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How old were you when you started playing Achaea?
Some of us started really young and naive, and some of us are old bored retired people. How long has it been since you first started out in Achaea? How have you changed since your first experience here? How has Achaea affected your life? How many adventurers have you gone through? Etcetera, etcetera.
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Also what if we were 16 on the money there two options haha gonna assume its was meant to be 13-15
Since then, she's had a few different phases in life. The responsible HL phase. The irresponsible "I married a jerk IC, so I'll be one too" phase. The slow climb back to being trustworthy and socially engaged phase. I'm very happy with where she's at right now as a rogue, leader in the Order of Sleep and Dreams, and the Keepers of Song. New ventures keep popping up and along with the push for elder dragon, Grandmaster smith, and whatnot, it seems like she still has things left to accomplish, which is nice!
I have several characters other than Bluef, but she will always be my favorite.
Album of Bluef during her time in Achaea
- To love another person is to see the face of G/d
- Let me get my hat and my knife
- It's your apple, take a bite
- Don't dream it ... be it
Makaela was a Mojushai in Cyrene for most of her life as well as a member of Lady Miramar's order at age 18. She eventually became a path head in the order, a novice aide in the mojushai as well as an aide to development and cultural affairs.
Makaela started to have doubts about herself unfortunatly shortly after this started i began to have rl issues so i destroyed much of what made Makaela well what she was. Upon returning i was faced with how do bring any rp value back to her and honestly Mhaldor was the best bet. So far it is working out.
I'd have broke this poll at least into 21-24 and 25-30 vs. 21-30. Or even like... made it 21-26 and 27-30. There's a big shift for a lot of people in their late twenties. In other words, it's still a decade where a lot of growing up happens for most people.
Anyway, I think I would have been 29 or 30 when I started (2004-ish, basically, sometime after I ended up stationed in Japan and got shut in my house for several days during a typhoon). I was definitely a one off age-wise and was just at a really different place than most of the game at the time - which, let's just say there are a LOT of wonderful quality of life game mechanics that admin has finally made happen in the last few years as those players have truly become full-fledged adults who definitely don't have endless free time (and also just want to get the most out of the free time they do have).
That said, there was a couple who was actually probably in their 40s that used to play, and they were awesome. Then, there was my IC mother who was probably in her mid 20s (still probably older than most of the game at the time), and my IC dad, who was probably about the same age as the couple. There were a couple of other older players, and they were just almost always easier to relate to, probably because the ages really were so stark in those years. Most of the game was probably *well* under 20, which I definitely didn't fully understand at the time, partly because I'd never played an online game before, and partly because I just hadn't grown up immersed in internet culture.
Medi says, "If kit says to show up somewhere, bring an apron."
Medi says, "Rule of thumb."
There have probably been 7 or 8 characters that I've played seriously (most of them before I made Sena), and a huge pile of short-lived alts (mostly short-lived on purpose, just trying a class or testing things).
Since I've been playing since I was a kid, I can't really say for sure how Achaea has changed me, I don't have anything to compare to.
You also lost lessons if you forgot to myrrh. That was also great.
Edit: And welcome to the forums!
Well, the core population is much more solidly grownup, and that means you're playing a game with people who go to work, and have hobbies, and pets, and errands, and home maintenance, and maybe even wives and husbands and kids. I still wish we had a few more older players (like at least 30 and up, and a few more people around 40 would be great).
I think Achaea used to (not intentionally of course) chase a lot of older players off, both because the game itself catered to people with almost endless free time (i.e. kids and very young adults), and also because those older players found it really challenging to interact with that player base. That's definitely been changing in the right ways, and I think the overall trend is going to be more of that.
Still, if you're the kind of player who has a more casual attitude (both towards RP and endless bashing), you're a bit older, and you want to dabble in PK without losing your ass, Imperian is unbeatable in IRE. Although Achaea's players are older now, and asking for more and more quality of life tweaks that usually equate to less drudgery, Achaea usually still has a much more "intense" attitude about things that a player is either going to embrace or intensely dislike. Cyrene has generally (but not always) been an exception, and the Outriders are a great modern exception, but in general, Achaea is "intense". Things like that could actually be a subtle but important way for the games to differentiate themselves (and a good way to engineer things so that players in each game are hopefully playing with likeminded people - or even dabble in more than one flavor as their current mood and schedule allows).
- To love another person is to see the face of G/d
- Let me get my hat and my knife
- It's your apple, take a bite
- Don't dream it ... be it
- To love another person is to see the face of G/d
- Let me get my hat and my knife
- It's your apple, take a bite
- Don't dream it ... be it