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"Hey, what was it like when you started playing Feral Heart?"
"Well, I'll tell you, back when-" stop!
This is what this topic is going to be about. What was it like back when you first joined game as whole? Or simply conditions you used to go through as a newbie. This is your chance to sound like a grumpy grandma or grandpa. Start a rant, be sincere, boast about a random adventure you had with a squirrel, and so on. What was is it like back in your day?
Back in my day, I joined group after group after group, and had alot of fun. I would stay up to the next morning playing the game if I had a good group of friends or new people I met online. When I was at least three weeks in, my liking for the game just grew even more. Back then, I used to get lost in the South Pole so many times. I was starting to think Atlantis and the Last Cave didn't exist because of the simple fact I couldn't find them from me getting lost at the South Pole so much. Back in my day, there was always something random happening, zombie attacks, demon wars, wolf battles with zombies, raining cats, you name it. I worked with whatever came up because, well, let's face it, fighting a zombie made out of toys is pretty darn cool. Back in my day, I used to think being purple and brown was cool until I one day just really looked at myself for a while.
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When I was young lass, (lol not really) your first character spawned in the middle of Bonfire Island, amoung the last of people running around in that tiny space, and the trolls generally being trolls. During that time I wasn't very adventurous, barely talked to anyone or ventured far out from Ficho Tunnel. My first few characters were going along with the trend and were sort of black with some bright coloured markings. My roleplaying skills were...very rusty. To pass the time, I'd walk around trying to make some friends, and when I did finally find some friends (I fell out with a lot of people xD) we'd sometimes sit and talk or if there was lots of us, we'd derp around doing silly things xD Mate centers didn't exist, so one often had random people running up to you saying "Will u b my m8?", and no wings either.
In short, that was the first few months of my FH life.
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During my first months of Feralheart, I won't lie that I actually found it bland and a bit boring. This was way back when your Home was set in the middle of Bonfire, there was no wings, no Adoption/Mate Centers, even the maps Lonely Cave/South Pole/Atlantis/Last Cave didn't even exist yet. I was your everyday wanderer, semi-literate floof with a very unrealistic character. The classic. Though, I rarely bothered with the socializing idealism of the game and more so spent my time wandering the maps and just exploring all that was provided. Of course, I grew bored of this and eventually began trying out roleplays. Yes, I will say it, I didn't even know what mapless, literate, long-termed, etc. even meant and I was utterly confused over the whole concept.
Fast-forwarding a little bit, but I remember the first time I came across literates, or for a more appropriate term, experienced roleplayers. I was intimidated by them, yet admired them quite a lot. That's when I began taking the habit of steady and constant observation. For the longest time, I watched from a distance as mapless, experienced roleplays took place in the public maps. I mimicked their skills, writing down many terms in a notebook that they used for me to research and go over. As time rolled on, I began experimenting with the color codes in the character creator and took up the liking to a more realistic appearance on all my characters. Around a month or so later, I began joining literate roleplays, continuing to practice with my literature and heeding any advice those who I admired would inform me with. Just like that, I fell for the game and met many great friends who I don't regret meeting. Things only got more interesting once all the maps, wings, and new Home was set.
Now, I've been lately getting involved with the community other than roleplay and still continues to observe all that's around me in-game wise. A mere summary of my Feralheart life back then to the present.
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Ah, yes, gather round, young'uns. -pulls out a cane and pipe-
Back in the old days when I first joined, we didn't have no fancy wings or Sky's Rim or South Pole or Lonely Cave, we had five maps and spawned straight in Bonfire and we were grateful! In fact, when I first downloaded the game and signed up, there were so few players that the first time I ever spawned, Bonfire was completely empty. Not a soul in sight and I couldn't find the portal to get out, so I ran around the island by myself for an hour or so trying to figure out how the controls worked. I don't remember how I eventually got out, I think I just found the portal at some point and made my way to Fluorite. I joined up with a bunch of people who were trying to climb the giant rocks near the stone bridge and explored because I didn't know how the whole RP thing worked, and I do recall being somewhat enamoured with the Temple of Dreams and thinking it was the coolest map ever. It was a very different game in its early days; I don't remember ever encountering a Warrior clan in the first year I was there, and there were fewer RPs, but they lasted longer and I swear there was more variety. I joined a few prides that lasted for months; there was one I was in for at least a year and a half, and it had been going for a long time before that. I dunno, something about the social dynamic was just different. Even the mapless prides lasted a long time (which is how I accidentally adopted a cub and we RPed out of the pride because it eventually got really weird, and somehow we're STILL going with a consistent plotline years later). I think most of the people there at first were from IT before it got shut down.
