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You make one talking about how many members the forums have.

Congratulations, ramses30, you're our 1500th member!!!

Bob, tell us what he's won!




Seriously though, that's a milestone for the forums... even if you never post (not even once...), you're still a part of history, ramses30.

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~Status Report~

* Completed... Dragon's Head
* Completed... Soldiers of the Empire: Disciples (release pending)
* In Progress/Undecided... Of Love and Betrayal
* Planning/Assembly... Where it all Began

Its almost been a year since i joined. Where has the time gone?
1500 members. woooot. CoNgrats. Josh's invincible gamer army is growing. Soon we shall march on Mexico .
Thats alot of people. We still have to figure though that of the 1500 only about 1/4-1/3 of them make more than 200 posts/stay around for more than 2 days.

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

And of the ones that do stay around, you've got a bunch of intermittent people like me, a group of "retireds" like Figaro, and a core of maybe about twenty-five people that post regularly at any given time.

But still...1500.

Bet we get 2000 by the end of the year.

This post has been edited by The Celestial on 6th January 2005 04:46

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My soul is bound to the Mistress of the Afterlife, and my fealty is to her always. So let's just hope she doesn't use it as one of her ten daily meals.

That's strange, I just did a search for that member and nothing came up. Anyways, it's a great milestone, too bad I wasn't a part of it. I was just a few months off . Seriously tough, that is allot of people coming to "The Caves", I wonder why more of them don't go to chat? (Not to say that I'm not glad they don't because the chatroom would probably fall apart if that many people came.) Well, here's to another 1500 more and may the boards stay healthy.

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Mogmaster
Thats alot of people. We still have to figure though that of the 1500 only about 1/4-1/3 of them make more than 200 posts/stay around for more than 2 days.

Well, count me in that small portion of the population because you guys will be seeing me for a long time . That is, unless I'm banned or something .

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Role reversal at its finest.

1500? It's Final Fantasy! Didn't FFVII alone sell like a few milliion copies??? There should be thousands more on this site! Spread the word!

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This is my world: (Got my second chapter up, 3rd Chapter about 80% complete)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/daniel876/homepage.html

Awesome. Which reminds me: Didn't we do some kinda bet about members or posts or something and everyone said the date they thought it would happen? Whatever happened with that?

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

I remember the thread, but I don't have a clue which one it actually was... it was the thread I was reminded of when I made this one, actually...

Can't remember if I made a bet myself, either... :/

Edit

And ya know what? The thread name's so obvious, too. e_e God, I need to sleep...

This post has been edited by Zephir on 6th January 2005 06:51

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~Status Report~

* Completed... Dragon's Head
* Completed... Soldiers of the Empire: Disciples (release pending)
* In Progress/Undecided... Of Love and Betrayal
* Planning/Assembly... Where it all Began

1500 members.
Ya know, I bet that we'd get a LOT more members if we started covering things newer than FFT. Not that I'm complaining, since CoN covers all the FF games I own, but we'd get a lot more members.
... then again, we'd also get a lot of idiots who post in L337 and join just because it covers the games that are "in". The cool thing about doing older games is that you get the people who are actually interested in the games. Usually those people are funner to talk with too.

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Hey! I'm a theif now! "That's 'treasure hunter'!"
That joke's probably been done before, but oh well.

This post has been edited by SpriteMeister on 6th January 2005 10:28

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When life gives you lemons... SQUIRT THEM IN PEOPLES EYES! Mwahahahahaha! *Squirt* Ow! Hey, that was my job! *Squirt* Knock it off! *Squirt* I want my mommy! Waaah! *runs off*

The moral of this story is *Squirt* Ow! *Squirt* Okay, okay, no morals.

Well, in terms of "newer", they did start a seperate forum board and game info section for the new releases of FF I and II.... That probably attracted a few members.


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Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them.

~Pacifist Badge, 1978

The danger of trying to do all the newer games is that you tend to end up like one of the poorer FFOnline clones, with some stock info tables with very little of use in them. We stick to games we really care about, that we know something about and that we have good ideas for how to present well, and what we'd want to see if we were using the site ourselves. We do have some staff who enjoy new FFs, sure, but most of us longer-standing folks came here when CoN really was "an FF6 site", so we're largely fans of the old.

And it's nice to have something of a niche appeal.

Funny thing about the member count: check the profile link for the newest member, and you'll see their ID is 2132 (at the time of this post). I'm not sure where the ID numbering has gone astray, but I'm sure we haven't deleted 630 members since the IDs were initialised with the move to Invision Board. We did use to delete inactive members with 0 posts back in the days of UBB and Ikonboard, but it wouldn't really make much difference nowadays.

