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Re: Remember when...

I remember when 2k UPs were a major thing and if you had a commander, they used to give you rewards for having such a big income, 100k armies were considered big armies, especially if you've already ascended. I remember when trading was only enabled to those who bought SSs and there were no market SSs to buy. I remember when I suggested that to Jason in an email. I remember when people couldn't choose not to accept officers so I used to join "DONT WANT OFFICERS" or some account named something in that tune who used to make something like 15 million naq per turn and I got 3 million and that was a huge deal back then. I remember when MSs were something only the top 30 or so could buy. When ascended server (and the link to it) was a secret. I remember being told (and, as there was no real knowledge about it passed around) that the only way to get GnRs is to attack the guys in top 300. Obviously, that didn't work and I apologized to a fair few of them. I remember being very confused when I saw some of the first ascended players (you could literally remember all of the ascended players by name). That was before any of them got even LG titles. Heck, I remember when I used to think equipping my army with different types of weapons would serve as a tactical advantage (Goa'ulds had gliders, if I recall correctly, which were the most expensive offence weapon and I - and I know of a fair few others who thought so as well - thought that it isn't smart to put all of your soldiers in the air, it's better if you leave some on the ground for a ground assault and that would give us the advantage).
I remember one of the first Quantum Wars eras. I remember when Chaos Wars first came to be and how all the major alliances wanted to basically own it. I remember when we bought DMUs from High Empty and it was a couple turns worth of income on ascended server from him, while it was a really, really huge deal for all of us.
I remember when there were a good couple of national alliances. Slovenia, although a small country, had a huge player base in SGW. We used to hold annual meetings. I remember when High Empty came to one of those meetings.
I remember the Tok'ra race.
I remember buying an avatar for 10k units and that was a huge deal, but everyone who counted for something had to have one when they participated on forums. The sig makers really profited A LOT. That was probably one of the first reasons why I became interested into making graphics which is what I am now studying and also working as a UX/graphics guy (along with coding) in an IT company. Funny how life turns out. Perhaps if I hadn't joined SGW, I would have studied something completely different - and it's actually a real possibility.

Oh, good old times.

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Nothing quite like the good ol' days.

I remember the spam temple of old, and the days of the original System Lords Alliance.

I also remember when MGM was threatened by the existence of this game, as though it was anything BUT free advertising for them. :roll:
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Yeah back in 2006, forums and game were much more crowdy. :D remember the first wars, supporter status was sooo out of reach... :) The only thing which i hate is this nonsense with server wars... Still dragin for years.
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Remember when people used the "bump" posting to keep their market threads at the top? (few happened to use the funny pic of a baby hippo being bumped underwater by a relative)

Wasn't there also a feature to bump once your last post if nobody answered?
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Chaos decided 5GnR ranked belonged to them and FUALL and you had to build up on ppt into the ranks and then de-rank so you wouldn't get massed...


Or that time when 140 people in an empire didn't seem like more than the entire playerbase
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Anyone else remember when Plumbersmack became the first player to take rank 1 from the empty accounts at the beginning of the game?

When sabotage as an action was "coming soon(tm)".

When the top Spy level was 9, before Ultimate supporter status gave you a free spy level?

Anyone? *walks back into nursing home dejectedly*
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When we had an irc that was was active all the time
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Or there at all.

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Ferra wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2017 2:27 pm When we had an irc that was was active all the time
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Support wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2017 3:08 pm Or there at all.

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Ferra wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2017 2:27 pm When we had an irc that was was active all the time
Still not anywhere near as active as irc was in the early years
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Ferra wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2017 3:23 pm
Support wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2017 3:08 pm Or there at all.

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Ferra wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2017 2:27 pm When we had an irc that was was active all the time
Still not anywhere near as active as irc was in the early years
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Remember when Teamspeak was the new thing.
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Remember when ascended server had a super weapon...
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Support wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2017 3:08 pm Or there at all.

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Ferra wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2017 2:27 pm When we had an irc that was was active all the time
The discord sucks, there's no voice channels, it won't let you post links, or images. So blah. :-p
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.....I would log on, click attack as much as my turns would allow, log off, didnt know anybody, didnt talk to anybody, didnt know there were forums.....yea those were the days :smt050
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remembering when... JediTank was still playing :)
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