Argonath RPG - A World of its own
Argonath RPG Community => Speakerbox => Forum Games => Topic started by: Surena on August 13, 2023, 04:42:50 am
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As the title says, for nostalgia reasons and boosting forum engagement, share the first time you found argonath and joined any of its server. How was it? What did you do? What was your first impression?
I recall myself joining for the first time on the former IVMP T3 server. I had the default chinese skin which I found ugly. It also ran like it had been rear-ended... Tried to pick a car, which was owned by the State so by my logic I thought I had stolen a car from the state. Little while later I get pulled over by cops. The cops were Harzy and Toreto. Anyone knowing them also knows how dramatic they can respond in RP or jokingly. Especially Harzy. I also had my audio volume turned up from before so the audible siren did not help the matter at first. During that traffic stop I recall myself about to shit my pants. :D
In retrospect, the cops were kind and explained the basics after they noticed I was a new player so no hard feelings.
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Very nice topic!! I can't wait to see how it was for some veterans, especially from HQ staff members...like when they first thought about to open the server/community...
Here are my first steps,
was not far back in time around 2016 browsing the internet after using LCPDfr for more mods, yet I found T3. Without having any clue about Argonath I join the server due to RP tag and hoping to be
a police officer, I didn't became after all but anyway, the first days are passing without a single player online due to my login hours(after 1am+) and I was ready to quit it since I thought was a dead server
but a guy was watching me (beside Sauron) was About10pandas, he notice that I was login and playing alone and by curiosity he joined me to check what the heck I was doing. He told me about high-activity
hours, explained me commands and of course how to grow weed because was the perfect timing without cops :lol:, I became his grower and he became the reason that I stay....big shout out to him!
P.S. I know was not my first day but the first day was repeated for around a month, me and my 10pandas could be the title lol.
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2012 on SA:MP. Dmed CBFasi on the highway then dmed Jcs infront of LSPD. Glad they didn't ban me on the spot lol. I'm sure I dmed someone else after too.
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My first day was somewhere in 2011 in november or so. I joined the server as "SneakyFoxx". I joined as a freecop and I was annoyed that a suspect could potentially go onward infinitely. There was no car damage and no fuel. After having chased the suspect for quite a while he finally rammed something and flew threw the front car window. I remember from from previous suspects that they are able to run away and not get shot (due terrible sync) and forcefully manage to jack another car and drive away. That led me to carkilling the suspect instantly. My reasonin was that isn't fair that a suspect gets so many changes and chases could go on for sooo long. Obviously I got warned by an admin for carkilling.
After that I was hooked and wanted to properly roleplay. I changed my name to James_Conway and applied for the LCPD and managed to also get into NOoSE. hAWK was the commander of the LCPD at the time. Also applied for moderator and after hours of talking with Dellstorm I got it. Within a few weeks I was promoted to admin.
The rest is too long to describe.
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Interesting.
I will not go fully adressing my very first days since it's not worth mentioning few bananas for not being able to speak English, but after a year of actually trying to follow the rules I have a nice story to share.
Back in 2009 /hail and /gu was messed up and there was an 'unwritten rule' of after you have /hail'd, you have practically given up as a criminal. Not many cops knew of that and I'm pretty certain any misuse of /hail was not properly punished.
A very persistent cop with a red turismo named TeaM_Pazienza has been chasing me for days so I decide to play smart and abuse /hail to try to knife him once he was trying to type. After a couple of seconds of him trying to communicate and actually trying to RP, I realize he is typing and waste no time by getting behind his back and knifing him to death successfully.
Next thing you know I end up tempbanned and actually kicked from Araatus by Alsatian for being a massive dick. That ruined my day and seemed to be the worst thing I have ever faced at that time of life, considering I had improved a lot and was actively involved with a group.
Good times, man. :rofl:
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2009, hacks, banned.
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Very early 2008, wondered what the hell people were doing in a VC:MP server if killing everyone wasn't allowed :lol:
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joined in 2017....
Riding ambulance ridicoulsy, pulled over by James conway along with Skillz in his Super TRU Response Unit Vehicle, was Coquette.
A few disputes went through with admins like joey, paprika, mIDo, because at that time the most dealing way of paprika is taking you out of the car and going in the highest place to talk 😂
I fought for freedom at that time as far as i remember.
