ErikWijmeersch
Strategos
No Brakes - No Speed Limits
The No Brakes project was a project where a lot of love was put in, many work and 1 team with a positive energy worthwhile from the beginning.
It was the first project I (ErikWijmeersch) started as a founder with a full team, with about 100 members.
Friend and foe who know me know that I, as founder always start with less than 20 members, yes there are other servers where you see me as a players, those teams often are and greater, I remember +200 peeps but that was never my work .
As a soldier with the highest rankings fighter maybe I was hugely important @ Eviction <notice, but I was never the boss, highest I was was a leader (ops leader).
But about the positive project.
Everyone looked forward to seeing together a group of fighters in one piece.
No prejudice, no looking back, everyone was welcome.
To use the words of my old mentor kronnoss, let's look ahead and certainly don't mix the past with the present , in other words, start fresh don't mix servers.
Many were looking forward after a server ful of dramatic events, a large group of players openly said they would retire, so this time my large project, my very first project in my whole grepolis life was about to start.
I asked close friends to join, friends I highly respected, Weasy Louise, was 1 of those.
She could not join she said she retired from grepolis.
Raivo who i gave 2 victories in grepolis and tbh loved to see him in our team was in our pre-made skype group but 24hours later he dissapeared in the night.
Little that I knew he had already openly stated he would join Golgi only if he could have my scalp....
I cannot remember 1 moment i said something bad about this player, only thing I do remember is that I had that man saved from death in two earlier servers and brought him into Eviction Notice. So many enemies know the truth so they to were suprised.
karlo ( Musketeers) asked many of our players not to join my team, or reconsider, to name some, Geccacon was asked by karlo to reconsider (they are both from the same coubntry).
But the positive project was ready to go and not that many could be persuaded to change this crew for the others.
The original plan: Karlo's team North West, No Brakes, south west.
This info was also said by me against the third team, led by Ktomic as former diplomat.
I had no reason to secrecy, afterall Ktomic said Killerbees would join only two weeks after.
Great was our surprise that the next day we saw that Ktomics team choose the direction I told him we should take .
With Musks at North-west / Killerbees at South-East, we were left with 2 options, we chose the most difficult path, north west, between both of them.
We could have easily spawned behind either 1 of the others, but nobody would gain anything if we did this, no better for NB's positive project to give everyone a fair chance, so our only alternative was a direction what was not choosen by any of the others.
The speed No brakes took control over 54 ocean was unprecedented.
When we got the offer of a larger alliance (friends) to eat together Musketeers, it was a very difficult decision to refuse the open goal.
I try not to mix the past with the present, but never forget who my friends are.
Weasy aka Louise who was my long time friend , who told me she would not join Golgi and was getting into retirement changed her mind and was all the sudden with so many other friends of mine in Musketeers (Rita, karlo, Praeh, Weasy) to name the most important ones.
So my only logic was to get after friends (stay out 44) and take controle of my core ocean.
My hope for the sequel was very simple, each would go its own way, we to the south and the west and the Musks to that other direction.
Each server is a marathon so my hope that both would survive and with summer holidays for the door, then we would see what was left of options. I was hopefull to reconnect with old buddies.
Unfortunately my enemies project was less positive , it all became clear after the death of the alliance (friends).
I will never be able to prove that weasy's retirement was a lie, that the increasingly reflexive lies were conscious or unconscious, the most important, that she was never a leader.
In any case, she was surprised when I made her clear that I only started to attack her after she threw the first stone in my direction, a wholly manties nuke, the result we all know, epic batles and some lovely goldabuse.
Sometimes we see a team follow another team for another chance of success, but I never saw a large group of people actively monitor and follow one person, I try to see it from the bright side , I must have done epic things in other servers.
I've never started a server with more than 20 members, do not ask me why, but @ Golgi suddenly everyone, old enemies, old friends were angry that I had a team with 100 players.
Beth in Abedra was part of a large group with kronnoss and Weasy, why it has been allowed to Weasy, Karlo, Kronnoss, Pratreek to use pre-mades of 4 full teams and that 50% of that same group of people suddenly criticize me, the answer will be never said openly.
All i know that everybody was extremely hostile to me for having 100 members.
After the musketeers declared war on me, it were my old friends again who cried and complained all the time.
I would have violated the mutual agreement of attacking too early.
24 hours before the declaration of war, Raivo aka Fishermen, stepped out his team started to strike us with two others, and he only rejoined musketeers after the war was declared.
Also handy to tell that Raivo, fool as he's continued with attacks for more than 12 hours, even sending CS'ships.
See it from a real life event.
Hypothetically!
Russian soldiers who would take off their uniforms, entered the Turkish territory, start shooting at everything that moves, then back across the border, the soldiers pull their old uniforms again on and then shoot through a halfe day rockets across the border.
