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Originally Posted by Ziroc
What's the *sigh* for Micah? You playing?
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I was just expressing frustration over the fact that it seems to keep changing (server/local). This simply looked like another switch BACK to server vault. My bad if i was wrong. It wasn't an indictment of the mod, which I HAVE played quite extensively. But since you raised the problem .......
If you remember I did play for a long while, off and on for a few years or so, up until early 2005. I remember joining groups with several IW players (larry_ohf and RTB spring to mind) and I brought several friends who weren't IW members over as well. IIRC, we got to level 13 or 14; I don't remember exactly which (but that was as far as we could at the time). We played a lot. I remember having tons of discussions with you and others in the forums on bugs we saw, game play issues, scripts etc., during those first years. Go back and do a search on my posts in the EFU forums dude!
As for characters, I took at least two of them thru the entire mod (or at least everything there was at the time). One was a dwarven defender, the other was a monk. Had a great time with both.
Then you switched EFU to server vault. I actually originally supported the move but my group tried it out and didn't like it and stopped playing. I even tried it on my own, and just didn't like the balance. We *might* have played more if it had been switched back to local vault. I wasn't alone; a LOT of folks prefered local vault back then. One external review said that it was extremely difficult with non-epic characters and I agree. By the time I got interested again, the mod was still strictly server vault and I really didn't have any interest in taking a brand new character from level 7 back thru EFU.
It wasn't until 2011 that you switched EFU back to local vault. The last change was announced in February of 2011 according to this thread:
http://www.ironworksforum.com/forum/...d.php?t=101868
And apparently the server got reset to server vault AGAIN in October of 2011 and had to be reset to local:
http://www.ironworksforum.com/forum/...d.php?t=102105
But prior to 2011, my old characters got scrubbed in an earlier changeover, and the backups I had got lost when my PC got destroyed in Katrina in late 2005. Besides, I wasn't interested in playing server vault. It took over 5 years for EFU to switch back from server to local. After 10+ years the mod STILL isn't finished, and I really don't feel like being a beta tester anymore. Any wonder why I haven't played for a while?
BTW, I'm sure the new levels rock.