How did you get into FL?

[archgold]

I remember this post being done a while back, but I can't seem to find it. So I'd like to ask the question again: Who or what introduced you to FL? And what was your first impression when playing the game and viewing the website or other affiliate pages (i.e. forums, etc.)?

[Deykari]

I read an article in PC Gamer magazine about text-based games, and it advertised one called Materia Magica. I played there for a couple hours, then had a look about. Found one called Arkheim Winter which used a very similar codebase to this MUD, which I played for a little bit but it had very few players (ie. 2 in peak time). When it closed, I spent a long time looking for a MUD that was similar to Arkheim Winter. Found FL (on TMS listings and the like) and saw it had a very similar system, so I stuck with FL ever since.

First impression was "It's like Arkheim Winter but with more players". Even classes were very, very similar. I still always say FL is the only MUD I have played though because I didn't play the other two long enough to be a player there.

Dey

[Iusedtobesomebody]

myrek had me play AR for a while, never got a char over 30 (as a newb I couldn't handle trash dk's decked in rares at 30). then he said some guys left AR to start their own game. was hesitant, but came here early 1.0. been hooked ever since.

[mya]

I was Playing Wotmud.org when i got borred with the Stating system, and only 4 classes (all skills selectable).

Some guy that decided to quit came back to brag that he had found a mud where you could play lots of classes/races, and that was very good. And eq was easy to get. (You needed a group to get a crap weapon/armor after death.)

A few months latter i went to TMS and searched the database for this info and got to FL kickass Flash intro. So i started playing and found out i could be a berserker and that the Quest system was so cool. So i stuck around.

[Quigt]

My buddy Justin, who hasn't played in many many years. After that, it was Evangelion that brought me back. That, and the hope that maybe I'd be good at it.

Needless to say, it was hope placed in vain.

[archgold]

so if you could say one thing that intrigued you about FL and one thing that you felt uncomfortable with when you started playing, what would they be?

[Deykari]

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Being completely out of my depth in PK. I used to play a lot of FPS on PC and I was pretty good (came 1st in a national UK tournament for Unreal Tournament 2003 1v1 InstaGib ). I came here thinking I'd be Johnny Badass.

X amount of years down the line, and now I'm not particularly good at either.

Dey

[Dale]

I use to make fun of Npc_death and Meleecrazed for playing this mud, next thing I know I hooked. I quit playing for atleast a year and a half then last week me and melee were taking about it. Two days later I rolled a char. Sucks because I know how much time this game takes away from you, good thing I go off to basic training for 5 months next week.

[Pali]

Cephirus. Got me started mudding my freshman year of high school, and shortly after he found AR he found FL and convinced me to come over here.

What intrigued me? Mostly, the roleplaying. No muds I'd played before had enforced RP. What was I uncomfortable with? To be honest, I can't really think of anything. Sure, I sucked at PK when I first started, had to learn that, had to learn the lands, etc. But I don't really think there was anything that seemed odd or out of place... FL has always come rather naturally to me.

[Imoutgoodbye]

Senior year of high school, a student teacher used a MUD he had created as a sociology project. I heard it was like D&D and got switched from my current sociology class to that sociology class.

Student teacher left, but during that time I made IMM, built rooms, recruited a few friends for my staff, and had half the school mudding there. Problem was, I couldn't deal with idiots crashing it because of bugs they would purposely exploit, so, towards the end of summer, I shut down the Ithaca MUD. I had found FL by that time, brought to it by its promise of enforced RP/PK. Almost eight years later and I've never looked back.

What makes me uncomfortable?

I'm still uncomfortable with the volatile nature of PK in a RP enforced atmosphere. Not with anyone else's, but with my own. I'm always worried somehow I'm breaking RP in some way. Not that it matters right now. I've completely lost what I used to have a few years back. Extended breaks kill any PK level you pick up.

And there's one more thing that makes me uncomfortable. Which is odd, considering I didn't think anything like this would ever creep me out.

Dey and Mont's little love fest. I hope they never meet in person. Bad enough Dey's always talking about putting on his wizard's hat and robes...:eek:

So, Mya, Ladyoki, you two, wanna, you know....put in some time on FL with me? We can head over to that special room in the Savant Tower?

[Cephirus]

FL has always come rather naturally to me.

As it should Pali, as it should.

Anyways, I forget what her forum handle is now, but Guu I think it is now, got me into AR way back when. I tooled around with some dk's and what not, the allure of the vampire is always so strong, and eventually started playing a duergar shaman. Then at the end of the summer, the end of the beta, she gets into contact with me, and has been playing with a couple people from AR on this new mud which is exactly like AR, but better, cuz it is new, and at the time the imm base for AR was doing next to nothing. So I started playing, rp'ed a bunch with Virigoth and have been hooked ever since.

[Montahg]

So, Mya, Ladyoki, you two, wanna, you know....put in some time on FL with me? We can head over to that special room in the Savant Tower?

Can't speak for Mya, but no, Ladyoki most certainly does not

LOL

[ladyoki]

Uh no.

Anyways as for who got me started on FL, it was The Lemming. I was getting rather annoyed with him playing all the time. Had him quit for a period of time, he ended up convincing me to roll up a character. Of course this was the first Mud I ever played. When I started to play, I had no clue what was going on, I didn’t know where everything was. I think I starved to death because I couldn’t find a place to buy food. Now as I look back, I can’t stop laughing. Took me a while to get hooked on the game, I hardly played at all.... A year after, I registered on the Forums. I read all the essays and re- rolled another character, something that I could it least last longer in a pk.