Where is Paprika??
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I like how everyone started as rulebreakers and/or did not get the concept of roleplay :lol:
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Joined MTA VC in 2007. It was very new back then, Argo started in 2006 as I recall.
Had about 7-10 players on server. I was very very excited at being able to play with human players. I was helped by friendly players on the server.
In my first days, I did abuse something without realising it was not allowed. In VC, if you entered a SWAT truck you'd get free armour. I showed this to Trobby and he wasn't too happy i think 😁. Wasn't banned for it as I recall though I was well taught that it is not allowed.
Then met the Sforzas in 2007 (weedboy, Miami, Tony and Al), applied for the family and joined.
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I remember joining IVMP for the first time and trying to get help by ramming into people and carjacking them :lol:
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I remember joining IVMP for the first time and trying to get help by ramming into people and carjacking them :lol:
It's been a long time since I saw your name around IV:MP. Were you close to Pokedude or Patrick Weltson? My mind could be playing games with be but I might recall some things, kinda blurred.
Where have you been?
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So far, everyone has something common. Rulebreaking (mostly) and lawbreaking at the end we are all humans and learning from our mistakes. :lol:
2009, hacks, banned.
The best reply I feel is this one, 3 words straight and simple. <3 <3
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No clue what I did at the first few days. Joined in 22/07/2012.
Was trying to get on "freecops" duty and claim to have modded police vehicle and speedtrapping people. Got banned by Cyril (are you still here?) for illegal mods :hah:
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I started DMing people and running from cops. [Rstar]Kojak froze me, talked to me for 10 minutes then kicked me
I came back, DMed some more, [Rstar]Malcolm perm banned me.
BTW, after I got unbanned I started DMing Sforza and Tattaglia
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Started playing during the original PEN1 scripts and essentially just kept making new accounts and getting the free $10,000 starting cash - usually getting wanted and being the criminal in a police chase, would get killed, make a new account and do it all over again.
Took me about a month to actually understand the concept of RP, but made the game a lot more fun when I did.
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I did not have internet at the time and my PC was dogshit. I used to go over to my friend's house who had internet and to play SAMP.
We then discovered VCMP exist and since we loved VC so much, we installed it.
Do note we were both like... 10 at the time maybe? (I'm 25 now, damn time flies)
I remember the first server jumped on was Argonath RPG. We had no idea what RP was and I still to this day remember tha we DM'ed Kessu (the name got stuck with me cause it's so unusual) and got kicked for it. I even remember he had the green suit skin with suglasses on him :D.
Fast forward like six years later maybe, had my own interent by then and started looking for SAMP servers to play, and recognized Argonath by name. Started playing there, then remembered the VCMP situation and ended up playing VCMP too.
Man... I feel old as fuck.
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I remember joining the fire department and zooming around the map putting out fires when they randomly spawned in buildings on SA-MP.
it didn't last long because I had horrible internet and a horrible pc back then lol
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Well I cant believe I'm about to post this, I do hope all interpret it as I intend for it to be interpreted.
Note: I'm putting a summary of my entire time at argo here, not only my first experience, because it's all linked very much and it also goes to show other mistakes made, and then which is best in the end, which could sort of be a second experience, idk.
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prior.
cops n robbers was the main play.
friendly vibe, somewhere to chill and have fun after dinner.
stack that doe was the mission, to buy assets like one car and one house.
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My first experience on Argonath.
MTA:VC
07
demo derby event was planned.
i thought, i have to join that, i know i have a very good chance of winning.
demo derby event started, had a couple tactics up my sleeve.
tactics were let everyone else blow each other up via car collisions while i avoid them but attempt to appear like im not avoiding them.
tactic if survived that was simple, let someone follow me around the top of the slope of the giant bowl until they rage quit or dsamage their car sufficiently.
it was working, i was on tactic 2 with just me and someone else left.
i was thinking this is flipping awesome im actually gonna win.
i won. awesome stuff. paid in full.
round 2 or 3 came, i know, ill just try same tactics again.
at the start of this round, i knew an admin was on to me, but i was thinking like well its not specified in the rules that i cant do this.
last 2 players in the bowl, me and someone else.
you have been kicked from the server.
i actually rage cried at my pc because id been playing the argo mta vc server for some days or weeks and very much enjoyed it.
