap
Absolute Devotion/Inspired Blast/Azure Shockwave
Temperance/Lantern Ward
? Insignia
? Corkscrew
Salvo of Adara
Mind Over Matter
Recharge (Rejuvenate)
Hope Indigo Variant 1
Hope Indigo Variant 2 Supercharge

Fan

Spikequake

Dust Cloud

Construct Grenade

Orig. Lightblast

Whats missing? 3 Supercharge abilities, 4 Powers. Description; definition of which powers do what.

I'd like to see the Healer Lantern have infinite combos like GL/YL. I think that would be cool.

Re-list + Suggestions :

Violet Light Blast (inf)
Passionate Embrace (def buff + inf; chance to ground targets)
Hand Clap (inf)
Absolute Devotion/Inspired Blast/Azure Shockwave (HoT+ all enemies in the radius become *targeted* damage-based heal mobs)
Temperance/Lantern Ward ( Damage based Heal/Tank mat puller)
? Insignia (inf)
? Corkscrew (inf)
Salvo of Adara/Salvo of Zamaron/Salvo of Nok (inf + target damage-based heal)
Mind Over Matter/Heart over Will/Power over Apathy (time based group shield + damage in = power in)
Recharge (Rejuvenate) (Priority Heal + movement buff)
Hope Indigo Variant 1 (inf, attack buff + percentage damage-out heal)
Hope Indigo Variant 2 Supercharge (25% SC damage out heal + 50% health for all party members)

Fan (inf)

Spikequake (CC + target damage out heal)

Dust Cloud (Strong CC; low damage, but attack buffs group members AOE + HoT)

Construct Grenade (high damage/70% modifier + inf)

Orig. Lightblast (Def debuff in healer role + inf)
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Hopeful/Passionate/Empathic Blast (Dreadful Blast) (25%-50% of vita power recharge to group on completion of the combo/interruptible/regen debuff)
Construct Pencil/Construct Rose/Construct Rubber-Baton (Entrap) (inf)
Knowledge/Commitment/Sympathy (Violence) (Priority Heal + AOE movement buff)
Hold Fast/Hold to Love/A Kindness (Snaptrap) (inf)

SuperCharge
Last Hope/All for Love/Charity (Triage) Supercharge (100% SC / maintains full health for all party members*)
Group Shielding (raid shielding; time based 50% SC)
Reparation (50% SC variant of Chompers / aggro debuff and heals groups of mobs until they attack, then all healing becomes damage x2 to them and the group is healed all damage in + 10%; no CC)

I would suggest fireflies instead of the small bear traps for the healer chompers variant.

Last Hope/All for Love/Charity
Have you ever been in a raid.. and been a hairs breath close to beating a boss? a healer could reserve this SC for the last 60 seconds of the fight. Making it a very meaningful SC..but with it being a 100% not very easily attained and so could not be abused.

Animation locked in place for the duration. suggested time 60 seconds.

Reparation
hehe kind of proud of this one.. seems like a dud until you think about it. So for the group to do the most damage they all need to stop hitting, this builds teamwork, the mobs will be wiped out when just one of them hits, sure there is the danger a group member might die, but for best results leave the longest. rem *even* being close to a mob as [Assault] will aggro them, you dont need to hit them!

Imagine as a tank, you are *just* about to die, and the healer hits up this power, and the group realizes and stops. wow.. cool! Rejuvenate would be passive and draw no aggro from the mobs.
So stopping means everyone, inc the Tank can have a quick break and get a heal.

Group Shielding
You + 7 group members, shielded. Healing over time. without power over time. Healer equivalent of GL/YL SC Group Shielding with Healing over Time instead of Power over Time. Usable while controlled. 50% SC.

I hope you enjoyed this.. debriefing of Lantern Powers and a Potential Lantern Healer.

Have a Great and Bizarre Day!

Sigma

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Update:

Post from the forums, 3rd/Aug/2019:

I've been advocating a Lantern Healer for some time (as have many others gladly :) )

I realized something about my suggested unified Lantern Healer system last week..

It's within current canon inside the game due to vendors and (an) instance.

Blue Lantern for both hero genders, available from the vendor in Mogo (cr 97 'Shepherd of Adara')
Indigo Tribe available for both genders and both factions in WT/HoD (iirc around 110-120 cr 'Vesture of Proselyte')
Star Sapphire for Females of both factions as a reward in Love and War (iirc 97 'Heart of the Predator' )

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The only remaining Lantern power would be Orange with the 'Avatar of Ophidian' available in HoD.. but since it would most likely be a controller power (Mepps once said this on a live stream) and the only person in canon that is supposed to have a Orange Lantern ring is Larfleeze, Agent Orange.. IMHO I can never see it going to be a powerset in DCUO, much like White and Black are too OP, Larfleeze isn't deputizing (giving rings to..) anyone.

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10th/Aug/2019

Found a new Star Sapphire power move 'Surprise Volley'. Thanks to HeartofSky for the vid: here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44I9fb0Zl3U

It's very hard to take a picture of because it *seems* to be a 'chain lightning' effect
I'm not sure.. in fact, I can't really see anything except the SS Vanguard's animation, which is a bit like the kryptonian air punch but without the arm going up.

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11th/Aug/2019

Seen another one.. Predator's Dangerous Devotion

Seems to be a solo tank pull version of Passionate Embrace done by the Predator. This should probably remain unique to him.

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Thinking more on how to cheaply to make this powerset.. IF it was decided you could not switch beyond, the character power select screen or power switching token..

Then this would be MUCH cheaper to implement rather than a ring switching system.
in fact I'll add this above. 11th Aug.2019

Sunday 28 August 2016

The ORS Senior Staff Training Manual.

Hello and Welcome to the ORS Senior Staff Training Manual.

Please take your time to familiarize yourself with the work and ideas represented here. We in ORS also wish to extend this training to any ORS child league's senior staff.

Please read the Terms and Conditions before continuing. This manual is for ORS/ORS child only, by continuing reading you agree to the terms and conditions.

The Manual
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Senior Ranks :

League Boss (leader)
First Officer
Tactical Officer

League Boss:

First and foremost you should learn how morale impacts your small community, you by even the nature of the league system are the linchpin of your community. how you behave is watched by all, and often imitated. Acting in good character inspires others to to do the same. Don't be afraid to take charge of a situation, and never let another in the league take control of your actions, conversely always listen to their desires. This can be be achieved in a polite way. If an officer thinks he/she is alpha 'dog' no need to beat him down verbally about it, simply state that you were only looking for suggestions; not commands.

Be kind, when you can be kind; be harsh when a rule is fluanted.

Dressing Down

Dressing down from a league boss is a little bit more serious than from the other staff, remember you are not trying to satisfy your own ego, you are trying to instruct them to learn and grow. It is not about your power over a person, but what value you can bring to that person in the form of tutelage and inspiration, We want to enable them to correct their actions, not feel bad for offending you.

Politics

This job comes with advanced and weighty politics; as you are responsible for keeping even the staffs morale high. Without your attendance, the staff see no reason to return and continue doing the work you trained them for, why should they? you did not even bother to show up!When people leave remember to keep an eye on them via wavedox. they may wish to seek harm upon ORS because they were removed. Keep an eye on other league staff, not in a bad way, these might be valuable allies and you too can afford them aid.

Be friends with other league bosses. other league staff, you might think because someone is in a solo- league they lack importance, but that thinking is short sighted, meeting and naturally making friends with even a solo-league boss, can boost both your morales. But also you should not dismiss the chance that his solo-league maybe become popular and so he becomes an important ally.

The staff often get a jolt of morale when you tell them you are friends with other league bosses and staff, don't overplay your hand, once a month to put it in the conversation is enough.

Removal of Members and Staff.

This is your job. If members do not value and contribute to ORS/ ORS child league; they must be removed.You, as league boss can grant 'grace of leave' this is an agreement between yourself and a member. If a member then breaks that agreement, they *must* be removed for the sake of morale, but more importantly the sake of staff morale, the staff morale of which; makes running the league possible.

