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Oh the days of nox around 2000 was a beautiful thing.

It's been so long, I unfortunately can't remember what I used to.  I have forgotten most of the names of my old friends including old clan names and such.

I played a lot as a mage back in high school -  a bit of a shit talker but it's all good I was a hoodlum.  I got the game right around when it was released and played for quite a long time, perfecting my mage skills and eventually playing some conjurer and warrior.

Did very well in the official leaderboard rankings.

I remember old clan names like NNN, EMBER, DR..

I remember some old names like Slight, Paulwipe, and SADPlayer (this guy was hilarious - great web designer too I'd love to see how he made out).

I really miss playing this game it was really one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had and it's been almost 10 years.

It was really sad slowly watching Nox die a slow death as servers got progressively worse and the community went haywire as EA sacked the game.
Posted on: January 18, 2011, 03:59:09 PM

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I actually ended up joining Slight in his counterstrike clan years ago but eventually lost touch with the game and him as well.

Slight was in an official westwood tournament and was arguably the best warrior in the beginning of NOX.  Good guy. He was in NNN (the first elite Nox clan).
Posted on: January 18, 2011, 04:02:34 PM

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Oh and I can't forget KiLL.

KiLL was god like with the warrior class.

See it's all coming back!  Well not really.  I really wish the old official leaderboards were saved.

I remember you... tiny ginger, right?

LOL! Well if it isn't Zee himself.

Well I was only about 15 so tiny ginger sounds about right.

I remember that argument about my hair.  It is brown though not red :)

Don't make me bust out a recent pic!   :-o

If you have an archived site with old pics and stuff you should link me.  So pissed I never saved anything.

a couple more names keep poppin in my head.    Psybert was a cool wiz.

Felisandria was one of the original elite mages but didn't stick around for long.  I believe (s)he was NNN.
Posted on: January 18, 2011, 05:12:52 PM

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Magus of course
Posted on: January 18, 2011, 05:32:02 PM

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clan Krazy..

nataS the warrior.
Posted on: January 18, 2011, 05:32:58 PM

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Just found this:


http://www.angelfire.com/games3/sagesofnox/contacts.html (http://www.angelfire.com/games3/sagesofnox/contacts.html)

Tempest was really good too

Hello, I'm a new player, I got Nox around 2005-6 and didn't play online 'till 2009, so I missed the "good times" of Nox.

sucks to be you. You missed eiot.

As silly as it may sound, eiots "legacy" is probably almost referred to as much as the great tempest..

Oh my god tempest isn't worth mentioning stfu.

Err.. excuse me. How about Dr. Jeykll aka "geno".

I have no Freaks saved on this hard-drive.. I believe my old one has them though, but I need some parts to hook it up.

oh and if you want a memory jog: in no particular order
styx
gyzmo
sadplayer
hefe
istvan
dave
fireking (lol)
hadoken
hks
insaniac
off the top of my head
Posted on: January 19, 2011, 07:45:07 PM

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or i could just click your link and not mention half of them instead

The only thing worth mentioning about geno is if he posted pics or went on vent. Which neither has happened.

So he is just some kid who doesn't know when a game is dead and plays 24 /7

Immortal when are you ever on to make such claims? You must be confused.

we having a reminisce of the old days again? the first legendary wizard was Battlemage, first warrior was slight and the first con was Bane. best dial up was cpt froggy remember back then that NetZero was awsome dial up for somereason for nox..

  (http://i56.tinypic.com/2nb624g.jpg)

Are you joking

are you drunk?

I can see why you listed fireking as (lol).

hey guys lets make a nox meeting

hhahahahahaha

Eiot isnt gone. He is the famous mapmaker of owneva, and was on recently.

Forgot about Styx, insaniac, HKS, istvan, and HEFE!!  I couldn't forget SADplayer though he was too memorable.
Posted on: January 27, 2011, 02:49:18 PM

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Yea I believe Slight won a tournament hosted by Westwood.  It was either him or Hadoken who were both NNN which was the original elite clan of nox.

I believe Slight won it as a warrior and Hadoken won it as a wizard.

The tournament was in the very beginning of Nox and they never did anything like it after.
Posted on: January 27, 2011, 02:51:13 PM

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I kept in touch with Slight for a while we had a counterstrike Cal-M clan together.  But then he fell off my radar.
Posted on: January 27, 2011, 02:52:24 PM

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SAGES site is still up - this has a ladder pic from 2001.

I was in Daze.

http://www.angelfire.com/games3/sagesofnox/may2001.html (http://www.angelfire.com/games3/sagesofnox/may2001.html)

Geno did go on vent nubshit

 .

We all know lemmer was the best at everything i mean c'mon

Wands are for pussies.

We all know playing naked meant you were the best.

Slight was a stud. I found it frustrating that he would never taunt me even after taking me to the woodshed... naked.

SAD was great to play with. Trunkx was semi-retarded. The hate lives.

the joys of ambushing people from behind trees naked

I have that giant rant that Sadplayer left on EA/westwood's answering machine demanding Nox 2 or whatever saved somewhere if people want it

Yes, yes i do

im still facebook friends with trunkx3 but there has been no contact for like 3 years

last i remember was sadplayer made a super razy rant to people on a nox forum, maybe postcount, about how incredible he was or the military was or something and then Trunkx went even more insane

It was here, and yeah he seemed off the deep end there right before he left.

I think I remember that rant lol.

oh yeah that was on postcount

Naw, he got in a fight here with blob over the military before he left.

so who won? probably neither

Blob never won an argument in his life

hold on let me bring up the postcount archives i think i can find it

postcount. that was a pretty great forum huh

just a second i am encrypting the archive password and pack sniffing and what not

:O

I can't believe there's still a community for this game!

How long has it been...?

And I'm even more surprised to see there's people who remember me (zee, majk, exime doesn't remember me but I do, so hah) :O

gyzmo what country do you live in

CANADA or deutschland

uh? you already forgot :P? italy
I think I was the only italian player left, at the beginning there used to be a small clan before it merged with DJ's clan and formed !Euro!, heh

We're talking about uh... january/february 2001? That was also when I won the wiz solo ladder in january february (I actually just recalled that january solo ladder was won by the guy whose Westwood nick I can't recall, but he used to go by the name "Apprentice")

It's a long story heh, though I haven't been in many clans. Besides IT/!Euro! being my very first clan, I recall joining Psy's clan for a short while (was it called Daze? can't remember since Psy used to make shitload of clans that wouldn't last that long) then I joined Sages until the clan became inactive then moved to Blur(? the clan that had Lix, Chad and other players I can't remember) before starting my own clan TuLLs, and afer we won the team ladder I decided to retire (though it also happened that westwood killed the servers almost right after that)

Players I remember uh...
of the europeans definetely DJ Chill (german), he was my mentor when I started playing this game, couldn't have won anything if it wasn't for him teaching me a lot useful stuff, Istvan, darkvirus, d-flame, the swedish guys, hase...

of the north-american players, besides Zeezo, majk and exime who've posted here, I recall my Sages clan mates (Styx, Tempest, Untorten, Albabu, Trunkx, Dave, Lix, Chad, zxWarrior, Hefe, nataS, Masta Mage, Sunny, Capfrog, Rob, AznBlade, Memnoch, Gembok, Jester, KiLL, Insaniac and others), I remember the DP and Embers clans, Psy and his attempts to hijack the Sages clan and the board a couple of times (I always thought he was still a cool guy anyway, lol), Puffy's clan, the warrior nation clan that had like... a shitload of members, Fireking (the guy who made a fool of himself in the official boards, he was funny), NNN (hks89, Wynn, Rob, Raziel, Slight and a few others)

And I could probably remember other players as well if you name them :)

[edit] I'm slowly recalling other players ... Tom Green (was in Ember and then I think he followed Psy in his plethora of clans), can't remember if he played wiz or conjurer though. SADPlayer (Trunkx's brother), I think he was in DP.

[edit2] hahaha look what I found, old TuLLs page is still alive http://utenti.multimania.it/prozac69/
besides Temp, Sunny and Sgok the rest of us had created fake identities for the lulz (I was proZac, Istvan as Gaelahad if I ain't wrong, I can't remeber who majk was among these fake IDs lol, either Remorhaz or Zuthromax).

I was only apart of the nox good old days for about a month and abit it was during my school holidays i went to log on for my usual ctf that i had been playing for the entire month  and the servers had been taken down and ea werent going to support it anymore, i came back when burner made a random post somewhere saying nox was up again like a year or so later but nox was dieing. Anyone remember a guy called Leaflet? i Think i was one of the very few aussie players of nox only ever came across 1 other aussie. If i won the lottery i would fund a nox 2 game for sure

Yes BS clans was in WMD "watch me die" that was the greatest , we'll we all had bs clans back then remember scaring sages aways with such noob tactics the bs clans brought to clear them out. was also in a large guild at the end CHUR and we usally out numbered all the clans 3 to 1 wasn't the best idea but we had fun. UH was also a big clan that usally out numbered all the other clans.was great we where able to get a large scale ctf match to work they beat us and won the CTF Cup.


Checking that link reminds me i ripped Sun1burn name off long time ago i go by ____1burn aswell would say but the name is always open on everything i register make sure to keep it that way.

I would have loved to fight majority of those old school players.

you would have sucked and lost.


gyz I only asked where you were from to verify you were actually gyz, but you did plenty of that following the post :D

also I'm disappointed thta you MUST be pretending not to remember 'daZe' considering you and istvan bailed on daZe after months of loyalty during like the last 2 weeks of the last month that Sages existed (it was sagesX at that time too, huh?)

edit: dave too

back then of course, now it would be an easy task, but you're just being arrogant and trolling.

Gig get back on this shit.

Dis zeez be such a drama queen nerd, remembering stupid clan shit.

clan history is the best part about nox
Posted on: March 20, 2011, 01:34:11 AM

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even better then a well deflected slow with a great sword

I recall being in daZe, I can't recall how long I've been in it though... I do remember switching from daZe to Sages when Psy went ballistic and hacked both the website and the board though, still I recall keeping a good relationship with Psy and the others despite the clan switch anyway, I usually never had any arguement with anyone. The only person whom I had arguements on a regular basis was darkVirus because of his cocky attitude, and yet we were still pretty much good friends at the end of the day, hehe.

