Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 12:15 PM CDT
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July 3 1997 is the day we moved to the World Wide Web! Crazy to think it was that long ago.

During this month, we'll have some interesting bonuses for subscribers. Things will kick off starting on July 7th, with something new each week!

Thanks for making GemStone IV one of the best text-based games on the market!



Wyrom, PM
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 12:28 PM CDT
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>Thanks for making GemStone IV one of the best text-based games on the market!

one of the best? which one is the best?
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 12:33 PM CDT
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You know, can't compete with DragonRealms! We have to share the top spot!



Wyrom, PM
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 12:52 PM CDT
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GS can take the lead. We just need those starting verbs, chat, and amulet thing that DR has. Fantastic intro stuff, mediocre game after that (compared to GS).

Sweet is the sound of the pouring rain,
And the stream that falls from the hill to plain.
Better than rain or rippling brook,
Is a mug of beer inside this Took.
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 12:53 PM CDT
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>You know, can't compete with DragonRealms! We have to share the top spot!

ppfffftttt
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 01:44 PM CDT
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If anyone still has an archive of the time, I would LOVE to see the "Kobold Reasons" that used to be scattered across the site for "why you should consider stepping up to Premium."
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 01:47 PM CDT
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"July 3 1997 is the day we moved to the World Wide Web!" -- Wyrom

And I was on the Philmont trip from the 5th to the 19th, so I didn't want to burn 15 days of free 2x experience by not-being-here. :( <sigh>

Good times, though. (Both on the trail, then, and in the intervening time, here. :)
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 01:55 PM CDT
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It's okay, Robert, my computer couldn't run IE with 8 MB of ram, so I had to order 2 gold-contact 8 MB sticks before I could even get access to GS on the web. I just about missed the entire double exp period.



Wyrom, PM
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 01:56 PM CDT
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>>GS can take the lead. We just need those starting verbs, chat, and amulet thing that DR has. Fantastic intro stuff, mediocre game after that (compared to GS).

I'll be honest, I'm scared of CHATTER.



Wyrom, PM
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 02:27 PM CDT
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NO computer should ever need more than 640K of RAM anyway... :)

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Let's see, in 1997 my 386DX was getting ready to give up the ghost, so that must've been when I got the sexy new Pentium-whatever with Win95 on it... and immediately used my nice fast graphical interface to run a text-based game.
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 02:41 PM CDT
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Maybe it is because I am still a Luddite with no lich or Lchat, but I found chatter to be extremely helpful in figuring out what to do with my new guy in DR. I hadn't touched those systems in over a decade (and most were new anyway). In the end the game wasn't for me, but it wasn't because of an impossible learning curve.

Sweet is the sound of the pouring rain,
And the stream that falls from the hill to plain.
Better than rain or rippling brook,
Is a mug of beer inside this Took.
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 02:57 PM CDT
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Did someone mention double experience? Gosh, I remember that! My first character got fat on the back of that lovely period. And I was young enough to be able to spend every spare moment playing the game. A major regret is killing that character off. Stupid move in retrospect.

Happy anniversary.

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Bremerial - The Ale Specialist


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http://assessrisk.com/personal/gs4_2_2_121.htm
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 03:27 PM CDT
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>> Thanks for making GemStone IV the best text-based games in the world!

Fixed! Thanks to the passion and energy of all the dev, GM, and QC folks (and others) that have made this game such a success!

-- Robert

* Wyrom was just vaporized!
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/03/2017 09:28 PM CDT
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>> You know, can't compete with DragonRealms! We have to share the top spot!

We can. We did. GS won.

<3

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Rohese: "... the TownCrier (tune in if you haven’t, it’s without doubt the best thing to ever happen on LNet)"
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/04/2017 12:05 AM CDT
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Twenty whole years... talk about standing the test of time, huh? Here's to twenty more!
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/04/2017 09:02 PM CDT
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Wait a minute...I've been playing GS for over 20 years?

It's not possible - I can't be that old. Someone made a mistake somewhere.
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/05/2017 08:57 AM CDT
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>Wait a minute...I've been playing GS for over 20 years?

>It's not possible - I can't be that old. Someone made a mistake somewhere.


My initial reaction was the same, and then I stood up to protest and heard something creak and groan.... so I sat back down and grumbled about those darned whippersnappers always playing pranks
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/05/2017 09:12 AM CDT
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"something creak and groan" -- ColemanJ

Not narrowing the field all that much here... ankle, knee, hip, or back? (I routinely hear cracks or pops from any or all when standing up after a bout of GemStone. And never mind intentionally stretching my neck, or cracking my knuckles.)
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/05/2017 09:18 AM CDT
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"Follow me," said the spider to the unenlightened sprite,
"To lands of bold adventure, of darkness and of light.
Join me in my web," she urged, "We'll be so happy there.
Your fantasies await you, there in my dreaming lair."

20+ years of entertainment. Thanks, Simu!

Chad, player of a few
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/05/2017 09:19 AM CDT
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I see what you're doing there, but I'll bite.


No, yes, no, yes. Respectively.
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/05/2017 03:23 PM CDT
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How odd memories, and time are... The move to the web still seems like a somewhat new development even though the game has been n the web for most of its life. The game has never been better and in fact its finally seeing its potential with new areas, new events, new verbs, all added at a faster pace than it saw in the past.

Lets see another 20 years, both myself and the game....

Just an elf about town...
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/05/2017 03:23 PM CDT
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Ugh I started playing on AOL... God I'm old.

Keith/Brinret/Eronderl

Keith is correct
-Wyrom, APM

Keith is correct.
-GameMaster Estild

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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/05/2017 09:39 PM CDT
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>Ugh I started playing on AOL... God I'm old.

I suspect we could start a club for those of us who can say this (both parts of it).

--David

"At a moment like this, I can't help but wonder, 'What would Jimmy Buffett do?'"
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/05/2017 11:39 PM CDT
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>Ugh I started playing on AOL... God I'm old.

>I suspect we could start a club for those of us who can say this (both parts of it).

Oooh, You gave me an idea! I could start a new MHO of GemStoneII players...!

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Rohese: "... the TownCrier (tune in if you haven’t, it’s without doubt the best thing to ever happen on LNet)"
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/06/2017 12:09 AM CDT
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The Ancient Ones

;)
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/06/2017 01:32 AM CDT
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>Oooh, You gave me an idea! I could start a new MHO of GemStoneII players...!

Well, I don't quite go back to Gemstone II. I started playing on AOL, but it was Gemstone III, just a few months before the move to the web.

--David

"At a moment like this, I can't help but wonder, 'What would Jimmy Buffett do?'"
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/06/2017 08:44 AM CDT
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Base it on Cthulhu, call it the Great Old Ones.
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/06/2017 09:37 AM CDT
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>computer couldn't run IE with 8 MB of ram

Yep, I upgraded my 4mb s286 to a 12mb s486 for the same reason.
As a bonus my modem went from 4800 to 9600 bps.

Good times.

:D

Askip
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/07/2017 02:02 PM CDT
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What's kicking off today?
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Re: Play.net Turns Twenty on 07/07/2017 02:16 PM CDT
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Elanith Football League; today's game was billed as the Landing Leapers (recruited from the normal denizens of the treehouse & the ledge in shadow mares) versus the Vaalorian Victuallers (all of whom must be able to self-cast Manna).
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