Wist

literally nobody else has offered a plan, therefore noty

literally nobody else has offered a plan, therefore noty

Pale, white stick-men arguing about how many pills they pop, I'm impressed. Walking around in some Henri Lloyd polo with a ciggie holstered in your ear. Getting on the bus with your bluetooth speaker your Nan got you for Christmas blasting tunes: "You're such a fucking hoe" while drinking some sick mixed up piss you made from fruity cider and WKD decanted into a used Coca-Cola bottle, with the label ripped off.
Tension rises at the club queue with your brother's ID ready. Now's the time to pop the pill. You think no one saw you, and at this point you don't care, you raise the smiling meme bag in front of your possy and giggle without a care in the world. To anyone else on the dance floor, you aren't a catch tonight. Your primark vented-sunglasses cannot hide your habits, as eating your own gums blows your cover. Nevertheless, you jump up and down to the music until the night ends.
You somehow got home, clothes still on, phone on 3% You feel like trash, and even though you don't remember a thing, a message to the ladz certifies last night as an absolute sesh and you can't wait to do it all again, despite the fact you've just drained every penny you earned from your week at your part time job.
Pathetic.
 

Only viable owner is someone technical. If you can run the servers, plugins, website, teamspeak and whatever else as well as Conor has, then maybe you're in with a shot. OB won't grow without servers, and you CANNOT be owner without the technical knowledge. Even if you have a hish0t, they'll end up running the place before you know it.

Only viable owner is someone technical. If you can run the servers, plugins, website, teamspeak and whatever else as well as Conor has, then maybe you're in with a shot. OB won't grow without servers, and you CANNOT be owner without the technical knowledge. Even if you have a hish0t, they'll end up running the place before you know it.

I mean, I'm just gonna say it. This situation is blindly obvious, and I'm shocked that it gets discussed so frequently considering we actually have quite a lot of smart people in this community. Hopefully this will clear up the situation from how I see it. And TBH, this is mostly aimed towards the hardcore OG guys.
Many members and regulars (no, not solely the usual suspects) love to complain about one or several of the following things:
1) OB isn't growing.
2) OB isn't finding the right game so won't progress.
3) If OB is attempting to progress in a certain area/way - they will complain that it's wrong way of doing it.
4) The leadership is inadequate.
5) OB SHOULD NOT progress, because it's perfect the way it is with the old school member base and a teamspeak (???)
 
Many love to complain, but do nothing about it. And no, writing a 1,000 word post on the forums on this topic does not mean you are attempting to do something good for OB. As far as I can see (no offence to past and current mods) there are only about 5 people who have put a good amount of work into this community in the last 2-3 years - Wist, Unseen and Sir_Conor being 3 of those. I am not attempting to take the moral high ground, I've been guilty of this in the past - right now I don't really put any effort in, but I don't complain either. Watching from afar I've come to see it's such a dickish thing to do, these people (for free - and even out of their own pockets) put in mad hours into trying to spearhead new servers, set up new landing pages, transition to a free discord which represents teamspeak as closely as possible for you guys, and all you do is haul hate, lol.
 
The split in this community seems to me to be:
1) Those who will only ever go into the OG channel and no where else, and will - quite literally - refuse to play with other people in this community because they don't feel comfortable doing so - at an extreme end, some of you even have about 15+ members in this community blocked/muted. The former is a fairly low number, because there are a few guys who spend a lot of time in the OG channel but are regularly open to playing things like cs mixes, league gathers, pubg games etc with other people in the lower down channels. If you don't have to think twice, you know you're one of these.
2) Literally everybody else.
 
