Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game
On 9/28/17 10:13 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > > So have a couple of years I log onto Metalforge and I find EVERY ITEM in > the guild was gone... ..Robbed by another player exploiting the design of the branches/1.x guild maps. So many months had passed since the "robbery" that I no longer had map backups that old to recover from. ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game
The fact that a game can last between generations is a testament to open source. I was playing in 1994, but I don't have any characters from that era of my life. I have the memories, though. On Thu, 2017-09-28 at 23:13 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: > So here is the crossfire story. There was a youbng women who played > metqalforge about 2003 and I was up all the night, constantly, > working > and worrying. My wife had decided after 9-11 (I live in NYC) to move > back to the Midwest and took my 6 kids with her. And the economy in > NYC > was upside down, and I lost my growing IT business. > > So alone the house, Catrina and I would play on Metalforge, almost > like > clockwork from about 1AM - 7AM. She was part of a guild in Navar > (BTW > Metalforge is down at the momemnt), and she and I had the only > existing > keys. Slowly all the other chars grew old and moved on. > > So finally, about 2007 or so, my kids came home and they had full > access > to all the computers in the house (each child had there own computer) > and > they could have any OS they wanted as long it was SuSE linux ;). > > They quickly learned that with X they could run crossfire off my > business server through SSH and they invaded Scorn, and then they > invaded Wolfsburg, and plowed through Brent, and Pupland, > and had apartments all about the world, but there was no guild space. > > So one day, Rick decides the reboot the guilds, and cheers went up > all > over Brooklyn on the fine evening. The kids were running around the > house all excited to finally get guilds. And the other players in > the > game at that time must have been a bit confused how the kids would > stragize against monsters and maps, since they were screeming from > all > three floors of the house, back and forth, how to beat the maps and > to > come for help and all kinds of things. > > A few of us knew there secret and Ragnor befriended nearly every kid. > One day, my middle daughter, Itka, and Profit or Rags were having a > food > fight in the arena, throwing tomatos and hags, and orks hearts at > each > other. It made me very happy. > > Ultimately, however, my guild ended up the family guild and we > stocked > it to the rim. There were thousands of dragon mails, of every kind, > and > more money than you could dream of. We had 23 kinds of bows, in > multiple flavors, and my son Dovid decided to collect grave stones, > something he learned from someone else. And he had 30 of mine. > > The guild had arrows and I made thousands of arrows only to have the > bow > taken away after there was a change in Gaea, and all kinds of exotic > powerful customized weapons and armour and gloves. > > And slowly the kids grew up and the youngest of them is now 20 and > the > oldest is 30. And they are spread about the world and we have > Grandchildren. And then... I remembered Crossfire. > > So have a couple of years I log onto Metalforge and I find EVERY ITEM > in > the guild was gone... > > Nothing for the grandkids > > mrbrklyn ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game
So here is the crossfire story. There was a youbng women who played metqalforge about 2003 and I was up all the night, constantly, working and worrying. My wife had decided after 9-11 (I live in NYC) to move back to the Midwest and took my 6 kids with her. And the economy in NYC was upside down, and I lost my growing IT business. So alone the house, Catrina and I would play on Metalforge, almost like clockwork from about 1AM - 7AM. She was part of a guild in Navar (BTW Metalforge is down at the momemnt), and she and I had the only existing keys. Slowly all the other chars grew old and moved on. So finally, about 2007 or so, my kids came home and they had full access to all the computers in the house (each child had there own computer) and they could have any OS they wanted as long it was SuSE linux ;). They quickly learned that with X they could run crossfire off my business server through SSH and they invaded Scorn, and then they invaded Wolfsburg, and plowed through Brent, and Pupland, and had apartments all about the world, but there was no guild space. So one day, Rick decides the reboot the guilds, and cheers went up all over Brooklyn on the fine evening. The kids were running around the house all excited to finally get guilds. And the other players in the game at that time must have been a bit confused how the kids would stragize against monsters and maps, since they were screeming from all three floors of the house, back and forth, how to beat the maps and to come for help and all kinds of things. A few of us knew there secret and Ragnor befriended nearly every kid. One day, my middle daughter, Itka, and Profit or Rags were having a food fight in the arena, throwing tomatos and hags, and orks hearts at each other. It made me very happy. Ultimately, however, my guild ended up the family guild and we stocked it to the rim. There