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[MTXperience]

God... I'm on a big nostalgia kick for these right now. I played pretty consistently from about '93 till about '98 as Rudolf Wohldmann, on more than a few places. Did some revisiting in the early and mid '00s. Really wish the remaining sites weren't complete ghost towns....

Love the idea of an ex MU*er merc company...

[Ethaniel]

Only saw one person that might remember me. I was the only non-faction associated admin. (main Coder, though full credit for the original system goes to Arthur, but I did what I usually do which is actually make it work correctly).

Also developed the comm and macro systems from scratch to be much less abusive of the poor box we had to run the 3056 system

Anyway, saying hi and remembering old times.

Et

[Ard]

Wow, some familiar names... For those who don't remember me (those who do probably are wishing they didn't , I started on 56 back in... ... math.... math... math (switches to toes) more math...
Crap, ran out of toes and fingers so its got to be more then 19 years!
(calculator) 20 years ago!
I've pretty much always been known as well.. Ard aka Thardon Helmer...
Good to see some real old timers (those who played 56).

Edited by Ard, 04 June 2012 - 01:09 PM.

[Takashi Fuchida]

Well... i figured i should start posting more and talking...

Basically it has been so many years for me since my battletech fascination.. i am unsure where to start... i have played ever MUSH/MUX variation i can think of.. and i remember on one of them i got a custom mech that later got nerfed for being too good... it was a hatamoto chi-TAKA variant... and if i wasn't using that my favorite mech to use was the Black Knight. BL-6b-KNT and also the BL-7-KNT if my memory serves... i loved using the axe in melee.

I have now recently finished an entire collection of all of the battletech books from the tabletop and also from the novel series all the way up to the new mechwarrior darkages books. (including the first edition book for the original tabletop rpg called battledroid.)

I have been a crazy rabid fan for many a year.. since the game called Battletech:Crescent Hawk's Inception came out.. i think in the late 80's
BTW its quite fun } ... anyway.. i digress.. i am glad so many recognizable names have appeared in this forums.. and i am definately interested in joining the mercenary company with you guys... i just got done building a new computer specifically for MWO ... and i am waiting for a beta invite... i am sitting in sadness with the PENDING blues.

I have fond memories of getting punched to death in alot of combats by Jaime Wolf.. in some lighweight mech i forget the name of oddly.... but at any rate.. it is great top see all of you again.

I went by other names but the one i used last was Takashi Fuchida.... Alias Taka

See you all on the field.
~Taka

[Happyclam]

I played those as well. Capellan Confederation here, scout mech pilot, usually PHX, as well as being part of the elite commando squad. Hell if I remember what name I played as though. I remember a battle in a Comstar city where we were trying to fire at each other in the turret blind spots. I misjudged and got totally destroyed except for my head which was untouched. Heh.

[Creed Buhallin]

Ard, on 04 June 2012 - 01:04 PM, said:

I've pretty much always been known as well.. Ard aka Thardon Helmer...
Good to see some real old timers (those who played 56).

Hooo... leeee...

THARDON!!! Wow. I still wake up queasy at night remembering some of your more colorful stories

Grixley Pryde is watching here as well. Really awesome seeing some of the old names floating around.

So are any of these still running? Did some hunting, and the only one I can find is Frontier Lands, which seems effectively dead whether the server's running or not.

[Kanji alias Ka]

Whoa, all these old names...

CSV on 56, played pretty much everything else between that time and when '30 went quiet.

BTW, CSV beat WD fair and square on Blair_Atholl.

[DubBucket]

Yay!! So happy to see people who remember those games. I cut my teeth to online gaming with Battletech, and I'm soo excited to have it resurrected here. God, I can't wait to scream around in my Hatchetman and cut some heads off!

You guys have better memories than I, because I can't even remember what my handle was, let alone other people. Oh wait.. it was Cujo! Crazy how that stuff comes back to you even though you haven't thought about it in forever.

