favorite or funniest moments in the game

[Vectorus]

Oh, I could go on all day with memorable moments from the glory days...more than in any other video game, Shores of Hazeron made me memories which I keep almost like the memories of my real life: treasured moments with friends, danger, close scrapes: somehow it all meant something in a way the adventures in other games didn't. 

Why? I couldn't fully say, but to begin with, there's the fact that the stakes were always absolute, and you played with real people (who were not necessarily easy to come by). There were no safety nets, nothing that felt gamey and 'balance-y': space felt exactly as dangerous, as lonely and as vast as it should. Meeting other players felt like meeting real aliens, and no other MMO I know with pre-defined races, areas and progression trees has climbed to quite that height.

I remember the times we went diving in the oceans of gas giants, with weird sea things moving outside the ceiling-high windows. The ship's searchlights seemed to penetrate only a few metres into the gloom, and even Haxus started to feel a little unnerved.

I dearly hope we will get some drop-in peer-to-peer multiplayer one day, where your friends can at least kick around on your ship with you for a while - maybe bring their own!

Here are some pics from that day we dived, for a start! The atmospheric light and the aliens watching while my ship (the Zap-o-matic) looms in the air capture the atmosphere of that time, for me.