Alrighty. I do have uber sets, I don't want to enter the competition, but I thought that I can post my story here as well.
Okay, so there I was, around April on 2009, searching for MUOnline servers as I used to, most servers didn't quite fit my needs, the most popular ones I did try, but they were full of very arrogant players, who hacked or just bullied everyone around. Then I saw, on Xtremetop, that fellow InfinityMU was around 20th spot, I checked it, S3E1, no wipes for a long time and a cool staff + great members. I just thought I'd download this. First when I got ingame, I started leveling up, duh. I had the main character called Jantsux, a BK, I had some noobish NPC sets (Dragon as I recall, always liked that.
) and I had around 20 resets when I met RESiSTANT. The meeting was more like, a one-side thing, I told him that I found a 'bug', more like spoofing packets with some program which name I can't recall. By spoofing the packets, you could make yourself excellent items on the Chaos Machine, I told him that others might abuse it, so it would be nice to fix it. My english was understandable, but not as great as it was now, and the wankers english was even horrible (no offence RESi)
Anyhow, then I just tried to make a dull move, I asked that does he need an extra GM, saying that I have lots of GM experience, which actually was a tremendous lie, never been a GM in any other server, Infinity was and still is my first and only shot of being a GM. But, as always, he's not the person to respond very quickly, nor takes this stuff in very quickly as well, I mean, who would recruit a person, who had actually been in the server for about 3 days, into the staff membership. But I didn't give up, I sent a message to him again, that I seriously do want to get the staff position, and promised that he won't regret it. Then he finally answered, told me to register on the forums (old one), I did that, he congratulated me, told me that I'm getting my chance. Do note that there was no TGM status back then.
Then came the funny part. First off, /item was the command to get items, I ofcourse started off by making events. Got some information from RESi how to do stuff, found out that ! was the command for GM chat, /move MAP X Y Charname was the command to move when you're a GM (because back then, GM's couldn't use the typical warp solution, that didn't work for us). I actually did thought that now he's going to kick me, because I know nothing, he didn't. I guess he had faith in me. Ofcourse, for everyone else, I seemed like an outsider, a newbie kicking in now in the staff, whom nobody knew. First person to greet me at the Admins guild (except RESi) was Prince, I asked him to help me organize a welcoming event, he did and so stuff went on. After a while, Nick got promoted to Admin on Infinity, we got a new forum. Guys made a new rule - Post bans into the ban section. I didn't read that, I just banned at first, but then I found out, I was like, what, why am I warned? I got a warning because I didn't follow the rules. I got into a fight with Nick, I've always had a minor problem with authorization, for me, the overlord was RESi, but I actually had to listen to Nick as well, so I had a little ****** on him. That went away in a while and we got along very well afterwards. Well, continuing, I was doing very well for my first GM experience. I was voted as the best GM of Infinity (even RESi gave me a vote lol)
http://forum.infinitymu.net/showthread.php?2460-Who-is-your-favourite-GM
I even found that thread.
Well, eventually, if you do your job good, you will be promoted. Before me, Bonecrusad and Elwyn were HGM's, so I got the 3rd bit. After a while Elwyn got demoted (left, can't remember), so there were we, me and wiziin, the nuub.
We had a great bond with RESi, I helped him test if he needed to, he helped me, but we mostly spammed ourselves with useless crap, like real online buds. Time went by, and Bone got demoted, Digital got promoted. So time flew by, I was noted by my great tournaments, which were like, I started at 21:00 and ended at 5-6:00 at morning, with the grand final winner getting a full FO gear. Everyone got something, but to get to the great final, you had to be pro.
Not in PK, most of you oldskoolers know that I disliked PK events (except kill the GM later on), because that just reminded me of every other GM, when I wasn't an GM, everyone was doing PK events, and well, 20resets (you needed to have lvl400+2ndquest atleast 60 resets to be max) I wasn't good, and others had the money and wellfare to get some prof items, so I didn't make those events, so everyone would have an equal shot. As time went by again, I invited my great friend from MU history, Cursed (Cursiiiii on forums or something). Eventually, he applied too, I always had a great say in the applications matter, as the wanker trusting me alot.
So I helped Cursed to get a spot here as well. He did nicely too. But now, school started messing up my vibe, so I started getting inactive, I was out more often, being drunk in most cases, so I got demoted. After a while, I rejoined and regained my HGM status, then Digital got promoted to Admin, and got introduced to so-called Admin fever, as me and Venci said back then, Nick got admin, he went inactive, and when Digi got admin, we never saw him again. We did atleast see Nick.
So, I tried my best, just to fail a second time, I got demoted once again. Then, a lot of time went by, and I came back, again, I got promoted, again, but this time to GM, after a while again, demoted for inactivity. But I already noted that time, that this might come when my exams are nearing, and it did.
So, then at Summer, I got back to the infinitian network. Back then, having a ****ty laptop, I couldn't play MU that much, because it lagged like hell, and believe me, playing with 20FPS is not fun... So I had to be on the background once again, but now, I got a new lappy, which is amazing, I tried ingame, was scouring around for a couple of days, and thought, heck, lets announce my return.
So here I am, the great legend of Infinity back at your feet. It's cool if you guys would actually read this as well.
So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY INFINITYMU, THE ONLY PLACE TO BE!
Greetings from your former staff member and a hard-on Infinitian,
Janno