A Land Far Away

So in planning for an open gateway server into Alfa, I wanted to know how new players (and old) found Alfa?

Recommended by a friend who used to play here in NWN1

I had typed in a google search "playing D&D with Neverwinter Nights" in 2004.

I first came to Georage's Earthspurs and played there for a year. Chatting in tells with some other ES players I got the tip that ALFA might be a good thing.

I put in an application, created an elf rogue on Shadowdale, and promptly went out hunting deer (out near the Embergreen Farm ). My first shot on the deer missed, it charged, hit me and did 7 hp damage to my 6 hp rogue.

I bled out on the spot. Total lifespan about 40 minutes.

I was hooked.

I was playing hard RP in a social server setting, when an alfa player held conversations with me for a few days, then invited me to check out ALFA. Been here ever since.

2002ish was excited by the prospect of playing DnD online, did a little searching, found the old alandfaraway site with the looping 'welcome to a land far away' greeters. I probably made 2 or 3 applications before being shunted to the snowy OAS in 2003-4. Kinda like this:

http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=co ... 2187#Files

Got started on Duck's old TSM and have been a noob ever since.

I used to play NWN online with Borgia and some other kiwis who ran TLR.

I joined, name dropped, and the rest is (sordid) history.

I found out about ALFA way before it went live. Mainly by finding the old website in a search for a good online rpg to play. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing, and the list of prospective servers was mindblowing. I guess I still had a child's imagination or something which colored my expectations, but it was still fun like hell that first day

Google search.

I think the first time I heard of ALFA was when I was checking out NWNOnline, an early ambitious and fairly hardcore RP PW project set in Cormyr; they were comparing themselves favorably with ALFA in one of their posts. They definitely did have some potential, but 11 years later ALFA is still around, while NWNO isn't.

I blame puny

I don't remember.

If I recall correctly, I was on some social server somewhere and someone mentioned a role-playing project called ALFA. I didn't know a thing about ALFA or about persistent world projects or much of anything except PnP D&D and drow lore. So, I dropped into ALFA chat, I think, and started talking about drow. Marklos, who was an HDM at the time, recruited me right there to be an ADM and build/run some drow stuff - ALFA was still in Beta at the time. So, y'all have Marklos to blame for me coming to ALFA.

Credit where it is do I guess. I was playing on haven, my first server in NWN2. I think I had been playing maybe....2 months(ish) before I met Duncans PC, and Duncan started talking to me about a PW world of permadeath called alfa. At first I almost chickened out, and he called me on my shit and convinced me. Got me here, and I have been in love ever sense.

I was playing in Haze and most people there were slagging off this thing called ‘ALFA’. I had the misfortune of dropping into SomethingAwful one afternoon and saw an entire multi-multi-page thread therein which was dedicated to slagging off this thing called ‘ALFA’ and everyone who played there. Latterly I was playing in Exodus and some people there were slagging off this thing called ‘ALFA’.

Considering ALFA was perhaps the least recommended PW I’ve ever seen spoken about I find it amusing that I’ve been here for longer than the time I spent at Haze or Exodus. To be fair to both Haze and Exodus, they were top games and I only left when each had closed its doors (or was too stubborn to realise it needed to close its doors).

im here because of boom