Alkinus
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Alkinus
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Best I do this before I run out of time.. sweatdrop
*Username: Lei_Trigar
*Your best memory of zOMG: Finding Love (long story in spoiler)
To Long; Didn't Read Version:
I suppose my best memory is finding my special someone in Zen Gardens all those years ago. Nothing can compare to what that moment would turn into. I've had a very amazing experience ever since I've met her and I have zOMG! to thank for it.
Side note: I wasn't really planning to enter this contest as that's not why I told my story here; GCD Thread. But because of my life changing choices I never got a chance to collect all the Kamila Item/Recipes and since the game isn't coming back I suppose this would be the only way I can obtain them.
Thank you for reading and a special thanks for those who have read the long version and the original one.
*Username: Lei_Trigar
*Your best memory of zOMG: Finding Love (long story in spoiler)
A long time ago I use to be a very frequent user on the site Gamefaqs, mostly stay on this one forum for the game that meant the most to me, I made a few good friends and eventually the mods their became arrogant assholes which pushed me away to a tiny site based on that game. One day I saw this ad for zOMG! on that site and decided to check it out. That was over five years ago..
Personally I avoided MMO's because I know that they can tend to take up a lot of time and had many other games I needed to finish but I was bored that day so I joined Gaia Online for the sole reason to try the game. Started in the train station and once I got out of that place I started talking to other players in Village Greens near the Null Crystal. Was nice talking to other people so I decided to stay.
Weeks later I ended up in Zen Gardens, I liked it there so I 'farmed' Kat's Doll for a little bit trying to stock up on orbs and get some new rings. And one day I joined this crew and someone named Ash_Doku was dazed inside the shrine, seemed the crew was having trouble so I offered advice and she told them to listen to me and sure enough we won. We got to talking via the ancient chat system that I can't remember the name of and PMs and we'd meet up in zOMG! and kill stuff. I met a few other friends as well but for some reason me and her had this connection..
Weeks and months later we got to talking more exploring the world of zOMG! together with our other friends as well but about 90% of the time we were on zOMG! together. I can remember staying up all night doing Papa Saw runs, in fact, farming Papa Saw is how we became part of a Clan that I eventually got voted in as leader. The clan is definitely dead now but was active once upon a time. I remember when the mini-events came out and thought how awesome it was that the game was getting updates like that, shortly after that Halloween 2k9 started, the main site event and the one in zOMG! was just epic. Best Halloween ever. (the Battle system that Uncle Kenny came up with last year was pretty awesome too until they ******** it up with the pay-to-win crap and messing with the regen rates, felt bad for the guy) Even Christmas had a little event with the big tree in Barton giving away stuff, even power ups!
A year had past and we finally met in person for the first time in February 2010 and things went amazingly well, she had to go back home and then we became an online couple. And in May 2010 we got 'Gaia married' in Zen Gardens. We both bought the Sweetheart Ring as our wedding rings. ^_^
Pic;
As you can see I have barely changed. Even in 4 years. Once Shadowlegend came out that spiky hair has never left my avi. Same with the Bolster Sword, paid 20k for it back in the day, the Ancient Katana I carry? Was a gift from my wife, she got it for 500k back then.
It was a few month after that time I decided to get all the Kill Badges in the game to support it, the game gave me something special so I felt like it deserved my time. Took about 6 months of non-stop playing to get them all and I did it the way it was suppose to be done, not going to CL10 and just killing everything.. I made sure I was set at the appropriate level for the animated, got a crapton of Loot to prove it.. The hardest badge to get? Those Giftboxes.. My god.. I had timers set for then they showed up, null buffed, killed them with my good friend doomed-bast-rd who was also collecting all the badges. Surprisingly enough those Giftboxes wasn't the last badge I got, it was the Walkers from the Hive. Even got the Robofish one before them haha.
ANYWAY by then I went to visit Ash in mid-2011 and was more or less shocked by how developed her country was, for some reason America thinks and teaching everyone that they are the only ones with a modern society. Anyway we had a great time, spent a whole month there, only logging in to check in on the place and make sure I didn't miss any achievements. And also had to play zOMG! together!
