I remember when I entered a new zone, it was a white knuckle experience.
I remember trying desperately to get back to the train station from the hospital at Steel using hover.
I remember trying to run back to the train station from the hospital at Steel and came up to the interior corner of that L-shaped building (north of the mutant shop) and was too scared to run around it. I hovered over it.
I remember running around next to the walls at Boomtown to map out the zone perimeter sweating profusely while dodging and wowing at the masses of purple upper-teens foes.
I don't exactly remember how, but once I wound up at IP and was trying to make it back to Steel or anywhere just to get out. Again using hover and being one-shotted like a duck.
I remember finally taking fly, my first travel power, at 28.
Teams are the number one killer of soloists.
I remember with my beta char not realizing multiple enh stack on the same power 
I remember when Perez Park had a glitch that caused all the spawns to not recycle but keep respawning (think skulls as far as the eye can see) 
I remember using an AR/Dev blaster in the beta and being the only Dev blaster around
I remember seeing Dr Vahz and realizing for the first time there really are AVs in this game 
Oh, I forgot this one...
I remember meeting Doctor Occult in Beta, a level 50 Illusionist/Storm Summoning character. And I remember trying to talk to his phantasm because I thought it was Phantasm (the person). Oops. 
I wonder where Dr. Occult is now, anyway.
I remember arriving in Atlas for the first time, running around, and being utterly AMAZED at how well my computer was handling the dozens of civilians wandering around.
I remember deleting my first character at level 14 because I'd made such a mess of slotting and power choices.
I remember wandering into IP from the Row at level 10 or so, noticing the nearby Family goons, and beating a hasty retreat.
I remember the Mass Tsoo Hunt when Icon first opened.
I remember when my Fire Tanker hit level 18, and me and some friends cut a swath through IP.
I remember getting physically nauseous at the frantic pace of said swath-cutting, and I remember being incredibly relieved when Burn was toned down.
I remember soloing Dr. V with that same character, before the fix. Sure, he had to run away to rest once, but solo he did.
I remember hearing of this terrible monster in Perez Park, that not even higher leveled guys could take care of (this was when there weren't many 20+'s, mind you).
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I remember MacAllen's monstrously beastly posts on things like Customer Service and stuff...
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Gawd. That guy.
His snottiness as an official Cryptic rep almost made me leave the game before beta even came out. In a weird way, I'm glad that he's immortalized in the strat guide; now I can flip to page 154 whenever I want to see him being snippy, frozen in time.
Hey, remember when the strat guide was a goldmine of valuable data?
I remember spending ages tweaking the costume on my very first character (level 47 and going strong, thanks) on the first day of live. In retrospect, it sucked. It has not been missed.
I remember doing the Patient Zero mission for the first time. A sick ice controller and an emp/psy defender with one attack do not an optimal team make, but by gum we did it.
I remember tackling Dr. V for the first time and really being scared. He was huge. And he took ages to fall with just me and a blaster. The game's never quite given me another adrenaline rush like the one when he finally went down.
I remember my first TF. Me, two empaths, and five blasters, mostly fire/dev or AR/dev, against about a zillion clockies, before the smoke grenade fix. I felt pretty damn worthless, but I hit 20 and picked up Speed Boost, so I got over it. Eventually.
I remember the week or two when Behemoths spawned in Perez Park and King's Row.
I remember during that time on a pickup team the leader selected the level 12 mind controller's CoT mission (none of the rest of us were over 10). The carnage was horriffic.
I remember when the game was so new there were always two or three instances of Atlas and Galaxy, because everyone was still that low level.
I remember when exploding mages weren't interruptable and were seriously bad news for any team with more than one melee character.
I remember hovering to the top of the zone box in King's Row at level 8. It took a really, really long time.
I remember seeing someone's leftover Sky Raiders behind King Garment Works and thinking how cool and exotic and high-level they were. Actually, they're still pretty cool.
I remember when virtually every door mission in King's Row was in King Garment Works. They should charge rent.
I remember starting a Bubbler on Guardian around the time of the Halloween event. One of the big-scarecrow-things (can't remember what they were called) was heading towards Ms. Liberty and probably a lot of people not ready to deal with. I was only lvl 5 or so at the time. I threw out an Power Bolt and then brought up PPF. Got him all the way to the Steel Canyon (iirc) entrance before someone was around who could take him down. Good timing, too, since I had run out of repites.
But still I fear and still I dare not laugh at the madman!
One man's "meh" is another man's "zomg". - Leatherneck
Procrastination meter coming soon.
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I remember when people could teleport through walls (and get to places like the Faultline trial area)
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I "remember" that too...like it was yesterday.
Or this morning, even.
I remember...
...streetsweeping towards the end of beta in Skyway. Coming to the Talos zone in. We all decided to make an expedition there to see what we could find. It was one of the very last days of beta. Entering we were awestruck by the gigantic Rikti mothership hovering over Talos Island. We all flew up to try and land on it! Just awesome!
