TOPIC: No better friend, No worst enemy! An interview with a salty ol' Devil dog
POSTED BY: Pure fire x2
POSTED ON: Feb 7, 08:57:41 PM
VIEWS: 86
Get your Crayon's ready folks and be prepared for an 0445 formation run thought the worst conditions you could imagine.. Because that is sure what you will get when you decide to join the the guys with the nicest uniforms of all the 4 service branches (NOT SORRY COASTIES). Its the mens department of the Navy, its the group that goes by many names, But this one individual goes by a simple name... Lets give it up for my fellow brother who worse a different shade of uniform... OLIME!
GENERAL GAMING QUESTION:
- 1.What was the first console you owned?
Atari 2600
- 2.What current console's do you own?
I still have a few. I've lost a few systems through time too though. Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Wii, PlayStation, Xbox 360, and Xbox One X are what I have though.
- 3.What was the first game you played?
Pretty sure it was Tanks from the Combat game on the 2600.
- 4.What is your favorite game that you still play?
Titan Conquest of course right? I do love the game, but my favorite game is Dungeons and Dragons. I've played since 1st edition as a young lad and have played in every edition except 4th. 5th edition campaigns ongoing at the moment!
- Can you share your best rage moment?
I don't really rage out in games. The most recent memory I can think of was when I failed my 1st deathless run and died at 97. I'll never level that toon to 99. I let out a nice string of choice words and was pretty ticked for a good 10 minutes. The family just left me be lol.
- 6.Most prized gaming collectible
So I don't exactly recall how I came by it – I think they mailed it to me, but I used to play Magic the Gathering. They made playing cards that had the Magic backs on them. I still have mine unopened in plastic. My precious!!
- 7.What new game are you most excited for?
I'm not chomping at the bit for anything currently. I still have some games in plastic I need to crack open.
- 8.What is your preferred gaming system?
Right now I'm a big fan of the 360. Ask me again in a few months and it's likely changed.
- 9.What got you into gaming? - Question by Grandgreg13
My dad. He was an electrician his entire adult life. Retired from it too. We always had the latest and greatest systems and computers in the house though. I remember getting our Tandy and other computers. We gamed out on everything we could get our hands on.
TITANCONQUEST QUESTIONS
- 1.What is your favorite class of Hero?
I like the Augur the best for some reason. There's not really much difference though right?
- 2.When did you join TitanConquest?
June of last year???
- 3.Where did you get your Username from?
It's actually a semordnilap, that I have used for a very long time. Emilo was a character name I first used. Emilo died though....and Olime (the 1st of many) was born! I think that 1st one died soon enough though, so no avenging of Emilo was had.
- 4.How long did it take you to reach 99?
Forever for some reason. Like almost 3 months. Lots more content available these days though.
- 5.what is your favorite feature on TC? (bounties, missions, story, enemies, ETC?)
I really love the open chat box while PC grinding. The community is great. Game play wise though I would have to say finding those special spawns and getting to them first – chests, cores, material caches etc.
- 6.What clan are you currently part of?
USMC. Originally intended as a place to hang out alone while I waited to see what my old clan mates from BAMF in DRPG would do and join up with them. That never really panned out and folks wanted to join me. We more recently took the 4th slot on the Top Ranked Clans leaderboard. Not too bad. We don't ask much – just try to get 2k battles in within a week and don't go MIA for longer than a week.
- 7.If you could ADD one thing to the game, what would it be?
I'd love to see some things related to the Hero Shops occur. Have a minute? List the shops by decode rank and show the persons DR on the main list of shops. Get leaderboard or IP banned? Your shop goes poof too. Quit playing for 7 days or longer? Have the shop list check against their last active and if 7 days or greater their shop is removed from the list. They come back to play then so does their shop.
- 8.If you could REMOVE one thing from the game, what would it be?
That bounties check against all your heroes for what is offered instead of the hero you are on. I'd be a bigger bounty fan for sure.
- 9.what are you most excited to see come to TC next?
God Tier. Mostly. I don't like that I'll be forced to do a story for it....
- 10.If you could change the name of the Vanguards name. What would you name them?
Protectorate. I'm partial to the current name though.
- 11.What is your favorite achievement and Triumph?
For achievement Dr. Evil – 1 Billion drachmas! ....and for Triumph 200 Cards Unlocked was not only my favorite but also the one I put the most work into.
- 12.What is an achievement and/or Triumph you would like to see?
For achievement I would like to see one for having collected your first bobblehead and for Triumph something for collecting 500 Shards of Zeus.
- 13.What achievement did you spend the most time on?
Easily “Mount Olympus†Travel to it.
- 14.How did you find TitanConquest?
This FS guy has my email on likely a very large list of them. There it was in my inbox telling of his latest venture. I think I resisted the call for a few weeks.
