Moment of Silence and Cease Fire for the CT victims this Sunday

[Meatball Mobeus]

Before I begin, I know that this place is supposed to be an escape from the real world for us all. But sometimes I feel its best to show love and support for those that need it the most, no matter where, or how.. And after yesterday I truly believe this is one of those times.


As I am sure by now most of you are aware of the terrible tragedy that occurred yesterday morning at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...hool-shooting/

Nihil, myself, and several members of the Ghosts of the Revolution outfit on the Mattherson server would like to hold a cease fire to show our support for the victims and their families, and to also offer our deepest thoughts and prayers to everyone effected by this horrible event. We invite everyone from all the factions to participate.

Exact details of the cease fire are still being worked out, but what we would like to shoot for is this Sunday at 8:00 PM EST. What follows is the post by Nihil on the SOE boards, and a quote of said post. http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/i...0/#post-832350

Good question. i'm with GotR on Matherson and talking to our guys about this. If we aim for Sunday, when my guys usually have our fun raid, we could do it then. That's 8pm eastern. We can get in touch with the VS leaders on that server.

Sites to hit:
- CommandRank5
- PlanetSide Universe
- RedditSide
- *groan* Twitter

For those on another server, please try to organize something. i'm talking to Matherson players, but it should work elsewhere.

If you have an in with the devs please talk to them about this.

One thought on making this work is having everyone switch to medic and have their med apps drawn. If someone accidentally fires, it won't break the cease fire. Then keep all the troops participating mingle close enough that if someone jerk decides to blast away, he'll get some serious grief.

The organized outfits should be able to keep their troops from breaking the cease fire. We can try using /y and /orders to get our respective zerglings to participate.

In PS1 i would say, let's meet at the Anvil. i don't know any big landmarks in PS2 yet. i recommend something central. Define the region as a cease fire zone.

Would be awesome to have several folks record the event. All the troops shoulder to shoulder.

Please spread the word.

[The Messenger]

Great idea but could potentially end in disaster.

[Hamma]

While I respect and understand what you are doing, it likely won't work

[Infernalis]

It reminds me of something like that in World of Warcraft, they were all in lines in front of a lake and got killed by a whole clan who went on the funeral just to troll them.

Just do each factions at their warpgate, it won't be as nice as every factions united but at least it will work.

[Meatball Mobeus]

Just wanted to do something. GOTR may just have a moment of silence, as long as it is something to show support.

[ShadoViper]

I can appreciate the thought behind it, and i understand it. However, this is a game and I log on to play, not to incorporate problems going on in the world into it.

I respect the thought behind it, so don't get me wrong on that.

[Ghoest9]

Its a sad and horrible tragedy.


And this is just a bad idea.
All it will do is give attention whores a flag to wave when this "truce" inevitably gets broken and they will just use it as a means to say bad things of FPS games.

Honestly this is no place to try and foist real world issues on people.

[Mooseay]

Sorry I won't be taking part. Mainly because I think the obsession over these kind of stories just eggs on copycats the same way you have copycats of teen suicide one or two years down the line.

Don't take this as me insulting those who died I just don't like the hype around it.

[Rivenshield]

I wish you luck, but I fear you'll get trolled with high explosives.

One thing: This is not a tragedy. An earthquake is a tragedy. Someone dying in a car wreck is a tragedy.

This was an atrocity.

[Babyfark McGeez]

Originally Posted by Ghoest9

Its a sad and horrible tragedy.


And this is just a bad idea.

^^^^ This.

[Lonehunter]

Originally Posted by Hamma

While I respect and understand what you are doing, it likely won't work

Agree with all of it but "likely", that should be replaced with Most definitely won't work

[Gugabalog]

No, this is a bad idea. It draw more attention and encourages other copy cats.

[Meatball Mobeus]

I understand and respect all of your opinions, and honestly. You guys are more the likely correct to expect some jerk to take advantage and ruin the moment.

But in a world were video games are used as a scapegoat when terrible things happen, I wanted to show that in our game. In our community, we have a bond. Back in PlanetSide 1 I always felt a very strong sense of community. Sure we all may not have played on the same faction or sever. But aside for a few bad apples I felt like we all got along pretty well for the most part. Talking about the game on this site, commandrank5.com, and every other site that has anything to do with the game we all play. Heck we even got together to set up a few events. The PlanetSide day event last July went pretty well I think, and I remember having a really good time.

I guess after watching the news, I just needed to remind myself, and anyone that would listen that games aren't the problem. I wanted show off how great we are as a community.

[belch]

It's a great gesture bro. I'd hate to see you and your friends get trolled, and sadly...that is most likely what will happen. But salutes, man.

[whipster]

A better way to do this is have the devs give everyone a min. wep lock