Stay classy, Valinor.
Met Solomon in RL once, before he headed overseas...
I'm on Ape right now. Give me a tell you goofy bastard!
/Ape
Ahhh Konj the Croatian sensation! Was a really weird guy (Sexy sandra in kadar is his creation, based on some bird he had a massive thing for), but stylish and funny.
I dunno why he disappeared but it sucks. Guess life caught up to him.
Yeah, it was fun. I haven't heard from my favorite croat in eons, either.
And, for all our problems, I really really do miss the old days of it just being you, me, Konj and Soloman running Rimmies.
... Until a war broke out, then all the old faces would pop back in for some reduced-cost pking.
Apparently Sola lost his shit and had a massive dig at Tindra. Given what I believe now to be the case with Tindra, I don't blame him in the slightest. Dirty, dirty spy.
That's good to know. I notice he logs in occasionally, but like I say I haven't caught him for a few years. The last I heard was something similar to what you outlined in your post, except without the all-important recovery part. Cheers for enlightening me.
Greg: Soloman had basically a RL melt-down and dropped his lollies. He IS a lovely guy and is on the road to recovery, but he did it tough for a while there. hence disappearing off the face of t2t.
Both Solomon and me has eaten Culfinglin.....
As far as I can tell, Lobo, your comment was not removed by me or any other mod. Maybe there was an interruption of your connection while you were posting it or something?
Azhag's comment was actually funny but I guess everyone has him on ignore :(
FYI: the information was initially leaked out from one of the staff on Castamir's MUD, as when it copied they had access to the backlog of founder/power discussion on the issue. Drogian confirmed it on here because he was pissy about being sacked, Draugluin told a few people via e-mail and Aule made an official statement a few years ago; presumably in order to stem the flood of speculation and put the record straight.
The part about spending it on plastic surgery was an embellishment which QFM and I added, but the rest is most definitely true. It's been confirmed by a number of sources; firstly Drogian and Draugluin, and Aule more recently.
posting again:
and for those who don't know, Culfinglin was the 'lady' who stole the pledge drive money to make a plastic surgery. Some say she returned part of it, tho.
Why was that comment removed?
I spoke to Culfinglin maybe twice. On the basis of these two discussions, I completely support any husband's decision to divorce her. That's how much of a bitch she came off as.
That was SolomOn. Also a Rimmie, a former GM in fact, but he immorted a long time before I joined. His other claim to fame was marrying, and later divorcing, Culfinglin.
SolomAn, on the other hand, was an extremely nice guy who used to play. He spent a lot of time helping newbies, and never judged anybody based on gossip or hearsay. He encouraged me to apply to Rimsilval when I was still really only a newbie. He went inactive because he had a lot going on in real life. I haven't spoken to him for about three years, so I hope he's doing alright.
Soloman. Isn't that the porn guy from the bible? How is Dracula not okay, and bible-porn-king is cool? Fucking biased christian ainu.
'partying with Soloman' wtf is this shit.
It wasn't done in angst, it was probably done accidentally. I do believe I ran across one of yours partying with Soloman or someone of that ilk many moons ago, ascertained from the way you carry yourself that you were, in fact, you. Not some phony kebab stand owner like Bared or whatever cover story you were going with at the time.
By the way, there is no way to 'prove' ainu leaks, but, as speaking as someone who every time made a new alt and got a list of every char i've ever played via Tanar, I tend to think Falglinoth and the Ainu have a nice cosey relationship.
Kinda like Malg about to be wiped out due to inactivity, so 10 members log on all at once, age 4 hours, then log off.
It occurred a considerably long time before our relationship took a turn for the worse, Trescothik, and possibly before we even had one. It was before I became a part of the R comm, so I doubt you were responsible. I have no knowledge of whatever map you're talking about, having never played the new evil races properly or learnt FH, but it's possible that I missed out on that particular piece of drama due to inactivity.
Well then you're not Nikka version Apeture then?
Because Nikka has an alt in FRA.
Sorry, sharing it out to build bots to grind out gold in FH.
I also believe I may have been responsible for your alts getting out Greg.
Consider it payback in advance for R comm sharing my fucking map around to all and sundry.
Yeah I didn't think they would.
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From : Morwen
Date : Sat Mar 20 16:17:15 2010
Subject: Event arena error
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Everyone,
On March 15th, towards the end of the Event, there was an
ainur sponsored arena fight between Shelob and Lansing which
was tampered with and had to be prematurely terminated due
to an error. I regret that proper precautions weren't taken
at the time and that this happened while I was present.
You've been contacted to inform you that those who lost gold
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To : Shabba
From : Morwen
Date : Sat Mar 20 16:47:51 2010
Subject: Reimbursement
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This is a message regarding changes made to your bank
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I don't have any alts so I only have a single guy. It's my orginal ER playtester. I'm not hard to find
/Apeture
I have no idea who you are but I think both of us have alts in fra so it shouldn't be difficult to work out...
