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Welcome ToFers, And Future ToFers.
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Tides of Fire
We're a group of gamers, of untold numbers, living in possibly undisclosed locations. Tides of Fire organized for play in Planetarion Round 10.5, circa March 19, 2004. [1][2] The group has continued to play Planetarion, and maintained continuous passage of leadership to the upcoming generation of players.
Many have come and gone in the years passed, and perhaps a majority of those feel that their ToF was the ToF. The best, the one, the ONLY ToF! For every one of them, they are correct. In our time, the Tides of Fire we bond with is the only Tides of Fire we will ever need, and once it leaves us, it is gone. What stands in it's place is some other ToF, which can never be what it was.
The fire still burns, so long as we keep ticking.
We communicate primarily through Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which if you're unfamiliar it is an older, similar ancestor of Instant Messaging and Chat Rooms. To chat and play with us, do the following (or something similar) in your favorite IRC client:
/server irc.netgamers.org
/join #tof
Games We Play
- Planetarion
- You rule a planet, make decisions to build quantities of things and throw ships at other people, in the form of named sets of statistical data.
Surviving Records and Posterity
December 24, 2004, Tides of Fire ranked 5th place in Planetarion Round 12.
December 29, 2004, Tides of Fire ranked 5th place in Planetarion Round 12 "AllComp" IRC contest.
February 2, 2006, we were involved in Planetarion Team weirdness and bean-counting, when their magical heuristic limitations did not match real-world requirements (again).
September 9, 2006, Tides of Fire in Planetarion Round 13 had a reputation for friendly fire. It is never forgotten.
January 7, 2007, the original ToF IRC bot programmer, Olympus, sets the tone for Planetarion Round 20 recruitment.
May 17, 2007, GrandAdm Thrawn, declared war on SUBH alliance in Planetarion, on behalf of ToF.
September 27, 2007, Heartless over-thought Planetarion politics, and mistakenly thought Tides of Fire was an alliance that cared like that.
October 27, 2007, JFK made eyes bleed, with a colorful list of demands to which we were encouraged to submit to eagerly, and even pay for the opportunity with money and interupted sleep. Interestingly, JFK has since left Tides of Fire to become a Police Officer, and play for a hardcore Planetarion alliance more in-line with his jackboots.
March 5, 2008, DemonatrX helped return ToF as a sovereign alliance, after two rounds of merger with two alliances (Conspiracy, Orbit) and one round of retirement in Planetarion.
April 15, 2008, we had a huge laugh, when Tides of Fire released their ship production, and jumped 7 alliance ranks. Snuffy made his first Planetarion forum post.
July 16, 2008, Someone took time to spy on IRC, and post the log to Scribd... wow.
April 5, 2009, DemonatrX relit the flame, when he brought Tides of Fire out of two rounds of retirement in Planetarion.
June 21, 2009, burgess fueled the fire by helping ToF merge the organization with their former bitter rivals, Vengeance. Some veterans cried, but none were seriously wounded in anything but pride.
Footnotes
- Old Age Pensioners - A game clan which organized around Unreal Tournament on March 10, 2000, wrote a forum post dating Planetarion Round 10.5 as starting on March 19, 2004.
- In Planetarion Round 20, Olympus dates ToF as beginning in Round 10.5 "havoc", which is a modified play-mode that occurs after (between) normal rounds.
Licensing
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