by L0ckAndL0ad » Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:48 am Position: some north grid
Lawspeaker: Atron
Chieftain: RigeborodIII
Hello everyone. I guess it’s time for a story about our village.
Our community is called “SevenCrafts” and we run village called “Mirgorod” in H&H.
This is our community forum, written in russian, but feel free to post there in english if you really think you need to (and if you can find a proper forum section with google translate to post in, but i really doubt it XD)
I gotta warn you here - I don’t really know english, so beware of my bad spelling and grammar and such stuff
So, let’s get started.
First off, I will tell you about our team.
SevenCrafts team was there since at least 2005, can’t tell more accurate right now.
I will use here some parts of our welcome topic “About us v.2” which was originally written by Atron (aka Andrew Tron, our leader) in russian for our community forum.
We’re not a team for a single project. I mean, we don’t just gather people to play with in some MMO game. We’re something more, we’re friends.
But we are not some kind of a “team-brand” running simultaneous project-branches in different games, we’re just a small company of friends.
Initially, SevenCrafts people played Lineage 2, then Eve-Online, then again Lineage 2, and now we play H&H. But some of us still play Eve-online %)
The Game is not a sport for us. It’s a Journey. We want to explore the game worlds we like, in the way we like and think it’s appropriate. Now it’s H&H world. And I think we did a good job at exploring it by this time. Some of us are not playing right now, they’ve lost interest to H&H, but still, We are here. By this I mean we have our comfortable forum and skype chat and can talk there all day long, and it doesn’t matter if I really do want to play H&H or EVE, or if I don’t. We still do talk. A lot. Doing IRL vacation trips together (you can see some links with photos on our forum).
About our philosophy. We don’t judge other people’s philosophy, its absence or their so-called “just having fun and killing time” thing. We’ll laugh if somebody will try to measure OUR gameplay with THEIR ruler. So we won’t do that either. It’s just “your thing”, something you are close to, or just not. There’s nothing “good” or “bad”.
We were taken as like “white ravens” in EVE. But we really were the ones. There were lotsa people who pointed fingers at us with their wondering faces when we told them we don’t use alts.
We developed and implemented ideology and mechanic principles for our unique “LEM Alliance” in EVE. Its principles are our views on the gameplay. Freedom, Collective Descisions based on your contribution to alliance’s life. We don’t play EVE that much now, but we do hope what this our development will give an energy and positive emotions to the others, who left out there, and who will come there someday.
But, our progress (practice?) showed us we can’t do (and continuously run & support) something global, something that big (like alliance was).
Are we that old? It’s also true, basing on our average player age. We can’t fully dedicate ourselves to the game and to responsibilities of being in charge in such massive projects (it was about 500+ characters from 10+ corporations in LEM Alliance in my days, i guess, so yeah, I can call it “massive”, even considering good days of GoonSwarm with its 5k characters in alliance, and I also was there too, saw it’s glory, if you ask).
So.. Now we are focused on ourselves, our internal community life.
We don’t accept everyone to our team, even if you really want us to.
So, we’re russians/ukrainians, speaking russian, but not afraid of talking english if we need to, especially after our EVE experience (EVE is very english-based game). Also, our team did some russian translations of EVE Chronicles, some “home video rated” videos about the game(watch for “Unknown Space by [7C] L0ckAndL0ad” @ CCP Games favourites channel page on youtube
).What are we in H&H? We like the game concept, the “true sandbox”, it’s not like that fake “sandbox” in EVE where they’re always asking us to “kill and blow shit up in space”. The H&H isn’t perfect, but it really defines term of “crime”, gives you the REAL exploration, real crafting, jeez, even REAL farming (say hello to other so-called “farmers” in other MMOs!). Here’s the part like the one from the most of Star Wars’ end titles -- “special thanks to Jorb and loftar” for this game!
We do like roads. I guess I’ll post some shots later, with our “Amber Road” on it.
We do like to be friendly. You won’t EVER find anyone got hurt while passing near our village (ehm, if not by someone else, but 100% not hurt by us). We don’t have any crime skills (except me and our rangers, we have it for a security reasons), so there’s no way our team will steal something from anyone intentionally(or not intentionally). We always welcome our neighbours, trying to give them something as a gift, to make them feel little bit happier, and maybe help ‘em with getting started (it’s not some kind of advertisement, just kindness %).
We do like to have friends, to have trade partners. The trading is not our primary objective in friendly relationship, but it’s the relationship itself.
We have friendly/trade contacts in RG’s Chateau, RiverFlame, Mirror Passage, Buyan, Sodom, Port (not sure about the exact name of the last village).
Some time ago I had a contact with a guy called “Shiba”, but I haven’t seen him for a long time. I came by yesterday, saw the actual village claim there, updated the name on our map
But still no contact.. Oh, mapping, right. We do love mapping. We don’t use mapping clients. We do use our hands, photoshop and google-map engine for our local map. It’s classified now, but our friends have the access to it. Maybe we’ll publish it someday. It’s not that big, just covering about 1-1.3 SG around us. But still, we don’t use mapping clients.
It’s about 3 am in the morning right now, so I guess I gotta go get some sleep.
I’m doing some big repairs at home, changing windows/doors, making up/destroying some walls, painting and such, so I don’t have stable internet/game access right now.
I will continue to write something about us later, feel free to post questions/stuff here.
Thanks for sharing this village tip!
