Do you remember when...

[Konachibi]

+1 vote to necro this thread next year and state the 'do you remember whens' of what we have now.

[Gramul]

Remember your cautious optimism? Then your confusion and frustration? Followed by a short period of anger and distrust only to be replaced by cautious optimism once more?

[Pulseczar]

When the damage on your armor was some ridiculous 6-digit number instead of a meter display of 0 to 100%

[Konachibi]

When the damage on your armor was some ridiculous 6-digit number instead of a meter display of 0 to 100%

Kinda reminds me of armoured core, your health is determined by some enormous 7-8 digit number and there's no real way of making sense of how much damage you're taking or whether you're close to death or not. At least not untill the robot starts smoking and stuff starts falling off it. That's usually a bad sign for a robot.

[MeowyWowie]

When the damage on your armor was some ridiculous 6-digit number instead of a meter display of 0 to 100%

They're still there in the .dats, just not visible.

Do you remember when fully repaired weapons only lasted 2-3 leves before needing repairs again?

And people think repairs suck now lol xD

[Ilethius]

Do you remember when marmots and cactuars were small?

[Falcus]

Remember when they buffed SP gain to the insane levels?
I grinded 130k SP the day after that patch and hit maximum fatigue that week...

Which brings me to this: Do you remember when if you gained too much SP you would end up gaining absolutely NO SKILL POINTS from each kill.

When I was still levelling before 1.18 I was getting between 50-100k SP for 1-2 hours at BW so I was almost constantly fatigued.

[Falcus]

I never heard of anyone getting banned over it, but I haven't seen those players since last year so maybe they did get banned, I didn't switch to mage classes until after the sp per mob/rank change i think.

I did. I remember quite a few people being banned because they didn't come forward and report themselves.
If you reported yourself though you just had your rank reduced.

Do you remember when the first wave of people hit rank 50 about 5~ weeks after launch then most of them quit because there was nothing to do except level another class?

[Konachibi]

In a few weeks I'll be able to come back to this thread and say:

when we didn't have chocobos????!!!?!?!?!?!!

[Delsus]

I remember the huge queues to login during the alpha

I remember 5 mins after getting a character made you would DC and be back in the queues in the alpha

I remember being stalked by dodos and goats

I remember the insanly slow UI making doing anything a chore

I remember it taking about 5 secs between hitting an ability and it being used

I remember the aoe cure exploit

I remember having 1 retainer that would depop all the time so nothing got sold,

I remember an sp glitch in alpha that made you hit fategue in 10 mins

I remember looking through the wards for gear was impossible because there was no search

I remember having no hardware mouse

I remember having no graphics options making lower end systems lag hugely (in alpha and possibly closed beta)

I remember loads of posts on forums about people stalking the mail man for thier CE
Need I go on