...Task Forces would give you one or two missions before the contact- and it was a regular citizen giving the one we tried- would just not give the next leg of the Task Force. So everyone would street sweep.
...taking whatever power looked good from the manual description. And making a lot of poor choices.
I remember soloing AVs like Vandal, back before critical hits, when teams would only take a scrapper as a last resort because scrappers were "teh gimp" since nobody knew how to play one. Of course, I also remember the whines scrappers had back then...
I remember when Origin mattered.
When characters had statistics, like Strength and Intellect.
And when they dumped Personality/Charisma.
I remember the first "nerf" after launch--getting rid of naked toons...
and all the "This is censorship!" threads it generated.
If that happened now, CuppaJo would have to paste an "Official Naked Toons Thread."
I remember telling people "Well, once you pick your costume you better like it, because you have it forever"
I remember fighting Outcasts in Steel Canyon and this guy ran up and I thought he was helping me. And I thought "Wow, that guy looks cool! He's a ninja!" then realizing that he was attacking me and it was a group I never saw before.
I remember when the Outcasts were cool because they were just 'ordinary humans with powers' instead of being skittles.
I remember having teleport as my first travel power and having to master fire escapes in King's Row for 14 long levels while my friends would use hover.
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Getting giddy the first time I finished Outbreak and hearing that Atlas Park music...
...I still get giddy when I hear it.
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I am right there with you. That music is so perfect as an introduction to the game. The guy/gal who composed that theme deserves a bonus.
I remember the first time I got out of Outbreak and my friend tried to tell me where he was in Atlas Park. He was standing about 10 feet in front of me but I couldn't pick out heroes from NPCs at that point and it took me about 3 minutes to find his name in the crowd.
I also remember getting hover for the first time and being disappointed about how freaking slow it was.
I remember getting fly for the first time and thinking how fast it was (compared to Hover)....and then my SJing friend challenged me to a race...
I remember making poor power choices and even poorer slot choices with my first hero, a Fire/Fire Tanker (2 slotted Rest or 3 slotted brawl anyone?)
I remember pwning everything with my AR/Dev before the Smoke grenade nerf.
I remember wondering if any powersets in the game had the gun that the 5th Column has that throws down a huge spray of bullets...this I wondered while in FF at lvl31 with my AR/Dev. Talk about a happy camper at the next level.
I remember my first trip to Steel Canyon and how crazy I thought it was at lvl8. I was convinced I was going to die within seconds of walking the streets.
I remember my first trip to Talos Island. I was mid-teens and somehow got in a "older" group of people. Somebody TPed the entire group onto a building ledge above the mission door so we could all jump down and enter the mission at the same time. I was looking down at all the Tsoo Ink Men and was just about pissing myself. I got SKed up to lvl27 and thought I was the pwnz for sure.
I remember using TP to kill people that really pissed me off before it was consensual.
I remember using Teleport/Recall friend to TP myself into the back room of Icon and then TPing other people in there who pissed me off (and then dropping team and leaving them).
I remember street sweeping with a team and being the lead (baddie finder). I walked up to one group and asked my team if they wanted to kill them...only to be laughed at because the group was made entirely of other heroes street sweeping as well.
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I remember messing around with the character creator for like 2 hours, between ATs and costumes, before settling on my first character. Ah, the start of a maniacally obsessed alt-a-holic.
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I remember the days when beta would end early in the evening and purposely logging off and back on before the servers went down, just to have access to the character generation until the servers came up again the next day.
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AMEN! I did the exact same thing. Oh the days of beta, how I miss you so. I remember putting slots into brawl and sprint in beta, playing a defender like a blaster, getting Super Speed for the first time and saying "Hey, look at me! I'm darn fast!" and people "ooo"ing and "aaah"ing. The waves of people that abandoned my supergroup after hitting 14 just to see the travel powers. The rigors of the Respec Trial when first introduced. The begging and pleaing of people who want a bow and arrow AT, a gun AT, and trench coats...."We need trench coats!" I remember fault line being my bane of existence as a speedster, and I'll never forget the 5th Column, the best super-villian group EVAR!
I remember four-slotting sprint, swift and hurdle because my toon didn't have a travel power in his design (I should, that was one month ago... Thank God for the bonus respec).
I remember beta when I was afraid of dying because debt was such an alien concept to me. In the back of my mind I was sure I had to re-roll my character.
I remember when they adjusted TI's time duration and recharge, then switched it to a toggle a week later.
I remember tanks taking provoke because they had no choice once blasters started getting larger attack powers.
I remember when Unyielding was Unyielding Stance and the tank blocked doorways when he was tanking so the blasters could launch AoEs at the villains and not draw that much fire for it.
