Its typical you would say this Rondal. Considering you're apart of the problem. Your whole track record is one of luck and running of the work others.
Okay guys.
Quick story time.
Rondal was an average player like any. A new player. He started from the bottom like all of us do. I remember the day fondly, we were on rp_fork and
@Wulfeh was still the faction leader; we were in teamspeak at the time. One thing lead to another and
@Wulfeh brought up faction change for flight faction, or whatever the stupid name was at the time
@Wulfeh thought that the flight faction needed drastic change because
@Spartan and
@WolfSyndrome was not doing what he wanted. So I'm sure you can all guess what happens next?
@Rondal jumps at the chance to be the lead of the flight faction for Globalists;
@Wulfeh accepts giving
@Rondal a nice shiny rank and leader of the faction. Some time passes throughout the day and a couple days latter. Everything looking good, he makes some changes that are a lot better than what the previous people did. Which wasn't too hard because the previous leaders were disinterested and didn't have much time to invest into the faction. And then came the fateful day.
@Toasty said "fuck the flight faction, its taking players away that could be used else where. Its a waste of space" So flight for both factions died.
@Rondal didn't like this you see. In the WW3 section on the forums he complained about why it should stay, most people didn't want it, some did, it really didn't matter.
@Toasty put his foot down and the faction was no more.
Now here is where the story really starts
@Wulfeh feels really sorry for
@Rondal loosing his faction lead within the span of what was pretty much a week. So What
@Wulfeh did was, is give
@Rondal a CO rank that was equivalent to his flight faction character. And time went on and
@Rondal was seen as a respected member, as pretty much everyone was at the time when you were a CO. Now, I'm not sure if most people remember how it used to work back then -- but being a CO meant you've been there for ages and your character did a lot. Or you as a person were a natural fit and very smart; which would fit in nicely within the faction
@Gr4Ss is an example of this with the Coalition.
Eventually this led to
@Rondal becoming prime target for a staff rank.
@Toasty one day pulled me into a locked TS channel and just said "this guy called Rondal just came out of no where and just made a case for being staff" I pretty much replied "Rondal, is the guy who was kicking up a storm because he disliked you removing flight Toasty." Toasty replied "Oh, well that doesn't really matter to be honest lets give him a chance because for the fun of it and see what he does. If he does stupid shit I'll just remove him" I replied "Fair enough, don't think we should really give him a try when he hasn't been on the server very long but you're right about removing him if does stupid shit."
Now this is where it all started to go crazy.
@Toasty allowed
@Rondal to be staff -- he started at 'Operator' like pretty much everyone does.
@Rondal kept a low profile and pretty much didn't do anything to annoy people and this eventually lead to him being an admin. Now you're all going "how on earth did he get admin if he wasn't terrible?" Well you see... at the time there wasn't really much active admins and the team was pretty much just SAs and a couple of operators doing the work. So to get some people up into the ranks who had more powers and could do some of the jobs the SAs really shouldn't be doing
@Rondal was promoted along with some others simply because we NEEDED admins. Can't remember if catastorphe was demoted 'again', to operator at the time, but I'm pretty sure he was made admin 'again', doesn't really matter too much.
More time passed a lot of drama happens as it does on WW3. A lot of autistic screeching in operator chat and what not. Then eventually it led to
@Toasty wanting another SA. We didn't really have much candidates for the SA position so you can guess who was selected. Now I'm not sure if I can remember this one-hundred percent correctly -- I think he was considered, but can't remember whether he was actually given it or not.
But I can remember fondly what he tried to do to me.
@Rondal tried to lynch me and get my SA and founder rank removed on the server (I was a mini-SD under Toasty for EU time and
@Mendel was the one for US time -- that explains why I had founder rank.)
Why would he try to lynch me. Was I a terrible person who was bullying the staff team? Well... some believed that to be so or at least that's what was put into their head.
@Rondal formed a lynch squad along with a couple others I won't name, other than
@SpaceInvader who was attempted to be used as a tool to remove me. This convo' on the forums had
@Blackquill and others in it too. But why exactly did this happen? Its because I caught onto Rondals bullshit and was basically telling the staff team to do their jobs, and train recruits, and not prioritize your time on the server over the players. A lot of people didn't like me telling them to do their job so they followed
@Rondal on his crusade to kill the big bad
@Samurai that was telling them to work! This of course failed because
@Toasty wasn't stupid to their tricks and understood that his staff team was being lazy couch potatoes. So
@Toasty denied this 'report' also known as a lynching and all was well for a time.
After than he left me alone and no other attempt was made to remove me by
@Rondal or others from within the staff team. TIME SKIP!
@Toasty goes to university.
@Daraku and
@Kirshbia become SDs. A lot of stuff happens in the brief time we were there under those two.
@Rondal gets brought up to be SA to me by
@Daraku "I said I'm not too sure about
@Rondal to be honest and considering some of stuff he was up to --
@Daraku knew about the attempted lynching at the time and disagreed against it. Also I explained his general track record to this point like I explained above. But we were giving everyone second chances and what not. I relented allowing said change and
@Rondal got SA. Nothing good or bad happened under
@Rondal in that short time he had it before wanting to go to hl2.
Now here is the real deal breaker that I've only told to a couple of people and most people don't remember but I'm sure
@Daraku could if he racked his brain.
@Rondal thought it would be funny to nuke the server with his new shiny SA rank before leaving. Destroying everything that we did to prepare that shitty desert urban map that was like half fallout half Star Wars Tatooine. Now I remember
@Daraku telling
@Blackquill but I don't think much came of it. This might of been because
@Daraku was in the process of telling everyone that he wanted to leave LP. But that was it for the tale of
@Rondal on WW3. No idea what he was up to on LP with hl2, never really cared to ask. Think he might of came back a couple of times when I left because the server eventually turned to shit in my eyes.
But to sum up this autistic wall of text that can rival President Donald Trumps wall. Is that Rondal has got to where he is today in the community simply through sheer luck and piggy backing of the success of others.
Simple put Rondal you have no idea what you're talking about, keep out.
