Gone never to return

[Theros Ironfeld]

Whelp with no pms recieved for over a week and the talk dried up its time to kick this forum to the curb.
Dont bother messaging me that has been turned off.
Here we are 7th Jan 07 and no news of successful copy overs so i guess it wont happen, ever.
All my accounts now read username not found so I join quite afew others in that boat that goes up the horizons creek.
With that being said adios all and replies to this thread probably wont be worthwhile cause me thinks the blight section of the forum will go the way of the dodo in the not to distant future anyway ... after all its a reminder of better days with a fine group of people that i called blight home.
With this the final word written by me here
the final page turned
and the book placed on the shelf for the last time.

[snickel]

I'm sorry that this game left you with bitterness.

I just hope that you do not insist keeping your word if indeed a transfer should happen.

That much said I wish you luck and fun with all your future plans.

[Dragor]

Sorry to see you leaving Theros, I don't blame you, and wish you luck on your future game experience, and everything in general, things would not have been the same without you and your family playing.
Unfortunately, your reasons for leaving are a major disappointment.
Not saying a single word about it by now is starting to fall under poor business etiquette. Even if the answer is simply "No.", it is better then not saying anything. I really hope we get some word on the subject soon.

[MarshDog]

Yes Theros I also hate to see you leaving along with others from blight that are dropping like fly's, I have sent maby 10 Pm's and 4-5 emails asking for an update on what is going on and why there has been no help from the powers-2-be to help get us settled on Chaos or Order while we wait to be copied, I have not received a bounce on emails so not sure what is happening

[Cromos_Swordbreaker]

I have sent maby 10 Pm's and 4-5 emails asking for an update on what is going on

I hate the silence the company gives us. There is no excuse for them to be THIS silent.

However, PME/EII said that theres no character transfer service from blight to live servers and they said that they have to manually Edit (whatever else they have to do) so it may take awhile.


PS. marsh I sent you some PM's

[MarshDog]

Got your Pm's Cro, yes there is, char copies that can be done and its not that hard from what I have been told, I have tried to persuade those that know how to do this, but for unvoiced or unrepeatable reasons they wont, even offering to compensate them to do it for us Blighters shed no light on doing it. I just hope something comes to pass by the end of the month,. I love all my alts and I really don't have another 4-6 thousand hours to invest in making all new ones.

[Dragor]

... However, PME/EII said that theres no character transfer service from blight to live servers and they said that they have to manually Edit (whatever else they have to do) so it may take awhile ...

This, is entirely untrue, the old developers worked very hard on a character transfer system that is entirely automated, it can transfer from Live to Blight, and vice versa if they wanted to (or knew) how to use it.

[Cromos_Swordbreaker]

ah, ok. I misunderstood somehow.

[Deth]

Cromos you did not misunderstood EII/PME does not know how to do it so as far as they are concerned there is no way to do it.

[MarshDog]

Deth, I agree with you, but if "they" read the forums?. "They" might just grab a gleaming idea that there is a script to run that exports player info automatically to move to any other server. I would think there is a difference of having no idea of how to do something and having hints that it can be done visa vie an unknown script. I'm a computer programmer by trade, although my experience is in the HP Unix, area and programming nuclear missiles on subs, its not all that difficult to snoop around and see what the scripts do. I would much rather decompile scripts then monk around with core stuff.
IMHO

[velveeta]

but here is a bit i wrote for my own mental health. hope it clears the air on where i stand on this whole thing.....


