Remember when?

[Catlemur]

I wonder if some oldbie could write a timeline of important ingame events that changed the world like platinum rush.

[Jjairr]

Well, starting here http://www.planeshift.it/news_2001.html and going forwards you can see all of the updates they've made to the game throughout the years. It would be easy to compile a list of big changes, but you would definitely need an oldbie to report on the in-game effect that each change had. A *really* oldbie.

Edit: Oh, and I remember the majority of the things mentioned There are a few I'm not sure about. And a few that happened and were rectified while I was gone - like the /introduce thing.

Here's one: Remember when Groffels were just released and Talad (or someone, but if I remember right its name was "Talad's Groffel") was walking it around Hydlaa and a HUGE crowd was following it and asking it questions that it answered in its crazy little vague Groffel gibberish and everyone was trying to translate it?

[Ralas]

@Jjairr:  I must have missed Talad's groffel, but do you remember when they were bugged and looked like NPCs? and players could somehow summon as many as they wanted?  So there were just thousands of fake NPCs everywhere?

[Minks]

Remember Haraun's familiar?
(if not, google is your friend)

[Ralas]

omg hahahaha!  I didn't know about that...you just made my morning! 

[verden]

I started right at the time of the first platinum rush. At the platinum mine below the Iron Temple, near Zak. I think it was removed about a month after I started.

[Mordaan]

I started right at the time of the first platinum rush. At the platinum mine below the Iron Temple, near Zak. I think it was removed about a month after I started.

Yup, and the ores were worth 640 tria per ore, which turned out to be a mistake.  Needless to say, there were a lot of miners down there.   

Honestly, some of the most memorable times in the game have been due to such bugs or errors.   

[Illysia]

Actually, when I last checked the website, there were gaps in the announcements. Some things have been either lost or removed over time. For instance, the announcement about the new city of Ojaveda that was put up around the time I started playing was not in there.

However, on the topic of odd bugs, remember the darkness bug that made it hard to see in Hydlaa?
Or how much of a difference the new lighting system made?

Btw, does anyone know if the killer kikiri has been tamed yet?

[verden]

The thing I miss the most I think was the original fireplace at the Kada-El. Oh well.

[Candy]

Remember when there was a bug with the shaders and most if not all characters' hair was white? (At least more people read my description during that period >_>)

[Illysia]

hehe, yeah. Enki's didn't really have much of a problem with that if I recall.

Remember when Diaboli descriptions called them Ynnwns and Nolthrir descriptions called them dermorians. XD
Did anyone else, that is still around or lurking, have enkis go through periodic skin changes? Aside from the armor bugs I mean. Illy started out as a black fenki when all fenkis were black, then she randomly changed into a rabani when the skin came out. Then there was at least one more skin flip but fortunately Illy came through that one still a Rabani.

[verden]

There was a similar bug a long time ago that would cause feet to appear white once boots were removed from the character. My black Enkidukai looked like he was wearing spiffy white socks. It was so close to my IRL cats appearance, it was funny.

[Illysia]

I wasn't even going to count the time there were armor bugs... that happened a lot. At one point, Illysia could take off her armor but the texture never changed. She was in her leather armor no matter what. And I think a lot of people suffered from armor induced Rabaniism. XD I noticed a lot of clamods with the rabani texture under their armor. A few characters were stuck always wearing their armor because of that.

[Rigwyn]

-- when rats dropped swords o_O

[Illysia]

...when Harn sold some of all weapon types. Welcome back Riggy.