The nostalgia thread

[Scyza]

Hey guys,

how about a bit TVS nostalgia? Answer the following questions!

1. What was your first beta?
I'm not good with numbers so I actually can't answer this one myself, don't remember haha.

2. Who was your first LC?
Scartissue *getstearyeyed*

3. Who was your favourite LC?
Probably Boris

4. How did you find to the game?
Fellow player from a different browser game showed me, Tumnardok.

5. Who's your favourite TVS person of all time? (no offense to the rest )
Guderian! Where is he btw?

6. What's your favourite TVS nickname of all time?
Spiderwolve. Just imagine what this creature would actually look like!

7. Do you still remember playing without sleep tick and autopilot?
Hell, yes!

8. Do you still remember scantowers?
Sadly, no. But I heard the tales

9. Do you still remember how you had to make sure the LC's ship didn't get destroyed?
Again, no.

10. What was your first nickname?
Must have been Scyza, not sure.

11. What is your favourite taunt?
Don't ya just love repair ships?

12. And finally... show us your favourite TVS avatar if you still have it somewhere! (I really miss avatars, why were they removed?)


Feel free to add questions

By the way, do the rankings from the old games still exist somewhere? Couldn't find them anywhere ^^

[3ch3]

1. What was your first beta?
I have no idea... like centuries ago

2. Who was your first LC?
Sight, or at least the first I remember... didnt really pay attention to LCs in the first games.

3. Who was your favourite LC?
Sight, hands down

4. How did you find to the game?
Through Itswar I think...

5. Who's your favourite TVS person of all time? (no offense to the rest )
Hmm, I like the dutchies (lapoor, eyecontact, kip, myself )

6. What's your most intriguing TVS nickname of all time?
Domador, never figured out if this was his real name or some character's

7. Do you still remember playing without sleep tick and autopilot?
Yeah... also remember good old WAP, and my phonebills ofc.

8. Do you still remember scantowers?
Yeah, lets do a retro round??

9. Do you still remember how you had to make sure the LC's ship didn't get destroyed?
eeh, wut?

10. What was your first nickname?
I've had soo many... wouldnt recall my first

11. What is your favourite taunt?
No Soup For You !

12. And finally... show us your favourite TVS avatar if you still have it somewhere! (I really miss avatars, why were they removed?)
Black Sheep ofc... cant find the pic anywhere though

[Legion]

1. What was your first beta?
My first one was Beta 4B but it crashed half way through. So first full beta was 4C

2. Who was your first LC?
Sitting Duck, was Bor LC

3. Who was your favourite LC?
Tough one can I have 3? Scartissue, Chopper and Sittingduck

4. How did you find to the game?
Friend of mine, played under the Name Fraggle

5. Who's your favourite TVS person of all time? (no offense to the rest )
Boris, great to have a laugh with and as an adversary.

6. What's your favourite TVS nickname of all time?
Son of Squid

7. Do you still remember playing without sleep tick and autopilot?
Do I! weeks of 5 hours sleep a night lol.

8. Do you still remember scantowers?
Yeap, Beta 7 Blew em all up as the Bors

9. Do you still remember how you had to make sure the LC's ship didn't get destroyed?
Yeah funny stuff LC dies the legion loses scans, also if the LC was in a cloaker they lost the ability to Cloak.

10. What was your first nickname?
Legion

11. What is your favourite taunt?
Belly's gonna get ya!

12. And finally... show us your favourite TVS avatar if you still have it somewhere! (I really miss avatars, why were they removed?)
My fav was Valdanos More Beer, More Kills, More Fun! Logo

[Aftermath]

1. What was your first beta?
Couldnting this one, 3 Betas ago.

2. Who was your first LC?
3ch3

3. Who was your favourite LC?
3ch3

4. How did you find to the game?
Zypher and Sidius 9000 had been trying to get into the game for years, I finally caved out of sheer boredom :p

5. Who's your favourite TVS person of all time? (no offense to the rest )
Tough one, but I'll have to go with JackBlackVll. Always a fun ally/rival.