I know for sure I was in !Euro! from like... december 2000 to atleast march/april 2001, because that's basically how long the clan lasted until most of the members went inactive, Albabu and DJ joined Sages and me and Istvan joined daZe, given that I was already in real good terms with Psy since a couple of months (since he was in Ember basically) and he pretty much invited us as he knew !Euro! was dissolving. But then he kind of lost it in June and well you know what happened with all that mess. I don't regret being in daZe at all, it's just that the clan's reputation got pretty much fucked up the moment Psy snapped. Considering DJ and Alb were already in Sages by then it wasn't a bad idea to basically reform the core of the previous !Euro! clan inside Sages.

Fun fact, Albabu would often stick around with us euros despite the fact he's american (his ping was pretty good in euro servers). In my opinion he also likely had the best wizard of all time. I never had any trouble against other wizards, but Alb's wizzy was like... totally nuts.

And this is one of the cool things I do remember from Nox old days: each wizard had like some sort of trademark playing style. Masta Mage was the first player to introduce that way of circling around the opponent and D-Raying, Temp would often teleport/drain/energy bolt, Tom Green used Confusion A LOT (i recall a lot of people complaining about that), Apprentice loved using Anchor and basically just drain the opponent's mana and defend with reflective shield until he had full certainty he would win the fight, Majk used the Run spell a lot, SADPlayer was all about using the triple fireball staff+ring of fire and traps, Zee would use Slow+Confusion back when he had a not so great connection and was still able to run and d-ray despite the lag, Puffy liked to use Fumble a lot... as for me I learned my style from DJ, it was similar to Masta Mage's way of playing wiz with the exception that I would teleport around, use Inverse and cut straight on the opponent's back with D-Ray+Shock rather than simple run around like Masta used to do. And Alb's wiz style... he was purely reflexes based, he would litterally kill you while you're running (with no Slow or other spells cast) with D-Ray from like the other side of the screen, then teleport and land an other D-Ray as the teleport animation had just ended. I learned a damn lot from just playing against Alb's wiz but I could never emulate him because he was just that unpredictable when trying to figure from what side he would approach and how he would move around you.

Then as time passed most of these styles began to converge into pretty much one/two main styles, depending on whether one would play in a deathmatch/team deathmatch or duel. But generally it was possible to make a distinction between wizzies who preferred mobility/speed in order to teleport and move around in order to death-ray opponents on the run, and wizzies with a more defensive approach that would use anchor+slow/confusion+mana drain in order to litterally make the opponent unable to hurt before proceeding in finishing them off.

Good times, I'm amazed that I am slowly beginning to remember more and more details. Makes me really want to try and make this game work again on my current pc just for the sake of recalling what it used to be like =)

I too like hearing the history.  It makes sense you guys would bail after Psy systematically deleted everyone from the clan.  I stayed up the entire night that night with Psy, talking to him as he did it.


I have never had confuse in my sets, ever, and very rarely swap slow into one of my second sets... ????

Uhm, I do remember you would use a second spell combined with slow though... I thought it was confuse but I guess my memory ain't so infallible. Tom Green did use Confuse though, that I can say with 100% certainty since I clearly remember people ranting about that, haha.

While reminiscing some of the clan history I also recalled an other good euro player that I think was in daZe as well (or atleast he did join one of Psy's clans), Firestorm, from the UK. He used warrior class and was actually the quiet kind of guy, not too talkative either, but still pretty damn solid.

Oh and @nolimit12: I do remember CHUR! I can't remember all of the players who were part of that clan but I do remember it being a clan with cool and nice people. !Chur!Happy was the clan leader, right?

Oh and I just remembered an other cool guy, Paulwipe! Awesome conjurer! He used to hang around a lot with Psy.

Holy name dropping, Gyzmo. That's a pretty damn comprehensive list of the top dogs!

I was remorhaz, which was wizberry's nick?

Sup!

I think Berry's alias in TuLLs was Sstelam... yeah that was her "troll" nickname, hehe.

In the USA ladder servers many spells were eventually considered 'gay' and shunned by the elite wizards - mom, run, confuse, fumble, swap+trap (fuck you [DoD]Quinn). I wasn't initially held to any standards since my ping sucked, but as an awkward teen desiring social acceptance, I typically avoided the taboo spells once I got cable... Unless of course TuLLs was in need of some ratio improvement.

Thanks for the anecdotes, Gyz. I would never have remembered all those names on my own. Sun1 was my CTF ZUEL-hunting partner prior to TuLLs - great guy. Albabu was pretty much the archetype for what the top wizards would eventually become after the fall of Westwood: Players that relied almost exclusively on fast/continuous mobility/teleportation and pin-point death ray accuracy rather than spells. He was ahead of his time. I don't know if any of you spent time playing with a cocky/immature wizard named Gnomish66, but there was a full year's time where we would work together milking the Wall spell for all its creative worth.

Gnomish66!

That's Apprentice's westwood online nickname, thanks for reminding me of it!

Yeah Gnom/Apprentice was basically the "tactical" kind of wizzy, as I said he would focus first on trying to disable opponents (anchor, slow, mana drain while defending himself with RS+inlvun) and now you made me recall him also using Wall when trying to trap them from simply running away once he knew he could go for the kill. His D-Ray skills were pretty good but he wasn't the mobility/teleport/d-ray kind of wiz like Alb, me or Masta or darkVirus used to be...I competed against him in the february solo ladder in 2001 (he won january), I ended up winning by a short difference as he would litterally spend almost a full day playing and challenging pretty much anybody (which kind of looked as if he was farming points/ratio but he atleast wouldn't refuse playing against me or other potential rivals for the solo ladder).

 and lol@Quinn, I remember the guy having a not so great reputation, his clan was also pretty damn old (if I am not wrong they existed basically since the very beginning, I recall seeing him and his clan mates in the team deathmatch servers during the DP/Embers/BK era ). And Zuel ... correct me if I am wrong but wasn't he the guy who would self-proclaim to be the best wizzy around?

Oh and I don't think "MoM" was that cheap. I mean using it once to get the killing blow on a d-rayed opponent was pretty much a normal and legit approach if you couldn't get close enough to use e-bolt or shock. Spamming it was considered to be lame, but then again all it was needed was inverse or RS and "Momers" would soon lose that habit...

Besides, while certain spells could feel cheap, looking at them right now I think all tactics could be considered legit. Afterall people were competing in clan ladder or solo ladder, can't complain some would try to use their own way of getting as much kills as possible in what they thought was the most efficient way. And in any case good wizzies knew how to counter some of that "bullshit" anyway. =)

I suppose the fact that you learned from DV and I learned from Gnomish would explain our opposing styles.

Clan [DoD] was started up pretty early on. Quinnman's style was to pick a location, set traps everywhere, and either wait patiently for someone to run into one or try and swap them onto one. He wouldn't willingly participate in an open fight and would blink away when confronted - Hence why you would frequently see him in deathmatch games. That said, he always seemed like a nice guy.

And yes, ZUEL was the egomaniacal USA CTF troll. He had a mediocre ping of 200 and was a well rounded player. For some reason I always suspected he was one of Zee's alter-egos. Not that I thought you were a megalomaniac, Zee, just that he had a similar style and I never saw you two in the same game.

I used to spend every second that I was on NoX hunting Zuel down in ctf servers and killing him.

No idea WHY that guy bugged me so much but he did.

Zuel that sob was always ruining my flag cap sprees. I dont ever recall seeing him outside ctf servers

Hey while i have you guys here, I would like to publicly apologize for being an utter faggot 10 years ago.

The last couple times I had the opportunity to check the old message boards and look at my posts during the ages 14-18 I ended up face-palming repeatedly.


Killing anyone in Nox could be fun. As a teen though, killing people who took it really personally gave me a giddy, high feeling. ZUEL was therefore one of the most rewarding people to kill and thus, one of the most hunted.

Do the old message boards still exist? I'd love to read our discussions from ten years ago, I think pretty much everyone was in their teen years (except nataS and DJ, if I recall correctly they were already in their late 20s) , hence we were all kind of immature and prone to behave like idiots, haha.

I'm going to be busy at a local tournament (I play fighting games now) this week-end but next week I'm going to try and get this game to run again, I don't know if I'll be able to play this online as I do have craptastic wireless connection at my dorm, but atleast I want to savour this again (I forgot how part of my spellset was like, shame on me) =D

What games you playing?

Not hopping on that marvel train are you?

OH man, exime.... Didn't you have a brother that used to play with you? DoubleAA4? You and psybert used to be like my best friends on this game.

I started playing nox when I was >>12<< years old. I'm 24 now. So, half my life ago... Pretty nuts... I'll see what I can remember... hmmm... I started a clan when I first started playing, called DuC (I think you joined this clan with me exime). From there I made a clan called SMURF with my cousin FvckFace. From there I joined ICE, but ICE fell apart soon after I joined. After ICE, I think I joined a clan created by LIMPDIKK and a fella named porno pete (anyone remember these two guys? LIMPDIKK used to type in all caps, all the time). In this clan (I forget the name of the clan) I met SADP1ayer, nataS, and psybert. After that clan disbanded, me and psybert went off to create "Blur".

It was at this point that me and psy would continuously get frustrated by the fact that Sage kept winning the clan ladder every month, and we were DETERMINED to bring them down. We kept failing simply because Tempest would play ALL the time and rack up K:D ratios of like 4:1 every game. We got the best players available that werent in Sage, and we provided some really good competition, but we could never come close. Then, psybert had the great idea of starting a new clan with one of the best free agent wizards out there -- quinnman.

At the time, I hated quinnman. He was as cheap as they got. Like one of the posters on this post wrote, every wizard has their own strategy, and his was BY FAR the cheapest. He would create a trap, become invisible, stand on top of his trap, and when someone would pass by he would cast "swap". Then, when he wasn't sitting around like a goon on one of his traps, he would be running around with invincibility and blast you with a million fireballs when he felt the time was right.

The combination of Blur and Quinnman was what you guys refer to as daZe.... We always gave Sage a good run for their money, but like I said before, they had Tempest, and we didn't. I think daZe won the clan ladder ONE month, but that was it. Then, psybert hacked the Sage message board and that's pretty much when nox died for me.

It's tough for me to remember all this, I even had to ask my cousin FvckFace. By the way, he was the one that would cause all the confusion when he realized that a lowercase l in a person's login looked identical to a capital I. He would then create fake accounts and make characters that were identical to one of the players in the game, and just piss everyone off. So much fun.

All in all, I had some good times playing nox. I won the individual ladder (as a conjurer) about 4 times. Westwood sent me 1 IOMega Zip Drive, 2 copies of Red Alert 2, and one RIO pmp300 MP3 player (16 MB). At the time, all this merchandise was valued at about $500 put together.
I wish I could remember more specific details. I can't even remember who was in daZe with me... oh well. :(

Paulwipe!

