He had a statue in the barracks of the castle from an event or something.

if i could go back, id buy the graal. i gave that bike to my friend after 2 weeks.

ZeldaOnline time ;) then when they had the server list I was a member of the flames on the server Coasta De Agua (my home server at the time)

My good ol' first account, elite_master

Played UN first with my IRL friends, then moved to Era during winter of 2003.

I started in the year 2000, when I was eleven years old. I played Elven Lands a whole lot. Then I played Aramech and it was renamed Dino Valley sometime later. That server was actually pretty cool, unlike servers you would see today completely. It would be interesting if there is some way I can download those levels.

I played Main/Graal The Adventure/Classic for a minute. Not too long, but long enough to play all the quests over two or three times. After that, I pretty much fell in love with Graal2001 and focused my time on Graal towards that server pretty much from then on. Other memorable servers were Bravo Online/Andor, and a server that had clock town from Majora's Mask as its onlinestartlocal.

I'm probably forgetting many others.

I was led here under the false pretense of Zelda Online.

sometime before version 1.1. I do remember them finally releasing 1.1 so we could finally play in the regular world and not in "Real World". We could also finally save again. 1998 or 1999 I think.

I miss KoV! I was Queen by default because I was the only female that played Graal.

Started on Classic in the summer of 2000, switched to Graal 2001 the day it released. (Like, seriously spent the first night on G2k1 hunting for a few of the ONLY Gralats on the server since the staff were playing "hide the gralat" in lieu of having quests or anything yet.). Tried out G2k2 while it was in beta, then switched over to there when it finally became Graal Kingdoms. Played there as a member of Dustari for a very long time, and finally drifted away around 2007-8 as I got bored with stagnation and various other things.
...and then I came back in 2009 to post this on the forums.

2001.

I think this thread just shows that most forum users have been around the block.

The first specific version that I remember playing was 1.28, but I believe I registered for my first account in either late 1999 or early 2000. I purchased my first subscription in September of 2001, which led to me joining Dustari as the Mayor's Assistant, and I concentrated on that server and the events that came with it (Ashes of Dustari and so on) before we moved over to Kingdoms. As I remember it, Aftershock was unanimously elected to take over as Dustari's King, and his asking me to become Prince was impetus enough for me to purchase another subscription in September of 2002. When he stood down after a few months -- and originally I was to follow him -- I took over and became the worst king in Dustari's history, bar none.

There's a lot I would have done differently, like respecting the people who I had spent so much time with before ascending to the throne, or not overreacting and deleting the entire kingdom's roster when it became apparent that some pruning was needed. My maturity and introspection simply weren't yet up to the task. But that's neither here nor there, and the only lasting consequence was a tarnished reputation and a feeling of ... incompetence? Embarassment? Both, I'd say. I stayed on as a Commodore, had further arguments, and left the server when my subscription ran out. I did continue to play Era for a period, but even that became stale sometime in 2004, and I haven't bothered to look in since then. Though clearly Kingdoms is a shadow of its former self, it is satisfying for me to know that remnants of the social institutions that defined my gaming interests for well over a year still exist, even if only superficialities like names and titles are familiar to me. If my feeling of nostalgia were to linger, I would even consider purchasing a subscription (Gelats or whatever the proper term is), but my foremost interest was role-playing and meeting people, not accumulating levels or items. With such a low player-count, I imagine that must be the only reason to play.

Even though I have not been an active participant in five years, I still feel an intangible connection to the game because of the time and effort I put into it while I was playing. In hindsight, I was not here for a long time and never tried to become a part of the larger social community, but I had the privilege to meet some terrific people and received an incredible amount of enjoyment from this otherwise simple game. I think that's all any of us can ask for. When it is shut down, I imagine I will feel a tinge of disappointment, the realization that an insignificant chapter of my life has been closed forever. Even today, I can still come back if I want; when that opportunity no longer exists, what will be left except for a handful of memories and my imagination to fill in what I've forgotten?

2003 or 4. Back when UN had hundreds of active pk'rs lol.

The physical things, such as things you've developed for graal, (myself, none) you lose. But things you learned on the way should stay with you. I've learned quite a bit about behaviours of different types of people, as well as how to deal with those behaviours. I'm sure other people have learned many other things if they thought about it.

"I've spent my WHOLE LIFE practicing to be a great basketball player, then one day I mess up my knee and all those years were wasted on nothing".

It happens, and it's not just Graal, or even games or computers. It can happen under many circumstances. You can't sit and avoid doing things that you might think will eventually be 'wasted time', or else you'd miss out on a lot in life.

Haha I remember that. There was nothing to do except look for gralats or jump rope.

I started today. :3

Join Date: Oct 2006
No.

This forum is lying. Believe me!

the forum isn't lying -_-

This one time I dropkicked Elizabeth and she nearly died..

-03 for me!

2009!

rifk u nub

Started in very late 2001, as I recall. I was 9 years old.

First experience of p2p was sharing this account:
http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...rname=Zack5410

and then eventually got my own.

Heh, alot of these people I think lie about when they started >_<

It sorta goes off when you started your forum account a little bit. Alot of you I see are fairly new.. or just stayed hidden?

I downloaded graal, completely oblivious and didn't read the 'Terms and Documents' labelling "Graalonline is more addictive then..." a drug reference that can't be stated on these forums, but I think we know. In December of 2002.

I started on UN, my IRL friends introduced it to me and I beleive 4-6 of us always played UN as a trial doing the same quests over and over. And one my one friend jump roping with a girl hitting on her. Ahaha man that was funny, being a 13 yr old. Then they wandered off from boredom and I logged on Era. I remember thining the drill could be used as a weapon, and was pumped when someone gave me a drill. I was a trial so I had to keep working for my items everyday, would mine and get two uzis. Then i got scammed :(. Then I learned how to dev. =O
accts:
elite_master
samsan1337
DevTJ
TheJames

Who remembers the old school player list? Hah

Forums date only reflect when you actually signed up on the forums, which is a completely different process than creating an account for the game. Not to mention a lot of people have used/shared different accounts.

I started close to the beginning of 04, didnt upgrade till after October.
TheJames, I didnt use the forums back then, and got interested last year, when I figured out which password it wanted LOL.

So if I calculated this right, I would have started in 2001. I am not so sure though. My first account was yttas, which got banned for... nothing. Anyways I was in the 5th grade then... or maybe it was 4th. I don't quite recall. All I remember was it was a long time ago.

Created Mr Anonymous in 2006 though.

I think i started around 98-00 sometime.. mhermher was my first account..

I started in 2002 and was a trial about 3 years and then... yeah I got this account ;)

I still exactly remember how the Graal exe was called Graal2001.exe, so I changed it to Graal2002.exe :D

I started in '98. I moved across country in '98 so that's how I remember lol. Back before P2P was even thought of.

98-99 is my era, started playing right after ZO was changed into GO.

1.36 i think.

I started in march 2001.

I started in 98' I played Casually because I had a ****ty IBM. It would take me like 10 hours to cross a level it was horrible... Then I got a new computer in 2000 and thats when I got really addicted to it....sigh...

Started playing during summer 2006, upgraded in 2007.

I started playing like 20 of these threads ago.

2005, actually I was too young to play
WOOT!

1984

2004/5 Not sure which

"I forgot" needs to be an option.