You would think that Russian diplomats should contact directly the Turkish ones and the persons handing the border crossing would have brought to justice, and diplomatic apology would be given.
Nothing, not a word of explanation, we asked for and received nothing.
I can hardly believe that this was not premeditated, but what is certain, no nation would respect the old agreements after an event like this.
No Bakes was a very positive project, the Musketeers were not so, the result was visible on the battlefield, many did not wish to fight , apparently many ordinary soldiers were more honorable than many of musks high ranked.
A lot walked away, some got beaten, and a relative large group were so unhappy they asked me to join us.
Agian I received criticism.
Never, in Golgi server I went actively looking for new blood, new members from the enemy camp, I never did it and I never complaint to weasy or karlo when another group of NO Brake player mentioned to me they were stalked by musketeers leaders to join them, a positive project don't need active recruitment.
Yes, there are musketeers who have joined us, unfortunate and unhappy players who never felt welcome in the musketeers project, they came knocking on my doorsteps.
Any positive project also needs respect for the opponent.
If the enemy asks to save player x or player y becasue real-life event than it was accepted without discussion.
Fair enough my enemy also gave mercy a number of times.
Sometimes I had my doubts, but never how big doubts were I was authorized to play for God.
The enemy in the name of Tim jarndog felt he had the sole right to decide who was a liar and who is not.
I as founder and a member of the large game collective thinks it's not up to me to decide.
Saddening to see that the enemy thinks differently about it, especially when I think of those 30 colony ships that we ourselves had sunk to save Uncle Bulgaria from totall destruction.
It took us a while to find that 1 trusted pact.
NB/NSL had a diplo from the old school , promise only those things we can deliver , hwe don't like to break our word, we leave that honor to others, so the way we do diplomatic things are a bit more complicated and difficult.
Diplomatic agreements in grepolis is what can be agreed and achieved in favor for both parties.
False promises, creating slave alliances had no place in a positive project what NB/NSL was.
We did exactly what Killerbees so proudly had written on their alliance profile the first weeks of Golgi.
By now we should be in the last straight line for world wonders.
Instead of 4000 NB/NSL cities in 54 ocean, we now have one big ghost ocean.
In this post it does not much matter, why and how, this post is about the postive what No brakes / No Speed Limits was for us leaders , we had awesome times, we had hard times, we were not spared from drama, but most important we showed some amazing kills served by us, and with this long letter I wish to thank all my members and the players in Golgi who played for themselves and not for a hidden "eriks" agenda.
erik
The No Brakes project was a project where a lot of love was put in, many work and 1 team with a positive energy worthwhile from the beginning.
It was the first project I (ErikWijmeersch) started as a founder with a full team, with about 100 members.
Friend and foe who know me know that I, as founder always start with less than 20 members, yes there are other servers where you see me as a players, those teams often are and greater, I remember +200 peeps but that was never my work .
As a soldier with the highest rankings fighter maybe I was hugely important @ Eviction <notice, but I was never the boss, highest I was was a leader (ops leader).
But about the positive project.
Everyone looked forward to seeing together a group of fighters in one piece.
No prejudice, no looking back, everyone was welcome.
To use the words of my old mentor kronnoss, let's look ahead and certainly don't mix the past with the present , in other words, start fresh don't mix servers.
Many were looking forward after a server ful of dramatic events, a large group of players openly said they would retire, so this time my large project, my very first project in my whole grepolis life was about to start.
I asked close friends to join, friends I highly respected, Weasy Louise, was 1 of those.
She could not join she said she retired from grepolis.
Raivo who i gave 2 victories in grepolis and tbh loved to see him in our team was in our pre-made skype group but 24hours later he dissapeared in the night.
Little that I knew he had already openly stated he would join Golgi only if he could have my scalp....
I cannot remember 1 moment i said something bad about this player, only thing I do remember is that I had that man saved from death in two earlier servers and brought him into Eviction Notice. So many enemies know the truth so they to were suprised.
karlo ( Musketeers) asked many of our players not to join my team, or reconsider, to name some, Geccacon was asked by karlo to reconsider (they are both from the same coubntry).
But the positive project was ready to go and not that many could be persuaded to change this crew for the others.
The original plan: Karlo's team North West, No Brakes, south west.
This info was also said by me against the third team, led by Ktomic as former diplomat.
I had no reason to secrecy, afterall Ktomic said Killerbees would join only two weeks after.
Great was our surprise that the next day we saw that Ktomics team choose the direction I told him we should take .
With Musks at North-west / Killerbees at South-East, we were left with 2 options, we chose the most difficult path, north west, between both of them.
We could have easily spawned behind either 1 of the others, but nobody would gain anything if we did this, no better for NB's positive project to give everyone a fair chance, so our only alternative was a direction what was not choosen by any of the others.
The speed No brakes took control over 54 ocean was unprecedented.
