A mate told me to hop on when there was an abundance of servers. There were at least three AUS/NZ servers with a solid playerbase on them. I remember failing the little test at the start the first time I joined, that was a good laugh. Anyways, we did heaps of rebel RP, ended up becoming the most feared rebel group on the server, killed Breen (lol), and then we both got popped in the face by a SeC. To be fair, I'd been NLR'd atleast four times prior to that.
Left HL2RP for a couple of years, rejoined to find that there were only two big servers now. I waved a sad goodbye to good timezones and joined this one in November. Made my char then (have still got him :) ), and lurked a little on the forums. Only really became forum active after Anti-cheat or whatever banned me permanently because my ping was too high.
Now I'm risking how well I do in school by staying up late and fucking role-playing. Man, that's sad.