Instant Own

Hello everyone.

I'm sorry to have to break your Christmas with such news as this, but we've finally made the decision. IO is going to close.

Damn that was a hard sentence to get over with. I'll miss this place a lot, everything we've build since little over a year ago... But it's the right thing, we aren't active enough to stay alive as a clan on our own.

Well as the people who know me are used to, I love colleting statistics. So here's a nice list lol:
2 715 - Unique visitors per month (average).
35 295 - Total number of unique people visiting our website.
89 777 - Total number of pages loaded by those visitors.
6 906 - Average number of pages loaded every month.
7 020 - Number of people visiting our website in August (busiest month).
13 629 - Number of pages viewed by our visitors in August.
1 210 - Number of posts in August (averaging nearly 40 posts every day).
6 514 - Number of posts we made in total (excluding this one).
4 140 - Number of posts by Tiny and me (omfg lol).
18.93 - Ammount of posts per day (averaged - and im surprised :o).
12d15h - Time I spent on this forum.
12d02h - Time Tiny spent on this forum (owned =D).
367 - Total numer of topics (Me: 171 - Tiny: 61).
39% - Traffic from France (last 500 visits).
25% - Traffic from Mother Russia (last 500..).
14% - Traffic from Italy (WTF do italians do here :o)
6% - Traffic from me - aka traffic from the netherlands :P
55 - Posts by the most posting non-clanmember (and who has never been in). Gratz Peter Sillie, you just made it into the top-10 of most active posters!
838 - Number of posts we made in the Nr.100 topic, but we'll go to 1000!
Just over 1 year - Time IO lived.

Allright I guess that's enough for now lol. Here is our stats center if you want to see more: http://io.smfforfree3.com/index.php?action=stats
And the statcounter statistics are public too, though I didn't know untill i checked like a second ago :P http://statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=5399952&guest=1

Then let's move on to more serious business.

I would like to thank everyone who has been supporting the clan in any way for the past year. Especially I'll be naming our members and ex-members (not in order):
- Tiny for his friendship, even before we were in W.B= together (which was before we started IO, for the less informed). Also I'd like to thank him hugely for his sublime leadership the last months.
- Wh!pP3r for bringing in very good ideas often and cheering me up so often (no matter what was on my mind, I'd be sure to get rid of it within 3 minutes when he was on msn).
- Diho for the nice programming work, both for this website, OACon, and other projects we worked on and are working on.
- Oleg for always trying to bring in new ideas to improve things.
- BigDaddy for being so cheerfull (might sound silly, but it's something not everyone is ;) )
- Titanium also for being cheerfull and nice to play with.

Then everyone who contributed to our clan by being a nice part of the family:
- strAnger
- VagabondBGC
- AssY
- SamSpeed
- drunken
- Oxyd
- Pain
- Cheers
- BlueSKY
- Bonchi Osamu

That you don't have a special description doesn't mean we don't like you ;) :P Without you IO wouldn't be where it is right now (and I'm not referring to the fact that we're closing now lol... you get what I mean).


Then I'd like to announce that Tiny and I will move to our 'cousin-clan': *Revolution. Oleg, BigDaddy, Titanium: You are welcome as well :) (we've talked with Stoner already). More details on the internal forums soon (tomorrow ifnot tonight). I also want to appologise that we have to close IO, and maybe that we didn't discuss this with you but just made the decision. I believe it was the right thing though, we wouldn't have done it if we had any doubt. Sorry if I make you sad by this though.
For Bonchi and BlueSKY, I'm sorry but you did not show enough activity on the forums. Because of that, I can't offer the same invitation to you I'm afraid. You are free to apply on your own of course.
Btw to oleg/daddy/tita: You are, ofcourse, also free to do whatever you prefer, if you would rather stay clanless or join another clan we're completely fine with that. It's just that we didn't want to leave our members without an option to join us in a future family. I've experienced once when the rM leader closed the clan and just deleted the website, it was quite a sad day... Didn't want to do that to our loved members, it's sad enough IO isn't active enough to exist on it's own.

This website will remain for as long as possible, after that I hope the internet archive (archive.org) will have records of this website... It should already have but I can't find anything at the moment. Else I'll try to backup the website some day, just a view-only version (smfforfree doesn't let me download the database), so we can at least read it. Reply if you would want this.
The permissions will remain the same, our current members will be able to view the private forums in the future and everyone else won't. Old members could be concidered though (just reply or pm me).

So... well that's pretty much it I think... could be I forgot tons of stuff, but don't think so lol. If someone else has some impressive speech, I'll quote you on the bottom of this post so people don't have to read the entire topic to see it (not sure if we'll get many replies though.. but incase).

