Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

- Thich Nhat Hhan

As a Thank you to the Starchamber community, the great players, the funny matches we played, the super licks we gave eachother and the awesomesauce friendlyness that you provide, here is my simple way of saying thank you:

My single card shop SCCARDS was a great succes. many players bought from the shop, and even some collectors could not resist the prices I gave to them for large orders. the shop ran for about 2 years already? Before that, some of you might remember Clyde and Clyde II, the buggy, but working commonpool bots. Older players might remember the brittish empire guild (the website still is up, hahaha).. The shop was a great succes, and here is my way of saying thank you back to you, the buyer!

I simply do not have the time and energy anymore to keep up with administration and costs for the shop... so to NOT look like someone working for SOE, i will not sell my inventory in one go.. nope.

I WILL GIVE IT AWAY. FOR FREE. FOR NEW PLAYERS. (sorry for caps)

Here is how it will work: New players (players that are ACTIVE on the message boards and ACTIVE in the game) can simple go to http://sccards.vstore.ca and look for ANY card .

Then, simply post a /ptrade for that card  (single cards ONLY!!!) and post a message in this tread that you have posted a /ptrade (include which card!) and promise that you will play this wonderful game until SOE pulls the plug.

Then Sccards will accept that /ptrade.

READ THIS DISCLAIMED VERY CAREFULLY!:

If you think this is a quick way to make yourself rich, so are sadly mistaken. any abuse of this FREE service will be noted by (and others) me and I will personally create a spam bot to spam each and every game room to let all players know of your intentions to ruin the community, 24/7/365. I have more than 5 accounts to do so, so SOE will take a while to get the spam bots down. So please don´t. please don´t. please don´t...

/ptrades will be accepted in order of posting. Modified posts in this tread will NOT be allowed, and will not be accepted.

Players ARE allowed to post more than one time, but only AFTER another player have posted a /ptrade message here. Double posts or post spammers can better stay away.

Remember, the fun of the game is only a sum of its players.

For Seasoned players: Please provide me with names of new and/or a bit older players (post in here) that will go in the big hat for the cards that I will give away.  those players will be contacted by me to pick any card(s) they want from the sccards shop.

If anyone still wants to buy cards before thay are gone, DONT. The shop is closed. I will not accept money. I am doing this as a good will gesture to the SC community. Hopefully this wil change my karma enough to be a butterfly next life

And to SOE, I can only say: Tsk..Tsk..Tsk..

Newbies.. ready.. set.. go!

XchokeholdX
Sccards

Gotta love xchoke.  Thanks sir.

Wow. SCCards has been running, in one form or another, for as long as I've been playing Star Chamber. This sort of marks the end of an era.

I hope we'll see you in the Mezz from time to time. Even if another Star Chamber expansion is never released, I think this is a game I'll keep on my shelf and get an itching to play every so often. I hope you feel the same.

Thank you for doing this!  Sad to see the store go though.

Your store was always a great resource for new players.

-Matt

Hey Xcho,

I'm surprised you haven't had any takers yet. Do you have a particular definition for "new player" in mind? To me, someone who joined a year ago is still "new", but maybe that player thinks you mean only people who joined in the last month. There are definitely new players still in the game.

Hey Xchoke,

Well, I've been waiting awhile now and I too am surprised that no one has bitten yet.

I know you have seen my name for a few years and I do not consider myself a new player.

I've never really had the cash to expand my collection as much as I've dreamed. I bet I hold the record for longest play time with the smallest collection.

If nobody steps up, I would love to be considered for some of the wealth.

I'm not going anywhere and I would never let the cards die a digital death.

I'll watch out for a PM and I'll check for a response here.

Thanks man and have a great day.

Here's a list of worthy newb, or relatively newb candidates:

Agathon

Aurochs

Baalz

DrStrange

DrVanNostrand

Dustinthewind

Ezhik

Iacca

Incensum

Kitsune9tails

M_IX

soxford

speigas

vaderi

brad300man's logic, above, also makes sense to me. If you decide to gift cards to worthy non-newbs with light collections, brad, Ken (when he comes back), and eno would be good candidates.

ptrade up for New Galactic Order

cool

I have not been on for a few weeks 

stupid forgetful ness

Wow, that is amazing! XchokeX deserves some sort of award for that!!

While I would certainly still consider myself "new", I believe it would make most sense for XchokeX to decide for himself who should count and who not, instead of posting lists. Another idea would simply to donate his entire collection to a pool for use in "newbie challenges", and the ones costing $1 or less could be given away as "participation prizes" (that is: Whether a newbie challenger wins or loses, s/he gets the prize) and the ones costing more than $1 can be won if the newbie wins.

I haven't looked through your vast collection very recently, but I am pretty sure you have cards worth more than $1 that I would be greatly interested in, but I by no means want to claim the priveledge of being able to receive such prizes.

Thank you for being such a stout upholder of SC Greatness.

xcho said "For Seasoned players: Please provide me with names of new and/or a bit older players (post in here) that will go in the big hat for the good cards that I will give away."

sry you weren't on my list, Ono. Obviously you should be.

Just pointing out that this wasn't me copping authority; xcho asked for lists - I was just the only one to oblige.

brad300man wrote:

ptrade up for New Galactic Order

accepted.

If the offer still stands I would love an Accomplished Shipwright. Ptrade is up.

I love the idea of using these as  prizes in newbie tournaments. Is there any way it could work?

Cheers

soxford

soxford wrote:

If the offer still stands I would love an Accomplished Shipwright. Ptrade is up.

I love the idea of using these as  prizes in newbie tournaments. Is there any way it could work?

Cheers

soxford

accepted

glad to see someone else is jumping into the mix.

ptrade up for Artful Saboteur