- 15.How long have you been around firestreams games?
Many many moons. I was (am) a huge Halo fan. Found him initially some time back then. I think I really became more vocal and involved when DRPG came out.
- 16.Can I take the server hamster home for the summer? - Question from Kronos1307
You didn't learn your lesson from hammy1?
- 17.Favorite TC player? - Question from Conquestlord
FS is hands down my favorite player. Did many of you know he plays the game as well? He doesn't just code it. If I had to exclude him though, I think Anna has that top favorite player slot.
- 18.Do you think Mount Olympus is to hard or to easy to get to? or just right?
I think it's just about right as far as the getting to part. I think the bobblehead requirement of killing any Zeus is spot on but I think the Triumph should be for killing a tier V Zeus. The damage bump for top 3 damage dealers on Zeus getting a shard still seems too small at 2M, it needs a higher bump.
- 19.How do you think we could get more active players and get more people to stick around?
This is a tough one. This game just isn't for everyone but we sure do lose more than are retained. I think the more recent route of adding the in-site wiki and fairly consistent linking [ ] of helpful stuff in chat gets more players on the right track of the game. Not everyone clicks through and finds that information though. Perhaps the welcome message that is sent out to all players could involve more information? Mobile players don't automatically see chat. If they had those links as well as some basics in that message it could increase their learning curve resulting in them sticking around?
- 20.Why do you think Pure fire is the coolest in the game? - Question from Pure fire x2
Is this a trick question? Pure fire is very hot and can't be cool. Maybe cool to look at though.... I love the things he does to get the community involved and his trivia challenges.
REAL LIFE QUESTIONS
- 1.What gender are you?
I currently identify as a human male. Is that how you answer that type of question these days? Ask me in 10 years and the answer will be the same!
- 2.What is your profession?
You may have correctly guessed that I am a Marine. Far removed from active duty though. I had a career on the law enforcement side of corrections. My favorites things there were being an armorer and firearms/unarmed self defense instructor. These days I just putz around as a manager for an 11 acre beach resort. I'm one of 19ish people still working out of close to 240 with all this pandemic stuff going on.
- 3.What is your dream job
Charter boat captain. Living life on the water would be grand. Fishing, looking for fossils or just cruising for turtles/dolphins/whales etc.
- 4.What is your favorite Holiday?
Christmas...aside from the gifts it's the one time of year almost all the family gets together. We are sprinkled across the world so it's nice to see everyone. We usually gather in the north as well – so we get to see snow. Except this last Christmas – it was in the 70's like at home. Odd.
- 5.What kind of music are you into? who are some of your favorite bands?
I listen to just about everything. Metallica. Rehab. Green Day. Modest Mouse. George Straight. Johnny Cash. David Allan Coe. Brooks & Dunn. Rascal Flats. Dre. Snoop. Das Efx. Bone Thugs N Harmony. Lonely Island. Guns N Roses. AC/DC. Dua Lipa. Post Malone. Stephen Lynch. Billie Eilish. Sam Hunt. Camila Cabello. Dan & Shay. Chis Stapleton. Those are most of my current favorites. I can listen to a mixed play list of all that and more. Perhaps more importantly for those on that list – I can just listen to their entire albums too.
- 6.How many concerts have you been to?
I couldn't even begin to count. I think just in the last year we have been to at least 8 that I can recall. Lifetime though? Lots.
- 7.What is your dream car?
I'm not a huge “this†vehicle person. Is it reliable? Does it run? Get me to point A, back to B and all spots in between? Then I'm good.
- 8.What is your current ride?
Ford Fusion is the current ride. I think it has a year or two left and then it's time fore something else. I have 288K miles on it. Want to hit that 300k mark.
- 9.Where are some places on your bucket list you wanna visit?
I've been fortunate to travel around the world to many places. 2 that I've not managed to get to that I would love to visit are Australia and New Zealand.
- 10.What are some activities you wanna do in your life?
Did someone say charter boat captain? I just want to continue to build great memories with my family. Try to maintain my good health so that happens for a longer amount of time.
- 11.Please give us one or more random facts about you that most will not know.
I collect Jack Daniels. I love to drink it as well. I've been to their distillery many times. Part of that Australia being on the bucket list – there's a type they only sell there. Anyone there want to ship me 2 bottles of 1907? I'll pay lol. I have many different kinds of JD. I try to keep at least 2 bottles of everything – 1 for sipping and 1 to look pretty.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Give a shoutout to anyone and everyone you want:
The community! FS makes a great game but the folks playing it make it worth being around just as much. We're just clicking around! Keep your clicking fingers strong!!!!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- NOTES FROM PURE FIRE!
- big shoutout to Olime for taking the time to do this!
- Major shoutout to firestream for allowing me to do this and providing the game for it
- all the community for their continued support of the interviews!