Find me in game and I'll tell you how to fix it lame ass :p
/Ape
on a side note, can anyone explain to why when I map with Zmud 7.04 now, it don't keep up with what i'm telling it. All of a sudden. Is my computer too shit or something?
I reckon a circle-jerk is on the cards here boys, Jakar's up first.
[new] Date: 26. May, 2005, 2:33:37 By: Blackman
yo dat was crazy shit g howd he die yo sum1 cut him??
ive been laughing for like 5 minutes at this
FUCK YOU SUNFLASH JOIN THE MOVEMENT PLAY T2T
The inability to discuss sex, drugs or dead hookers on the comm defies everything the internet is about to me.
Play videogames where moron idealists don't try to force their christian goody-goody ideals down your throat. Join the movement: Quit T2T.
lots of good posts here. i like what westar and cifke both said. if you dont like the way the PK scene runs rampant with MP and shady people then you can avoid it and still do countless other things on the MUD. i can see how people can get so negative and i sometimes find myself doing it but it's just misguided energy. take that annoyance with things being wrong and we have to stop complaining and start all working together to change it or minimize the problems etc. ainur should really be the last people we ask to fix our problems (outside of code issues and things ONLY they can fix) if this mud was really dead like i've said in the past nobody would even take the time to whine about it we simply wouldn't be here. it is time for positivity the MUD is fine and most likely will never be back to 120 users at a time but like people have pointed out on the comm less people MUD in general, the LOTR movies have faded from the mainstream, yet t2t is still IMO a pretty fun place to play full of unique people with plenty of things to do and with ainur who do the best they can to help us all have a good time. even if i hadnt been nuked about 300 times i still would never immort because it seems hard and like a thankless job and i cant even code a variable into my client let alone code a new area or quest. on a less serious note i see tons of complaints about comm policing and as a dude who gets names banned from this log page like it's my job and has been known to get a bit out of hand on the comm ive never really felt cheated because i got a warning. the comm rules are very simple and while it is fun IMO to test the waters and have a bit of a risque chat at times it is SOOOO easy to avoid getting a warning for inappopriate topics/language on the comm. if you really have to say something about sex or drugs or dead hookers you can always use a tell so i think to complain about that like you are a total victim is a bit silly
love,
draimon
Addictions die hard
This great thing about this place is that you are free to do many things, some people like to chat, quest, information gathering etc. and this place does have the ability to hold everybody no matter what their facination is.
I consider myself a 'new' player since I've only been playing for a year. And yeah I still like the game, it has it's flaws as does every game. There's this bunch of cheaters who get nuked every now and then (and sure, some get away with it, this happends in every game), there's this bunch of PK-crazy people but it seems they enjoy keeping eachother busy so most of Arda isn't affected by it (any more), there's also this bunch of old players who unfortunately seem to have become bitter over the years and somehow feel the need to more or less put a spotlight on every flaw they see.
I think everyone has to find his own 'fun' on the game. Some succeed, some don't. It just caught my attention that for some it's to hard to leave the game they mostly criticize all day long.
Good post, Tireless. In reality, there have always been 'bad eggs' amongst the administration. Although he did a lot of good for the MUD, Rauko was fond of power tripping. Draugluin and Drogian had good intentions, but they took the MUD in a direction which had a negative impact on the community. Some of their nuke reasons were a little less than stellar, too. Melkor is as batshit crazy as he ever was, and Mathias continues to police the comm as though he were a Brezhnev era apparatchik. Though doubtless culpable for certain failings, the ongoing problems with the game cannot be laid wholly with Valinor.
I like the spirit of Draimon's post, though. It's nice and refreshing to hear someone speak so passionately and positively about this place, given that so much of the conversation lately has been negative. I'm definitely up for trying to improve things.
Love it or leave it. That's was Brazilian's Dictatorship motto.
Be the change. You tell it, preacher.
I disagree with you, though, in that I think Valinor certainly can hold some part of the blame when things go wrong. Personal responsibility, however, is certainly more important.
as usual draimon hits it on the head
im drunk so this might seem like rambling but there are obviously plenty of old schoolers who still are interested in this game and of course lots of new schoolers who still play. this mud can still have some life in it but we all must stop looking and pointing fingers at valinor for all our problems. valinor are to be respected and i mean that sincerely no matter how unfeasible it may seem. these are people who volunteer all their free time to try to make a game that you love better. if you really have so many qualms with their actions then do yourself and them a fucking favor and stop playing this mud. it took me a long time to realize this but anybody with some sense IMO should be able to realize it at some point. you dont like how t2t is run? shut the fuck up and quit playing. if you aren't willing to do that then shut your cock sucker and go with the flow and do the best you can. it certainly is not yet a dead game. i have many qualms with things that i think should be changed but i can still find myself playing 12 hours a day and not really feeling bored. this MUD is still alive and kicking and the only MUd ive ever played. im not even a console gamer or anything but t2t is something special and i ask you all to instead quit pointing fingers and truly do the best you can do play your characters the best you can and make Arda something special. if that is too much then go ahead and quit, because i dont want you here anyways
Cheers. I know I'm not the only one, but hopefully there aren't too many people who became as bitter as I did and just stopped caring. As Draimon says, it's better to try and be the bigger man. Incidentally, were there a new set of custom reboot messages for this event?
