BMW
BMW (now known as Wrongthink Tank) is the central group on which the wiki is based. Initially formed as a Rust group from SomethingAwful, BMW grew out of its origins from the digital equivalence of someones basement to being the spire of autism its known as today.
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| Motto | "Fuck Goons" |
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| Formation | May 25, 2015 |
| Website | wrongthinkthank |
| Bill Clinton is a rapist infowars.com | |
History
Formation
BMW began at the end of the life span of the Goon run Rust server era. Bishyaler and Shadowgate merged their servers in April 2015 to create Goon Playground. The two largest clans on the server at the time were GM and FORD who had been at odds for months, trading raids and feuding in the SA Rust thread. The tipping point came after GAY and WU-TANG joined the server and GM launched its biggest raid on the FORD northern base. Many of FORDs members expressed disinterest in continuing to play since GM had become a monopoly on the server. After GM launched a massive raid on the WU-TANG base, the situation reached a peak. A mass of people, including GM, agreed that the server with its current population of just Goons and no pubbies was unsustainable. The decision was made to leave the server for several wipes to allow a pubbie userbase to grow. At this time, many new players were expressing interest in Rust, but had no desire to play with Goons against other Goons. Capitaler began floating the idea to create a massive Goon rush clan on a public modded server. Ideas were tossed around on what to name this new clan, with some idiot suggesting CARS, but the idea that since the group was going into a foreign land, it should be named after a foreign car company. Also, the joke from GM about Rejdukian and his German engineering. Cal Worthington landed on the name BMW, and the next wipe, BMW was created. GM, FORD, WU-TANG, and GAY all merged into one group using Woofingtons Mumble as a meeting spot.
Early Days
The leaders of GM and FORD with Capitaler became the immediate leaders of BMW. They decided to move to the modded Rust server ran by YouTuber, PsiSyndicate. BMW immediatly adopted many of the strategies from all the aforementioned clans, such as GMs DREADFORT and FORDs sprawling base design which was itself influenced by Legacy Rusts DETROIT. The result was an impressive display of autism that only Goons can accomplish.
The first two wipes were rough for BMW. As many new people joined, leading and keeping the cats wrangled proved to be tough. the DREADFORT was raided and cored multiple times, as were the outlying structures of the compound. However, as many streamers revealed to us, raiding the DREADFORT was no easy task, and many people only managed immense exterior damage without every actually getting any loot. As such, the group was always able to bounce back quickly and continue playing.
BMWs run on the server however came to an abrupt end when they were accussed of "stream sniping" a player[citation needed] who happened to both be a moderator and a friend of Psi. Kimsemus, the de facto leader of BMW and Taylor Swift, former leader of GAY, were banned from the server, which led to the rest of BMW quitting.
BMW chose Rusty Bottoms, another public modded server ran by Moegex. Following the old playbook, a DREADFORT was constructed in the snow area in the northern part of the map. Disaster struck the group almost immediately in two ways when a zerg rush by one of the larger clans at the time PANDAS pushed over the shitshack before the DREADFORT could be constructed, setting BMW back by a few days. Secondly, Kimsemus got a false positive ban from EAC, which prevented him from playing on the server. Capitaler from that moment on would become the new de facto leader of BMW. Despite early setbacks, BMW picked up speed later into the wipe cycle when they began targeting a streamer named Xyelz and starting targeting the larger players and clans, such as PANDAS, TSBS, and Jaq.
At the end of the first wipe cycle on Rusty Bottoms, a coalition of players and clans formed to create FUKBMW in a desperate all out attack on the DREADFORT. The attack was repelled multiple times, with the attackers making leaving no lasting damage to the DREADFORT outside of damage to outer walls. The coalition however is most notable for the infamous "toolbags" quote.
The second wipe cycle was largely uneventful. BMW stuck to the established playbook of basing in the snow. A few battles with KRAKEN who took over some outlying structures during hit and run raids and the infamous Turtle Raid.
Peak
On the third wipe cycle, Capitaler shifted BMW from desolate fringe basing to dominating the airfield at the center of the map. The move was highly debated and argued that it was unsustainable and BMW would fare better by sticking to the edge of the map and remaining obscure. The move however turned out to be hugely successful because of the implications of placing a giant base in the center of the map next to one of the biggest monuments on the map. BMW immediately began cultivating a reputation of having an iron fist because of its ability to constantly be raiding, its impermeability from being raided, and the infamous sniping duo of Rejdukien and Taylor Swift.
One clan did attempt outright to invade the DREADFORT on this cycle. HR launched an all out attack that managed to enter the first layer of the DREADFORT, but was quickly crushed by a pincer led by Kimsemus and Taylor. Ironically, the victory and the ensuing Youtube video of the raid is what led to the DREADFORTS downfall on the morning before wipe when TAYLOR PUT THE DOORCODES IN THE VIDEO JESUS CHRIST DUDE ARE YOU RETARDED REEEEEEEEE.