Recruitment

Finding the correct balance between your own personal recruiting, and the staffs is often a talent, mostly is depends on the morale of the Officers while they were being trained, and if you showed great confidence in recruiting while training them. Much of this is the First Officers job, however you should note your influence with the staff in respects to recruitment.

Note to the Child League's Boss

Never use the system of co-leaders, your league will be ripped apart, you will never garner respect from your staff and you will end up a casual league. It is like handing your panties to someone you just met. never do it. having three senior staff works for many reasons that I hope you will glimpse within this Training Manual.

You will find it difficult to not be the role you were as an officer. Be it general staff or head of dept.
This is fine while you are learning being a league boss for the first time, and you may grow and be unable to change that. This is all fine, but you do need a First Officer that will counter and balance but also provide unity.

First Officer

The First Officer's job is to be the unifying force of the league, to rally everyone behind the Boss.

A second voice of thought to actions about to be taken.
Be able to discuss the morale of the league and be able to give suggestion on improvement.

The First Officer should be an outstanding recruiter; this is not always so, but when choosing an Officer to replace a FO, this quality is of huge advantage,

Politics

the FO's handling of politics is much like the league bosses, so please read above.I have never had senior staff remove members for bad behavior, as I have always done this, however I expect them to be able to do so. Especially the politics of ORS for an FO it is vital.

Another job of the FO is to check on the staffs morale, they may wish to open up to the FO before they perhaps embarrass themselves before their Boss.

Tactical Officer

The TO's job is to plan the future of the league, how to expand and grow the league, but also, to be the third voice within the senior staff, should a disagreement come between the Boss and FO.

Being TO is the easiest of the three jobs. Things like planning events and organising members to do tasks for feats or other things.

Shifts

Determine between all three senior staff what times are convenient for each senior staff members to take. agree between the three of you. there should one member of senior staff online at all times (or as close as possible).

Each Senior Staff 'on shift' is responsible for :

1. helping members and staff, before doing their own content.
2. keeping an eye on the attendance of members and staff.
3. maintain the ideals of ORS at all times.
4. upholding morale of the league as a whole.
5. instructing members and staff on the correct way things are to be done, however with this caveat; you should be polite at all times.

We hope the Senior Staff Training Manual has been instructive.

There is no test, real life is the test as you are now dealing with real people with a real psychology.

Good luck!

SigmaAtom

League Boss of OrderoftheRedSun.

Terms and Conditions.

Should uninvited others of non ORS origin, read said manual use for training, by reading and practising the information contained within, you agree to the following terms and conditions.

1. you will state where you received this training and by whom (myself; SigmaAtom). while you are training or practising, at least once to other staff in your league.
2.You will aid me should I need your assistance if one of you leaguemates becomes troublesome to myself or ORS.
3. If it be that, these training techniques are generally practised and shared within your leagues staff, that they are popular, you agree that you will contact me in game to discuss your league becoming a child league of ORS.

Wednesday 10 August 2016

Lazy players AKA 'skating'

Hi guys

So.. im not going to point any fingers, but the rumors seem to be true* . needed to get that out.

So over the last month or so.. skating on EU server been between average (after server merge) to bad.

example:

During Mist Recovery, we had this healer stand on the top of a building.the remaining three of us fighting and dying*. So i switched to troller and went over to him.

i said 'hi man you coming?'
he replied 'eat'
me: huh?..no dude we need you.
him: I help later for boss battle.

Then another group member came up to him understandable miffed.
and said '?????'
and I said ' no you won't. we will kick you.'

And kick him we did.

This *keeps* happening.and the weird thing is, you can't kick them for a few minutes, for some reason. prolly to protect everyone from auto/nasty kicking.

I mean.. if an acquaintance PM's me and we make a deal that they will pay me for the work. OK. then its been agreed. OR if you have a leaguemate on a league run, and it's agreed by the staff that they should skate. then OK. but random strangers standing at the start expecting everyone else to do the work. AND NOT GET KICKED?. no way.

First day of the merge. I put together a CC reaper raid team.

6 PS players
2 PC players.

The PS players hid in places; trying to not do the reaper farming. hoping the others would do the work. so i started kicking them for just standing around. until it was only me and the other PC guy.

Shocking behavior!

there are many good PS players. but the sheer chunk of ultra lazy ones is an embarrassment to you all.

Sigma

*We had zero skating on PC server before the merge. period.
*I was leveling a lower alt.

Tuesday 26 July 2016

The Glimmering Aura Syndrome..

Hi guys

Now.. I bought a few booster bundles, I usually buy 4 or 5 each release, couple of my main few for each alt*. I gotta say the Glimmerings were BAD.. and the Solar looked so cool! THIS IS NOT how to do it..one awful aura vs one excellent.

I rem in the older boosters you would get one of two auras, they would be 60/40. One would be better, but both almost equally good.

Going by the price on broker..its not 60/40.. the price for a glimmering last i checked was 150k..the lowest cost aura.. all the vanilla ones were 300k +. The Solar last I checked.. was 12 million, which means the Solar was 80 times more expensive than the Glimmering..

To put that in percentages:

The Market determined that the Solar was 98.75 and the Glimmering was 1.25 good.

See my maths and work below.

An aura that is 1.25% good.. is not good.

I don't know if the cash thing and style bait worked for daybreak financially but..i didn't like the tactic.

Dust Aura

I'd like to see the next aura be the Pollen Aura in all colours.. as the secondary aura a '40'. I just really like that aura.With a new aura being the 60, And a reworked Firefly aura..given away with the bundle on top (you get two auras). The aura itself.. isn't good and isn't bad.. but one thing really irks me.. that is disappears when you move*. I'd like to see the outside colours be.. pretty much any colours with the centre being black or white. For it to move around you like stars/black holes orbiting you. Flip.. our economy hit some sharp problems for a while there.This should be free in the bundle guaranteed.. to say sorry for all the 1.25%-ness if the last debacle.

The material thing is a great concept. And.. strangely enough.. I support DB in making that the style bait for boxes..but .. the glimmering was a slap in the face at a time where not only did I not get a Solar after 5 or so boxes, I got 3 pink glimmering in a row. no.. if that had been 60/40 I woulda been happy.. but with the glimmering I felt ROBBED. .. one of my officers was showing me his glimmering.. he asked 'do you see it'.. I replied 'see what?'.. he said' that's what I saying you can't even see the stupid thing while i'm wearing it'.

Next time.. I gotta pay more attention while I'm watching their twitch livestream.. I was all excited too busy thinking about a Water Power announcement.

needed that out!.. still bothering me tho.

have a great day!

Sigma

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*(i have lots more alts these days though)

12 mil divided by 150k = 80
100% aka: 100 divided by 1.25 = 80
100 - 1.25 = 98.75.

* I really should ask on the forums if that's a by design or a glitch. if it's a glitch it needs fixed.

syndrome
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noun
a group of symptoms which consistently occur together, or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms.
"a rare syndrome in which the production of white blood cells is damaged"

A Scrub's Guide to Skill Point Respect..

Hi guys

This has been rattling around in my head for a while.. think it's time to let it out.

As you probably know Wavedox has a ranking system for leagues, the skill point quota of which is 150. I'll use that as a guide.. and they got it correct; 150sp lets you get a WM and get down to all those lovely criticals.

The following is NOT a critique of players without said skill points.. but a mix of the communities understanding (aka calling someone a scrub).. and my own thoughts.

So let's begin!

Peasant = double or greater the CR of their SP.

Honorary Citizen = matched or greater SP than CR.

Citizen = 150 SP or greater.

Made Man = 200 SP or greater

Noble = 220 SP or greater.

Aspirant Scion = 250 SP or greater.

Scion of the Twin Cities = 270 SP or greater.

