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Originally Posted by Malevz
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Would be interesting to see Nizzar, Gongshow, and that guy that only manages to stay on top for 2 weeks at a time going head to head to head for control of the server. Based on the way he talked to Derubael I assumed he wanted to get banned cause he couldn't stop playing or something.
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I think you hit the nail on the head, Nizzar knew Derubael was after him for some time apparently (only his core supporters knew of this, I heard the rumour and confronted Nizzar about it, but he said he wasn't getting banned and was following the rules). With internal factions threatening to split off in conjunction with the external pressure Nizzar would have well and truly thrown in the towel, losing his recently levelled/geared toons (I suspect there would be 2 financially invested players who would have had a heavy hand in Nizzar being permabanned all the way to the top).
Shortly after he quit the server with his most of his core members (Willan, Elderan, Rallyd, Spectre, Ghost, Puddems etc)...
Has the server improved? To be honest the numbers are up, however, I do not think this is because of Nizzar being gone. We are fortunate enough to have new groups of players coming from the wider internet community such as Slamdunkatron members originally being from somethingaweful.com
If Azrael didn't start the zerg/denial game and let some of the smaller guilds get pixels, we would definitely see the server up at least an extra 20-50 players, as I know quite a few people left from both Blaze and Holocaust, which resulted in the mass recruiting and guild dissolving.
I remember Blaze/Smoke Break at one point had over 30% of the server population in out of peak hours.
TLDR: Nihilum was a symptom of the community more than anything.
All guilds that hit #1 have behaved quite similarly (to feed the pixel hungry masses).
Azrael are universally disliked for their constant shit talking, crying about the server/number #1 guild, while training with near GM immunity and breaking other server rules.