• Social actions intimidated me greatly, so I played FL strictly "singleplayer". I only got into social actions when I returned from hiatus.
• There was a time when inventory was much, much more limited. Many common inventory items hadn't been implemented; no categories like 'Nostalgia' or 'Elder'; no side-conversions or up-conversions. So the game economy was completely different and more simplistic back then. I had a note somewhere that in "Mr Wines is holding a sale!" opportunity card, you bought a mystery box for 200 Jade Fragments instead of one Touching Love Story. It was very exciting to see all those new items and categories appear.
  
• Getting a 'River in a Box' in my inventory. I never learnt about what it signified, until I came back from hiatus and found the blog post. These quirky fourth-wall-breaking puzzles between Failbetter and the fanbase were a feature of Alexis Kennedy's time here.
• Originally having only one candle of 10 actions to work with; Exceptional Friendship added the second candle for 20 actions. It's great that candle heights have been doubled now!
• I have the story quality, "A Veteran of Mr Sacks' Visits 3 - A Veteran of the Visit of 1890". So I was around for Sacksmas 1890 and Feast of the Exceptional Rose 1891. I believe 1891 was the first Feast?
• I went on hiatus shortly before Exceptional Stories were introduced to EFship.
  

Catherine Raymond wrote:

But you've reassured me as to the state of my memory--I *thought* I'd been playing since sometime in 2009, but everyone seems to be counting the anniversary from 2010 so I wasn't sure.

The 2009/2010 thing confused me initially, too, until I realized that we're celebrating Failbetter's anniversary, of course, not Fallen London's.

Fallen London - the game - was put online in late 2009, but Failbetter Games - the company - went public on 11 Jan 2010.

Quite right - we were registered as a company on 11 Jan, 2010. Fallen London's exact go-live date in a format that could be said to be sufficiently similar to its current iteration is a bit murky, so we went with a nice, provable, publicly registered birthday.

phryne wrote:

Catherine Raymond wrote:

I've no idea--I can't even remember when I started playing! I definitely did not start at the very beginning--I wasn't around to get an Amber Carnival Token, for example. But I was around close to the beginning, I think.

You must've been very close to the beginning indeed, Cathy! Your first echo is from 22 Dec 2009 - and I've never found one from before 30 Nov 2009.

If this is the case, when was that Amber Carnival Token released?

Fallen London is turning ten on Saturday!


What birthday is complete without a few gifts? Tokens of our appreciation for you, our treasured community.



Firstly, something that will light up any occasion.

Skinnyman wrote:

By any chance, can we find what ingame age is the oldest active player around?

I would love to know if anyone who was there at the very beginning is still playing!

just reminding everyone to check twitter (or discord) for todays gift (thanks fbg we appreciate it, even if it does happen to be on discord)

It's a shame you can't see anywhere how old your account is.

phryne wrote:

I would love to know if anyone who was there at the very beginning is still playing!

I've no idea--I can't even remember when I started playing! I definitely did not start at the very beginning--I wasn't around to get an Amber Carnival Token, for example. But I was around close to the beginning, I think.

Still waiting on a computer that can run Sunless Skies properly though

But you've reassured me as to the state of my memory--I *thought* I'd been playing since sometime in 2009, but everyone seems to be counting the anniversary from 2010 so I wasn't sure.