Hmm I did forget one thing: I should thank SMF For Free for the hosting with only now and then some minor problems. For someone who just needs a simple though quite customisable forum it's a very nice start :) I wouldn't start the forum here again now (because I can't edit the PHP and backup the database myself), but I'm not as newb anymore so for others who are less experienced with this stuff it's still recommendable ^^

Best wishes for the future to all, especially with the new year around the corner.

Sincerely,
RMF (aka Luc)
Proud to be :) ex-clanleader and website administrator of IO.


PS: I used nicknames rather than our real names incase someone prefers his name not to be known to the whole world.
PS2: I forgot to add: if anyone got any questions at all, please ask them (just reply)!! :)

Idk what to say more, you quite said everything for public, and i need some minutes to be able to write correctly again.
To my mates: i will answer in private.

But i must do a little post me too, there's not anything to add really, except that i think:

I wanted to thanks RMF for everything he did for the clan, without him, IO wouldn't have existed, and wouldn't have been what it was. Thanks.

And, i don't need to add anything else here.

Tiny.

Dont want long post, cause very sad to write  :-/ Just Thank you guys for nice time we all spent together with nice games and cheerful talks. But i dont say bb i say cya in *r  ;D

Just want to say - thank you for nice time, i have spent with u here. I will always remember it. I am sorry, i wasn't enough active.
To visitors of ioclan.tk: thank u for talking with us, but dont be worry, we are still alive, still love oa, so - see u in arenas, ladies and genttlemen!;)

WTF?

:(

Anyway: was a pleasure to stay here with you (even if i wasn´t that spam machine in the last weeks).
Whish all the best to all of you and i guess, that i still will see the most of you on *r or our own site!

Regards

GoD|Peter Silie

It was a combination on things, you shouldn't be sorry! :)

Exactly, that's the spirit ;)

Ty :)

Nice :)

Yeah it might be a surprise for many people... and that's why we needed to close. It was too silent here, and we just couldn't make things work out with trainings and such.

Sad to hear( read ) all this. But it's true IO had been inactive for quite some time.
But the most important thing right now is, that you guys keep on playing OA, we won't like losing you guys  :)

So I wish you all the best in whatever you gonna do right now  ;D But if one of you dears to leave oa, we will all kill you! xD

grtz Diho

Hehe thx ;)


Btw thanks everyone for celebrating our death so massively ^^ lol
(http://easy-upload.nl/f/Iqu1NfMA)

o noooooo!
I'm very sad about this!
You was a great clan !!!
we have a lot of fun, each game was always good with you.. and above all always very difficult ;)..

Goodbye IO :(

 
Bellaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa from all GaNja Clan!

Thanks for that :)

OMG! So sad and choqued to read that.....

Well, i guess it's the right choice... trust you my friends...
It has been a great clan, and i'll never forget the good times we had, from his birth, and will always be proud of having been part of his history...

This is the end... but prolly the begining of great other adventures ;)


With love,

Wh!pP3r.

Sad to hear :'( but it's nice that you still play OA at least... See you in *r then :)

Really sad News, IOs was a nice clan because was formed by nice people.

In any way clan is closed but all IO member remain!

Hope to see you all on OA again, not matter the tag or clan, what I desire is see again mr. Andrew, mr. RMF, mr. Tiny, mr. Oleg, mr. Cheers and all others play and have fun!

In fact that's not a goodbye, is a SEE YOU ON OA!!!!!

Thanks RoBOT, we will ofcourse remain fragging 8)

Cu ingame - wait, I already did tonight :D
Cu ingame next time ;D

Dear IOs,

RMF, Tiny, B!gDaddy, OLEG, BlueSky and Bonchi!

I will stop visiting this site now :(
I hope, that we still see us on other sites (*r, GoD, oa) and servers.
Also i hope, that you all will find a clan, which fit your needs.

CU

Peter

I had wrote, that i will stop visiting this site, but i missed this important stat :D
Thanks for the honor to be a part of this chapter!

Noone reads my stats at first :(
Anyway, you fairly earned it Peter ;)

(http://easy-upload.nl/f/jdzV95um)
You just can't stay away here! :P

Noone can :P

ROFL!
it has to be a sign... ;)

Also hard to leave 2170 posts ( 2171 now ;D )

I miss this forum already :/

Don´t be sad... ;)

See that you are still checking the forum xDD

And we're still posting lol

I am still checking too rofl Btw , What are you going to do guys ? :0

Delete your post i think :P

Do you have secret projects ? :D

Ye it was nice forum :D Miss it already. Btw nothing from Ed :( I hope he will back soon  ;D

Well, i hope too :-\

Hope he didn't loose any fingers :o

Just let's hope everything is allright.