I don't know if you remember me, but I certainly remember you (and I also remember you telling me you were of italian descent, correct me if I am wrong)

I also forgot what was Limpdikk's clan... was it DP? I recall ZeAvIs being Ember's clan leader but I can't recall who was DP's clan leader, so I thought it could be him.

And I also completely forgot that Quinn was actually in daZe, maybe because he was playing under a different alias.

Anyway Sages' success wasn't just Temp's job though. At the very beginning you could definetely say it was mostly his work, but then he played less and less and other players came in and did the job. AznXBladE was actually an other pretty damn good all around player (wiz, warrior, I think even con) that would rack up a lot of points in team deathmatches, Hefe and Gembok would also play a lot. Then during summer 2001 it was mostly us euro players in Sages plus Lix and Chadwick that would rack up points since Styx, Temp, -Warrior, nataS and the others kind of went inactive (and came back in autumn with a "fake" clan known as Jaded, if I aint' wrong).


Nope, I'm on the BlazBlue train actually, and tomorrow I'll be on the KoF13 train too =O

Lol, blazweaboo, its a good fighter actually but the art style bugs the shit out of me.

You should give that MK9 a try when its out, looks damn decent actually.

uh ah, whats up here? .. drakano just linked me this .. crazy italian returned? =p

hey can you guys make sure this thread never gets deleted thanks
Posted on: March 26, 2011, 12:39:48 PM

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also not to be creepy but someone should make all the known clan players their own articles on the nox wiki if that still exists

Haha, sup DV! Speak of the devil! =P

LiX and Chadwick came way later (Chadwick was always around, but he hid under the radar the majority of the time, from what I knew) ((LiX was a part-leader of.. 'ELEM' I think, and his first big clan move was SagesX at the end, then Jaded).  We were all in Jaded together.  "Jaded Sages"  It was stupid- like SagesX was stupid. SagesX lasted about a month in 1st,  and Jaded lasted 2-3.  It wasn't 'fake' except that Temp and Stix used a fake name.  Zantetsuken or some shit for temp and whatever for Stix, he didn't play hardly as he was graduating from high-school at the time and done with the drama, maybe that was earlier too, regardless-  Sages had a great run, but  you can see just from posts here that everyone wanted to claim a part of them after a while because of their reputation, but ultimately Sages ended after Psy ended them.  In fact I don't think a single original Sage has posted here.  It's almost like everyone just wants to say they were one, and almost can because of the shit-show that ensued after the defecation via Psy.  Paul, you were daZe, and I started playing clans during the rivarly, so I remember it well, what I can remember off the top of my head:
Psy, ist, gyz, you, hefe (he actually played double agent; probably also one of the chillest guys I remember from Nox, even though I was 12. Remember NoxFreaks?), Ace334, Dave, until he bailed for Sages(x)-((then Jaded)), puffy... puffyh8r i think was his name.  God I wish we had that screenshot, you'd remember Gyzmo, I know you were in it, of all the daze members running in a Chat map.  Hmmm.  I'm drunk and am actually having a lot of trouble remembering daZe members now that I realize... ummm.... No one's mentioned Masta Mage.. but he was a Sage... IcySun..... sage..............................  Does anyone remember 'medium,' Hefe's clan?  That was probably one of my favorites to play for, was months after Sages.

Yeah, ok, I'm drunk and rambling, but it seems like there's so much talk about Sages and daZe.  Whatever, there's a lot to talk about all the clans.  Before and after.  Those were just the highlights of my days.   Ahhh I wish I could remember more.

gudden :P hi gyzmo

"Boach"
Posted on: March 27, 2011, 05:21:40 PM

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Also, uh, re-reading that post sober, pretty sure puffy was never daZe.  I thought that because I was in fade with him for a while.  He was a Sage right?  And I may be off by how long SagesX and Jaded were in 1st.

Puffy was in Sages around the time I joined them


And yeah I think I remember what screenshot you're talking about, with basically everybody saying something stupid if I recall correctly, haha

@d-flame
yo! how you doing?
What's going on with all you guys suddenly showing up the moment I rediscover a Nox forum =D

There is alot of people that visit the forum that don t post at all that we would love to hear from.

I can see why you listed fireking as (lol).

fireking was absolute comedy for how ridiculous he was.  i think he he definitely had the biggest personality on Nox.  did you find something milo of him talking or something??

hahaha no

oh. i don't usually read his posts.

I knew i saved all the shit you guys posted for some reason

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Xendyn!

Hahah I totally forgot I was the one who took those screenshots! That's Nox in italian, lmao.

My alias in both daZe and Sages used to be FroSt MagE, though in the end my WW online account was Gyzmo (gyzmo84 and lordgyzmo in Euro servers) and that's just how everybody knew me as since the very beginning. I also totally forgot that Alb was in daZe as well, wow. We really kicked asses with that team lineup.

Sages died as a large clan after the hacking. I got more selective at that point, and it lasted for a few months. But Temp and I had grown tired of the drama, so we stepped back after a bit, and then it died off.

It was at that point that Temp and I started playing in a secret clan called Kensai. Contrary to popular belief, Temp and I played roughly an equal amount of time during Kensai. I think the reason people don't think I played much was because I wasn't really known as a warrior before then. So people kept thinking I was someone else. I believe Alb also joined us for a bit in Kensai, unless I'm misremembering. My memory of that time is a bit foggy. And it's been like 9 or 10 years.

And then there was Jaded, which you should of course be familiar with. =)

In any case, Temp and I had a good laugh about our times in Kensai and Jaded. We were able to just relax and play for once.

We also spent a lot of time on secret names terrorizing CTF in those days.
Posted on: April 03, 2011, 02:08:38 AM

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I think it was Zero. Or some variant thereof.


Much respect for you and your runs on the ladder, as well as how mature you were compared to so many other people back in those days.
Posted on: April 03, 2011, 02:16:25 AM

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Ahhhh... WMD. I miss those antics. =)
Posted on: April 03, 2011, 02:28:50 AM

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YOU GO SMASH! = me

whoa finally a reply from a Legendary leader/organizer of the most successful guilds in westwood online history! you are psychostix right?

It's Stix!

This thread is really achieving something in bringing all the old school players back for a talk, haha.

Dude, I totally forgot about !Zero!, they existed during Ember/DP era, right? Who was in it? So far I recall Limpdikk, nataS, KiLL... was Warrior in Zero as well? Actually the more I think about it the more I realize that !Zero! was actually the initial core of the future Sages clan (plus BK clan members)...

...yeah it was, I recall Masta Mage being part of Zero as well, and I recall Limpdikk being bitched at for stealing good players from the other clans (DP, embers)... Jeez my memory.

[edit] Now that I recall it... even Psy, Paulwipe and Gnomish used to be part of !Zero!, and I think the reason behind Psy's initial bitterness was when the clan basically split up with a good portion of the members joining Sages when it formed.

I also just recalled an other clan. 9mm! And, Stix correct me if I am wrong but... wasn't I also part of it? I don't know why I seem to recall joining it for a short while after Capfroggy got in. I get the feeling that DJ Chill used to be in 9mm as well, because at that time I was pretty much his "disciple" hence I would follow him through all the clans he used to join, lol. That clan didn't last too long (a month?) so probably that's why I didn't remember it straight away. But now that I think about it... Sages clan basically formed from a merge between some of 9mm clan members, Zero clan members, and BK clan members. 9mm clan members were also mostly either players from Embers or DP...

So basically it used to be like this:

Spring/Summer 2000: ICE and NNN era
August-October/November 2000: Embers and DP era
November-December 2000: Zero and 9mm era
January-August 2001: Sages era (Sages wasn't dead after Psy's hack attempt, I clearly recall us winning July and August since I would spend all day with Istvan, Lix and Chad playing as much as I could given that most of the veteran Sages were either inactive or simply grew tired of playing "seriously) and Psy's clans era (PlasmA, BluR, daZe, though the name would change it was practically always the same core of players)
August-October(?)2001: Jaded
November 2001 - January(?) 2002: BanE era (I recall joining them since the very beginning since I was clanless right after Sages disbanded for ever in September)
Spring 2002 - TuLLs and EoN era

and that's as far as I can remember since that's how long I had been playing
Stix or anyone else feel free to correct me

Stix wasn't just a great leader, his conjurer was one of the finest as well. Off the top my head the best conjurers I've come across were Paulwipe, Stix, Hefe, Gembok and Limpdikk.

fucking Nox historians up in here.

2003-Present: Milo

I missed a lot of fun stuff...

Since myself, like milo, have been mostly active since 2003, to complete nox history i have to say:
summer 2005. Blob´s big CTFs(up to 25 pplo somedays)
summer 2006 Morden´s ladder, which geno dominated all the time if iam not wrong.
summer 2007 That war tourny. Don´t remember who won it.

You mena like menaus?

Milo is oldschool

mena as in middle east and north African? I don't really understand the question...

mean MEAN

Gigantic Whore (andrew) won last nox tourny.

 I was too young to really be good and remember shit from early 2000's I just remember small details and how much fun nox was. 2003 and 2004 I was probably most active and in my prime. Whenever rabidseagull and sandman joined that NaH's nemesis clan (mind blank right now) around post Pornstar clan with Shadowkiller/geno/ and other b00b members was probably fondest memories.

Honestly I vaguely remember playing against morden  but I do remember him leaving nox then coming back sporting the Anti-M Tag and talking shit and I was like WTF are you, it was around the time bxilo started pre-noxforum.

i am not old school and morden held two different ladders during one of which you could be in a clan and i had the best kill to death ratio of all the other warrior (1.5) and the clan i was in won
Posted on: April 05, 2011, 01:05:38 AM

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(thanks to geno and jeslek)

Hey, guys.

I've lurked around these forums occasionally for a while now and couldn't resist registering when I saw this thread. Really cool to see that some of the old names here are still around. It seems hard for me to believe how long ago we all played against one another, I was seriously in middle school when the game came out (I think). Now I'm out of college working full time.. how the times change haha. Most of the people/clans I remember have already posted or been mentioned here but I figured I'd relay some old memories in case anyone was interested.

(in roughly chronological order)

ICE: The first (?) dominant clan? When I started playing online these guys were ungodly good. At one point I "tried out" to join by dueling one of their warriors (I can't remember his name..) and lost -1 to 25. Fuck.

