Post by Hoist on Jun 21, 2018 11:03:07 GMT -5
Here at TTF when we began role-playing here in 2002 (Up until 2016), the main founders all came from some sort of RP background whether that was basic or advanced. This includes myself, Ravage18, Latyrx7 and HeavyAssault. Certainly for myself I had role-played at another message bard called Transfans, in a mass Transformers Vs Gobot story, but most of it was just more fun general role-play more than rules & character we traditionally know. I also chat-role-played with another member from another major TF fan site, Similarly I believe Latyrx7 came from chat-role-playing and Ravage18 had established role-play and proper rules at The Axalon.
The real story however begins at a Transformers message board called Civil War as it came to be known. It was here that Latyrx7, myself and Heavyassault met, but this was way before it was a role-play forum. Before that it was a plain Transformers discussion board where we met and of the course of a couple of years built up friendships and banter between all the members. This board hosted by then admin "Optimus Prime" was a very fun, social board, lots of banter with threads trying to get the Decepticon named members against the Autobot named ones in a battle of wits. I remember myself starting a counter "Autobots" thread, and for a long while things were good, things were fun. Then one day the owner "Optimus Prime" wanted to move us to another message board, and that's when things took a turn for the worse...
If it was just moving us to another forum host, that would've been fine; but the inexperience of this admin was moving us all to exactly the same host, just to a different new board, and all for not knowing how to change the the look/things on the current board. No one was particularly thrilled about moving but then came the day that turned things into a full revolt! Overnight, the admin deleted boards and all the content over the past few years, all that fun, and banter - everything gone, wiped out - deleted. As you can imagine no one was happy about this evoking a rage within the members that all this history had been wiped out in one single blow. Suffice to say we began to revolt against the admin and the move because of this. In was in one thread in particular - because we were revolting against "Optimus" Prime" as he called himself that HeavyAssault posted something about "Renegade Autobots uniting". This was the very first time the term our "Renegades" came into context, just as a gesture saying. I myself followed suite joining the "idea" of "Renegade Autobots" followed by Latryx7.
So it came to pass, some of us did move but ultimately didn't stay at this new board and ended up staying at the current site whilst the admin left and ran the new board. We stayed put. One of the existing members BLOT/Sunstreaker, took over the running of the board as the new owner/main admin and it was him we have to thank for the "Renegades coming into existence. What was left of the old boards was going to be transformed into a Transformers role-paying board, with both factions having their own password protected board or "HQ" to discuss plans. Myself, Latyrx7 and HeavyAssault wanted to turn this idea of "Renegade Autobots" as they were first known, into a fully fledged idea, a third fictional faction between the Autobots and Decepticons. It was BLOT/Sunstreaker's good grace that allowed us to do this and like the other factions have our own HQ/password protected forum. We slowly recruited those that neither wanted to be Autobot or Decepticon. Over time we took things to both factions as we kept ourselves to ourselves (A core rule) and not give away any of our plans. Both sides came to fear us, not know whether to trust us as we plotted in the fictional war. Whilst the Autobots constantly bickered over who should rule and the Decepticon side - just generally bickering between themselves, we became a force to be reckoned with.
Of course over time you could never truly never know if there were spies everywhere and whether anyone was on one side leaking information to the other. At this time The core three of us, were also members of The Axalon Transformers discussion board, so when we created this forum, Ravage18 from over there kindly allowed us to use his RP rules from over there and he adapted them so we could continue role-playing at this message board. Over time due to health issues, Ravage18 slowly became less frequent upon the forums and Latryx7 took over the development of the RP rules and continued to develop them until the end at 2016, with contributions from myself and much later Onix Prime joining the core team as a major contributor to the weapons development department.
Of course, we are always & forever indebted to the likes of BLOT/Sunstreaker and Ravage 18 that got us of the ground as well as HeavyAssault who came up with the term "Renegades". Over the course of the initial trilogy of our main Renegade faction RP Latryx7 and myself came up with an in-game back story for the Renegades, and the basic premise of a "Fake Optimus Prime" story in the birth of our faction to back the real-life events, the first three sections completely revised and utilized by Latryx7.
