When I look back at when I started... I remember my friend's from socom2, and some from real life talking in a private chat on AIM while we watched and were amazed at the live camera feed off of playonline.com..
We all thought we would buy gil (hah we were innocent!) and buy an airship, from somewhere my friends and I thought 1million would start our airship company. I was to be a DRG/thf with Leviathan as my dragon O.O, and my friend wanted to be THF so he could steal gil from passangers.
I was going to catch chocobo's and rent them to people using our airship for a side shop lol...
Back then everyday was great, scale armor at lvl 10 was an accomplishment, lvl 7 sapara was the best sword cause of looks alone...
I loved being a WAR with a sword/shield, it was great.
Me and all my friend's who I started with... Airvash (quit), His sister (quit), AIrmrbojanlges (quit but now is back), Cheleborn (still here), Aircloud (quit), Dynamo (quit several times, back now), Kalhuna (still here), Lloyd (rarely here), and myself (still here), we used to pt and go out to explore, it didnt matter that we were 5 lvls apart, and killing EP's to the higher lvls, we were cool in our bronze armor (except subligars, ewwww), and we had fun..
Now it's all exp exp exp, sub job this, main job that, cookie cutter blah blah...
I just look back, at my best memory... the time my friend Kalhuna, 19rdm no sub at the time, escorted me, lvl 8war no sub, to sandy, from bastok, I felt so accomplished...
meh, sorry for my rant, I rarely post on the boards, and I figured I would post here, cause it brought back memories. :(