Hi there. I hail from Europe's backyard, that cool place which outsiders usually associate with cheap alcohol, corruption, ethnic cleansing, beautiful women and emigrants - the Balkans. Bulgaria, to be precise. Registered nearly 4 years ago and got addicted almost immediately. I don't play MMOs in general, tried only 3 or 4 in total, so PoW is the only one which managed to hook me.
I work in the networking field - routing, switching, firewalls for enterprise customers and ISPs. I like my job but I'm not an IT person - I care little about technologies outside of my professional sphere, prefer to read history, novels, studies in the field of the humanities and such. Sitting on my ass in the office 5 days a week is hardly the healthiest thing for me so I regularly go to the gym after the end of the working day. I like to spend vacations in the mountain, away from the noise and pollution of the city. Generally prefer small companies of quality people to big loud "party" groups where you hardly know anyone.
Several years ago was actively playing a lot of games from multiple genres - RPG, RTS, TBS, you name it - but at one point time became scarce and nowadays I rarely got more than 1-2 hours per week for these things. One of PoW's main advantages in this regard is that you can play it in the office. I'm a big fan of the original Might & Magic universe as some might have deduced and have a soft spot for sci-fi + fantasy hybrids when they're done with style.
Initially I had a stroke of genius and named my first stable Kreegan. The second one - Hive - appeared when Nate boosted the speed of the game several times (in the early PoW it took more than an year to fully develop a gladiator). Later it turned out that the better gladiators are in my second stable and managing the both consumed too much time so I dropped the Kreegan crew. I typically prefer to design interesting fighters and the readily available "top builds" usually don't fall into that category. Never been good at managing Rages so most of my fighters throughout the years have been War and Theatrics. Now one Shadow is climbing the ranks too.
See you in the grinder.