So yeah, that's how I remember it. Fewer, longer-lasting RPs, people actually talked to each other in local without being forced to, no wings, we still had Kovu and regular game updates... kinda miss it.
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Ahh, the good ol' days. -Rocks back and forth in my grandma chair.-
You spawned in the middle of Lagfire, glitching and lagging away from the crowd. These cool maps such as South Pole or Lonely cave weren't even made back then. We didn't have wings or any kind of howl actions and such. I just randomly ran around and figured out everything after a bit of powerplaying and such. >.> Kovu was there, people were on much more, not to mention amazing Role-plays snd regular updates. Mate-centers and pup-centers were a rare sight, most likely didn't exist. Good times. I miss it actually.
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*Sits attentively beside the roaring FirePlace* What about the Rps?
Were they more Realistic or more Made-Up Fun?
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-puffs on pipe- Well, if I recall you could find either one... probably most of them that I saw were semi-realistic; there were elements of realism, but they usually had some twist to add interest. There were a lot more multi-species RPs as well, definitely.
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Oh jeeze, I've been here since the begining, where do I start?
I'll just go with a list.
1. Spawn point was Bonfire Island, not Lonely Cave. Kinda laggy but manageable. I was happy when Lonely Cave was introduced, it forced people to disperse rather than clump when learning how to play the game for the first time, of which spawning in Bonfire did not.
2. More multi-species roleplay
3. Little to no wolfspeak, or at least not as much as now, yay!
4. A few of the main large groups that existed in Impressive Title moved over to Feral Heart. I think Jaaku Clan [Not a warrior cat clan] made an attempted move over here or kinda-did but kinda-didnt and both they and Meurtrier Pride ended staying in IT or some kind of offshoot server? I honestly don't know what happened to them for sure so don't quote me on that. I brought Emerald Clan over from Impressive Title [again, not a warrior cat clan] to Feral Heart but unfortunately a lot of its members [including myself!] were sort of dealing with some trials of growing up [Some had to deal with harder classes in highschool, college, and in one member's case, a new baby and just did'nt have the time for it anymore.] So Emeraldclan finally died off in Feral Heart's early days after running for about 2 years or so.
5. People acctually bothered to RP different species together without it HAVING to be war-time/aggressive/etc.
6. Less emphasis on realism and more people embracing creative elements to characters and roleplays in terms of design/ideas.
7. Better map making. Now, Im NOT saying people dont make some awesome maps right now but Im a little disappointed that it seems like out of all of the good PUBLIC map makers.....I could count them on my hands. The rest of the time its like the newest map post is either "I crammed all these downloaded meshes together to the point you cant enter the map/barely enter the map and lag like crazy and its horribly disorganized" or "Look what I did, I took the oak mesh and posted it 1000 times really close together and called it a unique forest!" Just... No. Even some very simple maps I feel like crush most of these. Two of my most favorite maps by other people are Dark Mountain and Saltus Forest, both very old, very early maps and in Saltus Forest's case, it has a detailed height map.
8. People didn't act terrified to download a map or preset when its not even difficult. I know not everyone is very tech savvy but even youngsters can read directions and copy and paste.
9. There were no wings but when they DID finally come out I feel like people used them a lot more. Now people dont use them hardly at all [And I think we go back to the problem of people clinging to realism a little too tightly and not being willing to RP with other or even imagined species. They can't find a RP half the time now.]
10. Map maker's file-set up changed EIGHT BILLION TIMES. It was like with every update almost, the map set up would change and people would have to fix, remake, or re-export their maps.
11. Accessing Watermill [The map shown in the log-in screen] with all of its objects was easy. You just hit export and Watermill's portal would appear in Cape and a lot of other people would be there. Now you cant do that because if you click export you end up with a "bald" version of Watermill. No trees, no rocks, no plants. So NOW if you want to reach Watermill you have to either download or make ANOTHER map and create a portal in that map to Watermill to be able to get inside. But even then, to get out of it, you have to homepoint.
12. More people ask what the "plot of a RP" is when RPing one on one rather developing their characters on their own, like as if they HAVE to have a script to follow....Whatever happened to open free-form RP? Seems to have died down, like, a lot.
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"Tell me more grandma/grandpa!"
Lol yeah Im pretty new...but I wish I'd been here earlier! Interesting stories...
