The Nostalgia Thread

[Andre2006]

1)When you starting playing Graal:2003 January
1a)When you starting playing Era (if different):2002 December as a trial upgraded to classic/gold account June 2003
2)The first name you went under when you first played Era: I don't remember
3)The first gang you ever joined: Black Holst
4)The first business you ever joined: Gun Point
5)The best thing to happen on you to Era: nothing
6)The worst thing to happen on you to Era: Getting my Famas scammed
7)Your most memorable moment on Era: Flying arround in a helicopter with Snake Rekon and flying in to houses and stealing items for me. =)

[Vman13x]

Juggling skulls! I trade them for a car once lol.

[LoStSuRfEr1]

1)When you starting playing Graal: Long long time ago
1a)When you starting playing Era (if different):Jeez I dont remember, I remember Chrisz hooking me up with a tag in Era Underground and running around the sewers and the secret entrance.
2)The first name you went under when you first played Era:Travis
3)The first gang you ever joined:Era Underground
4)The first business you ever joinedamn cant remember the name it was after an early reset
5)The best thing to happen on you to Era:......
6)The worst thing to happen on you to Era:.......
7)Your most memorable moment on Era:....
8)Misc. (other past crap you want to tell us about):....

[Demisis_P2P]

Era was UC in mid-late 2001.

I think the first time I logged on Era it was because I didn't want to wait through ghost mode on Graal Classic and I didn't want to buy a P2P account.

[Dark_Zeratul101]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

Era was UC in mid-late 2001.

I think the first time I logged on Era it was because I didn't want to wait through ghost mode on Graal Classic and I didn't want to buy a P2P account.

No, it was UC in 2002. I distinctly remember so.

[Catbert]

1)When you starting playing Graal: 2007
1a)When you starting playing Era (if different): 2007
2)The first name you went under when you first played Era: fatherrat
3)The first gang you ever joined: Los Carteles
4)The first business you ever joined: Gun Point
5)The best thing to happen on you to Era: Getting highest mining level. Wasting 2 months of my summer, watching Let's Play Super Mario Sunshine, let's play Metal Gear Solid 4, and Dumbfoundead rap battles.
6)The worst thing to happen on you to Era: Giving away my 2mil+ worth of stuff.
7)Your most memorable moment on Era: Noobs begging me 24/7 for money / being highest mining level
8)Misc. (other past crap you want to tell us about): I have too much nostalgia when I was mining. Those levels took me FOREVER. People even thought I macroed.
Now I've got somewhere around 6,000-7,000 rocks to get 1 level!

[Vman13x]

You don't have the highest mining level, suki does and it's 71, while yours is 65

[Old_Days]

1)When you starting playing Graal: 2007
1a)When you starting playing Era (if different): 2007
2)The first name you went under when you first played Era: Sgt. Pepper
3)The first gang you ever joined: Black Holst
4)The first business you ever joined: Dippin Doughnuts
5)The best thing to happen on you to Era: A few months after I started playing, a money glitch happened that allowed me to get 300 dollers every time I logged in or reconnected, I made so much money and became very rich.
6)The worst thing to happen on you to Era: Pissing my money away through bad trades and scams till I wasnt rich anymore, and my money glitch had stopped working.
7)Your most memorable moment on Era: Apart fromm winning battle of the bands, my most memorable was duping an M4 with Masa's brother.
8)Misc. (other past crap you want to tell us about): In my noobs days Era was a wonderous place, so many adventures, and places to explore so many things to do. I remember me referring to staff as almost "gods" because it seemed like they always had a bit of leeway with the rules. Now you get jailed for calling someone an a-hole. Fail.

[deathbarrier99]

Originally Posted by Old_Days

7)Your most memorable moment on Era: Apart fromm winning battle of the bands, my most memorable was duping an M4 with Masa's brother.
8)Misc. (other past crap you want to tell us about): In my noobs days Era was a wonderous place, so many adventures, and places to explore so many things to do. I remember me referring to staff as almost "gods" because it seemed like they always had a bit of leeway with the rules. Now you get jailed for calling someone an a-hole. Fail.

Only one image to sum up this entire quote...

[Old_Days]

Originally Posted by deathbarrier99

Only one image to sum up this entire quote...

In response to your response.

If I said the sky was black, you would say its white. Get a life hot ****.

[DazJenova]

1)When you starting playing Graal:
1999 Graal Classic

1a)When you starting playing Era (if different):
2002 when it was in private stages

2)The first name you went under when you first played Era:
Darren Draven

3)The first gang you ever joined:
BH

4)The first business you ever joined:
Deliday Hotel .

5)The best thing to happen on you to Era:
When i earned my way through all staff ranks and became manager, learned alot of new skills and gained alot of new friends.

6)The worst thing to happen on you to Era:
Being fired by an abusive Vulcan that had no power to do so.

