Just thought I'd check in. My name is Audun, and I'm an mmorpgoholic.

"wild applause"

Yes, well my story is not so short but here it is anyways, and its nice to meet all of ya;

It started back in the days of 33,6 modem and a 75mhz computer. I was allowed a total of 3 hours of gameplay every week which was spent on Great lakes on the old UO shard. Landors older brother and me was glued to the screen for 6 hours every sunday (because we made the argument that we used the 3 hours from next week, every week) which we spent on exploring the world of Brittania. This was waaay back in the days, and I still have my UO pin as proof of this.

I mainly played a carebear'ish type of player, meaning I didnt really like killing people, but I enjoyed the rush of pvp when I was thrust into it, back when there was no trammel / fellucca. Crafting was certainly fun but what made the game interesting was the freedom, and I enjoyed doing all the things I could do in this world. Europa was launched and , I got some of my friends addicted to it, including Landor and his uncle ++, sometime after this it spread to Kazama and some others that are lurking this forum anonymously. T2a came, terrathan keep was the shizzle. Even more time pass, but as you can understand the specifics are pretty much a blur. Sometime during 2000 me thinks, they canceled UO2 and much tears were wept, but whispers of darkfall kept me wishing for a more up to date game than UO.

DaoC came, and was mostly ignored until the PvP server of Mordred started up. All of us, meaning about 10 people started playing that actively and had alot of fun running around avoiding annoying lurikeens trying to keel us. The open and free pvp aspect with its rewards was a breath of fresh air into a game industry mixed between everquest / uo / lineage. And this is where my PvP instincts matured, not really being such a big part of the Defiance crowd which my friends always got back to when grinding got too boring. As I've mostly been a healer this is where I excell and where I can call myself an expert.

Wow was released and god did I hate and love this game. Blizzard has great quality, and you can spend tons of hours on this game without having a lousy time, unless ofcourse you have played UO and get used to the freedom and mechanics in games where you can talk to your mortal enemies and you can get killed everywhere, and actually loose/win something except for time. Continued playing a healer there, and tried myself as a GM, failry successfull for a period of time, but the essence that is wow gets to me over time, and I end up hating the game and dream of Darkfall.

Which is where we are at now.

Dreaming of darkfall, and trying my best not to get dragged into EA's shitty wow-clone WAR. When I'm not trolling I'm going to be stuck infront of this screen (trolling(Edit Working...)) the hell out of alot of boards, and wishing for the beta to start already!

Audun - Healer extraordinaire -

TL;DR version

Hai, I heal, I wear my old UO pin, Nice meeting you, now lets discuss darkfall!

Cheers

Nice to meet you Audun

You are not alone in your wishing of trully free game, but we need to be patient. Just a little more time, a little more...

Nice read

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A nice introduction which I can relate to in many ways:).

I'd lose my temper if I tried to write 1) a long post, 2) a post that has opinions of UO and WoW at the same time (mainly UO+OSI opinions..)


Anyway, I only started with a 56k modem, never had 33.6k

I can remember the very first things me and my m8 experienced in UO (pre-t2a), such as:

* Our first magical item, which we thought was of great value (it was magical!) [Durable hatchet]

* Us looting a blue corpse at Vesper bank and learning the hard way what the command "guards" means

* Getting killed by a pk and placing a bounty of ~8k on their head, just to realise 10 seconds later that the sum was withdrawn from our bank

* Runnin between Vesper and Brit for the first month (and nearly always dying at the swamp that's in between them), lacking knowledge of world banks

* Hoping to sometime achieve the main goal for us (aside of being the best PvPers near Yew ): Having a large tower (we never cared about castles, they're ugly..) And when we did get the tower, AoS went live at the same time and we left the game :/



Our names were well known around Yew gate anyway and our mage chars' guild was notorious: Only 5-6 members in it, and #1 in guild war list (We had about 120 guilds in war with us, #2 only had like 100 )



Oh the days..

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UO Europa - kotivalo/Hemmo/cartoittaja/Avotuli/neekuriminer

Hehe. I started out with a Pentium at like 100MHz and a 56k modem :P
I still got my second comp though. 400MHz Pentium II, currently with 256MB RAM(originally 128 ^^)

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<Linus Torvalds> Software is like Sex. Its better when its free.

I had a 75MHz as my first computer

My second was a 350MHz Pentium I, and I still have the processor hanging with my keys in my keyring

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UO Europa - kotivalo/Hemmo/cartoittaja/Avotuli/neekuriminer

How cruel =(
Mine's a webserver xD
Works like a dream. Hosting sites doesn't consume much CPU.

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<Linus Torvalds> Software is like Sex. Its better when its free.

I remember our family buying a 400mhz really early on for about 4,000 dollars(And the dollar were almost twice the value back then compared to now). It ran like a dream, and we were among the first ones in Sweden to recieve 10mb/s(We could even compete with Denmarks internet cafés!)

Ah, the early days.