When we got the offer of a larger alliance (friends) to eat together Musketeers, it was a very difficult decision to refuse the open goal.
I try not to mix the past with the present, but never forget who my friends are.
Weasy aka Louise who was my long time friend , who told me she would not join Golgi and was getting into retirement changed her mind and was all the sudden with so many other friends of mine in Musketeers (Rita, karlo, Praeh, Weasy) to name the most important ones.
So my only logic was to get after friends (stay out 44) and take controle of my core ocean.
My hope for the sequel was very simple, each would go its own way, we to the south and the west and the Musks to that other direction.
Each server is a marathon so my hope that both would survive and with summer holidays for the door, then we would see what was left of options. I was hopefull to reconnect with old buddies.
Unfortunately my enemies project was less positive , it all became clear after the death of the alliance (friends).
I will never be able to prove that weasy's retirement was a lie, that the increasingly reflexive lies were conscious or unconscious, the most important, that she was never a leader.
In any case, she was surprised when I made her clear that I only started to attack her after she threw the first stone in my direction, a wholly manties nuke, the result we all know, epic batles and some lovely goldabuse.
Sometimes we see a team follow another team for another chance of success, but I never saw a large group of people actively monitor and follow one person, I try to see it from the bright side , I must have done epic things in other servers.
I've never started a server with more than 20 members, do not ask me why, but @ Golgi suddenly everyone, old enemies, old friends were angry that I had a team with 100 players.
Beth in Abedra was part of a large group with kronnoss and Weasy, why it has been allowed to Weasy, Karlo, Kronnoss, Pratreek to use pre-mades of 4 full teams and that 50% of that same group of people suddenly criticize me, the answer will be never said openly.
All i know that everybody was extremely hostile to me for having 100 members.
After the musketeers declared war on me, it were my old friends again who cried and complained all the time.
I would have violated the mutual agreement of attacking too early.
24 hours before the declaration of war, Raivo aka Fishermen, stepped out his team started to strike us with two others, and he only rejoined musketeers after the war was declared.
Also handy to tell that Raivo, fool as he's continued with attacks for more than 12 hours, even sending CS'ships.
See it from a real life event.
Hypothetically!
Russian soldiers who would take off their uniforms, entered the Turkish territory, start shooting at everything that moves, then back across the border, the soldiers pull their old uniforms again on and then shoot through a halfe day rockets across the border.
You would think that Russian diplomats should contact directly the Turkish ones and the persons handing the border crossing would have brought to justice, and diplomatic apology would be given.
Nothing, not a word of explanation, we asked for and received nothing.
I can hardly believe that this was not premeditated, but what is certain, no nation would respect the old agreements after an event like this.
No Bakes was a very positive project, the Musketeers were not so, the result was visible on the battlefield, many did not wish to fight , apparently many ordinary soldiers were more honorable than many of musks high ranked.
A lot walked away, some got beaten, and a relative large group were so unhappy they asked me to join us.
Agian I received criticism.
Never, in Golgi server I went actively looking for new blood, new members from the enemy camp, I never did it and I never complaint to weasy or karlo when another group of NO Brake player mentioned to me they were stalked by musketeers leaders to join them, a positive project don't need active recruitment.
Yes, there are musketeers who have joined us, unfortunate and unhappy players who never felt welcome in the musketeers project, they came knocking on my doorsteps.
Any positive project also needs respect for the opponent.
If the enemy asks to save player x or player y becasue real-life event than it was accepted without discussion.
Fair enough my enemy also gave mercy a number of times.
Sometimes I had my doubts, but never how big doubts were I was authorized to play for God.
The enemy in the name of Tim jarndog felt he had the sole right to decide who was a liar and who is not.
I as founder and a member of the large game collective thinks it's not up to me to decide.
Saddening to see that the enemy thinks differently about it, especially when I think of those 30 colony ships that we ourselves had sunk to save Uncle Bulgaria from totall destruction.
It took us a while to find that 1 trusted pact.
NB/NSL had a diplo from the old school , promise only those things we can deliver , hwe don't like to break our word, we leave that honor to others, so the way we do diplomatic things are a bit more complicated and difficult.
Diplomatic agreements in grepolis is what can be agreed and achieved in favor for both parties.
False promises, creating slave alliances had no place in a positive project what NB/NSL was.
We did exactly what Killerbees so proudly had written on their alliance profile the first weeks of Golgi.
By now we should be in the last straight line for world wonders.
Instead of 4000 NB/NSL cities in 54 ocean, we now have one big ghost ocean.
In this post it does not much matter, why and how, this post is about the postive what No brakes / No Speed Limits was for us leaders , we had awesome times, we had hard times, we were not spared from drama, but most important we showed some amazing kills served by us, and with this long letter I wish to thank all my members and the players in Golgi who played for themselves and not for a hidden "eriks" agenda.
erik
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