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What's the SW mean? My autobiography O_O (General Discussion)
What's the SW mean? My autobiography O_O // General Discussion
Dec 8, 2001, 3:28am
I'm not egotistic, I'm just bored
This is a story of my cyber life up to the forming of SW City, so gather
around the campfire children, it's story time =P
Many years ago, back in the days of yore, my family just got hooked up to
the Internet. Me, being a big Nintendo fan, went to www.nintendo.com. I
signed up for the forums and it was time to pick my first username. Super
Mario RPG for the snes was one of my favorite games, and Mallow was favorite
character. Mallow was taken so I chose meanmallow, just to be sarcastic. I
met a fella' named Chris there when I put up my idea for a game, which we
now know as Super Smash Brothers (it was totally my idea in that forum, they
only changed one thing about it!). Chris became my first Internet friend.
He helped me discover instant messagers too. Later I got a hot game -
Command and Conquer: Red Alert. I was pretty interested in this multiplayer
feature. I installed the game using my 8x CD-ROM onto my blazin' 120 mhz
Pentium with a whoppin' 16 MB of ram. After I got use to the game, I signed
up for mplayer, which hosted the multiplayer games. My new username was
Sheller. Being somewhat of a computer newbie, I thought mplayer was all for
Red Alert and that name would fit for a war game. Oddly, I never did figure
out how to get Red Alert to work online until a couple years later (but we
won't go there). I got side tracked and ended up spending a lot of time in
the chat lobbies. Mind you, this was the first time I've been in chat. I
can still remember asking "what's :) mean?". After I learned the ways of
chat I look elsewhere on mplayer. I learned about a magical word called
"shareware" and it's beautiful sister "freeware". I downloaded a shareware
gamed called Scarab. Scarab was an old open air shooter game, similar to
battle mech games but the mechs were human sized. After a week or so, I
changed my name again. I like space, so I decided to rename myself Comet.
However, being bad at spelling, I spelled it Comit (after all, wouldn't the
E make the O in comet sound like "comb-it"? lol). I decided to just leave
it though. I really liked scarab and I learned about clans, which were
basically just teams for the game. I started up my own called YWD
(YWD...tsk tsk tsk, such an awful name. No one I'm telling any of you what
that means =P. Chris and Syntax, you better not tell anyone! >_<). After
about two months, the clan, about up to 8 members, agreed with me that we
should change the name. We chose Scarab Warriors, aka SW. We also decided
to do what most clans did and put the SW tag onfront of our names (hence I'm
SW Comit). About a year later, in spring, my friend in school, Gadget (that
was his username, although he didn't have the internet at the time. He also
did the art and logo for SW which is dotted around SW City), told me about
AW. I downloaded it and immediately teleported to America world, which he
talked all about. Can't remember my first day too well, all I remember was
blue sky and many black dots. I was very surprised when I heard music. I
never knew about MIDIs back then, and I thought they were lengthy WAV files
and blamed the slow downloading on them. I started up a tourist town in
Alphaworld GZ maplet with a few other SW members (SW Enforser, SW Nitro
Excell, SW MadCow, SW Chris, and me). I remember getting an area full
message when I tried building my walls outa wall01.rwx objects. Took me
days to figure out how to make objects without dragging them from a
neighboring build. I've always been an awful newbie. A month later or so,
we moved to America and started a small town. No surprise, but it got
deleted shortly by someone who hated SWs (evidence of the signs left there).
Then we started yet another tourist town. I don't know how it happened, but
even though I knew that one side of the world was forbidden building zone, I
somehow build on that side on accident. It was a great tourist city, pretty
big. Also, at this time, SW was at it's golden age. It was the biggest
Scarab clan, 50 members,, and the 2nd oldest surviving. The town was
surrounded by a huge wall with a working rail road track ontop (pretty good
for a tourist I'd say). Probably a month later the town was deleted, lol.
