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I will give someone 10 XP to find and link all the threads that claim the server is dying, going down hill, or about to collapse over the last 10 years these forums have been active. Sadly, the first 5 years of forums with those messages are gone.
Cause…funny.
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Search my post history… I used to be a negative nancy before I stopped being a whiny little.... well yeah. I wouldn't mind that dark part of my history disappearing lol
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Nah, I think even I made a post or two like that years ago.
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Sorry - rolling through for my monthly check-in:
I did put a disclaimer on the old old website in like 2006 that the website would be shutting down, but wanted to quell rumors that the server would be closing it's doors.
Unfortunately I only have the announcements archived for a short time… I'll see if there's more that I saved. This is funny:
10/25/03: everyone knows, there's been a rumor since before SoU even came out that Arabel would have a wipe. There will be a wipe, and there are a few reasons:
1. We want to clean up the vault. Arabel has been played, since the last wipe, by over 21,000 different accounts. That's a lot of space and I believe that some system lag may actually be getting caused by trying to access player files. While we are also implementing a system to auto-clear unused directories and characters, that comes with its own problems – specifically, it leaves stale database files around.
2. There have been significant gameplay changes to Arabel over the time. Arabel has become grittier, tougher. While there is a certain whimsy to Arabel that we don't want to lose, we have made it harder to advance; we've closed loopholes, toughened easy quests, and so on. We've modified ATS, and we're completely replacing it before the wipe... we were going to just change the products. But with certain coming HotU features, we have decided to get rid of it completely in favor of a new system. Meanwhile, the treasure you can generally get has changed, and our system has changed with respect to things like True Resurrection, etc. Everyone needs to play by the same rules, and the wipe allows us to deal with a lot of 'grandfathered' things easily.
3. We're going to change things a lot. Arabel has changed incrementally for over a year, tuning things to be fun, challenging, and interesting. But we have queued a large number of changes now. So many, it might be tough to recognize the Arabel that comes next.
That said, in the interests of keeping ourselves on schedule, we've both pushed our date back and decided to set a semi-firm one. We will go "when it's ready", but we figure this way, at least we have something quasi-accountable.
Hordes of the Underdark is scheduled to be released 11-25-03 unofficially. Assuming that HotU goes off as expected, then I expect that Arabel v3 will be our Christmas present to our players, and we will release it 12-25-03.
In the meantime, taking a page from Bioware's book, we will be bringing you some periodic new content, as well as updates on what's going on. Look for a sticky in Server Issues regarding the wipe and what's coming. We think you'll agree that it will be rather exciting. In addition, there will be a major event around the time of the wipe.
10/6/03: New DM - Mr. Moloch
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Nah, I think even I made a post or two like that years ago.
I actually have a screenshot of you when you left the server in 2005 saying it wasn't the server it used to be.
You know not the terror of which you awake, my friend.
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2015:
The server loosing it's fun factor
Reposted Thread "Plot Vulturing, Railroading, Power Gaming"
Server Less Inclusive and More Static Than Ever2014:
Motivation Killers2013:
How to involve people: For Kids
yeah yeah again server wipe topic ;P
Just my Opinion
Total Server Vault wipe + Appless week/month into V5
vindication
An end to the soap opera
Olouth's vision of how to save the server2012:
Hey guys, whats the story?
Dr. Quickfix, or How I Learnt to Stop Listening to Players2011:
Floundering.
A request from an old bastard about the CoA attitude
CoA feels empty….
Dear CoA
Dont let the nerf train kill the player base2010:
The Golden Age of CoA?2009:
…about the current DM factions
City of Action Server?2008:
The CoA rant2007:
A discussion of the bad sides of coa and how to improve
Can't we just all get along?!?!
Social control in NWN RP PW communities quantified!2006:
Leave this server
Hopes of focusing more on roleplay(likely a rant)
Player Amount2005:
Server Overpopulation (Just thought it was hilarious)2004:
So long.. farewell! -
2004 - The year of Tiralin, and the birth of the Double Fuck Whallop. Good times, good times.
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Hah, four of the rants are mine! Do I win something?
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Geez, I gave the server 3 to 9 months to live (what kind of estimation is that?) seven years ago…I should have been a cancer doctor, people would be loving me.
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The funny part is how many of the people posted I quit messages and came back under different names 2 weeks to a month later.
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Moloch…