NNN: The second big clan I remember. Not sure what happened before they appeared and after ICE disappeared, I might have taken a break playing or something. As far as NNN goes, I never really knew any of the members because I sucked at the time. The westwood sponsored worldwide championship was going on sometime around then too. I wasn't old enough to enter. I heard a guy named hadouken won?

DP: These guys were legit. First good clan I was in. Exime you were there too right? My play improved a lot here. We were perennial losers to !Zero! though.

!Zero!: LIMPDIKK offered me an invite presumably after watching how much I was playing. There were some really awesome people here.. kill, natas, psikotik, and tempest (?) come to mind. !Zero! dominated the ladder for a while, good times.

Sages: I don't really remember how it came about, but no one had a chance against us. The game eventually got stale/old for me at this point. IMO it was just because of the lack of new content. I'll never understand why EA didn't release the map editor..

That's about all I remember of the clans when I played, but typing this up has made a few other things come back to me. Ping was a huge factor in the game back in the day. A lot of people were still on dial-up (usually 250+ ms), which was a big handicap vs the "pingers" ( < 150 ? ms). I eventually got cable pretty much for the sole purpose of lowering my ping.

Another interesting thing was how tactics in the game themselves evolved. For wizards, when the game first came out I don't remember anyone using drain mana, reflective shield, slow, or protect from fire/shock. Confuse was very prevalent vs warriors but was considered cheap. Eventually people figured out the power of reflective shield combined with teleport to target; protections were mandatory so your force field wouldn't destroyed by one fireball; slow helped with dray aim; I could go on.

Alright, late here so I've gotta go for now but if more comes back to me I'll post it. Cheers.

does anyone have the clan link or maybe a wayback link to the clan webpage?

the ladder in 2006 was nothing too great when there was only at least 15 core players, and it's not hard to stay up all night and kill noobs to ''dominate'' even though ryan is a good player regardless but he farmed a lot of his kills under an alias conjurer name which was like ''oak'' or some something around there.

I got to say though, I wish I could have played when I started to get good during clan days, at least I got to go up against a lot of good players so it's all good =p

Don't forget the tourney eiot held where me and strife faught he beat me 10-9 and then strife beat him something ridiculous like 10-4, eiot is trash lol.

And here's an other old acquaintance of mine, sup Masta!
In my opinion you and Alb have been the most influential wizards in Nox history when people started evolving their playing style. When I was still in my learning days during the time you were in DP I clearly recall DJ Chill telling me to go and watch you playing because "that's how a wiz is supposed to play like".

Hadouken was Robdog/Battlemage's westwood account when he used to be part of NNN. He also was our team mate in Sages. I recall him, Slight, Wynn and DJ Chill partecipating to the official "world tournament" finals held by Westwood in Redmond during summer 2000 (Slight was representative as best warrior, Wynn was best Con, and Rob as best wiz and DJ as best european/non-US player). I can't remember who won, but I get the feeling it was Slight (in 2000 Slight was pretty much regarded as the best player period), who took the crown rather than Rob.


Yeah... as I said in other earlier posts, at the very beginning wizzies in general would rely on confusion and lightning/ebolt and that's it. Then you and Alb in DP came in and started showing the real potential behind what a wiz was really capable of (slow, D-ray, teleport and mobility in general). The whole thing about using mana drain and RS became popular right after that, I clearly recall you, Psybert and Gnomish being the first to use that approach in duels (actually Gnomish more than anyone else, since he was more about tactical approach than insanse teleporting/dray skills), and then me and the other wizzies (Jester, Cata, darkVirus, Ace, Zee and the others) followed and pretty much adopted these styles with our very own personal preferences (as I said earlier, some would prefer mobility/teleport approach, others would prefer disabling the opponent with anything they could throw at).

Besides you and Alb, an other really influential player that not many people might remember was HKS89, dude was like Tempest's mentor and teacher. HKS won the solo ladder with all three classes and his wiz was definetely up there with best of his era. After NNN went inactive he formed *BK* and that's where Tempest, Untorten (and I think Stix as well?) started playing.

i forgot about that postcount tourny, altough it was just one night

(http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/3004/tourny1.jpg)

You say HKS89 was like tempest mentor or teacher and from what I heard tempest was one of the best wizards of all time, despite his extremely low ping, either HKs got rusty when he came back the few times he did, or maybe tempest wasn't as good as everybody says. Don't get me wrong HKs is a great player but I didn't see anything amazing about him.

still to this day I don't see anybody who can hit no slow drays the way I could besides geno, and maybe a few others but they relied more so on spells than just messing around and running around and just draying people, that was the best way to train yourself with the dray staff, which is the way Lord Scott taught me, don't know if anybody remembers him, also I'd like to point out Jecht was a pretty good player as well.

Yes I'm bragging that me and cloud strife were the best warriors to do it up until about 2009 until everything started to officially die down.

But I have to say that Geno aka ryan aka Dr.Jeykll has been the most competitive player I've ever fought and if nobody has ever seen me and geno duel or fight regardless it was elim or arena, then you missed out on a lot. A lot of people will probably give me shit for half this shit I just said but the people who were around know it's true, so fuck you all and die slow, thank you for you time and effort for reading this useless post.

oh, fuck old school players, they don't got shit against new school! even though I've been playing this since 2002. but I don't consider myself old because i had no idea what I was doing back then.

HKS was an all-round player like Temp. They were around equally good with all three classes. Temp's wiz was really good back then but he wasn't a true wiz specialist like Masta, Alb, me or others. In any case, the HKS I'm talking about is the one who played in 2000 and won the official solo ladder with all classes, back when the competition was fierce. How many people achieved that? I recall Temp winning the solo ladder with wiz and war (can't remember if he won with con), and Wynn also being the other player capable of winning it with multiple classes as well. No one else ever managed that feat in the official ladder.

Besides, I didn't even know HKS came back, when did he? HKS stopped playing around December 2000 (basically BK "died", or rather they went into the transition ->9mm->Sages), if he came back after I quit the game (2002) that means he came back atleast 3 years after he quit. It would be no wonder he'd be hella rusty.

And I think I've known the Geno player you're talking about, if he's the same Geno who used to hang around the period I was leading TuLLs, he was a good wiz but nothing that I can't remember much else about him.

Err, hitting people with dray while both players were running and without using slow is really nothing that amazing. A lot of wizzies could do it back in the days as long as the ping allowed it. Masta, Alb, me, darkVirus, Sunny and others would rely on that a lot more than actually trying to go around casting tons of spells and draining mana. I don't know you and as I said I've been playing up until Spring 2002, but I can tell you that way of playing wiz was a feat that we introduced back in late 2000 and developed throughout 2001. I don't know if it furtherly evolved after that, you guys can tell the rest of the story for me and fill me in with your details!

And hey, It's not like I want minimize whatever achievement you reached throughout your personal career in Nox! All I'm doing is telling the bit of Nox history that I personally lived from 2000 to 2002, the players that competed and won titles with their clans and in the solo ladder back when Westwood wasn't owned by EA, the official ladders were active (and people would win prizes) the game servers were a lot and filled with hundreds of players and the competition was fierce. I don't know if the game went through a sort of reneissance after that and I know nothing of the players in the following years, I'm just nostalgicly reminiscing the days I used to play this game with the other people, the glory and the drama behind it all. :)

this game is fairly easy as I have mastered all 3 classes, but I still wish I could have played against a lot of those players, but they would probably be too rusty and wouldn't put up as good as a fight like they would in there prime.

I'm sure HKs did come back and I believe a few people seen him as well and i think he did a few posts on this forum if I'm not mistaken. Also I believe I played against Masta Mage when he came back as well.
 
I use to train in korean servers that way when I hit the usa servers with low ping I'd feel like I was moving insanely fast and dray aim would be a lot more on point. It was always fun to win elim in a korean game and they would praise you as a god. I'm sure blob knows all about that.

I mean no disrespect to anybody or any of your oldschool buddies, because i would have enjoyed the competition seeing there were only a few players left who were actually fun to go up against after nox died.

I'm usually not one to brag but all I see is people bragging about all these good oldschool players that i never got to go up against.

So yes i am very mad!

I can't really share my history with you because my history is after westwood abandoned nox and you don't know much about what went on after that. I can strongly say I would have been up there in ladder if I could have played the way I did years later.

Oh if it sounded like I was bragging that's not what I meant! I mean, I am just naming you the players and clans that were most influential in the way the game evolved, those who won silverware and well that's it! Considering people have been playing this game for so long (unexpectedly!) I am 100% sure other good players showed up in the following years (which is why I am curious to know if things furtherly evolved from that point), I'm just telling you my very own portion of the nox history that I've lived in. =)

Well, an epic map editor has been made.

Well see, nox didn't completely die after westwood left, it maintained a decent player base for a few years, but it went down as you can see to now it's almost nothing and everybody has moved on, we had morden host a tourny for us, he even brought back a similar ladder system and everything which was very enjoyable, but it just kept going down hill from there.

Dueling got popular later into the years, but my favorite is Elimination, not a huge fan of arena because usually it would be boring winning every single game unless there were a few good players on.

I can't really tell you how much skills and fast paced playing evolved because I don't know how people played in 2000 and what not, but I learned many things and ways to beat your opponent, all the different styles needed or when to use what vs. that person, I ended up using RoF a lot later in the years, I might have brought it back because I rarely seen anybody use it, but I abused it when I figured how over powered RoF is, even when the person isn't using Reflective Shield, I mastered running close up to my opponent and RoF + jump right next to him as I run by, surely if it was a wizard without fire protection it was a 1 hit K.O. It wasn't like I ran to my opponent stopped next to him and RoF'd then jumped, I would time it to where all I had to do was run next to my opponent and just RoF, I got to say that was the most enjoyable thing to do and funny because a lot of people don't know how to do it that well.

Also I use to dray the middle of the door and as soon as someone came through they would get dray'd and die or be close to dead, I use to lure people to follow me into rooms and then just dray the door for fun.

A lot of old school players did come back to play for a bit, but left obviously. That's how it is with this game people always come and go, I have yet to find a game that can compete with the intensity and play style of nox.

Eheh, I never used RoF but I can name you two players who used it a lot. One was SADPlayer (he was really all about RoF and triple fireball stuff when he was in Embers, in the very early days of Nox), the other one was Albabu when he would go nuts and play like his usual overwhelming/unpredictable self. Majority of the wizzies back when I used to play would hardly use RoF, they preferred teleport/mobility+dray skills or just disabling the opponent.

