Once in a Blue Moon and Various Nostalgia

[LordBerenger]

WHY U HATIN ON MOI AND NOT GIVING ME EVEN A RIDICULOUS MENTION!?

I started playing a long time before the evil upkeep patch of doom =/

Remember me busting your nuts about your fief? 

[Teeth]

We should have a nostalgia server added, with the old crpg system. Just for a month to demonstrate that the new crpg is better, or not, in that case we will revolt!

[Assarhaddon]

At least from Bjord's list, most of them still play..

Then i must have have had really bad luck for not seeing them. Then again i do play mostly EU1.

I've wondered if it was you. You were one fast bastard back then.

You can blame chadz for that weird little episode of cRPG. Retiring giving wpf points allowing really fast builds. 

[Lt_Anders]

So is it bad that I was playing since 2010 Summer when we had to leave the server every 30 minutes for restarts. As well as the "FINISH THE ROUND RESTART COMING" Spams.

Heh. I started crossbow back then, haven't dropped it since. 16 gens of some kind of crossbow.

[Varyag]

Dropping crossbow? u kidding? its the only thing that can kill 2hander tincans.

[Xant]

Dropping crossbow? u kidding? its the only thing that can kill 2hander tincans.

That and every other weapon. Of course, you'll need some skills, possibly. The horror!

[Siiem]

That and every other weapon. Of course, you'll need some skills, possibly. The horror!

But you can't 1 hit them with every other weapon!

[Vibe]

Teehee, I started playing cRPG when there was only one EU server that reset every 30 minutes. I didn't play much or often those days though, was concentrating my time more on MMO's at that time. I'm not even sure I used the nick Vibe, probably not.

From those days I only remember these names:

Oberyn
Gnjus (Plate Armor + Crossbow )
Akincibegi

There was no retirement, generations, heirlooms, strategus, NA or clans back then.

[MrShovelFace]

man remember people spamming the forums say "HOW DOES I COPY PRESENTATION TXT"

also remember when chadz was first working with flags and he put the moving castle parts as a place holder?
if you dont look at this video taken by a frightened bystander

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoP93FlZLNg

you can also see the names of various REALLY old school players in that video 
i spotted a wookie i didnt know he was that old

Dropping crossbow? u kidding? its the only thing that can kill 2hander tincans.

that and your giant 90 mph axe that was used in a 1h animation

Teehee, I started playing cRPG when there was only one EU server that reset every 30 minutes. I didn't play much or often those days though, was concentrating my time more on MMO's at that time. I'm not even sure I used the nick Vibe, probably not.

From those days I only remember these names:

Oberyn
Gnjus (Plate Armor + Crossbow )
Akincibegi

There was no retirement, generations, heirlooms, strategus, NA or clans back then.

there were a good deal of NA players back then (as in me and 5 other people) 

STOP SPREADING LIES
also some of the hoboknights played crpg there did those fuckers go?

[Kafein]

Agreed with every word, it's as if it were my own. Also, forgot to add you too. One of my favourite Frenchmen!

Fu stop insulting me ! I'm not French !

Anyone remember Appe_The_Destroyer ?

Full Black armor + boulder on a stick hero. Good times indeed 

UGLYBASTARD, the guy I always tried to emulate. By the end, I was quite successfull at it.
Kesh, because being oneshotted across the whole map wasn't that bad anyway.
Village_Elder, because man he was awesome at throwing rocks and making babies.
Pululu was the high-PD archer unbeatable at firing timing. He didn't cared about his reticule because of the arrow angle "bug" (firing with perfect timing means your arrow goes straight no matter your reticule)
Stulle (I remember he was a member of wolves back then) was the polearm/archer guy. He used the LHSM and was very good with both.
Kunio and his turbocourser 
Around Xmas I "discovered" the looney tunes axe (good times beating high profile people in duel with it ). One week later 3x more people were using it, one month later it was removed. Ty dev team, it was really imba  Do you remember that ?

[v/onMega]

One year... still, the first 2 weeks were the most memorable in terms of obsessive behaviour.

1 1/2 weeks and 142 hours played I bought my first gothic plate... :-)

24 hour grinds, 10 hours of strategus...a deserved lvl 45 char...
A cool community (which isnt as good anymore), no horses, the possibility to determine smbdys lvl by the gold and xp he added to the rounds pool...

Boy, I skipped everything to play...everything.

I know everybody mentioned in that list...many good players still play, many don't :-(

About the looney toons axe:

Imho Fallen_Giant  was the best user...and back paddel or jump and slash was absolutely valid...spend hours with him and Fallen_Warlord in TS.

Good times

[Corwin]

Hell, even I played two weeks in November last year. Off course, I don't expect anyone would remember me, since I was a peasant that never got past level 15.

But one notion. I remember off course that at the time everyone was a tin can two hander with crossbow on their backs, arrows were one shooting all noobs such as myself until they got at least 2-3 points in shield (which in my case served only to get me close to the fight, where I would miserably die in about 5 seconds) and that I thought that the only type of horse available in mod was Plated Charger. However, and I know chadz will disagree, I think one thing was better at that time. Building up characters past lvl 30 allowed much more versatile builds. These days 90% of all classes are 21/18, 18/21 or 18/18.

[Gnjus]

Nice post Bjord, but man, how could you forget Muhammed? The stylish Muslim player, welcoming every1 by saying salam aleikum!

Indeed. He was one of my favorites, Muhammed ibn Abdullah, always leading the charge with his gigantic 2-handed sabre and in his orange outfit with a turban on his head. Somehow the ranged spam kept missing him (while other shieldless people around him kept dying), as if he had some kind of invisible aura shielding him.


My favorite No. 1 tho was Sir John Applebottom, owlpiker who later turned into a knight. Even tho i sucked at manual blocking i was never afraid of anyone but him. 


P.S. Oberyn, Olwen & I really didn't get along very well, we were always arguing & insulting each other until one day I said to Olwen: hey you frog-eating bastard, lets form a clan to show these scumbags how it's done properly (there were several clans running around already). The rest is history. 
Also, of all 22nd members i think it's worth to mention Mad Jack McMad and his Mallet, together with Sir Ironlake (aka Blade57) the Rider.


P.P.S. Oh, and i just remembered one more guy, my favorite bundle of sticks of the Ol' days: Vodaz. Pre-historic version of Panos. 

[Mala]

Some really really old videos from me.
Back then you could wear everthing as long you had the money to buy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS4p-ovTLp4

And so it have looked if there was a databse reset.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjGVztif9Kk

[Bjarky]

ahhh peasant wars, one of the my fondest memorys from back then 
+ lvl 46, QQ where art thou? ^^

oh my and those damn 30min resets and before that we had to copy and paste from a textfile on the homepage to update our chars, lol