7)Your most memorable moment on Era:
Being on Ventrilo with Frankie and that was a laugh

8)Misc. (other past crap you want to tell us about):
Era's boring to play now

[RogueShatterblade]

1)When you starting playing Graal: 1997. No idea when.
1a)When you starting playing Era (if different): Much later. 2005+?
2)The first name you went under when you first played Era: Shatterblade.
3)The first gang you ever joined: Blazian.
4)The first business you ever joined: Osiris Manufacturing.
5)The best thing to happen on you to Era: Being hired by Alec to SY.
6)The worst thing to happen on you to Era: Alec. Snake. That one global dude. Whatever the f*ck his name was.
7)Your most memorable moment on Era: KotH. Duh.

[punkrules]

1)When you starting playing Graal: 99/Valikorlia
1a)When you starting playing Era (if different): 2002
2)The first name you went under when you first played Era: Karios
3)The first gang you ever joined: Era Mafia or Los Cobras
4)The first business you ever joined: I don't remember.
5)The best thing to happen to you on Era: Crass's Ninja/Running BH with Elite.
6)The worst thing to happen to you on Era: Wall walking through the Flak Quest, taking Flaks over and over again, selling them for a huge profit, getting caught and hell banned for 3 years.
7)Your most memorable moment on Era: Nemesis going berzerk on the NPC server and staff accounts.
8)Misc. (other past crap you want to tell us about): Lame or die.

[TheJames]

1)When you starting playing Graal:
December 2002

1a)When you starting playing Era (if different):
2003

2)The first name you went under when you first played Era:
James

3)The first gang you ever joined:
Not a clue

4)The first business you ever joined:
Ammo Mart

5)The best thing to happen on you to Era:
Nothing.

6)The worst thing to happen on you to Era:
Chris Vimes in charge of stuff

7)Your most memorable moment on Era:
Running the best player-owned business.
Getting jailed multiple times in Section 31, and paying Geo to let me out :]
Hacking in the old community center across walls to scam people
The mall

8)Misc. (other past crap you want to tell us about):
Hired/Fired within 1 hour once.

2005-06-03 07:07:54 on Era by Chris:
local ban

2006-01-21 23:09:40 on Era by Chris:
local ban
Banned for: Hacking

2006-05-11 22:04:31 on Era by Smutastic:
local ban
Banned for: Event Interruption
Reason: My tolerance for Event interruption is pretty low these days, you're annoying. - Smu

2007-03-06 06:07:17 on Era by TSAdmin:
local ban
Banned for: Hacking
Reason: Player TheJames (ip 76.188.52.220) is using cheating tools: Cheat Engine

2007-08-08 20:28:40 on Era by FantasyX:
local ban
Banned for: Cheating
Reason: Player TheJames (ip 76.188.52.220) is using cheating tools: Cheat engine

2009-07-23 08:09:50 on Era by cbk1994:
local ban
Banned for: Advertising Money Trade
Reason: Scamming, cross server trading

2009-08-14 23:04:27 on Era by cbk1994:
local ban modify
Banned for: Hacking
Reason: for laughs

2009-11-08 17:39:17 on Era by cbk1994:
local ban
Banned for: Account Scam
Reason: Wall hacking in jail and in a radio business with the name "Chris Vimes" - multiple bans, so 90 days.

[Cubical]

1)When you starting playing Graal:
-Somewhere between 2000 - 2001

1a)When you starting playing Era (if different):
Different times, different accounts, I played when it first became UC and everyone thought it was going to get shutdown for having guns. I remember the weapons shop being in like the top left hand corner of the map. However I didn't really play much then.

2)The first name you went under when you first played Era:
Oh hell if I know, probably something super *** like 'NightmareNight' or 'Herb_P2P'

3)The first gang you ever joined:
LC

4)The first business you ever joined:
One bosh owned wayyyy back I don't even remember the name. I just remember spending like 5 hours mining and saying screw it and went and picked up trash.

5)The best thing to happen on you to Era:
Winning an axe from smu, although I later lost it ;[

6)The worst thing to happen on you to Era:
I'm not sure if I have one, maybe getting this cursed M4 that I still have.
7)Your most memorable moment on Era:
Me and Keith putting over 200 p4's in the Blazing Bandits heal room and then doing /kamakazie and unlagging 5 minutes later to realize that like 10 people died.
8)Misc. (other past crap you want to tell us about):
Someone buy my m4 >;[

[salesman]

Originally Posted by Cubical

5)The best thing to happen on you to Era:
Winning an axe from smu, although I later lost it ;[

The only time someone "won" something from Smu was shortly after they sent him money via paypal.

