Darth Vader HAD Retired!

[JaM]

Hi Darth, it was a really great time playing yours mods. For me they were all revolutional - your battle mechanics for RTW changed that game completelly.
I understand your decision to leave. I almost did it too after the whole "armor upgrade story", but then after few months, i came back to playing a game for fun. CA made many really stupid decisions and that is just a strawberry on a cake...

Enjoy life, we are here just once!

[Sinuhet]

Hi Darth Vader!

Firtly, I am suprised with the "background" motivation of yours. Well, I have taken all the modding including competition of ours as an outlet in pressure of the Real Life tasks in intelectually and emotionally demanding jobs. It was "a high blood pressure" for me too sometimes, but altogether it was a pleasure to meet with such a man like you on the edge of possibilities. I think that all people from some level above need such interactions like a flower a water .... And it is not easy to "obtain" such interaction on the street ... I am very sorry you cannot not go in the direction of your dream. I am afraid to say it not to touch you, but on the other hand, it is better for you that you have not passed the appplication procedures, because all your potential is not in doing things on the stupid orders by others but to be standalone creative individual and to find out your own original solutions of complex problems. If I grasped you a bit, I mean your personality, you are not a type to go into some office and there to do the things in the as much bad as possible way....

On you place, I could reconsider your decision to avoid this place and also to be reluctant to further TW modding. It is good material for thinking and developing yourselves, the whole TW series matter ... I think that we are same in one small thing. We like to do from bad things the better ones, when anybody is saying: Hey mate, its impossible ...

In every case, it was an honour for me to meet you here in TWC and in "the modding battlefield" in both senses of these words.

I am looking to see you later, have a pause now and then go back for your "high blood pressure", I think that it has no sense to start the same thing in some other place ....

The Egyptian Avatar personally

[druivenpitje]

Hey
This is my first first post ever although I play already the TW serie from the old days of Shogun Total War and I'm using TWCenter from the time of RTW as info source for cool mods.
I always liked your style Darth Vader and I just want to say that I enjoyed playing your mod's for RTW and I regret that CA not cherish their modding fan base; they should have mutch respect for you guys because your mod's makes the games 1000times better! You guys were the only reason why I bought MTWII, because I knew that you guys would make this game intresting, From The Darth Vader mod to the AI, lands to conquer and all others.
Enjoy all things that have to come in your live and perhaps we will hear from you sometimes
Respect for you

[devereau]

The name of Darth Vader if confuses with the name of the best carried through modifications already for series TW… and as even though synonymous of the Mod term. Thank you, Lord Darth. The Good Side of the Force will be always with you!

[jokers27]

My good side wish you... Good chance in your next project

My good side wish to community... A good team to continue this mod and a good supervision by darth.


My bad side wish you... A terrible accident to half paralyse your body and give you lot of free time with anything else to do but mod.

My bad side wish to community... Cry and make violence around you to satisfy your rage!

[Shigawire]

I've seen this sort of thing many times before. I'm sure I shall see it again.

You'll be back!

For various reasons.

[gavhriel2k4]

as far as i'm concerned i've never played ca's game but yours.
and you're not unqualified but overqualified to work with ca. every company's target is represented by the masses. the average every-day real life noob [80% world pop] would spring his neurons when confronted with the power of the force. that would imply lawsuits against ca... thats why armies would grow pigs, oil them, set them ablaze and send them against the enemy to feed them to death... it all makes sense. unless those pesky always hungry arcani wouldn't covertly eat them sabotaging the whole plan! damn! i lost again! imba warbands! ca plz nerf everyone, they are too imba!!!
i once loved the idea of you being the architect of the tws, because of the force you wield so strongly. yet into doing that you would have pledged allegiance to the gungans. i can't make my internal ear hear the voice in my head spewing dar dar vhadar.. ghaaaaa there i said it. now i must go and drink a bucket of listerine. as i was saying, target. this community had formed itself of mistargeted ppl who frenetically cried of joy at the intro movie to puke and fell sick after a month of scared******** armies in arcade battles. ffs they've even put a checkbox there > ARCADE BATTLES < if easy was too imba. i need to be intubated...can't breathe...im ok now, i have started the breathing machine. then, on a happy day the dark force created you. and a true example of how things should be claimed its rightful place.
working @ ca meant obey to the target and make silly "historical accurate" units to entertain the happy idiocrat.
we love you as you are. you made a difference. listen to the force and feel our hatred burning. you are not alone. you are revered among the few. stop faltering and test us again. look deep inside you and you will find that the force has gone strong with you. dont taint it by wearing a vanilla cloak.
my humble opinion

yes, im still here
cheers nikos

[DARTH VADER]

@roastghey:

This you say is unquestionable...(for my beloved...) but will see how it goes.

@Garbarsardar:

Ellinas kai sy? Ha ha! Nai ok...tha ta poume file.

@Zephrelial:

Se eyharisto File mou...na sai kala.

@JaM:

I just remembered the conversations we had together about the armour upgrade....do you remember how I insisted that there was more hidden than +1 upgrade and your thorough statistic tests as well of other co-modders failed to trace? This was magic again....Thank you for your words and be prepared for my last mod...coming this weekend (hopefully).

@Sinuhet:

Well ...at last we meet again
Yes...I remember my blood pressure then ...it was high...never mind..it resulted as you say into a constructive confrontation...I as of nature I am very responsive to inertia values of controversies in which I must prevail somehow as a game itself...so thank you for this..despite the fact that I do not feel I have won you but only to have evasively maneuvered the battle to another level, leaving space for both of us.
I know of my character as well...I get too creative and ignorant at the same time so this is a handicap for office jobs...but those who know me really in my true life...want me like this to help and teach them in my "own" spontaneous team way and not the boring stereotype one.

