Borg

Feb 24th starting at 7pm EST

The Honor Empire

Battlegrounds I

Tournament

Rules:

All players MUST download patch

Star Wars Patch on The Honor Empire Website

Members of The Honor Empire eligible

NO CHEATS

STANDARD START

MAP will be Star Wars Locale (TBA)

CONQUEST (last one alive of the players-not Borg)

Borg will be Neutral observer to all parties and record game

and resign once there is only one player left standing

Winner will have a Large Pizza sent to their home from a local Pizza delivery unit.

Sign up below if you wish to battle for this first planet in the galaxy.

If you do not have the game yet you can get it through the Amazon Search box on this website.

Type in "Star Wars: Battlegrounds" and search Software

FIRST 7 Challengers....declare your namesake, culture and color choice.......good luck

If you are interested to see the newest additions to the UO engine.......Lake Superior holds that privilege and its forum is updated with the newest details.

Ultima Online NEW Updates on Lake Superior

Since my knee is keeping me awake....I am really catching up on post reading...hehhe.

My thoughts on the whole ebay thing is...

A) players buy game (REAL)and pay fee for time in game on servers equipment...rent (REAL)

B) players participate in fantasy (NOT REAL) and players create items (NOT REAL) and or the fiction (NOT REAL)

C) some players develope items (NOT REAL) and fiction (NOT REAL) so deep it gains a value to the masses participating in game

D) some levels of game operators utilize this growth (NOT REAL) and fiction (NOT REAL) to develope more areas for expansion sales and new fees to the player base.

For one reason or another a operator or member of the game operation team leaves job OR is promoted...both based on recent work success (REAL) in game operations role.

For one reason or another a player decides to leave the online game they have spent time (REAL)developing thier characters (NOT REAL) and the fictions around them and with various achieved items (NOT REAL)

The person leaving the game operations role was rewarded a salary to support the engine all along.

The person leaving the participation in the game was rewarded FUN and entertainment all along.

OPPS but what is this???....someone wishes to take over or utilize the fictional item (NOT REAL) or character (NOT REAL)that was created over time (REAL) by a persons imagination, commitment and creativity(REAL) and they are willing to compensate(REAL) the player for his time(REAL) imagination(REAL), commitment(REAL) and creativity(REAL)?

Hmmm.....the game operator chose freely to be promoted and to a new compensation for thier time based on thier successful use of personal resources (time, imagination, commitment and creativity)

Player leaving accepts offer for compensation for thier past successful use of personal resources (time, imagination, commitment and creativity)

Hmmm now then....the game operator has ALWAYS been receiving rewards(REAL) in the form of paychecks for doing thier job in providing the engine, servers and support basically FROM THE PLAYERS.

Interestingly the Player is the ACTUAL CREATOR and intellectual OWNER of the fictional history of the characters and the items they create (building or accumulating...everything is still being 'created' by the player using his minds eye and intellect)...they and thier items are still NOT REAL and thier value is still based in the mind of other players.

This "value" and desire to aquire is based on player to player and has nothing to do with the game operations.  Game operations exists with providing the padded room for players to enter...the stories, characters and items they develope and share with others inside that padded room all is part of the fiction/creation done by the players for the game operators.

Without the players the game would not exist more than an empty room of possibilities and potential....a program with no users.

When someone leaves the padded room....the game operators should be happy the fictional NOT REAL stuff is utilized and kept active.....it is what keeps the ink full in the pen that the game operators paychecks are written with.

Both sides should be happy....being happy is alot more FUN.

ps...man that is a twisted ride to read....remember this I guess....

Freedom holds infinite choices.

Online is a form of REALITY.

Imagination is priceless.

Buy or Sell....the choice is yours.

You are FREE.

Small steps....bit by bit...we will get things done.....and enjoy you all will indeed.

Keep pokin in the corners and peeking behind the drapes....who knows what you will find anew.

Ultima Online In Concept 48 Month awards.

Dyeable Spellbook (a special spellbook that comes completely filled with all 64 spells)

Only players whose accounts are 4 years old or older will be able to equip it. It can be dyed using the Leather Dye Tub.

House Decoration Kits (bags containing eight decorative items suitable for use in player-owned houses)

These will be deed-style add-ons. Some will consist of multiple pieces, and they cannot be manipulated using the Interior Decorator’s Toolkit. Others will be single-tile pieces and can be flipped and floated using the Interior Decorator’s Toolkit.

