Oddin, did you stay in contact with Exe or Muffin? What was the name of the like 16 year old kid who used to play with us back in the day? Also did you ever stay in touch with Kiritoo? I believe we left our accounts with him (and the 100 WW / 60 subcrafts) . First 2 memories I have are Exe / Muffin / that kid taking us through Dynamis Qufim / Valk / Bubu. Also mug'ing Roc.

Sincerely, Boomcats / my brother Kjeldoran

I started close to 2 years ago .. so I've been here longer than most new people but not as long as some of the original players.

I enjoyed the chocobo circuit that was located in each main city and allowed cheap fast transportation to each city!

I miss Pcity trolling the shit out of MogHouse ls. Good times.

Oh boy, one of these...

• Nasboat was great & convenient
• Page grinds were lame but when your party pool was 20 people online, before the dunes and half the other areas were refactored, books and page grinds on lizards were all there was. First in the dunes, then in CT. Eventually we had alliances, then nas cracked down on speedhacking. Exe said "what is nas gonna do, ban me?" Shortly there-after, Exe was no more.
• Calloway had a fight with his father and got kicked out of the house, so he was homeless playing at starbucks all day.
• Totien's "affair" in game, when he played with his wife, and his wife got angry then deleted his character. This led to the "keep personal things out of game" rule.
• Some "girl" performing "favors" for plvl, gil, gear, etc. Then when she realized she couldn't turn it off cried to nas about harrassment. This lead to the "don't reveal your gender" rule. It happened twice more that I know of.
• Just got going in qufim when group started dyna. Dyna wasn't "see how far you could make it". It was "see how far you could make it before server crash." exp pt's and dyna did not mix.
• 25 step 8-12 hour install process meant you had to prove yourself worthy to play ffxi even before you got in game.
• Litterally constant issues with missions, quests, npc's, etc.
• No fishing = no black ink. Nebi's were added for 8k a pop on nasboat, which pretty much set a fixed price on shihei. And it was super expensive.
• Summer and Winter fun runs to cloister of flames and cloister of frost as level 1's were a blast.
• Getting over 50 people and having insufferable lag.
• Tweeting nas frantically when the server went down when in exp pt, hoping it came back up before everyone lost interest.
• The breaking of grindhouse, then moghouse, it was just an outlet for trolls.

So many things have gotten so much better, leveling today is infinitely easier than leveling 4 years ago when stability issues plagued the servers. When bugs were around every corner or you would zone under the world 25% of the time. OR OR OR that zone bug crash, where every time someone zoned, 10% chance of zone crash. That was nas's white whale for over a year. Many nm's and hnm's fell victim to those crashes. Regional clusters where we had 5 zone servers instead of 270, so only a cluster of zones would go down at a time.

The horrible website nas started with...
http://web.archive.org/web/201401040631 ... asomi.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/201503210011 ... mi.com:80/

Don't be fooled by the second link, all those pages were under construction. While it may still look like the second page, it's infinitely more feature rich than it was before.