Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game

2017-09-28 Thread Rick Tanner
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 bac

Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game

2017-09-28 Thread geoff
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 youb

Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game

2017-09-28 Thread Ruben Safir
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,

Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game

2017-09-28 Thread Rick Tanner
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

Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game

2017-09-28 Thread Matthew Giassa
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. ___

Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game

2017-09-28 Thread Rick Tanner
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/listi

Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game

2017-09-28 Thread Ruben Safir
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 > >Nor

Re: [crossfire] Oldest character still in game

2017-09-28 Thread Mark Wedel
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 ha