This has been particularly pertinent to me, as I strive for my Dec 2016 goal of 200sp. I had a busted shoulder for 2 months and could barely move..only logging in to do the easiest of things and show face for league morale. As I write I am on 194 sp. not too bad. Still lots more to go! :)

Players sometimes criticize other players for low SP.. I try to teach staff to be a little understanding.. becuase maybe they don't have any league staff to teach and help them. But when a ..peasant..starts griefing in an instance and boasting.. you gotta think what on earth is going on here.That's a reference to a story one of my officers told me..a player started griefing on him in an instance, the player also stated he had much SP.. my officer checked wavedox.. he was lying! he had around 50SP and was at end game! o.o .. now idk what you think.. but i think that was cheeky. griefing is an awful thing anyways..intolerable; drama driving egomania! ..but to add the above.. was.. well.. in private we found it kind of funny. but it's still cheeky.

Well there's my thoughts.. no use in drawing it out into drivel.

have a great and bizarre day!

Sigma

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Update 22/03/17

Peasant = double or greater the CR of their SP.

Honorary Citizen = matched or greater SP than CR.

Citizen = 150 SP or greater.

Made Man = 205 SP or greater

Noble = 235 SP or greater.

Aspirant Scion = 270 SP or greater.

Scion of the Twin Cities = 290 SP or greater.

redo
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Update 17/04/17

Peasant = double or greater the CR of their SP.

Honorary Citizen = matched or greater SP than CR.

Citizen = 150 SP or greater.

Made Man = 220 SP or greater

Noble = 250 SP or greater.

Aspirant Scion = 285 SP or greater.

Scion of the Twin Cities = 300 SP or greater.

Thursday 30 June 2016

ORS Blog 2

Ahoyhoy

So.. I got my Muni char to 30 today, was feeling pretty sick, so I didn't do my usual and experiment with the loadouts until I found whatever everyone else was using already hehe.. I used a Youtuber
Big D's loadout, and changed his Chain Grenade Launcher to Five Barrel Minigun, Which I found better damage & clipping.

I'm left with an RP milieu though, I don't really like guns. IRL I hate them..good in a zombie apocalypse, bad in real life. I made my char have an RP of a Fallout style to compensate, however the RP factor has lost grip for me. The only thing I can daydream about it is.. getting Fallout-like deco for his base.

I will get him to T7; like I have been doing with the rest of my chars, during league quiet time, but he might just stay there for a while.

In other matters.. the league has been going great, and as we return from holiday, its good to see staff back at their posts. I personally, found this sight very rewarding.

Ione has been doing a great job as our new Tactical Officer (TO) and it'll be good when Risky makes our PVP team. Looking forward to that.

Members are members..content to play and be helped.

The summer seasonal is on just now and ends on the 27th iirc of this month (July), I need to push hard for the feats.. with my shoulder being out for almost two months I slipped behind in my feats and haven't hit my target of 200 SP by summer, that I set in Dec. iirc I was 120 130?.. hmm I have loads of styles that just need one correct drop, but only *some* joy on that front.

I am glad to report my luck has *somehow* been fixed .. after 6 months of almost solid greens that I already owned, last month .. BAM!.. fixed. so relieved.. pheww I had been used to getting a few blues a day 1 or 2 purple and i reg used to get auras from lockboxes..fyi 6 months ago
that stopped. dead.

.. I am so glad its fixed now.

The new content came out.. Batman-fam and Legends of Tom storylines .. really good stories, fun content!

I think thats it.. thanks for reading :)

Sigma

Saturday 25 June 2016

Bulletin Points on Training an Officer (of ORS) ..

Hi..

I'll make this public, so it benefits everyone. but here are the bulletin points on officer training, even just so I remember:

Never lose your cool.
Never dress down a member down in public.
Teach them loot etiquette: PFC is very common with most leagues, and is also in ORS. Pass For Class. Members should PFC but also; they should pass on deco IF being helped by a higher cr; staff should always pass on gear unless they clear it with member first (for styles). a piece of random gear that will help the member increase their cr, should always go to the member.
Morale is the oxygen of a league; recruiting is the lifeblood; we are a family.
Drama is the cancer of MMOs; griefing destroys players and so destroys communities.Drama spreads like an infection through griefing. It should never be tolerated or allowed to exist.
I don't work hard being a league boss, for an officer to go around swearing, only for that to result in the members swearing at me. being cheeky to me. also it's embarrassing for me as a league boss; like they had no training = scrub.
Don't swear. as an officer it the easiest way to garner respect from members. and as everyone in ORS knows by the induction. no swearing. period.
Try at all times to be understanding of other people's perspectives, it may be a simple mis-understanding of words or intents between you.
Always ask in league chat if anyone needs help. best to do it when you log-on or when members log.
Pass lead of group to Senior staff if suitable; first chance you get.
At every opportunity; meaning when free; move to the staff voice channel.
Help the community at large, you don't have to do 2-6 hours donkey work for them, their league staff's job is to help them, however; doing one *maybe* two missions with a community member is good for community morale. little each day in the Karma bank :)
Don't be *too* quick to be angry with a 'bad player' .. it might be that they have no league staff contact or they are in a dead league. Feel sympathy empathy or pity for them; they probably didn't do anything wrong outside of the instance, simply they do not have the good fortune of an availed dedicated ORS staff, which we do.
You are not 'LEET' you are player.. just like any other. I even teach at times the senior staff are just officers.. I was a Drill Sgt. I still am in my heart. From the lowest to the highest, we are all players. respect is earned by actions and courtesy is the currency of civilization.

The Induction:

Every part of the induction has a story behind it.. and here is it.

We are a friendly dedicated league, we like polite regular players, we don't like swearing or rudeness, we only like main chars and not other leaguers. we help each other and help the community at large.

When I joined KS, that was the first thing I noticed; everyone was friendly, we continue that today.

We are a dedicated staff; I rem when I was in a friends league when I returned after my 2 year break (Dec 2014), I was the *only* staff online.. not just that, days would pass without any staff online to help (even weeks). That friend (we'll call him S) S has since learned the value of dedication. We expect the same dedication from our members, perhaps not to the same extent, but if you do not care to play with us or bring *something* to our league; then we extend the same to you. You will be removed.

I reiterate these sentiments again, as they are important, and the player *may* not have caught it the first read. 'Polite' is a protective word.. it protects the members, but more importantly it protects the staff; who's dedication makes running the league possible. 'Regular' means they make a commitment to return and to keep returning.

The no swearing rule.. here's a story o.o

During my time as Drill Sgt. in KS.. we had this young german guy..he was 10 levels below me but still thought it funny to be constantly cheeky to me.. even swearing at me frequently. I was trying to emulate my mentor L, and said nothing about this to the german guy.. he must'a been 15 yo. he was level 15 coincidentally.. well one day I logged on and he's asking in league chat for help, which was my duty, I pm M and tell her 'I got it'. We group and he's got a friend (non leaguer) who he want us to level also.. he is laughing and showing off to his friend, mixing german and english.. after 20-30 mins of helping*.. Well.. I exploded. and said a few things.. I was a Drill.Sgt and could see all his mistakes.. I told him them.. and a lot more! He was shocked..

I went out of group and calmed down. he pm'd me I could tell he was crying in real life coz i did it in front of his friend. I was still mad so I didn't reply. after an hour I calmed down.. I suddenly felt horrible! .. I had let M & L down! they entrusted me with a member and I had betrayed that trust! :O

I didn't care too much about the obnoxious german teen; but I had been put in a position of trust by M & L and abused that by exploding.

I resolved to never do this again. and why it's part of the rules of ORS.* and if you're ORS staff reading this it's why it's part of your Officer training : to never lose your cool.

'We like main chars and not other leaguers'

I always feel I need to explain this bit, we don't mind other leaguers, just they are not allowed in ORS.

Offt.. I had planned to tell this story in the history of ORS, but you'll get a portion of it just now.

So we had this cr/ high SP guy join.. we'll call him T.. T had been playing with us off and on for around 5 days by the weekend he wanted to join.. well T had many many alts. all high SP and high CR.. we would be playing and need a role and he'd say 'wait ill just jump on an alt!'.. everytime he did this.. the staff would see his other league banner.. and I could *feel* the sigh of sadness within the staff morale. ..after a few days he was cheeky and griefed on me in duo.. but that stories still to come in the history of ORS.

