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K for anyone that knows me... you'll know i don't remembr anything... ever...

 

SOO.. i'm making a thread about how things use to be and see if we can remember it, give some stories... throw in some " does anyone remember...." and whatnot.. my fav.. and i still ask the older players ( older as in long time players) do you remember when things were not on auto harvest? thats the earliest memory i have of playing this game... i do have a few question to anyone that would know,

 

How long has EL been around?

 

Who's Played the game for the longest that still plays?

 

Anyone remember former players, that don't play anymore.. that were well known? ( so i'd remember them)

 

what about Original Guilds, that were destroyed?

 

aannddd.. i'll buy someone anything they want if they can tell me when *i* started playing, cuz i don't reaaaallly remember exactly....i swear it was when i was around 18.. and i'm 22 now.. soo.. *yea*

 

 

~ Helga~

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uh no.. scarr.... i've played a lot longer than a year.

 

ask FireBalls for one..

 

then there is Teira..

 

and a buncha other people :P

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ok, maby between 1-2 year, but not after 2 years, unless u played witha diff name

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I remember Laylow from Wolf Pack who gave me my first sword which I lost really fast (tele nexus from WS to Naralik ...). He also showed me there are more storages .. not only Raven and introduced me to Harvey and his stock of vials. *snifffff*

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The earliest memory was the time when short swords(or something) at blacksmith costed around 15000,FE's and some other essences at shop costed 150.....ahhhh teh good ol' days ><

Edited by Mad_Raven

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i started EL when the money bug was there, bags with milions of gc spawned in bags..and the day before that i was IP banned , remember learners post something like

 

"administrator" "banned without warning <evilsmile>"

 

lol

 

and then i created saTan :> and flamed/insulted ember like crazy on the forums =)

 

gd old days

Edited by scarr

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OMG I remember my first few days on EL.. such a long day ago now it seems. My good friends Apparition and BadDude told me about this game they had been playing and I was feeling a bit down so decided to try it.

 

Everything was fresh and wonderful drawing me into this virtual little medieval world. I was in love with a place which only exists in our hearts and minds.. Eternal Lands.

 

I remained on Isla Prima for the first few days harvesting everything in site. I had no idea what to do with all of these harvestables. *laughs* I'll never forget the first day I died and as I was coming out of the underworld I said F*** in local chat. This person called Aislinn reprimended me and I was like wtf .. *laughs* because I didn't know who SHE was and had NO idea anyone could see this bad word since for me it was all filtered.. (Love ya Aislinn!!) :P

 

Finally.. I ventured onto the docks in search for a storage. I'll never forget how exciting it was that very first time seeing a group of people gathered at the Graham Village storage. Of course I had no idea how to access it at that point. It was nightfall and for some strange reason I thought I had to wait until day to access storage. I loved the days and nights..it felt magical.

 

The second time I went to storage I landed on a bag with 3000 empty vials by mistake. (Of course on Isla Prima there are bags filled with goodies scattered everywhere.. bags with gold or bread.. bags of bones or bags from our kill.. it sorta encourages us newbies to pick up every bag in site.) The next thing I know I'm being called a bagjumper. I had no idea what that was. Then LordVermor (Love ya LordVermor!) said I would be made Pkable if I didn't move soon. I also had no idea what Pkable was. It turns out that I finally understood that I needed to move. It was Gen_Axis bag of vials.

 

This was the day I met GreenGanjaKing who changed my EL life forever. He taught me so much about life in Eternal Lands. I'll never forget the iron shield I had.. I felt rich.

 

The thing that I wanted most was an exc cloak because for some strange reason it made me think of Merlin and King Arthur in Camelot. I would train in that cloak which I later discovered to be a harvesting cloak. One day as I was training on foxes, a player asked me why am I training in that exc cloak. First of all, I didn't even know what "training" meant. Then he explained things. I felt so stupid. :D

 

I speant allot of time harvesting lilacs in VOTD. This is where I met LadyReni. She told me that if I really want to make money I need to start making fire essence. That was the beginning of a wonderful sisterly friendship...she became my best friend.