Thank you for your time replying to me...egyptian avatar "aspondous" friend.

@druivenpitje:

As I have repeated many times...I am always always touched by people registering just to talk to me. I also say to you 1000 times thanks!

@jokers27:

If only you have never wished for the half-paralyzation ...and if I will I hope it is healthy from my belt and down...I am tired of thinking and troubling myself...this period.

@Shigawire:

I remember I have half-retired once...it was for the same reason...now it is the other half

@gavhriel2k4:

Ellinas kai sy? Polloi eimaste telika...
It is too late for me my son...let me retire and maybe come back as a blue dark shadow...as my father before me...

Well I know I have done a good impact to the game for sure. I also feel the community's acknowledgment as a positive energy to my everyday life...true...this will be missed more than anything I must say to you...thank you and thank all of you for that.

[Pizza de Oveja]

There is no way you can do this darth!
You need to think that over...I cant believe the great darth vader will be defeated by a bunch of corporate dorks.

And you need to think of us also man!
If you go who will fix the untested rush hour stuff that comes in the last minute full of bugs and give us the TW game as it was intended to be or even better?

Hope you reconsider cause I've tried all the important mods and there is none that comes close to yours.

Did u check empires? the next TW game comes with naval combat! think of all the work it will need from you to make it work properly!!!!

Come backkkkkk pleaseeeeeeeeeee
dont make me beg to the dark side! I had way too much of that at work already!!!!

[Strelac]

It is not easy to hear this. Based on the game mechanics in previous TW franchises, it is bad time to loose any moder.
Anyway, I hope you will consider this again as a hobby and escape from stressful day, and we will se your magic again.

S

[DrBeast]

Darth: I've just returned from my vacations, and, being without a computer and an internet connection all this time, the thread title came as quite a shock! I've been thinking of what to write for more than 5 minutes now, ever since I read through all the pages of this thread. In the end I decided to share a story of my own:
In 2001 I finally graduated Vet School, and talked with a professor of mine about doing a PhD at his department. He said he'd look into it, and in the meanwhile I worked at the Laboratory, analyzing blood tests and so forth...Worked? Not exactly. Unpaid services is the correct term, though my professor labeled it "residency". For two years I ran that Lab, patiently awaiting for a break, for my professor to come up with a PhD thesis. In the end, I found out that a) he wasn't really looking into the matter, and b) he'd leave this faculty in Karditsa for the more lucrative (and prestigious) one in Thessaloniki. You can imagine my frustration when I found out! Two years of my life wasted in false hopes and lies! I was about to call it quits and settle for opening up a small vet clinic in my home town in northern Greece, when out of the blue I heard of another professor that was looking for a candidate for a thesis of his own. I talked to the guy, and before I knew it I landed with a thesis that fit my interests like a glove! I've been struggling on with my research ever since, thanking the Gods (or what have you) for this incredible stroke of good luck!
Moral of the story: don't lose faith, my fellow country-man. Keep doing what you love and, in the end, you WILL be rewarded!
Best regards.

[Condell]

Ty for everything, farewell darth

[roastghey]

Haha nice1 man

[Kleomenis]

i wish u all the best darth - niko. i hope u will reconsider as almost everyone wrote before. besides do not forget that the greeks could rule the world. darth mods did
your mod for rome total war is still my favorite. the smartest a.i by far!!!
σε ευχαριστούμε για όλα. μιχάλης απο σαντορίνη.
Υστερόγραφο: κάθισα και διάβασα όλα τα posts. είδες πόσοι σε αγαπάμε;;;;

[DARTH VADER]

@Pizza de Oveja:

No...if you want to adapt to the sith ways...you never beg or comply. You inspire! I am inspired whatosever by all of you. The decision is staying. Watch for the DarthMod coming and you will play for quite long as a compensation.

@Strelac:

Thank you. Who knows...in the future or in another galaxy!

@DrBeast:

Just to make it clear again...I did not do all these things just to apply to CA...it just came. Secondly your story is very familiar to me for other matters. It also verifies and secures my current position. You wasted two years for the 1 professor, you finally found solution to the 2 professor.
So imagine how foolish it could be to stay to 1 even though he has closed all the doors to you...

Elliniko Filotimo file mou.

@Condell:

Ha Ha ha. I see it once a day just to laugh!
The cohesion and dynamics of the upcoming last DarthMod will force you to fix another and better screenshot theme...I foresee.

@mixalis79:

Γειά σου Μιχάλη! Ευχαριστώ. DarthMod 1.4C will hopefully stay in history as well as DarthMod for RTW/BI did.

[Pizza de Oveja]

@Pizza de Oveja:

The decision is staying. Watch for the DarthMod coming and you will play for quite long as a compensation.

Woh! great news man...hell yeah!

Cause I gotta tell you I just read a guy in the forum that said that he just bough kimdoms and seems to have the usual pre-patch bugs in some places...

I recon as I had though that we will need your extellend darth services in a very near future...

It's all your fault man!!!...you made us adicts to darth mod now and you cant interrupt the supply of excellent modding!!

Going to a greek place right now to have a delicious lunch to celebrate...
cheers

[caratacus]

Darth's staying

Dang it!! I am going to have to buy "Kingdoms" now. (Do you hear that CA!)

[DARTH VADER]

Sorry I meant...my decision stays...I retire...the English language is so indefinite....sometimes.

The DarthMod I mentioned is my LAST DarthMod.

[caratacus]

As in any language, sometimes you only hear what you want to hear.

[roastghey]

Hey cmon stop crying, who knows, maybe when Star Wars: Total War is released (about 2023 year, judging by tendention to put every Total War in later age) and Darth sees the Dark Side too weak, his passion will come back?