It's just not good enough.. if staff are willing to spend 100 to 1000 hours helping, you should have the courtesy to remain loyal to ORS.

It's right there in the induction: if you don't like it; do. not. join.

We help each other (M) and help the community at large (L).

ORS was founded by Alden and I on the principles M & L taught us in KS. We try to live up to those today.. well.. Alden has retired from the game, but you get what I mean :)

Each league boss is the captain of their ship.. and each league boss runs their ship how they see fit. this is great! means there is a league for everyone! Some might find it odd that we ask adults not to swear; but we are upfront about the rules and ideals in the induction. if they do not like it, simply say 'no' when asked if you agree, and no invite to league will be sent.

We also have an age requirement of 18+.. we are a PC league in years, and as you may know the EUPC server had many many adults not many under 18's. we liked this. I and the rest of the staff, should not have to deal with any hormone infused teen drama. that's unacceptable.

Quick story..

So I was leveling one of my low alts last week.. and some guy in Gotham shout kept asking for help. I pm'd him saying I would switch and help. I did so. he managed to inv me to group after a pm. he had already ninja invited another high CR player (who I had been acquainted with in a duo that morning on another alt). i told the other high cr, that I would get this.

We went to ace chemicals, the guy we'll call R.. R had just hit 30 and was trying to do the alert solo. half way through I became curious about recruiting, as he was a non leaguer, I knew if i told him this and about ORS's age requirements he'd just lie and say he was 18 just for the help.. so I asked him 'what age are you.. whats your story R?'.. he replied '12.. england'.. well I dunno what to say to 12yo that i'm not related to.. so i said 'school hols eh?' .. I had *no idea*. then he replied 'dean trust'.. at first I thought it was his real name so I said 'no no R's fine.. don't tell me your real name' .. then he suddenly logged. it was a typo!it was 'don't trust'. flip.. what are 12yo doing in this game!! its bad enough we have teens. DB *really* should make it '18+' only if they don't already. I don't care about profits i don't want any stranger danger for helping low levels o.o

I was half way through ace chems too! but luckily enough I popped a treasure chest and it gave me something I needed... oh! and I got my *first* kick me epic back sold that on broker for 1 mil. nice!

Well I think thats everything..

in ORS, we staff spend perhaps thousands of hours helping people we just met.
We shouldn't have cheek for all the hard work we put in .. work done to benefit the community. work we do FOR FREE. cheeky behaviour is unacceptable.

Hope anyone and myself in the future enjoyed reading!

have a great and bizarre day!

Sigma

In ORS we try to protect our investment of 1. work spent. 2 community 3. morale.
The induction is set to do those things.

*(att he was talking to me like i was a dog.. a stupid dog.. with chat like 'why are you being nice to him? he HAS to help us he doesn't have a choice haha' and 'stupid englander' .. am Scottish!!)
*.. not to mention it was no-no in KS league chat.but it really has nothing to do with that. it was coz of the above story. I didn't repeat the swearing portion.

Thursday 23 June 2016

Discussing a Lantern Healer..

I have a few posts from the DCUO Forums I would like to expand on but can't edit.
so..

Here is the idea :

"I don't see why an Orange lantern would give out healing to anyone. but wadda i know? Indigo Tribe IS neutral as we seen in the WOL.. it is a DCUO world event.. part of the DCUO story of our lanterns. ref: when you have to fight Black Lantern Hal alongside Munk. earlier on that mission, he is surrounded by all the different lanterns.

umm.. making a healer lantern class.. then changing the ring color to suit.. it still my preference. coz they'll be alot of dudes..inc myself, who don't want to be a pink male lantern. .. make a ring colour slider, with gradiated colours, excluding the ones not allowed; black and white.

Hero:
Blue to Purple to Pink gradiated.
Villain:
Orange to Pink to Purple gradiated.

OR

Villain : Purple to Pink

and they do a separate Orange Troller or Tank class later.

Giving the remaining lanterns to us makes sure we stop asking and asking..which I imagine for the devs is not fun... but saying that it is SUPER popular.. and we should have the last one for the set imho.

The 'pink' thing needs the player's choice, not the devs.

(also I don't think anyone brought this up.. i might be wrong @ thread.. but wearers can have more than one ring.. so it makes sense to me)"

then I answered:

"Erm, kindly. I dunno how you can debate with the idea of 'choice'.. put the player in control.

The mission referenced* is "Oa Under Siege".

I went away after your comment, and watched the Winter Seasonal Alert.. Larfleeze's power is Light, like Sinestro Corps and Green Lantern Corps. (Avarice) Lex Luthor and Captain Cold I did not see them use any other powers other than the ones they have normally, in videos or in game.

Seems the developers have already made Larfleeze Hard Light.

*(had time to look it up now)"

Well I was just thinking.. why not give Hard Light Villains an Orange to Yellow gradient also. makes sense.

Larfleeze is already Hard Light, and the nature of his power is in controlling, greed. Controller class.

peace out :)

SigmaAtom

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Healer:

Hero:
Blue to Purple to Pink gradiated.

Villain :
Purple to Pink gradiated

Controller:

Villain:
Orange to Yellow gradiated.

Edit: hmm I'd like to expand this EVEN further!

Tank:

Villain:
Black to Red gradiated.

Controller:

Hero:

Green to White gradiated.

Update: I now think it should be a colour picker in the style menu of the individual lantern corps and not graduated. why?

Because the constructs need to match the ring colour. and it's much more practical anyway. clearer and easier to use in conjunction with the 'ring cooldown' see below.

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Update 29/July/2016

On the subject of Star Sapphires..and if they are hero or villain, they are both, Carol Ferris is a hero.. and The Predator is a villain.. a being who encases other beings in crystal with a view to brainwash them using a ring to continue the influence over them into mindless drones. Predator = villain so yeh.. There could be a SS villain healer.

Actually it's quite a dynamic between Carol Ferris and the Predator.. the Predator's number #1 lantern is a hero. This is smart, as even as Carol will not always obey.. she can inspire love easily.

Indigo Tribe.. is undoubtedly a hero faction but saying that; the ring is parasitic.. which means if some broke the rings control and took control over the ring.. there could be two sides. I know they are hero.. but in saying that.. that's not true either.. they are neutral.They work with Sinestro corps Red Lantern Corps, Green Lantern Corps & Blue Lantern Corps; and see no difference between them.

Will and Morality of the User

Fear
Will
Hope
Rage

Will and Morality of the Ring

Death
Avarice
Compassion
Love

Morality of the Ring and then User

Life

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UPDATE: 11th and 12th Sept. 2016. (on going)

Observed Power Moves

Larfleeze (Agent Orange)

Is observed to be identical to the Hard Light Power aka. Green Lantern / Sinestro Corps.

The following pictures are screen caps from Jens Andersen's video, and for non-profit educational purposes only. besides.. why not go and hit him up with a sub on his YT. Jens Andersen
:Video Here:

Carol Ferris (Queen Star Sapphire)

While The Star Sapphires have 'Fan' from GL/YL, Carol herself shows many more moves.

She has a unique variant of 'Lightblast'. ..like RL Ragebringer, these are similar. In the video this is called 'Violet Light Blast'.

here is a picture:

There is also a unique variant of 'Handclap' which has two sets of hands.
In the video the name of the power is 'Hand Clap'.

See picture:

She also has a unique variation of Temperance/Lantern Ward, which has Star Sapphire insignia's searching the ground.

See Pictures:

On second thoughts this *may* be a separate move.

While Construct Pencil is green, it could be retconned into DPS equivalent/variant of 'Entrap' if a book was added to snap close on the enemies. Variants could be : Construct Rose; entrap enemies of Love in light construct heart shaped chocolate boxes and let them know the pain they cause with a single construct rose. Construct Rubber Baton; entrap enemies of compassion within light construct rubber balls and make them feel the pain they cause with a construct rubber baton.

"Inspired Blast" is a variant of "Azure Shockwave" and the seemingly devastating "Absolute Devotion".