Two days later that whole side of the world was covered with grass. I
forgot to mention, I didn't register with AW because these were the days
when spending over the Internet was still not trusted by most people,
including my parents. Pretty bummed out about the event, I returned to
Scarab for a long time. I dotted on AW every now and then to build a
tourist town, knowing it wouldn't last long. I built two more in
alphaworld, one in mars, and one in yellowstone (actually I ditched that one
due to lack of objects, lol). Scarab now reached the end of the
line...cheating was introduced into scarab like a plague. A hacking program
was spread all over, easy enough for most people to use. Even I had one,
although I only used it offline. Player skills became obsolete. I resorted
back to AW (after a long period of playing Faldon, the first MMORPG I
played). I wanted a tourist city that would last longer this time. I flew
a few kilometers out from AW GZ, unaware of how huge Alphaworld was, since I
never knew about the AW Mapper. I dragged an object with me for a long time
out to a open field. In my tourist mind, I thought I'd be safer if I could
stay clear of other builds. I raised the object 100m in the sky and started
a city in the sky. This time I only invited the most trusted SW members -
SW vice-president SW Nito Excell, 3rd in control SW Magnum, scarab's #1
player SW Kila (now known as Sojiurn), and SW Kappa (dunno how he ever got
there, lol). All but Nitro were new to AW. Lucky for me, Magnum liked AW
so much he registered and convinced Kila to register too. Me and Magnum
were good friends, and he gave me his credit card number so I could register
too. Now that we were registered, we thought it was pointless to stay in
the air, so we made a road down the surface and started New SW City, which
is SW City as you know it. SW Kila made the first build - a pub. We
invited several more SWs to AW. Now that I was a citizen, I liked AW more
and spent a long time away from Scarab. Scarab was so corrupt that I
declared my resignation from SW, after 1 and a half years of running it.
Nitro took over and held on another month, but lost interested since I was
gone (him and I are best friends in r/l). Magnum disappeared and I've never
seen him since. From what I know of him, he had too much of a thing going
in r/l to have time for the computer. What I regret most about all this is
that I never got anybody's email address because I relied on mplayer's
telegram system so much. Nitro still plays scarab to this day, joining clan
to clan. He claims SW was restarted by old loyalists, but could never hold
onto it. I don't know why I never took the SW outa my name even though I
quit. Something weird that you can't put into worlds. Maybe it's just a
symbol of all my scarab days.
After that, Kila changed his name to Sojiurn and left SW City. He could
never stay committed to one clan in scarab, same goes for AW. I opened SW
City to non-SW members. Pern was our first resident, but she left cause she
had a town of her own to run. I ran SW City for six months after that by
myself. I liked building too much to care about building a community yet.
Kila, though, stumbled into Utopia ran by Utopian Monarch. Before that he
was known as Selkie1 and he was another resident of SW City during those six
months. Kila joined me one day and brought alone Syntax and his friend
Spiderman. Syntax was pretty impressed by SW City and decided to stick
around. I offered him a sub-community, a plan I've been thinking on during
this hours of building. Everything after that is pretty modern news.
Syntax brought Captain MAD Mike who started a sub-community, and I brought
Chris, who was also SW, and he started one too. The government system just
kinda fell into place, it was unwritten and just kinda evolved. In fact, it
was only about 4 months that we finally documented the government of SW
City. SW City will be 3 years old next April. I'm NOT totally certain,
correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's the 2nd longest surviving city in
Alphaworld, with Pink Village being 1st. Largest in physical size. Sound
familiar? Uh oh...time will tell O_O
Wow that took awhile to type =0
- Comit
Dec 8, 2001, 4:47am
I forgot what YWD means. So you're safe. =P
SW Chris
[View Quote]"sw comit" <sam64 at jps.net> wrote in message
news:3c11a4f7 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> I'm not egotistic, I'm just bored
> This is a story of my cyber life up to the forming of SW City, so gather
> around the campfire children, it's story time =P
>
> Many years ago, back in the days of yore, my family just got hooked up to
> the Internet. Me, being a big Nintendo fan, went to www.nintendo.com. I
> signed up for the forums and it was time to pick my first username. Super
> Mario RPG for the snes was one of my favorite games, and Mallow was
favorite
> character. Mallow was taken so I chose meanmallow, just to be sarcastic.
I
> met a fella' named Chris there when I put up my idea for a game, which we
> now know as Super Smash Brothers (it was totally my idea in that forum,
they
> only changed one thing about it!). Chris became my first Internet friend.
> He helped me discover instant messagers too. Later I got a hot game -
> Command and Conquer: Red Alert. I was pretty interested in this
multiplayer
> feature. I installed the game using my 8x CD-ROM onto my blazin' 120 mhz
> Pentium with a whoppin' 16 MB of ram. After I got use to the game, I
signed
> up for mplayer, which hosted the multiplayer games. My new username was
> Sheller. Being somewhat of a computer newbie, I thought mplayer was all
for
> Red Alert and that name would fit for a war game. Oddly, I never did
figure
> out how to get Red Alert to work online until a couple years later (but we
> won't go there). I got side tracked and ended up spending a lot of time
in
> the chat lobbies. Mind you, this was the first time I've been in chat. I
> can still remember asking "what's :) mean?". After I learned the ways of
> chat I look elsewhere on mplayer. I learned about a magical word called
> "shareware" and it's beautiful sister "freeware". I downloaded a
shareware
> gamed called Scarab. Scarab was an old open air shooter game, similar to
> battle mech games but the mechs were human sized. After a week or so, I
> changed my name again. I like space, so I decided to rename myself Comet.