POSTED BY: Pure fire x2
POSTED ON: Feb 7, 08:57:41 PM
VIEWS: 86
Get your Crayon's ready folks and be prepared for an 0445 formation run thought the worst conditions you could imagine.. Because that is sure what you will get when you decide to join the the guys with the nicest uniforms of all the 4 service branches (NOT SORRY COASTIES). Its the mens department of the Navy, its the group that goes by many names, But this one individual goes by a simple name... Lets give it up for my fellow brother who worse a different shade of uniform... OLIME!
GENERAL GAMING QUESTION:
- 1.What was the first console you owned?
Atari 2600
- 2.What current console's do you own?
I still have a few. I've lost a few systems through time too though. Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Wii, PlayStation, Xbox 360, and Xbox One X are what I have though.
- 3.What was the first game you played?
Pretty sure it was Tanks from the Combat game on the 2600.
- 4.What is your favorite game that you still play?
Titan Conquest of course right? I do love the game, but my favorite game is Dungeons and Dragons. I've played since 1st edition as a young lad and have played in every edition except 4th. 5th edition campaigns ongoing at the moment!
- Can you share your best rage moment?
I don't really rage out in games. The most recent memory I can think of was when I failed my 1st deathless run and died at 97. I'll never level that toon to 99. I let out a nice string of choice words and was pretty ticked for a good 10 minutes. The family just left me be lol.
- 6.Most prized gaming collectible
So I don't exactly recall how I came by it – I think they mailed it to me, but I used to play Magic the Gathering. They made playing cards that had the Magic backs on them. I still have mine unopened in plastic. My precious!!
- 7.What new game are you most excited for?
I'm not chomping at the bit for anything currently. I still have some games in plastic I need to crack open.
- 8.What is your preferred gaming system?
Right now I'm a big fan of the 360. Ask me again in a few months and it's likely changed.
- 9.What got you into gaming? - Question by Grandgreg13
My dad. He was an electrician his entire adult life. Retired from it too. We always had the latest and greatest systems and computers in the house though. I remember getting our Tandy and other computers. We gamed out on everything we could get our hands on.
TITANCONQUEST QUESTIONS
- 1.What is your favorite class of Hero?
I like the Augur the best for some reason. There's not really much difference though right?
- 2.When did you join TitanConquest?
June of last year???
- 3.Where did you get your Username from?
It's actually a semordnilap, that I have used for a very long time. Emilo was a character name I first used. Emilo died though....and Olime (the 1st of many) was born! I think that 1st one died soon enough though, so no avenging of Emilo was had.
- 4.How long did it take you to reach 99?
Forever for some reason. Like almost 3 months. Lots more content available these days though.
- 5.what is your favorite feature on TC? (bounties, missions, story, enemies, ETC?)
I really love the open chat box while PC grinding. The community is great. Game play wise though I would have to say finding those special spawns and getting to them first – chests, cores, material caches etc.
- 6.What clan are you currently part of?
USMC. Originally intended as a place to hang out alone while I waited to see what my old clan mates from BAMF in DRPG would do and join up with them. That never really panned out and folks wanted to join me. We more recently took the 4th slot on the Top Ranked Clans leaderboard. Not too bad. We don't ask much – just try to get 2k battles in within a week and don't go MIA for longer than a week.
- 7.If you could ADD one thing to the game, what would it be?
I'd love to see some things related to the Hero Shops occur. Have a minute? List the shops by decode rank and show the persons DR on the main list of shops. Get leaderboard or IP banned? Your shop goes poof too. Quit playing for 7 days or longer? Have the shop list check against their last active and if 7 days or greater their shop is removed from the list. They come back to play then so does their shop.
- 8.If you could REMOVE one thing from the game, what would it be?
That bounties check against all your heroes for what is offered instead of the hero you are on. I'd be a bigger bounty fan for sure.
- 9.what are you most excited to see come to TC next?
God Tier. Mostly. I don't like that I'll be forced to do a story for it....
- 10.If you could change the name of the Vanguards name. What would you name them?
Protectorate. I'm partial to the current name though.
- 11.What is your favorite achievement and Triumph?
For achievement Dr. Evil – 1 Billion drachmas! ....and for Triumph 200 Cards Unlocked was not only my favorite but also the one I put the most work into.
- 12.What is an achievement and/or Triumph you would like to see?
For achievement I would like to see one for having collected your first bobblehead and for Triumph something for collecting 500 Shards of Zeus.
- 13.What achievement did you spend the most time on?
Easily “Mount Olympus†Travel to it.
- 14.How did you find TitanConquest?
This FS guy has my email on likely a very large list of them. There it was in my inbox telling of his latest venture. I think I resisted the call for a few weeks.
- 15.How long have you been around firestreams games?
