View Full Version : What year did you come to the .ORG
post if you are 03 or earlier, i want to get an idea of what groups were here and have stayed.
thanks,
dizzy
Divine Wind
07-30-2005, 02:26
I signed up sometime in 2000, but lost my old account.
So i made a new one :bow:
i think there is a few 03 boys hanging around still, anyone before that is fairly rare.
i liked it better back in 03, there were lots of cool guys around.
thanks,
dizzy
Big King Sanctaphrax
07-30-2005, 02:49
January '03 for me.
I agree with you, Dessa, '03 was a good time. It's a laugh going back to the 'Welcome. Newbies!' threads from that time and seeing some of what are now some of our best established members first posts.
Sasaki Kojiro
07-30-2005, 03:52
Started reading 00, started posting 03.
Crazed Rabbit
07-30-2005, 04:00
Started reading 02, posting 03.
I remember I came here after I saw a MTW preview in PC gamer.
Crazed Rabbit
oh the good old days, i have a feeling the org has got very boring with all its new members, and all the good members of old have left.
funny thing though, people like crazed rabbit and Byzantine prince, i can't remember them.
i remember all the greats and many of the smalls.
thanks,
dizzy
Azi Tohak
07-30-2005, 04:33
I started in 2000. Note the 2005...doh. Anyway, I was having lots of problems getting STW to run so I had to have Erado San's help. It worked...but then I lost my old account. So I started this one up.
Azi
Gregoshi
07-30-2005, 05:53
I joined in August 2000 as I recall, about a month or so after the release of STW. Very shortly after that, they had severe problems with the board and it was down for a few weeks (a month?). When it came back in its new incarnation, all the accounts were reinitialized with an October 2000 date. Well, at least that is how I remember it sonny. ~:)
Jesus I'm old. I still love the oldies. Kman anybody!?
when i was making this poll i forgot shogun came out in 2000 or 99, and i selected 1 too many options and was lazy.
ok people, i want you to vote when you came here to post, looking i was here 02, but didn't start posting till 03.
thanks,
dizzy
edyzmedieval
07-30-2005, 09:06
Came in 04, started posting in 05.
I've been lurking on this forum for a long time, but I decided to post only in 2005.
I seem to remember first encountering the org when I started playing STW online, at the end of 2000 - around Nov and Dec time. I only joined the forum however in April 2001, as the date under my name shall tell you.
It was all good and it is good to see you Shiro.
04 definitely. I was actually interested in total war then
Sjakihata
07-30-2005, 11:52
2001
Sjakihata
07-30-2005, 11:53
Jesus I'm old. I still love the oldies. Kman anybody!?
It says you joined in 2000 under you avatar, yet when you click the votes, you voted for 2001, confused? ~;)
May, 2003. Probably the day after I loaded up the M:TW demo out of my PCGamer mag and went looking for the demo mod to play Agincourt.
Great stuff.
Al Khalifah
07-30-2005, 12:08
Started reading in mid-2003 for the M:TW modding stuff.
Starte posting in mid-2004 when I had stuff to contribute for M:TW modding.
Craterus
07-30-2005, 14:32
March 20th 2005.
Didn't lurk, joined up straightaway. Get into the action, instead of watching it... ~D
rasoforos
07-30-2005, 16:07
It seems that somehow i m one of the oldest members around :P
I think I join a bit before or a bit after I bought MTW but I really cannot remember why...I think I wanted to ask something
02, was just before i got MTW, and was once int he top 5 posters at one point (till all you spammers got here)
Ser Clegane
07-30-2005, 16:18
joined in Jan 2003 after lurking for a couple of days
oh BTW, i hold a forum record, that is unlikely to never be beat
The Longest Thread!!!
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=32137&page=1&pp=30
368 pages, over 11,000 posts and spawned a clone ;)
Marcellus
07-30-2005, 17:38
I joined on the 29th of June 2005. No lurking, I went straight in.
The Stranger
07-30-2005, 18:42
i came to this site in spring 2003 but i didnt joined till december 2004
Alexander the Pretty Good
07-30-2005, 18:47
I lurked before I joined in 2004. I don't remember how early I was lurking, maybe around the time of the MTW demo.
'02 '02!!!! Yeah...I liked the Org better back in the "good old days". With all of the new members, the personality seems to have diluted. The Frontroom especially. Gone are all the "high quality" spam threads. I still remember the Kikkoman thread and the ensuing sig crackdown *points at Rob* fondly.
2003, I never even knew about this site until I switched from Shogun to MTW.
BKS is right, those were good times
ichi :bow:
FesterShinetop
07-31-2005, 11:03
'02 '02!!!! Yeah...I liked the Org better back in the "good old days". With all of the new members, the personality seems to have diluted. The Frontroom especially. Gone are all the "high quality" spam threads. I still remember the Kikkoman thread and the ensuing sig crackdown *points at Rob* fondly.
Ah yes... the Kikkoman... what ever happened to him? (now I know I am gonna regret asking that LOL ~D )
Joined in 2002, after playing the MTW demo. Jumped straight in more or less. Still drop in here now or then but not as often as I used to. I also liked the Org better in the old days. ~:handball:
The Stranger
07-31-2005, 13:44
'02 '02!!!! Yeah...I liked the Org better back in the "good old days". With all of the new members, the personality seems to have diluted. The Frontroom especially. Gone are all the "high quality" spam threads. I still remember the Kikkoman thread and the ensuing sig crackdown *points at Rob* fondly.
hmm blame BKS. the quality spamthreads died with his policy ~D
Templar Knight
07-31-2005, 13:47
Sep 2003, although I had been a visitor since late 2002
Big King Sanctaphrax
07-31-2005, 14:12
hmm blame BKS. the quality spamthreads died with his policy ~D
My policy is about encouraging the quality threads.
Lehesu, I am prepared to offer a Kikko amnesty. The cause of Soy has been dead too long...
The Stranger
07-31-2005, 14:18
quality threads yes, spam threads NO
03 was the golden year of the community here, must admit i did most of my posting then, come RTW it seems to be filled with more people but less personality
hey, an idea, lets make an old hacks room, dedicated to all those who joined 03 or before, make it and exclusive gentlmens club, where all can read, but only a few can post, let them see what quality we had back in the day
The Stranger
07-31-2005, 15:15
not fair
R'as al Ghul
07-31-2005, 15:26
I joined January 2003.
I do remember though that I've been looking for
info on S:TW prior to that. I guess I lurked for about a year.
https://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1418/logo5lc.jpg
Oh yeah, and I do remember Kikkoman. ~D
Thanks to Lehesu for one of my most hilarious Web-experinces.
I have a bottle of Kikkoman in the house ever since.
C'mon Lehesu, give us a little animation. BKS already told you twice that
he offers an amnesty...
~:cheers:
P.S:I do miss Vanya and Mj. Robert Dump et. al.
GAH!
FesterShinetop
07-31-2005, 16:32
I joined January 2003.
I do remember though that I've been looking for
info on S:TW prior to that. I guess I lurked for about a year.
https://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1418/logo5lc.jpg
Oh yeah, and I do remember Kikkoman. ~D
Thanks to Lehesu for one of my most hilarious Web-experinces.
I have a bottle of Kikkoman in the house ever since.
C'mon Lehesu, give us a little animation. BKS already told you twice that
he offers an amnesty...
~:cheers:
P.S:I do miss Vanya and Mj. Robert Dump et. al.
GAH!
~D
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
Next thing you know we also have the Badger song in here again!!! ~:eek:
~;)
Ser Clegane
07-31-2005, 17:55
Next thing you know we also have the Badger song in here again!!! ~:eek:
~;)
a snake ... it's a snake ~:eek:
I guess we are getting nostalgic here now ~;)
1. April this year...oh wait, my whole membership is a joke ~:eek:
Sadly, I can no longer find the animated dancing Kikkoman thingy. Lost to the annals of time, I suppose...
Whoops, spoke too soon.
The little dude still exists, but will not insert display here on the Org.
November 2002... Lived in Australia at the time. I remember Efrem the King was the bad boy back then.
I remember Nation States; oh, that was fun.
I miss some of the posters from back then: jayrock and mandt are two that pops into my mind.
Any others that have kept their original sig like me?
I've never changed my sig ever. When there wasn't a sig function, I typed it in 'each' post.
Care to tell what it means?
mine or Tosa's ? I think his means See you later
Mouzafphaerre
07-31-2005, 20:15
.
I began lurking in '02, registered in '03, started to post in '04. ~:)
.
Mount Suribachi
07-31-2005, 20:33
Like it says to the left of me, August 2002 just before MTW was released. I guess that makes me an oldie ~:) Lurked for a while before joining, used to hear "the org" being talked about all the time on .com, had the rep of being the place where the more mature, intelligent TWers hung out, and that rep was spot on.
If 2003 was the year that all the PBEMs kicked off then I agree it was a great year. Undoubtedly my happiest time at the Org with the likes of Monk, The Emperor, Simon Appleton, Alrowan, Seljik Sinan et al participating in some great games and some superb writing. Happy days ~:grouphug:
I also back Alrowans "oldie" forum, if only so we can go all Victor Meldrew and moan about the RTW noobies with their post-count obsessions and spamming :bow:
Orda Khan
07-31-2005, 21:39
I joined in August 2000 as I recall, about a month or so after the release of STW. Very shortly after that, they had severe problems with the board and it was down for a few weeks (a month?). When it came back in its new incarnation, all the accounts were reinitialized with an October 2000 date. Well, at least that is how I remember it sonny. ~:)
Not sure how correct that is Gregoshi, I seem to remember Magyar Khan as April 1999.
Though I bought STW on its release I did not have internet access before 2002. I joined .Org a few months later
......Orda
discovery1
07-31-2005, 22:17
I thought I joined in 2004, but on looking at my little profile thing on each post it says 2003, September.
Just curious...when did Solypsist leave? Was it early this year?
yeah the old blokes forum is a great idea, it'd be like the tavern except a thousand times better, sorry to all the cool new blokes, but there are alot of annoying new people, but i don't think any of them could possibly get banned as many times as efrem...
and i think he still hasn't learnt
thanks,
dizzy
Byzantine Prince
08-01-2005, 09:26
4th week 2000.
Then why is the date under your avatar 2002? Did you get a new account?
FesterShinetop
08-01-2005, 10:41
BTW What ever happened to Knight Yellow? Does anyone know?
The Stranger
08-01-2005, 11:01
yeah the old blokes forum is a great idea, it'd be like the tavern except a thousand times better, sorry to all the cool new blokes, but there are alot of annoying new people, but i don't think any of them could possibly get banned as many times as efrem...
and i think he still hasn't learnt
thanks,
dizzy
only if it would shift every year. cuz not all posters of that year will stay, 3 years later i'm also an old bloke and i want to post there toooooo. ~D
Mikeus Caesar
08-01-2005, 11:24
I found this site on i think 11th November 2004. I think i had googled something about RTW, and ended up finding this. I joined on that day, and have been here ever since. I joined back in the days when GAH! was rife, and people could spell...
The Stranger
08-01-2005, 13:01
hahaahaaha, me too. i found this site on Gamefaqs, i needed some modding tools.
RabidGibbon
08-01-2005, 13:04
Same time as it says on my account.
Hmm, how spectacularly dull of me.
BTW What ever happened to Knight Yellow? Does anyone know?
He is probably burried in Battlefield 2 right now. ~;)
UglyandHasty
08-01-2005, 14:35
Created my first account in december 01.
tibilicus
08-01-2005, 16:58
Was viewing from february and joined in april. ~:)
Found the .Org in 2002, didn't read the forums much except for the MTW guides. Just cruising for Medieval downloads (tech trees, econ figures, etc.). Lurked for a while on the forums when RTW came out, joined in Dec 2004.
Leonin Khan
08-01-2005, 17:37
i joined today
Mount Suribachi
08-01-2005, 17:49
I joined back in the days when GAH! was rife, and people could spell...
Trust me, GAH! was much more rife in the years gone before then ~;)
Mikeus Caesar
08-01-2005, 21:14
Trust me, GAH! was much more rife in the years gone before then ~;)
Yes, but shortly after i joined, GAH! seemed to reach an all time high, and then dissapeared altogether from here, although recently i've spotted it in the occasional poll.
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