> However, being bad at spelling, I spelled it Comit (after all, wouldn't
the
> E make the O in comet sound like "comb-it"? lol). I decided to just leave
> it though. I really liked scarab and I learned about clans, which were
> basically just teams for the game. I started up my own called YWD
> (YWD...tsk tsk tsk, such an awful name. No one I'm telling any of you
what
> that means =P. Chris and Syntax, you better not tell anyone! >_<). After
> about two months, the clan, about up to 8 members, agreed with me that we
> should change the name. We chose Scarab Warriors, aka SW. We also
decided
> to do what most clans did and put the SW tag onfront of our names (hence
I'm
> SW Comit). About a year later, in spring, my friend in school, Gadget
(that
> was his username, although he didn't have the internet at the time. He
also
> did the art and logo for SW which is dotted around SW City), told me about
> AW. I downloaded it and immediately teleported to America world, which he
> talked all about. Can't remember my first day too well, all I remember
was
> blue sky and many black dots. I was very surprised when I heard music. I
> never knew about MIDIs back then, and I thought they were lengthy WAV
files
> and blamed the slow downloading on them. I started up a tourist town in
> Alphaworld GZ maplet with a few other SW members (SW Enforser, SW Nitro
> Excell, SW MadCow, SW Chris, and me). I remember getting an area full
> message when I tried building my walls outa wall01.rwx objects. Took me
> days to figure out how to make objects without dragging them from a
> neighboring build. I've always been an awful newbie. A month later or
so,
> we moved to America and started a small town. No surprise, but it got
> deleted shortly by someone who hated SWs (evidence of the signs left
there).
> Then we started yet another tourist town. I don't know how it happened,
but
> even though I knew that one side of the world was forbidden building zone,
I
> somehow build on that side on accident. It was a great tourist city,
pretty
> big. Also, at this time, SW was at it's golden age. It was the biggest
> Scarab clan, 50 members,, and the 2nd oldest surviving. The town was
> surrounded by a huge wall with a working rail road track ontop (pretty
good
> for a tourist I'd say). Probably a month later the town was deleted, lol.
> Two days later that whole side of the world was covered with grass. I
> forgot to mention, I didn't register with AW because these were the days
> when spending over the Internet was still not trusted by most people,
> including my parents. Pretty bummed out about the event, I returned to
> Scarab for a long time. I dotted on AW every now and then to build a
> tourist town, knowing it wouldn't last long. I built two more in
> alphaworld, one in mars, and one in yellowstone (actually I ditched that
one
> due to lack of objects, lol). Scarab now reached the end of the
> line...cheating was introduced into scarab like a plague. A hacking
program
> was spread all over, easy enough for most people to use. Even I had one,
> although I only used it offline. Player skills became obsolete. I
resorted
> back to AW (after a long period of playing Faldon, the first MMORPG I
> played). I wanted a tourist city that would last longer this time. I
flew
> a few kilometers out from AW GZ, unaware of how huge Alphaworld was, since
I
> never knew about the AW Mapper. I dragged an object with me for a long
time
> out to a open field. In my tourist mind, I thought I'd be safer if I
could
> stay clear of other builds. I raised the object 100m in the sky and
started
> a city in the sky. This time I only invited the most trusted SW members -
> SW vice-president SW Nito Excell, 3rd in control SW Magnum, scarab's #1
> player SW Kila (now known as Sojiurn), and SW Kappa (dunno how he ever got
> there, lol). All but Nitro were new to AW. Lucky for me, Magnum liked AW
> so much he registered and convinced Kila to register too. Me and Magnum
> were good friends, and he gave me his credit card number so I could
register
> too. Now that we were registered, we thought it was pointless to stay in
> the air, so we made a road down the surface and started New SW City, which
> is SW City as you know it. SW Kila made the first build - a pub. We
> invited several more SWs to AW. Now that I was a citizen, I liked AW more
> and spent a long time away from Scarab. Scarab was so corrupt that I
> declared my resignation from SW, after 1 and a half years of running it.