were thousands of dragon mails, of every kind, and more money than you could dream of. We had 23 kinds of bows, in multiple flavors, and my son Dovid decided to collect grave stones, something he learned from someone else. And he had 30 of mine. The guild had arrows and I made thousands of arrows only to have the bow taken away after there was a change in Gaea, and all kinds of exotic powerful customized weapons and armour and gloves. And slowly the kids grew up and the youngest of them is now 20 and the oldest is 30. And they are spread about the world and we have Grandchildren. And then... I remembered Crossfire. So have a couple of years I log onto Metalforge and I find EVERY ITEM in the guild was gone... Nothing for the grandkids mrbrklyn On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 07:32:14PM -0500, Rick Tanner wrote: > On 9/28/17 6:23 PM, Matthew Giassa wrote: > > There may still be "Teo the human monk" "Fire the Fire Dragon". I think > > those are pre-2003. > > > Those may have been initially created when Metalforge > (metalforge.real-time.com) was running on the G3 PowerMac. > > In May-2003 there was a character reset and migration to the current > hardware (crossfire.metalforge.net) - so anyone playing right now on the > metalforge server was created in or after May-2003. > ___ > crossfire mailing list > crossfire@metalforge.org > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game
On 9/28/17 6:23 PM, Matthew Giassa wrote: > There may still be "Teo the human monk" "Fire the Fire Dragon". I think those > are pre-2003. Those may have been initially created when Metalforge (metalforge.real-time.com) was running on the G3 PowerMac. In May-2003 there was a character reset and migration to the current hardware (crossfire.metalforge.net) - so anyone playing right now on the metalforge server was created in or after May-2003. ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game
There may still be "Teo the human monk" "Fire the Fire Dragon". I think those are pre-2003. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network. Original Message From: Rick Tanner Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 3:37 PM To: crossfire@metalforge.org Reply To: Crossfire Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game On 9/28/17 4:44 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > mrbrklyn is on metalforge for a long time That would put the character creation date at or around late May-2003. ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game
On 9/28/17 4:44 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > mrbrklyn is on metalforge for a long time That would put the character creation date at or around late May-2003. ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game
mrbrklyn is on metalforge for a long time On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:55:54AM -0700, Mark Wedel wrote: > On 09/27/2017 10:16 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: > >Hi all. Just occured to me that this might be a fun question to ask. > > > >I have a character that I started playing in 1995, Lars the > >Northman. Lars still survives on my server although he's been a > >dedicated DM character for a long time. > > > >FWIW Lars has progressed through various changes in the game. > > > >So how old is your oldest character, in real-world time? > > > >Can anyone beat Lars at 22 years? > > > >I understand that Crossfire was started in 1992, 2-3 years before > >I started playing it. I guess that means that the oldest possible > >character would be 25. > > This got me curious. Looking on my system, I find a character with > the last modification date of Aug 9, 1997. That is in a players.bak > directory, so I had probably copied those as a backup at some point > (I wonder how many hard drives/filesystems that file has migrated > across) > > There isn't any way to tell when it was created, though I suspect > it was when I first got involved, which I think was 1994. Though > I've not actually played that character in a long time, so I suppose > it depends on 'still in the game' really means. > > ___ > crossfire mailing list > crossfire@metalforge.org > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game
On 09/27/2017 10:16 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: Hi all. Just occured to me that this might be a fun question to ask. I have a character that I started playing in 1995, Lars the Northman. Lars still survives on my server although he's been a dedicated DM character for a long time. FWIW Lars has progressed through various changes in the game. So how old is your oldest character, in real-world time? Can anyone beat Lars at 22 years? I understand that Crossfire was started in 1992, 2-3 years before I started playing it. I guess that means that the oldest possible character would be 25. This got me curious. Looking on my system, I find a character with the last modification date of Aug 9, 1997. That is in a players.bak directory, so I had probably copied those as a backup at some point (I wonder how many hard drives/filesystems that file has migrated across) There isn't any way to tell when it was created, though I suspect it was when I first got involved, which I think was 1994. Though I've not actually played that character in a long time, so I suppose it depends on 'still in the game' really means. ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
