Finished at last...., Its finally over for ol FK Options

[FaG KillA]

well guys I have been pulling this apple cart loaded with cement up the hill for what seems like eternity. I have tried easy install map packs, phone calls, file dumps, you name it trying to get this thing off the ground and it just does not seem to be working out. I watched as I worked today to see 3 to 10 players on the server all day and if that keeps up people will finally leave and go to a server that has people on it.

I waited a year for pure to work, always holding out hope that when we could finally make a cheat free enviroment, the world will be good at last. Now it's here and the world is crumbling by the second. Empty servers, all kinds of people with problems, a hundred emails a day and I am just overwhelmed. In addition, maps are becoming more complex and fewer decent ones are coming out, some like Tractorworks teases us and then ends up in the can.

So I have a choice, keep going and take pure off the server seems to be the most realistic answer and indeed 90 percent of the community has no plans to put pure on based on the experiences I and a few others are having. That means I am left to spending copius amounts of time, like my fellow MOB bretheren on our other servers policing the server constantly, forcing screenshots, building a huge ban list and generally taking all the fun out of it for me.

In the end I have been doing some soul searching and I just can't bring myself to doing this. So I can't live with pure off, and the community can't live with pure on, it's that simple. Based on that I have decided to hang up the shingle and begin the process of moving on. Maybe it would be different if we would of had pure form the beginning, maybe not. Either way, all good things come to an end and it is time.

I will be turning off MOB server #2 in it's current state at the end of the payment cycle which is some time at the end of this month. I will also be actively looking at which game I plan on investing my future in and will start turning my attention that way. If anyone desires to take the MOB #2 name over and run a server you will have my blessing and full cooperation.

I am saddened it has come to this but I have thought about it a lot in the past few days and unfortunately I don't see another choice.

Thanks all for the memories, the laughs, and the friendships, I will certainly miss you all and from time to time I will be back to make your life miserable.

[FatherMurphy]

FK...you stream of bat urine!

Which is to say, in a roundabout way: That you while all else is dark, you shine out like a shaft of the purest gold!

Seriously, I can't even BEGIN to imagine the amount of sweat, blood, tears and toil that it took to make server#2 happen. Hell, it took me a half hour just to make my sig pic!

So it's a small wonder that a period of darkness might overwhelm you, given the less than sterling reception that the community OVERALL has had for sv_pure. Give it time, monsignor. It's still a bit early.

And fer Shiva's sake, take a good long break. Shut down your email, don't give out your phone number, come play incognito. Let the player community help those who can't get on. And let the Server #2 community pick up the tab for awhile...I know that I can and will gladly pay...and there are a host of others.

Get the MOB website guru to make you a paypal portal. I've seen the one for server#1, but haven't contributed because it is YOUR good works that I would wish to help underwrite. PLEASE do this...and let us know what astronomical sum you've been shouldering, because I have no clue as to what server rental costs.

So we play on the, what, TWELVE map packs that you have modified and produced for us for awhile? No sweat...Eagle Eye shows me new positions on each one every time I see him...or, as is usually the case, DON'T see him! LOL

No one out there has the talent to take a map and give it that tactical tweak that you do. PERIOD. But LET IT GO for a month or more, 'mano! Give someone with time and untapped energy the keys...I know that would be hard, but DAMNIT...listen to your elders!

I'll set up the Squad Leader boards, you bring the beer, and I'll pick up the tab for the massage outcall...whaddya say?

Whatever you decide, we'll be there. You were for us.

Thanks, FK. I wish I could wax eloquent in that simple statement, but it IS said with heartfelt emotion, believe me.

*SIGH* Guess it's time to start looking through those Assisted Living brochures. I might be homeless soon, it seems...

FatherMurphy