> Nitro took over and held on another month, but lost interested since I was
> gone (him and I are best friends in r/l). Magnum disappeared and I've
never
> seen him since. From what I know of him, he had too much of a thing going
> in r/l to have time for the computer. What I regret most about all this
is
> that I never got anybody's email address because I relied on mplayer's
> telegram system so much. Nitro still plays scarab to this day, joining
clan
> to clan. He claims SW was restarted by old loyalists, but could never
hold
> onto it. I don't know why I never took the SW outa my name even though I
> quit. Something weird that you can't put into worlds. Maybe it's just a
> symbol of all my scarab days.
>
> After that, Kila changed his name to Sojiurn and left SW City. He could
> never stay committed to one clan in scarab, same goes for AW. I opened SW
> City to non-SW members. Pern was our first resident, but she left cause
she
> had a town of her own to run. I ran SW City for six months after that by
> myself. I liked building too much to care about building a community yet.
> Kila, though, stumbled into Utopia ran by Utopian Monarch. Before that he
> was known as Selkie1 and he was another resident of SW City during those
six
> months. Kila joined me one day and brought alone Syntax and his friend
> Spiderman. Syntax was pretty impressed by SW City and decided to stick
> around. I offered him a sub-community, a plan I've been thinking on
during
> this hours of building. Everything after that is pretty modern news.
> Syntax brought Captain MAD Mike who started a sub-community, and I brought
> Chris, who was also SW, and he started one too. The government system
just
> kinda fell into place, it was unwritten and just kinda evolved. In fact,
it
> was only about 4 months that we finally documented the government of SW
> City. SW City will be 3 years old next April. I'm NOT totally certain,
> correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's the 2nd longest surviving city
in
> Alphaworld, with Pink Village being 1st. Largest in physical size. Sound
> familiar? Uh oh...time will tell O_O
>
> Wow that took awhile to type =0
>
> - Comit
>
>
|
Dec 8, 2001, 10:43pm
Comit....write a book and sell it :-D
I could write up my whole AW History here....but its boring so I'll spare
everyone. Comit = interesting. Me = weird.
--
Captain MAD Mike
-Governor, PC Addict, Odd Man
[View Quote]"sw comit" <sam64 at jps.net> wrote in message
news:3c11a4f7 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
| I'm not egotistic, I'm just bored
| This is a story of my cyber life up to the forming of SW City, so gather
| around the campfire children, it's story time =P
|
| Many years ago, back in the days of yore, my family just got hooked up to
| the Internet. Me, being a big Nintendo fan, went to www.nintendo.com. I
| signed up for the forums and it was time to pick my first username. Super
| Mario RPG for the snes was one of my favorite games, and Mallow was
favorite
| character. Mallow was taken so I chose meanmallow, just to be sarcastic.
I
| met a fella' named Chris there when I put up my idea for a game, which we
| now know as Super Smash Brothers (it was totally my idea in that forum,
they
| only changed one thing about it!). Chris became my first Internet friend.
| He helped me discover instant messagers too. Later I got a hot game -
| Command and Conquer: Red Alert. I was pretty interested in this
multiplayer
| feature. I installed the game using my 8x CD-ROM onto my blazin' 120 mhz
| Pentium with a whoppin' 16 MB of ram. After I got use to the game, I
signed
| up for mplayer, which hosted the multiplayer games. My new username was
| Sheller. Being somewhat of a computer newbie, I thought mplayer was all
for
| Red Alert and that name would fit for a war game. Oddly, I never did
figure
| out how to get Red Alert to work online until a couple years later (but we
| won't go there). I got side tracked and ended up spending a lot of time
in
| the chat lobbies. Mind you, this was the first time I've been in chat. I
| can still remember asking "what's :) mean?". After I learned the ways of
| chat I look elsewhere on mplayer. I learned about a magical word called
| "shareware" and it's beautiful sister "freeware". I downloaded a
shareware
| gamed called Scarab. Scarab was an old open air shooter game, similar to
| battle mech games but the mechs were human sized. After a week or so, I
| changed my name again. I like space, so I decided to rename myself Comet.
