Clan 3ICE
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:46 pm
Yes after my 3 years long hiatus I, 3ICE was persuaded by EqualiseR and SHiNNiNG_FaiTH into making another clan.
And what better name to give it than that of my own!
Clan 3ICE @USEast
History lesson:
My first clan was a mazer clan, called mFH. It was originally created by steveelias and 10 of his friends. The clan became an immediate success and he ran it for years, with a member count always close to 100. And while being the leader of a very successful and honored clan (the clan tag mFH means: Mazers for Honor), he also had the time to create dozens of maps!
Then I came along... After I have been shaman (because I ran the clan website and forums, had bots, extra cd keys, a lot of map making know-how, and was very, very active) in mFH for a few months, he transferred control over to me.
That is how I became the chieftain of mFH, soon to be known as the biggest mazing clan on battle.net! A month after my coming to power, we already had over 300 members with more people asking to join every day. We had to create a second and a third clan to fit all the newcomers in, and getting moved from mFH2 to mFH3 and then finally to the main clan, mFH was considered the same as a promotion (from peon to grunt to raider).
mFH was famous for the grand tournaments we held periodically, to decide who gets to be shaman for three months. We even allowed outsiders to compete, the tournament was not just for mFH members. Leading positions in mFH3 were also awarded to winners, that is how Mazer_Froz earned chieftain position in mFH3. He won the second tournament.
Other shamans: Avatarunit58 (mapmaker, also known as Ava58 later), Eletro (very skilled map maker), EqualiseR (map maker and close friend), I_mOck_death (very active player for years, map maker, co-authored my Kodo Tag map), mikechaos (techie, also chieftain of mFH2), SHiNNiNG_FaiTH (very active, close friend, skilled player), steveelias (the original chieftain of mFH), YoDA_ (very good mazer), YzRiDeR72 (he races motorbikes for a living now)
We held and fought in clan wars too. 6 of our best versus 6 of their best competed, purely for bragging rights. (Who is the best clan!)
Many beautiful months, (even years!) have gone by until...
Things started to get out of control. People kept coming to mFH to recruit, attempting to lure or outright steal our members away to their smaller clans, by offering free shaman positions. In response to this, I started making fake accounts and destroying the offending clans to bolster our ranks with all their peons and grunts, which raised suspicion. (I kept my identity a secret, but not many people know how to kill a clan, and I might have suggested Clan mFH as an alternative to the now clanless people...) Our reputation as a clan fell.
Managing so many members became very difficult, my bot kept getting disconnected because it couldn't keep up with all the spam. And not all people understood the concept of having mFH2 and mFH3. I set up bots in Clan mFH2 and Clan mFH3 with a script to ban everyone that joins, letting them know in a friendly manner that they should come to the main channel; Clan mFH instead. People did not like this, however.
After a month of enduring the painful clan drama, 3ICE along with Clan mFH disappeared.
--3ICE
And now I'm back!
And what better name to give it than that of my own!
Clan 3ICE @USEast
History lesson:
My first clan was a mazer clan, called mFH. It was originally created by steveelias and 10 of his friends. The clan became an immediate success and he ran it for years, with a member count always close to 100. And while being the leader of a very successful and honored clan (the clan tag mFH means: Mazers for Honor), he also had the time to create dozens of maps!
Then I came along... After I have been shaman (because I ran the clan website and forums, had bots, extra cd keys, a lot of map making know-how, and was very, very active) in mFH for a few months, he transferred control over to me.
That is how I became the chieftain of mFH, soon to be known as the biggest mazing clan on battle.net! A month after my coming to power, we already had over 300 members with more people asking to join every day. We had to create a second and a third clan to fit all the newcomers in, and getting moved from mFH2 to mFH3 and then finally to the main clan, mFH was considered the same as a promotion (from peon to grunt to raider).
mFH was famous for the grand tournaments we held periodically, to decide who gets to be shaman for three months. We even allowed outsiders to compete, the tournament was not just for mFH members. Leading positions in mFH3 were also awarded to winners, that is how Mazer_Froz earned chieftain position in mFH3. He won the second tournament.
Other shamans: Avatarunit58 (mapmaker, also known as Ava58 later), Eletro (very skilled map maker), EqualiseR (map maker and close friend), I_mOck_death (very active player for years, map maker, co-authored my Kodo Tag map), mikechaos (techie, also chieftain of mFH2), SHiNNiNG_FaiTH (very active, close friend, skilled player), steveelias (the original chieftain of mFH), YoDA_ (very good mazer), YzRiDeR72 (he races motorbikes for a living now)
We held and fought in clan wars too. 6 of our best versus 6 of their best competed, purely for bragging rights. (Who is the best clan!)
Many beautiful months, (even years!) have gone by until...
Things started to get out of control. People kept coming to mFH to recruit, attempting to lure or outright steal our members away to their smaller clans, by offering free shaman positions. In response to this, I started making fake accounts and destroying the offending clans to bolster our ranks with all their peons and grunts, which raised suspicion. (I kept my identity a secret, but not many people know how to kill a clan, and I might have suggested Clan mFH as an alternative to the now clanless people...) Our reputation as a clan fell.
Managing so many members became very difficult, my bot kept getting disconnected because it couldn't keep up with all the spam. And not all people understood the concept of having mFH2 and mFH3. I set up bots in Clan mFH2 and Clan mFH3 with a script to ban everyone that joins, letting them know in a friendly manner that they should come to the main channel; Clan mFH instead. People did not like this, however.
After a month of enduring the painful clan drama, 3ICE along with Clan mFH disappeared.
--3ICE
And now I'm back!