sometime in the fall of 99. using the internet archive to look at KoV's old website, and demonmoon disbanded KoV a day after Christmas of 99. kov was my first and favorite guild, lol. except maybe The Royals, right Minoc? lol

Played originally on my cousin's account (FuzzMan). That might have been in late '99?

After I got my own computer, I made this account --after I found a webservice (Dome-X) that could create free emails that GO didn't filter out (they didn't want us using free emails, like hotmail). That was summer of 2000 I think.

:O I am pretty sure I started in 2003 :P

I don't get it... we spent a big part of our life on Graal. Than the day Graal shuts down, we lose everything we did within those years therefor wasting our life on nothing >.>

I think I remember fuzzman x3

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?