6. What's your favourite TVS nickname of all time?
Whywasteitonme

7. Do you still remember playing without sleep tick and autopilot?
Though I've never used sleep tick I've always had the option so no.

8. Do you still remember scantowers?
I've heard about the joys of that time, but never played with them.

9. Do you still remember how you had to make sure the LC's ship didn't get destroyed?
Other than the LC demanding we keep them alive? No.

10. What was your first nickname?
Aftermath

11. What is your favourite taunt?
Now go away before I taunt you again.

12. And finally... show us your favourite TVS avatar if you still have it somewhere! (I really miss avatars, why were they removed?
Before my time I'm afraid.

[calundra]

1. What was your first beta?
Beta 4 (not sure which, I can remember waiting until the start of a game to play as the previous one was ending).

2. Who was your first LC?
Peter? He might have been 2nd, his identity was given away and he was killed early thus we lost scans.

3. Who was your favourite LC?
So many to choose from, Chopper, Legion, whykt... Pharaoh was good this game. Boris is always entertaining, I don't think he'd like the limit on the legion news length now though.

4. How did you find to the game?
My boyfriend at the time starting playing after typing http://www.tvsonline.co.uk into a browser because he wanted to buy a new TV!

5. Who's your favourite TVS person of all time? (no offense to the rest )
Again, so many to choose from, ecvej, Chopper, Spiderwolve, valdano, Jeffery, Lloythy, suicidesquad. There is no way I can choose, anyone I've ever spent time talking to in Tara's!

6. What's your favourite TVS nickname of all time?
MaxPower, BorgCube, Mother (clearly making me choose just 1 wasn't going to happen).

7. Do you still remember playing without sleep tick and autopilot?
Yes

8. Do you still remember scantowers?
I remember, but I wasn't too active during those games.

9. Do you still remember how you had to make sure the LC's ship didn't get destroyed?
Yes

10. What was your first nickname?
calundra

11. What is your favourite taunt?
This is an official taunt, consider yourself taunted!

12. And finally... show us your favourite TVS avatar if you still have it somewhere! (I really miss avatars, why were they removed?)



They weren't so much removed as not added yet to the new version.

[SpiderWolve]

1. What was your first beta?
4C. That was ages ago too.


2. Who was your first LC?
ChiliDog I think was the kril LC in that game?


3. Who was your favourite LC?
Oh wow. Uh. Between Chopper, Legion and r43p3r its hard to choose

4. How did you find to the game?
I clicked on an Ad whilst play another browser based game called Utopia.


5. Who's your favourite TVS person of all time? (no offense to the rest )
Chopper! I'm not entirely convinced she hasn't been flying around lately incognito either...




6. What's your favourite TVS nickname of all time?
Llothy (I'm sure I'm not spelling that right) it was always a tongue twister for me




7. Do you still remember playing without sleep tick and autopilot?
Yep! I still don't use Sleep Tick


8. Do you still remember scantowers?
Yup, remember going around destroying them all. That was a fun beta.



9. Do you still remember how you had to make sure the LC's ship didn't get destroyed?
Yes, especially since I was the one that lost them for us in B5



10. What was your first nickname?
SpiderWolve


11. What is your favourite taunt?
Thanks for contributing to my cruiser account!



12. And finally... show us your favourite TVS avatar if you still have it somewhere! (I really miss avatars, why were they removed?)

Sacred Seagulls, it's up there in cals post

[3ch3]

Now that I read all this...

Spider: where is Jwolve?
Legion: you still playin incognito or what?

[Legion]

Yeah played this beta under the name Scipio

[3ch3]

Yeah played this beta under the name Scipio

LIKE

[Scyza]

Haha, seems like more old people are playing than you would suspect on first glance... never realized that iceblink was Eppo either