[threedots]

Wow I recognise a lot of you... I used to go by bob I think, mostly a simhead but did venture onto 3030 and 3029. Had a blast. I've just fired it back up actually. Brings back some memories! Need more people to shoot though

[Pander Beers]

Lucian's a buddy of mine and pointed me to this thread - although I never played on any BattleTech/Mechwarrior MU*s, like another guy in here, I "cut my teeth to online gaming" on futuristic mech/ship-combat MUDs. I absolutely love playing with people who have this kind of gaming background, if for no other reason than they're generally a more mature crew (mature = old hehe)

My suggestion at a name would be Mobile Unit STAR. Thinking about the MUSE and MUX name suggestions had me realize that ol MUD players like me felt left out

Mobile Unit STAR = MU*

Edited by Pander Beers, 12 June 2012 - 01:47 PM.

[Sporadix]

Wow i remember these from back in the day "Maxwell Stewart" report in, it has been a long time since I have went on any of them and might boot the old mush client up!

[DubBucket]

Now that I've had a chance to read back through the posts, it makes me sad that our node got banned because of the cheaters at the university. I didn't get to play past the 3030 MUX? I think that was the one with the "Dogpound" for new players.

Man, this is making me nostalgia all over the place.. I'd love to mix it up with some of you old timers

[Telemonian Ajax]

So's I'm still idling on Frontiers, I'll have to check 2950 again, but last time I was there, there was zero activity

[Ard]

Creed Buhallin, on 11 June 2012 - 01:17 PM, said:

Hooo... leeee...

THARDON!!! Wow. I still wake up queasy at night remembering some of your more colorful stories

Grixley Pryde is watching here as well. Really awesome seeing some of the old names floating around.

So are any of these still running? Did some hunting, and the only one I can find is Frontier Lands, which seems effectively dead whether the server's running or not.

Which stories were they, the zit ones? I had a few others... let say my colllege years were... interesting... I did live though and graduate... somehow.

3065 is still running, but no one playing really. It a revival of the old 3065 sim site Tarien/tji used to run (the old web site is still up http://btech.home.xs4all.nl/ Darn we look young) The addy is btmux.com 3065. I *think* I am still a wizard on there but cant remember my password. Didn;t matter anyways as I didn;t know any of the wizzen commands and none of the other wizzen would tell me any of them. I *knew* @nuke, but they disabled it after I tried it out a few times.... Oh, @Ard works!!!
Frontiers is still up I think, http://frontiermux.com
3030 may be down...

[Ard]

@Whee I was able to remember my wizzen password on 65. (yes, scarey, me a wizzen but like I said, I litteraly don't know any wizzen commands) So it is still running... just no one really there save me.
telnet btmux.com 3065

Ard

[veretax]

Anytime I think back to the Mux's I think of it so foundly. being able to rll with up to 12 guys per side or more. Man that was cutting edge gaming back then BA, Tanks, Mechs, LOL. The occasional !CS raid on towers! Joy!

[Kanji alias Ka]

Ard, on 13 June 2012 - 08:09 AM, said:

Which stories were they, the zit ones? I had a few others... let say my colllege years were... interesting... I did live though and graduate... somehow.

3065 is still running, but no one playing really. It a revival of the old 3065 sim site Tarien/tji used to run (the old web site is still up http://btech.home.xs4all.nl/ Darn we look young) The addy is btmux.com 3065. I *think* I am still a wizard on there but cant remember my password. Didn;t matter anyways as I didn;t know any of the wizzen commands and none of the other wizzen would tell me any of them. I *knew* @nuke, but they disabled it after I tried it out a few times.... Oh, @Ard works!!!
Frontiers is still up I think, http://frontiermux.com
3030 may be down...

3030's up, but there hasn't been a scenario running for years and years, a few of us just hang out there and chat about sports & movies and coordinate other games.

[Creed Buhallin]

Ard, on 13 June 2012 - 08:09 AM, said:

Which stories were they, the zit ones?

LOL. Yeah, those would be the exact ones.

Unfortunate that none are really active, but text-based has probably pretty much gone by the wayside. Shame, really

[Kanji alias Ka]

By The Way,

unit name needs to be Clay's Cohort.

[Harrison Grozniy]

Hey everybody. I see a ton of names I recognize and this is a huge blast from the past.

I started out on 56 in CSJ as Shar Grozniy and at some point became the 2nd or 3rd Artin Spaunn. After that I stuck with the alias groz and played around on most of the various MU*s that came out. I still idle on 3030 these days along with a few other folks I see have posted on here.

Good to see so many old names though. It will be funny to see how badly we all get our ***** kicked by younger folks that still can see well and have youthful coordination. Kanji will be passing around hits from the metamucil bong once the party gets started.