[Cubical]

Originally Posted by salesman

The only time someone "won" something from Smu was shortly after they sent him money via paypal.

omg not me;[

[CharlieM]

Originally Posted by salesman

The only time someone "won" something from Smu was shortly after they sent him money via paypal.

must be why he lost it later

[Cubical]

Originally Posted by CharlieM

must be why he lost it later

ya must have

[Dnegel]

Let's get Cubical, Cubical. I wanna get Cubical!

Because your name reminds me of the word Physical.

[Vman13x]

Was it when smu said his stupid friend ocelot lost his axe? If so I killed the guy who found it. It was under the bridge I believe.

[Larrien]

I hope that those of you who remember me are doing well and meeting success either in college or professionally.

1. Roughly in late 1999, but I obtained my first gold account in September of 2001. Larrien was created in the middle of 2002. I then went through a difficult time convincing the game's administration that this account had been legitimately upgraded, for reasons that now escape me -- some e-mail receipt confusion -- and from September to November of that year I had no gold access.

1a. During Christmas vacation of 2002. I had just returned from seeing Star Trek: Nemesis in theater, to my great disappointment. As I recall, most of my contemporaries had already gotten in on Era during its beta stage debut (October?), so I thought I would take a few moments of my night to see what it was about. I began to like it too much -- the politics and goings-on of the server distracted me from a far more important role elsewhere, but my lack of time management and circumspection then was a personal failing.

2. Larrien.

3. Era Police. EFBI. Didn't we also have Section 31? Let's be quite honest: the entire system was incestuous, as the same core people made up each subsequent agency iteration. It had nothing to do with ensuring the security of the player base, as the real reason you obtained a tag in one of the above was for perceived importance and self-indulgence. We were never able to accomplish anything, but it led to a myopic culture of hubris, and I suspect I might have been the worst offender.

4. Era Radio. There was also the theater south of the hospital, which one might say was above the typical Era player in scope and intent. During 2003, I was able to manipulate my way into two or three million dollars of Era Hotel room profits, which was utterly inane; the mark of an inflationary and out of control economy, a burden the server never was able to surmount during my tenure despite at least one acrimonious reset.

5. Considering that we are now going back over half of a decade, there isn't a specific event which stands out to me as being greater than the sum of the experience. I had the privilege to interact with some capable, interesting individuals, was a high-profile member of the numerous enforcement agencies above, and earned some notoriety through my occasional public messaging, which I attempted to put effort into -- since it did seem like I was arguing a lot. I noticed tonight that there's not a lot on this forum regarding 'my' nascent Era -- didn't we have our own site at one point?

The truth is, even if that Era came back today, there is no way I could enjoy it. I'd be completely out of place, or out of time. I think those of you who were near my age then know why.

6. jenn's tenure as manager, only because I think it's fair to say it sent the server into a decline it has never come out of. I was a more than outspoken opponent of what she wanted to do with the server, but that's neither here nor there. I think any of us who remember Era during that time period wish we hadn't been correct in anticipating its fate.

7. Obtaining remote control access in September of 2003 for a week in an entirely irrelevant capacity, because it was something I had never experienced before.

8. Leaving Era and this game entirely without a word of notice was the best decision I ever made. What's even more galling is that in the one hour I spent on the server last year, it's as if it was embalmed; excepting a few cosmetic adjustments I could have started again without needing to re-learn anything. This may be a wider sign as to why the overall game is completely inert. Maybe I'll purchase an iPhone to relive my Classic nostalgia again ... not.

[Vman13x]

No idea who you are but nice, what's the word I'm looking for???

[RogueShatterblade]

I remember him.

[Dark_Zeratul101]

Larrien is a 100% legit oldbie.
Hey, do you have any old screenshots by any chance?

[RogueShatterblade]

I remember him from Gold actually. The roman bomy. Heh

[Sinkler]

Originally Posted by Larrien

I hope that those of you who remember me are doing well and meeting success either in college or professionally.

1. Roughly in late 1999, but I obtained my first gold account in September of 2001. Larrien was created in the middle of 2002. I then went through a difficult time convincing the game's administration that this account had been legitimately upgraded, for reasons that now escape me -- some e-mail receipt confusion -- and from September to November of that year I had no gold access.

1a. During Christmas vacation of 2002. I had just returned from seeing Star Trek: Nemesis in theater, to my great disappointment. As I recall, most of my contemporaries had already gotten in on Era during its beta stage debut (October?), so I thought I would take a few moments of my night to see what it was about. I began to like it too much -- the politics and goings-on of the server distracted me from a far more important role elsewhere, but my lack of time management and circumspection then was a personal failing.

2. Larrien.

3. Era Police. EFBI. Didn't we also have Section 31? Let's be quite honest: the entire system was incestuous, as the same core people made up each subsequent agency iteration. It had nothing to do with ensuring the security of the player base, as the real reason you obtained a tag in one of the above was for perceived importance and self-indulgence. We were never able to accomplish anything, but it led to a myopic culture of hubris, and I suspect I might have been the worst offender.