I got into a Pk match with a Avain something. I basically stared at my computer screen, I froze up forgetting everything thinking “Joy, I’m going to die again.” seconds later, the avain was on the ground dead. I was like WTF. I ran the hell out of there, I forgot to loot his corpse, I just ran and hid. After my heart stopped pounding, I looked up at the log of the fight. Saw what happened and was hooked on the game since then.

[spiegel06]

Well I was in my AP computer science class in my senior year of high school (2002). My friend was playing a MUD it was based on the AD&D but I cannot remember the name. I saw him play and was like 'hey that is intresting what is it' he explained to me and wanted me to play but that one you had to pay for.

So I looked for some MUDs and tried them but nothing was good, so I saw FL said yeah I will try it. Liked it and stayed since then.

One thing I liked about it was this one time I made a DK and Virigoth summoned all the shamans, DKs, Necros and the bunch and had a big event about attacking a city. That made me stay because it was nice to have an Imm interact with the players like that.

[Mali]

I had played a few muds before, back in the old days. My first one ever was Dragonrealms or some such, offered as part of the AOL package. Then I played fallout mud based on the black isle series.

Inscribed got me playing abandoned realms. Soon after, The Crypticant invited us to beta test FL, so we did. These were the old times with Sith (blacksoul house) and Lathander. Ulraunt and his best buddy. Then, we became FL players. After awhile, I took some administrative duties here.. but the best thing I did for the mud was to hire on Bryntryst and Avariel. Then when I left and Crypt and Viri had enough, those two clowns took over

Now, years later, I play for keeps.

[Icor]

Elfdude was in my programming class in high school. He convinced me to play.

[Anoneemus]

One day when I was 18, my car broke down, and I had a few weeks to kill before I'd get a new one, so I was bored and decided to get back to MUDding which I hadn't done for years. Found FL, and I didn't exactly get the RP-enforced thing at first, but Celerity helped me out in RP and PK and I've been around on and off ever since.

[Mattamue]

The setting keeps me here. I feel like FL does the dark fantasy stuff without being too over the top goth cheesy. This is where a fantasy game belongs, you know?

[Grim_Reefer]

I got into muds by being young, high, and on the internet. I loved rpg games on like nintendo and sega and stuff. (Shining Sword, Shadowrun, etc.) and found a mud called PrimalMUD that I played for years and years and years... then I wanted to show muds to my homeboy one day, but wanted to find a new one to play so we could both start with the same amount of like... knowledge or whatever of the game.

THAT/MUD/WAS/F/L/!

['tarako]

'I used to be this nerdy kid that spent all his afterschool free time at the library. I talked to random other people that were on the computer. Started bothering emp_newb. He started teaching me to mud. Oh yeah. My first character. A human cleric named thomas, died over ten times in 5 minutes. w00t. The thing that makes me most uncomfortable is that i still think that east is left ingame, and west is right..

[Bl3h]

On my 16th birthday, my cousin told me bout text-based games called muds, and when I decided to try it out, the first one I found was FL. And stuck with it ever since. I've had a look at some different ones, but they all just seem... wrong..

[Shinth]

I was disgusted by the last mud I had played for almost a year, took a quick look at TMS, and decided I should try Aabahran.

Tried it before, if my memory serves me right, and didn't like it, but this time I was lucky enough to play at peak and some very nice Imms were bored and decided to play with my char, I loved that, so I decided to stick around.

[Malchaeius]

I was disgusted by the last mud I had played for almost a year, took a quick look at TMS, and decided I should try Aabahran.

Tried it before, if my memory serves me right, and didn't like it, but this time I was lucky enough to play at peak and some very nice Imms were bored and decided to play with my char, I loved that, so I decided to stick around.

Heh. Why do we have to bored? Some of us just like to interact with players .

[Deykari]

Heh. Why do we have to bored? Some of us just like to interact with players .

Except in Malchaeius' case, where you change 'interact' for 'toy'.

Dey

[L-A]

Started MUD'ing mid-teens when my high school started its own MUD. Was a CiricleMUD build - soon found another cooler CiricleMUD on the net to play from home. Sucked that my high school didn't have the coders to do anything cool.

There was PK at high school - completely unrestricted. It was a bloodbath. No PK on the MUD from home - which is where looking for a MUD where you could kill other players came in. Let's face it, no one wants to PvM all the time. Its boring - no matter how hard you make the monsters ie groups of 8 - 12 needed - you're still only killing some monster.

I ended up on a MUD called Aturion (thanks to my cousin). There were two 'builds' of the MUD depending on which port you connected to:

a) The hardcore build - basically: when you log on, its on.

The 'easier' one - you were PK protected until rank 15. After that, those lvl 60 five remort classes could come looknig for you. Max rank of somewhere around 80, remort at 60.

Trash PK was unheard of - Aturions (qclasses) were a race of aliens that had come to enslave the world so basically it was the 'races' vs the Aturions. PK did exist between the races but was rare - there was no point in killing someone you could need to help when the Aturions showed up. Anyone who has cried foul of unfair PK here has never experienced a 'true' PK MUD.

I played Aturion for a while before I stopped MUD'ing. After a short break I ended up here (thanks, again, to my cousin). With PK allowed but restricted I liked what I saw. Races, classes and everything else was cool and a large bonus. Good pbase and cool forums.

L-A