In a rare turn of events, the 4th wipe map didnt have an airfield. So BMW settled on a valley in the tundra area of the map. Cal Worthington had worked out a cease fire agreement between the former HR clan, now called SPEED, and BMW to avoid each other until the end of the wipe cycle. The wipe saw an increased return to play from Kimsemus and an increase of membership overall in BMW, which led to the formation of some of the largest roving death squads in BMW history. Also this wipe saw the increased instability of the Rusty Buttoms server. Xyelz struck against BMW in a last ditched effort before he and his squad left Rusty Bottoms. It, unsurprisingly, was a total failure when Xyelz and Dev bore deep into the DREADFORT only to run out of explosive and to be pincered by Capitaler and Taylor, ending the attack. However, the wipe ended abruptly when SPEED came in full force against the DREADFORT. The aforementioned server instability and general shitty design of Rust prevented BMW from counter-attack, turning the entire raid into a laggy slideshow shitfest. This marked the first and only time the DREADFORT was completely wiped in the Original Rust Era of BMW.
Wipe 5, like the one before it, did not feature an airfield. BMW chose to then build close to the oil tank in the desert. The compound of the DREADFORT began to expand during this time, with the return of one of GAYs signature features, FORT TAYLOR and Cynthia Dutch building a smaller dreadfort adjacent to the main fort. SPEED essentially disbanded after their leader Rigby, formerly known as Jaq, went on hiatus. However, it lived on partially under the leadership of Ashy. The wipe was riddled with bugs, such as the day one bug that prevented rockets from doing damage to objects and twig objects not despawning client side, creating indestructible buildings that looked like twig. Also, Garry, the developer of Rust, had taunted hack makers the week before, to which hackers responded by releasing a noclip hack that led to multiple bases being wiped off the map by hackers. BMW fell prey one of these hackers, and despite gun battling him for 5 hours, including a 25 minute reprieve where he was forced to log off and download an aimbot, the hacker succeeded in removing the DREADFORT.
The 6th wipe caught BMW unaware, as Facepunch released the update very early in the day by American time. The first day was then essentially playing catch up, forcing the building of two shitshacks before finally building a DREADFORT at the airfield. After the disaster that was created in the wake of the previous cycles hacker explosion, BMW leveraged their ways into Capitaler being promoted to admin of the server. SPEED continued to be a slight nuisance, with periodic guerrilla attacks against the DREADFORT that only succeeded in cosmetic damage. Tays Fetish Chamber would also make its first appearance on this wipe.
Being two months into the game, wipe 7 was decided to be BMWs last for several weeks to prevent burnout and allow the server to grow back from BMWs constant raiding. The DREADFORT compound was significantly expanded, with the inclusion of bases at the 4 cardinal directions, a FAUXFORT, and the return of a Goon Rust classic, The THUNDERDOME.
After that, BMW took a 1 month break from Rust.
On August 6th 2015, BMW came back for its 8th wipe. Capitaler and Taylor had little hope they could bring the full BMW force back, so expectations were kept low. However, despite starting almost a day late with only 6 people, BMW launched a massive raid on the group that had taken the airfield, successfully taking it and securing the site for a full fledged DREADFORT. Quornes got super drunk one night and walled off the entire airfield, which became a major controversy among the servers population. To add insult to injury, a deadly obstacle course was added to allow adventurous players a chance to loot the airfield, assuming they weren't gunned down by roving deaths quad and snipers. BMW further leveraged their position on the server to give Taylor admin at the end of the wipe. BMW spent the rest of August continuing to bulldoze the server.
Their time on Rusty Bottoms ended on a note of controversy however. TSBS had begun to reform towards the end of August. They, like BMW, had several admin members. However unlike BMW they were highly suspect in their use of both their powers and influence. The trouble began when BTK, and admin and friend of Moegex, accused several former members of SPEED who had allied with BMW of hacking into their base. However, Taylor was present during the raid in question, and was able to prove their innocence. BTK, unhappy with being unable to ban them, forced them to not be able to base with BMW, who on the next to last wipe had built their most impressive DREADFORT compound to date, including the infamous pubbie rooftop zoo.
The final controversy came in the last wipe. Incidents were occurring on the server that resembled the earlier no clip hacks, with many groups finding their loot had been taken without any parts of their base being demolished or removed. Taylor convinced Moegex to install a mod that tracked usage of cabinets and chests to try and find the culprit. The incidents almost immediately stopped, until the day before the update, a majority of BMWs explosives were stolen. Taylor began the investigation but found that the mod to track such thievery had been disabled, because of complaints of "lag". These complaints never seemed to have been voiced to anyone but BTK and nobody in BMW or others had experienced it. Regardless, TSBS launched a full scale raid on the DREADFORT as Taylor was doing the weekly tear down of the DREADFORT. Taylor and Capitaler continued to admin the server for several weeks after the majority of BMW had quit. Ashy however begun playing with Method Man, the former leader of WU-TANG, under the BMW name. Eventually however everyone stopped playing for the remainder of the fall of 2016.
Hiatus
2016 & Post-Rust
2017
Members
Founders
- Cal Worthington - As leader of FORD
- Kimsemus - As leader of GM
- Taylor Swift - As leader of GAY
Historical Leaders
Hall of Shame
- Scarybagels
- Akumos
- Williamstoner
- Snazzle