Your planeshift story.

[HolyPhoenix]

I am new to planeshift. 

I have been an open source guru for some time, and found planeshift a while back.  I set up an account a few months ago, but didn't really take time to download it as I was into another free one, that wasn't open source though.  Anyway, I was looking at building my own fps, and looking into crystalspace when I noticed planeshift was built using this engine.  I was pretty suprised as I did not know this and had known about both cool things previously.  So, I decided to see what crystalspace was made of and downloaded planeshift.  During this long period of time I set out to read up on this mmorpg.  I was quite amazed as it seemed to me that you guys were not just a bunch of video gamers, but an actual community with it's own game.  This drew me into being exited to play and see what it really was all about.  On entering I created my first character.  Wow, other games it takes a few seconds to create a character.  I took about 10 minutes.  This, however looking like a downfall is actually a very good thing.  The time spent was dealing with actually creating a character, not just a graphic.  I now have a Kran character names Larock, whose mother was famous and his father, well, I can't remember what my father was.  Lol  Anyways, it really created my character not just a graphic like I said.  Then on entering a game, I found the coolest thing that I had never seen before in an mmorpg.  It uses bots for the npcs.  This was just a cool geeky happiness I felt inside me.  I was also very amazed at how well the game ran.  I even played it while having a few other programs running, which always seems to crash other mmorpgs.  It wasn't bouncy, and didn't seem too buggy.  I am still in the beginning of the tutorial as I did not have time to make it passed it before the recent server downage.  And I am thinking I might have to restart my character, which will be alright, as the last time I played clicking on stuff didn't want to work for me, and I dropped the coal trying to get it to the furnace but was not able to pick it back up again.  Hehehe.  Anyways, yeah.  I would have to say already though I am telling my friends about it.  Good job to the Planeshift team for there great work.



So what is everyone elses meeting planeshift story?   

[Tuxide]

I now have a Kran character names Larock, whose mother was famous and his father, well, I can't remember what my father was.

Kran are genderless, so as of now "mother" and "father" doesn't really make a whole lot of sense in char creation.

I started playing this game six years ago when I first saw it on SourceForge.  Unlike other free MMO franeworks like WorldForge and Arianne (which are still crap) PlaneShift-the-engine was the only one that had a playable demo back then and it was easy to set up.

[HolyPhoenix]

I would have to agree with worldforge and Arianne.  I had looked at those a while back when interested in making my own mmorpg.  But I lost interest in that project for now. 

[Eathon]

I'd agree with you there- as others, I think, have mentioned, WorldForge hasn't made any significant progress in two or so years. As for Arianne, I discarded that possibility pretty soon after looking at the website. RealmCrafter seems like the only decent, affordable MMO engine out there at the moment (apart from the PS engine, I suppose).

Anyway, I found Planeshift the same way, as I remember. I was looking for an MMO engine, and decided to try the game instead.

[HolyPhoenix]

Lol, a lot easier than doing the work yourself.   

[CadRipper]

So many projects stifled by PlaneShift 
One RPing to rule them all...

[Liadan]

Just thought i would interject this, but PlaneShift is the only, multiple platform MMORPG that is playable on the internet. And by playable i mean decent graphics, good story line and can appeal to all ages.

Not making this up, go see for yourself.

[Volund]

How can your kran character even have parents? What, do they mix in their pieces of rock and it creates a 8 ft' tall blue stone monster?
Anyway, I started playing a year ago. Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. SO much better than anything I played before (because I had never roleplayed before, so it was a original, for me) although, I could never manage to craft anything, or mine anything. Oh well, good times.

[Garris Shrike]

How can your kran character even have parents? What, do they mix in their pieces of rock and it creates a 8 ft' tall blue stone monster?
Anyway, I started playing a year ago. Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. SO much better than anything I played before (because I had never roleplayed before, so it was a original, for me) although, I could never manage to craft anything, or mine anything. Oh well, good times.

well you see...

when a male rock meets a female rock, and they fall in love...

[Volund]

How can your kran character even have parents? What, do they mix in their pieces of rock and it creates a 8 ft' tall blue stone monster?
Anyway, I started playing a year ago. Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. SO much better than anything I played before (because I had never roleplayed before, so it was a original, for me) although, I could never manage to craft anything, or mine anything. Oh well, good times.

well you see...

when a male rock meets a female rock, and they fall in love...

Lol, kran players should say I was born of the cliff near oja, instead of listing parents