Brona_we posted:
whats up Nick
Ita been awhile. I'm waiting to get my old character back from turbine, hopefully some time this week.
Funny, the urge to play AC just never really went away.
How's your bro doing? Would be nice if you two got back in the game
The 3 of us could PK, we'd get slaughtered by all the level 275's hehe
Edit: Havent tried Dark Sense (I think that was it, that's the only one I had of yours)
But i doubt they work anymore. Why dont you fix em up for us, then we could use them to lay the beats on the 275's before they knew what hit em hehe
Haha, nice to hear from you Vain. My brother is doing great. Not much time for games these days for both of us. I just checked my account and it went inactive since 2007 because my credit card expired. Haha! AC was really the best game and worst game I ever played. Best as in the most fun and well built (at times, depending on patch), and the worst because it just took up too much time. Time away from wonderful real life.
These days I have two daughters. Between work, wife and kids, there really isn't much room for games. Especially games like AC. I think my wife still gets the chills when she hears us talk about the old days of AC.
Level 275? Wow, that's quite a jump in levels that Turbine added. For me, and my brother and Tweak, AC lost it's luster when they removed godmode and jump healing. AC is so unique. So ahead of it's time. All questing, lore, etc of a fantasy game... but all the adrenaline, speed, skills of a first person shooter. When they nerfed it, it started the downhill spiral.
Great memories though. Remember when we first started and being in the towns was one of the only "safe" areas. Going off the beaten path really was dangerous. Exploring the wilderness was dangerous and fun! When Wintersebb opened, rushing to be the first to Ayan boquer to port tie there. All the wonderful quests we used todo. The great times talking on RogerWilco. I will never forget watching you PK several people at once (back when that was very uncommon).
Solo'ing the Aerilinth Quest when people said that was impossible. Killing people in Ayan with my little "OwnzYou" character that was like level 3. Having Maxed out UA skill on a full Magic Defense Mage, and surprise the hell out of people when I swung once and they died! Remember the good ole days of when a robe fully baned was all you needed? Before hollow weapons.
I will never forget when Macros were so simple and your character had to be in a safe distance from anything that could kill you. I took the challenge on making the (what I believe was) the first macro that could kill and defend itself. For the few that got to use it you know how it would fully defend itself. It even talked to the other people running my plugin and macroing in the same area on a private IRC network. To optimize safety of dieing and to optimize which monsters to kill. In the later times, I worked with a math professor to develop a AI algorithm that would track all spawn points (even ones that seemed random), and over time would predict exactly the spawn and move to the spawn location. Lastly, the super macro monarchies. We would level up characters to 125 (the max at the time) in one second. Ahhh.. Those days. Damn, those were fun days.
P.S. For my plugins. If decal is still around, I bet they would still work if recompiled. The PK one was called Darkthirst. Is there even such a type of plugin these days?
P.S.S. I still talk with Diabolic. We are on Facebook. He had two children recently. Boy and Girl.
