.. Except that my toons are all quite low level because I never committed to Ephinea until a week ago. I did my second trade ever on this server a few days ago (first was about 5 years ago) and I found out that in all these years I never had a forum account, just a game account. So since I made one I figured I should at least say hello and before I knew it a few more days passed. But enough is enough! Today I'm gonna say hello and not delay it any longer! So here goes.
Hello.
Okay, now it's backstory time. My PSO story also started way back on DC. Just Episode 1 and only offline. Then DC fell from the earth and years later I saw PSO on the GC! Instantly bought it and had 3 friends come over for a marathon slumber party, because I still didn't have the means to go online. 2 friends gave up after a while, so it was just the 2 of us for the longer run. Then his mom dragged him back home, because he stayed here for too long and thus it was just me almost making it barely to Ultimate. So I figured I just lend my game to him so he can catch up. After a few weeks he apparently lost my game. And it was never found again. Very bummed I couldn't find another copy either and only found one for the XBox. Not knowing I required an XBox Live account to even play it, I bought it. I couldn't get a subscription here without a credit card, and since I was too young and I couldn't convince the one who did have a credit card, I was never able to play it on the XBox. And then Blue Burst came out in Open Beta! A New Episode 4! Finally I can return to my beloved world! And it was fantastic! I made a few new friends across the globe and we would play every day! Until it officially released and I needed a credit card again. Cut off once again. Exiled. I heard years later that PSO servers were gonna shut down. I don't remember if I played in the last month for free. I don't remember much anymore from those Dark Ages. Later on I heard about private servers like SCHTHack and then some name that might have started with ?Syl or Sil? It felt like an elvish name of sorts. Like a newman, perhaps. And then came a few boosted servers like Ultima and maybe one before Ultima. And then I always had Ultima and Ephinea installed. I committed to Ultima for a longer time and never Ephinea. My highest toon on Ephinea was 21 until a week ago. I reached that level 5 years ago when I did my first trade, and then I disappeared from PSO entirely. And now I am here again after a long time. Why? I asked myself the question "If you could play one last game in your life, which game would it be?" A tough question though. 3 games came to mind. KOTOR, D2 and of course this. I already do KOTOR playthroughs almost yearly. And I could still choose it as my last game, but I'm also content with all I've done with the game. So it came down to the other 2. I love them both equally, because both games gave me years of solitude. PSO however, is something so magical that I've had many many dreams about and I will always find my way back here. And it always gnawed at me that I didn't stay in Ephinea.
Now if you reached this point, you have read things like DC/GC/BB Open Beta. That must mean I am a true veteran! Well, yes and no. Yes, my PSO story goes all the way back to the beginning of 2001 and I've seen almost all of it over the years. But I'm like one of those veteran European football players in the last few years of his career, who played at his amateur club since day 1 and never made it to the big leagues. I am somewhat knowledgable and have some skills, but nothing on a high level. I did a lot of EP 1 and 2 in my GC days, but rarely done EP 2 in my private server days. I may have done Olga Flow like 5-7 times and Shambertin 8-11 times in the past 15 years? But even the tons of Dark Falz I've done, you can definitely tell I'm not doing it efficiently. I still don't understand some boss glitches and sometimes I get hit when I should have easily dodged it. I am mostly stuck in my old ways and that sometimes makes me a plague in parties. So I would mostly run TTFs either solo or sometimes in a party because that's what I'm most familiar with. I solo certain quests in other EPs like Pioneer Spirit or Warrior's Pride for safe farming. I used to do soooo many Blue Star Memories runs for the PD reward, because my PD rate has always been atrocious no matter what server I am on. I found out that is not an option here, so I'm doing what I'm always doing. Mag breeding! Yup, good ol' mag feeding while farming armors/shields to fund it. Eventually I will be hunting a Psycho Wand, 4 Limiters and a Lame. I might buy the Lame at some point.
So if you see a Ramarl named Neimi or a Fonewearl named Lilina running around, that might be me! I will probably update my profile soon. Hopefully. But I think this is kinda it. I don't think I have anything else left to say. Just thank you so much for keeping this world alive and growing!
