I'm not even sure I remember enough of my early days to make a post.
Until two summers ago the only server I had ever joined was Irk89's, in BLM, I left, unimpressed.
I started playing Blockland mods 1.6a sometime in my freshman year of highschool(lolhai entrepreneur in). I actually found it while looking for TBM, which is the blockland mod some guys I knew were playing at the time(early 2005). But I found BLM instead, anyways, me and my own friend started playing the game on the LAN during programming class(for those of you who only knew RTB deathmatch, I feel sorrt for you, BLM owned it so bad) and I learned F11 on accident, or maybe it was in the F1 menu, which I probably found by accident.
I used F11 to make edits of maps that had multiple spawns, with a pistol ON each one, so you wouldn't be completely unprepared during the fighting.
As we played, I took the lead in building, with my past experience with lego, along with the ability to build things out in my mind. Over the summer I modded the BuildBox(<3) to have baseplates along the entire floor, and most of the bricks along one wall. I began the Complex build, which was never finished(like many of my builds) but nontheless was better than most builds at the time, it had secret areas and vents and stuff(with no EW, lol).
Well, summer 2006 came, and I was bored beyond reason. That summer I think I played RS, Conquer, Hero Online(after hearing about it from dUMBELLS here) and, in fact, found AoT, these forums, and RTB.
Technically I was thinking about blockland, and wanted to see if there were any updates, or an online community(I was fast becoming attached to a sense of community). I searched, probably using the BLM name, and somehow AoT caught me before RTB, I would spend about two months playing AoT, becoming famous, and choosing the name Anti-Cop(thanks Insanerperson, you made a famous name), before I even downloaded RTB.
First day in RTB, I was like, LOL IRK89, so I joined. Noone was there, but back then I didn't know anyone, so I didn't care. I made a simple little house, tile floor, figured out how to get the wrench, and made a door mover. I announced my success in chat, and someone came over and said "lol noob" or something like that. I do not remember who it was.
Sometime around the point that I ventured to the Blockland section of the forums, someone freaked out at my apparent knowledge of blocklands past, and the fact that I actually knew what I was doing on the internet, so Off-Topic had a topic called "Anti-Cop" in it, which got to about 7 pages before dying, it's now pruned. It was very entertaining.
The rate at which I mastered the EW isn't even worth talking about, it was disgusting, probably because I was out for summer, so I spent all my time on RTB getting to know the game and the players. My first USSR experinece(MotE was in a recession by the time I got here, up until about a month or two ago I never really respected them as an active clan) was a "Build a castle" server, hosted by Wizzard, and with a little "Wizzards flag of approval" for good builds. I didn't think much of it, but I remember some wierdo mexican guy building in there who kept arguing with someone to the point that some admin threatened them both with a ban.
I don't know when I first DMed in RTB, but I know that it was a letdown of epic proportions. I also looked up AiO at some point, and that reminded me of a BLM that got off track somewhere. When SFM came out I got it, I recall taking on 5 members and winning, and discovering a kindred DMer in Koden, who got 45 points to my 50 in one of those games.
I got into USSR in... September
http://www.blockland.us/smf/index.php?topic=8533Link might not work... and .15 if not.