Once I got back from that visit Gaia came out with Alchemy, something I didn't have too much interest in but because it had Achievements I looked into it, there was a thread with a couple formulas but the user quit so I took it upon myself to put together the massive mess you have now. I always wanted to do something for the community and thought this would be the perfect opportunity so I spent months putting that thing together and I'm very happy it's helped so many people get through Alchemy through all its gens/tiers. Also, because of my thread it kinda made me a little Gaia-famous, people all over used it and kept calling me master etc. I remember many times in zOMG! getting called out people thanking me for it, even to this day I get random thank yous and it makes me feel happy that I did something to help others on the site that brought me and my wife together.
By 2012 things were getting a little shaky.. We couldn't keep doing the online thing with a couple visits every now and then. So I went to visit her again early that year and on Valentines day I proposed to her and got the classic tears, a tackle and a yes. heart
I went back home and started packing and by early last year I moved out of my parents house and traveled over 9000 miles (literally, its over 9000) to be with her and we are now happily together with our son and planning on having another soon.
We killed Kamila together for the first time last year.
With everything we've been through zOMG! was our haven, our place of sanctuary. It held a place in our hearts and always will. It always saddened us how the state of zOMG! was in and now that they are trying to remove it completely really hurts us..
Personally I avoided MMO's because I know that they can tend to take up a lot of time and had many other games I needed to finish but I was bored that day so I joined Gaia Online for the sole reason to try the game. Started in the train station and once I got out of that place I started talking to other players in Village Greens near the Null Crystal. Was nice talking to other people so I decided to stay.
Weeks later I ended up in Zen Gardens, I liked it there so I 'farmed' Kat's Doll for a little bit trying to stock up on orbs and get some new rings. And one day I joined this crew and someone named Ash_Doku was dazed inside the shrine, seemed the crew was having trouble so I offered advice and she told them to listen to me and sure enough we won. We got to talking via the ancient chat system that I can't remember the name of and PMs and we'd meet up in zOMG! and kill stuff. I met a few other friends as well but for some reason me and her had this connection..
Weeks and months later we got to talking more exploring the world of zOMG! together with our other friends as well but about 90% of the time we were on zOMG! together. I can remember staying up all night doing Papa Saw runs, in fact, farming Papa Saw is how we became part of a Clan that I eventually got voted in as leader. The clan is definitely dead now but was active once upon a time. I remember when the mini-events came out and thought how awesome it was that the game was getting updates like that, shortly after that Halloween 2k9 started, the main site event and the one in zOMG! was just epic. Best Halloween ever. (the Battle system that Uncle Kenny came up with last year was pretty awesome too until they ******** it up with the pay-to-win crap and messing with the regen rates, felt bad for the guy) Even Christmas had a little event with the big tree in Barton giving away stuff, even power ups!
A year had past and we finally met in person for the first time in February 2010 and things went amazingly well, she had to go back home and then we became an online couple. And in May 2010 we got 'Gaia married' in Zen Gardens. We both bought the Sweetheart Ring as our wedding rings. ^_^
Pic;
As you can see I have barely changed. Even in 4 years. Once Shadowlegend came out that spiky hair has never left my avi. Same with the Bolster Sword, paid 20k for it back in the day, the Ancient Katana I carry? Was a gift from my wife, she got it for 500k back then.
It was a few month after that time I decided to get all the Kill Badges in the game to support it, the game gave me something special so I felt like it deserved my time. Took about 6 months of non-stop playing to get them all and I did it the way it was suppose to be done, not going to CL10 and just killing everything.. I made sure I was set at the appropriate level for the animated, got a crapton of Loot to prove it.. The hardest badge to get? Those Giftboxes.. My god.. I had timers set for then they showed up, null buffed, killed them with my good friend doomed-bast-rd who was also collecting all the badges. Surprisingly enough those Giftboxes wasn't the last badge I got, it was the Walkers from the Hive. Even got the Robofish one before them haha.
