Question about NW today and some nostalgic rambling

Back when I first got into napoleonic wars (username was Salah_al_Din, if anyone remembers me) I tried joining a regiment. It didn’t go very well- partly because I didn’t have time but mostly because I was just a kid. Unfortunately for me, I’m pretty sure that was when the servers were at their peak population so I’ve probably missed NW’s golden age, but I still wanted to ask what the state of it is today.

Part of the reason is that I have something of a renewed interest for it, but to be honest I’m mostly just curious because of the nostalgia I’ve been feeling for that time recently. NW and sometimes native were really the only multiplayer games I played as a kid. That was the first time I actually talked with strangers online- random stuff in the regular servers, and messing around in those wonderfully clumsy roleplay ones.

It was the first time I was actually “bullied”. Having your username as Salah_al_Din, as it turned out to a kid who in real life had never been made fun of for his skin color or name, brings out some childishly ugly stuff on the internet. I’m kind of glad it happened though- I needed to learn that some people were going to judge me like that in real life, and to understand that I had to actually experience it (and I could always leave the server and never see that person again, unlike in real life).

I actually had one friend that I played native with, now that I think about it. A college kid nice enough to play games and talk history with a kid who read too much. The only friend I ever met through the internet, although I stopped talking to him several years ago.

Now that I look back over what I wrote, I realize how much I got caught up in remembering all this stuff. Actually got kind of emotional writing about it. Thanks for reading to my nostalgic rambling if you read all this. I’d be very grateful to hear any replies- an answer to my original question, or just if anyone else feels the same way about NW. Thanks.

Submitted June 27, 2018 at 12:24AM by letsbefriendse https://ift.tt/2Izicuy