| However, being bad at spelling, I spelled it Comit (after all, wouldn't
the
| E make the O in comet sound like "comb-it"? lol). I decided to just leave
| it though. I really liked scarab and I learned about clans, which were
| basically just teams for the game. I started up my own called YWD
| (YWD...tsk tsk tsk, such an awful name. No one I'm telling any of you
what
| that means =P. Chris and Syntax, you better not tell anyone! >_<). After
| about two months, the clan, about up to 8 members, agreed with me that we
| should change the name. We chose Scarab Warriors, aka SW. We also
decided
| to do what most clans did and put the SW tag onfront of our names (hence
I'm
| SW Comit). About a year later, in spring, my friend in school, Gadget
(that
| was his username, although he didn't have the internet at the time. He
also
| did the art and logo for SW which is dotted around SW City), told me about
| AW. I downloaded it and immediately teleported to America world, which he
| talked all about. Can't remember my first day too well, all I remember
was
| blue sky and many black dots. I was very surprised when I heard music. I
| never knew about MIDIs back then, and I thought they were lengthy WAV
files
| and blamed the slow downloading on them. I started up a tourist town in
| Alphaworld GZ maplet with a few other SW members (SW Enforser, SW Nitro
| Excell, SW MadCow, SW Chris, and me). I remember getting an area full
| message when I tried building my walls outa wall01.rwx objects. Took me
| days to figure out how to make objects without dragging them from a
| neighboring build. I've always been an awful newbie. A month later or
so,
| we moved to America and started a small town. No surprise, but it got
| deleted shortly by someone who hated SWs (evidence of the signs left
there).
| Then we started yet another tourist town. I don't know how it happened,
but
| even though I knew that one side of the world was forbidden building zone,
I
| somehow build on that side on accident. It was a great tourist city,
pretty
| big. Also, at this time, SW was at it's golden age. It was the biggest
| Scarab clan, 50 members,, and the 2nd oldest surviving. The town was
| surrounded by a huge wall with a working rail road track ontop (pretty
good
| for a tourist I'd say). Probably a month later the town was deleted, lol.
| Two days later that whole side of the world was covered with grass. I
| forgot to mention, I didn't register with AW because these were the days
| when spending over the Internet was still not trusted by most people,
| including my parents. Pretty bummed out about the event, I returned to
| Scarab for a long time. I dotted on AW every now and then to build a
| tourist town, knowing it wouldn't last long. I built two more in
| alphaworld, one in mars, and one in yellowstone (actually I ditched that
one
| due to lack of objects, lol). Scarab now reached the end of the
| line...cheating was introduced into scarab like a plague. A hacking
program
| was spread all over, easy enough for most people to use. Even I had one,
| although I only used it offline. Player skills became obsolete. I
resorted
| back to AW (after a long period of playing Faldon, the first MMORPG I
| played). I wanted a tourist city that would last longer this time. I
flew
| a few kilometers out from AW GZ, unaware of how huge Alphaworld was, since
I
| never knew about the AW Mapper. I dragged an object with me for a long
time
| out to a open field. In my tourist mind, I thought I'd be safer if I
could
| stay clear of other builds. I raised the object 100m in the sky and
started
| a city in the sky. This time I only invited the most trusted SW members -
| SW vice-president SW Nito Excell, 3rd in control SW Magnum, scarab's #1
| player SW Kila (now known as Sojiurn), and SW Kappa (dunno how he ever got
| there, lol). All but Nitro were new to AW. Lucky for me, Magnum liked AW
| so much he registered and convinced Kila to register too. Me and Magnum
| were good friends, and he gave me his credit card number so I could
register
| too. Now that we were registered, we thought it was pointless to stay in
| the air, so we made a road down the surface and started New SW City, which
| is SW City as you know it. SW Kila made the first build - a pub. We
| invited several more SWs to AW. Now that I was a citizen, I liked AW more
| and spent a long time away from Scarab. Scarab was so corrupt that I
| declared my resignation from SW, after 1 and a half years of running it.
| Nitro took over and held on another month, but lost interested since I was
| gone (him and I are best friends in r/l). Magnum disappeared and I've
never
| seen him since. From what I know of him, he had too much of a thing going
| in r/l to have time for the computer. What I regret most about all this
is
| that I never got anybody's email address because I relied on mplayer's
| telegram system so much. Nitro still plays scarab to this day, joining
clan
| to clan. He claims SW was restarted by old loyalists, but could never
hold
| onto it. I don't know why I never took the SW outa my name even though I
| quit. Something weird that you can't put into worlds. Maybe it's just a
| symbol of all my scarab days.
|
| After that, Kila changed his name to Sojiurn and left SW City. He could
| never stay committed to one clan in scarab, same goes for AW. I opened SW
| City to non-SW members. Pern was our first resident, but she left cause
she
| had a town of her own to run. I ran SW City for six months after that by
| myself. I liked building too much to care about building a community yet.
| Kila, though, stumbled into Utopia ran by Utopian Monarch. Before that he
| was known as Selkie1 and he was another resident of SW City during those
six
| months. Kila joined me one day and brought alone Syntax and his friend
| Spiderman. Syntax was pretty impressed by SW City and decided to stick
| around. I offered him a sub-community, a plan I've been thinking on
during
| this hours of building. Everything after that is pretty modern news.