There will be three themed sets to choose from:

§ Day of the Dead - this set will include Halloween-themed decorations, including a skeleton in a coffin, a pool of fake blood, spider-webs, skull candles, and scattered hay, tombstone that can be written on like a sign

§ Gardener’s Delight - this set consists of several plants and cacti (some potted, some not) and a decorative rock, rose bushes that spawn roses

§ Tavernkeeper Set - this set includes a large fishing net, suitible as a wall hanging. Additional treasures include dyeable wall-mountable shields, a saddle on a saddlehorse, a large ship’s anchor, and a bar complete with openable half-door

§ Palace Set – this set consists of a LB Throne, standing suits of armors, wall tapestry, large statue, tall candelabras, large rug. (Throne, tapestry and rug can be dyed)

Magic Hat

Intended for emergencies, the user can pull out desperately needed supplies, like a recall scroll, a small number of bandages, a few arrows or bolts, an orange, yellow, or black potion, a few magic reagents, an apple, or even a cute fluffy white bunny rabbit. This stylish treasure can be used once per day.

Ultima Online Colin Mor Concept 60 Month awards

all the below are my ideas I sent in....

Personalized Weapon (Blessed, can be colored and carries name of character upon it)

Only players whose accounts are 5 years old or older will be able to equip it. Kind and color

are selected and the weapon will not need repair, power of weapon will be vanquishing

NOT SILVER and not capable of modification.

Personalized Statue/Bust (Similar to the gift busts and small statues)

Character name will become namesake of the statue selected. It can be dyed using the Furniture Dye Tub

Sarcophagus, Casket or Tomb (Closed or with lid open ajar)

House Add On, Re-deed-able  It can be dyed using the Furniture Dye Tub

Personalized  Rune (Blessed, Blue Hued Rune that can be marked)

Only players whose accounts are 5 years old or older can use rune.  When spell cast upon

the rune the reagents used are replaced into the characters inventory…thus no regs used

Reagents MUST be in backpack to initiate the spell AND character must have spell ability

Rune can be re-marked

Rune CANNOT be placed in book

Rune CANNOT be locked down and will not work for another character.

If you wish to support these ideas or comment officially ...go to theDevelopment Board for OSI

Then look for Colin Mor posts......he is I on OSI Boards

BATTLEGROUNDS of HONOR

What: Tournament of Star Wars Battlegrounds

When: Last Sunday of every Month, 7pm EST

How: Borg will host a game where 7 members will engage in SWBattlegrounds

Borg will be Neutral to all and post observer units to record game

No Cheats used….all start at beginning in un revealed map

Who: The Honor Empire website members may participate…no entry fee

Why: To have FUN and To win PIZZA…..the food of the GODS

Winner will have a pizza delivered to him the following weekend with coordination with Borg

The Game is available thru the website using the Amazon search box “Star Wars Battlegrounds”

As with all purchases through our website links…commissions go toward website support costs.

but

Just a note I have reorganized home owners of OLYMPUS, INFIRMARY and HONOR HALL(Felucca).  The Friend/Co Owners lists are reset to blank now....characters will need to be refriended/co owner

I have also sold a private log cabin of mine and Poseidon Tower both have been liquidated with the funds going into the expansion of the website....now 5 times larger.

Arcane Academy will be the Tower for membership to focus to for events upcoming around the new systems coming in magery (yes...they are coming...Ignatz baby long ago was Necromancy....some things never die....necromancy is such a thing....ironically....look for such things from him in that field)

I now have active non homeowning accounts if anyone needs help in transferring.

I would still love to aquire the villa infront of the Olympus castle but Sir Tristam never responds....sigh.

Keep you eyes open for other units around Olympus for opportunities for the guild to lock up for membership use via these blank acounts.

Below is cut out from Colin Mor post on UO

Felix Fethwin sought advice from the old sage Colin Mor about the future of UO and/or the Empire

Twas the age of Expansion….it was the years after the ascension of Emperor Borg to Olympus.  Emperor Greg had risen and continued the fight against the hoards of evil; defeating them at nearly every battlefield.  The provinces had flourished and the Senate was strong with economic power.  The Legion was fully supplied and the Council of Honor had just approved measures to build an Imperial Navy.  The clans of Orcs were decimated and the resulting arrival of Savages was met by the Alliance.  The Alliance, which was formed of the great realm Empires and Kingdoms of PGoH, GoL, KoJ, LER and VK, stood as the supreme force of good throughout the realm.  No one would have expected that this was the beginning of  the darkest of ages…the age of Excess.

Fade  to memories

It was a glorious morning and though we had lost many a soul and the lines had not slept for a week, we marched back to Trinsic to the bards songs of victory.  All of the Orc strongholds had been destroyed and the Shadowriders now hunted down the scattered Orcs.  Provincial citizens traveled homeward past the Legion lines, back toward their homes they had abandoned during the campaign.  The sunrise was different today and as I looked up at it, I bathed in its brilliance and its warmth.  The sun had been there all along but its warmth never was enough to overcome the coldness of death the wars had brought.

