Hiya. I'm Dave, I'm 34, live in Central NY, USA. Been married about 6 years, got a BS in Computer Information Systems and working on my MBA part time. Also spend going on seven years in the USMC from '91 to '98. I work at a small managed services company, and do just about everything you can imagine IT-related short of programming (much). For fun I work with an adoption agency for retired racing greyhounds (I'm the treasurer of the local greyhound charity,
http://www.kindredspiritsgreyhoundadoption.com) and enjoy griefing people in online games. I'm the vice-chairman of the Mohawk Valley Gaming Club (
http://www.mvgc.net), a not-for-profit corporation that provides gamers in the Central NY area with a place to play other than their kitchen table or parent's basement. That's the cocktail napkin bio.
I started playing NC in October of 2001, forming Dirty Nickel Grinders on Uranus with about 15 other members of the MVGC, but had finally had enough by mid 2003. Bugs and low pops drove the entire clan from Uranus to Pluto to Saturn and finally away entirely, but really we each did our own thing after we left Uranus, and [d5g] never reformed in Neocron until last week. In the meantime we played some WoW, some Planetside, and a few other games for shorter periods of time - the only thing that really held us as long as NC was WoW, where we formed Lords of Terror right at retail on the Horde side on Gorefiend, which eventually turned into Shadowlords, one of the pre-eminent horde guilds on that server. Most of us sold WoW accounts covered in purples prior to BC for $300+, and then leveled up new toons for BC, which then got sold for $400+. We're all out now.
We had actually started back up playing a few weeks prior to the last patch, and have more people trickling in each week as their NC1 characters get restored. We've reformed in Proto Pharma on Terra, and are currently trying valiantly to overcome being abominably broke.
On Terra, I play:
Hivemind - rifle PE - capped
Ingmar Bonesteel - HC tank - 100 STR 97 CON
Bus Driver - pistol spy - 90-something INT and DEX
Ayoelle - PPU - 96 PSI
They're not even yet all in the clan, as we can't afford the 300k each to move factions, but we're working on it. PvE is a lot harder than it used to be - almost insurmountably so. As soon as we figure out how to actually efficiently kill *** mobs again for parts, we'll be rolling again.