 

BadDude showed me how to make my first fire essence. It was so exciting and then he showed me how to make a fire and how to cook meat. I was cooking meat all the time but wondered why we couldn't cook other things and why weren't there any dishes or pots or pans.

 

I'll skip allot of boring details but.. from the beginning of EL I was Calliope.. the muse of poetry. I hated my name and wanted something short, easy and goddess like.. hence Enyo.. goddess of war...(aspired to be like Xena). This was the image I chose to create for myself. I planned on remaining guildless but then eventually joined what I felt and still feel to be one of the greatest guilds on EL .. =Hc= .. we had allot of fun in =Hc= ...Shivar, Zaer, Argian, Rend.. all of us voice chatting on Ventrillo...not all of us but allot of us and also from Nidan's (-EF-) guild too.. Smooms, Nitager and others.. Tidus was so crazy and funny.. still is. Girl talk at KF with a bag of chocolate chip cookie icecream.. who could forget that.. Raen, Kat, Kayla and myself.... Those were the good days for me.

 

Allot has happened and changed since then..good and bad both; people say things in anger.. friendships end; name changes; char kills; people leaving and coming back.. new faces and old but no matter what..I prefer to remember mainly the good.. and these memories will always be there burned inside our spirit.. at least in mine... of these Eternal Lands.

Edited by Enyo

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Hmm, yea I remember the no auto-harvesting and clicking a million of times to get something.

 

I remember I got my first sword from my brother who made it while I was watching over his shoulder. But when I logged in and went to pick it up in CC, I got lost. :) Lucky he knew where I was when I told him what I saw and he found me and lead me out.

 

I remember picking lilacs at VOTD for money, misclicking a wolf and getting bagjumped of a new iron chain. :)

 

And, most sad of all, I remember ~OX~. No they weren't bad, the fact its sad, is because they were the best people I've known in this game. When I memorize my time with them, I get really sad and wonder where all my old friends went. From a guild who was the biggest guild ingame with 80+ members. The Big Crash happened and all that remains now is Joshyboy and me.

 

-Blee

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i've been around since 03 :)

even though my forum account wasn't made until, what? 04?

i remember see through characters that looked like zombies/ghosts

Isla Prima being the only map

me sitting in kf with slashfury and chickengeorge and not get attacked even when they weren't there :D

i also remember some of those 'girl talk days' in kf. mostly raen, silvara, kala, me, and enyo. someone would always mention icecream and or cookies...good times :)

there being a cooldown on when you can kill bunny rabbits :)

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i've been around since 03 :)

even though my forum account wasn't made until, what? 04?

i remember see through characters that looked like zombies/ghosts

Isla Prima being the only map

me sitting in kf with slashfury and chickengeorge and not get attacked even when they weren't there :D

i also remember some of those 'girl talk days' in kf. mostly raen, silvara, kala, me, and enyo. someone would always mention icecream and or cookies...good times :)

there being a cooldown on when you can kill bunny rabbits :)

 

Just hope that was before March of 05 because after that it wasn't the real kala it was her brother playing and posting as a girl. =/

 

Anywho I remember that you had to have a rubie to make fire ess.

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The first person that showed me how things were done in EL, was GodFatherNoodle, who turned out to be a scammer/bagjumper, but he never scammed or bagjumped me. All I can really remember is annoying Vermor to death, being hated by most of Twin, and hanging out with Hazor and Aki. I also remember talking to Scarr when he was Shivar a little, and hanging out with ChickenGeorge on pk maps.

Edited by sora_barzahd

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You was Teira? I was wondering where she went.

 

 

No i was not Teira, she was someone i knew.

 

 

i was in the LoVE guild, my first guild.. i remember Cash back when it was first started and i usta chat with a guy.. i don't remember his name for the life of me but i think it started with a T and i would hunt lil animals and sell them to him.. LoVE was my first guild... cuz i think one of the first people i talked to on here was in it.. but THAT is history cuz he was really a perv and eventually got banned from the LoVE guild anyway.. lalala..

 

i don't remember alot of people from the LoVE guild but MooIIBattle, Teira, Lord_Vermor joined at one point, lochnesslobster chaoogie and fireballs.. was a GREAT guild with GREAT members and i do miss it.