The cities, each of them in kind, welcomed home their protectors and celebrations seemed to last for weeks.  City merchants thrived on the new resources, wares and gold brought back from conquest and through the reopening of trade routes once lost to Orc raiders.  When news of the a primitive culture was reported replacing the Orcs in the provinces; mercenary forces met them and a cohort of the Legion was dispatched.  The savages, though cunning and resourceful, also failed to be victorious against the mercenary forces that fought them…let alone the Alliance.  The cities of the land slept secure and with no threat to their gates for months.

Shadowriders reported that Orcs and Savages were found in great pitched battles over the ruins of the Orc Strongholds that the Alliance had decimated and in odd twists the greed of mankind took over many minds as mercenaries chose sides in this battle over debris and ruins.  New Orcs of great power and strength appeared and so did Savages of unparalleled skill appear on mounts of hideous appearance.  The Alliance members discussed which side should they stand for and Pater Imperium Borg was summoned for guidance to this end.

“Do not stand for what you would sooner slay but support what you know to be evil”; Borg instructed.

This was an uneasy and uncomfortable command to enact.  The sage Magistrate Balandar explained that he had instructed us to stand for neither but to aid what was once our oldest foe.  This was difficult for many to accept because Orcs always were the enemy.  The Phalynx Marcos the Black was captured by Orcs and our retribution for the loss of Cove to Orcs brought the end of Orc oppression everywhere.  How could the Pater tell us to aid these beasts that still held Marcos.  Furthermore, when the followers of Mercury, God of Mischief, found the new Orc strongholds evidence of Marcos training Orcs in the arts of war was found.  Many in the Alliance and within the Legion itself began to speak of treason and fractures in the minds of men formed, like cracks in armor yield a weakness.

“Trust each in each other and trust in the Honor that binds thee”; Borg said in a dream to everyone in the Empire on the same night.

When Marcos was found on a battlefield with Orcs against Savages he was imprisoned and put on trial.  His acquittal was shocking to some but his support of the Orcs was determined to be in the best interest of the Empire and realm itself.  Still, some men and women left the Empire to continue to hunt down the Orcs and to also fight against the Savages.  For the rest of the Empire the following months were difficult at best and surreal consistently.  Conversations and debates were filled with anger and uneasiness at what should be done.  Emperor Greg kept the Legion in check and the Empire out of the political and faction wars that began across the realm.

It was only until we realized Borg meant not to become their ally but to fight against this new threat along side the Orcs…for the Orcs knew what mankind would not accept.  The Savages were the first from evil never seen before…the edge of a great dark shadow that now crept into the realm from beyond the edge of existence itself.  This new evil was breaking against the realm like a great tide, spilling evil bit by bit into the realm.

“Evil knows Evil”; Borg told Emperor Greg and Senator of War Wolf.

“Mankind never accepts anything as real until it affects them directly”; Borg reminded them.

Pater Imperium Borg and the GODS of Olympus had tried to warn us that the evil that was coming would become real…if we allowed it to be.  Through our complacency and satisfaction this evil did grow and through the greed of mankind the evil did prosper and become reality.  Its foothold now was solid and the evil now has a full open gate into our realm.  If we had only remembered what he had said…if we had only remained vigilant.

New lands have been found and the plunder and riches it holds are irresistible to the mercenary and merchants abroad.  Even as the days pass, many do not realize the sun is not shining light and warmth; only the glow of greed is what they see with and what fuels their hearths fire.  This greed is strong and with it has come overconfidence.  This overconfidence now determines participation against evil when is appears.  The rich see the battlegrounds as places beneath them and that they are untouchable in their personal fortresses or cities built by their ancestors and kin.  This is the end of their age of Excess, the end of what they know to be true and real.  This is the end of the age of Excess and the beginning of darkness that has existed for quite some time.

Colin Mor….I ask of you what shall we do now?

What day will break after this darkness has been overcome?  

Will we even realize it is even dark at all?

Felix Felthwin, Gladiator PGoH Legion

I sent this reply to Felix as well as the Council of Honor

Sharpen your sword, supply your satchel and rally recruits

The Age of Twilight has begun.

Colin Mor

From myself, my soul and my honor....I extend to you all best wishes for you and your families in this holiday season and into the new year.

Together we have traveled, explored and grown together...

for those journeys and challenges I have become a better man within a great Empire of HONOR.

HONOR...it is what binds us and defines us.

