Raiding Hall of Fame: Nominations for 2022 Class OPEN!

[Sweeze]

i would like to nominate vippertooth33. as far as i know he's been active in military gameplay longer than anyone else (longer than ive been alive by over a year) and not just as a lemming, he's more or less always been at the forefront of organizing the antifascist movement on nationstates and as such has helped lead some of the largest and most immediately impactful raids this site has ever seen

i think chingis is also deserving of a nomination; his work on kimchi/miso/buzzy bee as well as ramen/4square/koru for both canterlot and lily has facilitated a push towards technological advancement and scripting in r/d (you all use feather/swarm so you've seen a small chunk of that advancement firsthand), and whether you think thats a good thing or not, its definitely hella influential and has completely changed the metagame

[Honeydewistania]

I second the nomination of Free Algerstonia

[Numero Capitan]

I'd like to nominate Berkeley Run. He was an early member of Unknown and The Brotherhood of Blood before that. He proved formative to the intel work accomplished in those regions, teaching many important techniques to those who worked with him, which had long-lasting effects both there and elsewhere. He put three months into a sleeper operation in Asia and brought three regions together in order to take the region--a major accomplishment! His activity and commitment spurred the regions in which he was active to further accomplishment.

I will second this.

There’s some good options from previous years that have slipped through the net but this one probably deserves further consideration given this years panel

[RiderSyl]

like I did in 2020, I'll be nominating Aurum Rider/Atagait/Vleer, nominating Vandoosa, and nominating Venico

also +1 to the nominations of Vippertooth, Chingis, and Sweeze

[Reventus Koth]

As is yearly tradition, I'd like to remind everyone that adding detail is the best thing you can do to ensure the judges take your nominations seriously and provide a solid foundation for a nominee's breadth of work. Nominations do not need to be "seconded", but they could always use more elaboration.

[Scardino]

Anerastreia/Xoriet

This raider has demonstrated a consistent pattern of integrity and honor, except for that one time in 2016. As a leader alongside Abenthy/Severisen in Lone Wolves United, Anera was integral to energizing the region when it was in a lull and returning the field force to a sophisticated operation. Multiple historic raids were executed under Anera’s leadership, talent was developed, and the culture that LWU has been known for over the years was reinvigorated. Recruitment, particularly of active members, reached new heights and LWU navigated multiple foreign policy challenges under Anera’s guidance. Under the name Xoriet, valuable contributions were also made militarily specifically as pertains to raiding in Osiris, TBH (?), NPO, TEP, and no doubt more in ways that others are better equipped to describe than myself. Anerastreia’s leadership has always been marked by a commitment to not undertaking something that would not be completed and completing whatever was undertaken, chicken strips notwithstanding.

[Davelands]

Anerastreia/Xoriet

This raider has demonstrated a consistent pattern of integrity and honor, except for that one time in 2016. As a leader alongside Abenthy/Severisen in Lone Wolves United, Anera was integral to energizing the region when it was in a lull and returning the field force to a sophisticated operation. Multiple historic raids were executed under Anera’s leadership, talent was developed, and the culture that LWU has been known for over the years was reinvigorated. Recruitment, particularly of active members, reached new heights and LWU navigated multiple foreign policy challenges under Anera’s guidance. Under the name Xoriet, valuable contributions were also made militarily specifically as pertains to raiding in Osiris, TBH (?), NPO, TEP, and no doubt more in ways that others are better equipped to describe than myself. Anerastreia’s leadership has always been marked by a commitment to not undertaking something that would not be completed and completing whatever was undertaken, chicken strips notwithstanding.

I'll second that.

[Reventus Koth]

Multiple historic raids were executed under Anera’s leadership, talent was developed

Names of regions hit on historic raids and raiders mentored would go a long way here, and that goes for all nominees!

[Dakota]

I'd like to nominate Berkeley Run. He was an early member of Unknown and The Brotherhood of Blood before that. He proved formative to the intel work accomplished in those regions, teaching many important techniques to those who worked with him, which had long-lasting effects both there and elsewhere. He put three months into a sleeper operation in Asia and brought three regions together in order to take the region--a major accomplishment! His activity and commitment spurred the regions in which he was active to further accomplishment.