| Syntax brought Captain MAD Mike who started a sub-community, and I brought
| Chris, who was also SW, and he started one too. The government system
just
| kinda fell into place, it was unwritten and just kinda evolved. In fact,
it
| was only about 4 months that we finally documented the government of SW
| City. SW City will be 3 years old next April. I'm NOT totally certain,
| correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's the 2nd longest surviving city
in
| Alphaworld, with Pink Village being 1st. Largest in physical size. Sound
| familiar? Uh oh...time will tell O_O
|
| Wow that took awhile to type =0
|
| - Comit
|
|
|
Dec 9, 2001, 1:15am
Thanks for sharing this Comit, it was interesting reading :) Cool story
Fox Mc Cloud
Dec 9, 2001, 2:15am
Wow, all that and you still have time to play a little baseball :P Awesome
man, thanks for sharin.
-Xel
PS. *guesses* YWD = you will die? :P lol
[View Quote]"sw comit" <sam64 at jps.net> wrote in message
news:3c11a4f7 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> I'm not egotistic, I'm just bored
> This is a story of my cyber life up to the forming of SW City, so gather
> around the campfire children, it's story time =P
>
> Many years ago, back in the days of yore, my family just got hooked up to
> the Internet. Me, being a big Nintendo fan, went to www.nintendo.com. I
> signed up for the forums and it was time to pick my first username. Super
> Mario RPG for the snes was one of my favorite games, and Mallow was
favorite
> character. Mallow was taken so I chose meanmallow, just to be sarcastic.
I
> met a fella' named Chris there when I put up my idea for a game, which we
> now know as Super Smash Brothers (it was totally my idea in that forum,
they
> only changed one thing about it!). Chris became my first Internet friend.
> He helped me discover instant messagers too. Later I got a hot game -
> Command and Conquer: Red Alert. I was pretty interested in this
multiplayer
> feature. I installed the game using my 8x CD-ROM onto my blazin' 120 mhz
> Pentium with a whoppin' 16 MB of ram. After I got use to the game, I
signed
> up for mplayer, which hosted the multiplayer games. My new username was
> Sheller. Being somewhat of a computer newbie, I thought mplayer was all
for
> Red Alert and that name would fit for a war game. Oddly, I never did
figure
> out how to get Red Alert to work online until a couple years later (but we
> won't go there). I got side tracked and ended up spending a lot of time
in
> the chat lobbies. Mind you, this was the first time I've been in chat. I
> can still remember asking "what's :) mean?". After I learned the ways of
> chat I look elsewhere on mplayer. I learned about a magical word called
> "shareware" and it's beautiful sister "freeware". I downloaded a
shareware
> gamed called Scarab. Scarab was an old open air shooter game, similar to
> battle mech games but the mechs were human sized. After a week or so, I
> changed my name again. I like space, so I decided to rename myself Comet.
> However, being bad at spelling, I spelled it Comit (after all, wouldn't
the
> E make the O in comet sound like "comb-it"? lol). I decided to just leave
> it though. I really liked scarab and I learned about clans, which were
> basically just teams for the game. I started up my own called YWD
> (YWD...tsk tsk tsk, such an awful name. No one I'm telling any of you
what
> that means =P. Chris and Syntax, you better not tell anyone! >_<). After
> about two months, the clan, about up to 8 members, agreed with me that we
> should change the name. We chose Scarab Warriors, aka SW. We also
decided
> to do what most clans did and put the SW tag onfront of our names (hence
I'm
> SW Comit). About a year later, in spring, my friend in school, Gadget
(that
> was his username, although he didn't have the internet at the time. He
also
> did the art and logo for SW which is dotted around SW City), told me about
> AW. I downloaded it and immediately teleported to America world, which he
> talked all about. Can't remember my first day too well, all I remember
was
> blue sky and many black dots. I was very surprised when I heard music. I
> never knew about MIDIs back then, and I thought they were lengthy WAV
files
> and blamed the slow downloading on them. I started up a tourist town in
> Alphaworld GZ maplet with a few other SW members (SW Enforser, SW Nitro
> Excell, SW MadCow, SW Chris, and me). I remember getting an area full
> message when I tried building my walls outa wall01.rwx objects. Took me
> days to figure out how to make objects without dragging them from a
> neighboring build. I've always been an awful newbie. A month later or
so,
> we moved to America and started a small town. No surprise, but it got
> deleted shortly by someone who hated SWs (evidence of the signs left
there).