You are HONOR....you are the way...you are THE ONE.

Greetings all.....

This is a note to shed light on a subject that many may have already thought and enlighten you all on the future of this website.

Origionally this website came about as a way to communicate and support the PGoH efforts in Ultima Online.  The years that followed brought many members great pride, accomplishments and connections.  These times were not all rosey and ups and downs did occur....new leaders rose to fill the needs and cover the real world requirements (darn things)

"In all things there are struggles"  I once said inside UO and those thing echo in our daily lives ingame and out.

One thing that cannot occur in struggle is to give up....there is no reward, no accomplishment...no fun.  The struggle I saw a couple years ago as the greatest threat to the guild then was the desire for "new" things or challenges.  It still is and is will remain forever the ultimate struggle in all games.  So, what to do....I pushed and brought with me some into the arena of ingame events and we excelled into shard activity and storylines.  We all have our favorite moments and each is separate....but fate changed that option with the end of Seers.  We still continued but as UO itself changed the landscape of gaming was quickly changing.....Everquest success and the emergence of new upcoming games.  

What to do....how do we keep things alive....where do I go....

Those were few of the more telling questions of how members were deeply thinking about thier online gaming participation.

Games will come and go....

friendships will be forever.

That became basis of my efforts....to provide opportunities for my friends and thier friends to have fun in the online gaming world they found each other in and "lived" thier online lives with.  It is a second family in this new age of the internet...some of the friendships are truely real and deeply felt.  

This must be supported as a means for continuation....PGoH must evolve as the online gaming world does...extinction would be giving up the stuggle.

Listening to my oldest and deepest friends I had made...PGoH sought to exist inside the other game engines....EQ and prepare for the DAoC engine.   Ser Brightblade led the efforts in Everquest to find such a home.....Sacred Legion of Tunare.

For months now I have been working with Balandar on the ideas and plans for the website expansion.  Wolf has improved our website graphics and member fun greatly and we have founded the DAoC guild Valhalla Vanguard as a home for our family in the Mystic game engine.

This all may be old news to some....but in this week you will be seeing posts covering the expansion of the website and the subsequent expansion of options for members....for family to explore.

If games do not evolve....they die.

The same thing over and over is not fun.

That is why we have chosen NOT to create the same guild in each game...it will allow variety and ability to fit in concert to the game designers intentions of theme.

One thing though will be consistent.....HONOR.

That will be the thread that binds all game guilds together as a colorful variety of options in the FUN that online gaming has to offer.

We hope to continue to have fun with our friends....our online family.

PLANS

Ultima Online=Purple Guardians of HONOR (PGoH) 10/11/97

Everquest=Sacred Legion of Tunare (SLoT) 8/12/01

Dark Age of Camelot=Valhalla Vanguard (V V) 10/22/01

Blizzards-WarCraft...................2002 (Orc Based)

Shadowbane..........................2002 (????)

Star Wars-Galaxies..................2002 (Empire Based)

Horizons-Empires of Istaria........2003 (Dragons)

Asherons Call.............???

Shards as Homes

Ultima Online=Catskills

Everquest=Innorukk

Dark Age of Camelot=Gawaine

Future games......the first shard alphabetically that starts with "H" will be the plan...if no "H" then I or J or K etc.

This way if you dont know prior or are the first into a game thru beta contacts....we all know where to go to find you.

Lawful Good......now there is a shocker.

And that is why my friend ......the Borg will overcome your species.....eventually.

sector 0,0,0.....the Terran System.....earth.

muhahahahah

First off thanks to Balandar, Siun and Greg for helping out in the worst time of year annually for me to play online (Back to School and Inventory)  I also had to fire 5 employees and I lost 2 Asst Mgrs also.....end result 109 hrs avg work for last 9 weeks.

Second but way more impressively is CONGRATS to BB and Scout for the new little blade of brightness!!!  Welcome to the Empire lil' Alexandra.

I rewarded myself in surviving the last months by buying a 64mb DDR Gforce2 Ti card..........I NOW CAN SEE 3D WHOOO HOOO!!!

I also was contacted by a rep to enter the DAoC realm and review it/feedback etc etc....

Bor Shard                        Borg, Colin, Galam  [HIBERNIA]

Merlin Shard                     Borg, Stan, Spawn  [MIDGARD]

Lancelot Shard                 Colin, Stan, Galam  [ALBION]

Percival Shard(ROLEPLAY)   Borg, Stan, Galam  [HIBERNIA]

Guenivier Shard (ROLEPLAY) Borg, Colin, Spawn [MIDGARD]

?? Shard (ROLEPLAY)  Borg, Colin, Galam [ALBION]

Lorrianna spoke of wondering if PGoH will be in DAoC.....sure it can but it needs a leader and a core of strong communicator/coordinators.

