The Historic MP March - Pictures

[Faustuss]

Remember the MP event Black Sunday where we marched across Rubi-ka in protest? I have been meaning to show these here for a long time. The event and all the planning that went into it are amongst my favorite memories of old Rubi-ka. The date this happened (June 8 2003) eludes me at the moment, it was early on in the game's development, long before Shadowlands. In protest to the many things that were wrong with our class at the time we marched across the map. This isn't all the pictures, just a few select ones. I apologize if there is an easier way to put pic's up, I'm afraid I haven't used this forum in a few years.

TheDeacon

CZ

Staging area

In a desert

On a road

On a bridge

On the march

[Essessceeaych]

Was june 8th 2003


EDIT: and it was called Black Sunday btw

[Villagebike]

Remember the MP event Black Sunday where we marched across Rubi-ka in protest? I have been meaning to show these here for a long time.

That ain't no ****.

[Mazzarin]

Awesome pics Funny to see some of those MPs made it to 220 hehe

[Chrys]

amg froobs!

Nice to see Metaing in those pics xD

[Lupusceleri]

Staging area

Haha wow. Lower left corner, three of the founding members of my org Athen Paladins before it even existed. Chrisax the President, and Generals Weric and Lmnox. Looks like Chris hadn't even joined West Athen Rangers yet.. Ancient times!

[Chrisax]

One of the greatest events in my MP life. (I assume Metaing, MP professional at that time, remembers that very well too! )

So this was the Black Sunday March on June 8, 2003. The first and only mass public protest ever organized in AO (and maybe in any MMORPG???), to protest against the situation of the MP profession at that time: broken toolset, lack of good items and nanos, demons being too weak and making no sense for most of them compared to the Transcendent Enmity, ability to buff nanoskills nullified for the MPs themselves due to the requirement on MP nanos, pets nerfed in PvP more than one year before along with Curse of Chronos,... Read the posts by TheDeacon at that time.

This march took place on BOTH Rimor and Atlantean at the same time. We wanted to go from Hope (a symbol for what we expected) to Broken Shores (a symbol for the condition of our broken profession) or the opposite but finally we headed from Hope to ICC due to lower characters not being able to follow.

Cz (the forum person and community manager for FC at that time) logged on and said that was a long march indeed and that we please had to cancel all those pets in ICC because they were killing the server.

Haha wow. Lower left corner, three of the founding members of my org Athen Paladins before it even existed. Chrisax the President, and Generals Weric and Lmnox. Looks like Chris hadn't even joined West Athen Rangers yet.. Ancient times!

Actually, at that time I had no org name above me because I left the West Athen Rangers two days before this public protest. The organization and the announcement of the Black Sunday was indirectly the reason why I had to leave W.A.R. because my attitude was not approved.

Athen Paladins was founded 2 days after the Black Sunday and is, somehow, born of the MP movement! : The rest is history.



Edit: a little note to remind you all of another event we made to stress the weaknesses of MPs: the MP-only Lord of the Void raid, or "how many MPs are needed to kill a Lord of the Void compared to other professions"
http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...1&postcount=53 (note on MP heal pets, still valid at the moment)
http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...d.php?t=422569 (full thread)

[Cdogg421]

actually there was another MP gathering and protest, not as big, but there were still like 30+ MPs there. think this was in 2006, screenies of it were on my old machine.

[Mazzarin]

Hehe, yeah, I was with the 2nd protest, here are some screens of that:
Jobe
RBB
ICC

Also, that MP-only LotV raid was awesome. I found some screenshots of that as well:
One
Two
Seven

[Towerblock]

NICE! The mp only lotv raid looks really kick***! I can't imagine what LOTV must've been thinking when he was surrounded by demons and green monkeys, beating on him like he was the slow deer that deviated from the herd.

[shadowgod]

One of the greatest events in my MP life. (I assume Metaing, MP professional at that time, remembers that very well too! )

i dont recall metaing being professional way back then. Xtrem was still one of the profs back then best i can recall. trilic maybe the other.


i dont have as many sshots as i woulda liked for the rk2 black sunday, since i was the one leading the march.

hell.. i was the one who actually mapped the route both servers walked
The Route on planetmap

the whole event took about 4-5 hours. and at least for me, there really wasnt much lag either, despite the huge train of MPs with pets. heh.. also need not forget, back then mez pets were very much lethal to the owner and team if they were used.

[Chrisax]

i dont recall metaing being professional way back then. Xtrem was still one of the profs back then best i can recall. trilic maybe the other.

I think you're right. Metaing was there at the march but became a professional later. My bad.


Mazzarin: great pictures of our MP-only LoTV test raid. I guess my legs are visible on the first picture but I was the bait... uh puller for this raid, so I spent some time at the respawn tree.

Edit: fun fun, I didn't recall it was apraids (AP raid bot) we used. Thanks for posting that; I'll save the pictures. I wonder where own my archives are...

[Metaing]

(I assume Metaing, MP professional at that time, remembers that very well too! )

Oh yea, was a great great day as a MP, 5½ hour walk from Hope to ICC.

Including something like 40 Cacodemons trying to kill a MMD guard (took like 20 min)

Hypos had a great picture of me except i cant find it

(Became MP prof 8 months later)

[Mountaingoat]

you forgot on a boat

[zartosht]

Staging area

47 points of fall damage in the picture. Very roots

[Mazzarin]

I guess my legs are visible on the first picture but I was the bait... uh puller for this raid, so I spent some time at the respawn tree.

I take it you've been wearing the same helmet for over 4 years, as can be seen in:

Staging area

Then I've got more sceenshots with you wearing that helmet and a Maw of the Abyss:
Eight
Nein

[Lupusceleri]

I take it you've been wearing the same helmet for over 4 years, as can be seen in:


Then I've got more sceenshots with you wearing that helmet and a Maw of the Abyss:
Eight
Nein

LOL yeah.. when Chrisax finally changed out his old gear for all the new stuff he'd farmed over the years, DoctorHyde offered a large sum of money for that specific So8 Helmet.. so he could delete it.

[Faustuss]

Here's some more. So how have things in the MP community been in the last 4 years? I played from that absolutely stunning :P game launch up until about late 2005/early 2006. Faustuss I am sorry to say has been sitting on the top of his favorite tower in Tir collecting reet poop ever since then. (curse those winged rats!) I regret that he isn't in LSOR with the rest of the guild, as I understand they swapped land after I stopped playing and it involved actually trading guilds to preserve city buildings which meant he didn't get put back in the guild. I don't know if I will try to play again right away, there is a lot of catching up to do, and apparently a graphics improvement if rumors are true. So how have you all been?


Another staging area shot

One more staging area shot

From right after the start of the walk

A good idea of how many of us there were

In the thick of it

Meetmedere

Outside Reets Retreat

Another group shot

Party at ICC

Party 2

A bunch of folks at the end

[Xtremtech]

Aye good times.

I was indeed MP Prof at that time I think - along with PsiRaven if memory serves... won't swear to that though.

There were also a lot of FC bods hanging around the event in invisible mode that day. It was really a big thing in AO.

X

[Dancingrage]

A lot of faces have come and gone in the last 4 years...a lot of that has to do with the Froob program and how many have decided to stick around and upgrade. Every so often one of the old timers pops in to say hello though.