When SADplayer went inactive (about the same time HKS did, end of 2000) pretty much only Alb was the wiz who would troll people around with anything he would think of on the fly. That's what made him so great in my opinion. While a lot of us had good dray skills, good reading of the opponent's movements and overall quickness, Alb's wiz had these features plus the fact that he would suddenly use completely different approaches, making it pretty damn hard to figure him out. One time he'd just dray you-teleport-dray-teleport-move and dray+shock and whatever, other times he would teleport RoF around you and dray, others he would throw a fireball all of a sudden to force you dodging or reflecting it and overwhelm with anything else after that. It's as if he would quickly catch on the opponent's habits and immediately pick a weird approach to make the opponent guess. He was really overwhelming. Me and darkVirus tried to emulate that but never came close to it because you could tell Alb would do that stuff by pure instinct rather than by thought process.

But yeah, I've yet to come across a game that was as fast paced and yet as tactical as Nox used to be. Ironically the reason I'm playing fighting games nowadays is mostly due to that, I missed a fast paced game that would also force you to play mindgames on the opponents (something that would combine both technical/manual skills with good tactical approaching and reasoning).

Well go play it than

I'm in a college dorm with a firewalled connection (all ports closed except for port 80 and 443), my only way to play online would be to use a wireless USB key which I'll let you imagine is anything but decent. I can give it a try (and I'll have to remember how I had my whole spell set, well atleast I know how set one was thanks to the screen posted earlier, LOL) but I get the feeling it'll be horribly laggy. :[

You don't need to forward ports since I'm hosting. gogo

Does the game work through port 80?

If it does then it'd be awesome and I'd be willing to give this game a shot again!
I guess I'm going to redownload all the stuff needed to play it. =)

18590 UDP..sorry. You should still just try it tho
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~awesie/NoxInstall.zip (http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~awesie/NoxInstall.zip)

I'll download and try it tonight with the wireless usb Key. I fear it'll lag but yeah it's worth a try nonetheless. If it does end up being laggy amen, I'll force my dorm mates to play the game on LAN with me, haha.

don't you dare! than just host on WOL so everyone else will lagg :P

Sounds about how I play, I'd always figure out a way to bypass something, either it be getting around a shield or TTT+ Shock dray, or just dray fast behind the shield, or getting around RS and people who spam RS and drain mana, one thing is you many wizards cannot do shit when they get all there mana taken, they freak out and think the fight is over for them when if you know how to move around and juke you're still likely to kill that person even without mana, thats why I use to train without forcefield to see how long I can last and kill people, that way when I did use FF it would feel like forever for someone to kill me, also knowing when to use your mana pots is a very big thing and can save you in many situations. I'm a very faced paced player, I cannot stay still, I will move around insanely fast I never stop for any reason because when you stand still, theres always a chance to get hit by something.

As I enjoy wizard for the fast paced play, I like to think Warrior is actually my best class, I can hamram anybody no matter how good you movements are, you'll eventually get hamram'd. Also big thing with Warrior vs Wiz, if you know how to use your Gs to invert slow or any type of spell back, it will help dramatically, also switching to shield fast before you hit the wall to avoid stun, I learned and mastered this and it helps a lot.

There are just too many play styles and things you can do in nox to really even talk about.

Hmm... thinking about the warriors who played back then... Well, in 2000 definetely Slight was considered the best warrior during the time he used to play. Then after he quit a lot of other good warriors started shining. KiLL/Anthony (who already was actually pretty damn good back when Slight played, but he got furtherly better after that), nataS, Temp, Dave, Funk, -Warrior, insaniac, Istvan, Capfroggy, Chadwick, Lix, Memnoch, Kork, Trunkx, Killian, (not be confused with KiLL) and many others. Personally the best warriors I had ever faced were KiLL and nataS. KiLL in particular was frightening because no matter how much you'd teleport around and try to fool him, it's as if he could read you and anticipate every single time. He was also pretty damn good at evading dray shots. Other warriors had good reading of movements but KiLL was definetely the one who impressed me the most. nataS' and Temp's warriors were about the same level as KiLL but they were more straightforward in the way they used to play while KiLL was really "elegant" in the way he'd move, dodge and cut in. The gap between them wasn't that much though, I've seen times when Temp and KiLL would duel each other war vs war and tie. Atleast 60% of the best warriors of that era were in Sages at the beginning (except Dave, Lix, Chad and Istvan who joined later in June/July 2001).

jesus christ gig talk about someone else

Yup!
Posted on: April 05, 2011, 01:58:26 PM

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Yeah, Sages was pretty much born from that core group of people. I split off largely because I didn't like Limpdikk.


To be honest, I don't remember everyone who was in 9mm. I just remember Rob was its primary leader.

Yeah, it wasn't dead after the hack. But it wasn't the 20-player clan it was before the hack. I pared it down, and it was basically the European guys doing all the work at that point, with Temp sometimes pitching in. Maybe one or two others (including me sometimes), but I wasn't around enough to really pay close enough attention to who was being occasionally active.


I couldn't even tell you, lol. That's how much I paid attention during that period.
Posted on: April 05, 2011, 02:11:14 PM

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Hey, MM!



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Don't have time to read the rest of the posts, atm. I'll catch up later tonight when I',m not busy.

Ahhhhhhfhfhdhfdsfadsfds Memnoch!, KiLL!!#@#!!@  All this talk about wizards, and now to hear these great warriors.   It's interesting- I have more trouble remembering how players played than I remember what their personalities were like.  (which is understandably stupid because it's a video game, not a chat room), but Nox does have a uniquness to it, at least I've never seen it in any other game, of socialization.  There were always at least 5-6 people observing, chatting.  'cause of this, I identify players more with what their attitudes were in combination with their styles.  Temp, for example, rarely ever said a single word (minus team chat), but would destroy game after game solo w/ 25 kills with 2nd being, like, CHUR with 16 kills and 4 people at a time.  That kind of talent combined with behing humble and chill is just admirable. SADPlayer...  definitely the king of RoF.. definitely a hilarious guy.  "This game's about to get a little happier..."

And Giggggggggggggg, seriously, get over yourself.  Gyz is being very polite and all you can talk about is how dynamic your tactics are and how great you are as an overall player.  Shut up and let the adults talk, eh?

eh? .. what do i read here on the fly? me trying to "emulate" someone? never... =D

so dude, we need to talk .. got icq or skype? ;D

I know I've asked this a million times, but you, darkvirus, are different from darkviruz, the one I worked with, correct?

thats rite,
me = euro darkviruS
:'o ..

annoying that u still don't know me .. since i consider myself as da best euro player of all time *cough* :D .. and stfu about cocky attitude, all italians are liars...

haha you liar! =D
don't you even remember we would spend a whole afternoon trying to do same stuff he did, and d-flame would laugh at the both of us

You just don't change with the years do you =P
Well that's the DV I know, cocky bastard and yet cool dude at the end of the day! We had a nice love/hate relationship, lmfao

anyway, I can't use any sort of messenger due to my current connection here at the college dorm, but if you need to contact me for any online meeting just send me a private message here! Or we can try mIRC, that I can use


Haha well personality-wise we had all kinds of people.

Yeah I recall Temp pretty much being quiet and just doing his regular job at soloing 25 kills in clan games, even when people would bitch at him. I also recall darkvirus pissing him off though lol, I think because once DV like joined one of the west coast servers played him and he sort of ruined Temp's streak, with Temp going "WTF" and getting back into observer mode. Other cool and collected guys were Stix, Paulwipe, Memnoch, nataS, KiLL, AznBlade. The nutcases (in a positive way) were SADplayer, his brother Trunkx, Darkvirus (heheh), Albabu, Funk, Puffy...

Then we had like... players with a bit of an attitude/ego like Gnomish (he was definetely good but sometimes he would kind brag about himself for ... no reason), Limpdikk, Fireking (and he had NO REASONS ever to brag, lol)

Talkative guys were Hefe, me, Insaniac, Psy, Jester...

No one was Temp's "mentor," no matter how many people try to claim it. He just plays. If he was beat by someone, he'd see what they did and he'd adapt. He was in a class by himself.

Non-Slow dray hits were the norm for most good wizards back in the day.

This is like a modern baseball player saying "Man, fuck Babe Ruth!"

I don't care if the skill sets and different, if largely because the game went from being officially supported to being more community-driven with community-based tweaks, schedules, etc. Each is different from the other, and trying to demean one or the other just shows how immature you are.
Posted on: April 05, 2011, 06:46:40 PM

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Ugh. Fireking.

I played with HKS like 1 week ago.
Posted on: April 05, 2011, 06:58:48 PM

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Once again shout out to my old homies

Zom86(drizzt), Algus, nickfish <--<, frozen, Javier, logan, Flank, Grunt, WOD, Lord Unknown, Unknown idiot, Rico, zxinsanit (da g), YodaxJedi, Cloud (aka Cloud Strife), Morden, Dope, GODKriminal, mcstunner,stunna, stunnerx, milo, OTIS, Anubis, LutherX, Jecht, DP Dave, Lucia/Raven, Bubonic, Shadyhacks, Hunter (Anti-M), WnxWizard, Whitewizzard, Ebolavirus, sandman, zeezo, omega, blob, Magus, smokeydabear, falcon, koalabear, Ramza, frozngurl, james/dinokaze, Tizzard, echo, Eiot, Toxic, Nidilan, Lord Bayon, Apophis, GiganticWhore(andrew),Zidane, PUN, Winzbeaver, WnxShadowkiller, deadcraft(aka Geno aka Dr. Jeykll)



My orginal serial : 019406-719313-361984-7609

Zee, don't be mad because I'm younger and my dick is bigger than yours and I get more hoes than you (eiot voice).

He wanted to know history so I told him, not my fault I rape all your faces and skeet on them when I'm done.

Yes I'm an arrogant asshole.

You forgot how you sound like a mexican yet are white.

Lmao, fuck you bro. I'll come in vent when everybody plays nox together so you can hear the sexy voice.

so..Sunday then?

Omg, now I remember this guy. Pretty sure I considered him to be the best wizard. Kind of like how you described kill, it always felt like he was one step ahead of you. His aim was fantastic and his play was so clean. /salute

I think psybert deserves a shout out too for his unconventional (yet effective) style of triple fireball staff + lightning, in a time when every other wizard used deathray and energy bolt. Another weird thing he did was use the third spell set as his main bar. And he taught me a particularly nasty trap which will 100% kill anyone who sets it off unless they're invulnerable.. I wonder if people here know it :p

Okay, enough about the wizards and warriors. What about the CON love? I think they kind of got screwed with regards to balance. Even with the xbow bug. Then again, people died to random FONs all the time.