Dont worry everything is k imo. I saw in stats he was in icq today  :P

Ah :P

Actually icq bug. No any Eds online :(

Aw :'(

If his internet would be cut off, do you think he could (or would) tell us from some other place, friends' house or something?

Idk, i hope so :)

He could tell us from phone imo as i did this. Not hard but money may end very fast :(

Nice to see forum alive again :) i never have so many posts about my little person ;D It seems there is useful to disappear sometimes..
Well, i am not at home, and holidays... u know :) Tomorrow i will come back to the city, but i have too many work to do, thats why i need some break. See u later! ;)

Haaaay Ed. Im very glad to that u are ok and back. Hope to catch u around 13-15 by our time. Damn u dont know how all we worried about u. I hope u know that we are gonna join GoD. Are u with us? :) Dont say that u wont be active that doesnt matter. Btw what about job?

Nice to see you ed!!! :D :D

Well, now i leave you guys, will come back saturday :P , now it's time for exams, then a concert to end friday's evening ^^

Cya guys!! :-*

I press my thumbs, Tiny!

Oh didn't check the posts yet before replying to your PM ed, i was about to tell andrew and simon you were alive xD

Yeah I pmmed him with all the detailed updates ;) But unfortunately he's not coming with us right now, maybe later though :(

Some news, finally i got internet there, but i won't play still, just posting there and maybe get you a bit on msn. ;)

Cool ;D
How did your first exams go?

MERDE Tiny pour ton concours!!!!!!!!

(A way to say gl in fr :) )

And a HNY to everybody as i haven't told it already here! best wishes irl and ingame!!! Hope you had good times and partys and hope to meet u soon ingame! (Hehe, yes i sometimes manage to play a little ;)


Cu all :)

Thx Charly!  ;D Same to u :D

@Luc no imo :/

What does that mean? My exam didn't go? lol

Well, i will see at the results, it doesn't really depend of what i did, but of what the others did, but i'm quite satisfied of what i did, wasn't prolly that bad :P


Et merçi charlynounet!! t'es plus le premier à me le souhaiter xD ( même une serveuse d'un restaurant m'a dit bonne chance :o )

Ok u are clever guy i`m sure u will pass.  :P

Too clever sometimes.

Sometimes? Like? :P

It is done... ;D

Ye it is!! Finally... :P

Now, hollidays for 2 days!! :D

I wish, anyway, luck and love to all ex-IO players !

I hope to meet you in supeR,Lan and, when I'll be back, in Sago's Castle  ;)

Peace,
Darkal.

SupeR,Lan at sago's castle??? :o :o :P :P

WTF?!??!
Real life fraggin?

OMG that'd be KICK-ASS xD Should be possible somehow... :P

Possible?? lol

Well, build the castle, all get nutsprotection, put paintball guns on the weapon spawns, and play ;D

First part is kinda hard :P

We rent bricks and spray them in the right colors ^^

think global: rent some cheap guys and let them do the job...

Hum... we would have to rent a lot of bricks actually, and then the entrance price would be higher :P

Russians.










=)

lol damn u no  :P :P :P :P better invite Tajiks  ;D ;D ;D

Russians... chinese ye :P

uh? Didnt get point  :-\

Better use chinese, they're more, work more, and don't ask any money :P

lol lol they need pay same money as russian do i guess :P

Omg, then not that much :P :P

One year has passed...

Yeah! Omg already ! And OA still alive :P ( Or not )

Just realized we suceeded to spam senseless stuff on the goodbye topic from the team... lol

XD

Sometimes i take a bit of time to reread some topics and such, some good memories :)

Yes, same here. So funny to realise how stupid my posts were x)

Missing a lot those times, i just went through my screenshots and there was all those fun matches we played 2vs2/3vs3/1vs1, was really awesome.

Diho stopped also OA ? Why doesn't he come back ? And does someone know why a lot of clan are dying ? I heard a come back of *r and supeR no ?

r* are dead since months, and that's not gonna change afaik, timo stopped oa, yes, but he still plays some rare times.

He is busy with an oa mod, though.

Supers promised to be back soon. They got a new forum, with decent software this time, since a couple weeks now. I don't seem them being very active though.

What is their new website adress ? ^^

You got the adress on your own clan website ^^

There is still an active clan accept GoD? ;D

IO ^^. No wait... Shit, we're stuck with Italians. Oh and Finnish :)

IO could accept GoD ye xD

thx a lot ;D

ps: jaja, damn schoolboys. i had to learn this f****n language 35 years ago (and i am still not familiar to speak or write ;D ).