On Building Worlds, MMOs, and Darkfall
October 25, 2010 
Laenih 
Massively.com recently posted a new ‘Anti-Aliased’ article by Seraphina Brennan on building worlds. The focus of the article isn’t so much about interaction with the world, but more about having the opportunity to experience your own story every day, clear of developer induced limitations.
Darkfall is designed to avoid most developer imposed limitations and definitely offers a diverse experience to every single player. Your day will be completely unique compared to other players around the world. As collective experiences go, veteran players are still talking about the days of the Hyperion Empire and the first world war on the European Server. There are thousands of different stories about just that one time period and more created every single day on Agon. Some very epic and some..scarily funny. Rich experiences like these can be very powerful and leave lasting impressions and might even leave you with telling your own story to others.
What is your most memorable unique Darkfall experience?
PvE, PvP 
Tags: Darkfall, Dragon, Hero, Kraken, MMO, MMORPG, Mounted Combat, Mounts, Open World, PvP, Ship Combat, Sieging, Unique Experience 
So many good stories, it’s hard to pick the best, yesterday I was talking to a new player about how Hyperion led to WWI and how we stand against them on Yssam the first months… the first and second World War were absolutely epics, when the pop was at its peak, and melee was dominant in combat. But my best moment on DFO has to be when we lost Aradoth to the Mercs, first encounter vs Magic, that was an epic day, even if my side lost ; or maybe that half and hour long fight 1v3 with banded, r10 bow and mana missile, against Order of the Blade, that I won in the early days, when everyone was a noob! Anyway, each time you fight in Darkfall, you will feel that adrenaline cause even the most noob looking char you find can turn into a raging firestorm and whipe your ass!
This game is great for that, even if you choose to do the exact same stuff, you day will be totally different than the previous, adventure is everywhere, you just have to draw your story.
LOL @the ate by kraken raft
You know, good question.
I think my best time with Darkfall was going through villages with my guild and pillaging them. I got some great skill ups in addition to stealing from various other players who were caught crafting and unaware of our presence.
By the end of it, we had a whole squad of people from different guild following us, eager to get their revenge. We stood our ground on a small island off the northern coast of Agon, and it was a great battle! I died pretty fast, as I’m quite unskilled at twitch games, but I still had a fun time.
~Sera
I have had tons of epic moments in Darkfall of wich I cant recall. I do remenber one that took place a few days ago after the expansion:
It was day one or two post Hellfreeze expansion, my clan Nomads had came back into game to try it out and we decided to hit the middle dungeon, we did not knew however how “hot” inside the dungeon was.
We were an eight man strong party rushing up the chains leading to the Demon Fortress in the Pall, battling our way up to the entrance, healing each others and enduring the constant magic barrage of the monsters. We healed and buffed each other and used the portal into the dungeon.
When we arrived in there we scouted the area for less than a minute, then as we were taking the main corridor into the dungeons depths I took a glance back at the dungeon entrance behind us it almost left me speechless in ventrilo. Around twenty Sun menbers were entering the dungeon.
I yelled and we all started sprinting down the hallways, they were filled with monsters and many times we had to kill them to be able to pass through the hallways, we kept thinking Sun would catch up on us.
It was so chaotic that two of us got split from the main group, Damas and me.
Both of us managed to stay away from Sun’s path as they unconsciously advanced on our main group.
I heard silence on ventrilo as our guys were hiding in a room and then laughter when they were spotted because of our Dwarf guildmate Beast, aparently he was too fat and his ass was sticking out of his hiding corner, making him slightly noticeable.
The survivors, me and Damas, managed to bindstone recall, from a safe hiding spot, a ceiling edge on my case and Damas from behind a large pilar just below me.
The rush of charging down those corridors was pretty awesome, facing monsters like the shadow spirits wich we had never seen before and even killing two other randoms who were running from us.
The lack of restrictions in Darkfall is one of the best things around. My friends and I used to play mock skirmishes in some of the empty castles, or have races to get to a treasure chest at the top of a tower, and now we have use flags to play around with too.
One of my fondest memories was when I was ambushed by 6 alfar outside of a mercian stronghold. At first I didn’t realize what they were (this was before names were color coded) but then one started carving me up. So, I started sprinting. The alfar began to chase and fire off spells behind me, hitting me in the back and flying over my head. I thought for sure I’d die, but then I remembered something I had seen before. A floating platform!
I ran up the hill and the platform docked right infront of me. I did a big leap as it took off (much like the Buckleberry Ferry scene from Lord of the Rings) and made it on. One alfar made it on with me and we soared to a floating island in the sky while dueling. I managed to knock him off the platform and land safely on the island. Then, I took the cowards way out and logged off before they could follow me up.
I think my best memory is a more recent one, when AV crashed the server and I became the private owner of a city for 11 days.
WWI was not a fun day, people forgot how most of the sieges where slide shows and zerg fests and how over 3,000 people rage quit from Darkfall shortly after.
The final day before transfers was much better when all the NA players joined forces and had a party that lasted over two days.
Epic ship battles and war hulks all over Sanguine with people out healing the much weaker guard towers
I’d have to put it down as my first siege being the most memorable for me, it was by no means the largest but it was in the early days of NA-1 when having 50GM was considered an accomplishment. My clan then (Blackrock Clan) had decided we wanted the Orkish City of Andruk then owned by Brotherhood of the Spider. I spent about a week organizing our troops, getting gear sets and mounts made for everyone, and even sneaking into the city proper to scout it out. We made under the table deals with Sinister and our own small clan alliance, and D-Day arrived and everything went wrong. We rode in and I dropped the shard, and then trekked half the world away to our hamlet of Anjir down between Mercia and Cairn on a small island. Our raft landed and the war party left and descended into the cave, I despawned the raft and as I was headed down into the cave overencumbered a large heavily armored Ork rose from beneath the waters and proceeded to kill me, steal the raft and made a quick get away before hordes of my angry clan members came pouring out of the cave.
Thank goodness we bet a hamlet and not a shard carrier.
Then the attack began, despite my week of scouting our clan approached the city from the WRONG side and I ended up jumping in prematurely to a keep full of angry defenders. We still managed to get most of us in and drove all the opposition to the top two floors of the Orkish Keep, we were doing well but unfortunately during a last desperate push by Brotherhood of the Spider they drove us back down out of the Keep and with us all still being rather green we split in every direction, a poor decision.
We were hunted and slaughtered, a few of us managed to regroup and give a half-hearted second push but it was not meant to be.
Just one of my memories from a long forgotten siege.