There’s some good options from previous years that have slipped through the net but this one probably deserves further consideration given this years panel

assuming i was told right and that's actually you -
extreme sigh

thank you numero you're a blessing

[New King Isles]

I would like to Nominate Durm for His Contribution to Several regions and for his Contribution To raiding

[Refuge Isle]

I would like to Nominate Durm for His Contribution to Several regions and for his Contribution To raiding

Seconded. Holor's legacy transcends space and time.

[Devious]

i think chingis is also deserving of a nomination; his work on kimchi/miso/buzzy bee as well as ramen/4square/koru for both canterlot and lily has facilitated a push towards technological advancement and scripting in r/d (you all use feather/swarm so you've seen a small chunk of that advancement firsthand), and whether you think thats a good thing or not, its definitely hella influential and has completely changed the metagame

big second
pushing canterlot to be prolific enough to briefly get condemned pretty much purely on tagging is pretty impressive too, even if that later got overturned in a miscarriage of justice
which speaking of, condemn lily when?

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anyways speaking of prolific tagging, id like to nominate sweeze.
looking at the inductees that've already made it, there's pretty much no mention of tagging. and that's understandable, from a certain perspective- the regions hit during a typical tag are dead; they don't cause lasting damage; they're just good for honing skills, and so on. we've all seen the arguments. and in a vacuum, i'd agree that tagging alone would not be sufficient to deserve a spot in the HoF. however. i feel that the sheer volume and consistency with which sweeze was been tagging is noteworthy in itself- as of early 2021, sweeze had been a participant in hitting over 7000 documented tagged regions, and pointed over 6000 of those personally. these numbers have undoubtedly grown since; i'm just going off of the data point i happen to have.
as if that weren't an absurd enough statistic, sweeze also co-holds the single-team record at 233 hits in one update as well as the multi-team record at 576. (hi please correct me if these numbers've been surpassed by a different lily run since; im running on too little sleep as usual). the single-team record in particular has been made a mockery of by lily, with no one else even remotely close (can look for exact numbers later, but i'm pretty sure the non-lily record is like, less than half of that?).

but sure. let's say tagging is lame and bad and not worthy of recognition, regardless of volume. sweeze is also responsible for significant quality-of-life improvements in Feather and Swarm, two scripts that drastically better the raiding experience by adding keybinds and improving puppet management respectively. all released in an accessible, open-source manner.

[85 Chinger]

There are a few names missing from the current list of inductees.
[*] Souls is an obvious name, frankly should be on there already.
[*] Venico also deserves a spot on the list

Some less obvious nominations:
[*] Apatosaurus
[*] Miravana, who had an illustrious raiding career before his retirement last year.

[Vando0sa]

I say Koth needs a nomination for bringing Brotherhood of Malice back out of retirement. Having a blast there now!

[Devious]

I say Koth needs a nomination for bringing Brotherhood of Malice back out of retirement. Having a blast there now!

koth has already made it in, i believe

[Scottiesland]

I would like to nominate McMannia Whitehall. A player in this game since 2006 McMannia has gone to lead a multitude of raider regions - most notably Hydra Command. McMannia lead HyCom to its heigh of over 500 nations. Lead the last major raid and refound of a school region - Edisonia. Lead many major operations such as a raid on Japan, the place that has no big banks, and Equestria. McMannia also lead and aided in many other raids throughout his 16 year long raiding career.

(I would like to add that Tom, NSA, Grey, and many others also lead HyCom alongside McMan. While they should not be forgotten or excluded I decided to specifically nominate McMan.)

I'd also like to second Sweeze's nomination for her notable tagging skills.

[Quebecshire]

Without commenting on the merit of any of those put forward, it is probably unwise to include rulebreaking behavior as a part of McMannia's nomination.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

I'd like to nominate Vleerian, aka Atagait, aka T H R E A T, with a little more detail.

Lots of nominations this year mention coding contributions - I'd go so far as to say that Vleer is one of the OG's of modern NS scripts. Post-Predator, their drive towards wanting to prove those capabilities could be done legally (via 20XX), and they did. The modern and quite useful FatKATT (and it's predecessor KATT) are their brainchild, and they've reliably contributed to code reviews even in their times away from NS. From the days when they were leading the military of KOA through today, they've reliable been one of the fastest updaters on the raider field. Additionally, and I cannot understate this, SO MANY of the graphics used throughout raiding particularly are Vleer's brainchildren. They are the go-to graphic designer, including designing TBH's new flag set, recreating an HD version of TBH's old flag, and organizing/contributing to Malice's Art Hoard, among other contributions. They've been involved with countless raids, but that's not where they really shine. Well, I might mention the one time they and like 2 other dudes occupied a region quietly for like a year.