Many many moons. I was (am) a huge Halo fan. Found him initially some time back then. I think I really became more vocal and involved when DRPG came out.
- 16.Can I take the server hamster home for the summer? - Question from Kronos1307
You didn't learn your lesson from hammy1?
- 17.Favorite TC player? - Question from Conquestlord
FS is hands down my favorite player. Did many of you know he plays the game as well? He doesn't just code it. If I had to exclude him though, I think Anna has that top favorite player slot.
- 18.Do you think Mount Olympus is to hard or to easy to get to? or just right?
I think it's just about right as far as the getting to part. I think the bobblehead requirement of killing any Zeus is spot on but I think the Triumph should be for killing a tier V Zeus. The damage bump for top 3 damage dealers on Zeus getting a shard still seems too small at 2M, it needs a higher bump.
- 19.How do you think we could get more active players and get more people to stick around?
This is a tough one. This game just isn't for everyone but we sure do lose more than are retained. I think the more recent route of adding the in-site wiki and fairly consistent linking [ ] of helpful stuff in chat gets more players on the right track of the game. Not everyone clicks through and finds that information though. Perhaps the welcome message that is sent out to all players could involve more information? Mobile players don't automatically see chat. If they had those links as well as some basics in that message it could increase their learning curve resulting in them sticking around?
- 20.Why do you think Pure fire is the coolest in the game? - Question from Pure fire x2
Is this a trick question? Pure fire is very hot and can't be cool. Maybe cool to look at though.... I love the things he does to get the community involved and his trivia challenges.
REAL LIFE QUESTIONS
- 1.What gender are you?
I currently identify as a human male. Is that how you answer that type of question these days? Ask me in 10 years and the answer will be the same!
- 2.What is your profession?
You may have correctly guessed that I am a Marine. Far removed from active duty though. I had a career on the law enforcement side of corrections. My favorites things there were being an armorer and firearms/unarmed self defense instructor. These days I just putz around as a manager for an 11 acre beach resort. I'm one of 19ish people still working out of close to 240 with all this pandemic stuff going on.
- 3.What is your dream job
Charter boat captain. Living life on the water would be grand. Fishing, looking for fossils or just cruising for turtles/dolphins/whales etc.
- 4.What is your favorite Holiday?
Christmas...aside from the gifts it's the one time of year almost all the family gets together. We are sprinkled across the world so it's nice to see everyone. We usually gather in the north as well – so we get to see snow. Except this last Christmas – it was in the 70's like at home. Odd.
- 5.What kind of music are you into? who are some of your favorite bands?
I listen to just about everything. Metallica. Rehab. Green Day. Modest Mouse. George Straight. Johnny Cash. David Allan Coe. Brooks & Dunn. Rascal Flats. Dre. Snoop. Das Efx. Bone Thugs N Harmony. Lonely Island. Guns N Roses. AC/DC. Dua Lipa. Post Malone. Stephen Lynch. Billie Eilish. Sam Hunt. Camila Cabello. Dan & Shay. Chis Stapleton. Those are most of my current favorites. I can listen to a mixed play list of all that and more. Perhaps more importantly for those on that list – I can just listen to their entire albums too.
- 6.How many concerts have you been to?
I couldn't even begin to count. I think just in the last year we have been to at least 8 that I can recall. Lifetime though? Lots.
- 7.What is your dream car?
I'm not a huge “this†vehicle person. Is it reliable? Does it run? Get me to point A, back to B and all spots in between? Then I'm good.
- 8.What is your current ride?
Ford Fusion is the current ride. I think it has a year or two left and then it's time fore something else. I have 288K miles on it. Want to hit that 300k mark.
- 9.Where are some places on your bucket list you wanna visit?
I've been fortunate to travel around the world to many places. 2 that I've not managed to get to that I would love to visit are Australia and New Zealand.
- 10.What are some activities you wanna do in your life?
Did someone say charter boat captain? I just want to continue to build great memories with my family. Try to maintain my good health so that happens for a longer amount of time.
- 11.Please give us one or more random facts about you that most will not know.
I collect Jack Daniels. I love to drink it as well. I've been to their distillery many times. Part of that Australia being on the bucket list – there's a type they only sell there. Anyone there want to ship me 2 bottles of 1907? I'll pay lol. I have many different kinds of JD. I try to keep at least 2 bottles of everything – 1 for sipping and 1 to look pretty.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Give a shoutout to anyone and everyone you want:
The community! FS makes a great game but the folks playing it make it worth being around just as much. We're just clicking around! Keep your clicking fingers strong!!!!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- NOTES FROM PURE FIRE!
- big shoutout to Olime for taking the time to do this!
- Major shoutout to firestream for allowing me to do this and providing the game for it
- all the community for their continued support of the interviews!
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