Back in April of 2009 I bought Blockland with the dream to create the best Lego city. I had no thought of "roleplaying" or "gamemodes" but I slaved for weeks in singleplayer on the most nostalgic thing I could even think of to this date. It was a very large city, but not the Lego cities you see today. It consisted of ground-level lots and included the basic buildings of a city. It included a hospital, an airport, a gun shop, my house, a city hall, a pool, and a garage of some sort. I remember it surprisingly well for being over 4 years ago, a small fragment of my childhood.
I had no idea how to host it at the time. I opened the server publicly for nearly a month, just hoping that 1 player would join eventually. I had no clue the forums were for anything other than downloading add-ons and sat there in my empty server with the ping of "???" thinking that people simply didn't want to play on a city run by some newbie. About to give up on Blockland I decided to join a multiplayer game. I opened up the server list, sorted the servers by brickcount, and clicked the highest server on the server list. A CityRPG.
I wondered around the server aimlessly hammering people, paying no attention to the chat or my surroundings. I would usually get jailed for 1 tick, get back out, and start hammering again but one day I found an illegal turret brick. I stood on the brick and blew myself up a few times until I realized I could use it to kill others players. I got 6 ticks in jail which felt like forever so I disconnected and went to the next server on the list. It too, happened to be a CityRPG. Not just any other CityRPG, but a MetropolisRPG.
I first spawned and spent 20 minutes ghosting. I liked watching the city slowly materialize in the distance until the deafening noise of the bricks loading around me forced me to turn down my volume. I continued my shenanigans of hammering people but this time I remember a player's name. Their name was "RMS Titanic" or something similar and they were building a red brick building below street level. Around this time I started to get the grasp of CityRPG's. I figured out how to use banks and started depositing my paychecks and saving up for a gun vending machine outside of a WIP casino. Before I figured out you had to enter "3" in chat instead of just taking out the third brick in your cart. After what seemed like a week I finally had enough cash for a regular gun. Though, the owner of the casino had not been on for a while so I simply got a message saying "The owner if this brick is not licensed to sell guns" loosing most of my money.
