The Good Old Days

[AendarCallenlasse]

Yeah let\'s not add this thread to my growing list of blacklisted threads.

Gron-I was born with a natural instinct for world domination.  

[Monketh]

Heh, I actually remember that even when I came it was better than than this.  

Hm, how do you define oldbie?
Maybe:
Newbie->Until midbie
Midbie->Half a year
Oldbie->Year

   :rolleyes:
Being a royal oldbie is something intangible, not just accquired through age.  It\'s kind of a hard thing to decide.

All hail the oldbies! *bows*

[AendarCallenlasse]

I look at it this way.  If you\'ve been here for two years or longer you\'re an oldie.  If you\'ve been here a year or so, you\'re a youngblood...not an oldie...but not a newbie or young\'un.  If you\'ve been here less than a year your new.

You may rise now Monk...oh and I have shoes that need polishing.

[Kiva]

Actually, I\'ve just figured out why us oldbies had so much fun compared to the people who joined up later.

It\'s so simple that I\'ve overlooked the answer so many times. The oldbies (us) joined to have fun. We joined because of the roleplaying aspect of a game that had to be in development for about a year before it even had the looks of a game. The newbies (you) join to play a free game, kill mobs and make money. You get disappointed when you find that the free game isn\'t a game, merely a demo, whereas we oldbies have been waiting with great expectations for years, you come and demand a full game after waiting a week.

Anyone see the difference...?

I forgot the point... :rolleyes:

A newbie therefor turns into an oldbie when he or she gets the passion for the game, and enables him-/herself to wait several years to play a game, which in his/her mind will be great, not because it\'s free or because there will be uber-swords, but because it\'s so similar to the real life, yet it doesn\'t take as much effort to become successful. It\'s the understanding of the game which makes an oldbie, not the amount amount of time spent asking when the next version is released.

[Levski]

.Guess im still a newbie  

[AendarCallenlasse]

Yeah that makes sense.  We knew that we would be waiting around for a long time so we grew together.  These new people are simply hanging around.  And once the game is more advanced many of them will probably never come to the forums.  Whereas we older people will be here still.

[Kiern]

Yeah, there is a big difference that is pretty obvious, there are some new people though that I consider, not necessarily \"oldbie\", but not new either...while those who have been here for a year or so I might still consider a newbie because of how they act...basically what Grono said, those that come just for the free game, etc. I will always consider \"newbie\".

It may obscure the definitions then, but what else do you expect from me?

[Levski]

Sorry guys, but you are being a bit stereotypical.....

Not all newbies are that way, as I tried to point out earlier.  Or at least, I dont think so......

[Kuiper7986]

hey Aender you bring up a good point. When I log on to play MB, there are a lot of people who don\'t even check out the forums and sometimes I go, \"Who the heck are they?\" Even with MB, a lot of people dont check the forums.

Also out of all the tens and thousands of accounts for this forum, I\'m willing to bet that less than 100 are actually active, because you know it to, almost the same people post most of the time.

[AendarCallenlasse]

It gives us something to look forward to.  eventually when the game is far along all these people that are simply here to kill time will disappear and all that will be left are those that came here to be a community.  See the oldies are a family...and all these newbies are th in-laws that no one wants around.  But not all of them...there are those hot cousins that you don\'t being around...

Ok that got kinda weird...

[Monketh]

Originally posted by Gronomist
Actually, I\'ve just figured out why us oldbies had so much fun compared to the people who joined up later.

It\'s so simple that I\'ve overlooked the answer so many times. The oldbies (us) joined to have fun. We joined because of the roleplaying aspect of a game that had to be in development for about a year before it even had the looks of a game. The newbies (you) join to play a free game, kill mobs and make money. You get disappointed when you find that the free game isn\'t a game, merely a demo, whereas we oldbies have been waiting with great expectations for years, you come and demand a full game after waiting a week.

Anyone see the difference...?

Actually, can you guess how I got here?  
-Free
-3D
-Better\'n spoonscape
-Better community\'n spoonscape
-Did I mention free?

Slowly I have become more of an rp\'er.  Doesn\'t mean I\'m good at it, but I try.  So, once you get good at rp\'ing ur an oldbie?  

*Runs off to Jayose\'s to find a book on roleplaying*

[Kiern]

Originally posted by Levski
Sorry guys, but you are being a bit stereotypical.....

Not all newbies are that way, as I tried to point out earlier.  Or at least, I dont think so......

Yep, that was the point in my post (which I think we posted at the same time) it sort of works both ways, people who come back to PS from a long time ago, such as one \"MagiBountyHunter\" whom I think all the older people will know, I will never consider an oldbie...and some of the newer people who came for the \"older\" reasons I think of as the same as the oldbie people...even though their missing some of what has happend so they really can\'t be called the same.

EDIT: and yeah Aendar (Below), there seems to now be many of Magi\'s type hanging around, thus proving Grono\'s point heh

[AendarCallenlasse]

MagiBountyHunter...now that brings back some very disturbing memories.  I don\'t think we have any that extremem but we have a few of his type lurking around the forums and that\'s what ruins it for us.  But like I said some are actually pretty cool....but most aren\'t.

[Monketh]

Ya know, someone ought to make a list...

...nah, then moogs would come in and kill it.

So, new definition of Midbie is:?
Someone who is fairly prominent in the community.  Someone who\'s been around about a year.  Someone who is new to rp\'ing, but is willing to try.

*jots down for later use*

[Draklar]

heh... don\'t listen to all of that, Monk...
the ever changing definitions of \"newbie\", \"midbie\" and so on
it\'ll damage thy brain