Nostalrius shut down

[Akashx]

Rampage plays on live.

[Swish]

They released the source code, it's just down to the community to pick ONE new home where servers aren't going to get lawyered off. What about Brazil? India?

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They released the source code, it's just down to the community to pick ONE new home where servers aren't going to get lawyered off. What about Brazil? India?

you don't just pick really, you need access/help. nobody lives there who is willing to do it and coordinate it.

that's why it was hosted in france to begin with.

[nilbog]

I played Nostralrius. In fact, I was grouped and/or guilded with some p99 people during that time. It was a good time.

Beneath this line will be a lot of Wow stuff. Avoid.

I started day 1 outside the Darnassus tree and eventually left with Stark around level 5. These were tough times. We were fighting over spawn points we didn't know next to hundreds of other people. After I got out, things were better. Most people didn't get out.. for a while. Stayed up till the next day, got to mid teens. By this point, I was grouping with Alunova in Westfall. Shortly after, I was doing Deadmines with Yulath as my tank. I hadn't healed anyone since Vanguard, and it was pretty exciting in garbage gear. After that, I did the normal routine of zone/quest hopping till I got to 60. At that point, I joined a few p99 heavy guilds.. uh, Charles Bronson, Second Sons, and Massivus Backhandith. Started doing Onyxia and Molten Core under a leader by the name of Healadin. He had no idea that I did p99 or anything about Everquest. Actually, 99% of my experience was like that, despite the fact I named myself Nilbog. Also, despite the odds, I was the feral druid tank for my guild. Did Onyxia and MC that way. I retired soon after, because the pvp point ranking system was broken. I told my guild this, but I was ignored. In classic, I was a guildleader on Burning Legion pvp server. I played beta, and I had a guild which focused on pvp. For membership, you had to duel me personally. I thought that was a good thing to do at the time, not knowing where the game would end up. When I retired from live, I had all my Alliance city factions maxed, and had ~49.5k hks (2007).

Beneath this, there will be a lot of random WoW stuff. Avoid.

What I was hoping for was pure vanilla experience. Nostalrius mostly delivered aside from client issues (which I completely understand). An example of this would be uh.. talent trees. Druids should not have hurricane as a spell, but the bottom talent of balance, classically(vanillaly). As far as content release, they should have released warsong gulch and alterac valley before arathi basin. You shouldn't have access to battlemasters in cities for a long time. One of my favorite 'emergent gameplay' WoW experiences was southshore vs tarren mill, with people having to queue for Alterac Valley in Hillsbrad.

I can type 10000 more words by request.

R.I.P. Nostalrius. Good server.

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Beneath this line will be a lot of Wow stuff. Avoid.

No thank you. Read it all [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was very intrigued by your bit about your classic PvP roots as well as your perspective on what was wrong and right about Nost through the vanilla lens.

But it would probably take someone more immersed in classic WoW than I to spur another paragraph out of you.

[Laugher]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I played Nostralrius. In fact, I was grouped and/or guilded with some p99 people during that time. It was a good time.

Beneath this line will be a lot of Wow stuff. Avoid.

R.I.P. Nostalrius. Good server.

Pras to another chapter of Charles Bronson

[eadric]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Beneath this, there will be a lot of random WoW stuff. Avoid.

What I was hoping for was pure vanilla experience. Nostalrius mostly delivered aside from client issues (which I completely understand). An example of this would be uh.. talent trees. Druids should not have hurricane as a spell, but the bottom talent of balance, classically(vanillaly). As far as content release, they should have released warsong gulch and alterac valley before arathi basin. You shouldn't have access to battlemasters in cities for a long time. One of my favorite 'emergent gameplay' WoW experiences was southshore vs tarren mill, with people having to queue for Alterac Valley in Hillsbrad.

I can type 10000 more words by request.

R.I.P. Nostalrius. Good server.

I agree that the battlemasters were a big negative, as they took away from the world pvp and added more to the isolated instance feel of it all. On vanilla, I played on RPVP servers Emerald Dream and Lightninghoof. We did a lot of world pvp on those servers, but it was always hard to keep it going in large part due to "dishonorable kills" and the way they were shared across a whole raid. I'm not even sure how much they affected our ranking, but when people would see those Dishonorable Kills, they would hearthstone and log out. DK's are a major flaw in vanilla WoW, imo.

We had some huge world pvp battles after the announcement the other night. Horde massed at the gates of Stormwind, and we battled back and forth for hours. Now the city is covered in player corpses.

[Odann]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I played Nostralrius. In fact, I was grouped and/or guilded with some p99 people during that time. It was a good time.

Beneath this line will be a lot of Wow stuff. Avoid.

I started day 1 outside the Darnassus tree and eventually left with Stark around level 5. These were tough times. We were fighting over spawn points we didn't know next to hundreds of other people. After I got out, things were better. Most people didn't get out.. for a while. Stayed up till the next day, got to mid teens. By this point, I was grouping with Alunova in Westfall. Shortly after, I was doing Deadmines with Yulath as my tank. I hadn't healed anyone since Vanguard, and it was pretty exciting in garbage gear. After that, I did the normal routine of zone/quest hopping till I got to 60. At that point, I joined a few p99 heavy guilds.. uh, Charles Bronson, Second Sons, and Massivus Backhandith. Started doing Onyxia and Molten Core under a leader by the name of Healadin. He had no idea that I did p99 or anything about Everquest. Actually, 99% of my experience was like that, despite the fact I named myself Nilbog. Also, despite the odds, I was the feral druid tank for my guild. Did Onyxia and MC that way. I retired soon after, because the pvp point ranking system was broken. I told my guild this, but I was ignored. In classic, I was a guildleader on Burning Legion pvp server. I played beta, and I had a guild which focused on pvp. For membership, you had to duel me personally. I thought that was a good thing to do at the time, not knowing where the game would end up. When I retired from live, I had all my Alliance city factions maxed, and had ~49.5k hks (2007).

Beneath this, there will be a lot of random WoW stuff. Avoid.

What I was hoping for was pure vanilla experience. Nostalrius mostly delivered aside from client issues (which I completely understand). An example of this would be uh.. talent trees. Druids should not have hurricane as a spell, but the bottom talent of balance, classically(vanillaly). As far as content release, they should have released warsong gulch and alterac valley before arathi basin. You shouldn't have access to battlemasters in cities for a long time. One of my favorite 'emergent gameplay' WoW experiences was southshore vs tarren mill, with people having to queue for Alterac Valley in Hillsbrad.

I can type 10000 more words by request.

R.I.P. Nostalrius. Good server.

I truly wish you would have played on Kronos instead of Nostalrius. It is infinitely better and far more classic than most would have you believe. Feel free to change your realmlist sometime and hit up Druzzil.

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[Cecily]

Wouldn't publicly releasing that code get them into legal issues as well?

[Tewaz]

Server was fun, but the wave of Asians abusing the hell out of the box was ruining it. Another six months of that and the servers would've been unplayable. I'm guessing they plugged and ran with the RMT; a perfect storm for them.