[Poll, also general discussion about past SMP's] Lets have chat about DoD ascentors.

[Notme]

Eighth SMP server is arriving in coming weeks, so I decided to make this thread.

Soo... what was biggest clans in past servers?
Does anyone has screenshots of SMP 0 or SMP 1?
Did actually these two SMPs had any plugins?
How buggy SMP 0 or SMP 1 was?
Did SMP 0 - SMP 3 had any storyline?
What was inspiration for Primordia?
When Primordia started to fall apart (like staff getting overloaded, server straying from storyline, plugins crashing and being unstable)?
How many people were getting killed on SMP 4 daily?
What was true reasons of Elysium being mainly PvE server?
What inspired Marnixxie and his team to create JtE?
What past SMP did biggest drops of playerbase on other servers?
Can you guys share curiosities about all previous servers?

I have few screenies from SMP 3 and later:

First diamond on SMP 3, maybe day after I got giftcode.

Normal day at LoP.

My nice build on SMP 4.

My epic beacon on JtE.

 

[Sploorky]

I know that some parts of JtE were inspired by runescape.

Source: Marnixxie

 

[Notme]

I think how Day 0 of TheOne SMP 0 could look: (a1.0.15 was first version supporting SMP)

Dat trees... its looks like Classic!

Sea and distant lands. Also Airkid is visible here (Pig).

Trees and roses. MindCrafty is at these flowers (Cow).

I crafted very small landmark here.

Future of SMP looks bright...

I wonder how storyline from Day 0 of SMP 0 to launch of SMP 7 (DoD) would look...

 

[Danni122112]

It would be JtE if it had PvP.

 

[Notme]

It would be JtE if it had PvP.

Well, some of it would keep up interest - PvP like in DoD or SMP 3.
On Discordia most probably other servers will lose some of its playerbase - RoF players will socialize/chat/build clans in DoD, AoD players will go PvP/raid in DoD and BB players will try to be creative in DoD .

Also wasn't Primordia full PvP/raid server?

 

[Danni122112]

It would be JtE if it had PvP.

Well, some of it would keep up interest - PvP like in DoD or SMP 3.
On Discordia most probably other servers will lose some of its playerbase - RoF players will socialize/chat/build clans in DoD, AoD players will go PvP/raid in DoD and BB players will try to be creative in DoD .

Also wasn't Primordia full PvP/raid server?

Never played it, so I dont know.

 

[Shinyshark]

SMP before the adventure update when maps didn't look like Africa swallowed Afghanistan and then on its turn puked out Great Britain in the middle of Atlantic ocean.

 

[Notme]

It would be JtE if it had PvP.

Well, some of it would keep up interest - PvP like in DoD or SMP 3.
On Discordia most probably other servers will lose some of its playerbase - RoF players will socialize/chat/build clans in DoD, AoD players will go PvP/raid in DoD and BB players will try to be creative in DoD .

Also wasn't Primordia full PvP/raid server?

Never played it, so I dont know.

Second question was to those playing primordia

SMP before the adventure update when maps didn't look like Africa swallowed Afghanistan and then on its turn puked out Great Britain in the middle of Atlantic ocean.

*pats Shinyshark* well, but we will have cool maps again

 

[Trap_Wolf]

Holy fucking shit this thread's title length.

 

[Notme]

Holy fucking shit this thread's title length.

Tried to have descriptive title

 

[Mikey]

MindCrafty always will have the best SMP

 

[Iguana]

primordia for good times
crafty's smp for good times

 

[Jubjubers]

smp 3 because it was the only when where I was handpicked for Trusted cough cough

 

[TheEagle7828]

The smp before JtE, or vanilla survival multiplayer as I have now learned, was pretty fun. The best time was when I got tped by an op to a huge firework show. That event was pretty much the reason I've stayed with blocktopia. No other servers had such awsome events and let complete newbies join in.

Of course I had to walk all the way back to spawn though...

