Hi,
Can ppl post their early stories here?
(experiences of the original game)?
My ramblings:
Before my memory slips away. 
(the further I get from my party years, memories seem to come back, I'll try to update)
(I could be wrong about dates & stuff, sorry in advance)
- Being exact, isn't the point.
- Writing it down, before it's lost, is the point.
- I wanted to reminisce about the "good-old days". 
Summer 2001?
- Alpha I guess
- had weird item sprites, that are tough to find screen shots of
- one of the first images, of a red potion.
- When it fell on the ground (looked skinny & tall, like an awake/concentration potion)
- (fell from picky, north of Morroc)
- There was no Izlude yet.
- You turned into a swordsman in Prontera (bottom right, in Pront., is the old swordsman's guild. Where those training dummy things are, in the sand)
- The old MVP symbol above your head was a "party ball"
like this image URL:
https://smashboards....it-here.507596/
- There was a weird 2nd window,(in the alt+a stats window).
- This 2nd window, had "moods" or temperaments. Making you good vs evil?
- It looked like the original character creator screen
- like this picture
https://encrypted-tb...PvL_jrLT6qzjQ
- (this is what it was SIMILAR to but not exactly, what it looked like)
- (can't find pictures of the exact "temperament thing" window, it's just a fading memory)
one day I hope to find my old computer w/ screen shots 
(reconnect better w/ the past)
2001- December (Beta now?)
- First time seeing higher level ppl using skills (maybe wrong date? my memory sucks)
- Max damage, I saw was, maybe 900? a level 90+ swordsman, bashing a ghoul in Pyramids lv4 (ghouls don't even spawn there anymore 
)
- Dungeons had a different feeling because you spent so many hours in the fields, as a low level.
2002+
- When you had an acolyte partying with you
- it really unlocked the games potential
- (that was a unique feeling, I can't explain, never felt in any other game ever again)
- because that magic, of working with ppl & socializing. Was different back then, people seemed more approachable?
- Everyone had [N>part windows] ready to chat it up
- (now ppl are like why are you talking to me?!?! 
) haha
2003-2004
- Bots started but hadn't taken over yet.
- You could card hunt & become rich. (Raydric)
- Comodo came out, felt very different (music, vibes, lighting, trees)
- Aldebaran came out, blew my mind with Clocktower. (new oasis
https://encrypted-tb...PvL_jrLT6qzjQ