> Then we started yet another tourist town. I don't know how it happened,
but
> even though I knew that one side of the world was forbidden building zone,
I
> somehow build on that side on accident. It was a great tourist city,
pretty
> big. Also, at this time, SW was at it's golden age. It was the biggest
> Scarab clan, 50 members,, and the 2nd oldest surviving. The town was
> surrounded by a huge wall with a working rail road track ontop (pretty
good
> for a tourist I'd say). Probably a month later the town was deleted, lol.
> Two days later that whole side of the world was covered with grass. I
> forgot to mention, I didn't register with AW because these were the days
> when spending over the Internet was still not trusted by most people,
> including my parents. Pretty bummed out about the event, I returned to
> Scarab for a long time. I dotted on AW every now and then to build a
> tourist town, knowing it wouldn't last long. I built two more in
> alphaworld, one in mars, and one in yellowstone (actually I ditched that
one
> due to lack of objects, lol). Scarab now reached the end of the
> line...cheating was introduced into scarab like a plague. A hacking
program
> was spread all over, easy enough for most people to use. Even I had one,
> although I only used it offline. Player skills became obsolete. I
resorted
> back to AW (after a long period of playing Faldon, the first MMORPG I
> played). I wanted a tourist city that would last longer this time. I
flew
> a few kilometers out from AW GZ, unaware of how huge Alphaworld was, since
I
> never knew about the AW Mapper. I dragged an object with me for a long
time
> out to a open field. In my tourist mind, I thought I'd be safer if I
could
> stay clear of other builds. I raised the object 100m in the sky and
started
> a city in the sky. This time I only invited the most trusted SW members -
> SW vice-president SW Nito Excell, 3rd in control SW Magnum, scarab's #1
> player SW Kila (now known as Sojiurn), and SW Kappa (dunno how he ever got
> there, lol). All but Nitro were new to AW. Lucky for me, Magnum liked AW
> so much he registered and convinced Kila to register too. Me and Magnum
> were good friends, and he gave me his credit card number so I could
register
> too. Now that we were registered, we thought it was pointless to stay in
> the air, so we made a road down the surface and started New SW City, which
> is SW City as you know it. SW Kila made the first build - a pub. We
> invited several more SWs to AW. Now that I was a citizen, I liked AW more
> and spent a long time away from Scarab. Scarab was so corrupt that I
> declared my resignation from SW, after 1 and a half years of running it.
> Nitro took over and held on another month, but lost interested since I was
> gone (him and I are best friends in r/l). Magnum disappeared and I've
never
> seen him since. From what I know of him, he had too much of a thing going
> in r/l to have time for the computer. What I regret most about all this
is
> that I never got anybody's email address because I relied on mplayer's
> telegram system so much. Nitro still plays scarab to this day, joining
clan
> to clan. He claims SW was restarted by old loyalists, but could never
hold
> onto it. I don't know why I never took the SW outa my name even though I
> quit. Something weird that you can't put into worlds. Maybe it's just a
> symbol of all my scarab days.
>
> After that, Kila changed his name to Sojiurn and left SW City. He could
> never stay committed to one clan in scarab, same goes for AW. I opened SW
> City to non-SW members. Pern was our first resident, but she left cause
she
> had a town of her own to run. I ran SW City for six months after that by
> myself. I liked building too much to care about building a community yet.
> Kila, though, stumbled into Utopia ran by Utopian Monarch. Before that he
> was known as Selkie1 and he was another resident of SW City during those
six
> months. Kila joined me one day and brought alone Syntax and his friend
> Spiderman. Syntax was pretty impressed by SW City and decided to stick
> around. I offered him a sub-community, a plan I've been thinking on
during
> this hours of building. Everything after that is pretty modern news.
> Syntax brought Captain MAD Mike who started a sub-community, and I brought
> Chris, who was also SW, and he started one too. The government system
just
> kinda fell into place, it was unwritten and just kinda evolved. In fact,
it
> was only about 4 months that we finally documented the government of SW
> City. SW City will be 3 years old next April. I'm NOT totally certain,
> correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's the 2nd longest surviving city
in
> Alphaworld, with Pink Village being 1st. Largest in physical size. Sound
> familiar? Uh oh...time will tell O_O
>
> Wow that took awhile to type =0
>
> - Comit
>
>
|
Dec 9, 2001, 5:00am
Good guess, but my lips are sealed =|
[View Quote]"xelnaga" <eric at disaxiom.net> wrote in message
news:3c12e56b at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Wow, all that and you still have time to play a little baseball :P
Awesome
> man, thanks for sharin.
>
>
> -Xel
> PS. *guesses* YWD = you will die? :P lol
>
>
> "sw comit" <sam64 at jps.net> wrote in message
> news:3c11a4f7 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
to
Super
> favorite
sarcastic.
