Server You Most Enjoyed (and Not Because of the Game)?

Amathe · September 2020

I most enjoyed the LOWCA server in original SWG.

The people were great. Very cooperative also.

Any veterans remember Danceman? That guy cracked me up. Good times.

Gorwe · September 2020

Laurelin, Karak Norn, the Progenitor and some of Rift servers were quite ok(what was the name...? Argent something).

Oh and Crom! By Crom, how can I forget King Schtunk, is he still trolling?

mklinic · September 2020

Amathe said:

I most enjoyed the LOWCA server in original SWG.

The people were great. Very cooperative also.

Any veterans remember Danceman? That guy cracked me up. Good times.

Chilastra in SWG for much the same reasons. I don't think it's completely possible to separate game from the community in this case as the game seemed designed to foster community.

Mendel · September 2020

Torval said:

Crickhollow in LotRO when it first launched. It was such a positive community experience. It was RP positive and friendly, just a positive vibe overall.

Faeblight in Rift was another positive friendly server. Lots of fun event cooperation and dungeon running.

Everfrost in Everquest 2. Same stuff that made the above 2 great - friendly community that liked to cooperate in all kinds of content.

Crickhollow was my LotRO choice, too. Good community. Eventually I left to join a friend on another server, so never really got too far on Crickhollow.

I enjoyed the Rodcet Nife community in EQ1 (where Mendel was). It was merged with other servers twice and the RN name has virtually disappeared. I don't know than many of the names I would recognize are still around, though. Sadly, this was about the time that the PUG became a 'bad' thing.

cameltosis · September 2020

LotRO - [EU] Snowbourn

I am given to understand that just about every LotRO server was/is better than just about every server of every other game released since lotro, so my love of Snowbourn is not unique. I put this down to the following:

Original game was very group-focused. First group quest at level 3 in the starter zone, so the entire community was "trained" to group up.
Loads of group interdependency, making group content much more enjoyable than solo content. Grouping was really where all the depth could be felt in the mechanics.
Player skill trumped gear (originally anyway). This created a lot of reasons to actually talk to each other and reduced barriers to grouping up. You could complete tough content in shit gear if you were good enough
No set strategies - the combat mechanics had tons of depth, allowing for multiple successful strategies. this meant group composition could be very diverse, thus reducing the barriers to grouping up. no enrage timers!
Loads of roleplaying tools - tons of emotes, music system, wardrobe system etc allowed for a lot of self-expression. This allowed for lots of non-intensive interaction, perfect for increasing social connections.
The IP itself attracted a very diverse audience, generally more mature than other mmos and with a better gender balance.

All of these things resulted in amazing communities. Diverse communities are always stronger than niche communities and the game kept bringing players together, strengthening their bonds.

On Snowbourn specifically, we would have regular "chicken races", sparring competitions, speed-run competitions for specific instances, a great pvp community. There were always bands hanging around the main hubs, like Bree, 21st Hall in Moria etc, playing their music for passers by.

As a guild leader, I was heavily involved in a lot of these things. I'd speak to most of the top guild leaders, organise joint raids, whip up my own guild to join in community events. I loved being part of the "night crew", the nickname given to a bunch of us who would turn up to PvP at around 11pm after we'd finished raiding.

Po_gg · September 2020

I can't really grasp the "not because of the game" part

for me the good community is an integral part of the game, inseparatable if you like.

Couldn't say a single example where I've felt "this server/community is awesome, too bad the game is garbage".

With that said:

-Leviathan (though technically TSW had single server tech)

-Crom (I know that's the only one now, besides the almost empty Fury, but I'm on Crom since launch, that was the best Eu server imo)

-Laurelin (and Landroval, Belegaer, etc.

most of LotRO's servers have great communities)

cameltosis said:

LotRO - [EU] Snowbourn

Special mention to that as well... was a big shock when at the server transfer they've sacked Snowy while it was among the most populated Eu servers...

I played there as my non-RP main server and a bunch of my characters on Evernight still run around with the Snowbourn title.

Spot on with the plural in "All of these things resulted in amazing communities. Diverse communities are always stronger than niche communities", I believe that made Snowy so unique.