I remember fighting someone with my controller down to 10 hp and having some jerk run by and Brawl him to death KSing me.
I remember port griefing.
I remember people not knowing how to use the search function properly and blind inviting you even though you're not lft... oh wait, that still happens.
I remember the first time a 5th changed into a warwolf while I was fighting it.
I remember the second Rikti invasion on infinity when a Rikti ambush got lost in SC, called up a portal which kept warping more in. Well over 100 heroes gathered to battle Rikti 15 levels higher then themselves.
I remember being the highest level on a team fighting in south bricks at level 26.
I remember the first time I saw a pre nerf burn tank
I remember using Nova when no one had ever seen it before. (And getting beat on by a survivor while people types things like WOW and Nice)
I remember my first TF, the day they were fixed, and having the whole team but the inv tank wiped out by 5th at the very start of the first mission, then having everyone go to the hospital, and come back to the mission while the tank was still fighting them by himself.
I remember the first time I saw a herd of warwolves being pulled in.
I remember many old friends who I have not seen in a long time, and will probably never see again. 
I remember when group fly was gimped.
I remember the first time I heard the music that plays when you get near City Hall or Hero Corps in Atlas and Galaxy.
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I remember being the only person in Atlas Park - or any of the other zones for that matter. Just me and the mobs. So when I saw players actually log on during the first days of beta it was...the...coolest...thing...ever.
Reading these posts. Great fun.
War_Witch
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OMG, it's War Witch! Can I get your autograph?
I remember two things fondly, both are personal (not so much about game mechanics).
I remember playing Star Wars: Galaxies for just under a year, and becoming increasingly bitter and angry at the noncommunicative developers who outright lied to the player base or at the very least couldn't schedule their way out of a wet paper bag ("Smugglers will be fixed in the next patch. No, really this time. Ok, just kidding. NEXT patch after that. Seriously."). I remember being extremely down on the concept of crafting, loot, PvP, etc.
I remember hearing through the grapevine about this game and taking a look at the boards. It sounded cool, but it was the end of beta so no way for me to get in on it. I remember buying the pre-order, playing it, and immediately falling in love with this game which gave me EXACTLY what I was looking for post-SWG and still does. I remember being amazed at the devs and how they post SUBSTANTIVE information, how their design philosophy (start small, make it perfect, then build bigger) is now what I consider THE path to making the perfect MMORPG.
Speaking of the pre-order, I remember having thought out several character concepts ahead of time and rushing to create ALL of them during the head start so I could reserve the names. I still have just about all of my first wave of characters, although some I gave up. Many aren't developed, but that can change.
And yes, I STILL love bringing your newbie hero into Atlas Park for the first time. I actually just made a new alt this weekend (even though my highest character is only level 22).
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I remember playing Star Wars: Galaxies for just under a year, and becoming increasingly bitter and angry at the noncommunicative developers who outright lied to the player base or at the very least couldn't schedule their way out of a wet paper bag ("Smugglers will be fixed in the next patch. No, really this time. Ok, just kidding. NEXT patch after that. Seriously."). I remember being extremely down on the concept of crafting, loot, PvP, etc.
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hehe those were the days, the best SWG dev things were 1) banning all crafters to "FIX" the credit dupe. and 2) resetting all jedi cause of the death xp exploit
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the naked hero thing... however the person said it
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you can still make a naked female character in the game. You look slightly pale and need to tan but it can be done.
OK, my remember when
I remember when I was getting killed by groups of -2s and -3s all of the time. I did not realize that you had to turn some of the powers on for them to be effective.
I remember the first time I met a GM. I was stuck in a circle of thorns mission with portals and could not get out. The GM then asked if there was anything else he could help me with. I said make me level 50 =). He just laughed at me and continued on his way.
I remember the greatest sig I ever saw and how angry it made people (I think it was Nanigata's)
something like:
Lvl 50 Fire/Dev Blaster
Lvl 50 Fire/Fire Tank
Lvl 50 Spines/Regen Scrapper
Lvl 50 Fire/Kin Controller
LVl 50 Emp/Mind (which doesn't exist)
I remember taking my lunch hour to drive to the nearest Best Buy with the game so I could get into the Head Start, since my copy didn't arrive until release day.
I remember six-slotting Rest on my first toon, an Invuln/Ice tanker.
I remember my first attempt at the Tsoo Rage lab mission - first time I hit the debt cap.
I remember when my post count was less than 4 digits.
I remember the first time I flew over Faultline.
I remember my first pet.
I remember 20-hour Hamidon raid marathons, before we knew he could be held.
I remember when my Fire blaster first demolished a group of red-con mobs with Inferno.
I remember my SG mates being amazed at the power of EM Pulse.
I remember Rikti in the hospital in Kings Row during the beta invasion.
I remember why I play this game - to feel like a comic-book hero.
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