FWIW, Lantern Ward is my preference for the Lantern AOE Damage-out heal. With a 'Pull' instead of 'Push' effect, for making a 'Tank Mat'.. (the healer lays down the mat and Tank stands on the mat pulling mobs toward the center, while the group, gets damage based healing, players do not need to be in the AOE but mobs do)

Mind Over Matter, is a construct shield, I could easily see this being you + 3 group members, much like the other healers. Imho should time based, and damage in + power in.

Conflagrate is a power very unique to Kyle, I would think it like, Amon Sur's Yellow Lantern pet. Only he can do that.

A 'Inspired Blast' variant imho, should be the HoT and a variation of 'Recharge' for priority heal.

Already we have 12 17 of the 24 powers. 2 trees of 12 powers, I would suggest that they are called 'Peace' (healer) and 'War' (DPS)

Violet Light Blast
Passionate Embrace
Hand Clap
Absolute Devotion/Inspired Blast/Azure Shockwave
Temperance/Lantern Ward
? Insignia
? Corkscrew
Salvo of Adara
Mind Over Matter
Recharge (Rejuvenate)
Hope Indigo Variant 1
Hope Indigo Variant 2 Supercharge

Fan and Spikequake are part of the Star Sapphire powerset.

Update: Found a CC from Star Sapphire called 'Dust Cloud' very powerful CC. would make excellent attack buff. Also they *seem* to have 'standard' Lightblast, the same one as the GL/YL's. If so, they have 2 Lightblast variants and the original. There is also 'Construct Grenade' adding one more power.

Another 12 7 could be taken variants of GL/YL.. or even RL. For example a variant of 'Infuriate' for group healing supercharge. The Star Sapphires seem to have a variant of RL 'Dreadful Blast' but it was very difficult to see in the video. Update: this seems to be simply their 'range' attack and not anything special. However, a cloned variant of Dreadful Blast (Hopeful Blast/Passionate Blast/ Empathy Blast) would suit as a good DPS power. non-infinite combo.

A variant of 'Violence', could be used as a priority heal.

A variant of 'Snaptrap' with two huge pillows, balanced for *very* strong CC and not strong damage.

I'd like to see a 100% SC variant of 'Triage' as a raid heal; you + 7, time based.

Fan

Spikequake

Dust Cloud

Construct Grenade

Orig. Lightblast

Fan (inf)

Spikequake (CC + target damage out heal)

Dust Cloud (Strong CC; low damage, but attack buffs group members AOE)

Construct Grenade (high damage + inf)

Orig. Lightblast (Def debuff in healer role + inf)
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Hopeful/Passionate/Empathy Blast (Dreadful Blast)
Construct Pencil/Construct Rose/Construct Rubber-Baton (Entrap) (inf)
Knowledge/Commitment/Sympathy (Violence)
Hold Fast/Hold to Love/A Kindness (Snaptrap) (inf)

Last Hope/All for Love/Charity (Triage) Supercharge (maintains full health for all party members)

I would like to make a healer lantern whom I could switch rings at will, but that leaves us with the caveat that only females are allowed to be Star Sapphires.. which suits me fine. I have a female nature healer I would much prefer to be a Lantern and I would buy a extra char slot to make a male Blue Lantern, with both being able to switch to Indigo Tribe.

A 'ring cooldown' like an armory cooldown could be implemented to give time for the servers to load each blue/violet/indigo variant. this also sticks with lore, as removing your ring (for the other corps except GL and YL) is said be very 'draining'.

Tuesday 21 June 2016

The History Of Order of the Red Sun by SigmaAtom

Hi www

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Firstly; Disclaimer: let's get this straight, the following is going to contain massive errors, mis-remembered events, emotionally recoloured events, and all sorts of jiggery-pokery. You have been warned!
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Firstly, we must travel back before ORS, to give a complete picture.

I bought the 'Fight For The Light' DLC 3 weeks after Free To Play on PC, The movie was popular at the time, having been released only that summer 2011. I made SigmaAtom, and begun my adventure. It was hard work to even progress one level, players who didn't play at launch don't remember that, no higher content or high cr players to help.. making it to level 10 was a huge achievement.

EUPC Server.

The Battle of The Superman Statue 2012

Mxyzptlk's Mischief's seasonal event had been launched super early in 2012, no idea why. The low level players inc myself, were trying to do the event.. all seemed well, until we hit the Superman Statue in Centennial Park. Out of what seemed like nowhere! villains kept attacking and killing us.. this went on for 45 minutes. high level villains wiping us low level heroes out. Well.. back then... I had never spoken to anyone in-game, even after months of off and on playing.I got mad.. and started talking in [Shout] "High Level Villains killing low level Heroes".. I kept this up for an hour at first, then a few level 25+ heroes came.. we landed together on top of the Lexcorp Bank, using [say] we just hangout and talked about the situation.. we had around 12 players including lower levels to fight, we tried an assault but failed..I shouted for another 2 hours; I never gave up*.. then the cavalry came! we had around 30 Heroes strong, some T1 and some T2.. I arranged we landed on top of Ellsworth Memorial Hospital roof.. standing around.. one female char pm'd me.. i didn't know how to pm back, so I 'made do'. She was being kind to me.. and tbh kinda flirtatious*. haha (We will call her M). M and her friend L were near level cap like lvl27 or such, M was Nature att.. and disguised herself as a nature dog and went down to the statue in stealth .. by that time a huge crowd of villains had appeared.. she came back laughing.. L asked 'didn't they see you?' to which she replied 'no hahah' and 'I was right next to them :) '. by now we had grown to over 30 heroes.. as word had spread.. we tried another assault.. but failed. It had went better this time though and we had enough courage to try again almost straight away, I tried to stay next to M and help her whichever way I could* .. M was doing the healing but also fighting, I was actually surviving, at one point M got knocked out, I popped my shield and saved her, popping a second shield on revive. We smashed them! I went and got my seasonal marker and we went back to Ellsworth roof, next to the brother blood instance.. M said 'shameless plug.. but are any of you guys looking for a league?'..

Kryptoniansnipers was the league, and M was League Boss and L was First Officer. From what I gathered later KS had been started sometime around November/December 2011. There were around 10 to 15 members when I joined. I was level 14.

L started to teach me about the game.. I had no idea what PVP was or PVE, to upgrade my gear, no idea about anything really. after some time went by, which seemed like.. hehe.. weeks but was i guess only one week, I asked L if there was anything I could do to help..slowly we started to form into a group of regulars and friends. by the second week, I was 'inner circle'.. let me explain, M did not use the ranking system for staff, if you asked for a task you probably got it. I started coming online everyday at 4pm, one of the other 'inner circle'.. which from now on i'll refer to as 'staff' as that was what it was.. just none of us realized, K came online at the same time, he would always challenge me to duels, and tell me stories about 'Aldencek'.. I wasn't much of PVPer, would play legends with L, but not much in arenas, some, but not much. Alden was a VERY strong player, and I would always see L asking him to PVP with him. within our little community.. yes we had grown to 20 to 30, Alden was our PVP 'capt'.. he'd get much league chat asking him to come and PVP with them.. 2, 3, 4, offers of PVP each time he spoke on League chat.

I had suggested to M I was like Geordi LaForge, who captained the Enterprise at night when everyone was sleeping.. the graveyard shift.. I looked after the league in unsociable hours.She found it funny and liked the idea. I was also doing my duties leveling players, and working out strategies for leveling quicker so we could all raid at the same level/cr. I was level 25!! so happy.. L was preparing me for my level cap, teaching me all the things I would need to know once I hit 30.. I had been much slower than the other staff, this was becuase I was in controller stance all the time. seems silly now knowing what I know, however back then, people were unsure what each role was.. not so much L, but i don't remember if I was stubborn and he was polite.