With being the unofficial "other language" server (as in not english, german or french), it had a bunch of strong smaller communities and as a melting pot it resulted a very good mix for an overall community.

Some fun debates on global channel

lahnmir · September 2020

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

AC1: Harvestgain
WoW: Runetotem
LotRO: Laurelin
ESO: just ESO, awesome people playing that game.

@Jean-Luc_Picard Waaaaaiiiiit, Runetotem has been my home for the first six years of WoW

Don’t tell me you played filthy alliance there?

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

Nepheth · September 2020

Argent Dawn on WoW. If I still play WoW today, a big part of the reason is that server. The community is great and I love benig around doing rp with other people.

Scot · September 2020

The official or unofficial RP servers were the best.

cheyane · September 2020

Bertoxxulous Everquest Server. Despite the nasty fights over the top tier mobs among the top guilds, there were some very good people I made friends with. Those friends made the time I spent there very enjoyable and memorable.

Asura for FFXI where I met a host of fellow Final Fantasy lovers and became the best of friends with. There is no such thing as soloing in FFXI so a good reputation and friends were the key.

Emerald Dream EU server WoW. Again it was the friends and the fantastic guild leader that made the game for me.

AlBQuirky · September 2020

Liberty server for City pf Heroes is top of the list. I was in a supergroup (The Legion) that was in an alliance with others (The Sisterhood, and 3 or 4 others) and it seemed most players had a very similar idea of fun. Heroes were easy going, helpful, and heroic

I did enjoy my time on the Silvermoon server in WoW. I met many great folks there

lahnmir · September 2020

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

lahnmir said:

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

AC1: Harvestgain
WoW: Runetotem
LotRO: Laurelin
ESO: just ESO, awesome people playing that game.

@Jean-Luc_Picard Waaaaaiiiiit, Runetotem has been my home for the first six years of WoW Don’t tell me you played filthy alliance there?

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

Runetotem[EU] yep !

I was always rolling with Charlieboy and Smokey in PVP. I do remember that bloody frost mage gnome Isak.... man, that guy was brutal. Amazing server.

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

Amaranthar · September 2020

Mine was UO's Great Lakes Server. Great leadership from special players like:
- Kazola, who created the first MMO player tavern and organized players to act as servers.
- (can't remember the name) who created the Museum Of Memories. Rare items, one of a kind items, special event items, etc., on loan from the owners and on display.
- Spectre, who organized and created the first Mage Tower, a place for all mages for training and sharing of knowledge.
- The gangs that created the Fishing Council Of Britannia and the player run Auctions of the most valuable items in the game. Also the RPer community that organized the Yew RP community.

A special mention to Blitz Phoenix, thief extraordinaire, womanizer, owner of many of the one of a kind rares, and one of the best on-the-fly RPers I've ever met.
Also Maximilian, a great RPer and community organizer.

Another special mention to Omega, the barefoot mage who took no crap from anyone, was on a sugar high at all times, and I just got a kick out of him and his constant barefoot, barelegged, running around like a kid at Xmas time.

And who could forget og. He was the most feared PKer I've ever known about. He literally cleared out entire Dungeons just by his presence.
I was in Dungeon Covetous, had just arrived, and was in one of the first room talking to a friend. Suddenly players started running out of the Dungeon, in droves.
Some of them would say "og" as they ran by. The other players in this room took off too.
My friend and I kept asking "What's og?", but at first no one stopped long enough to tell us. Then someone did.
"He's the meanest PK there is. Run man!"
lol

Ahh, people do make the game. No doubt.

CrystallineNM · September 2020

Amathe said:

I most enjoyed the LOWCA server in original SWG.

The people were great. Very cooperative also.

Any veterans remember Danceman? That guy cracked me up. Good times.

Bloodfin server on SWG for similar reasons. That game really went above and beyond to foster a community, that server and that game was the only place where I had friends and enemies. It was a trip.

MightyUnclean · September 2020

Landroval in LOTRO. It still has an awesome community. Too bad the game has become unstable and SSG is greedier than ever.

Theocritus · September 2020

Firiona Vie EQ1 - THe community was excellent. Many roleplayers. We even had to learn other languages to communicate with various races. They often had language groups where players would learn various tongues.

