Crash-Time Chronicles (Your History in Other Games)

[Reviresco]

DO NOT QUOTE THIS POST FFS

I started playing online multiplayer games back in 1997, but I don't have any Diablo, Infantry (Sony Station game), or SubSpace/Continuum (top-down space shooter) screenshots anymore, sadly. I eventually moved on to MMORPGs. My first was Dark Age of Camelot, in 2001. I only have a few from that game and WoW (quit shortly before BC and briefly came back in WotLK).

Dark Age of Camelot

I almost always played my Friar. It was a jack-of-all-trades self-buffing class in a game rife with buff bots buffing specialized classes. Therefore, it was gimp. I still loved the character, though. DAOC, which had always been a PvP-centric game, ruined itself by adding mandatory PvE horse **** with sky-high time requirements (Master Levels [PvE raids that also required additional PvE grinding to allow unlocking the next] and Artifacts [which were gotten through PvE, had to be unlocked with several scrolls dropped very rarely in PvE, and then had to be leveled up, almost entirely in PvE) if you wanted to be at all relevant in PvP. Ironically, the next game I would play was WoW.

Defending

Sieging

Invasion

Flavor-of-the-Month Classes

Roleplay Opportunities

World of Warcraft

Someone Else's Molten Core screenshot that has me in it (I still hate the color orange)

I left shortly before AQ40 was released because I was taking 33 credit hours (retook 3 courses to raise my GPA to Summa Cum Laude) and finishing my bachelor's. We had BWL on full clear at the time. I offered my guild my account but they said I'd be back soon. I wasn't.

I came back after WotLK was fairly old and tried to get my tank going again, but it was too much work and I was no longer a young kid without many responsibilities. I mostly dinked around on my PvP healer druid and then unsubbed again.

Warhammer

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning was ruined by Electronic Arts. I know it's very fashionable to blame EA for stuff, but it is true. They slashed 2/3 of the end-game content and did not address population imbalances. Unlike DAoC, Warhammer only had 2 factions, not 3, so there was no self-balancing. Despite all of this, I loved this game. I played in the Orc vs Dwarves pairing, which was made before EA ruined everything, and it was the most nuanced gaming environment I have ever experienced. The Games Workshop people did their part admirably.

Also, tanks were amazing in this game. Their damage was very poor, which was fine, but they had amazing utility (e.g., bodyguard damage sharing, bonuses to and against siege damage, channeled shield blocking, group buffs, and more), and godly survivability. Most importantly, there was collision detection, and tanks had knockbacks. You really felt like you were doing your job, unlike in other games where you wondered why you weren't playing a DPS.

Ramp Blocking pt. 1

Ramp Blocking pt. 2

Killstealing with peanut tank damage

Morale Building pt. 1

Morale Building pt. 2

DAoC Easter egg (traveling through a Chaos portal)

Of course the only SS I appear to have of the front of my character is when I had newbie gear.

Detail

Sewer level (no giant rats, at least...as far as I remember)

Killing the borderline NSWF strongest PvE boss (not pictured)

End-Game PvP/PvE that EA Slashed to 1/3

Sieges

Channeled Shield Block OP

Tanks could even kill casters if they timed their channeled spell resist well (most powerful Bright Wizard on the server at the time).

Think this was the highest PvP rank I got.

EVE Online

I basically just lived in Low Sec (not truly carebearish but still fairly safe) and would swap clones to do faction warfare logistics (healing) because repairing didn't cost you enemy faction standing for some reason--probably intended to entice people to be healers.

Spreadsheets. In. Spaaaaaace!

I flew a Dominix at first, then a Navy Dominix (Pictured), and finally a Rattlesnake.

I had to quit EVE after about 18 months because I was now in grad school--you may have noticed I occasionally make an inexcusably long post--and buried in work. However, I kept watching EVE streams. One day I saw Daopa was streaming a game I hadn't seen before.