> I
we
> they
friend.
> multiplayer
mhz
> signed
> for
> figure
we
> in
I
of
> shareware
to
Comet.
> the
leave
> what
After
we
> decided
> I'm
> (that
> also
about
he
> was
I
> files
> so,
> there).
> but
zone,
> I
> pretty
> good
lol.
> one
> program
one,
> resorted
> flew
since
> I
> time
> could
> started
members -
got
AW
> register
in
which
more
was
> never
going
> is
> clan
> hold
I
a
SW
> she
by
yet.
he
> six
> during
brought
> just
fact,
> it
> in
Sound
>
>
|
Dec 9, 2001, 6:22am
hehe does any one want mine? I'll take the time to write it iffin you
want..... beware though, its juicy in spots
[View Quote]"sw comit" <sam64 at jps.net> wrote in message
news:3c130bf5 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
Good guess, but my lips are sealed =|
|
"xelnaga" <eric at disaxiom.net> wrote in message
news:3c12e56b at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Wow, all that and you still have time to play a little baseball :P
Awesome
> man, thanks for sharin.
>
>
> -Xel
> PS. *guesses* YWD = you will die? :P lol
>
>
> "sw comit" <sam64 at jps.net> wrote in message
> news:3c11a4f7 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
to
Super
> favorite
sarcastic.
> I
we
> they
friend.
> multiplayer
mhz
> signed
> for
> figure
we
> in
I
of
> shareware
to
Comet.
> the
leave
> what
After
we
> decided
> I'm
> (that
> also
about
he
> was
I
> files
> so,
> there).
> but
zone,
> I
> pretty
> good
lol.
> one
> program
one,
> resorted
> flew
since
> I
> time
> could
> started
members -
got
AW
> register
in
which
more
was
> never
going
> is
> clan
> hold
I
a
SW
> she
by
yet.
he
> six
> during
brought
> just
fact,
> it
> in
Sound
>
>
|
Dec 9, 2001, 7:13am
lol wow, good guess. O_____O
--
- Syntax -
http://swcity.net
http://academy.swcity.net
http://forum.swcity.net
[View Quote]xelnaga <eric at disaxiom.net> wrote in message
news:3c12e56b at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Wow, all that and you still have time to play a little baseball :P
Awesome
> man, thanks for sharin.
>
>
> -Xel
> PS. *guesses* YWD = you will die? :P lol
>
>
> "sw comit" <sam64 at jps.net> wrote in message
> news:3c11a4f7 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
gather
to
I
Super
> favorite
sarcastic.
> I
we
> they
friend.
> multiplayer
mhz
> signed
was
all
> for
> figure
we
time
> in
I
of
called
> shareware
to
I
Comet.
> the
leave
> what
After
we
> decided
(hence
> I'm
> (that
> also
about
he
> was
I
> files
in
me
> so,
> there).
happened,
> but
zone,
> I
> pretty
biggest
> good
lol.
days
that
> one
> program
one,
> resorted
> flew
since
> I
> time
> could
> started
members -
got
AW
Magnum
> register
in
which
more
it.
was
> never
going
this
> is
> clan
> hold
I
a
could
SW
cause
> she
by
yet.
he
those
> six
> during
brought
> just
fact,
> it
certain,
city
> in
Sound
>
>
|
Dec 9, 2001, 5:50pm
Sure kellee ^_^
you too cmm, I don't know anything about you before port alpha O_O
[View Quote]"kellee" <kellee at my.activeworlds.com> wrote in message
news:3c131f3c at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> hehe does any one want mine? I'll take the time to write it iffin you
> want..... beware though, its juicy in spots
>
> "sw comit" <sam64 at jps.net> wrote in message
> news:3c130bf5 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Good guess, but my lips are sealed =|
>
> "xelnaga" <eric at disaxiom.net> wrote in message
> news:3c12e56b at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Awesome
gather
> to
I
> Super
> sarcastic.
> we
forum,
> friend.
> mhz
was
all
(but
> we
time
chat.
> I
> of
called
> to
I
> Comet.
wouldn't
> leave
were
> After
> we
(hence
He
> about
which
> he
remember
music.
> I
in
Nitro
me
or
happened,
> zone,
biggest
> lol.
days
to
that
> one,
> since
long
> members -
#1
> got
liked
> AW
Magnum
> in
> which
> more
it.
> was
> going
this
joining
though
> I
just
> a
could
opened
> SW
cause
> by
> yet.
that
> he
those
friend
stick
> brought
> fact,
SW
certain,
city
> Sound
>
>
>
>
|
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