Nox is easily one of the best games I've ever played. There hasn't really been anything like it ever since; it's like an fps in the form of an action rpg. No random number generator and everyone starts on a level playing field. Genius!

i thought when you used rof it was most effective if you slowly walked into them pushing them over more of the flames for longer
Posted on: April 06, 2011, 12:08:36 AM

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oh i remember that fish guy <'))-<
Posted on: April 06, 2011, 12:10:29 AM

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oh there i am

wow nice thread! great to see old (old old) names of people who crushed.

i first started playing clans when Jaded was #1, so it's very cool to hear of the days before mine. also shoutout to gyzmo and DV who let me in to tulls which was pretty much my first serious clan. i used to get into huge bitchfights with zeezo because whenever he was in the game i'd play on a messclan login (F@RT holler).

i vaguely remember robdog and gnomish being very, very good wizards (and rarely talked about nowadays). i played runescape with gnomish for a few months lol wtf if i remember correctly he tried scamming people for money.

and andrew it's nice that you're very good at nox now, but really the competition does not compare to how it was back in the day (and hasn't for probably ~6 years). i think someone mentioned this but to reiterate tempest really was in a class of his own. i remember when i first started playing clans i would just observer mode him for hours to try to understand what made him so good. on a one-on-one level, i would be open to the argument that some others may have been better (like KiLL's wizard was insanely good once he got warmed up, though people only ever talk about his warrior), but in terms of sheer efficiency there was no contest, tempest would kill more and faster than anyone else.

i thought zeezo was in F@RT
Posted on: April 06, 2011, 01:00:37 AM

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or was F@RT just with you and.... someone..... one other person....... i think they had a Q in their name???

I agree with you sgok, which is why I wish I could have played back then when it was much more competitive, all in all though nox was still fun after westwood abandoned the game, can't say I didn't have good times.

ahhh haha.  yeah, i was in f@rt after i stopped caring...... F@RT was made by insaniac and consisted mostly of himself and Cyrus (2 Sages rarely mentioned) just running around spamming mass fireball and just doing whatever possible to get other clans deaths without caring for their own- which is why "mess clans" were looked down upon, and i'm sure i was a bitch about it to anyone who played seriously and would then get on a mess clan and hunt the teams competing.

I hate you all, the end.
Posted on: April 06, 2011, 03:56:41 AM

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As far as the old school/new school bologna that is constantly debated - pay respects.  As someone who organized clans by befriending and snatching up good players from dying clans as Nox faded away , I can safely say even I wasn't old school (-Def- roster included Dave, Alb, Boosh/Hefe, Memn, Zee [briefly], Kill, Neil, Dunce/Newbie, porno Stan, and a couple others) .  I played then, but I wasn't part of it.  The game was 100% different in play, atmosphere, competition, technique, and style.

oh damn I forgot all about colin, loved playing against you.

I forgot about Cyrus, but maybe becuase he didn't use to be in Sages for a long time (or maybe he used a different name in Sages)... I recall him being best friend with Insaniac (I think they knew each other in real life), and a being a pretty good wizard.

well look at all the talented women who've assembled here...

Yooo!

I wonder if you still remember "uepppaaaa", haha

Ueppa! Of course I do. That shit was bomb.

aww shit its trunksx you used to run with me , yawnman , 13u12|\|420 and the yoda man him self "yze" at some point think you where in my clan mayhem or was it coma? can t remember. didn t last long though.. hope to see ya'll on sundays game im ready to crush

damn now that got me thinking what was that guild that rivaled Ember(don t recall alot of there player so much was a pretty massive guild that lasted along time), Demon (grimtek,child protocol7) & Ice(bane and slight) at the start of clans.

think it was lead by wolfpack0x i thinking it was 9mm remember them hand picking who ever they wanted from other clans kinda the rule sages later took over. they had (battlemage,yze and king lu) then shortly after that zero(all i remember is limpdikk atm) & nnn thehks that dude was was awsome  

Freakin Ricky Martin exclamation, lmao

I also recall you introduced me to SoaD, hehe

yeah, i remember yawnman, 13u12|\|420 and yze.

!Zero! was founded by my brother SADplayer, NataS, and Limp. Later joining were the likes of elhefe, william wallace, Kill, Tempest and some other losers

totally forgot about william wallace . i think sadplayer invented emo :D sadplayer qoute"this room will be more happyer now" "SADplayer has left the game"

You guys were all ping.


Same here. Trunkx, you were probably responsible for recruiting 50% of their early fan base. I boycotted them when you went a negative rant about people who smoke pot and hurt my feelings. Mmm, 15 y/o angst.

Tempest was a workhorse, you can debate whether or not a couple other players were more talented, but nobody was as effective at racking up points. It hardly mattered what class he chose. In all the years I played I could never get more than a couple words out of him, did anyone actually get to know him on some level?


I always found Gnomish extremely fun to play with, but I can easily picture him running e-scams.  Sgok, TuLLs was my first legitimately competitive clan (w/ cable) as well. Even though it was during Nox's twilight era I was still pumped to finally get to win clan ladder.

Sadplayer was a pretty happy guy, he was playing a role man.

Haven't heard from him since he joined the army though.

you didn't pick up that i argued for the sake of argument? Didn't matter which side i was on as long as there was opposition.


he's dead

huzzah all my friends are posting again!

You actually serious here?

Because that would be really sad

I'm about sick of this shit. Everyone in this thread needs to play nox this Sunday and talk to eachother in the fiucking game you claim to love

I can't the game crashes when I try

There are solutions for pretty much every crash...when and how does it crash

right after i select the character i want to use

As in a new character? or a previously made one? Because if its a previous one then your character is corrupt, and if its to create a new character then your video.bag is corrupt and you need to reinstall.

If its just a character if you upload the file I can fix the character for you so that you can play with the exact same thing.

i will find whoever messed up my video.bag file..... and i will kill them

How big is the video.bag file? I mean, it wouldn't be too hard to upload it if it ain't too big. No reinstall required.

why it appears i have a second videobag file right here..... up my sleeve......

Milo just copy your saved chars file and download the easy installer from here, problem solved, no worries.

ive got like 5 charres no need to save also does the nox installer still have that keylogger embedded in it?
Posted on: April 10, 2011, 12:35:00 PM

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also instead of making clans I always secretly wanted to make bands

also is that keylogger the reason postcount disappeared
Posted on: April 10, 2011, 03:48:45 PM

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obv i won't get a real answer but JUST KNOW THAT I AM AWARE ok. ok.
Posted on: April 10, 2011, 03:49:23 PM

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Never was one, anti virus programs just hate its key gen.

Hey did you guys have a favorite map?? I think mine is bunker

snow

mini mine is always epic

snow level and the one with the huge mana room with all the windows and laser thing (deathtrap?). they were right next to each other in the original map cycle.

also that level with 2 floors where on the top floor the top right was the dray/fonstaff rooms with the autolocking doors and the exit was through a fist of vengeance trigger (i hope i'm explaining this well (probably not (oh well))).

what a sweet game :( i watched like 3 seconds of the livestream and really wanted to play, but i dont have a mouse and it's not installed. maybe soon if sunday games continue.

deepfrze?

deathtrp?

crypts or tombs... dunno the exact name

My wiz always kept its best K/D ratio on the treehouse level.

If you weren't concerned with skill or ladder scores, mini mine was always an incredibly fun spam fest.

My least favorite map was the one which contained the thin tunnel walled with mana crystals terminating in a spiked column that would speed toward you with the push of a button. The only time I really enjoyed that map was when I used a high ping conj to FON and xbow down that ridiculously long hallway.

De_dust2

dust2 overrated, shit map.

Own all on quickscope_v1 NP NP

Riverrun and call me old fashioned- Estate.

majik: manamine

-milo

conflict and deathtrp!

Estate and Oasis AND LIBRARY


Posted on: April 18, 2011, 02:53:57 PM

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There are user made maps better then this one.. Westwood was high or an intern made this crappy map..

Mini Mine is just as bad.

I'm not dead!  You n00b Trunkx!

fuck yea, except the top floor. The very top.

the top of the library rules

nah bottom is best part of the map, stop lying.

its nice and safe on top cause all the idiots stay at the bottom dying to each other, there are a GS and a Hammer within 6 feet of each other, the dray is up there, there is a trap, and 2 of the 3 pots are up there too


oh and the bong is in that pleasant room

hey I d like to chat with my old nox buddy Baked, if someone (shady) remembers his e-mail - pm it to me pls.                           

Bottom has all three type of pots next to each other, with mana fire for trappings wiz and cons into, also with GS and hammer within close proximity. Dray is nice up there but i dont wiz much on that level so thats probably why im biased towards bottom.

Plus the blue cape is in the GS room which is nice...

Top has all three pots, too, but warriors don't use the blue one and nobody uses the green one! Plus top has fire cape which tends to be more useful because fireballs really hurt and both magical classes have fire based spells where as a conjurer has no way of throwing lightning at you

hmm I must visit this "top" you speak of more often.

when I first started playing i played elim only and would just camp in the laser/armor room with a carnivorous plant trying to block the guy into the laser all smug.
on that note you guys know of the glitch in elim when it gets to sudden death, if you "observe" a summoned creature you stop losing health??
Posted on: April 21, 2011, 04:13:45 AM

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i just realized that for hours every day when I was 13, my social life consisted of usa elim regulars because there's lots of time to chat in elim.  i think lemmer's the only one i ever see anymore.

play nox till you hear birds in the morning

Man, luckily I found this board.  KiLL(Anthony) is my younger brother, I bet he'll love to play with all you guys again. I'll let him know. :)

Man I remember sneaking up in the night and playing NoX until 10 mins before my dad was supposed to get home from 3rd shift.

Dunno.. Did he have any other names?

oh cool

my parents always took the power cord away but they didn t know the cords or universal and the junk computer in the garage cord worked just fine:)

KiLL has been mentioned be nearly everyone when they mention the most amazing players of all nox and it would be great to hear his opinion of the other players

for me it was going to sleep before dad's 5am shift, did not want to be on the computer when that went down..

me > kill > all.

fact.