ANYWAY by then I went to visit Ash in mid-2011 and was more or less shocked by how developed her country was, for some reason America thinks and teaching everyone that they are the only ones with a modern society. Anyway we had a great time, spent a whole month there, only logging in to check in on the place and make sure I didn't miss any achievements. And also had to play zOMG! together!
Once I got back from that visit Gaia came out with Alchemy, something I didn't have too much interest in but because it had Achievements I looked into it, there was a thread with a couple formulas but the user quit so I took it upon myself to put together the massive mess you have now. I always wanted to do something for the community and thought this would be the perfect opportunity so I spent months putting that thing together and I'm very happy it's helped so many people get through Alchemy through all its gens/tiers. Also, because of my thread it kinda made me a little Gaia-famous, people all over used it and kept calling me master etc. I remember many times in zOMG! getting called out people thanking me for it, even to this day I get random thank yous and it makes me feel happy that I did something to help others on the site that brought me and my wife together.
By 2012 things were getting a little shaky.. We couldn't keep doing the online thing with a couple visits every now and then. So I went to visit her again early that year and on Valentines day I proposed to her and got the classic tears, a tackle and a yes. heart
I went back home and started packing and by early last year I moved out of my parents house and traveled over 9000 miles (literally, its over 9000) to be with her and we are now happily together with our son and planning on having another soon.
We killed Kamila together for the first time last year.
With everything we've been through zOMG! was our haven, our place of sanctuary. It held a place in our hearts and always will. It always saddened us how the state of zOMG! was in and now that they are trying to remove it completely really hurts us..
To Long; Didn't Read Version:
I suppose my best memory is finding my special someone in Zen Gardens all those years ago. Nothing can compare to what that moment would turn into. I've had a very amazing experience ever since I've met her and I have zOMG! to thank for it.
Side note: I wasn't really planning to enter this contest as that's not why I told my story here; GCD Thread. But because of my life changing choices I never got a chance to collect all the Kamila Item/Recipes and since the game isn't coming back I suppose this would be the only way I can obtain them.
Thank you for reading and a special thanks for those who have read the long version and the original one.
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gataka
Familiar Lunatic
Username: gataka
Your best memory of zOMG: That sad fuzzy warmth I get whenever I reflect upon all those six years. It's hard to single out.
When you spend so much time thinking about, worrying about, or simply being with something it becomes part of you. When you spend so much time being around/interacting with people, seeing them grow, come and go, united in hardship, fighting over chocolate chips, they become part of your family. That's what I've found here. Now it's fading out, never to come back. Kinda like childhood. I've been happy here. Away from all worries.
Frankly, there's no way I could do justices to the memories or pick a single out.
So here's some random events from my long zOMG! life:
Quicksand:
SCIENCE!:
Getting late, let's speed:
Contests:
Jack-lag:
BEST EVENT EVER. The chaos remains unmatched, but the Lag was simply unbelievable.
zOMG! felt real, big, like a real world, because when you were minding your business in some remote area and the Lag hit like a truck, you knew that somewhere on your server thousands of people were throwing themselves into the fray, and this whole MASSIVELY Multiplayer thing finally made sense.
Meat bawlz:
Every week we gather and speak of food, stuff, food, other stuff, and food.
This ritual is pleasant for sure, but more important is what I've learned there: there's people behind this game and they're people. I'm too tired to explain this so, mmm, gaze at the first object you see and realise that someone somewhere struggled to make it happen.
Also, community is the word @____@
Your best memory of zOMG: That sad fuzzy warmth I get whenever I reflect upon all those six years. It's hard to single out.
When you spend so much time thinking about, worrying about, or simply being with something it becomes part of you. When you spend so much time being around/interacting with people, seeing them grow, come and go, united in hardship, fighting over chocolate chips, they become part of your family. That's what I've found here. Now it's fading out, never to come back. Kinda like childhood. I've been happy here. Away from all worries.
Frankly, there's no way I could do justices to the memories or pick a single out.
So here's some random events from my long zOMG! life:
Quicksand:
This was the first post I made in the zOMG! forum:
Don't want to go into details. Let's just say that posting that, silly as it looks, took a lot more courage than it ever should. Was a turning point in my life in general, more or less.