Onward! To Victor-ack!

[Dallane]

DO NOT QUOTE THIS POST FFS

I started playing online multiplayer games back in 1997, but I don't have any Diablo, Infantry (Sony Station game), or SubSpace/Continuum (top-down space shooter) screenshots anymore, sadly. I eventually moved on to MMORPGs. My first was Dark Age of Camelot, in 2001. I only have a few from that game and WoW (quit shortly before BC and briefly came back in WotLK).

Dark Age of Camelot

I almost always played my Friar. It was a jack-of-all-trades self-buffing class in a game rife with buff bots buffing specialized classes. Therefore, it was gimp. I still loved the character, though. DAOC, which had always been a PvP-centric game, ruined itself by adding mandatory PvE horse **** with sky-high time requirements (Master Levels [PvE raids that also required additional PvE grinding to allow unlocking the next] and Artifacts [which were gotten through PvE, had to be unlocked with several scrolls dropped very rarely in PvE, and then had to be leveled up, almost entirely in PvE) if you wanted to be at all relevant in PvP. Ironically, the next game I would play was WoW.

Defending

Sieging

Invasion

Flavor-of-the-Month Classes

Roleplay Opportunities

World of Warcraft

Someone Else's Molten Core screenshot that has me in it (I still hate the color orange)

I left shortly before AQ40 was released because I was taking 33 credit hours (retook 3 courses to raise my GPA to Summa Cum Laude) and finishing my bachelor's. We had BWL on full clear at the time. I offered my guild my account but they said I'd be back soon. I wasn't.

I came back after WotLK was fairly old and tried to get my tank going again, but it was too much work and I was no longer a young kid without many responsibilities. I mostly dinked around on my PvP healer druid and then unsubbed again.

Warhammer

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning was ruined by Electronic Arts. I know it's very fashionable to blame EA for stuff, but it is true. They slashed 2/3 of the end-game content and did not address population imbalances. Unlike DAoC, Warhammer only had 2 factions, not 3, so there was no self-balancing. Despite all of this, I loved this game. I played in the Orc vs Dwarves pairing, which was made before EA ruined everything, and it was the most nuanced gaming environment I have ever experienced. The Games Workshop people did their part admirably.

Also, tanks were amazing in this game. Their damage was very poor, which was fine, but they had amazing utility (e.g., bodyguard damage sharing, bonuses to and against siege damage, channeled shield blocking, group buffs, and more), and godly survivability. Most importantly, there was collision detection, and tanks had knockbacks. You really felt like you were doing your job, unlike in other games where you wondered why you weren't playing a DPS.

Ramp Blocking pt. 1

Ramp Blocking pt. 2

Killstealing with peanut tank damage

Morale Building pt. 1

Morale Building pt. 2

DAoC Easter egg (traveling through a Chaos portal)

Of course the only SS I appear to have of the front of my character is when I had newbie gear.

Detail

Sewer level (no giant rats, at least...as far as I remember)

Killing the borderline NSWF strongest PvE boss (not pictured)

End-Game PvP/PvE that EA Slashed to 1/3

Sieges

Channeled Shield Block OP

Tanks could even kill casters if they timed their channeled spell resist well (most powerful Bright Wizard on the server at the time).

Think this was the highest PvP rank I got.

EVE Online

I basically just lived in Low Sec (not truly carebearish but still fairly safe) and would swap clones to do faction warfare logistics (healing) because repairing didn't cost you enemy faction standing for some reason--probably intended to entice people to be healers.

Spreadsheets. In. Spaaaaaace!

I flew a Dominix at first, then a Navy Dominix (Pictured), and finally a Rattlesnake.

I had to quit EVE after about 18 months because I was now in grad school--you may have noticed I occasionally make an inexcusably long post--and buried in work. However, I kept watching EVE streams. One day I saw Daopa was streaming a game I hadn't seen before.

Onward! To Victor-ack!