I would level other players until around 8 or 9-ish and M and L would inv me to play and level with them, other staff too. We had been together for two months, seemed like forever. K was.. jealous, and would say mean things to me in the hour we were alone before everyone would come online.. I would have duties, and he would ninja me to group, and I would try to be polite. The day I hit level cap, I had not finished all the missions, which was common at that time, as the structure was different than what it is now..he was.. well its better left forgotten. We sorted it out four months or so later, in a *very* short but *nice*, facebook message. but before then there was a bit of tension. In real life.. I had began to notice my age.. that I didn't have children yet.. and tried some internet dating.. it was disastrous! this Blog is not for that, but I mention it as.. I stupidly left without saying anything. I now see what a grievous error that was.But I was just some dude helping in my mind.. i didn't know, I know now.

I left for two months..I had only really played single player games; so the idea that the people on the other side of the screen needed me or wanted me, was alien to me. I came back, expecting M to have kicked me, but there I was.. I pm'd her asking what was going on and saying sorry for being away so long and thanking her for not kicking me. She was gracious as ever.. she welcomed me back (in pm), but told me we had a problem. L had gone on holiday, and before and while that was going on, a new guy, some Batman themed name, had offered to help, he suggested to M that she should open the invite to league to everyone, including non-staff..M was unable to cope with no staff.. Alden had left a month before, or at least dormant,M was swamped with 50 60.. doubling everyday.. by the end it was around 200 members iirc and no staff.. no logs. * M defended him at first but I suggested she shouldn't be so trusting.. and right enough he was using a tactic to break apart KS, and siphon the members for himself. Poaching in it's worst form. Like I said, by the end barely anyone would log, including M. She put me in charge.. first thing I did (ooohw! *i had day dreamed for months about fixing the ranking system*) lock the league down. no new invites unless by me.... I saw the list and started contacting the inner circle, leaving them messages, even out-of-game on fb wherever I could get a hold of them... and luckily enough one day Alden logged and I PM'd him.. he replied' just a minute i'm in a legends match :D'*

The Founding of 'Order Of The Red Sun'.

Alden and I founded ORS on the principles M and L had taught us.

M = Caring (motherly love)

L = Wisdom ( understanding perspectives, acceptance)

We began recruiting.. and even had L's blessing. actually he came and helped us for the first year, of which we were very grateful.

ORS is named that way for a few reasons.. in KS we had our own facebook, and I had posted a pic of me hanging around the T3 room with the caption 'I can dream :}'.. it was liked by our little community, it was the max cr gear at the time.or as far as i knew. .. hmm I rem the pic of all the staff in the banner too.. much feelz much pridez. hehe

We were a child league of Kryptoniansnipers, the Kryptonian part, being dear to us. Many leagues name themselves after the DLC, that was current when they formed, it shows their age; The T3 Kryptonian gear was the max cr during our time in KS and as far as I knew at the time; the max cr when ORS formed.

After a while we met Barbaa, he became ORS's first 'Tactical Officer' third in charge of the league. Barbaa was and is a friendly happy guy. Argentinian, Alden; Bosnian, myself; Scottish. somehow we made things happen, even if only a little, things moved forward.

I remember early on, me and barbaa were in PVP exo/collection/briefing collecting and we were attacked by three villians.. well a healer and troller not doing so good against 3 higher level DPS's.. we were 20 to 30 mins inside the bubble, step outside and BAM dead!.. then Alden come on. 'BB' barbaa's nickname said 'help us Dx'.. I said' we're trapped by three villains in Gotham'.. he said 'i'm coming :D' .. well you want to see what happened! Alden to the rescue, he smashed all three of them (no PVP gear), they thought it was a fluke.. THEY WERE WRONG.. he smashed them again.. one tried to get away but he chased him!.. third time.. (this had been 40 mins all in).. 2 of the guys came back but one chickened out after the first hit, and Alden smashed the one guy.. then but let the second guy get away. I said to him 'aren't we going to get the last guys' he said 'no, it's fine'.

For the next few weeks we were recruiting as best we could, including recruiting friends of Barbaa and Alden..soon Lightray and Amiraga became our first ever junior staff.

But this did not work out so well.. it was my first time training staff to be Officers, and I was a little forceful with them.. which I had also been with members. I teach the staff of ORS now.. my courtesy is not the weakness that I cannot make a decision, I do not need their permission, I want to know what they want from a situation. But back then.. I had no clue!! I didn't know how to handle staff .. didn't have a real clue what morale was..about 2 to 3 months after the forming of ORS Alden's PC kinda blew up, due to overheating. Barbaa and myself kept going, keeping in contact with Alden via FB.We kept going until just before Christmas (Nov).. which I had a break for a bit and came back in January, but Barbaa had winter exams and could not return. Attendance had slowed due to Alden's absence. I was the only one left. I removed everyone in february 2013. I was hardly logging myself.
Only a few times not more than 4, in those 2 years.

My fiancee and I had been watching The Green Lantern Animated Series.. WOW what a show! recommended! .. we had been watching it on Netflix.. we had totally gotten our heads into it.. and I mentioned 'I used to be a green lantern in DCUO'..she was like 'Really? what's DCUO is that a game?'.. then she said.. 'I wanna see' .. we turned the cam round so she could see the screen, I DL'd DCUO*..and fired up the game!

There was everything.. just as i had left it.

She said 'that's enough now'* I said.. 'Don't be cheeky to me and no.. i might start playing again.'
I returned a month later with much hope. Dec. 2014.

I returned..played for a month getting used to the new content and new systems.. of which I failed to understand 99% of it. But I liked that (in membership) I now had a proper lair.

I did the Winter Seasonal for the first time, but don't remember much of it as I was alone a lot. I would run the content and talk to people, but not really make friends, or recruit.

At the start of February I met S.. S had a league. I was standing around broker and he pm'd me saying hi.. we started chatting. He was looking to recruit, my CR was 94* which was much higher than S who was at 72. iirc max cr at the time was 108.

He asked if id' join I had told him about being league staff before, and wish to do that again. He didn't really understand what I meant by Drill. Sgt. But was kind enough to make a rank just for me.

I met FeartheFears in that league.. on my birthday I gave him an expensive in-game item, which he was really grateful for, and finding out it was my birthday.. he offered to get me some replys with real money.. i was shocked, skeptical and pleasantly surprised. He said he'd give me it on Monday when he had cash.

I stayed my excitement to see what he would actually do.I was not disappointed. This return and doing what he said he would do made me trust Fears.

a week or two later *something* happened in that league.. and I just *had* to leave. Fears logged as I was leaving.. I added him to my FL and left.

I messaged him about leaving.. and he logged off. he came back after 10 minutes and wanted to meet up. We met on top of Stagg Industries building in Gotham* I told him everything that happened.. told him old stories of KS and ORS.

By the end of the stories he confessed he was going to leave that league anyway. But this had helped him. I said to him 'I wish we could start my old league back up' he said to me 'I was just thinking that..'

The Second Iteration of ORS

March 14th 2015.

We started just Fears and I.. we had no league hall. Fears was and is a great recruiter.. I'd log in every day and almost always he had met new people and recruited them. We started building up in the first week and I came up with the Induction. At the time..oofft.. on PC server big leagues were ninja inviting people..just random non leaguers going about their day. I found this offensive. and you should *want* to be in the league you're in.. or what's the point of coming back? where is the community?

The next week, we met RAGEner.. who I am glad to say has returned to ORS in the last few weeks as a legacy. We saw he had potential to be staff.. and he was willing. I did my best to train him as an Officer.. if anyone here knows RAGE.. he's a bit of a impatient guy :)) .. but he believes in ORS, It's principals; what it stands for. even today. much feelz RAGE!

Soon after.. we met Kaya.. wow what a PVPer!! Kaya gladly became our Second PVP capt.. but also our Tactical Officer. Fears and I were blown away by Kaya's loyalty, level headedness and skills as a PVP player*.

With Fears, Kaya, Rage and myself.. we were growing stronger and stronger. We had many recruits and members, so much so we needed more staff, as it is with the way of things.

We met Bas.. and Bas slowly became a very fine Officer.

We had members so I thought it best to ask around for staff volunteers. I talked to a regular member.. we'll call her 'V' V was easy to talk to.. and she had a quality i saw in her.. potential to be an Officer.
Her BF was also in the league from RL. We talked it out in group and she agreed and we began her training.