:P

07.05.11 - Saturday .. some old players want to play again @ that date, drakano told me, i dunno who is informed till right now ;P

I wish I remembered the people.. I played back in 2000 as well but I was only 9 years old soo.. yeah.. I remember getting my ass handed to me over and over.. It was still an amazing game and I played it for 2 or 3 years.. I can't even begin to remember my name, it was not KillerDreaming. KillerDreaming I did not make until way later, OutWar days.. I do think I remember Immortal and Morden Tral.. Both were assholes.. (But, then again, I was a whiny little 9 year old as well so I probably had it coming and much more.)

I really miss it, I remember having so much fun getting my ass kicked. I'd trade the world for it. But, alas, here we are. I adore the fact you guys are working on NoX2, I've been following it since you guys first announced your plans for it.. (Even though by following I mean about once every 6 months I'll log on here and look to see if there's anything new.)

I was a huge asshole.  :|

I was an asshole yes, still am in many ways.

Whoopdedooooo

"was"

Hmmmm...you guys still alive? thought you guys would be dead by now.

Faggots.

If anyone needs help with the creation of Nox 2 allow me to offer my services as a Graphic Art and Game Designer. Since the clans shut down I kept playing whenever I could however the number of players has dwindled down to pitiful amounts compared to the old days. I'm glad someone has kept a site for this place going and I hope we can rebuild Noxs' glory day all over again if possible. Maybe then KILL, Tempest, pyschostick and all the players from NNN can return and the real fun can begin. For those who play Nox I am know as Hex, Hexus, or Hex Knight, as a wiz, con, and a war respectively. I look forward to more players on Nox when next time I play.

If serious could you please provide a sample of the work you've done and a list of your abilities?

I'm low on 2d texture talent and interface design at the moment and my 3D modeler has low time until he settles into his new kid.

I could start back on full time development if I had some extra help.

Also, there's a game on this evening. With supposedly much people coming on. Join up if you wanna play..
Posted on: July 14, 2011, 10:58:54 AM

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Game is on right now
to play, dl  http://dl.noxworld.ru/NoxPatched.zip and put the IP adress 46.182.30.186 in game_ip.txt

Was fun!
(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2159/nox3.jpg)

Heres that SAD Player Audio RANT..

Milo and Zeezo said they would post it.. Didn't see it delivered.

http://www.noxhub.net/shady/Wiki/abunchofbull1.wav (http://www.noxhub.net/shady/Wiki/abunchofbull1.wav)



Eiot and Blade and Morden and se7en Talking shit on vent.. (eiot is the one who has the "brother")

http://www.noxhub.net/shady/Eiot.mp3 (http://www.noxhub.net/shady/Eiot.mp3)


Important Discussions:
1 - Talking about Eiots Sports Car
2 - Talking about Eiots Beat that he sold for 1000 dollars
3 - Talking about Eiots Madden Shades. (Girl Glasses)
4 - Talking about Sevens Mom giving him Money
5 - Talking about Morden being a virgin
6 - Morden working at mcdonalds.

Oh man.. so good.

Those were the good days of the end of the world. Everyone had so much fervor.

The funny thing is that Eiot is the one that worked fast food, not I. Must have some latent issues with his retardation work quota.

This made me miss Seven...

I listened to a little bit of it. First time I've heard audio of Eiot....pretty much exactly what I expected. His "brothers" car was def. posted as his own I remember that shit.
Posted on: July 15, 2011, 02:14:46 PM

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/shady= nice browser

whats up with that?

Nothing, don't worry about it.  :-D

Imagine people trying to snoop your photobucket eeyh?
Posted on: July 15, 2011, 10:11:28 PM

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how the fuck do I spell the Canadian "EH?" is that right?

What?

it's "Egh"

in Canadian "gh," when at the end of the word, accentuates the vowel preceding it

oh thanks zeezo, it's always a pleasure to learn grammer and such.

Boobs and such eh

"grammer" egh? Only in America.

I spells wrong. :(

but seriously, my 4th grade teacher didn't help me out much. That's America.

dimension x laser death squad

Blobby Hill?

Congrats.

blast from the fuckin past

completely forgot about LaserX

oh by the way that isn't blob

hefe invented Nox Freaks and was also was the first player to grow facial hair

i remember seeing nox freaks and thinking, jesus christ these are real people
Posted on: August 23, 2011, 12:59:05 PM

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i also didn't know anyone from noxfreaks at the time
Posted on: August 23, 2011, 12:59:28 PM

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what was the domain anyway? noxfreaks.com?
Posted on: August 23, 2011, 01:00:21 PM

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http://www.sonicabuse.com/2011/02/nox-freaks-album-review/ (http://www.sonicabuse.com/2011/02/nox-freaks-album-review/)

noxfreaks.707designs or something, hefe's site

Mmmmm, I never played online back in 2000, but I played through the single player modes through the years. I even bought the Prima guide lol :|
I can't recall why I couldn't play online before, but people should start playing this again because it's quite enjoyable online. Really wish they could
remake a new version of nox where your character levels up in multiplayer.

I would assume that editing the core of this game wouldn't be too difficult anymore. Anyone know of any mods for nox?

some how you are correct.

Search around this forum, every mod ever for the North American community comes / came out of here.

The russians have been doing cool things though.

Map Database is at the bottom of this forum on the home page.. check it out.. any of the scripting maps are worth a download.. pretty impressive shit.

Do you guys remember when we were getting pressured at postcount or whatever it was to talk more about the game of Nox itself so we made up the robber class and wrote odes to the greatsword?

The robber class made it to wikipedia for awhile before some bastard cleaned up the nox page (and also removed all links to this forum).

heya, jes.  how do you like Skyrim?  you're thinking of WNx.  a lot of us migrated there since it was the only semi-organized "clan" left on Nox.  i wish we had backups of those last threads we made- i remember them being pretty hilarious (esp 'cause i created the robber thread and everything i do is amazing and great and cool).  we were declared something of a mutiny.  self-fulfilling prophecy of theirs' or not and pretty soon Nox was removed and I created Postcount for us all to retreat to.

Noxforum had way better e-drama..

Cause I was here.

bxilo forum?

Yea there too..

Wut up everyone!! Its been a LONG time

SAGES FTW

About WNx:
I remember when they got mad that someone had a picture of a girl with a bikini as their avatar, so everyone changed their avatars to David Hasselhoff in a speedo, haha.
They eventually had a countdown on the frontpage to when they would shut down the Nox forum, we were a pretty young rebellious group.

This thread is great. I remember being an idiot on the noob servers and eventually moving over to the USA servers. I tried my hand at the clan servers and got absolutely smashed by Tempest. I ended up just watching him play and god damn he was good, the most I've ever seen him talk was ": )". PEPE and PACO, some great alter egos to watch in there too, for the laughs. I remember spending a lot of time watching TuLLs wasting everyone.

Also, Milo, I now accept that Milo isn't a woman's name.

I was PEPE btw..

its really not

LOL REALLY? PEPE AND PACO were by far the 2 funniest wizzies i've seen play hahaha. i'm sure PACO was sgok then was he? no one had mom skills like  he did.

I'm not sure but those were good times.. I remember Tempest too and a few others.

Mila would be, and is, a womans name but Milo implies masculinity
Posted on: February 17, 2012, 03:05:29 AM

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i can definitively remember not casting mom because of the massive feedback you got when you did but eventually i put it in my sets

Never mind that mom is one of the easiest to counter spells at that.

I would get harped on for using fireball before mom

the goood news is that its all cool now, you can even cast fumble

Hi guys! Great to see the community is still alive! Hi to all my old friends on here! I sorta skimmed through the previous posts and it's great to read the history again.

I actually have quite the memory of the clan histories from the beginning so if you guys are interested, i can elaborate.

Thank you, please do

Always interesting


Go on

My old friends!

I'm so glad I found this awesome forum! I just wanted to chime in here to say hello to everyone that loved this game as much as I did. This game was the single best online multiplayer gaming/clan experience that I've ever had, and I know that many others can say the same. Those daze screenshots really took me back (it looks like I'm in a few!), but clanning in DP, blur, daze, and all the rest of them was truly awesome.

I want to give a special shoutout to exime, zeez, gyzmo, mastamage, el hefe, and hks, who I saw post on this thread and most (if not all?) of whom I clanned with back in the day. You guys were masters of the game, and I admired your skill and talent so much.  I didn't read every post in this thread so I'm sorry if I left someone out. I'm gonna go back and reread this later when I'm not sneaking in some personal internet browsing at work.

But yeah it's great to see all of you. I'm gonna start checking these forums and getting involved in the community more often now.

Cheers guys!

Can't believe this game is still going.  I may reinstall and get my ass kicked a bit more.  I do miss the asskickings the most.  It is nice to see so many old faces, well, old screen names.

Anyone want to play tomorrow?

i am not sure if your tomorrow is here or too late but i will! i on right now

Hey whatsup, like most of the people I was around like 7th grade when I picked up Nox. At the time I was going to a local video game store at the mall and buying a game, taking it home and burning it and returning it...until I randomly stumbled on this game and kept it.

Started off playing CTF servers doing dumb shit then went to the free for all server one day and killed this guy called [Krazy] Calix a bunch of times.  From there he invited me to meet the Krazy crew, ( Robdogg, Yze5150,other guys) and we battled Ember (zeavis and his guys) later that night.

This was maybe a month or so before the tournament everyone was talking about where the winner got flown out to Vegas or something and got a prize, or maybe 3 guys got to go.  To my recollection the top guilds were ICE, Ember, Krazy. I remember NNN as well but those 3 stick out the most at the time. The beef we had with each other was really entertaining, usual top was Slights crew ICE then Krazy then Ember.

Slight was an employee of westwood, he would really help everyone out by getting GM's to talk to the public and have us give infos in the chat channels, lots of people became friends with westwood gm's because of this.  I only kept in contact w/ Slight for a few years after like exime mentioned he was in Cal-i CS team called Team Vicious when it was really popular and when I last spoke to him he was a school teacher.

I was in Krazy for a long time and stayed with it until I was basically the last member, from there the game was basically a joke to me, most people had moved on to Diablo 2 or something else.  It was around this time that the 2nd generation of players starting popping up and many of the guys who would continue to play the game for the next few years came around.  Lots of the OG players who were still addicted would just makeup fake account names in fake guilds and get them to the top of the ladder and keep it secret...basically just ways of keeping ourselves entertained.