You going to play the new version of DoaC?

I really miss warhammer. Had so much fun on my blackrock orc.

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DO NOT QUOTE THIS POST FFS

I started playing online multiplayer games back in 1997, but I don't have any Diablo, Infantry (Sony Station game), or SubSpace/Continuum (top-down space shooter) screenshots anymore, sadly. I eventually moved on to MMORPGs. My first was Dark Age of Camelot, in 2001. I only have a few from that game and WoW (quit shortly before BC and briefly came back in WotLK).

Dark Age of Camelot

I almost always played my Friar. It was a jack-of-all-trades self-buffing class in a game rife with buff bots buffing specialized classes. Therefore, it was gimp. I still loved the character, though. DAOC, which had always been a PvP-centric game, ruined itself by adding mandatory PvE horse **** with sky-high time requirements (Master Levels [PvE raids that also required additional PvE grinding to allow unlocking the next] and Artifacts [which were gotten through PvE, had to be unlocked with several scrolls dropped very rarely in PvE, and then had to be leveled up, almost entirely in PvE) if you wanted to be at all relevant in PvP. Ironically, the next game I would play was WoW.

Defending

Sieging

Invasion

Flavor-of-the-Month Classes

Roleplay Opportunities

World of Warcraft

Someone Else's Molten Core screenshot that has me in it (I still hate the color orange)

I left shortly before AQ40 was released because I was taking 33 credit hours (retook 3 courses to raise my GPA to Summa Cum Laude) and finishing my bachelor's. We had BWL on full clear at the time. I offered my guild my account but they said I'd be back soon. I wasn't.

I came back after WotLK was fairly old and tried to get my tank going again, but it was too much work and I was no longer a young kid without many responsibilities. I mostly dinked around on my PvP healer druid and then unsubbed again.

Warhammer

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning was ruined by Electronic Arts. I know it's very fashionable to blame EA for stuff, but it is true. They slashed 2/3 of the end-game content and did not address population imbalances. Unlike DAoC, Warhammer only had 2 factions, not 3, so there was no self-balancing. Despite all of this, I loved this game. I played in the Orc vs Dwarves pairing, which was made before EA ruined everything, and it was the most nuanced gaming environment I have ever experienced. The Games Workshop people did their part admirably.

Also, tanks were amazing in this game. Their damage was very poor, which was fine, but they had amazing utility (e.g., bodyguard damage sharing, bonuses to and against siege damage, channeled shield blocking, group buffs, and more), and godly survivability. Most importantly, there was collision detection, and tanks had knockbacks. You really felt like you were doing your job, unlike in other games where you wondered why you weren't playing a DPS.

Ramp Blocking pt. 1

Ramp Blocking pt. 2

Killstealing with peanut tank damage

Morale Building pt. 1

Morale Building pt. 2

DAoC Easter egg (traveling through a Chaos portal)

Of course the only SS I appear to have of the front of my character is when I had newbie gear.

Detail

Sewer level (no giant rats, at least...as far as I remember)

Killing the borderline NSWF strongest PvE boss (not pictured)

End-Game PvP/PvE that EA Slashed to 1/3

Sieges

Channeled Shield Block OP

Tanks could even kill casters if they timed their channeled spell resist well (most powerful Bright Wizard on the server at the time).

Think this was the highest PvP rank I got.

EVE Online

I basically just lived in Low Sec (not truly carebearish but still fairly safe) and would swap clones to do faction warfare logistics (healing) because repairing didn't cost you enemy faction standing for some reason--probably intended to entice people to be healers.

Spreadsheets. In. Spaaaaaace!

I flew a Dominix at first, then a Navy Dominix (Pictured), and finally a Rattlesnake.

I had to quit EVE after about 18 months because I was now in grad school--you may have noticed I occasionally make an inexcusably long post--and buried in work. However, I kept watching EVE streams. One day I saw Daopa was streaming a game I hadn't seen before.