AlBQuirky · September 2020

Theocritus said:

Firiona Vie EQ1 - THe community was excellent. Many roleplayers. We even had to learn other languages to communicate with various races. They often had language groups where players would learn various tongues.

Learning languages was one of my favorite parts of EQ 1!

Abscissa15 · September 2020

Atlantic in UO. Legendary PK named BabaMonkey had an Indestructable Silver Halbard of Vanquishing (or similar) and would one-shot anyone within reach. You could recall to any bank in Trinsic, Ocllo or Britain and find groups forming posses to go hunt the guy. Community at its finest, although I never saw him killed. Fun days.

Akulas · September 2020

EQ2: AB seemed to be the most mature bunch of people.

Usually servers with RP in brackets at the end of it have the most mature people in it.

Amaranthar · September 2020

Theocritus said:

Firiona Vie EQ1 - THe community was excellent. Many roleplayers. We even had to learn other languages to communicate with various races. They often had language groups where players would learn various tongues.

OT, but I always wanted ancient languages that, if deciphered, could give clues to great treasures and lost relics.
Imagine also a player secret society that used an ancient language to speak and pass notes about things they don't want anyone else to know.

Bahut · September 2020

cheyane said:

Bertoxxulous Everquest Server. Despite the nasty fights over the top tier mobs among the top guilds, there were some very good people I made friends with. Those friends made the time I spent there very enjoyable and memorable.

Asura for FFXI where I met a host of fellow Final Fantasy lovers and became the best of friends with. There is no such thing as soloing in FFXI so a good reputation and friends were the key.

Emerald Dream EU server WoW. Again it was the friends and the fantastic guild leader that made the game for me.

I too played on Bertoxx. My character was a troll shadowknight named Igjarjuk later changed to Hideo. I created the guild called Omani.

As for the original question;

In Eq I was on bertoxx & switched with a server merge to 7th hammer. Server was almost empty & it sucked so I moved back to bertoxx which prompted my name change.

Daoc I started an Alb on the Merlin server. The albs there absolutely sucked so I tried the Lancelot server on Midgard faction. Everyone I met seemed cool and there was an alliance to defend the frontier. Ended up staying on Lancelot. I played a troll berserker named Igjarjuk & Dwarf Runemaster named Skarwolf.

In SWG I played on Kettemoor. Server choice made no difference to me at the time I played with two friends from EQ. In vanilla I was Skarwolf a rebel bothan creature handler/pistoleer & spent my time grieving imperials.

In WOW I played Horde on the Durotan server. My main was a forsaken rogue named Hellion. I hated the server primarily because the horde didn’t care about defending anything while alliance ran over every horde outpost. Part of the problem was population disparity the alliance made up over 80% of the server.

I ended up paying to switch servers to Hyjal where Horde outnumbered Alliance. It was awesome returning the favor for awhile.

After that servers haven’t mattered much. In Guildwars 2 vanilla you could switch where you wanted for free. So everyone switched to who was winning in WvW. Also played ESO again no servers ?‍♂️

cheyane · September 2020

Bahut said:

cheyane said:

Bertoxxulous Everquest Server. Despite the nasty fights over the top tier mobs among the top guilds, there were some very good people I made friends with. Those friends made the time I spent there very enjoyable and memorable.

Asura for FFXI where I met a host of fellow Final Fantasy lovers and became the best of friends with. There is no such thing as soloing in FFXI so a good reputation and friends were the key.

Emerald Dream EU server WoW. Again it was the friends and the fantastic guild leader that made the game for me.

I too played on Bertoxx. My character was a troll shadowknight named Igjarjuk later changed to Hideo. I created the guild called Omani.

As for the original question;

In Eq I was on bertoxx & switched with a server merge to 7th hammer. Server was almost empty & it sucked so I moved back to bertoxx which prompted my name change.

Daoc I started an Alb on the Merlin server. The albs there absolutely sucked so I tried the Lancelot server on Midgard faction. Everyone I met seemed cool and there was an alliance to defend the frontier. Ended up staying on Lancelot. I played a troll berserker named Igjarjuk & Dwarf Runemaster named Skarwolf.