The game never really was the same since I experienced so much of the first few months of it, CTF battles between clans, 1v1 battles, warming up for team deathmatches..being part of a crew of good ass players and coming together to stomp out another crew was the best feeling I had ever had in any game up until that point.  When Sages was formed by Tempest (i think) we had enough guilds to fight against that it felt really fun, but the fact was that we were just to overpowered.

guilds I can remember that I was in

Krazy
ICE
9mm
Sages

Lots of shit happened in the game and I was using 56k 350ping for almost the entirety I played it, having 50 ping automatically made you an insanely good player as I found out later when it became available.

moves that stick out were the shock + TTT and death ray staff at the same time, funny things were how every wiz had his own crazy ass way of setting up spells...I don't think it was until Tempest was a celebrity that newbies started asking him on how his spell sets were setup lol.

I saw the entire gameplay change over the course of about the first 2 years. You used to be able to get away with a lot of spells(obliterate traps especially), nobody used reflects, spell cancels, spell reflect shields or even spell shields in the early game, so all the running in figure 8's trying to land spells on other guys and chasing them was much faster.


The warrior class is very ping dependent, on sidestep sword swings, chasing through blinks, and control timing...if you were a 50ping war vs a 350ping wiz you could easily figure out where you needed to rush into em...almost in slow mo.

i accidentally invented a lag move using 56k, where i would teleport behind someones reflect shield and shoot my death ray mid teleport. It would send it from where i would end up at, hitting them in the back and killing them.

I remember a lot of names, made a lot of friends but only keep in contact with El Hefe who just got married and has a kid now.  I still talk to him regularly about music and stuff.

SADplayer joined the Army and last time i spoke to him he was flight attendant.

Trunkx was living on his mom's couch and working for Walmart in South Dakota.

I played some games w/ Tempest on Fileplanet servers but that was about it

I have contacts on AIM for Zeavis,Meiji,Ace,some others but I don't contact them.

Zeezo if your reading this I remember you being an annoying wiz but I never really became friends with you

Quinnman was def the cheesiest player in the history of the game, he was a gimic player who never tried to get better at fighting.

also Lunatik, he was the guy who I actually gamed the most with after Nox, he convinced me to convince my mom to let me play Everquest for like 7$ a month..and from there we went on to doing the whole top guild MMO from EQ-DAOC-WoW.

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I played with dozens of names but the one I started with was [Krazy] RaZieL, or [Krazy] EdGeZ

I remember there was another fag named RaZieL who started playing much later than me, possibly even tried to copy me.  I confronted him and dueled him for the name and wooped his ass, nevertheless he continued to use the name lol...I had pretty much quit at that point so it wasn't really a big deal.

You burned games back then? In 7th grade lol.

Anyways. The nostalgia is strong with you. My haydays were with LutherX bubonic and the clan AGE and UH with Javier

Its awesome that nearly every multiple paragraph post on in this thread covers the same topics

Haha yeah, the thing was 99% of PC games released back then didn't have any CD Keys...and many of them weren't even online.  So you could literally just burn the game and have a fully functional copy, I don't want to go on the record as fact but I think that the command and conquer games may have been the first to use CD Keys.

I was also one of those kids that found someone to solder a mod chip into my ps1 and i'd goto local video stores and get all the ps1 games. good times.  

Keep in mind that there wasn't any cable internet, no torrent websites...

that same year I was on Nox I found out how to use mIRC channels (pre-napster way to get stuff) to download mp3's as they were basically brand new.  I remember making a good amount of money selling the Marshal Mathers LP (possibly the first modern mp3 album leak?) when it leaked a month early in mIRC to kids in junior high school lol. Even more, I remember I used to be able to tell the weight difference of a booster pack of Pokemon cards that had the foil special ones and i'd slang those at jr high school too LOL. needless to say I was selling weed in college.

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I do remember the winner of the big big vegas trip contest was Had0ken, I dont think I ever fought against him but i'm sure he was either just some solo guy or he was from ICE or NNN.  I remember vividly that all the original ICE clan guys were really fuckin intimidating lol, while I treated all the cronies from Ember like scrubs.

(edit: after reading NOLIMIT's posts I remembered that Robdogg was Battlemage and apparently also Hadok3n...one of my best friends lol but I guess those details slipped by me. NOLIMIT had the coolest name and spawned many other people using that style including myself lol. ][2 //\\ Z ][ ][E ][_ or something like that.)

I should also note that I was shown that Westwood Online was a free service maybe 6-12 months prior to this...my dad's girlfriend at the time had family come in from NY and the uncle was #1 ladder champ of Red Alert for a month.  I had been playing C&C since maybe 5th or 6th grade but never really grasped the whole idea of playing people online.  He showed me that it was a free service and when i got on Nox I didn't even play the solo campaign till like a year into having the game. I can assume that I may have never even touched the online aspect if I wasn't aware of how to use it at the time.

Also, I came up extremely fast in the game on complete coincidence, I was just some kid who had been playing for like a week, with no clue about Clans or Ranked Matches or Solo Ladder Ratios...I would have gone on for a long long time just playing CTF and messing around if Calix didn't push me into meeting Wolfpack the leader of Krazy and gave me a chance to prove myself.

I know many people who started playing felt it hard to get into the niche of top tier just because there was a lot of egos at that level of gameplay, and the only real open recruitment was scrubs in CTF. you were very quick to judge people on their clan tags and ppl you felt weren't on your level, it was HIGHLY competitive and nobody in the top crews really ever brought new people. When you say names like nataS and KiLL those guys were dudes who stood out bigtime compared to 99% of the population in the 2nd gen, and came up very fast as well.

That is most of my personal story of how I came into the Nox addiction, I'm gonna download a client tomorrow and try to play with some of you guys lol, take care.

nice yze5150 was my boi i remember you as well. i stayed in contact with yze, robdog and skar420 for a good while lost conact now though. yze gotta be in his 50's now

i remember krazy was formed took all the players from TSW cept me boo for only having dial up

Yeah dude, fucking ICQ...rob and yze both used it since they were old asses and never stayed on AIM which everyone was starting to use....also finding people on ICQ was almost impossible because you had a 10+ digit login lol.

Well I had an "intro" post in that forum but I guess it got deleted in the last couple years? =/

Awesome that I get to be on the front page of this thread -- though I feel unworthy.

So anyhow, I was Magus...the first one back in 2000. I remember winning ladder at least once as wizard, once right above some guy named Rain, don't remember him well.

Other names I remember are: zeezo, exime, milo!!! (since I see them posting here), emin (who no one has mentioned but was a baller wiz), [nnn]madcow, [nnn]wynn, [nnn]felis, luna, hks, puffy, tempest, psy, paulwipe, mastamage, and then later on zidane (was okay but obnoxious ego).

I was in Ember and later on Fade before quitting after all the hacking/server issues/quest-bs.

I can actually remember most of the 5 rows of my spell setup and took great joy in beating people with my crappy 56k modem ping. Back then there were so many people playing that there was clear separation from the top-lower tier players. When not playing competitive games one of my favorite things to do in full games was to make traps, pick them up, and then walk around invis and see if I could drop them under peoples' feet. So what if it almost never worked -- the entertainment value for me was priceless. Let's see, I guess there was also the insta-kill traps on elevators...that was pretty lame I guess.

Just finished reading entire thread and I can say this was the best game/community I have ever been apart of, so many names and memories were posted in this thread that took me way back.   Anyone remember the East vs West CTF game that was hosted by westwood, you needed an invite(password) to get in, surprised no one mentioned that.  I wonder if anyone has a copy of that flash video I made a while back "nox album."  Currently I have been playing league of legends and am a full time professional poker player living in Las Vegas.  -Ace

http://web.archive.org/web/20011019142005/http://westwood.ea.com/westwoodonline/tournaments/nox/CLAN/rankindex_0.html (http://web.archive.org/web/20011019142005/http://westwood.ea.com/westwoodonline/tournaments/nox/CLAN/rankindex_0.html)

http://web.archive.org/web/20010602200355/http://westwood.ea.com/westwoodonline/tournaments/nox/CLAN/rankindex_0.html (http://web.archive.org/web/20010602200355/http://westwood.ea.com/westwoodonline/tournaments/nox/CLAN/rankindex_0.html)

lots of familiar names in this thread. i probably fought most of you. don't remember much though. i was just a lil shitbag in the 6th grade back then.

my name was ?Mystick?Gohan? (blinking question marks with a pure red character). always played a warrior. i was never in any of the big clans like The Sages of Nox, preferred to fight against them since they were the best at the time. i was in CHUR with Happy for a bit though.

i just remember how i started off in clan games as a pretty shit player, but near the end of my time playing i was fighting evenly with Tempest and single-handedly leading my clan to the #2-3 spot.

some random things i can remember:

Tom Green (good wizard)
Bubonic (we clanned together)
Ember Gold (always wanted to be in this clan cause i loved the name and the song on their website was epic as fuck)
"Everything is a blur...."
challenging Tempest to a duel when i had 56k and getting destroyed in front of everyone. it was brutal. made me want to get better though.
and fireking haha.. he was an idiot back then... but he actually got me to play helbreath, an awesome PvP mmo i would play for the next year or two, and meet some of the best people ever.

Wasn't tom green a pen for Rico? Or sandman... It wasnt a main...

yeah, i think it was an alias. but i'm not sure what his main name was.

Pretty sure it was rico

Since we're reminiscing I figured I'd mention my junk. I don't remember when (I totally suck with time) but I used to go over to my friends house and play it or watch him play it for, like a month. Then a good few years passed and it was probably around late 90's early 2000's (maybe a bit more back). Me and a couple of my friends found it on discount at Wall-Mart and bought it instantly (With the Quest pack). Got to their house, installed it and found the fucking wonder of online play. We all got it in one up and installed in one way or the other.
I never got anything I'd consider close to good, but I remember getting in a game and the host was hacking (we were all calling him Mayor, or the Mayor I don't fuckin know) and that's how I learned to do the basic hacks of the game but never went further.
I vividly remember playing the soccer one (I can't remember and was gonna boot up the game but having issues I don't feel like dealing with) and loving the conjurer. The capture the flag one with the two castle/keep like bases and lava all in the middle area with paths.
It was sad and I legit always feel a pang when I try and play now or remember back when less and less people got on. I remember it seems like the Koreans (if they were Korean, all I remember is the characters that couldn't be displayed on my game) were found more and more in the america games, then it seemed like I could barely find anyone with an English typeset and I stopped playing.
I also still remember how legit sad I was when I went to log in and found out that the servers were down. FeelsBadMan
Then it seems like I found out about the other servers for it and junk and it seemed like by the time I found out it was totally dead... Or piratically.

Man, I really miss this game lol. I gotta find a time I really feel like sorting out whatever is wrong (probably just use the install here and reinstall) and figure out if I can play the single player on my Win 10 (ugh).