History of Rhydin

[Ehzoterik]

I do.  As I said: I'm researching all I can.  Though if anyone else wants to do some digging around to get the jump start on it, that would be nice.

Right now all I have are ideas.  See my above inquiry as to whether or not anyone who was a part of and remembers Q-Link is still around.

It might also be prudent to review some AOL History.  Currently the article only has one source listed, and as I was taught any good research article should never rely on one single source.  I cannot vouche for the validity of the site I just linked to, as I have not studied it in any great depth as of yet, but it might be a good start.  As far as I know (I haven't checked yet), the AOL Site itself might also have some relevant information.  But my guess is that decisions like that were all behind closed doors and not publicly documented.

You may kindly please stop constantly referring me to the Community Guidelines, as I am well aware of them, have reviewed them, continue to review them, and am not complaining.  I am stating a fact and presenting my ideas for improvement.  And we are, in fact, discussing.

My number one suggestion is that the title of the article, as it now stands, be changed from "History of Rhydin" to "History of FFRP," as that seems to be more what it covers than the fictional world history itself.

[Alysia]

The History of Rhydin as it relates to the IC "fictional world history itself" would be a subheading in the Location>Rhydin article.

That is different from the topic in question here, which is the OOC History of Rhydin topic in the Library.  "History of FFRP" seems like it would go far beyond the scope of the current article and probably this wiki as well.

[Ehzoterik]

Oooh.  Then, perhaps an amendment needs to be made about that article to make it clear that it is indeed an OOC history of FFRP as it relates to Rhydin.

Of course, there is still much more that could be added to it in any case.  A shame that not every group out there has websites for their rooms (such as the Medieval Tavern).

[Speradon]

I know someone who dueled back in the Q-Link days, I'll see if I can get him over here to provide any info on things back then.

As far as the names of the rooms duels were hosted in, they were:

Duel of Fists: "The Outback" (though if you enter the room, even now, it says "You are in Duel of Fists")
Duel of Swords: "The Arena" (though if you enter the room, even now, it says "You are in Duel of Swords") as well as "The Annex" (if you enter the room now, it says "You are in DoS Annex")
Duel of Magic: "Twilight Island" (though if you enter the room, even now, it says "You are in Duel of Magic")

From what I can find regarding the host names, it was RDI <name> first, then HOST DFC <name>, then HOST PCG <name>, then HOST Game <name>, then DUEL <name>.  The transition from PCG to Game was roundabout September, 2002 (I don't have an exact swapover date, but archive posts, at least from DoF, have the last PCG and the first Game in that month).  Seems we went from HOST DFC to HOST PCG around May of 2001 and from RDI to HOST DFC in either December 1999 or January 2000.

Hope that helps at least somewhat!

[Alysia]

Thanks. All of that helps a *lot*!

What did the DFC stand for? (Duel something?)

[Speradon]

Oh man...I have no clue at this point.  The only thing I can think of is "Dueling Forum Coordinator" but that makes no sense and can't be right.  I think all the PCG and DFC stuff was made up by/came as a result of whomever had control at that point in time.  If they ever told us what the acronym was for, it's totally gone from my memory 

[Speradon]

Ran across another room from an old AOL link, the "Dueler's Hall" though I don't quite remember why we had it or what we used it for.  I'm pretty certain regular dueling never took place in there.  Going in there now it says "Welcome to Final Fantasy" so I imagine that someone else took it over after we left AOL.  I have a bunch of links on AOL to things that would probably be really helpful, but to which I'm now barred access (likely, I'm guessing, because a) I no longer have permissions to it as a non-host and b) because they got locked down at some point and nobody realizes the areas that link to those things still exist.  There's actually some pretty neat old dueling stuff to explore on AOL still, even if there's only a limited amount to reach.)

[Panther]

Did the Dueler's Hall have anything to do with "The Duels". There were other duel/fight based gaming areas. There's currently an Arena game site that started on AOL that was stats and dice based, more closely resembling table D&D

From 86 in to 88, I was on Qlink. Panther was created on QLink in the RDI. It was not really an RP room in the same sense that it became on AOL. Most the rooms then were simple chat rooms with a "theme". I think it started becoming so later, and then Duel of Swords came in to being.

I had, maybe still have, the original DoS rules as written for QLink. The betting we tried in DoF for awhile came in part from those original rules.

DFC = Dueling Fun Center? :>