Onward! To Victor-ack!

You going to play the new version of DoaC?

I really miss warhammer. Had so much fun on my blackrock orc.

I never played warhammer

[Reviresco]

You gaiz I said no quoting gaiz

[Dallane]

You gaiz I said no quoting gaiz

[Reviresco]

You gaiz I said no quoting gaiz

And to think I voted for you in Claeyt's make-me-mod thread.

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My first mmorpg, real one anyway, was EQ, nothing spectacular to report there, made it to level 53 or so, never did anything spectacular, got bored, quit... then came WoW. At the time I was doing a 3 month stint on an ankle bracelet, so i was literally playing about 12 hours a day. within a month i was an officer in my guild, and within another month I was co-gm of that same guild. a few weeks later I found myself in the top raiding guild on the server, where the top healer on the server was trying to respec tank. so i was pretty much taken out, given gear, taught how to raid heal, and became the top rated paladin on my server for about 2 years. My most notable accomplishment was that I was also one of the biggest assholes on the forums there. I eventually joined a guild of forum trolls and started getting banned almost weekly, sometimes on the same day I came back from a ban. High point of that time period was when I was having a mini flame war with some guy i had been guilded with the previous year, and I doxxed the **** outta him and his gf on the forums. amazingly nobody reported it, and he just quit and went off to cry and suck on his thumb for a while. then I got bored, quit, and didnt play any more mmorpg's until I got turned on to salem. and then the server went down, and I crashed during the popham tutorial, so I logged back out and read this post. Then I typed up a reply, and now its now. Not sure what I'll do next. Make a sandwich perhaps

[Reviresco]

My first mmorpg, real one anyway, was EQ, nothing spectacular to report there, made it to level 53 or so, never did anything spectacular, got bored, quit... then came WoW. At the time I was doing a 3 month stint on an ankle bracelet, so i was literally playing about 12 hours a day. within a month i was an officer in my guild, and within another month I was co-gm of that same guild. a few weeks later I found myself in the top raiding guild on the server, where the top healer on the server was trying to respec tank. so i was pretty much taken out, given gear, taught how to raid heal, and became the top rated paladin on my server for about 2 years. My most notable accomplishment was that I was also one of the biggest assholes on the forums there. I eventually joined a guild of forum trolls and started getting banned almost weekly, sometimes on the same day I came back from a ban. High point of that time period was when I was having a mini flame war with some guy i had been guilded with the previous year, and I doxxed the **** outta him and his gf on the forums. amazingly nobody reported it, and he just quit and went off to cry and suck on his thumb for a while. then I got bored, quit, and didnt play any more mmorpg's until I got turned on to salem. and then the server went down, and I crashed during the popham tutorial, so I logged back out and read this post. Then I typed up a reply, and now its now. Not sure what I'll do next. Make a sandwich perhaps

Do you use a mouse pad? Where was it manufactured?

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I still use my Max Payne mousepad that I got when I bought the game. I'm assuming it was made in Taiwan, as the smell of it makes me sexually aroused

[Heffernan]

i used to play Star Wars Galaxies from 2006 to 2011, had like 10k+ hours invested and mostly of that into collecting items and decorating my town.

Object: Mustafarian Underground Bunker
Name: Secret Rebel Base
Time Invested: 10k+ hours
Money Invested 2+billion credits
items: 1300-1400 only decorative

Entrance:

Main Hall:

Computer Core Room:

Weapons and Armor Storage:

Living Room:

Selfmade Space Diorama:

Business Table (yes 3 Nak'Tra Crystal Rifles aswell as probably any rare gun):

Medical Room:

Droid Factory:

Cantina (used over 50 rebel rugs here):

even right before the game shutdown i managed to get the lead developer to check it out and say how awesome it is wich made me proud.

only people who played SWG will know how long it took to decorate everything considering how hard it is for correct placement and how much love to detail is in there (and thats just a few room i could save there was more)