[melissa1988]

just for a recap, i'm Sir Pickles and i started in late 98 (v1.1 i believe, maybe 1.0)...at this time there was a struggle between those of us who had standard graal and graal gold...standard graal players could only get lv2 axes and no special items such as the lizard items, gold sword, and joltbombs...Tyhm is right about it being really corrupt back then...basically there were 5 gods (azrael, mandi, nick, pachuka, and galen i think) and they could do basically whatever they wanted...they only got these positions because they kissed unixmad and stefan's asses hehe...standard players were exploited and a lot of hacking DID take place...probably about as much as there is on g98...the main difference i've seen is that the true 98 levels from i played actually worked most of the time (you could get 20 hearts legit, as long as your flags didn't mess up)...and also, pachuka had a good thing going until the power went to his head (this happened the very first day haha, but some of the levels he made were cool) and despite all this hacking n'stuff going on not EVERYONE knew how and not everyone abused it like they do on the 98 server...but all in all i think graal1998 is a pretty accurate representation of what graal was when it was first developing into it's own program and not just a java app

Sir Pickles