1 week later.. Fears met a group of 4 people in a raid.. they were friends IRL and played online together regularly in various games.They were interested in joining.. I grouped with them and gave them the induction. One of them had told me he had been a league boss before.. this peaked my interest as he had league staff experience, and so would be easy to train for ORS. We'll call him 'D'.

D lived up to my expectations and became a fine Officer.

We were happy.. a group of friends. 2 months of good morale as you may know if you are league staff.. is something, special; impossible. hehe. unlikely.

But we had it.

Then at the end of May.. we had a problem.

"So we had this cr/ high SP guy join.. we'll call him T.. T had been playing with us off and on for around 5 days by the weekend he wanted to join.. well T had many many alts. all high SP and high CR.. we would be playing and need a role and he'd say 'wait ill just jump on an alt!'.. everytime he did this.. the staff would see his other league banner.. and I could *feel* the sigh of sadness within the staff morale. ..after a few days he was cheeky and griefed on me in duo.. but that stories still to come in the history of ORS."

He tried to topple me with griefing and I wouldn't have it.

There is a story in the Officer Training Article about how I exploded on a young german guy for being cheeky to me. Well.. I had learnt my lesson not to explode in anger. I contacted V via steam chat. asked her to handle the situation, as to remove myself from it. 3 hours we tried mediating with him. he refused to apologize.. as you can see we tried to make it a peaceful thing. but he just refused.. and kept saying.. 'tell Bas..he will always be my best healer and etc..' after three hours he left without me kicking him.

I had been playing all night.. it was very early in the morning and I was very very tired. I said to V 'please let the other guys know what happened with Te'.. which apparently she did.

When I woke up it was Tuesday.. my night off from the league and my night to hang out with my brother. Half way through the night .. Fears messages me saying they have all left..I come in and the group of 4 have left. I was unsure what to make of this.. and my brother was pressuring me to come out becuase this was our one night a week.. his night off.I told Fears to 'do damage control'.. meaning save the league morale so we don't have a rats = sinking ship situation.I logged out.. and 30 mins later V contacts me on skype chat.. I try to be like my mentor and be understanding..but this draws out and draws out into a 3 hour conversation. I say to her if you want to leave then yes thats OK. She was angry becuase she couldn't understand what happened.

What happened was.. one member of the group who were from Cyrpus ( american but background cyprian .. we'll call her T ).. one of the Cyprians the female one, had decided she was unhappy with the rules of ORS and with a 'who do you think you are' attitude to me decided to break up our little family. V knew nothing of this..Im sure they not only laughed at me and the rest of the staff behind our backs, but V and her BF also..no matter what they said to their faces. After a month or so of having their own league.. and me trying to be peaceful with them. They realized what a good deal ORS was.. and they missed us and hated us. So did what they could to destroy us.

I would guess D wasn't too into it. he always seemed like a sensible guy. he even PM'd me apologizing for T's actions, and saying that he was locked in becuase they were friends in real life.

HT the BF of T.. came at me with strong words, I could tell he was emotional. But no longer was that my responsibility. He started goading me.. you'd think he would stear clear of me but no.. so I said to him 'So.. couldn't make it my league so had to make your own league eh?' ..this stung him a lot. as he was not offered a staff post. His name was a strange porno name.. I nearly didn't recruit them because of this... he replied with a racist remark 'at least I'm not a pedo'.. i was shocked.. I said to him 'what do you mean by that?'..he simply answer 'you know.'.. I replied.. 'coz ruthie's asian??'.. answer 'hahaha'.. then I said 'i'm a big lad.. I travel the world.. better hope I don't travel to Cyprus'

Racists piece of trash!!!!!!

This is sadly not the end.. for the next ? months.. they 'revenge joined' .. getting into league then.. who knows what they were doing while I was offline or even online.They rest of the staff had exams and while one or two staff were there to help me.. the pressure of keeping morale going was just too huge!.. I couldn't handle it and I cracked.. they destroyed ORS 4 times..hundreds of hours of joint hard work lost.

I mothballed ORS with my healer. we now had a league hall..which the cyprians would say was their hard work.. but that's nonsense.. as their prestige was very low.. it was actually Kaya who had donated more prestige winning in PVP to the league than all 4 combined.

So Sigma was leagueless.. felt both good and bad at the same time. The empty chat when I logged felt bad.. the freedom of no work felt good!

Kaya contacted me on steam saying she'd/he'd like to reform ORS again.. I contacted Fears and Bas. Fears was interested but too busy but said if i had Kaya on board he'd be willing. Bas did not reply.

It had been a tumultuous time for us, and I don't' blame him. I told Kaya I had started ORS going again.. she said she wanted us on the US server.. this whole thing was full of crossed line of communication between Kaya and myself.. so i'll skip to the end; Kaya was respectful and appreciative. I got the mentor vibe from him.. which was truly an honor. we left it there.

For the next month.. only I and my alts we're in the league.. we had the ORS US Outreach Program, still in place, and Nexo was still watching over this idea. The program is for Officers who wish to have a US alt that they don't have to do all the work alone.

A dear friend returned to DCUO after 6 months absence.. Beatrix. Bea was and is a bit of a celeb in DCUO EU PC server. Bea knows *everyone* and is famous for her morning WT trolling.. making everyone laugh. I ofc couldn't condone this... the guy hopefully known for community strength and teaching the value of morale.. but quietly id laugh to myself. ( well she was famous for it but stopped.. and this is part of her story).

We grouped up.. and I told Bea everything that happened.. he was sympathetic understanding and angry. He said to me 'I know how important it was to you' meaning the league work. I said to him.. 'but that's not really it.. its that im.. alone'..I said to him 'would you do it?' he said 'forget those guys they are idiots'.. I said' I don't know how I ever can be staff again, if they rip down everything i build'.. then I had an idea..

The Third Iteration of ORS

In my explanation of the idea to Bea.. Bea would be like an attack dog, and tear down the cyprians should they return. Everyone in EUPC had seen her tear people to shreds verbally, without any effort.. imagine what she could do if she was *actually* trying!

To Bea.. I hope you read this.. I can never thank you enough for giving me the confidence to return! thank you.. you're a real and true friend! I cannot repay you!

We continued; Bea recruited and I trained staff.

We met Sammy and he became our TO and PVP Capt. amazing guy, still chats to me on skype every so often, rarely but still.

Bea and I had a disagreement and Bea left ORS but we remained friends.

What happened in ORS? .. I had trained some staff and we had Riisky and couple of new staff, we regularly won in Star Labs PVP hehe :)

We had a traitor, who jumped ship without a word, he was an Officer in ORS, but now a traitor.

Horakti had taken over from Vet to FO, and I will say while, I do not feel I did totally right by him, his engament with members was short for a FO, he did much to his credit, do all his shifts, earned a HUGE amount of prestige for ORS and never turned on me, and in this he was great! Thank you Horakti!

which leads us to the Fourth Iteration of ORS.

The Fourth Iteration of ORS

da2 had just became an Officer and Sammy was retiring, after a while (4 weeks April-May 2016 iirc) I asked da if he would like to train to be senior staff, Ione had taken over as TO from Sammy retiring.

Sammy sadly did retired and we were a little lost without him, but da filled that gap & I'm glad to say went on to make us very proud.

da took over as FO, Ione lapsed in duty for 2 months, but recruited an old friend, who went on to be a ORS Vet 'Jupiter Tonans', he was Former Boss of the Popular Vil. League 'Smoke Break' . He, da and I became firm friends.

Sadly for seemly no reason we lost Vukie, a long term ORS Vet. He was missed.

The new content of AFIII came out and I was pretty unhappy, and also had became fascinated with the idea of a Lantern Healer, as I pumped money into Time Capsules, the more I did, the unhappier I became with the game.