Also.. if you reached this point, then you're just as insane as me writing all that. Pleased to meet you, fellow kin! The nature of my game might not be so puzzling for you. And maybe the nature of your game might not be puzzling for me.
Hello.
Okay, now it's backstory time. My PSO story also started way back on DC. Just Episode 1 and only offline. Then DC fell from the earth and years later I saw PSO on the GC! Instantly bought it and had 3 friends come over for a marathon slumber party, because I still didn't have the means to go online. 2 friends gave up after a while, so it was just the 2 of us for the longer run. Then his mom dragged him back home, because he stayed here for too long and thus it was just me almost making it barely to Ultimate. So I figured I just lend my game to him so he can catch up. After a few weeks he apparently lost my game. And it was never found again. Very bummed I couldn't find another copy either and only found one for the XBox. Not knowing I required an XBox Live account to even play it, I bought it. I couldn't get a subscription here without a credit card, and since I was too young and I couldn't convince the one who did have a credit card, I was never able to play it on the XBox. And then Blue Burst came out in Open Beta! A New Episode 4! Finally I can return to my beloved world! And it was fantastic! I made a few new friends across the globe and we would play every day! Until it officially released and I needed a credit card again. Cut off once again. Exiled. I heard years later that PSO servers were gonna shut down. I don't remember if I played in the last month for free. I don't remember much anymore from those Dark Ages. Later on I heard about private servers like SCHTHack and then some name that might have started with ?Syl or Sil? It felt like an elvish name of sorts. Like a newman, perhaps. And then came a few boosted servers like Ultima and maybe one before Ultima. And then I always had Ultima and Ephinea installed. I committed to Ultima for a longer time and never Ephinea. My highest toon on Ephinea was 21 until a week ago. I reached that level 5 years ago when I did my first trade, and then I disappeared from PSO entirely. And now I am here again after a long time. Why? I asked myself the question "If you could play one last game in your life, which game would it be?" A tough question though. 3 games came to mind. KOTOR, D2 and of course this. I already do KOTOR playthroughs almost yearly. And I could still choose it as my last game, but I'm also content with all I've done with the game. So it came down to the other 2. I love them both equally, because both games gave me years of solitude. PSO however, is something so magical that I've had many many dreams about and I will always find my way back here. And it always gnawed at me that I didn't stay in Ephinea.
Now if you reached this point, you have read things like DC/GC/BB Open Beta. That must mean I am a true veteran! Well, yes and no. Yes, my PSO story goes all the way back to the beginning of 2001 and I've seen almost all of it over the years. But I'm like one of those veteran European football players in the last few years of his career, who played at his amateur club since day 1 and never made it to the big leagues. I am somewhat knowledgable and have some skills, but nothing on a high level. I did a lot of EP 1 and 2 in my GC days, but rarely done EP 2 in my private server days. I may have done Olga Flow like 5-7 times and Shambertin 8-11 times in the past 15 years? But even the tons of Dark Falz I've done, you can definitely tell I'm not doing it efficiently. I still don't understand some boss glitches and sometimes I get hit when I should have easily dodged it. I am mostly stuck in my old ways and that sometimes makes me a plague in parties. So I would mostly run TTFs either solo or sometimes in a party because that's what I'm most familiar with. I solo certain quests in other EPs like Pioneer Spirit or Warrior's Pride for safe farming. I used to do soooo many Blue Star Memories runs for the PD reward, because my PD rate has always been atrocious no matter what server I am on. I found out that is not an option here, so I'm doing what I'm always doing. Mag breeding! Yup, good ol' mag feeding while farming armors/shields to fund it. Eventually I will be hunting a Psycho Wand, 4 Limiters and a Lame. I might buy the Lame at some point.
So if you see a Ramarl named Neimi or a Fonewearl named Lilina running around, that might be me! I will probably update my profile soon. Hopefully. But I think this is kinda it. I don't think I have anything else left to say. Just thank you so much for keeping this world alive and growing!
Also.. if you reached this point, then you're just as insane as me writing all that. Pleased to meet you, fellow kin! The nature of my game might not be so puzzling for you. And maybe the nature of your game might not be puzzling for me.