This is the story of the Renegades, how we came to be both in real-life, as a third fictional faction here at TTF and; how we came to role-play at this very special community we call Total Transformers.
The real story however begins at a Transformers message board called Civil War as it came to be known. It was here that Latyrx7, myself and Heavyassault met, but this was way before it was a role-play forum. Before that it was a plain Transformers discussion board where we met and of the course of a couple of years built up friendships and banter between all the members. This board hosted by then admin "Optimus Prime" was a very fun, social board, lots of banter with threads trying to get the Decepticon named members against the Autobot named ones in a battle of wits. I remember myself starting a counter "Autobots" thread, and for a long while things were good, things were fun. Then one day the owner "Optimus Prime" wanted to move us to another message board, and that's when things took a turn for the worse...
If it was just moving us to another forum host, that would've been fine; but the inexperience of this admin was moving us all to exactly the same host, just to a different new board, and all for not knowing how to change the the look/things on the current board. No one was particularly thrilled about moving but then came the day that turned things into a full revolt! Overnight, the admin deleted boards and all the content over the past few years, all that fun, and banter - everything gone, wiped out - deleted. As you can imagine no one was happy about this evoking a rage within the members that all this history had been wiped out in one single blow. Suffice to say we began to revolt against the admin and the move because of this. In was in one thread in particular - because we were revolting against "Optimus" Prime" as he called himself that HeavyAssault posted something about "Renegade Autobots uniting". This was the very first time the term our "Renegades" came into context, just as a gesture saying. I myself followed suite joining the "idea" of "Renegade Autobots" followed by Latryx7.
So it came to pass, some of us did move but ultimately didn't stay at this new board and ended up staying at the current site whilst the admin left and ran the new board. We stayed put. One of the existing members BLOT/Sunstreaker, took over the running of the board as the new owner/main admin and it was him we have to thank for the "Renegades coming into existence. What was left of the old boards was going to be transformed into a Transformers role-paying board, with both factions having their own password protected board or "HQ" to discuss plans. Myself, Latyrx7 and HeavyAssault wanted to turn this idea of "Renegade Autobots" as they were first known, into a fully fledged idea, a third fictional faction between the Autobots and Decepticons. It was BLOT/Sunstreaker's good grace that allowed us to do this and like the other factions have our own HQ/password protected forum. We slowly recruited those that neither wanted to be Autobot or Decepticon. Over time we took things to both factions as we kept ourselves to ourselves (A core rule) and not give away any of our plans. Both sides came to fear us, not know whether to trust us as we plotted in the fictional war. Whilst the Autobots constantly bickered over who should rule and the Decepticon side - just generally bickering between themselves, we became a force to be reckoned with.
Of course over time you could never truly never know if there were spies everywhere and whether anyone was on one side leaking information to the other. At this time The core three of us, were also members of The Axalon Transformers discussion board, so when we created this forum, Ravage18 from over there kindly allowed us to use his RP rules from over there and he adapted them so we could continue role-playing at this message board. Over time due to health issues, Ravage18 slowly became less frequent upon the forums and Latryx7 took over the development of the RP rules and continued to develop them until the end at 2016, with contributions from myself and much later Onix Prime joining the core team as a major contributor to the weapons development department.
Of course, we are always & forever indebted to the likes of BLOT/Sunstreaker and Ravage 18 that got us of the ground as well as HeavyAssault who came up with the term "Renegades". Over the course of the initial trilogy of our main Renegade faction RP Latryx7 and myself came up with an in-game back story for the Renegades, and the basic premise of a "Fake Optimus Prime" story in the birth of our faction to back the real-life events, the first three sections completely revised and utilized by Latryx7.
This is the story of the Renegades, how we came to be both in real-life, as a third fictional faction here at TTF and; how we came to role-play at this very special community we call Total Transformers.