In SWG I played on Kettemoor. Server choice made no difference to me at the time I played with two friends from EQ. In vanilla I was Skarwolf a rebel bothan creature handler/pistoleer & spent my time grieving imperials.

In WOW I played Horde on the Durotan server. My main was a forsaken rogue named Hellion. I hated the server primarily because the horde didn’t care about defending anything while alliance ran over every horde outpost. Part of the problem was population disparity the alliance made up over 80% of the server.

I ended up paying to switch servers to Hyjal where Horde outnumbered Alliance. It was awesome returning the favor for awhile.

After that servers haven’t mattered much. In Guildwars 2 vanilla you could switch where you wanted for free. So everyone switched to who was winning in WvW. Also played ESO again no servers ?‍♂️

The whole guild left for 7th Hammer too. You recall the guild lead by that childish Wizard Fury I think he was called. We would quarrel over Nagafen and Vox with that other guild, I cannot for the life of me recall that guild's name now (leader was a Necromancer) something like Dark Brotherhood may be.... I was in one of those guilds. My god the fights with each side using ogres to block the dungeon entrance so we could not all get to Nagafen. At least they had a calendar for the planes. VN Vault boards were where the insults and ranting went on. I was Syakila.

Even with all that fighting and unpleasantness they were so many great and memorable people who made the whole experience so unforgettable and one I long to repeat so many years later.

Bahut · September 2020

cheyane said:

Bahut said:

cheyane said:

Bertoxxulous Everquest Server. Despite the nasty fights over the top tier mobs among the top guilds, there were some very good people I made friends with. Those friends made the time I spent there very enjoyable and memorable.

Asura for FFXI where I met a host of fellow Final Fantasy lovers and became the best of friends with. There is no such thing as soloing in FFXI so a good reputation and friends were the key.

Emerald Dream EU server WoW. Again it was the friends and the fantastic guild leader that made the game for me.

I too played on Bertoxx. My character was a troll shadowknight named Igjarjuk later changed to Hideo. I created the guild called Omani.

As for the original question;

In Eq I was on bertoxx & switched with a server merge to 7th hammer. Server was almost empty & it sucked so I moved back to bertoxx which prompted my name change.

Daoc I started an Alb on the Merlin server. The albs there absolutely sucked so I tried the Lancelot server on Midgard faction. Everyone I met seemed cool and there was an alliance to defend the frontier. Ended up staying on Lancelot. I played a troll berserker named Igjarjuk & Dwarf Runemaster named Skarwolf.

In SWG I played on Kettemoor. Server choice made no difference to me at the time I played with two friends from EQ. In vanilla I was Skarwolf a rebel bothan creature handler/pistoleer & spent my time grieving imperials.

In WOW I played Horde on the Durotan server. My main was a forsaken rogue named Hellion. I hated the server primarily because the horde didn’t care about defending anything while alliance ran over every horde outpost. Part of the problem was population disparity the alliance made up over 80% of the server.

I ended up paying to switch servers to Hyjal where Horde outnumbered Alliance. It was awesome returning the favor for awhile.

After that servers haven’t mattered much. In Guildwars 2 vanilla you could switch where you wanted for free. So everyone switched to who was winning in WvW. Also played ESO again no servers ?‍♂️

The whole guild left for 7th Hammer too. You recall the guild lead by that childish Wizard Fury I think he was called. We would quarrel over Nagafen and Vox with that other guild, I cannot for the life of me recall that guild's name now (leader was a Necromancer) something like Dark Brotherhood may be.... I was in one of those guilds. My god the fights with each side using ogres to block the dungeon entrance so we could not all get to Nagafen. At least they had a calendar for the planes. VN Vault boards were where the insults and ranting went on. I was Syakila.

Even with all that fighting and unpleasantness they were so many great and memorable people who made the whole experience so unforgettable and one I long to repeat so many years later.

Was it Darkwurm ? He was leader of Unholy Order originally & he asked me to lead that so he and other 50th levels could go join a new 50s only guild called Ascension. They used to quarrel with Arcane Dominion on the forums all the time.

Later Darkwurm and I think Ueuelyan made the guild Clan Tavaren and the entire guild moved. I had a friend in that guild named Draxt he was a human monk.

