Longest Standing ALFAN?

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Re: Longest Standing ALFAN?

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lol I always though Trid was newer because he's so young and spry looking.

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Trid created the very first ALFA website.
The one I used to send my application back in december 2003 or maybe the one before that (not sure now).
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Stoked to see Mother back creeping around the site! He built an awesome server way back when. I miss all the old crew. Can't remember the name of the server, but it covered a swamp near Cormyr and was my intro to ALFA. Great times.
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The Vast Swamp :)
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Hialmar wrote:The Vast Swamp :)
I forgot about that server, it was awesome. I remember the first time I took Kemeras out for a bit of a server stroll. Hit some Zombies in the swamp and night and turned right around and ran back to DD :)
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The vast swamp must have been before my time... please post some pics!
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ElCadaver wrote:The vast swamp must have been before my time... please post some pics!
The Vast Swamp was one of ALFA's first servers back when the project went Live in 2004. If I recall correctly it left the project in the first big management upheaval after Live. Alas, I never got to see it, though I heard wonderful things about it. I hope someone has screenshots.

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Just so you guys know I banned management upheavals...they effect my delicate constitution.
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Ah, TVS. Where the kobolds were feared, corpse farming was a way of life, and you never, ever ignored your scouts (well, not more than once).

Good times.
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If anyone else can remember the deputy lead of the project being kicked out for fixing the result of a poll then they're as long standing as me :) And yes, the poll did involve J'Kin.
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Actually ALFA went live in april 2002, and TVS was one of the first back then. It was around for quite a while, even after the quake, which happened in December 2004.

Over all the best server ALFA has ever had IMO,- it had quite a big (the biggest ?) amt of regular players and DM's for years, and housed many of the legendary characters people still talk about today. Kill has a much better memory than me in terms of actual names though.
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Was it really there after the Quake ?

Then maybe I visited it OOCly when the servers were vault-less.

I can't remember well. Damn old age forgetting ;)
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I think so, now that you ask though i'm not 100% sure. It may have been gone for a while and got updated and put back up or something like that, It's a long time ago for sure :)
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I joined October 2004, and the Quake was already history by then (as was TVS).
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Ah, my mistake, it was December 2003, it seems our new (current) forums got up in January 2004.

So apparently ALFA was just live for a year and a half before the quake.
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