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12. More people ask what the "plot of a RP" is when RPing one on one rather developing their characters on their own, like as if they HAVE to have a script to follow....Whatever happened to open free-form RP? Seems to have died down, like, a lot.
I would think that open free-form in earlier days was common. Guess I was wrong. -frowns- That kind of role-play encourages people to interact with their environment instead of simply being "directed" in a sense with their character and actions.
You may ask be asking how I remember the day I joined so well... Turns out, that day happened to be my birthday, December 16. /)^u^(\
You joined on your birthday? I joined a day after my birthday! Cool, huh? Late birthday present I suppose, lol.
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More stories please!
Like, What was the most FAMOUS and POPULAR Rps and Public(No downloads needed) Maps?
(Also, I joined a couple months before =^.^= One of the BESt Days of my LIFE! :D)
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Ah, yes, back in the day...
'Twas back when the game had just been updated to version 1.13 (the current version). I started with FH+, and you'll be surprised to hear that although the starting map had just been changed to Lonely Cave, I was able to get past it by obtaining the Lonely Cave FHM, ripped directly from the normal game. FH+ was sparsely populated for obvious reasons, but I was able to meet a few regulars and learn how to roleplay.
When I found Bonfire Island, I witnessed the tiger rape party, which was going on because it was tiger mating season. I quickly screenshotted all of them and reported them to Red. Shortly afterward, the great week-long downtime began. While waiting for it to pass, I played Impressive World, which is where all the players rushed to during downtime. Minutes before it finally came to an end, I finally installed the normal FH and became one of the first people online after the downtime.
I soon began roleplaying with larger groups. I was a literate roleplayer, as most were back in those days. I joined several small short-term roleplays, including a winged wolf group, a semi-realistic Warrior Cats clan, and several others based in Fluorite Plains.
Now, back then, unrealistic characters were far more respected. I had a dark blue wolf named Annoski, and I joined an amazing mapped roleplay called "Final Summons". Despite my odd coloration, I was respected as much as all the other members, though I was somewhat inactive because of computer troubles. The roleplay died off slowly, but I continued to roleplay with those who were left, even making an in-character speech which even I was impressed by. But like all roleplays, Final Summons died off, and I left.
Between then and me joining my next long-term roleplay, the game itself began to deteriorate as Kovu left and illiterates began to spring up everywhere. By the time I got into another long-term roleplay (which I stayed in for over a year), things were far from how they were back in the day. I will miss those days. I only wish I could go back...
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Wow... My first day on FeralHeart, I made my OC, Danger. A white dire wolf with facial scars. I spawned in Bonfire island and everything was a mixture of purple and black. (I had a terrible laptop at the time xD). The lag was terrible and it'd take me five minutes to crawl over to ficho tunnel. The tunnel was the only place where everything looked... Well... Normal. I'd lounge about here and there, more so near the lake by the N. After a couple of weeks, I decided to jump into a roleplay. Now, I'd already been RPing for four years prior to FeralHeart so I was quickly accepted into literate groups. There was no such thing as: Lonely cave, South Pole, Ascention Island, Sky's Rim, Atlantis, Last Cave etc. ~ It was just the default: Bonfire Island, Ficho Tunnel, Fluorite Plains, Cape of Distant Worlds, and Temple of Dreams. For a while, most time was spent in Fluorite, but I eventually moved onto the Temple where I'd just hang out with friends. It was the usual hotspot for derping around and divebombing into the water. We didn't have wings or the giant items and markings packs we have today, we had to make do with what we had, and we loved every moment of it. We didn't have as many users with 'bad' attitudes. Everyone was genuinely friendly and ./wanted/. to be there to make friends and have a good time.
Them days... I miss them. ;-;
~Nym
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@Hohki: o.O? The Tigers had a MATING season, are they FREAKING FLOOFY NUTS!?!? Weird....
Also, How many mapped Rps were there?
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@Hohki: o.O? The Tigers had a MATING season, are they FREAKING FLOOFY NUTS!?!? Weird....
Also, How many mapped Rps were there?
It was tiger mating season in real life. Back then, real-life mating seasons were abused.
As for mapped RPs, it was hard to find anything that wasn't mapped back then because long-term roleplays couldn't be maintained in Fluorite due to bad tokens lol.