thought f this s i ent coming back to that s hole again ever what a joke stupid stuff.
then sometime soon after, i took a step back, and thought, why? why did ron kick me? what could the reason possibly have been other than staff abuse?
i rejoined the mta vc argo server, to purely ask why? why man? :(
in short, i was given the answer by ron, cheating.
i disconnected immdiately.
it took some thought.
but i realised it.
i had initially put my false assumption of staff abuse down to my ingame driving skill being really good.
it was a demo derby, not a car chase.
the event was advertised as a demo derby.
so the event was a demo derby.
the event was not an avoid the cars for 10 minutes event.
and i realised that spending 10 minutes avoiding cars in a demo derby without even 1 contribution to what others were doing (car collisions), is actually cheating.
if everyone did what i did, there would be no winner or looser, and it wouldnt have been fun.
tactics became cheating when you dont even take part in the same way that others are taking part.
so i realized i was being bang out of order and ruining it for everyone.
i rejoined the mta vc argo server.
i apologized to ron, i think he was perhaps surprised.
it was a life lesson learnt, fairness is important, to say the least.
cheating deserves a kick.
from all this, i learnt that Argonath RPG was a community that heavily promoted fairness.
life has so much unfairness.
Argonath RPG truely both is and was a fantastic community.
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the continuation.
i then earnt level 1 admin, level 2, level 3, then 5.
vcmp had more functionality than mtavc.
a team i was in ported/created original/new argo script to vcmp. had a street race script, with 2 tracks, hardcoded co-ordinates lol, but i found it fun to race round.
recruited some mods/admins, sacked some.
i had started something.
but this time it wasn't anything good.
it was an addicition in real life.
i needed my fix every time i even wanted to reply to someone on msn messenger.
i knew the effort a lot of people had put into porting/creating the first vcmp argo server, and the history of the fair argo mtavc server.
i could not see my now useless effort destroy what others had achieved.
it was time.
replace myself. new leader of vcmp argo.
and resign.
stupid mistakes were made after resigning, due to addicition.
i chose to go and make another multiplayer for VC with others.
whn ron notified me on the forum or msn that, Mex, are you aware that they are members of **????
I stupidly let addiciton take over and justified it as id rather let the next focus be on development rather than management.
I had let the devil in, passively.
addicition, to addiciton, to addicition, mental health agony, mental health medicine of severity, then prison, then section twice.
today i am 3 weeks clear of drugs, and im staying clear of alcohol. after a 15 year battle with drugs and the trippiest psychosis trips around.
and i'll tell yall summin, nothing like a good day where u remember both ur roots and the reason as to why u put so much work into something (argo). don't get this part twist.
so happy to see Argonath RPG still going.
so happy to see Argonath RPG on VCMP still going.
Argonath RPG - An actual fair place to chill.
No other communities come close.
f drugs f drink.
fairness over money any day.
<3 argo.
p.s. i have not proof read this, some parts may be inaccurate.
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Tbh it was my first ever online game. I didn't even know what RP was, it was the only server on the T3 Client that had players so I just joined without even knowing what I was getting into.
Took me a while to figure out how to open the chat, then started asking around how to play, what to do, and all the basic stupid questions. Before I knew it, I was in a car with Prit Lucchese who to me to his restaurant and told me to spam /buy , a scam probably happened with all the new players.
Got addicted to the server, fell in love, stayed till the end and made a lot of great memories. Wish I could relive all those memories again.
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Back in '09 the World of Warcraft RP servers I used to play died off and I learned that they made Multiplayer possible for GTA SA.
Installed SAMP and Argonath was the first server I joined, I'm not sure who the guy was, but I was welcomed by someone in a Grove St. skin showed me around. 12 year old me was shocked at what I could do and the possibilities. Then a new update few weeks later re-added motorcycles(yep, we had a time without those!) and I was on a quest to find a Freeway. They were as expansive as Mavericks, I could not afford anything. But I picked up some PMs with an admin at the time, who questioned me on a few server rules and decided to just get me a bike for free! (I'm pretty sure it was Tovenaarke, so shoutout mate).
Never down the line did anyone try to recruit me to their group or abuse my newbie status, nor did we have singleplayer grind jobs.
Good times, a lot has changed, but at least the forums haven't. :lol: