Yoda [T], the Legend. A while ago when the Baby Yoda thread was posted I thought it's about Yoda [T]'s return. I was completely out of the loop on the whoe Mandalorian thing.
Yoda [T], the Legend. A while ago when the Baby Yoda thread was posted I thought it's about Yoda [T]'s return. I was completely out of the loop on the whoe Mandalorian thing.
hmm 4.84... A friend told me about this disco mod. Zero RP knowledge.
I remember doing random missions in Liberty, then rushing to Rheinland so I could buy Valkyre - ship I immediately fell in love with during that RNC-Donau cutscene in SP Campaign. Few days later, my friend told me to meet him at Arranmore base in Dublin...
I got killed by a random Molly player shortly after entering the system.
How I discovered Discovery:
I wanted to play the vanilla Freelancer story for the x-th time in 2010 and was looking for visual enhancement mods on moddb to make it a more pleasing experience for my eyes.
That's where I stumbled on this multiplayer mod unintentionally. Most multiplayer experience I had to this point was mostly Diablo 2, AoE 2, Quake 3, CS 1.6 etc. but never any sort of hardcore roleplay. Maybe Guild Wars, which was more casual RP though. However, Disco 4.84 (with .85 being soon out) looked like an ambitious vanilla extension, continuing the events after the FL story, and that alone had my interest. Not the RP aspect.
Few hours later I found myself in Pennsylvania on a sunday evening on a fully packed server. I can remember a nice talk with [Admin]Bear who I asked my first newbie questions and who directed me to the forums. However, my fondest memory was my first time in NY. There were so many players, and I couldn't even distinguish NPCs from players with everything being so atmospheric. I felt pretty lost, being overwhelmed by how organic everything was. (I couldn't get my mind around the fact that players are pretending to be NPCs --> roleplaying. And them being so good at it, that I couldn't tell if it's scripted messages from bots or real-time from players. I had no idea what to do and how to fit in. So I gave myself a name and purpose; "Lee", unemployed, looking for work.
One system chat message got my interest, it was W.F.Cody advertising his Weapon Codes and Equipment Shop at Norfolk Shipyard. And that's where my roleplay career started. (It also helped that Mirko happened to be a German fellow, so I could waterfall him with noob questions.) Anyways, my first days on the server was me waiting in my Pelican for the daily resets and picking up as many code name weapons as possible. (Hunting codes was one of the most adrenalin-filled activity I did in my first months. Having a cargo full of multi-million worth equipment, while having zero experience about factions, wars and lore, every encounter I had was so exciting.) Anyways, I learnt the ropes fast and Cody's pay was excellent and it didn't took long until I joined my first factions and from then on I was hooked (for half a decade... or longer!?).
I'd fill in some old screenshots now, but I'm afraid of the nostalgic feelings I'll get when I open up my Discovery screenshot folder now and spend the next 3 hours going through thousands of screenshots.
(01-12-2020, 01:40 AM)Narcotic Wrote: Yay story time.
How I discovered Discovery:
I wanted to play the vanilla Freelancer story for the x-th time in 2010 and was looking for visual enhancement mods on moddb to make it a more pleasing experience for my eyes.
That's where I stumbled on this multiplayer mod unintentionally. Most multiplayer experience I had to this point was mostly Diablo 2, AoE 2, Quake 3, CS 1.6 etc. but never any sort of hardcore roleplay. Maybe Guild Wars, which was more casual RP though. However, Disco 4.84 (with .85 being soon out) looked like an ambitious vanilla extension, continuing the events after the FL story, and that alone had my interest. Not the RP aspect.
Few hours later I found myself in Pennsylvania on a sunday evening on a fully packed server. I can remember a nice talk with [Admin]Bear who I asked my first newbie questions and who directed me to the forums. However, my fondest memory was my first time in NY. There were so many players, and I couldn't even distinguish NPCs from players with everything being so atmospheric. I felt pretty lost, being overwhelmed by how organic everything was. (I couldn't get my mind around the fact that players are pretending to be NPCs --> roleplaying. And them being so good at it, that I couldn't tell if it's scripted messages from bots or real-time from players. I had no idea what to do and how to fit in. So I gave myself a name and purpose; "Lee", unemployed, looking for work.
One system chat message got my interest, it was W.F.Cody advertising his Weapon Codes and Equipment Shop at Norfolk Shipyard. And that's where my roleplay career started. (It also helped that Mirko happened to be a German fellow, so I could waterfall him with noob questions.) Anyways, my first days on the server was me waiting in my Pelican for the daily resets and picking up as many code name weapons as possible. (Hunting codes was one of the most adrenalin-filled activity I did in my first months. Having a cargo full of multi-million worth equipment, while having zero experience about factions, wars and lore, every encounter I had was so exciting.) Anyways, I learnt the ropes fast and Cody's pay was excellent and it didn't took long until I joined my first factions and from then on I was hooked (for half a decade... or longer!?).
I'd fill in some old screenshots now, but I'm afraid of the nostalgic feelings I'll get when I open up my Discovery screenshot folder now and spend the next 3 hours going through thousands of screenshots.
HEY! Narcotic!
THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's Shipping Unions, retired from a life of piracy.)
2012 after various indie adventures, I was taken in by Outlaw @The.Outlaw.Star where I was taught RP and base / game mechanics (O9, SSP Crew). Later @Thunderer & @Wesker taught me caps. After that I was handed a bunch of factions official and unofficial that I could not handle until @SystemsFailing / @Sanctions enlightened me and I started actually having fun playing the game.
my dad wanted to play freelancer again and was looking for servers since the ones we used to play on were dead
he found disco 86 and showed me
we played corsairs
i helped lyth make money when he first joined
also i really dont think people keep coming back to discovery because of discovery, but simply because there is no other freelancer roleplay server out there and thats why im still lurking around myself though at this point whenever i reinstall it i mostly just stick to pvp because all other aspects of the game have been taken over by the gay
I started playing here in 2008. I had picked up Freelancer perhaps 2-4 years prior to that because a friend showed me it and we played on the Hamburg HHC server. But by 2008 Discovery was the most populated server around so I hopped on it. I did some cringy RP and equally cringy PvP until I eventually stumbled into [RM] (I think prior to it I tried LH~ and IMG| but didn't stick for too long) where a now good friend of mine taught me how to right click and be a generally cool lad to have in your patrol's group chat. My most treasured memory is me and Jarek_70 having an arms race where each of us came with 1 level higher armor upgrade after each fight. I think that's also the first time I eventually managed to get to AU8. Ah, good times.