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MarkB
Legend
So, can anyone work out the full name of their dining establishment? The Blizzard part is clear enough (and an obvious enough reference), and on the bottom line I can make out -TORAN-. Maybe RESTORANT, a deliberate mis-spelling?
It's most likely supposed to be RISTORANTE, in keeping with the mob theme.
MarkB
Legend
Ah, of course.
Oh god, I didn't even notice that. Haw!
ALthough I can't make out the orc's name.
Training was also a flagrant and popular method of Player Killing on a non-PvP server. Ah, fun times, fun times...
For it to work better, you have to first launch an out of topic troll about something (like the 2000 florida election). When every people on the server were angry after half an hour of flaming and trolling, they usually shut down the general chat channel. Then, and only then, when nobody was able to hear anyone shouting "warning ! train !", you could go make a train an unleash it upon the unaware community.
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ki11erDM
Explorer
What I would not do to have a game that was as fun as EQ was the first year. There has been nothing like the first time i saw a hag walking around in Unrest blasting n00bs (me included). The fear of god that game put in you was just amazing.
carborundum
Adventurer
/digression
Ah, trains. I remember way back in the first Asheron's Call when a guildmate brought me to a high level area (Ayan) and had to log while we were out hunting. I ran like a scared ferret and pulled loads of stuff after me and pretty much into town.
I'll never live it down!
/digression ends
Ah, trains. I remember way back in the first Asheron's Call when a guildmate brought me to a high level area (Ayan) and had to log while we were out hunting. I ran like a scared ferret and pulled loads of stuff after me and pretty much into town.
I'll never live it down!
/digression ends
wingsandsword
Legend
Old school Everquest, almost a decade ago, with Trains of Death.
If you ever got mauled by a random train in the Commonlands or anywhere in the Desert of Ro on the Erollisi Marr server in between summer of '99 and summer of '01, I might well have done that (sorry).
Yeah, EQ back in the day really put the fear of death into PC's. You would resurrect of course, since it was an MMORPG, but the XP hit for doing so was awful and it was a long, slow, painful grind to get it back (not to mention repoping naked and having to retrieve your corpse, which meant you had to get to the place that killed you fully armed, while completely unarmed). While I loved the exploration and wonder of the old days, I certainly don't miss the over-the-top lethality combined with mediocre interface that game had at times (accidentally hit the wrong button in town and attack a merchant, who is a ridiculously high level character and kills you before you even realized you pushed the wrong button for example, or take a wrong step on the treehouse city of Kelethin which is hundreds of feet up in the air with no guardrails at all and deadly-realistic falling damage).
If you ever got mauled by a random train in the Commonlands or anywhere in the Desert of Ro on the Erollisi Marr server in between summer of '99 and summer of '01, I might well have done that (sorry).
Yeah, EQ back in the day really put the fear of death into PC's. You would resurrect of course, since it was an MMORPG, but the XP hit for doing so was awful and it was a long, slow, painful grind to get it back (not to mention repoping naked and having to retrieve your corpse, which meant you had to get to the place that killed you fully armed, while completely unarmed). While I loved the exploration and wonder of the old days, I certainly don't miss the over-the-top lethality combined with mediocre interface that game had at times (accidentally hit the wrong button in town and attack a merchant, who is a ridiculously high level character and kills you before you even realized you pushed the wrong button for example, or take a wrong step on the treehouse city of Kelethin which is hundreds of feet up in the air with no guardrails at all and deadly-realistic falling damage).
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