Khronion has also been a reliable background contributor to tool creation and script creation throughout the years. Majorly responsible for Spyglass (both historically forking it and maintaining it for years, and playing a major role in the recent renewal effort), creator of RATT, contributor to other code writing projects, and has been maybe my most reliable reviewer of raiding scripts since that policy was implemented. Someone else may be able to better speak for his older raiding work.

[McManniaa]

Without commenting on the merit of any of those put forward, it is probably unwise to include rulebreaking behavior as a part of McMannia's nomination.

I'd have to dig up the forum posts to demonstrably prove it, but raiding a school region was not made officially against the rules until after that raid that scott mentioned. I was the one who insisted on it being added to the site rules to avoid future confusion between raiders and site admin.

also I really need to get back to writing aav's nomination

[McManniaa]

Also yeah sweeze is long overdue for a rightfully earned spot in the HoF

[The Chariot]

i feel that the sheer volume and consistency with which sweeze was been tagging is noteworthy in itself- as of early 2021, sweeze had been a participant in hitting over 7000 documented tagged regions, and pointed over 6000 of those personally. these numbers have undoubtedly grown since; i'm just going off of the data point i happen to have.
as if that weren't an absurd enough statistic, sweeze also co-holds the single-team record at 233 hits in one update as well as the multi-team record at 576. (hi please correct me if these numbers've been surpassed by a different lily run since; im running on too little sleep as usual). the single-team record in particular has been made a mockery of by lily, with no one else even remotely close (can look for exact numbers later, but i'm pretty sure the non-lily record is like, less than half of that?).

We actually set the single team (and duo) record during Stargazer at 270; the largest non-
Lily tag also hovers around that single team number. The largest single non-lily single team tag run sits around 198, held by Libcord (no I don’t care they’re detags; getting so many required the exact same skill set as tags and was arguably slightly harder at the time). For raiders it’s 116 or so. Furthermore, sweeze happens to be the most prolific point ever, beating out even the now delete on sight Cora. She also happens to be the founder of the illustrious Blood Battalion.

While obviously sweeze is as deserving of recognition as any, I am hesitant to say that recognition should be in the raiding hall of fame, especially considering Lily’s move towards defending under her tenure. In lieu of her, I would instead like to nominate another small child equally, if not more deserving of the recognition: Team Leo.

[Honeydewistania]

Second the nominations of Apatosaurus and Team Leo

[Refuge Isle]

For raiders it’s 116 or so.

or 143

[Trans Anarcho-Communist Lesbian Catgirls]

or 143

nods nods this is true, this is true nods

[Vleerian]

I'd like to nominate Devious. Among her technical contributions stands spyglass, an indispensable tool for the modern Raider that has been responsible for the lion's share of raids conducted over the past 6 years possible (excepting Lily.) Even in light of the existence of Lily's tools such as buzzy bee and it's predecessor, I would argue that spyglass was, and still is more significant, and walked so many of the tools we enjoy today can run.

Devi created spyglass shortly after half of Raiderdom was nuked for predator. While sheets were not novel at the time (TBR/DEN having a monolithic 'elite' sheet that updated itself), they were both not easy to use, and closely guarded. Coming off the heels of predator, trust of raiding tools in general had plummeted, TBH (the only "big org" that did tags at the time) had banned tools outright. In spyglass, Devi offered an open-source raiding tool that was free for anybody to use and easy to understand. Because it was open-source, verifying the legality of it could be done by anybody. While we (we being raiders - again excepting Lily in some cases) enjoy many open-sourced tools today, it was not the norm six years ago.

Making such mission-critical tools completely open to the public is still somewhat novel to this day - see Buzzy Bee or Reliant, tools which are legal but their respective users hold closely to their chest. To my knowledge, Devi's Spyglass holds the accolade of being the raiding tool with the most longevity, as well as being one of the most mission-critical raiding tools ever made.

Outside of her technical achievements, Devi has been an invaluable member of both The Black Hawks, and The Brotherhood of Malice - climbing to the rank of Lieutenant in TBH twice after a brief tenure as a warden. Idk I'm just here hoping someone who is less of a tech-gremlin can expand on this part.