4. Era Radio. There was also the theater south of the hospital, which one might say was above the typical Era player in scope and intent. During 2003, I was able to manipulate my way into two or three million dollars of Era Hotel room profits, which was utterly inane; the mark of an inflationary and out of control economy, a burden the server never was able to surmount during my tenure despite at least one acrimonious reset.

5. Considering that we are now going back over half of a decade, there isn't a specific event which stands out to me as being greater than the sum of the experience. I had the privilege to interact with some capable, interesting individuals, was a high-profile member of the numerous enforcement agencies above, and earned some notoriety through my occasional public messaging, which I attempted to put effort into -- since it did seem like I was arguing a lot. I noticed tonight that there's not a lot on this forum regarding 'my' nascent Era -- didn't we have our own site at one point?

The truth is, even if that Era came back today, there is no way I could enjoy it. I'd be completely out of place, or out of time. I think those of you who were near my age then know why.

6. jenn's tenure as manager, only because I think it's fair to say it sent the server into a decline it has never come out of. I was a more than outspoken opponent of what she wanted to do with the server, but that's neither here nor there. I think any of us who remember Era during that time period wish we hadn't been correct in anticipating its fate.

7. Obtaining remote control access in September of 2003 for a week in an entirely irrelevant capacity, because it was something I had never experienced before.

8. Leaving Era and this game entirely without a word of notice was the best decision I ever made. What's even more galling is that in the one hour I spent on the server last year, it's as if it was embalmed; excepting a few cosmetic adjustments I could have started again without needing to re-learn anything. This may be a wider sign as to why the overall game is completely inert. Maybe I'll purchase an iPhone to relive my Classic nostalgia again ... not.

Larrien? When did you come back?

[DazJenova]

I don't think he has came back but i remember him.

[Catbert]

Originally Posted by Vman13x

You don't have the highest mining level, suki does and it's 71, while yours is 65

so? she's played since the last era reset. you gotta be ****ing joking. she quit for a year and came back. she's too lazy to even compare to what i mine at. i got 65 mining in 1 month of hardcore playing, and about 2 more months casually just mining / playing era. i can get to 100 by now, but i'm banned and don't want to play a ****ty server thats going to reset. L2P. roguebabe even admitted to macroing till 50 mining on a wall. ^_^

[Vman13x]

Either way catbert your mining isn't higher.

[LoStSuRfEr1]

i was an emo phag when I first started playing :*(

[Cubical]

Originally Posted by LoStSuRfEr1

i was an emo phag when I first started playing :*(

u still are

[LoStSuRfEr1]

Originally Posted by Cubical

u still are

aint dat da truff

[spikekid]

1)When you starting playing Graal: 03 or 04 I dont remember
1a)When you starting playing Era (if different): Same as Above
2)The first name you went under when you first played Era: *spikekid
3)The first gang you ever joined: LC
4)The first business you ever joined: Possibly Ammo Mart
5)The best thing to happen on you to Era: Becoming GP Admin
6)The worst thing to happen on you to Era: EC's Death
7)Your most memorable moment on Era: First real staff position as PR hired by Smu
8)Misc. (other past crap you want to tell us about):

When I first started playing I remember wanting to join Morano Family FOREVER. This was the cool MF, when they all stayed in character, dressed up properly, and were always in the box factory next to unstick. They always killed me, but I always came back! Never would have thought at some point I'd be Godfather, but MF wasn't the same when that happened, never will be

[spikekid]

Originally Posted by DazJenova

Being on Ventrilo with Frankie and that was a laugh

Oh man I completely forgot about Ventrillo with everyone!

[RogueShatterblade]

1.) Travis, your sig, how old are you now, seriously? They're*.

2.) Oh man, EC.

3.) The few times I was on Vent with you f*ggots it was hilarious.

[LoStSuRfEr1]

Originally Posted by RogueShatterblade

1.) Travis, your sig, how old are you now, seriously? They're*.

2.) Oh man, EC.

3.) The few times I was on Vent with you f*ggots it was hilarious.

I'm 22

edit: fixed

[BigBear3]

Originally Posted by TheJames

6)The worst thing to happen on you to Era:
Chris Vimes in charge of stuff

ez

[Old_Days]

Originally Posted by Catbert

so? she's played since the last era reset. you gotta be ****ing joking. she quit for a year and came back. she's too lazy to even compare to what i mine at. i got 65 mining in 1 month of hardcore playing, and about 2 more months casually just mining / playing era. i can get to 100 by now, but i'm banned and don't want to play a ****ty server thats going to reset. L2P. roguebabe even admitted to macroing till 50 mining on a wall. ^_^

Dont get catbart going on the damn mining good lord we'll have an entire essay on the thread dedicated to it.

[Vman13x]

Lol, I think he's full of bs, but I got no proof so whatever.