-tribute to 1st gen idev legends-
this was 6 years ago. when shinta became the 1st person on iclassic to reach 10k spar wins.

video credit: NiTe(US)

pretty much the whole 7 min is about shinta and carnage(aka juggs) started from 9995wins, but shinta won the 1st round before the video began rolling.
0:11 - shinta spars like a noob, but still owning
3:55 - shinta at 9999 wins, this nooby girl came out of no where and queued.
7:40 - shinta's profile. only 783h and 10000-2552
glad that someone caught this on tape. i found it interesting enough to share with yall.

i didn't start playing graal til 2012 but this is the year when
-graal was only 6 months old
-you had to farm to earn gralats/buy.
-where gst was held monthly
-towering was 'competitive'
-there was no vip system
-graal was top 100 app in the appstore
-there was no mount  

i see me on the far right side! Wasn't GST first held in 2011? Cause I did the 2nd GST(which was in 2011), and I remembered that was the first & only GST where pcs and idevices did the same GST together before everyone started complaining.  

Posted by LiA

i see me on the far right side! Wasn't GST first held in 2011? Cause I did the 2nd GST(which was in 2011), and I remembered that was the first & only GST where pcs and idevices did the same GST together before everyone started complaining.

666 posts...
what does this mean...?!

 

Posted by LiA

i see me on the far right side! Wasn't GST first held in 2011? Cause I did the 2nd GST(which was in 2011), and I remembered that was the first & only GST where pcs and idevices did the same GST together before everyone started complaining.

TBH not sure lol. i only heard it was held monthly. i didn't play graal until 2012, which is why i find this clip so fascinating. took me 4 years to reach 10k...

i'm definitely gonna record sarah's 100k win. it's gonna be epic for another few years.  

Yeah, GST was first held in mid 2011. 2009 was half a month of the game, 2010 activity and updates started improving, 2011 player activity began to mature and updates became more focused.

Posted by Zetectic

-towering was 'competitive'

Not too sure I agree. With the steady increase of players over the game's lifespan, the size and number of guilds involved also increased. I think a lot of guilds nowadays recruit foreign members to hold a tower during their overnight hours instead of passing it to a foreign-based guild or simply dying out for the day. Teams seem pretty "offensive" or "aggressive" towards their goal nowadays. (I think they are hunting for those hats..)

Posted by Zetectic

-graal was top 100 app in the appstore

This was a big reason a lot of early players got into the game!

Posted by Zetectic

-there was no mount

The horses did come out that year. I want to say they were already available by this time but it may have been just around this time..  

i see. very cool!  

Posted by Winter

Yeah, GST was first held in mid 2011. 2009 was half a month of the game, 2010 activity and updates started improving, 2011 player activity began to mature and updates became more focused.

Probably the most chaotic thing was trying to do stuff in 2009/early 2010 with friends pre-guilds.
And even after that, when you could damage allies. Ahah so fun

Posted by Winter

Not too sure I agree. With the steady increase of players over the game's lifespan, the size and number of guilds involved also increased. I think a lot of guilds nowadays recruit foreign members to hold a tower during their overnight hours instead of passing it to a foreign-based guild or simply dying out for the day. Teams seem pretty "offensive" or "aggressive" towards their goal nowadays. (I think they are hunting for those hats..)

I don't think offensive or aggressive are the words I'd use.
Especially considering they just hit 1k, get hat and then go to another guild to repeat their 1k actions.
Pre-1k hat whoring, guilds were almost always under attack.
Even during "night shifts, there would be 5-15 people attacking.
I used to prinarily do night shifts. It was fun.

All you get these days is a few pkers.
Half the guilds Ive helped to reach 1k recently would just afk sards and the decay would get the flag to 30 or even 1 before someone would check their game, heal the flag then afk again.

Posted by Winter

The horses did come out that year. I want to say they were already available by this time but it may have been just around this time..

Certainly were.
I prefer the original horses too.
They are quirky and odd.  

Posted by LiA

i see me on the far right side! Wasn't GST first held in 2011? Cause I did the 2nd GST(which was in 2011), and I remembered that was the first & only GST where pcs and idevices did the same GST together before everyone started complaining.

The first GST may have been back when the game was still iDevice only; I forget exactly when Facebook had access to graal.  

Posted by twilit

The first GST may have been back when the game was still iDevice only; I forget exactly when Facebook had access to graal.

Late 2011 along with vip, if I recall correctly  

I'm giving the win to Juggs for not wearing a wings shield or using a name with letters from the extended ASCII table  

Posted by UU

Late 2011 along with vip, if I recall correctly

Can't sort FB feed by year atm, but yes. I think FB servers came with VIPs.
Come to think of it, 2011-2012 weren't bad years either.  

Posted by Zetectic

Can't sort FB feed by year atm, but yes. I think FB servers came with VIPs.
Come to think of it, 2011-2012 weren't bad years either.

Yes because if you had vip you could go on the fb server on mobile I believe? Been too long for me to remember clearly  

Sorry, I can't watch JUST C style sparring, that is just boring. Mm.  

Posted by McCullough

Sorry, I can't watch JUST C style sparring, that is just boring. Mm.

it evolved over time bruh.