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Beleth · Lore Keeper Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 848

I was wondering what old school pictures you guys have horded over the years?

So... post your OLDEST UO RP community pictures!

Oh, and if anyone has any cool non-old school pictures to shard, feel free.

ALSO!!! If anyone can post any Battle for Britain pics that would kick ass, I lost most of mine with ebonskull shutdown.
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Teh Glouris Lrod Kujabis · Transcendent Spammer Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 5740

I planned to collect crop and host all of them sometime. So lazy.

If anyone finds any britwars pics, make sure to post the one of the chicken killing beleth. *nods sagely*

Beleth · Lore Keeper Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 848

I deny all knowledge of such an incident ever occuring.
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Wren Hapswill · Adventurer Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 32

Does the word "Mehzeikostuhvei" ring a bell?

This is where you'd end up...

I have a ton of pictures on another HD I've been meaning to hook up and transfer to disk.. just keep putting it off. Someday...

Oh.. and here's a link to about old. (Sorry for the pop-ups in advance.)
HoA House

found a couple more..

Oni and I keeping the compassion shrine monster free for a Militia event

The Ophidians attacking Empath Abbey.. That's Anna playing at being one of the good guys in the bottom right. Back when she was running the newbie school.. BWF?

Elementals attacking the Abbey.. That's Sunwolf, Aurren, Gwendolyn, Will Smit IV, and myself.

Vargen returns from the land of the dead.

This is all stuff since 2000.. really need to get the older stuff off the old comp. Maybe tomorrow...

Jaedra · Sage Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 500

<3 Wren
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Evinyatar · Seasoned Veteran Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 358

Can anyone find older then this?

http://uo.stratics.com/cba/foa/welcome.shtml

Teh Glouris Lrod Kujabis · Transcendent Spammer Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 5740

You just tempted me really bad to edit the page and put something silly on it.

Jaedra · Sage Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 500

Wow, lots and lots of names I haven't heard in a long time Evinyatar Smile

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Evinyatar · Seasoned Veteran Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 358

Ah yes, brings back old memories. I wonder if that old coot Perianwyr still plays. He did soo much for the developping RP community with the Serpents Cross Tavern. To me that will always remain the place where the Golden Era of Atlantic RP was born.

William · Journeyman Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 180 Location: Vesper

Well he comes on ev every now and then, I am supposed to meet with him. I live in Fogwood and they are still kicking, and I am right across Serpants Cross. So yeah hes kicking but not that much.

Evinyatar · Seasoned Veteran Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 358

Tell him RK said hi!

Ps.s: And that I'm looking for a good barkeep in Cove! Smile

Arlin · Slightly Crazed Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 1464

Teh Glouris Lrod Kujabis · Transcendent Spammer Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 5740

Said it before and I'll say it again... NWN2 is coming out on October 20th. Nuff said.

William · Journeyman Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 180 Location: Vesper

Whats NWN2 stand for?

Teh Glouris Lrod Kujabis · Transcendent Spammer Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 5740

Neverwinter Nights 2. NWN1 has been out since 2002, and as the fan magazines predicted, the single player game and included modules were entirely forgotten as a "Mini-MMORPG" mania -exploded- among the NWN fanbase. I've been roleplaying on NWN since last January... First 6 months was off and on, then after the Nujel'm incident(s), I quit and went over there fulltime. I came back around december/january, then there was more drama and I quit, went back to become a DM (dungeonmaster; think Seer / EM) for the server (the one I stole all of the =L= players and such to ;D). I've been DMing there since. The server is slower now, since our DMs are all working on our NWN2 server project (myself and the current owner of the project founded it back this january or so) and our playerbase has slowed down. (We actually are going to be doubling/tripling/quadrupling the experience income to get players back for a last blast before NWN2).

Prettymuch, you can even still go on NWN and find -PACKED- RP servers that have a cap of 60+ players and are FULL at peak times and STILL ACTIVE the rest of the day. My desire for RP was killed off after some UO drama a good 2 months ago, and it even caused me not to want to RP on NWN. But I am looking forward to NWN2 and our server... The quality and availability of RP on NWN1 was, and still is, very high... NWN2 promises to draw in a brand new ground, and the level of customization we can do in the new toolset makes NWN1 look like crap.

Put it this way: Our server for NWN1 is so big that the toolset can't even load it properly anymore (for editing purposes). We've outground the bounds imagined in the developers wildest dreams, to the point where the module has to be split into two, and updated seperately, and then re-combined... Don't even ask me how it is done, that is for our host to do. We have a few thousand zones (sounds like a lot, but multiply about 100 houses by 2-3 floors and you'll understand that # of zones comes easily). The file that is responsible ONLY for the persistent storage chests on the server is 2 gigabytes alone. We have like 8000 accounts that we earned over 4 years.

....And the server is small compared to others. SMALL. There are some chains of zonelinked servers where about 15 servers our size, give or take, linked themselves together (imagine UO putting the entire server list on a moongate, and allowing cross-shard runes to be marked, recalled and gated to) and are now one massively gigantic combonation of RP servers.

That is what NWN1 had, and we are given, from a development / scripting standpoint, a whole new world of oppurtunity for NWN2.

I am firmly convinced NWN and soon NWN2 will be the last true strongholds of roleplay on the internet. Go ahead and argue that UO should be on the list... NWN was MADE for, and NWN2 is BEING made for roleplay first. Not to mention the extremely awesome balance that NWN2 will have without Epic character levels (no powerbuilds! yay!(...*hides his paladin iaijutsu master*)).

I sound like an advertisement yet again, but I tend to ramble if I post when I first wake up, coupled with all my hopes and dreams for internet roleplay... You get the idea.

Any questions leme know, reply or in private, and I wouldn't be upset if a mod split these last 3 posts to a new thread (though I pray not to a forum that autoprunes in 48 hours).

P.S.
Just remembered one of the first questions that I should tackle... Many ask, 'are these like freeshards?' Yes and no. See, there are no official NWN servers (and I think NWN2 might sponsor player servers, but no official ones there either) so no, it isn't a halfassed ripoff of code like the UO freeshards. The company (Bioware for NWN1, Atari for NWN2) provide, with the game, a -massive- toolset, the most user-friendly toolset to date, which put starcraft and wc3's toolsets to shame in comparison of friendliness and ability. But yes, they are player owned and operated. However you'll see professionalism among some of the staff to the level that they put current MMORPG development teams to shame.