classic pre raileoad  

Posted by TomatoPanda

classic pre raileoad

They still had the railroads for as long as I've played Graal (since 2012) but they renovated them a whole bunch. Anybody else remember the railroad entrance into trees to the left of the burger refuge tables?

Oh, and I've got an interesting fact for you guys-

I've got an old PC version of Graal Classic, (some files weren't updated since 1999) and almost all the graphics in the game files are still compatible with Classic today, meaning you can put them in your statuses or on furniture messages. Since all graphics were converted into png from gif, the old actual animated files won't move anymore. The removed files were due to copyright, things like zelda.gif were removed in the conversion to add the old graphics to the current iOS port of Graal Classic.

Here is a little list of interesting graphics that were kept in the current Classic:

masterli.png
map.png
oldmap.png
mausoleum.png
destinycentaur2.png
destinytree.png
destinysign.png
ccvolcanoboss1.png
tanaraus.png
snowmangler.png
pike.png
minedino.png
mineblade.png
metaltree.png
onix.png
monstergold.png
goldhouse1.png

A few graphics in the old PC version were taken from Earthbound, these images were modified in 1999. (Onnet town used to be called Onett, the same name as the first town from Earthbound)
These include:

signa.png
signb.png
buttrfly.png  

-Fun Facts- (no order)

1. When bugs were first being tested, killing a baddie would almost always spawn a bee.

2. Towards the end of 2012, there was a new version of Snow Town created, but never released.

3. Deadwood is the only town in iClassic that still has the old version of it accessible, though only on Halloween.

4. When the failed FaceBook server was released, players could see the names of staff even while in stealth.

5. During the 2010-(early)2011 era of iClassic, it was possible to upload custom heads/bodies in-game, though it had to be done over e-mail.

6. In the early days of iClassic, (when jail was still a thing), Jailed players could talk to other prisoners, update their status, and even change their look, but could not send PMs, or guild messages.

7. In Graal Classic (PC), shield3.png actually made you slightly faster, this was carried over to iClassic, but removed soon after.

8. iClassic had a total of 3 cut quests, if you count the unfinished quests. The first was fighting a large dragon, the reward being a herra. The second was after upgrading the lantern (and waiting for night time to come), you'd light the Grave entrance near Onnet. Which a relic of this can still be found in-game if you attempt to light the entrance. The third one isn't so much cut, as it is unfinished.

9. There used to be a glitch where if a player layered several pieces of furniture onto one another, and enabled "push/pull" - the player could pull the object, then hit the "out" button of the house at the correct time, they'd go the distance they would have if the pulled the object, warping the player over boundaries. (This has long been fixed)

10. The clothing mannequins found in Taylor Richaards, as well as the Mirror, and Chest were given to players who found the codes that were randomly generated throughout the Taylor Richaards site as part of a promotion. (Which makes me sad because I found like 4 of them, but didn't understand what they were for, since I was not told during the time.)

11. If your PC Graal account, and your iClassic account shared the same e-mail, you could not use both accounts at the same time, even on their respective servers.  

Posted by ZedFox

They still had the railroads for as long as I've played Graal (since 2012) but they renovated them a whole bunch. Anybody else remember the railroad entrance into trees to the left of the burger refuge tables?

The lower entrance was where the OG adoption center was.
There was a way to glitch yourself into Lag Island from the upper entrance.
This is what lag island looked liked:

Spoiler

 

"Second Server Glitch"
There used to be a glitch where quickly running in and out of a door(or other warp) could cause the game to see your character inside the building while you're actually running outside on the gmap on your screen.
Some things wouldn't load outside in this glitched state allowing you to simply walk out of the boundaries of the map.

If you tried to enter any door or other warp you'd be teleported back inside the building you started the glitch at, although at a random coordinate inside that level.
People used to abuse this during Nexus and Revolution parties to get behind the bars a lot since those areas used to be inaccessible unless you got dragged by an admin.  

Graal is Grail in English.  

Posted by Eugeen

"Second Server Glitch"
There used to be a glitch where quickly running in and out of a door(or other warp)

People also used that to get behind the counter in Christian's (bomb and arrow) shop in Graal City  