Someone listened, someone valued my opinion, even lead to a thread being made. Blew my mind. Encouraged me to take part in this weird forumthing instead of staying in the dark like I always did.
But this was a just a first. It happened again and again here, with people of all sorts, of all ages.
End result is that I don't fear talking to people as much as I used too. And that's of unfathomable value.
gataka
I like Hornet's Nest and Quicksand. I've been using them more often lately. Even in crews. If someone complains, I stop. I like their effects and aiming method.
Here be Dragons: you might have noticed the fairly dense Wall O'Text. I tend to be wordy. There is NO To long; Didn't read nonsense*. I take time in writing those monstrous word monsters and wish my work to be appreciated for what it is. I think it's worth reading, but do as you please: the Ninjas will be at your home shortly.
Suggested background music: Eminem-Lose Yourself
The mouse aiming allows me to keep a close eye on someone/me/thing and still lob attacks all over the place without having to switch back and forth between the two. Auto-aim shortcut sometimes fails to revert back exactly where you were and crew self-appointed hotkeys sometimes do not follow the crew panels order, leading to potential confusion/miss-aiming. In other words, you can Bandage/Wish/Buff someone while still attacking. I'm thinking of combining this with the No-aim rings: attack at range with mouse, heal/kill with standard aiming and maim/save at point-blank. I cant wait to have greater selection in secondary aiming styles!
HN effect is interesting and fun. I use it to reduce incoming barrage/buy some crucial time/dissipate the mob. The over time damage is a plus, but like all DOT rings, the enemy possibly has more time to hurt you. I play Medic, so when I see the tightly packed crew getting overwhelmed, I throw my grenade and pump out the HP.
Quicksand has a lot of potential. The aiming here can be problematic: range is limited (no apparent sign telling you you’re too far), area is large and not indicated on screen. You can lose time by sending an attack out of range or affect more enemies than expected. Both these problems apply to HN to a lesser extent. Yet, Quicksand has it's uses: Buy some time. Negate** the push back of your rings (Dervishatwill!). Control the goons while singling out the Boss. In combination with HN you can pull out the following tricks: don’t want to send all the opposition all over the place? Sand and send your nest! Need to run off? Nest and sand the rest! Want to enjoy the slow demise of a pack of fluff? Tie'em down with sand. Kill'em with Hornets. Repeat'till they die. I love those rings!
My Density: allows me to walk around the bug infested fields to provide some hands on Healing/Defib (Remember: I are MEDIC! : D), keep the group together in blue girl chaos and walk directly to the chest without to much trouble when I solo (why fight when can simply take the loot?). ALL of this without having each member of the crew sacrifice a ring slot to Fitness.
Somewhat related: De-Buffing attack rings like Hot Foot or Heavy Water Balloon= Buff for you and yo'crew against those enemies. Obvious? Yar. Still fun. It means that I can buff AND attack.
Though, I wish I could see how effective these additional effects are.
Each "click" O'Hot Foot benefits** from its slight knock back effect creating some sort of delay if they're far away.
RR4 Keen eye animation= seriously freaky/funny.
You can move rings around your fingers even if you'r out of the null. Dying? Put that important ring closer to the beginning. Dead? Nope, sorry, you should of had thought about this a little earlier.
I think that is all I had to say. I love this game. There's lot of place for improvements.
Still reading? You deserve a cookie: it's fat/salt/sugar/uranium/stuff-free. In fact it's completely devoided of nutritional values. The only thing it as is meaning/symbolism. Appreciate it; you deserve it.
Have a nice day! ...or what's left of it after reading THIS :3
*Wait, there it is: (Note to self: insert extanded/supersized/wordier/longer/unreadablechatspeak/unreadablecatspeak , well, you get the idea, copy-pasted original text.)