 

anyway..again...

 

i just went shopping and got some fantastic outfits, so i'm going to be *adorable* for the next week and i'm sooo excited.. but thats another story entirely LoL :D

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..i remeber was like o.O my 2nd week in el just before i left to play wow for a few months lol, i was trying to find the dp cc enter took about 20 mins untill i called o.Ofawk ... umm i forgot both their names :> he was banned for correctin ents spelling in game :> but ya anyway i called him and when i was waiting i found a bag with fr cape and some other goodies ^^ and was like hell ya great game! :> lol

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ooooo, i just remember something else :D

awhile back, after votd was made, people would go sit in the general store and just make hundreds of leather pants at a time, and leave them in bags, and call other players on the market channel or something, and tell them to get free pants. people would come in the dozens taking them either to storage or to Trik :)

 

lol....good times, once again :)

 

WAY over production, kinda like the 'gold rush'

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ooooo, i just remember something else :D

awhile back, after votd was made, people would go sit in the general store and just make hundreds of leather pants at a time, and leave them in bags, and call other players on the market channel or something, and tell them to get free pants. people would come in the dozens taking them either to storage or to Trik :)

 

lol....good times, once again :)

 

WAY over production, kinda like the 'gold rush'

 

I loved this :) I doubt it will happen these days though.

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lol yeah I used to make like 30k leather gloves and pants and just leave them, same was with combat potions in tavern. Making them with masters cape was awesome :D

and I remember owning whole ca$h when they started guild lol :)

 

good old times in wolf guild with boki, nillyfein, teach, abgargh, snorebum, sirkillalot, street_ghost,gods, veiks101, gatekeeper, sativa....

pk events were nice back then, though almost every event was finished with message "Tornado and aquarden slaughtered them all and won ... "

Edited by Dushan

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I remember my first days in EL - I joined back in January 2005, just missing the death-of-the-mouse harvesting, cross-map tele nexii, and 6 months after the "big crash". I was told of the game by my RL brother, and kinda said eh... I'm glad looking back I gave it a chance. I've made a few friends I would never have met outside of EL.

 

Anyway, my first hour was spent on IP, where I saw the Wraith, had no clue what to do. I saw TutNPC, who looked (and still does look) like a rejected cast member for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. :D I looked at the guy, and thought, "I can figure out how to play, I don't need to talk to this guy!" I read the tips, but I neither talked to anyone. (I'm a newbie, they have much better things to do than talk to a newbie! (yeah, it's rough being a newbie.)) So I end up an hour later, dying a lot to rabbits, and wandering around the beam fire - I have no clue where I'm headed, just trying to head there... I remember someone with a 7 letter name that seemed Polish who niticed me wandering around, pointed me back to the Queer Eye reject (joke), and even gave me 20 fruit - I had no clue what these were for... I learned soon enough. Anyway, I learned the joys of harvesting from starting to pick red snaps for the tutorial quest, and then realizing that I had just filled my inventory with red snaps in ONE click... Within a day, I finished the tutorial quest, lost my newbie gear to 2 monsters in South Kilaran (oh, it must be safe, it's not PK...), and then founf myself learning that lilacs in VotD was a good moneymaker. Also learned of the veggie patch on the other side of the river, which took me awhile to figure out how to get there... By the end of my first day, I'd learned how to PM (The_Pale_Elf, my brother, taught me that one), how to fight, not to deal with NPCs if you can help it, flowers = good money, and a bit more... within a week or two, I was in AID, the only guild I have EVER been in - and I haven't left them since then.

 

Then there was a major mess in EL - those of you who were here then know what that mess was, those of you who have been here since know that it has repeated itself a few times since... I almost quit EL then, and for a time, I did. Another incident happened at the time - that was when my brother left EL for good, starting his own game, and I kind of joined him - entering the second stage of my development in EL...

 

I came back to EL about the end of April or beginning of May 2005, and was drawn back in by my close friends at the time - my guildmates, mainly. Entris, Usalfin (who left us), ttlanhil, Vanyel, and a few others, who I don't remember too well... I became a co-captain at some point. So I entered a third era of my development - where I had to become more than a player - I had to become a leader. I still was learning much of the game, but I was also beginning to share what I knew - and I got my first taste of exploring, from talking to SimAnt...