I will join such a group of friends and above are the shards CURRENTLY I locked in namesakes.

FYI to whomever does wish to lead there.....learn on one shard and gather your guild.....decide RP or Non RP.....and a realm to exist in (Albion, Midgard, Hibernia)...then wait for a new shard to open.....

and LAUNCH TOGETHER

Get the namesake of your choosing (hopefully something with "Honor" in it.....fits into website flavor)

Pool money onto the leader and push the leader to 20th level so he/she can PAY for the colors and design

That is what we did long ago coming from Chessy in UO....we nailed down the 4th EVER house on UO Cats that way and got the namesake PGoH. (11th guild on Cats and last of 4 letters)

Whomever does this....and maintains a guild in DAoC for current PGoH members to join and HAVE FUN....I will discuss with personally (along with Balandar) at providing that leader free play support for DAoC.  That goes for EQ, Galaxies(future)and Horizons(future).

The website has has some tweeks to its revenue generation area and that is where I have spent anytime I have had lately....it needs to support itself.  

New Announcments....

Electronics Boutique is reviewing us for an agreement.

Amazon we have increased our efforts for commissions.

Nike(apparel), Oakley(sunglasses), Time Warner(Cable Modem), Verizon(DSL) and Sprint(Cellular) I am currently seeking agreement from....membership will have discounts for these company products/services...while the website will get commissions for referrals etc.

3D animator in Ithaca may soon be making us 3D movies/clips about our past adventures.....just began talking to them yesterday.

If you know people use Amazon or Electonics Boutique....send them to our site....every little bit helps us.

We want to double the webspace storage and get 500 emails to support members of the various gameguilds.

SEE YOU ON THE INSIDE....NOW IN 3D....WHOO HOOO!!!!

Well, after the league championship victory 2 weeks ago, my team Ithaca Red Knights traveled to Syracuse to challenge the Binghamton and Syracuse champions for District supremecy.  Sadly, we started with 1 of our 5 matches as a default since one of our men could not travel with us.

In the first match we defeated Binghamton 3-2 for Ithaca's first victory EVER over a Binghamton squad in USTA District championships.  In our next battle with Syracuse we fell 4-1 with our number 1 singles man again standing victorious.  Ithaca for now 9 years has held the top singles slot for singles.  

Myself....though I have fought back from graves and the 60 pounds I gained with that awful mess.(Lost 33 so far)  I lost both matches at 1st doubles.  Though we practiced for about a week on getting used to the new doubles groupings we did not jell good and in the first match my serve was horrible.  Second match it was much better but as doubles goes...if one of us is down the opponents should and DID attack my partner in the second match.  We lost in a 3rd set tiebreaker.

Overall it was a blast....the courts were at 100 degrees and we were out there for 6hrs worth..next time I need to drink more fluids....much more.

Secondary good news...hehhe weighed in this morning and boom...heheh now add another 6 pounds off...hehehe mostly water but damn feels good!!! (39 down and 21 to go!!)

Today begins my volunteer work for Ithaca Youth Bureau locally in running the County Area Tennis Championships.  I have 101 players and I threw myself into the mix...so we shall see what damage I can do to them and this graves leftover crap.  

I am on another vacation to be able to do this so I will be around in EARLY parts of days if at all.  Alot to catch up on I am sure...I am refreshing PGoH housing and Siun's as well.

Take care ...wish me luck (I will need it)

STRENGTH AND HONOR!!!

PS if anyone goes to see Planet of the Apes a HUGE trailer is before the movie for LORD of the RINGS....pretty nifty.

I enjoyed Planet of the Apes.....it is visually stunning..while the dialog is not like a normal movie.....IT APES for crying out loud I said when I read a couple of stuffy critics complaining.

The movie is for entertainment and FUN in the thought and idea of the old show....NOT to be a wonder of dialog....Apes are demonstrative more than talkative ...geesh...dingy critics.

heheh

Enjoy

SGC

Gotcha....hopefully we can suit ye up in your Legionnaire title Saturday morning

Galam did not get runes locked down there....it will be near the DUNGEON Tables in the VIRTUE HALL area of Castle

(since they were on lunch there....Siun didnt get full tour and he had given Siun the runes planned to be locked down there....Galam errored in not getting another set to Castle owner)

Bad Galam.....Bad

I have it but need a good video card still...hehehe

Is the PROPHET 64MB AGP Card a good one to get?

149 bucks.....want to hang in that area for price

anyone have inside connections?

would love the mega best I could get