» History of RWS

RWS was created on june 8th 2003. ( give or take a day )
The background; We all started round 5 as Reservoir Dogs ( RD ). RD had the tradition that it wasnt really important who was admiral. A new person was admiral every round. Round 5 BigD was the admiral of RD. A few did not approve. BigD was controversial already back then.
After a while Riithi went more or less inactive. BigD wanted top preserve our average score ( we had the best! ) and therefore he kicked Riithi. Riithi was co-founder of RD, and naturally he got really pissed. Kicked from his own alliance. He made a thread in DG forums and that thread ended things for many of us.
We had all seen... felt that RD had changed... especially those who had been in RD since the start in R3. Everyone who played in RD was extremely proud to play in RD and to be part of the RD-thing. Back then RD stood for something new and unique in Dark Galaxy.
Im explaining this so that u understand just how powerful Riithis post was.
When members read it noone wanted to go on playing. It was like a father rejected and deserted a child.
For 24 hours this highly active alliance just... stopped... and ppl just froze... paralyzed somewhat.
We were currently in several wars, but all our opposition agreed to give us 2 days to reorganise and get back up again. So we didnt have much time.
A new alliance was born. About 30/40% of RD members came to the new alliance and kept playing. Our name became Running With Scissors. It was Cricket ( then in FBL) who gave us our name. This was our starting thread. Just a short message really.

Round 5 ended well for our new alliance. We were about 35 ppl and we ended #10, which was a pretty decent result I think.
When RWS was started it was at first meant to bejust a way for us to keep playing the round. We didnt have any longer plans than that . But when R5 was over it was clear that RWS could perhaps go on. We were hungry. And R6 was gonna be the first round with free sectors... we started counting... and we realised we needed a few more good players to accomplish what we wanted.
The interest was amazing... Several hundreds showed interest.
The summer between round 5 and round 6 I interviewed approx 200 people. Pretty much the same questions u have seen in the current form, but back then it was basically done with long interviews with each and everyone of those that applied that seemed to have potentional.

RWS did very well R6. We had a very good score per member.
We finished the round as #2.

Round 7 we ended #1. Best results so far, but it was a round with troubles internally.
It taught us clearly that winning means nothing unless one has FUN while winning.
The alliance was too focused on score and there was several incidents with irritations between members of various kinds. I failed in stopping the nonsense and the fights.
And if that wasnt enough, there was constant flamewars against RWS in DG forums and it affected us all badly.
This is the mainreason why RWS had to change a bit for Saturn 8.
Still being a hungry and ambitious alliance, but try to regain a higher level of respect and friendship aswell as teamspirit and generosity between members. A few that does not share this view was not invited back for Saturn 8.

We now hope for a fun round in the new code.

Hugs,

Lizzy