Have so many great memories of this game, after all I'm still playing after over 11 years.
I remember attacking that damn level 120ish elite (Ethereal Guardian or something) in the realm via Mountain Path and getting deleveled back to 1 - a classic.
I remember when legendary events were a huge deal. I remember when the Ghostly creature (level 55 LE) was released into the realms and the realm was flooded with players. I remember racing to get kills every ten minutes on xx:x7 because that was when new ones would spawn. I remember selling my 1 or 2 drops for a few fsp and being delighted with myself.
I remember someone buying blood bloom plants for 60k from me when they were first released. I just so happened to be level 30ish at the time and hunted in the realm where the relevant creature spawned.
I remember winning my first arena. Feralnoob who was a top arena player at the time showed me some tips and I became addicted. I remember when arena rewards were valuable (hint hint), racing other players to join the 16-player tourneys for prizes like Boar Tusks, Fire Stone of Bothild and Xind Essence. Those tourneys would fill up in 1-2 minutes. Arenas would refresh every 15 minutes with dozens taking place every hour. It was also a nice way to earn fsps considering it took me a long time to significantly upgrade my character.
I remember when GvG was reworked and it was crazy popular because there were a new string of epics for people to invent. I joined a small guild and we GvGed for a while, earned a nice amount of RP and then the founder bought the RP items, left and we got nothing LOL
I remember when titan hunting first came out, I remember securing our first titan in Legends of Amber. We had multiple hunters and we were one of the top titan hunting guilds for a short time. I remember it taking actual skill (and a fast connection lol) to be good at titan hunting. No teleport, no titan doubler, no flood of epics. I also remember when RP was awarded to the top 5 guilds instead of TKP!
But most of all I do remember the people and the thousands of great players who have come and gone over the past decade. I still search some people's player names in hope to see some of them being active recently. I really do hope that this game will somehow pick up a bit more once this app is done. I feel like it's becoming more and more neglected, which is sad. Not sure if there is a point to this thread or if HCS were just feeling sentimental but it felt nice writing this post. Thanks HCS for giving us a great game!