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Smartin
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Joined: August 04, 2005
Posts: 1107
From: Michigan
|  Posted: 2007-07-18 10:16
I thought it would be intresting to hear how everyone came about to playing Darkspace. Did somdone show you? Accident? Google? etc. etc.
I was introduced to DarkSpace by a co-worker. You guys might no him as [Icarus]Jolesman. One day he decided he was gonig to show me a new game. I thought to myself sure but I really don't find gamming to be fun anymore. I remember him jumping in a dread, and fighting it out with Sheng for a bit. Latar I found that another close friend of mine who you know as [Icarus]RattleSnakeGold also plays, and so it began. The 3 of us all lined up in a livingroom, basement, or wherever playing DS. They taught me the basics and the rest is history.
How did you guys discover DS?
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Sixkiller
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Courageous Elite Commandos
Joined: May 11, 2005
Posts: 1786
From: Netherlands
| Posted: 2007-07-18 11:07
I think that after playing Darkgalaxy (a textbased MMO about space battle) i wanted a somewhat more real game like it. (I was a big fan of Halo, where the big spaceship looked really wonderfull to me)
So i started googling, and somehow, i dont know why, i found this before EvE, so i didnt skip the entire genre.
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Kanman
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Pitch Black
Joined: August 26, 2005
Posts: 1017
From: Virginia, United States
| Posted: 2007-07-18 11:57
I bought the actual CD-ROM in a GameStop WAAAAY back when. Thought it looked cool, but didnt realize it was online-only. I did the tutorial and got my free week. I just loved how pretty the planets, stars and ships were. I especially liked the 'whoosh factor' of jumping. I remember just hitting J and then leaning back in my chair going "Whhhoooooooaaaaaaah!!!!!!". Good Times.  I paid to play for a month, but was too young to have a job and couldnt afford to keep paying (I think it was 20 a month back then). I also had a computer that could BARELY handle the game so long as only a few other ships were around, and a dial-up connection that made my face hurt.
I put the game in the back of my mind until I turned about 20 and was looking for a new game. I remembered DarkSpace and wondered if it was still around. I googled it. With my brand-new computer and a Cable modem hooked up, I was ready to give it another go. I registered a new name and here I am.
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Deadly Assassin
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Joined: June 15, 2006
Posts: 81
| Posted: 2007-07-18 13:09
lol i found it because i was looking for another game which i forgot the name of....something to do with space so i typed it in...thought ewww pretty and downloaded it....and u can guess the rest
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Mk-V
Cadet
Joined: July 09, 2007
Posts: 10
| Posted: 2007-07-18 13:47
I found someone talking about it in the chat of a different game, and since the other game gets tiring fast, I googled it and checked it out. Im totally getting another month after my coupon thing goes out.
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$yTHe {C?}
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Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: September 29, 2002
Posts: 1292
From: Arlington, VA
| Posted: 2007-07-18 15:34
I used to go to a web cafe called Webheave, where all of the guys who ran it played. These guys happened to be the original Agents, so thats the fleet I got my start in as a DSer.
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Firekka
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Joined: October 27, 2002
Posts: 285
| Posted: 2007-07-18 16:09
Im trying to find out how I got here, anyone know? please? help!
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Eledore Massis [R33]
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Templar Knights
Joined: May 26, 2002
Posts: 2694
From: tsohlacoLocalhost
| Posted: 2007-07-18 16:10
happen to click on the Darkspace Add on fileplanet.
downloaded it and played it.
and im stuck here ever since.
[Don't you dare un-stuck me!]
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Coeus
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Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: March 22, 2006
Posts: 2815
From: Philly
| Posted: 2007-07-18 16:25
Its all Depth's fault...
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Sardaukar
Admiral
Raven Warriors
Joined: October 08, 2002
Posts: 1656
| Posted: 2007-07-18 17:13
Fileplanet here as well. I had just discovered Descent: Freespace: The Great War (AKA FS1), and was checking for patches and stuff for it, when I saw "Featured Download: DarkSpace", and clicked on the link, thinking it to be a mod for Freespace. Wrong, but so right.
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Fattierob
Vice Admiral
Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2007-07-18 17:17
A friend of mine and myself was discussing some ideas for a now-defeunct stardock game (like all of them, eh?). He showed me a map of the .480 metaverse and I asked him "hey, this looks pretty cool, where did you get this?". He responded "some game. here's a link".
Been here ever since. what wat his name?....nitehawk or somthing?...
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Veronw
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Joined: December 13, 2004
Posts: 554
| Posted: 2007-07-18 17:36
was looking for a good space game at gamestop, saw a crummy old box that was bent with a price tag of $5, thought to myself "Wow, that must be a crap game...." next thing i did was pick it up and buy it lol, only to find out when i installed it that it was online lol
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SaturnShadow™ *FC*(Angel Of Darkness)
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Joined: February 03, 2007
Posts: 310
From: UK
| Posted: 2007-07-18 18:45
well i was getting bored of runescape and had completed ALL my games on the hardest level of difficulty so then when i went round my parents house i saw my dad and brother playing this space game so i asked "wats this game?" my dad said "im not telling ya" with a big grin on his face so then i thought fair enough and watched them play the game when it was time to leave my dad came up to me and gave me a bit of paper with the name 'darkspace' written on it ... so when i got home i looked it up downloaded it .. took about a minite hehe althou it took my dad and bro 30 mins hehe so i thought ill do the tutorial then after that i subbed my self right after it without knowing about the free sub then from there i learned alot from the ugto players and was for the first 2 months almost playing NON-stop.
oh and their nickname were Bryghtblade not sure wat my bros was
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BackSlash
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Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2007-07-18 20:25
Originaly, I found it through PCGamer UK, as they had an article about DarkSpace being dropped from Ubisoft. I then later signed up again when I saw the fileplanet offer.
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Lux (Polaris)
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Raven Warriors
Joined: April 20, 2004
Posts: 835
From: Asgard
| Posted: 2007-07-18 21:36
I went online and searched for "Online Space Game". I clicked on a link taking me to this list of such games, and clicked on Darkspace. Downloaded it, started playing, was impressed by the graphics and such, and stayed.
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