Well,
my "time" in Priston started around 2008. I began playing because my brother always talked about this little game called "PT." I remember creating a knight and starting to level up (without knowing about quests or anything like that). I recall an 8x pike helping me go to Ricarten (through something called "Ether Core" xD).
I was amazed; my brothers played, my cousins played, everyone played...
A year later, I discovered the world of cheats. I cheated with "PTKfir" and "PTBrazil" or something like that. I continued playing for a long time until I decided to venture into creating a cheat without knowing anything about programming...
I started visiting a forum called "WebCheats," where I met people (many of whom I still have contact with today, D4rkWeaver, lipinf, Doug...). I experienced highs and lows in this new world, and consequently, I would get to know the famous Renaissance (Sjoerd), who soon after partnered with Sandurr. It went into maintenance for a long time to become UniquePT. During that time, I played a lot of RealmPT (Sandurr again... I won't mention anything about Redemption since I didn't have the pleasure of playing it. When I started, it was already Renaissance and Realm (2010+)). I made some cheats there (I know he'll read this, so yes, S., I created the FaragoT RealmPT =)). We founded MhPT (me, lipinf, Doug, and PSOB), a Priston cheat forum, but I left the project early. It was crucial, I believe. I learned a lot about the game and its issues. Thank you, D4rk and Lipinf, for having the patience to teach a kid who knew nothing. In the end, it helped me a lot... (Xtrap, the first anticheat where we wasted time for sure) (Specially thanks to Lipinf suggesting me to change my nickname to just "Prog" instead of "-Programmer-" xD)
In 2011, I met MIBR (Made in Brazil forum...), where my love for the game deepened even more because now I could create servers (Thanks, D-kin. I remember getting D-kin's contact and thanking him for the experience he provided years later ^^'). I met some people there, like Slave (who would later co-found FortressPT, I'll tell you about it soon), GH, Razor, MaquinaDaMorte (special thanks to him; he taught me Assembly and even made me buy a book about it hehe), Dan (we didn't get along), Robert (my future mentor, like an older brother), Sheen (we also didn't get along, but that's in the past), japaokiko (aka microamazing, who created this topic, by the way; we even met in person, remember?
, and, we created an early emulator ahaha), wolgan... well, many nicknames, I mentioned the ones I spent the most time with!
In early 2013, Slave invited me to be a GM at RealmPT, where I stayed until the end of 2013. There I met my business partner and friend from FortressPT, Cackto. When Sandurr and Cackto had a disagreement about things happening in Realm, which led Cackto to do some things, Sandurr kicked everyone from the staff and banned me forever. That was around October 2013, I think...
With that, a flame ignited there. Slave and Gogg (ex-mod rPT at the time) convinced me to create FortressPT. We started working on the idea from early 2014 until July 2015, just working and developing (without knowing what to expect in the future)... I remember that in November 2014, I created the fPT forum, and we voted every day on xtremetop100 until one day, out of nowhere, people started showing up on the forum and asking about the game.
On July 7, 2015, officially, fPT was open for everyone to play, and there my rise (and fall) began. I invested money for a year without seeing profit (which initially was never the goal; I always dreamed of having many players, and the server paying for itself only).
In 2016, it exploded. Many players, sleepless nights to bring everything as quickly as possible; it was what I always wanted, but there were consequences... I met a woman who, for me, was one of the people who made me happy amid the chaos. (Thank you, A... I won't mention the name here because it was someone I fell in love with, and I prefer to leave it like that.)
From that year on, 2017, RealmPT closed, players from bPT and rPT coming... Daily threats by phone, my mom worried, forum attacks (what money can't do... I remember someone in a Darkweb forum I participated in paying for a hacking service that used a 0-day exploit in the fPT forum), which led to my second burnout (the first was at the end of 2016, with no money, it was tough), and consequently, depression... In 2018, I didn't see as much magic, which was something I loved. I only saw money and nothing more; the excitement faded somewhere in late 2017... fPT closed.
In November 2018, I would come back with RegnumPT, new staff with Zaryad and Thor (Cackto and Slave decided to move on with their lives). Everything was beautiful and wonderful; Zaryad and Thor knew almost nothing about the server, but with dedication and persistence, they became great people in this business... Depression was somewhere there, but it wasn't as important. I was restarting something different. Zaryad learned a lot about 3D; we had something new every 15 days, and Thor was incredible as staff, only he could handle so much pressure.
2019 passed, problems but normal. 2020... Everything came like a loaded bullet, attacks from all sides, the discovery of a health problem in my mom, which gave her one year to live... By the end of 2020, I couldn't take it anymore. My mom was sick, visibly weakened; she could walk for 2 minutes and then lie down for 10.
I decided to abandon everything, take care of her, take a different path. Officially, I left rPT at the end of January 2021... In March 2021, my mom passed away. I distanced myself from everything, fell into deep depression, drank every day (even tripled my cigarette use)...
In almost 6 months, I managed to rise again, went back to work, did some jobs for PTEU, returned to rPT (this was madness). Chaos ended up taking over the server; Sandurr banned me again (even though I had contacted him months earlier, I needed money and wanted to be part of Wartale, but it was just promises... I understand his point; trusting would be difficult, but I always had ethics in work matters, and even if I left, I would delete everything, anyway...)
Today, I am completely free. Sometimes, someone in my personal circle still mentions Priston. I sometimes come here in the hope of seeing someone from the old days (bobsobol, Telatoro, Vormav, microamazing...), but for me, it was a cycle that passed. I only enter if it's something I like; I share my knowledge and leave, nothing more...