**I may be wrong: This is what I experienced/remember ,needs to be verified. I'm pretty sure of it, though.
Here be Dragons: you might have noticed the fairly dense Wall O'Text. I tend to be wordy. There is NO To long; Didn't read nonsense*. I take time in writing those monstrous word monsters and wish my work to be appreciated for what it is. I think it's worth reading, but do as you please: the Ninjas will be at your home shortly.
Suggested background music: Eminem-Lose Yourself
The mouse aiming allows me to keep a close eye on someone/me/thing and still lob attacks all over the place without having to switch back and forth between the two. Auto-aim shortcut sometimes fails to revert back exactly where you were and crew self-appointed hotkeys sometimes do not follow the crew panels order, leading to potential confusion/miss-aiming. In other words, you can Bandage/Wish/Buff someone while still attacking. I'm thinking of combining this with the No-aim rings: attack at range with mouse, heal/kill with standard aiming and maim/save at point-blank. I cant wait to have greater selection in secondary aiming styles!
HN effect is interesting and fun. I use it to reduce incoming barrage/buy some crucial time/dissipate the mob. The over time damage is a plus, but like all DOT rings, the enemy possibly has more time to hurt you. I play Medic, so when I see the tightly packed crew getting overwhelmed, I throw my grenade and pump out the HP.
Quicksand has a lot of potential. The aiming here can be problematic: range is limited (no apparent sign telling you you’re too far), area is large and not indicated on screen. You can lose time by sending an attack out of range or affect more enemies than expected. Both these problems apply to HN to a lesser extent. Yet, Quicksand has it's uses: Buy some time. Negate** the push back of your rings (Dervishatwill!). Control the goons while singling out the Boss. In combination with HN you can pull out the following tricks: don’t want to send all the opposition all over the place? Sand and send your nest! Need to run off? Nest and sand the rest! Want to enjoy the slow demise of a pack of fluff? Tie'em down with sand. Kill'em with Hornets. Repeat'till they die. I love those rings!
My Density: allows me to walk around the bug infested fields to provide some hands on Healing/Defib (Remember: I are MEDIC! : D), keep the group together in blue girl chaos and walk directly to the chest without to much trouble when I solo (why fight when can simply take the loot?). ALL of this without having each member of the crew sacrifice a ring slot to Fitness.
Somewhat related: De-Buffing attack rings like Hot Foot or Heavy Water Balloon= Buff for you and yo'crew against those enemies. Obvious? Yar. Still fun. It means that I can buff AND attack.
Though, I wish I could see how effective these additional effects are.
Each "click" O'Hot Foot benefits** from its slight knock back effect creating some sort of delay if they're far away.
RR4 Keen eye animation= seriously freaky/funny.
You can move rings around your fingers even if you'r out of the null. Dying? Put that important ring closer to the beginning. Dead? Nope, sorry, you should of had thought about this a little earlier.
I think that is all I had to say. I love this game. There's lot of place for improvements.
Still reading? You deserve a cookie: it's fat/salt/sugar/uranium/stuff-free. In fact it's completely devoided of nutritional values. The only thing it as is meaning/symbolism. Appreciate it; you deserve it.
Have a nice day! ...or what's left of it after reading THIS :3
*Wait, there it is: (Note to self: insert extanded/supersized/wordier/longer/unreadablechatspeak/unreadablecatspeak , well, you get the idea, copy-pasted original text.)
**I may be wrong: This is what I experienced/remember ,needs to be verified. I'm pretty sure of it, though.
Don't want to go into details. Let's just say that posting that, silly as it looks, took a lot more courage than it ever should. Was a turning point in my life in general, more or less.
Someone listened, someone valued my opinion, even lead to a thread being made. Blew my mind. Encouraged me to take part in this weird forumthing instead of staying in the dark like I always did.
But this was a just a first. It happened again and again here, with people of all sorts, of all ages.
End result is that I don't fear talking to people as much as I used too. And that's of unfathomable value.
SCIENCE!:
So I got quite involved in the number-crunching, theorycrafting side of zOMG!.
Had a lot of fun, made a lot of friends, probably helped a lot of people by contributing to some of the game guides, and also probably looked crazy-a-lot when I was collecting data in the game, doing repetitive things with one hand and scribbling endless numbers with the other. But the crowning moment of all that was when I figured out how damage was calculated.