MEMOIRS OF A CHEESE QUEEN

Like all good stories, this one starts long before the events it is about. My road to Blight began when a friend I played online posting D&D with told me about a MMORPG. I had no idea what that was, and listened with increasing wonder as he told me about the game he was currently addicted to. Like D&D, you got to create a character and a ship, and you cruised thru the galaxy taking quests, making money, and advancing in levels – AND you got to talk and interact with peeps all over the world while doing it!! The way he described it was like a huge gaming convention.
I signed up for the free 14-day trial and was hooked by the 3rd day. I bought a 6-month subscription and played blissfully for about a month.
Then the news hit – the company that owned my game was shutting it down to bring a more popular PC game to the net. We had six more months to enjoy before it was gone forever (sensing a pattern in my gaming life yet?). With deep grief, I spent the last 6 months of the game doing everything I could in the game, until there was no place available to me that I hadn't explored, no job that I hadn't done, no quest left to take. When the end came, I was deeply sad, but satisfied I had spent the time both well and enjoyably.
I tried some other MMOs, but none of them had the 'wow' factor that ENB had. I thought I had just managed to find the one game that fit me and was settling into a life of bittersweet memory.
Then I started a new job. I met a guy who told me about a game he played, called Horizons. No spaceships, but you can play a dragon, or a lizardman, or a feline! The thought of playing a catwoman piqued my interest and I decided to take a look.
I created Velveeta the saris and stepped out into the world of Istaria. Figuring out how to function are the wages of learning any new game and Horizons was no different, but eventually I learned enough to leave the training island and set paws on the island that I came to despise – New Trismus. Just thinking of it makes me shudder!
But I never felt alone on Blight. I was greeted almost as soon as I popped up on NT, and the camaraderie was immediate and heartfelt.
I was lucky enough to meet god very early. Istaria was still owned by Tulga then, and Blight had its very own deity, who watched over us and kept the world in top shape. Of course, as an almost complete noob, I didn't know that a yellow color text and WM meant that you were in the presence of divine greatness. All I saw as some human male break dancing on the top of the PB/Connie tent in NT. I watched the amusing sight for several minutes before innocently asking who the funny man was.
That funny man was an accessible god, always ready to listen to Blighties and more importantly – take us seriously. Illy never blew us off or made promises he knew he couldn't keep. He worked with us, not against us.
Time passed, and I got to know all the good folks. Ruf, Kirs, Sil, and a bunch of others took me out to the leech motel for server meets, and eventually I didn't even die getting there! Onyx babysat me while I mined cobalt in Kirasanth. Sharp and Sil and Broc and Mora (I never bothered to learn who went with what alt – I just treated them all as individuals! I must have been the only player on Blight with only one alt!) welcomed me into Kraken Guard with open arms and generous hands. There was no one too busy or snotty to help out a noob with answers and/or equipment.
I remember my first RoP. Sharp was making the big step to adulthood and invited this poor little biped to witness. I might have declined the invite if I had known I would need to run thru troops of undead with bows! But my mighty draggy escorts saw me thru relatively safely (well, alive, anyway!) and I got to watch a hatchling change in a bright sphere of light into a big lusty flying machine. In the last days of Blight, I got to experience flight when I was allowed to login to Sharp and take him for one last flight.
I remember my first trip to the Eastern Deadlands. Again, thanx to my entourage of bodyguards, I only died 4 times! Although I never quite memorized the way for myself and always needed a guide, I did eventually get good enough to make the safe area without dying – although I did bring some necroflies with me to the leech motel once of twice!!
I remember the first time Horizons was sold. Illy camped out all night at Brist, in what became known (to me at least) as the holy place. No one felt much like doing anything but hanging out in Brist and spending as much time with Illy as possible. God gave away his stuff, and I was entrusted with his shoulder parrot, promptly renamed Illy, Jr. I promised god I would never remove it, and I never did. I carried my avatar of god proudly and (hopefully) I served as a reminder of the time when we had a voice and an authority in our corner. It was all too brief.
I remember working on my plot. I found a lovely spot (with lots of help, as always) in Clear Port, just over the bridge. Right on the water, with a clear 360 view. The area was almost virgin and I had no neighbors. I designed a Sslik and a Saris house (although I never played him, my brother had his Sslik character, Snake Eyes, on my account) with a fountain and garden of swampy trees. I had tents and silos for storage, a library for my forms, and eventually tore down my connie to put in a Saris hut (cause the hut is prettier!). Snake and I split the construction tasks. He got fitter and mason, I took the wood and fabric. We still would be working on it, if not for the generous help of all the Blighties. Someone was always on who was willing to put in a little work on the thing. I came back after not logging in for a weekend and was told by 15 peeps, before I had even popped up, that my plot was done. I couldn't believe how beautiful it was when complete. Without my Blighties, it would not have been as wonderful as it was.
I remember peeps that would drop what they were doing to make things for me. I don't just mean if they were, say, mining mith, they would make tools. Everyone did that. I mean like Elek halting his hunting to make me an axe. Theros or Colin stopping whatever they are crafting to make me amour. Ryin stopping construction on her plot to make me two sets of cargo gear. This was the essence of Blight. And this wasn't just done for me, but for each other and for noobs who proved themselves worthy.
I appointed myself 'god's Rottie of Blight', speaking of worthy noobs. Many times, especially if the other shards were down for maintenance or some new development was announced in testing on Blight, players from the live shards would come over, with obviously no intentions of staying, to play in Blight while the other shard was down. For the most part, those players were great, and several became devoted Blighties. But there were a couple that thought they could 'improve' Blight by making it more like their home shard. Most Blighties ignored them, but I confess I received great happiness at being argumentive and rude. There is a reason there was no marketplace chat on Blight – we weren't in it for the cash. So, peeps who came to Blight and started telling us we needed to charge more and form 'cartels' or some such – I made sure that they knew I, at least, would not tolerate it.
Well, all good things come to an end, again. At least ENB closed with some grace. How Blight ended was a disgrace. 4 days notice over a holiday weekend….it was sheer luck that I logged in time to get the news so I could scramble and get things done. But I know 85% of the solid Blighties never got the chance to find out until it was way too late. To me, that moves right out of bad customer service zone and firmly into the cold, heartless profit machine zone.
Since I knew from the start that our alts would never be transferred, I created a draggy on Chaos, MourningWood. But the 'wow' factor is gone; it's just not Horizons to me anymore. I play him when I get the itch, but haven't had to scratch for more than a week.
I am watching and waiting on a new game some fellow Blighties are in beta testing with. They say it is fun. But it takes a certain indefinable something for me to get really into a game, and whatever that is, only ENB and Blight had it for me. I will give any new game that comes along a try, just in case - but lightning struck me twice, not sure if it will again, or if I will even want it to. Seems just as I start getting into a game, it ends forever. I am getting too old for that much time, money, and emotional investment to give it to a company that won’t be around next year.

[Poppi]

Vel thank you. It's the post I couldn't write...

Blighters were, and still are, the best and kindest most caring people I've met in an online community, and I've been in a few.

My advice: you have the opportunity to follow some of our friends to a new game, go with them and enjoy it. If that game fails I know the bond you share will be enough to find another together , games come and go, but to hold and cherish the closeness and friendship we Blighters once shared is far more precious and should be nurtured and continued however possible. If they didn't have different servers for different parts of the world I'd be there with you all too, who knows it might yet happen...

Take care

[Theros Ironfeld]

Hello Blight
I am saddened by the closure of Blight as this means I will cease to be.
I will not seek a transfer nor will I return the the World of Istaria as my realm of choice is denied me.
I am writing this via Theros as I have never posted in this media before as such I have no registration available other than friend Dwarf.
Ill health caused my intial leaving now the loss of our realm makes a return unlikely.
I am forever honoured to have roamed our world with many fine people and been a part of a wonderful dedicated group of fellow Blighters.
Theros informs me I have joined the Conclave at the Shrine of the Fallen at Pangai , a fitting resting place alongside Theros , Zarbubus , Alhannah , Dryad Fyrefly , Growl , Huillam , Priestess Tiggles and the Lady Silmarwen , my brother SoulTaker and Feline Siluket.
Theros has sent me a screen of the final resting place shot from Kirsanth's and BloodOaths Tomb the sight of which reminds me of our small Town of Pangai
Honours to Sir Flsssssh , Fel , Farb , Ruf/Elek plus alts , Broc/Moradine , Dragor/Seg , Icing, Magus, Mighty in his various forms , Velveeta and her brother Snake and last but by no means least our Lord of Blight Illyist Oddstar/Aru the Dragon, all of whom I will never again storm into battle with nor build our empire.
If I have missed anyone I mean no offence and beg your forgiveness as this missive is bringing me to tears.
Farewell my Friends, Farewell Blight.
Alundra Ravensburg , Conclave of Shadows.

A heartfelt farewell to you too Al ( Hoists a foaming mug )

[Dragor]

Farewell Alundra! You and your friends will be sorely missed!
Although it would appear we are all going this direction, not out of choice anymore. I hope you find well futures, and it is great to hear from you once more.

[Poppi]

I've gone too!

Good luck my friends

[Royal]

farwell dear and fellow Istarians!
I may hope to welcome you in the world of Vanguard!

We're meeting here on this forum:
http://dala.6.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=1

happy gamin'

[LOVWYRM]

ohh how I hate this (and similar) thread(s)
it`s like an open wound, that never stopps bleeding...

[Guaran]

:'( to the whole mess Istaria has become.

[velveeta]

my computer died on me this weekend and i am not missing horizons at all. i am not sure if i will bother to download the horizons software on the new one....
i am sad that i do not feel sadder about facing life without horizons.....
but it just doesn't feel like home. when i do get on chaos, the peeps are nice and all, but not friendly, like the peeps on blight. and i understand, really, i do. its a big place and not much time for a player that is new to the group dynamics but not the game itself.

so the forums may become the only horizons i have left. and, like a d&d player stuck in second edition, i am having problems relearning things that i already know in a different way. prolly didn't make any sense......

anyway, i think i am done with mmprpgs for a while, at least until vangaurd comes out with a free trial. blight was fun and i will miss it. but i don't like the direction i am seeing horizons heading to, and its one trip i am not interested in making.

altho i may change my mind once i get my kikazz new dell............

[Gorek]

Greetings all

If Horizons was free I would not play, I will never play Hz again as my characters were deleted.

I am playing VCO/Vanguard/ and LOTR beta and having fun.. Opps forgot Simcountry

So as much as I wish all the best to Hz and its community I now have no desire to enter Istaria again.

Wave

Gorek