I spent 5 years making fun of my RL friends who would come to the bar I ran and start talking in a different language. WTF is a ped, a quad, a sleipnir, Calypso, Argonaut, Marber Bravo Plasma Annihilator, Araneatrox, Atrox.
I would just refill the empties and laugh inside to my self thinking that they should all get a life.
At the time I had a business, a wife and two young children and certainly no time to immerse myself in the game. I do remember creating an avatar at some point (orange clothes WTF is that all about). I ran round aimlessly for a couple of hours then logged off still bewildered by what all the fuss was about. Fast forward to 2011 and the wife has left and I give up the business. I take 3 months off as I have not had a proper break in nearly 10 years, its late 2011 and the graphics card goes on my PC. So I get a new one and some extra RAM and once I have rewatched every sci-fi film every made I start thinking, I have the time now why dont I see what that game they play is all about.
So I phone a friend who comes round and shows me how to download the game. He says ill go home and log on a nd meet you in game. This is where I got addicted.
He loans me a set of VIGI armour a sollomate opallo and 1500 rounds of ammo (so no sweating from first day)
Another RL friend loans me FAP 50 and another an axe. So I run around for a few days shooting stuff and trying to pick up TP's till the ammo runs out.
So my first friend says "Wanna come to another planet", so I say yes, we jumo in his Quad and off we go to RT. Now I cant remeber if we get pirated or if I have CTD but I end up floating in space. I cant "T" anywhere and eventually I post on the forum and 3 days later some nice EU person had me revived on RT SS. Now I could have given up after the 3 days stuck in space and now I stuck on RT SS with no lift and no ped to get down to planet.
This is when I enter the danger zone, I reach for my card and ...... here it comes....wait for it...deposit $10
Damn I am rich. I pay the TP fee down to RT and get driven in a Saehirmir to the stadium.
By now I am totally hooked and spend the next 3 months playing solidly and asking so many questions I am sure the rest of my soc are totally fed up with the noob. EVen once I start working again, all my spare time, when not looking after the kids, is spent in game.
And that is the way it has been ever since, I play cos I love it. After nearly two years sometimes I think I am getting bored then - POW - something will happen and I am right back in there again.
And what makes it so great, Bonnie said it, Its the people, with a very few exceptions everyone I have met has been fantastic.
If you are on my FL in game then hi and thanks and if you are not then you should be.
Massive Thanks to the following AV's
Rooster
Coz
Hing
Clam Boy J
Q
Dilly
Dude
Lokia
Nimea
Izz
Bonnie
New York Rose
Dave Westmorland
Megavolt
All of the Gloryhounds
All of KAOS
All of Age of Enlightenment
All of the crew at Atlas Haven Radio
All the pirates (cos you give us some one to hate - you guys are like Wreck it Ralph in fix-it-felix Junior