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with this - you're free to talk to who you want. But it confuses me, there is no effort made with the extensive community at all. If this is the case, which it is, because there are some people who live in the OG channel that I haven't had a conversation with in like 2 years - why not just go to your own teamspeak? You aren't a fan of the new member base, you no longer like the games that OB attempts to try. Maybe you don't have to, but quite frankly, some of the stuff you guys say is pretty annoying. When I was quite high up in about a 1-2 years ago (in member terms) as in I was having long chats with Unseen/Conor about OB every day and hosting every other event - it was quite frankly pathetic seeing some of you post negative comments on here about things you were completely clueless about, about the effort that these people put in and the reasoning behind decisions that were made. I remember I actually used to laugh that some of you would post on member apps 'not sure who you are, would like to see you a bit more around before i give my +1' LMFAO. Of course you don't have a fucking clue who they are, the rest of us did because we actually played the servers with them, other games with them, or talked to them. Are they not integrated unless they go into that one channel? I remember that was actually a statement made by someone once.
But that moves on to communication - and here I will partially agree with you. The high council should and could be more communicative in decisions/plans/the state of OB. But TBH - what does Conor owe to you? It's like you think you're all part of some exclusive group, and you get annoyed if new, young people come along. Maybe that's changed - I don't really know how you welcome people in there anymore. If I do visit the OG channel I usually just mute myself within about 20 minutes, because it's just the same people making the same noises and jokes over and over again.
 
By all means continue doing what you're doing, complaining etc - but summarising this, thought I'd let you know that there's literally like 15-16 year olds who have messaged me in the past finding it bewildering with how some of you guys, 10 years their senior, act on teamspeak and comment on the forums. Discord hasn't gone ahead because of how much some of you raged and begged for it not to happen. Maybe you don't want OB to progress - and that's fine, but you need to see the other POV that some people do, we want more members, more servers. Maybe it's time to buy that teamspeak?
Anyway, feel free to bitch about me now amongst yourselves and this will probably seclude myself further from that channel. A new whatsapp group because you're scared of 'eyes'? Is this a year 6 playground or are we 20+ year old men? To quote Unseen 'no one gives a shit what is typed in there'
3 year rant build up over

Only viable owner is someone technical. If you can run the servers, plugins, website, teamspeak and whatever else as well as Conor has, then maybe you're in with a shot. OB won't grow without servers, and you CANNOT be owner without the technical knowledge. Even if you have a hish0t, they'll end up running the place before you know it.

Only viable owner is someone technical. If you can run the servers, plugins, website, teamspeak and whatever else as well as Conor has, then maybe you're in with a shot. OB won't grow without servers, and you CANNOT be owner without the technical knowledge. Even if you have a hish0t, they'll end up running the place before you know it.

no

no

life
 
 
FTL

life
 
 
FTL

theory this is an elaborate honor farm from jamie
 
thoughts???

theory this is an elaborate honor farm from jamie
 
thoughts???

theory this is an elaborate honor farm from jamie
 
thoughts???

Come on.. People have their whatsapps, discords, teamspeak channels. Bring the community together with one unified chatbox. There is absolutely no reason to not add it back at this stage lol.
After this thread I give up.. let's hope that this can get some traction one last time.
Edit: also negative honor still gives +honor on forums.. dumb bug please fix
 

Just a small collection of some of my Golf It for the non believers: 

(Adds up to 14, which is what most of you get when you play against me)

life
 
 
FTL

Nice try shitkids xd

pubg

life

ME: 2X VOTED BEST @ CS IN OB BY POPULAR VOTE
U: 0X VOTED BEST @ CS IN OB BY POPULAR VOTE

This is a great thread, hopefully I'll come back in 1, 5 and 10 years to compare hopes and dreams to reality.
1 year. I hope to have gained a pay rise at my current job and potentially look at joining a gaming company instead of working on business software.
5 years. If all goes well with my girlfriend I would like to be engaged and thinking about marriage soon. I would have at least tried a few years in the games industry and I hope that I'd still be making games.
10 years. I would like to be married with a few kids. For my job I'd hopefully have a good programming speciality which I could expand as a consultant later on in life. Possibily in games but the pay isn't as good when you're getting older.

Hey would it be possible to get a no man’s sky server?
Game is kicking off pretty well might be a good opportunity to get some more members! ?