 

I remember the tests we did on the then-called-102 client, which became 110, over on the test server - so many people testing things, and so many people trying to find c2 early. :) This is also when I tried to get more involved in EL, and not yet when I fully became more an explorer - while Irilion intrigued me, as a harvester and laborer, it held not much for me, until about 120.

 

I remember the flowers in VotD, and how they went bye-bye... I remember IP before snow (for about a week or two), during the snow, and after... I remember before cooldown, and still prefer the old manu delays... I remember my first set of plate, was actually given to me as a newbie (about a week or two into EL for me), after I escorted L_c to her party for having played EL one year, and now to think I've gone passed that mark myself...

 

I remember a lot of stuff - the people I helped in #1, the people I talked to in #4, the Alchemist Strike and Union, which made me wealthy working with them, the Manufacturer's Strike, which I more or less missed out on but watched fail...

 

Guess I have a lot of EL memories.

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I also remember harming fluffies with mihaim behind wall outside cm...

And Trik used to buy all weapons, serp was like 633k at him, the guy who had most serps was ocle with like 1k serps in storage lol

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I remember portland being dangerous as hell since no one had enough exp to kill a goblin. SO it was a dangerous trip to try and get to the storage, and to try and make some money of the cactus there.

 

I remember sitting for HOURS and HOURS with hazor and yoshi, working our asses off on the wild pot runs to get into the elite lvl 30 potions club, and be one of the first people to get a pot cloak.

 

Also chillin with jen and vart on the good old silver runs

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I remember when guilds came back.

 

I remember someone sitting in VOTD with the guild tag *O*, though I'm not sure.

I think it was Tornado, but he refuses to answer me when I try and ask him. :/

 

Anyways.

I remember the one-click-harvesting BLs in PL :angry:

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I remember when i started to play EL, my brother was the one who showed it to me, been talking about EL for a month or so, when he came visiting me he installed EL on my comp and showed me how it worked and after that i wa pretty much hooked. :dry:

 

In the beggining my brother helped me some by giving me hints and gave me some armor and a weapon. I ran around on IP chasing rabbits and when i saw a beaver i thought like "yeah this is a dead beaver" and almost got killed by it lol

 

Harvesting was a pain, clicking the things you wanted to harvest/mine all the time to get anything and if there was alot of ppl at the same area i quickly learned to sit down so others could see and click the ores or flowers.

 

After kicking deers and foxes in DP i went to VoTD and started to fight wolfes wich was a pain, it was so crowded there so some days it wasn't even worth sticking around there so i was mostly in DP killing foxes and then went to Gobs in MM (killed wolfs every chanse i got b4 that).

After i lvled my skills above the 30s i got alot of offers to join guilds but i always declined and thanked for the offer cos i didn't think i would be able to give anything to the guild with my low stats and kept on training.

 

When the harvest events got implemented the first hit i got was a 50 and that made me carry alot of HEs with me in the caves after that and a while after when i was on channel 1 helping out as much as i could the conversation got into MNs frequently hitting ppl and i said that she hits me alot more then other ppl around and there was someone else there that had the same experiance and that was Enlia :)

 

We talked alot and became very good friends and she knew someone named Knight_Paladin that wanted Enlia to start a guild, non of them had the lvl needed to start a guild but i had but was very hessitant to start it becaus i wasn't really sure i could handle being in a guild and i have never been in one before either but they talked me into it and I created The Hospitaller Knights, AID, and i'm very happy that i agreed to start the guild if i hadn't done it i wouldn't have meet all the ppl in it and have as good times as i have now in there.

 

Every time i log in and see the ppl in the guild it makes me happy they are good friends and even if they would leave the guild i hope they don't stop playing EL cos i would miss them alot.

 

(i could put so much stuff in here that it would take ages to read so i'll stop here)

 

Thx AID for all the fun we have and thx to all the ppl in EL for making it a great game to play, it is my first mmorpg ya know :D

Edited by Entris

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