I've tried to do this a number of times, Draimon, and put a lot of effort into it. Never worked out for me very well :( Etrius pretty much hit the nail on the head.
Over 5000 players are on the MUD, and there's almost 1000 unique logins a day on average, but there were 3400 unique logins on the day of the event.
all valid points etrius but IMO its upon the typist to be able to ignore those who know who his alts are and still be able to do his IC thing. that takes a big man and apparently not very many are capable of doing so. and if a friend expects you to treat all your chars the same then he is a shitty friend
There are problems with character separation, though. Namely the people who make it their mission in life to collate huge databases of MP information and know everybody else's business. I used to be one of those people, but I was by no means the most dedicated or informed. Azarael, for example, had a Zmud script which constantly scanned who was online and looked for patterns. Other people seem to pluck MP information from nowhere, leading to unproven accusations of Valinor leakage. I'm not sure how true that is, and I'd like to think it isn't, but the fact remains that MP information is a precious commodity in our ever-dwindling community.
About a decade ago, or thereabouts, I had four different characters in four different guilds. I played them all differently, I told no one, I was careful about login times and I even went so far as to invent a spurious RL background for one. Then someone found out somehow. To this day, I have no idea how the information got out, but all I know is that within the space of about a month anybody who was anybody could list my entire typist history.
So I just don't bother anymore. I'm me on all of my characters now, and I don't make an effort to hide it. Send me a tell in-game and I'll happily list the ones I can remember for you. You can be as careful as you like, but years of prudence and planning can be destroyed in seconds if the wrong busybody finds out somehow. In my eyes, character separation just isn't worth the effort. Doubly not if there are so many people that just can't wait to fuck you over.
agreed shardik and you are a bro king whose opinion i have always given much credit to. i realize its hard to separate chars when your enemy wont do so. when you have 5 enemy alts from 1 typist trying to kill you shit sucks. i've been a 'power player' my whole time here but looking back on it i feel embarrassed about it. anybody can power play. its easy as fuck and at the end of it all nobody really ever cares. they dont give 'legends' to typists. granted most knowledgeable people know who the pvp good typists are but once those people expire their chars wont live on except for this log page. invest in your char. play it like it is your only char. only good things will come from it from both your side and your opponents side
The problem is more like a few people trying to fuck you in the ass with every character they have. That's the problem many people have with the current MP scene, and the suck your dick situation you described is typically only practiced by those few people who try to fuck you in the ass with every single one of their characters. Carry on, Prince Draimon.
friendos the time for blaming ainur has past. this game is still playable. we just have to step back and remember it is all ONLY a game. have fun. dont worry about your bro typist because the severely limits the abilities you can do IC. some of my friends have like 5-6 chars, if i was to not do any harm to any of his chars guild's id be pretty much not able to do any PVP. the answer here is to grow up and accept that your typist friends may get fucking crazy with it and play their chars different. doesnt mean you gotta fight every char that dude now has because he didnt suck your dick on all of his chars, it just means one might have to actually try and remain mildy IC.
I wonder how many distinct accounts logged on for the event!
Sunflash, this is your moment.
Didn't even top 100 players on at once for the event, btw. That says... quite a lot.
dying quickly, more like
actually id think he did it on purpose and lost to someone to do illegal transfer but it doesn't matter, the mud is dying slowly anyways
1800 bets off shabba. we can get through this
Hey, i got killed by rabies from duck, ainu didn't seem to mind:P
What do you think the arena is about? It's about making gold, especially if you know what the outcome of a fight is going to be. If ADD ainu over here didn't want to wait for the fight to end, that's what the halt command is for. You don't go ahead and decide for yourself who the fucking winner is, both NPCs stood a good chance of winning. Not like the Shelob vs Carforgoth fight they did afterwards didn't take a long time.
I'm a thief, it's not like it would take long to make back. I'm far too lazy to go out and steal anymore though and that's not the point anyways. They went ahead and meddled in shit they shouldn't have, which cost plenty of people besides myself a lot. He's the one that initiated the fight; if he wasn't prepared to wait it out he shouldn't have started it in the first place.
WHO IS THAT HARADRIM DUDE?
i just find it amusing beacuse to everybody it was an easy way to make some decent quick cash. then carcharoth (sp) goes all lee corso on the situation and everybody is mad. hilarious to me though
shrug... shit happens
Shabba loses so much gold all the time, what a fucking noob. :P Anyone got an SC key for sale?
shabba bets 40k on lansing. cahargogoraroth takes over for shelob and wins. shabba loses his money. he is sad. the people who provide us with a free game to play for hours every day sux! grrr /end summary
I can't really imagine Carcharoth being friends with anybody there.
I'm confused.
And they wonder why people hate Valinor, and quit the MUD.
we should all totally quit playing and teach them a lesson!!!111
Every event ainu do that to unfairly help their friends to get more gold.
get owned
Wtf?
No colour. Pure 1!