3.1. The End of Fury, and Options Until Round End

The end of Fury, and options until round end

Solace
2007-04-02 01:42:46 EDT

Hi everyone,

By now, you've probably seen Jerle's announcement that TDZK is being shut down for an extended period of time. If not, read his post in the announcements forum on the webboards.

We will not return for the rebirth of TDZK in 2008. This is Fury's last round.

This decision was made several weeks ago. I was originally planning on waiting until we had rebuilt our raid team and the alliance was in better shape before posting this, but with Jerle's announcement, there would be a lot of speculation and questions about the future of the alliance, and I don't want people to have false hopes or the wrong impression about Fury returning.

We won't be back for a number of reasons. First, even before we had decided to disband, both Iccyh and myself had decided to step down as leaders. For both of us, leadership has become an increasingly demanding time commitment in our increasingly busy lives. Over the last several rounds, it has been more and more difficult, stressful, and work intensive to keep the alliance functioning at the level that we want it to be at (and that you guys deserve it to be at), for what have become increasingly diminished returns. We are at the point where neither of us can continue to sustain this, and there are no clear options for successors.

Even without Iccyh and myself, could the alliance survive through an extended downtime and be recreated when/if TDZK returns? Probably. Why won't we? What it basically all comes down to is a decision I made back in 2.2, and one that I still believe in. That decision is as follows: Once Fury crossed a peak where all signs point to our best being behind us instead of ahead, we would disband at a high, on our own terms, instead of enduring a slow, painful decline and fading away as a shadow of ourselves. The idea has never been to go on indefinitely, but as only long as we could continue to be competitive, active, organized, and on top of the game.

With the state of the game and community degrading as it has the last few rounds, that point had already been passed. And with Jerle's announcement, and at least a year's gap between the end of this round and TDZK's possible return, the idea of keeping the alliance in good shape through a long downtime and returning to form again sometime in 2008 is pretty much unthinkable. Thus, this the last round of Fury's existence. We've had a great run, but all runs have to end sometime.

That said, this is not a goodbye message! There are still around two months left to play in the round, and Fury will still be around until the end of 3.1. The question is what you guys want to do. Our original plan had been to try to rebuild activity and cash and get the outpost raid team going again for another try at an outpost smashing run. At that point, I'd have made this post, and we'd have tried to play out our last month at the high level we're accustomed to. However, with Jerle's announcement, plans change. :P This is no longer only the last round for Fury, this is the last round for TDZK for a long time. With the knowledge that there's nothing after this, it may be even harder to get done what we'd need to get done to get activity up, cash back together, and the raid team together again.

So, I'm leaving these last two months in your hands. If we want to play for real and angle for another shot at outposts, leadership will do everything we can to make that happen. We have about 30 billion in the AA right now, and would need to double that or so to have a shot at hitting outposts again. However, there's absolutely no way we'd be able to do that without an active alliance behind us and players that are willing to make it happen. If people don't want to do that, that's okay too, and we could spend the time doing whatever, without trying to implement a plan; it would save us a lot of time and frustration trying to make something happen without the necessary active players to do it.

Either way, please share your thoughts on this. How we approach our last months is up to you.

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V.T.
2007-04-02 01:44:18 EDT

Anything and everything that anyone else wants. I'm there.

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Amazing Red
2007-04-02 01:46:16 EDT

first i'd like to say its been awesome to be in fury and fly with people i've looked up to in TDZK, i'm sad to see it go down both fury and tdzk. I believe the leadership have made the right decision.

For the rest of the round i'd like to just raid ports for money and kills, but thats just me, i'm happy no matter which way we go :D

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krakatoa
2007-04-02 01:54:41 EDT

I say we do whatever we can to absolutely shake up this game in these last two months. Let's go out on the highest note possible under the circumstances to leave us with awesome last memories of this great alliance that has been my home for the past several rounds :D

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Zenko Tomaki
2007-04-02 02:03:20 EDT

Even though I'm the newbie to both TDZK and Fury I must say that this alliance made me enjoy TDZK as a whole. I am saddened by the fact that both TDZK and Fury are going to end and the fact that I wasn't in the alliance long enough to experience some of the glory days. Even though this round wasn't the best for Fury I had a lot of fun.

I would love being able to raid ports again cause those were some of the best times I had in the game. Even if it's just for fun and not for money or whatever. I just want to have some more time with you guys before the round is over.

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