I started flying CFS1 online August 2001. I was very lucky and found some great people who were more interested in having fun and winning while playing, than just winning for winning's sake. From them I learned not to fly with cheats or the abusive gits who tried so hard to spoil the game for others.
My first teachers were the primates of EW Squad, and then EURO after I joined them in November 2001.
I should like to thank them both for their efforts and entertainment which has continued on Zone.com right up to the final days of CFS1.
Indirectly, but through my association with these great squads, I found myself with access to many other great pilots/players who have also given me much fun and entertainment over the years and I would also like to thank them.
Thank you to everyone who has helped someone else learn a little about CFS1 and remembered that the game is about having fun, and that there is more to CFS than merely winning.
Apart from my more familiar names; EURO_Shades (with various ranks associated), EW_Gordo, DrRedSkwirrell, and Grizzly_Bare1, I have also variously flown in CFS1 under many other nics. If you've had occasion to curse any or, if you've flown with/against any of the following, and had fun while remaining honourable and true to the spirit of the game, I thank you.
_Jim_Rockford_, _MeckleBonce_0, _Nanna_Of_Death, _ROAD_K1LL_, _Santa_Bare1, _Shades1_, _Sky_Hero_, _Slave_Master1, _Super_Skwizza_, _Vixs_Valentine, _Voodoo_2, _x_Shades_x_, _05_Nud_Bare1, _BAT_Shades, _DumAzBlunder, _F4rT1N_SheB, BADBARE_UK1, BIG_Gutty0, BoastfulMoth, BroaderCashew, Bubblegum_Coot, CKret_Skwirrell, CrAnk_PrAnKstEr, CuterUnMunkeez, Cutest_Bare, D_StRoYa, Da_Easta_Bunny, Death_2_F1K, Devil_Luvver1, DrRedSkwirrell1, ElderlyMonk, Elv1s_Skwirrell, Exemplo2 (sry Ex, hehehe), Faulty_Two, FidgetyChimp, FormalBeef, FunkyNeurotic, gaze_of_ny4, Godlike_DogFox, Greedy_Shades, GrinningCargo, Harry_Ayres, Hawnee_Ferret, I_R_Blonde, I_R_Leprechaun, I_R_NEKKED_, Ima_Seal, LuvzDaAngel, MinorDizturbanz, MoOnS_PrAnKstEr, MrRedSkwirrell1, Nekked_Ferret, Nervous_Puffin (sry +Arillus, hehehe), Neurotic_Ferret, NeuroticSkwizza, Noble_Thruster, OhhhhhhhhhSilky, P51_Ramrod, Page3_Da_Sun, PeppySquirrel, Polka_Skwirrell, PowerMadPlus1 (for the few childish and power-mad pluses who occasionally upset a pleasant atmosphere within CFS1's walls just because they wanted to make themselves feel 'big' and made it harder for other more responsible pluses), Psi_Phy, QC_RedSkwirrell, RacketyPilot, Raven_B0nkers, Raven_Death1, Red_Skwirrel, Red_Skwirrel1, Red_Skwirri1, Saddam_deramis, Santaz_Gift, Santaz_Thruster, Saxon_Phoenix, Saxon_Skwirrel, Shades908 (my original Zone nic), Shadey_Poo, Skarlet_Skwirel, Smooch_Hunter, SneeryFeline, SoapyMillipede, SoopaNova1, St_RedSkwirre11, Stocking_Filla, StTRiNiAnS_GuRL, SuvvernJessie, Toasty_Simian, UnWordless_Duke, Valiant_Ferret, Vampire_Skwizz, VM_Phaggro1, WizardTomb0, (and finally, my former + nic) +Wordless_Duke.
I have never hidden behind nics (unless I was testing a potential recruit for EURO), but I having multiple nics has been fun on occasion.
Thank you too, to Simviation for being the number 1 resource centre for CFS1 during my time playing it. I often referred n00bs to your hallowed halls after a question appeared in main chat and usually, it resolved the problem of a missing 'this, that, or the other'.
Great friendships come from the heart, through spoken or written sentiments.