How I managed that was pure bricolage, isolating the suspected variables, making graphs, and then using my understanding of math to create a formula from the suspected variables that would lead to the behavior illustrated in the graphs... something like that. Was a mess but, somehow, it worked o___O
Cleaned and confirmed all that with the help of friends. It was a significant advance in the understanding of zOMG!s secrets.
Had a lot of fun, made a lot of friends, probably helped a lot of people by contributing to some of the game guides, and also probably looked crazy-a-lot when I was collecting data in the game, doing repetitive things with one hand and scribbling endless numbers with the other. But the crowning moment of all that was when I figured out how damage was calculated.
How I managed that was pure bricolage, isolating the suspected variables, making graphs, and then using my understanding of math to create a formula from the suspected variables that would lead to the behavior illustrated in the graphs... something like that. Was a mess but, somehow, it worked o___O
Cleaned and confirmed all that with the help of friends. It was a significant advance in the understanding of zOMG!s secrets.
Getting late, let's speed:
Contests:
The scale and camaraderie of the splash art contest was quite an experience... and lead to awesome pieces of art too. Here's my last minute fail-entry I did back then:
But more significant to me was the avatar contest, where to my surprise my entry was chosen:
I totally crushed the competition...Not emo But this Avi latter became my obnoxious trademark look.
But more significant to me was the avatar contest, where to my surprise my entry was chosen:
I totally crushed the competition...Not emo But this Avi latter became my obnoxious trademark look.
Jack-lag:
BEST EVENT EVER. The chaos remains unmatched, but the Lag was simply unbelievable.
zOMG! felt real, big, like a real world, because when you were minding your business in some remote area and the Lag hit like a truck, you knew that somewhere on your server thousands of people were throwing themselves into the fray, and this whole MASSIVELY Multiplayer thing finally made sense.
Meat bawlz:
Every week we gather and speak of food, stuff, food, other stuff, and food.
This ritual is pleasant for sure, but more important is what I've learned there: there's people behind this game and they're people. I'm too tired to explain this so, mmm, gaze at the first object you see and realise that someone somewhere struggled to make it happen.
Also, community is the word @____@
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[NPC] Nicolae
Hey, psst, hey,
Want in on a secret? I'm hosting a contest in memory of zOMG. I want everyone to share their fondest memory of zOMG. Tell me what your best moment in zOMG was, something that you loved, a boss you beat, anything.
Here's another secret, I'm going to make it really easy for you to enter. Just post with the following:
Quote:
*Username
*Your best memory of zOMG
*Your best memory of zOMG
I'll be taking your submissions up until Sunday, November 16, 2014 11:59pm PST. I managed to procure a prize pack for the winners consisting of:
- Parcel Post
zOMSoundtrack Earphones
Kamila's Blood Scarf
Kamila's Blood Sword
Kamila's Vamp Top
Kamila's Vamp Belt
Kamila's Vamp Jacket
Kamila's Blood Magic
Kamila Essence
Other winners will receive:
- zOMSoundtrack Earphones
Kamila's Vamp Top
Kamila's Vamp Belt
Kamila's Vamp Jacket
Kamila's Blood Magic
Kamila Essence
So get to sharing your memories!
Username : Riskette
Best Memory: I loved EVERYTHING. I loved the people, the missions, I loved the way you could make groups and run around together. There isn't a single best memory, they were ALL best memories! It was amazing. Yeah there were a few glitches. Oh well! I didn't care! I knew a lot of people didn't care that much, we all still played. Together, alone. It wasn't necessary to have a lot lot of people. But it sure made it easier and more fun! I met a lot of good friends threw zomg. We didn't have to talk, we could go do something. Tip some cows if we wanted. Lol. I spent a lot of time playing this game... I really wish it didn't have to go.... At least let it stay the way it was? Please? If you guys don't have time to fix it... I understand... But please don't take it away forever :'( it was one of my favorite parts about gaia.
Vhers
Dapper Lunatic
kriispycraker