A person, whom's league I joined before the Second Iteration, contacted me, letting me know he had returned to the game. We had left things on an uneven keel last we had spoken in Feb 2015. He had exploded at a member, and with all my training and inspiration from L, I knew this was unacceptable, I had also spent a month alone working 10 hours a day, he had logged twice in those 4 weeks. Disgraceful behaviour.

We began a dialogue, including giving him officer training by me, he joined ORS with his main, while running his own league. He didn't finish the officer training, but he returned to his own league, I felt he had improved enough, and talked it over with him about returning to his own league, and we were both happy.

After a while, meeting his staff, we began to bond a bit more and it was discussed if we should join together. Ultimately he decided no, which I respected, and with nothing to do in game, I decided to retire until the next content would be released. I told Jup and Da they should find somewhere they could play and happy, and when I found out they had joined Freaks'n'Geeks, I was very content with their choice, as I am friends with Akbar Khan, and know him as a good person, who treats other people fairly (even if on *rare* occasion he has a temper hehe but otherwise totally chilled dude).

I spend the next 4 months building Justice League Elite, shoring up staff, educating them on morale and conduct, helping members when I could.

I logged in on my Celestial and had been struggling with the DPS side and one of the staff was a Celestial DPS and a good one, so I asked for tips and a lesson. While I was getting my lesson on Celestial DPS, the Boss Pm'd me saying one of his staff wanted Senior staff training, I told him I wouldn't do it as the person was too young at 12/13yo and I didn't want to 'jade' him with adult politics. Besides da was there to help and the boss had just made da, not 4 hours earlier FO, he already had a TO whose job does not contain politics. After some time (20 mins) he started at me in Staff Voice Chat in front of everyone, which I had warned him against while doing his training, take it private, whatever you do take it private.

Telling me 'how dare you disobey me!' then 'get out of my league!'

I would have NEVER spoken to L that way! I was meant to be there in a mentor role.
Shameful behaviour!

So I left.

Not one hour later, I pm'd Khan and asked to join FnG with a trifecta.

I joined on my QDPS my Fire and Nature.

Da eventually left FnG as his friend who had left FnG was in JLE too.
I spoke to da recently, it was good to catch up.

I have been in FnG at the time of writing around 3 weeks to a month, and I think the guys are funny and make me laugh, I like them. Hang out with jup often too.

I have been upfront with Khan, letting him know that I start ORS when the new content comes out, but won't remove my FnG chars, as that would be shameful to do that to them.

understandably this is a long process to include all these stories. I will be back to edit and update.

* I never gave up.. but had decided that was my last night in DCUO before logging on.. events took a different turn. hehe
*this is where I learned my SigmaAtom costume was sexy.. I get attention from girls from time to time.

* I teach that the Controller is the Healers bodyguard.. THIS^ is where the nucleus of that idea came from, protecting M, who would become my league boss! I may have been the first player to teach this,.. on EUPC.. or even in DCUO.
* I didn't understand that before.. about morale.. if one leaves or doesn't log for a long time.. more do the same.
*M and L dissolved the league 2 weeks later. I had managed to fix most of it.. but the hearts were already broken, and M had too much work for uni.

*actually the truth be told earlier like a month or two before.. I had an email saying to keep my char for the move over I needed to log, which I did. did a vault then left.

*She's Asian so that was being cheeky and she knew it.

* That's a guess but by the end of March I have a photo of it being 105 in troller stance.

*there's four to current recollection.2 in the north, 1 in the west. This was the one in Diamond District overlooking Gotham Uni and Robinson Park. update: I recently found out its the intergang penthouse building.

*(really i'm not overselling him.. in game female char so gender switching he/she might happened while typing)

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Service Records

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SigmaAtom

EUPC

Drill.Sgt : Kryptoniansnipers. single iteration.February 2012 - April 2012.
resumed; Acting Boss; July 2012. Dissolved August 2012. aprox. 400h of service. 2 DLCs.

League Boss: OrderoftheRedSun, all iterations. September 2012 - February 2013. March 2015- July 2015. as XigmaAtom; League 'mothballed'. October 2015 - Present.
First Iteration; aprox.1000h of service. 3 DLCs.
Second iteration; aprox. 900h of service. 2 DLCs
Third iteration: aprox 1800h of service. all 'modern' content and 2 DLCs.

notes:
Returned after 2 year absence (see service record).
Does moonlighting for other league bosses who are having issues in league.
ORS has had three 'child leagues' since it's formation. all dissolved to present knowledge.
Addendum: 'Justice League Europe', (formally League of Nations) currently active. Is considered a partial child-league of ORS, due to the boss having been trained by me.
Update this relationship has since degraded.
After 4 months of helping during my retirement. The League Boss spoke to me disrespectfully and when I refused to 'obey' him, it was time to go. The new name of the league at time of writing is ' Justice League Elite'. I would have NEVER spoken to my mentor like he did to me. 4 months of work for nothing! wasted, because he had man-child tantrum.

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Aldencek

EUPC

PVP Capt: Kryptoniansnipers. single iteration. Late 2011 - July 2012 .
Dissolved August 2012. aprox. 150h of service. 2 DLCs.

First Officer: OrderoftheRedSun, first iteration.September 2012 - February 2013.
aprox.700h of service. 3 DLCs.

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Barbaa

EUPC

Tactical Officer: OrderoftheRedSun. first iteration.September 2012 -January 2013.
aprox.900h of service. 3 DLCs.

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FeartheFears

EUPC

First Officer: OrderoftheRedSun, second iteration.March 2015 - August 2015.
aprox.1100h of service. 3 DLCs.

Honourably Discharged due to absence. No return; legacy.

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Kaya Scodelario

EUPC

Tactical Officer. OrderoftheRedSun. second iteration.March 2015 - August 2015.
aprox.800h of service. 3 DLCs

PVP Capt. OrderoftheRedSun. second iteration.March 2015 - August 2015.
aprox.800h of service. 3 DLCs

PVP. Capt. OrderoftheRedSun. third iteration. August. 2016 - present Oct. 2016.
approx. 50h of service.
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RAGEner

General Officer. OrderoftheRedSun. second iteration March 2015 - May 2015.
aprox. 270h of service. 1 DLC.

Honourably Discharged due to absence. No return; legacy.
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Basman

EUPC

General Officer: OrderoftheRedSun, second iteration.April 2015 - August 2015.
aprox.900h of service. 3 DLCs.

notes: was considered for Tactical Officer should Kaya have to leave due to real life commitments.

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Beatrix07

General Officer. OrderoftheRedSun. third iteration.November 2015 - February 2016.
aprox.700h of service. modern content.

Note: Was 'Standing First Officer' of ORS for tenure.

Honorary title.

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Horakti

EUPC

First Officer. OrderoftheRedSun. third iteration.February 2016 - Sept. 2016.
aprox.1000h of service. modern content.

Notes: was a Veteran before taking the post.
has returned to Veterancy since Sept. 2016.

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Sammy18

Tactical Officer. OrderoftheRedSun. third iteration.March 2016 - June 2016.
aprox.600h of service.modern content.

PVP Capt. OrderoftheRedSun. third iteration.March 2016 - June 2016.
aprox.600h of service. modern content.

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Ionetwo

Tactical Officer. OrderoftheRedSun. third iteration.June 2016 - present - July 2016.
aprox.200h of service. modern content.

General Officer. OrderoftheRedSun. third iteration.March 2016 - present - June 2016.
aprox.180h of service. modern content.

Honourably Discharged due to absence. No return; legacy.
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Riisky420

General Officer. OrderoftheRedSun. third iteration.Feb 2016 - present - August 2016.
aprox.350h of service. modern content.

Honourably Discharged due to absence. No return; legacy.
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QuantityUK

EUPC

General Officer: OrderoftheRedSun, second iteration. May 2015 - August 2015.
aprox. 200h of service. 3 DLCs.

notes: absent due to illness often. Loyal despite this :)

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Solmac

EUPC

General Officer: OrderoftheRedSun, second iteration. June 2015 - August 2015.
aprox. 220h of service. 2 DLCs.

notes: was angry about the end of the second iteration of ORS, this is understandable as he did not see what was happening.
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