Posted by HamStarr

that can’t be real

it was

Posted by qes

-graal 2009 and early 2010 guilds weren't released at all, so players ran around with clan tags in their name like call of duty. Most people ran around together pking other clans.
-Then Guilds were released (no allies) and shortly after, towers were released.
The top guild in towers for the first few weeks was this guild called (Pandemonium) followed by guilds like (Equinox) and (iBall).
-A lot of glitching took place in 2010 and there was this hacking tower guild that was pretty notorious in 2010 called (M4SS1V3 CH04S) lead by a guy named S1NN3R.
-Tower guilds manly kicked and recruited but without allies, it was very messy.
- Admin guilds became quiet cool to join. In the first two years of graal anything admin associated was cool, they were like celebrities back then. They would pop up in random places and draw crowds and do a hat give away. Admin hugs was another big thing, basically you would try to get an admin to hug you, screen shot it and post it as your guild picture ... lol
I don't remember which was released first but they released Allies and Houses (not guild houses, regular houses, around the same time)
-Allies in late 2010 caused towering to be less messy, no guilds reached 1,000 yet. AGK War Section was #1 with 400 hours prior to Allies, then when allies were released PULSE used the system to collect a hundred loyal members and they were the first towering guild to not kick and recruit as much. They eventually passed AGK War Section and were the first guild to 1,000 hours in 2011? (i think)
-Houses were the start of graal iclassic music videos , new glitches and house farming.
-Solo spar had a ton of boosters, Matt aka iPanda made spar fun though by giving away hats to sparrers who achieved these milestones - 6k, 10k, 20k. There was even a big race to 10k wins. Which most of the people who reached it noob boosted (which is ok, everyone sucked at spar back then and if you knew how to C spar, you were PRO)
2011
-Guilds started reaching 1000 hours, they were rewarded with a "Revolution" party in their honor with their own members only VIP room (only happened for the first dozen or so guilds) and were given a hat. Later in 2011 Venus Gospel took the place of PULSE as the best Tower guild.
- Guild sparring and solo sparring started building their own communities (prior to 2011 there were only a few recognized sparrers) . Guild sparrers sparred in swamp town- Max, Primetime, Killman + the "jap" sparrers , Fro, Guizmo + the frenchies, DoT (me Bobby Mamba, Shannon, Chai-t, Suicide, Mimi, Nike</3, Kentaro, jojo, jackson ect) and many more that i forget.
While the 1vs1 spar community had many skilled players in guilds such as Anubis, and SiB.
-Admins still were celebrities, Zanza became the biggest admin guild in 2011, were even given their own Guild house ON THE MAP that only players with a zanza/allied section could enter. (so was SNC but anyone could access their house and SNC was owned by a fake Kio Demigod, not the real Client KIO). Zanza had: Azraels tree house, where players in Zanza could enter behind the bar. The Zanza Base which had a fireplace, a fire pit under this cool moon light, their own spar arena, and a few other things. Joining Zanza meant u were cool lol. And many players who joined got hired as Graal Police, was somewhat corrupt but whatever was more interesting than what goes on in graal now (which is nothing but military role play guilds and lag)
-hat shops and honor points more and more hat shops./furniture shops started opening up and body shops and head shops, you could only upload personal shields/swords back then through email and it was for free. If you were tight friends with some GP u could get your own stuff uploaded to shops but thats about it. Every player was given one honor point to give someone, it was an awful idea. People just begged noobs at Ballamb to honor them, then used it in the Honor point shop for hats.
-Guild houses they released guild houses. not much to say about it.. glitches and ect
-Snow town yeah snowtown was released, was popular at the end of 2011. even had a ice spar.
Facebook server Either was start of 2012 or end of 2011 they released an unpopulated facebook server that was out for a few months that guilds used to get 1,000 hours for their guild hats. was garbage.
2012 Age of Spar 2012 was the best for the spar community. The staff released leaderboards for sparring and the spar community was at an all time high.
Client PC players came overtime, iphone 4 was released so idevice sparrers could spar more aggressively (playing graal on older iphones was slow af). GST was released and it was monthly , during that short period of time everyone in the spar community was online sparring everyday. The hype of the spar community VERY slowly died since they made GSTs seasonal. 2013-2014 were good years for sparring too but not as great as 2012. 2015-2016 sparring was still alive but not crazy active. 2017-2018 was the death of graal sparring.
TO be honest, my thoughts of the other things that went on in graal from 2012-2017 isn't that good because I only came online for spar since 2012. Didn't really leave the battle arena much since 2012.
Sorry If I'm not 100% accurate but this is from memory.

hahah holy **** this i can confirm all of this. even down to the moonlit zanza base grotto clone.  

Posted by HamStarr

that can’t be real

Must have been heaven for all the preteens playing  

You used to be able to stab your children in graal to death and you're wife( or husband ) wouldn't complain.

Maybe this is is because my wife never knew I used to spend time with Zanis to get weird kids from school. Say I will be your father. And bring them to our "Attack block" house where we have 40 attack blocks just destroy this scrub while we stab them  

-Revolution started in North Graal Town.

-After a few years of Nexus being released, it disappeared and NPCs who were followers of Higbey's Cult were in the area and there were purple flames n such.

-Club Crypt had these ghost NPCs where if you touched them, you would turn transparent until you log off. Even if you used a morph or any gani, it all became transparent. And then they started doing transparency with different colors  

Posted by WaFFL3Cake

-After a few years of Nexus being released, it disappeared and NPCs who were followers of Higbey's Cult were in the area and there were purple flames n such.

Some images I dug up from that time.



Also, did you know Emperor Butterflies used to look like a purple version of a Blue Morpho Butterfly before it was given a unique texture.


 

Posted by ZedFox

For years I've thought I dreamt this, since I hadn't met a single person who remembered it. Glad to know I'm not insane.  

Posted by Heeble

For years I've thought I dreamt this, since I hadn't met a single person who remembered it. Glad to know I'm not insane.

lmao. They were some dark days, and I think a lot of us were both excited for something new, but angry because Nexus was gone.

Little fun fact speculation, LordofPi13 or whatever the gp's name was owned a guild called (Nexus). I believe that the guild came first, so that might have played a role in the naming of the building.  

any thread that westbrook or darkk post in will get instantly derailed