Many thanks to everyone continuing to contribute to the forums (and chat) and to the former contributors who've left us behind along the way. You're (nearly) all really super. And to the lurkers out there who read but don't post, hey, thanks to you guys too for reading. Don't be afraid to step on down and post something; you're probably going to be the kind of poster we love who puts thought into their writing, since you've been scoping the place out for so long without dashing into every thread and posting "eminem r0x". But don't be afraid to just keep reading, either. Heck, it's not like I say much now anyway, but you know you love it when I do.

In summary: love to all.

:*( what a nice speech, Tiddles.
Now I think the traditional thing to do would be to give a ninja face to each of our members....but I kinda like being a member here myself.
So x 1500 CoNgradulations!

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

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what a nice speech, Tiddles.

Indeed.

*sniff.

single tear.

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"That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!"

for all the 'retirees' out there..

been hovering around for a while....

guess I should wish CON many happy returns and all that..

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Chrono Triggers rock super-group:

Ozzie - lead singer from Black Sabbath
Flea - Bassist from Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Slash - Guitarist from Guns 'n' Roses

He drinks and smokes his cares away
His heart is in the lonely way
Living in the ruins
Of a castle built on sand...

Tell The King - The Libertines

lol *sniffles that was great... also the most i think *i've* ever seen you write... anyways yeah... all the interesting posts kinda stopped for a while but i kinda popped in and out... and hung out in chat for a while... but i think i'm gonna start coming back more... i've missed being here....

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~ A Hero Is Someone Who Stands When Their Legs Are Gone~

1500 whoa, congrats to CoN, lets hope we'll hit over 3000. Anyways congradulations. and since CoN covers mostly old games why not add a FFII section ( I could help in a way with besitary info. as well.). Ayways great speech Tiddles.

Wow. Congratulations.

I personally don't really think CoN needs more sections. It really covers the 'classic' FFs, the ones everyone generally agrees kicked ass. And FFV. I've heard some complaints on that one. If there were to be new sections... I'd vote FFIII.

Anyway, CoNgratulations again. (That was really bad. Ouch.)


Seriously... when are Ninja smilies ever going to be necessary? You can have a confused, sad or embarrassed face, which is fair enough... but:

'How are you?'
" "
"Oh. Fun."


Anyway, I got sidetracked again.

Though me, and probably alot of people I guess don't really know a lick about FF3. I would wager to say that it is the least played of the FFs. But...if you ever did wanna dabble in a 3D FF, look no further than FF7. It is going on being 8 years old now...I wouldn't exactly call that new.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

I for one am proud to be 1 person out of those esteemed 1500.

Seriously. I've been looking for a site like this for ages, and when I happened apon it, (By the most bizare of accidents) I couldn't belive my luck. A site with good information on some of my favorate games, moderated and posted on by intelligent gamers is a rare thing nowadays.

Plus when a site's been covering games that are a decade or so old for the entire time, and it's still getting hundreds of new members each year, you know it's something special.

So long live the CoN! I can't wait to see how many other new members will discover this gem of a site in 2005!

This post has been edited by Ultros: Octopus Royalty on 8th January 2005 18:39

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TURKEY! - (The only way not to get blocked for using Fowl Language)

Indeed. Congratulations, CoN!

Here's to many more years of prosperity.

This post has been edited by MarquisElmdor on 8th January 2005 19:00

Wow. 1500 members.... Well, I'm glad to be one of those 1500, I've made some good friends here so far, and gotten some great FFT info to boot!

A toast to a long-lived CoN!!! *raises glass*

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"No matter what happens, I will always be with you... forever." ---- Pocahontas, Pocahontas

"Only those who are already at the top are rewarded without trying."----- Delita Hyral, Final Fantasy Tactics

http://www.ffshrine.org/fft/fft-midi/1-42-back_fire01.mid ---- My favorite FFT battle song

I'll drink to that! *raises glass and sips*

I'm a little late in saying so, but congrats on 1500, CoN, and keep on truckin'!

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Words of Wisdom:

If something can go wrong, it will.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. - Murphy’s Law

Boing! Zoom! - Mr. Saturn

<Gamal> Keep on truckin'?
<Aram> Keep on truckin'.
<Gamal> And when do you ever say 'Keep on truckin'?
<Aram> Whenever truckin' needs to be done.
<Gamal> Which is?
<Aram> ALWAYS!
-Gamal and Aram, Men In Hats

Well, again, CoNgrats for 1500.

This post has been edited by SpriteMeister on 10th January 2005 00:48

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When life gives you lemons... SQUIRT THEM IN PEOPLES EYES! Mwahahahahaha! *Squirt* Ow! Hey, that was my job! *Squirt* Knock it off! *Squirt* I want my mommy! Waaah! *runs off*

The moral of this story is *Squirt* Ow! *Squirt* Okay, okay, no morals.

We wouldn't want too much people or CoN would be flooded with annoying, and uhh... bad spams

Oh well, all that's in the future, Congrats CoN for 1500 people.