 

[davidjl123]

Does anyone has screenshots of SMP 0 or SMP 1?

I have a screenshot of SMP 0. It's from August 30, 2010.

I don't know what the first ever map of JJJ's SMP was, but I do remember a couple maps afterwards.
The first map I remember when I bought Minecraft and joined the server for the first time, was a snowy map.
The second map was a normal grass map.
The third map I remember vaguely, but I think it had a bunch of floating islands.

(My two favorite SMP servers are SMP 0 and JtE).

 

[Roobarb Pie]

Eighth SMP server is arriving in coming weeks, so I decided to make this thread.

Soo... what was biggest clans in past servers?
Does anyone has screenshots of SMP 0 or SMP 1?
Did actually these two SMPs had any plugins?
How buggy SMP 0 or SMP 1 was?
Did SMP 0 - SMP 3 had any storyline?
What was inspiration for Primordia?
When Primordia started to fall apart (like staff getting overloaded, server straying from storyline, plugins crashing and being unstable)?
How many people were getting killed on SMP 4 daily?
What was true reasons of Elysium being mainly PvE server?
What inspired Marnixxie and his team to create JtE?
What past SMP did biggest drops of playerbase on other servers?
Can you guys share curiosities about all previous servers?

1.For a start: SILVERVALE. SILVERVALE EVERYWHERE. Seriously, they always crop up like a an opposite version of herpes where everyone loves them.

2.I have a few left, not many though hard drive caught of fire (You think I'm joking. I'm not joking.)

In the spoiler is all the pictures I can find from BT early versions (and a few later versions)

Spoiler

The cactus farm that broke SMPV1

My first "city", a small project made all out of stone.

ROME, the first official settlement of the server, looking at you, gonkus.

ROME (again)

One of the staff islands nearish to hollowbastion.

My cringeworthy sign

THE AQUEDUCT. MY FIRST EVER BUILD ON THIS (Because buckets weren't allowed of water or lava due to grief issues and I found a water block at the top of the hill so I made the aqueduct to go down to the valley. I think it was Shinyshark who "modified" it to make it into a boat slide and got banned for a day or something.

The natural lavachute, glass covered for protection.

The lonely floating island, I ensured this would never be touched.

Overview of settlements, with hollowbastion circled.

Phantom's snow rooms for christmas!

GmK's best friend: The stargate.

PickyerPoison got bored outside Silvervale

Me in the silvervale tower balcony.

I think this was in SMP v2.

Primordia's Desert Jump challenge. One of the final jumps was brutal.

The ice jump challenge. I completed it within an hour of it's release.

I think it was Shiny who set up this dance party.

404 challenge, post primordia

Post primordia server, the SS primordia. I was working on a giant 150 radius floating ship. I had gotten all the flooring laid down (at the cost of a flipping oak forest) only for the server to shut down.

3.Yeah, Money and trading plugins were incorporated, with custom sized portals and custom material portals being purchaseable, as well as city titles etc.
4.SMP V0 had chunk issues left right and centre, whole chunks would reset, and considering the map was relatively small, it was a pain in the arse.
SMP V1 had relatively decent stability from what I remember.
5.Can't remember a storyline.
6.Not sure what the inspiration for Primordia was, I had resigned from staffing by that point.
7.It fell apart because the new update rendered a lot of the plugins useless. It was a shame, I liked Orken, the Primus capital.
8.IDK LOL I avoid conflict.
9.I think JTE was intended on being fuelled by the storyline, with players contributing to the story via events. Unfortunately, a large number of the leading staff resigned from JtE leads during the early days, giving more work on the newer head figures IIRC.
10. Ask Marnixxie and his team.
11. I don't know really.
12. In SMP v1 creeper hills was evacuated after all the members in that town were found to be running an illegal logging facility using the bridges plugin to get infinite wood. They severely manipulated the trading plugin.
In SMP v4 (pre-JtE), if you go to the harbourside area of Silvervale and enter the inn there's an entirely man made cavern with a lava flooring that I made in a week with too many pickaxes.
In JtE, there are a set of floating man made islands that I build over the course of 2 months. They can be accessed by pearl (with a good aim) or by portal only.
In the SMP with the central island that's an mc schematic, I transformed the cave near spawn into a safe haven, with tributes to Primordia and with farms and stuff with enough to get people started. I also checked spawn for grief and reported and fixed it all up. I named my one man clan the spawnguard.
I remember that there WAS once a download for SMPv0 but the world was slightly corrupted IIRC. I have a copy of the area that was hollowbastion somewhere. I visit it for nostalgic purposes once in a while.