Fury lead Arcane Dominion who originally competed with Acension, then Prophecy & Pontificate Lusus. I think AD folded not sure though. Pontificate Lusus split up and some moved with a server merge. Prophecy went on the be one of the only remaining uber guilds for awhile.

cheyane · September 2020

OMG I think so thanks for remembering. I was in Arcane Dominion. They wanted to kill Nagafen as server first. Yes AD folded infighting and unbelievable drama.

Darkwurm was the Necromancer right? He was a decent guy who I felt was dragged down by Fury to his level. I was ashamed by the things my guild did. But I often tried to help those poor guilds they trampled on. I'd port folk to Hate and help corpse recovery with that cleric from Ascension her name was Bahia I think.

Darkwurm invited me to Fear runs even though I was from AD. Fury would get angry but may be because I was one of the few real life females in the guild he didn't kick me out.

My memory isn't any good since I am pushing 65. You have a fantastic memory I might add.

Thank you so much for remembering the names. I'm going to write it down.

Bahut · September 2020

cheyane said:

OMG I think so thanks for remembering. I was in Arcane Dominion. They wanted to kill Nagafen as server first. Yes AD folded infighting and unbelievable drama.

Darkwurm was the Necromancer right? He was a decent guy who I felt was dragged down by Fury to his level. I was ashamed by the things my guild did. But I often tried to help those poor guilds they trampled on. I'd port folk to Hate and help corpse recovery with that cleric from Ascension her name was Bahia I think.

Darkwurm invited me to Fear runs even though I was from AD. Fury would get angry but may be because I was one of the few real life females in the guild he didn't kick me out.

My memory isn't any good since I am pushing 65. You have a fantastic memory I might add.

Thank you so much for remembering the names. I'm going to write it down.

Darkwurm from my impression while apparently nice was abit of a hound dog with any female & pretty full of himself. I had a falling out with him primarily after I found out he and most of the 50s in Unholy Order planned on quitting to create Ascension. That guild lasted a few months before folding. He pretty much called me for a meeting and asked me to takeover while they all left lol. I told him to stick it up his arse.

Around that time I was still levelling up. Took so long to level in that game lol. I’ll say this never met a community so tightly knit together in any game.

cheyane · September 2020

Bahut said:

cheyane said:

OMG I think so thanks for remembering. I was in Arcane Dominion. They wanted to kill Nagafen as server first. Yes AD folded infighting and unbelievable drama.

Darkwurm was the Necromancer right? He was a decent guy who I felt was dragged down by Fury to his level. I was ashamed by the things my guild did. But I often tried to help those poor guilds they trampled on. I'd port folk to Hate and help corpse recovery with that cleric from Ascension her name was Bahia I think.

Darkwurm invited me to Fear runs even though I was from AD. Fury would get angry but may be because I was one of the few real life females in the guild he didn't kick me out.

My memory isn't any good since I am pushing 65. You have a fantastic memory I might add.

Thank you so much for remembering the names. I'm going to write it down.

Darkwurm from my impression while apparently nice was abit of a hound dog with any female & pretty full of himself. I had a falling out with him primarily after I found out he and most of the 50s in Unholy Order planned on quitting to create Ascension. That guild lasted a fee months before folding.

Around that time I was still levelling up. Took so long to level in that game lol. I’ll say this never met a community so tightly knit together in any game.

That he was in fact my invitation probably came because he found out I was a real woman playing the game. Pretty old one at that considering a lot of the players were in their teens including Fury, my god he was so childish. Darkwurm was very nice to me though and allowed me to roll on the Wizard drops in Fear even though I was from Fury's guild although I never won anything.

They left the server Darkwurm and his guild and I used to regularly play with Tsintse (Shadowknight) who was from Darkwurm's guild.

Aside from Fury there were many good people in the guild like Marakeen the Magician and Vampiro the Paladin. Vampiro was an extremely nice guy. I kept in touch with Vampiro and Tsintse many, many years till now in fact although they both no longer play MMORPGs.

You're right about how tight knit the community was in that server and Everquest. I believe it was because how hard everything was without good people to play with.

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