What'd you do in your first day of Ace of Spades?

[Kodiak]

Share your story/discuss.

For me it was going to a server hosting Normandie (It was Sham's I think). The .58 update had just been released.

...Anywho, I had no idea what I was doing and had just figured out how to change my block color. I switched to red. I then began spamming red blocks throughout the entirety of the green spawn and proclaimed myself the Red Block King. Everyone was getting pretty pissed with me. Some nice dude told me how to change my name, so I left, changed my name to "REDBLOCKKING", and then came back and proceeded to do the same thing. The grand <@> dude GreaseMonkey (I had NO idea who he was at the time) started many votekicks against me but alas, the flopped. I then demanded the entire server swear their allegiance to me or be crushed under the might of the Red Block Empire. Two people joined up and one of them built me a palace! Life was great.

Then Grease and the gang votekicked me xD

Anywho, share your story below.

[BrosephRadson]

All i remember is dying a lot

[USABxBOOYO]

Griefed the map buildings on Normandie in the Komrade Server :P. Then I went and played legit afterwards and have ever since.

[mikuli]

I asked some really stupid questions in the #aos channel, and killed tGM a few times on a public server.

[Tai]

Built a road on Gen Map because no one could figure out which direction to walk in.

[Tank]

Great idea for a thread here.

I can't remember many interesting things from my first time playing, so I'll just summarize my experience of playing the game back when I began. On the first day, I can remember the white webpage with the server list, and after waiting quite a while to get into a server that was almost empty, I began. First came the fatal decision of choosing a team. Usually, I would go with green for everything as it has always been my favourite colour, but I thought I should try switching that up for once, so I joined blue, and that has been my favourable team choice ever since. Of course, I was a Deuce. So, I spawned in the back lines and I don't remember going any farther. I started with figuring out the controls (nobody reads the 'readme'!) and built a base in the spawn which started off as an underground room. I didn't spend a long time doing this as I wanted to see what else there was to do, so I headed off to try finding an enemy base, unfortunately I bumped into the invisible wall, heh, I realised this and headed the other way. I hadn't been traveling for long when I was being fired at, I saw the guy on a hill to the left but I didn't get a chance to fire, this was my first death. I played around at the spawn for a while and then left because I needed to get some sleep that night. As I said, nothing too interesting happened that day, although playing the game for the first time was fun, I really liked the concept. As for the server name, I'm fairly sure that it was the Mojang Community server, which doesn't exist anymore of course.

After that day, I would go on some of the other random servers, with great difficulty of course. I would most frequently go on the 'Trench Wars EU' and 'Trench Wars EU 2' servers though. In my opinion, these were the best days of Ace of Spades, the only map was the default map, the only gun was the rifle and it was completely accurate. There was no auto-climb and there were always huge fortresses with teamwork. I remember having to dig tunnels through hills and build bridges to save time for our team to get to the front lines. I also remember the big challenge in the sneaking around through tunnels to get the intel without being found. The fortresses that the greens would produce were always impressive and really helped their team. Their teamwork in this was also quite admirable. Another thing I recall doing was making a base inside of a mountain right back next to the green spawn, a person saw me eventually though, and I had a long fight trying to reclaim the base. Before this, I hadn't really played any FPS to a competitive extent, but I seemed to be fairly good at the game after a while, I wasn't really able to find someone who could top me, although I did find one player who was pretty much at my level, this was most certainly the strongest green team I had seen at the time, I think I was able to stop them from coming too far into our base though. I enjoyed playing a lot and got my first substantial kill number, 306, this isn't much of an accomplishment nowadays, but back then it was pretty big. All of this happened on the Trench Wars EU servers.

Later I found the 'Sham's Little Pony' server, I found the name amusing so I decided to join. I think this was the time when the Trench Wars servers weren't being hosted anymore, I can't remember exactly though. Fun was definitely to be had here, the regulars on the server were challenging and the teamwork was of a good standard as far as I can recall. I had also made some good acquaintances here, so this was the server I frequented from then on.

So, that concludes my first experiences back when I began to play this game, this was all in the April/May time frame. I have to say, I enjoyed playing more back then than I do now.

[tunaspirit]

not knowing i could change block color with arrow keys
being sniped to death by blues in the mountains

[TheGeekZeke101]

Falling into the water not knowing how to get out. That lead to me not knowing how to exit the screen and ending up with seven on my windows bar.

[ReubenMcHawk]

It was ages ago, back on an old server called Frogbox Goatpond. I griefed that thing to the ground on several occasions. Good times, good times.

[PXYC]

I joined a server called 'Gods Server - Island'. It was island with two huge godblocked towers in the middle. It was probably the most fun I've had on AoS, besides the time my friend and I went into a genmap and dug a huge tunnel and took over the blue scum. Good times.

[Tocksman]

I hosted Goon Haven, got some of my friends together, and we joined and played on chrispin's assault map. After about 5 minutes, there were a few deuces playing with us. Pretty soon, the server was full, and we were getting our asses handed to us. :)

[Aqwertybqwerty]

Waaaay back in 0.36, I booted up the game for the first time and joined a half full server (~15 players) and started playing. I still count it as one of my favorite AoS moments; no greifers or hacking, everyone was still learning with a few decent players on each side, and the gameplay was incredibly fun. There was one bridge in the center of the map that our team controlled, and all of the fighting revolved around it, and since there was no SMG to take down the awesome structure in seconds it was genuinely useful. I also remember how it was a much more builder-focused game back then; when people captured a base, they didn't start spamming grenades to wreck it, they rebuilt it and put a blue flag on top.

As for how I did, took quite a few headshots and delivered a few of my own, but I didn't really care about how I played or my kdr; I was having a blast.

[Articsledder]

I first heard about the game on the MC forums a few days after it was released. I joined a server, saw a few fly hackers and decided it was a crappy game. A few months later (early July) I had given up on Minecraft PvP and tried again. I actually read the readme, and joined Mat2 bridgewars. I swear I played that single game for hours. The side bridges had already fallen and there was an intense war near the center when a chunk of the bridge was missing. The bridge eventually got griefed, but then we built forts on the foundations and continued the war. After a while I got bored and left.

[Kodiak]

Thanks for your replies!

[Nyazzle]

I found it on a Minecraft forum so i downloaded it quite recently got quite into the game, joined shams little pony and didn't get many kills as i was too busy either role-playing as if im in world war 1/2 for some reason or was building a huge structure at the base couple days after that i try to play seriously and have been playing regularly since.