 

[Notme]

I did this nice graph, idk how accurate is it, but I think something has happened with SMP's after SMP 3

Edit: Dropped JtE's pvp point by one.

 

[Danni122112]

I did this nice graph, idk how accurate is it, but I think something has happened with SMP's after SMP 3

You might want to drop the JtE one down to one.

 

[Notme]

I did this nice graph, idk how accurate is it, but I think something has happened with SMP's after SMP 3

You might want to drop the JtE one down to one.

Well, but Nether was full PvP at later stage
Lowered it to 2

 

[Danni122112]

I did this nice graph, idk how accurate is it, but I think something has happened with SMP's after SMP 3

You might want to drop the JtE one down to one.

Well, but Nether was full PvP at later stage
Lowered it to 2

mkay then, atleast its better

 

[Notme]

Okay Danni

Edgar Harford can you create 8 bit theme songs for each SMP using my graph as guide?

Example: SMP 0 was the beginning theme.
LoP could use some Spanish inquisitions theme.
Elysium - Christmas carol "Peace on Earth, Glory to god" or something.
DoD would be Wild West theme.

 

[Duffie]

Soo... what was biggest clans in past servers?

I know that Silvervale/Lantern was pretty big in one of the MindCrafty SMPs. Also ended up being quite dominant and hated.

How buggy SMP 0 or SMP 1 was?

JabJabJab's server was quite buggy, being Alpha, but it was fix'd a bit when Beta came out.

Did SMP 0 - SMP 3 had any storyline?

From what I recall, no. SMP 0 was primarily a build-ish server, as there was no PvP, while SMP 1 ~ SMP 3 was more towny.

What was inspiration for Primordia?

... You know, I would like to know, as well. I was just picked to be a clan leader back then. *Opening Gaian Leader*

When Primordia started to fall apart (like staff getting overloaded, server straying from storyline, plugins crashing and being unstable)?

Actually, I think it started to fall because it was getting less and less people being active on it. The server was meant for tons of people to play, and less people started playing it.

Not to mention the fact that some classes were so overpowered, we had to disable the fact you can't PvP class tiers below you. That was probably another turn off for most.

How many people were getting killed on SMP 4 daily?

Well, with people like LagWarrior being the highest tier possible, I'd bet not as much as there usually would.

But, I do know I tried to make my clan peaceful, and most people left just to be able to PvP... So, not so sure.

What was true reasons of Elysium being mainly PvE server?

People complaining about PvP. Nothing more, nothing less.

And now people complain about having almost no PvP. We're coming full circle.

What past SMP did biggest drops of playerbase on other servers?

If I had to guess, probably Primordia, near its beginning stages. It was quite popular when it first came out, as everyone loved the idea of the class system that was being introduced.

Can you guys share curiosities about all previous servers?

Well, from what I can recall, all servers before Primordia didn't have a story set to them... (And we liked it!) They were all about making towns and PvP. Eventually, we got town systems in which you can have chunks of land that were protected, as well as an lwc that can protect some of your chests. Apparently, most people disliked this, or something, so we never used it again.

We also had shops in MindCrafty's servers. Shops, and currency.

Oh, not to mention LagWarrior's wool shop. Still have a pic of that, Lag?

 

[gonkus]

-snip-

ROME, the first official settlement of the server, looking at you, gonkus.

