How did you find Achaea?

Alyssea

Tvistor

I miss UltimateAchaea.

Coeur

I think the more pertinent question is, "Why do you still play Achaea?"

To which I have no good, clear answer.

Rom

I saw it featured in an episode of The Screensavers in 2004.

Sherazad

Saw my sister playing. I remember Beya and his creepy jester ways (I think this might be before Heath Ledger's Joker) and I was intrigued. My sister stopped playing and I was playing on and off and then eventually stayed because Mhaldor.

Hegua

Achaea first came to my attention through the MU* development community. I believe it was the MUD-Dev mailing list or discussion on one of the r.g.m.* usenet groups.

Shunsui

Saw an ad on 8 bit theater

Eilona

I saw a banner ad a few years ago. It had a black mage and a white mage from Final Fantasy in it.

Vayne

I saw the banner on 8-Bit theater years ago.

Corbeaux

I read a magazine article about the introduction of gleam into a text-game leading to eventual character addiction and death. I was sold.

Aktillum

I was playing this mud called Age of the Throne, had 12 players peak and a friend suggested I check out Achaea. This was in '01 and I've been hooked ever since.

Wattsee

Here's the article Corbaeux mentioned. It's also what got me to look up Achaea. From there, reading through the lore actually got me to log in.

Isaiah

I started mudding with a game called 'Legends of Cosrin' back when the player base was more then 6 and found Achaea thru searching for MUDs most likely on a Yahoo (because there wasnt really Google at that time). Then ended up making the full switch because they started to charge money to play.

Firien

I read the article that @Corbeauxand @Wattsee mentioned.

Rispok

I used to play a mud called The Eternal City, not sure how I found that one to be honest. One day the servers went down for a long period of time, and a buddy said to try Achaea. I did, it was alright, but I didn't stay. Once TEC servers came back up I just went back there. Eventually, however, TEC joined a company called Skotos, which charged a monthly subscription fee. I quit, remembered Achaea and rejoined it, with my first 'real' character who's  now about 360 years old. Not sure why I made Rispok, after having not played for years and years, but I don't think I regret it.

Bluef

@Flair sent me the URL nearly 10 years ago. I've since played all the IRE games. 

I miss AnarAchaea the most!

Nellaundra

My Mudlet had Achaea's (and all the other IRE games') address in it.  I went "Hmm, why not."

Iocun

One bright summer day, late in the afternoon, as I was refilling my coffee machine with water while a blackbird was tweeting a merry tune just outside my window and an ant crossed a large, jagged stone on its arduous way back to a distant anthill, I just thought to myself "hey, you know what would be cool? Playing Achaea. I bet it must be a marvellous game, if it exists."

It did, and so I played.

Mannimar

Rom said:

I saw it featured in an episode of The Screensavers in 2004.

Originally google search: "free mmorpg" then I was confused by the idea of text games and clicked it to try.

Screensavers brought me back in a replay.

Sultani

I appreciate the irony of the 'free' aspect that brought so many players to Achaea

Wysteria

Friend used to play it years ago back when we were in the 8th grade, I think he suicided his character but it took me a good near 10 years later to actually think about trying Achaea.

Panpardus

Leo from g4tv recommended it to me, might have be the same show that @Rom mentions above

Vadimuses

registration round deux!

Kiliami

I blame Vadi. I was playing a few other MUDs and ran across mudlet. Read a few of his forum posts, checked it out and I have been on and off.

Davio

I played Graal with some Australian friends (living in the US myself). I was 16 and slept on an Australian schedule through high school. Much of my time during school was sleeping in between passing classes somehow. One of them had started playing Achaea, so I made a character, followed him around doing perform hands and using a key bind for sip health as we failed to kill wights for twenty minutes at a time. Then he killed me with voyria in the arena and I logged off for a few weeks.

Somehow 10 years later I still play.

Amunet

Ten years ago, some friends - ignoring my rather obstreperous protests - sat seventeen-year-old me down in front of a computer in the library of our high school and forced me to create a character in Achaea. I tried my very hardest to hate the hell out of the game. My resistance endured for about a week before I finally gave in and embraced my inner-geek. We then proceeded to get a ton of other people to try it out. For a while, most of our social group had characters in Achaea. That is how nerdy we were.

Out of the original four of us, I'm the only one who still plays. Of the people we infected, two are still around, and another two poke their heads in on occasion.

Pardinen

I used to play avalon-rpg and hadn't played it for some time when I got back from the Netherlands to America. I couldn't remember what it was called though, or much about it really, so I just looked up text rpgs on google, stumbled onto Achaea when I checked out TopMudSites, it looked similar so I started playing it.

I love their intro academy, and I have just found that they have an Eleusis as well!

Oceana

Googled something like online games, clicked the link et voilà.

Beatrice

Davio said:

I played Graal with some Australian friends (living in the US myself). I was 16 and slept on an Australian schedule through high school. Much of my time during school was sleeping in between passing classes somehow. One of them had started playing Achaea, so I made a character, followed him around doing perform hands and using a key bind for sip health as we failed to kill wights for twenty minutes at a time. Then he killed me with voyria in the arena and I logged off for a few weeks.

Somehow 10 years later I still play.

Good times lol Graal.

Tanris

Googled something like "rp intensive complex combat mud".

Never looked back.

Delphinus

@Rom, @Panpardus: