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Noobstown General / Re: What is YOUR noobstown story?
« on: 20 Aug 2012, 06:23:42 »
Well I've been here since V2, and it's been a different adventure for each version that I've been here for. Noobstown was my second server and final server, and I don't intend to switch to another.
V2:
My home was a cave home. I simply walked until I found a lake (this was back before there were deep ones) and dug straight under it, closing it off behind me. I kept digging until I found a natural cave, and then I carved a room out of it. Maybe a month or so later, that cave turned into a huge complex with no less than 10 people living in it. During this time I had worked hard to get to the top of the McMMO leaderboards (which was really easily done at the time. I was the leader at level 400 something).
It all ended when mastery910 lined the place with TNT and lit it up. The grief was beyond repair, despite Angel_Lord and Waterworth's efforts, so I moved to another cave. It wasn't long after that that the server began its transition to V3.
V3
Right before the transition, I had befriended ozzmancometh. We began construction of an underground (and underwater) town, which became the first iteration of Empire. It didn't really get too much attention but I didn't mind, I just enjoyed mining. In the town is where I met JunniCarpenter, who would help make my town look pretty free of charge. I also managed to get to the top of the leaderboards again, but I was undone at the last minute by Uncom77 before the version ended.
While ozz, Junni and I were building Empire, seshyo (another friend) was building a massive cathedral, which is still the largest player built structure I've seen on noobstown. It was a bummer when it was all undone for V4.
V4:
Ozz had left by now, and me and Junni had become good friends. Both her and seshyo were made moderators sometime during this version. Instead of building under a lake as I had done in both V2, V3, and the temps between, I decided to keep my house above ground. It wasn't long before I went back down underground and made another cave home. This time though instead of making just a house, I made an underground terrarium with a house inside. Eventually me and Junni were able to afford a town (Empire V2), so we just bought the land around my house for ourselves without adding anyone else to the town besides my brother, Samoht42Swift, and my girlfriend, dandyhandy. I used the town to protect all my neat redstone machines and Junni used it as a base for her wool business, which turned out to be very lucrative. This continued until the end of the version, and by the end Junni resigned as a mod and seshyo was de-opped due to an account breach. By the end, I was on the top of the McMMO leaderboards again.
V5:
After a somewhat long temp-server period, V5 happened. A few days before it went live, I donated and got the Veteran rank. Once we were all let loose to ravage the land, I searched for the largest ocean biome I could find and dug straight down as I had done in V2. This time though I hit a ravine, and I carved my home out of that. Soon after I started carving Junni joined me and added a bit of her flair to the cave. Jackmcclare had made his home somewhat near me on the surface and became my neighbor, and AQW had also moved into the ravine. We eventually scrounged up enough money to make a town and made the current Empire far away from the ravine. After a fair amount of sprawling and growth, it became the largest town on the server, over 100 residents at the time. The admins apparently enjoyed the politics of my town, since they decided to ask me to be a moderator. I gave my town to dandy once I was opped, since Junni was unable to play as often as she used to due to irl events.
Some may remember, but I built a large shop that bought and sold nearly all raw material items and it gained a ton of popularity. However, it was a very large financial drain. Until the shop died, I had lost about 600k with almost nothing to show for it. It died when my town was lost due to an iconomy bug, since when a town dies it loses all of its wall hanging things (like signs for chestshops). The town came back, but is very stagnant with no growth in the near future.
My McMMO reign was brought to an end thanks to TwistedLover, who has surpassed me in almost every category. I had a solid lead, but apathy combined with being busy due to moderating put me under.
TL;DR I like to live in caves.
V2:
My home was a cave home. I simply walked until I found a lake (this was back before there were deep ones) and dug straight under it, closing it off behind me. I kept digging until I found a natural cave, and then I carved a room out of it. Maybe a month or so later, that cave turned into a huge complex with no less than 10 people living in it. During this time I had worked hard to get to the top of the McMMO leaderboards (which was really easily done at the time. I was the leader at level 400 something).
It all ended when mastery910 lined the place with TNT and lit it up. The grief was beyond repair, despite Angel_Lord and Waterworth's efforts, so I moved to another cave. It wasn't long after that that the server began its transition to V3.
V3
Right before the transition, I had befriended ozzmancometh. We began construction of an underground (and underwater) town, which became the first iteration of Empire. It didn't really get too much attention but I didn't mind, I just enjoyed mining. In the town is where I met JunniCarpenter, who would help make my town look pretty free of charge. I also managed to get to the top of the leaderboards again, but I was undone at the last minute by Uncom77 before the version ended.
While ozz, Junni and I were building Empire, seshyo (another friend) was building a massive cathedral, which is still the largest player built structure I've seen on noobstown. It was a bummer when it was all undone for V4.
V4:
Ozz had left by now, and me and Junni had become good friends. Both her and seshyo were made moderators sometime during this version. Instead of building under a lake as I had done in both V2, V3, and the temps between, I decided to keep my house above ground. It wasn't long before I went back down underground and made another cave home. This time though instead of making just a house, I made an underground terrarium with a house inside. Eventually me and Junni were able to afford a town (Empire V2), so we just bought the land around my house for ourselves without adding anyone else to the town besides my brother, Samoht42Swift, and my girlfriend, dandyhandy. I used the town to protect all my neat redstone machines and Junni used it as a base for her wool business, which turned out to be very lucrative. This continued until the end of the version, and by the end Junni resigned as a mod and seshyo was de-opped due to an account breach. By the end, I was on the top of the McMMO leaderboards again.
V5:
After a somewhat long temp-server period, V5 happened. A few days before it went live, I donated and got the Veteran rank. Once we were all let loose to ravage the land, I searched for the largest ocean biome I could find and dug straight down as I had done in V2. This time though I hit a ravine, and I carved my home out of that. Soon after I started carving Junni joined me and added a bit of her flair to the cave. Jackmcclare had made his home somewhat near me on the surface and became my neighbor, and AQW had also moved into the ravine. We eventually scrounged up enough money to make a town and made the current Empire far away from the ravine. After a fair amount of sprawling and growth, it became the largest town on the server, over 100 residents at the time. The admins apparently enjoyed the politics of my town, since they decided to ask me to be a moderator. I gave my town to dandy once I was opped, since Junni was unable to play as often as she used to due to irl events.
Some may remember, but I built a large shop that bought and sold nearly all raw material items and it gained a ton of popularity. However, it was a very large financial drain. Until the shop died, I had lost about 600k with almost nothing to show for it. It died when my town was lost due to an iconomy bug, since when a town dies it loses all of its wall hanging things (like signs for chestshops). The town came back, but is very stagnant with no growth in the near future.
My McMMO reign was brought to an end thanks to TwistedLover, who has surpassed me in almost every category. I had a solid lead, but apathy combined with being busy due to moderating put me under.
TL;DR I like to live in caves.