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-Rocks back and forth slowly as rocking chair creeks awkwardly-
Ah, I remember when I first joined. The last of the updates already had been sent out, so little old rainbow me spawned into lonely cave. I looked around, pretty confused about where the heck I was. As is by fate, I took my first step...Then I spazzed and flailed ALL OVER lonely cave. After I finally fixed all my controls to my liking, I journeyed into a black whole in the wall with crystals next to it. The loading screen gave me a heart attack then I realized it was the loading screen. Finally I spawned into a weird white place and I uncontrollably but steadily flailed over the entrance of there. I then somehow got back into lonely cave and I ran through a bright yellow portal. I then went into a place of sand and people yelling things in another language of what I have no idea. I sprinted to the top, curious of what it led to. I reached the top and fell of that dang lion king rock about a billion times before sitting down on the edge of it. I sat there, listening to the local conversation. Suddenly, I heard a small group of people talking that made me laugh. Suspicious little me swivled my head to look at them. A group of skittles(Yes, skittles) were derping. I quickly went offline and made a skittle character myself. Right when the group saw me, I was invited to the group. They all were actually really super literate and were all really old members. They really thought it was cool I was new, and they spent everyday for like three weeks teaching me everything I needed to know. One time we were all running and I actually got lost in South Pole. They all stopped and came searching for me like a little search party. Now, a year and a half later, I'm so glad I joined and I'm simply in love with the game and all the derps in it. :3
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Vask... That story... You're lucky xD ~ I had no friends at all for the first four months of me being on FeralHeart. In the end, I dubbed my account depressive, head off to create my, now current account, Nymphadora. Within a week I must have had 50+ friends, all literate, all active and I was just amazed at how much happier I was being known as Nymphadora. Sure I was dubbed Nym IRL, but it never occured to me that I could be my alternate, on a game too. Seems Nymphadora is my cheery side while my depressive side is Tetrah. Once I log in as Tetrah, I immediately feel a wave of depression, it's like the account itself wants to drag me into darkness... It's odd xD So now I log into Tetrah to get away from drama since no one knows her c: ~ They do now but... -Facepalm- The point is, I don't accept friend requests on Tetrah xD
When SouthPole was introduced, I wasn't the biggest fan of it, though everyone migrated there once Fluorite had a down time. I can't remember quite how long it was, but everyone seemed to manage fine. It was like SP was the new FP. ~ As for Lonely Cave, I had no idea that no one else could see you while you were there. When I figured that out after a moment's contemplation, I facedesked. Why else would it be called 'Lonely Cave'? My mind, it need help... And soon o.e -Twitch-
~Nym
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"Aaahh, yes, I may not be as old as some other members here, but I sure did join some few years back!" Said the old, yet not grey haired, lady in the rocking chair.
"I spent my first day not even online! I adored the character creation so much. In the end, my love of huskys drew out and my first character was created: Zanu the husky pup."
"At the time I had no clue what roleplaying was, infact, I was quite new to the whole concept of a multiplayer world, since my mother was highly overprotective, and still is. Lucky, I had found the game while I was at my dads in Ireland. I had managed to find myself a husky mum and dad, god knows how, and they taught me how to roleplay. And I loved it! The roleplays back then were exciting and very dramatic. Wolf packs could have demons, vampires, gods, angels, basically anything. They didn't care how literate you were, and they were always the best rps."
The old lady sighs as she remembers back to the past.
"I soon found myself addicted to the game, and when the rp got very exiting, which it always did, I would stay up all night! I ended up making friends that were from different sides of the world, so I haven't seen them in quite some time."
"I began to explore in the ways of rp, and became more literate, and started to make more characters for when my pack wasn't on, which was rare for such a large pack. I started joining other groups, who taught me how to be literate, though I would be able to switch between my old side to my new side easily when going from group to group. My favourite map became flourite plains, though It was hard to get to, once I had the characters in it, and had moved them out of lags way, I could get in easily. You could say Fluorite Plains became my literate world, while South Pole became my illiterate world. My characters too, began to not only look realistic, but have better, longer, and more detailed bios."
The old lady chuckles. "Enough about my past, you are here to hear about what the game was like in my opinion! I think people were much more creative and exciting. Back then, people weren't treated harshly if their story included loosing their entire pack, and them being the only survivor. Anyone was accepted. I find things seemed to feel....different....Though I can't explain the cause of this. When getting online there was a different feel to what I have now. Things have changed allot, I can tell you that much! The community as a whole felt allot nicer, and upon finding the forums, I felt even more involved in things. Nowadays, people seemed to be judged allot, something that was rarely seen back then." The old lady smiles before saying. "And that's it, unless you want to know more?"