ROME (again)

My cringeworthy sign

THE AQUEDUCT. MY FIRST EVER BUILD ON THIS (Because buckets weren't allowed of water or lava due to grief issues and I found a water block at the top of the hill so I made the aqueduct to go down to the valley. I think it was Shinyshark who "modified" it to make it into a boat slide and got banned for a day or something.

The natural lavachute, glass covered for protection.

The lonely floating island, I ensured this would never be touched.

Overview of settlements, with hollowbastion circled.

Phantom's snow rooms for christmas!

GmK's best friend: The stargate.

-snip-

ROME! <3 <3 <3

And Also Ladies and Gents THAT^ (Hollow Bastion in those Screenshots) is kinda How the new Hollow Bastion will look on DOD

 

[Notme]

Look, what I made - build wall of SMP's

Edit: Its nice to have ancient clan return

Edit:
There is background - as in when other servers launched and fell.

Spoiler: Background

Wow looks like no classic server has appeared after TheOne left!
So it looks like final goodbye to TheOne.
I would name:

2009: Birth of TheOne
2010: Rise of TheOne
2011: Classic & Premium synergy.
2012: Premium quick growth.
2013: Premium revolution! or End of an Era! AKA R.I.P TheOne servers. Dusk of TheOne ? (as in classic servers)

Sever list:
06/2009-----------TheOne------2009-------------------------------------------------
Classic Lava:-------------------07/2009-04/2013 (3 years and 9 months runtime)
Classic Build:-------------------12/2009-02/2011 (1 year and 2 months runtime)
------------------------------------2010---------------------------------------------------
Classic Zombie:-----------------04/2010-04/2013 (3 years runtime)
Classic TNT Wars:--------------08/2010-04/2013 (2 years and 8 months runtime)
SMP (o.5-3):---------------------08/2010-10/2011 (1 year and 2 months runtime)
(11/12)/2010---------Blocktopia----2011.----------------------------------------------
CMP:------------------------------02/2011-10/2011 (8 months runtime)
Primordia:-----------------------10/2011-02/2012 (4 months runtime)
--------------------------------------2012-----------------------------------------
Solitude:-------------------------01/2012-09/2012 (8 months runtime)
Adventure and Tournaments:-02/2012-09/2012 (7 months runtime)
Army of Darkness---------------02/2012-STILL GOING! 20 months running!
BuildBox:------------------------02/2012-GOING LIKE AOD!
SMP 4:---------------------------04/2012-12/2012 (8 months runtime)
Rituals of Fire:------------------09/2012-STILL GOING! 15 months running!
Journey to Elysium:------------12/2012-10/2013 (10 months runtime)
----------------------------------------2013-------------------------------------------
Premium TNT Wars:-------------04/2013-10/2013 (6 months runtime)
Dusk of Discordia:----------------12/2013----BEFORE LAUNCH
-----------------------------------------2014-------------------------------------------
Premium TNT Wars v2:-------------???----------UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Here is my server story, as in what happened outside of SMP.

Spoiler: Tale of SMP Neighborhood

I think I was too liberal with SMP 0 longevity.

SMP is now upgraded.

SMP keeps evolving...

First SMP, that I played.

SMP revolution, that failed. Also more premium servers.

Vanilla SMP is better than no SMP. Also poor classic.

SMP is now fancy again. R.I.P Classic. Viva la Premium.

SMP and CMP forever <3
CMP produces maps, TNT is back, AoD/RoF are getting better and better!

Do you like my "SMP and other servers" story?

 

[Edgar Harford]

Okay Danni

Edgar Harford can you create 8 bit theme songs for each SMP using my graph as guide?

Example: SMP 0 was the beginning theme.
LoP could use some Spanish inquisitions theme.
Elysium - Christmas carol "Peace on Earth, Glory to god" or something.
DoD would be Wild West theme.

hahahahahahahahahahahaha
no
too lazy