A lot of people have been asking me recently how the server was created and what was the reason for setting it up. Later I will try to put this history in the left menu (hopefully it will not turn out the same way as with battleground articles that are not there yet).
The story began on a closed server in France. Aleajecta. I was brought to this server by a former high school classmate four years ago. We both started playing there. Me with the druid, him with the magician. At that time, there was a core of wowem, where repairs took place once every 3 months. The maximum available level was 60 and the talent worked maybe one of each tree, the server was constantly falling, but we enjoyed it. We were a good group and spoke only English. Communication between the Alliance and the Horde was enabled on this server, so I met Horde McBogy at a higher level. McBogy was an experienced bully full of surprises and good moods. He was the kind of father I never really had. He was my support and showed me how it goes in the game and who are the GMs that sometimes flew around the world and walked incredibly fast and we all wanted it too. He used to help us with quests and others so that we could spend time together at the highest level. Almost no quest worked from level 1 to 70 nothing went. Yes, although the game officially supported level 60, here it could be up to 70. If you have exceeded level 70 you have always deleted XP and lowered the level. In short, it was interesting. At that time, I was already programming something and decided to help the local administrator with repairs. A few things seemed to him to have accepted, and then suddenly he paused, and there was no sign of him. I envied all the spaces because they treated me with bugs more than I did a big buggy druid who mostly just treated, which were later the main reasons why I always chose the spaces. McBogy once thought that I had the head to start my own server, so we went to set up a server for a few of our friends. We were fooling around and the server went long over Hamachi's network. Then McBogy complained that he wanted this and that to work, and we've already started repairs. The server went on my old computer and I mostly shut it down overnight. Then we told our friends about it, and Hamachi and my computer were no longer enough. Overall, the core was quite complex to repair, and the whole world was always stored in one single file after 10 minutes with a big cut. At that time we found a new and flexible core called Mangos, where it was very easy to repair and the developers of this core did a lot of repairs every day. So we started mangos on 1.12.1 version and we started. I was already using the computer exclusively as a server rather than doing something on it myself, so as not to brake the server. We opened the server to the public after buying a new box sometime around 20.9.2007. It was a date 24.12.2007 and we decided to have a Christmas WoW party in Stormwind. As on the original server, we were allowed to communicate between the factions, because I was sworn in and McBogy was sworn in. You may remember our verbal gunfights about the history of World of Warcraft, where I said that alices are the good ones, the clean ones, and the peaceful ones, while the evil hordes of us poor alices just plundered and sowed evil and dirt, and McBogy did the exact opposite. Yeah. I was and always will be, even though I now have a horde figure. We had our first Christmas party with all the members. There were 10 of us, which was also an online player record at the time. I remember it as if it were yesterday and we danced and drank and that was the first time I tasted the beautiful, fresh and bitter taste of alcohol. Unfortunately, I stayed forever only with the game and I did not manage to find the taste even in the real one and so I became a total abstainer. We had another year here and with it new people and other duties, work, repairs and new patches. Later I met Brumly. The first real alliance guild where I was a member and for whom the game meant something and did everything for their faction as defending the king, common actions, honor, etc. Even so, we sometimes worked with a horde and it was fun. As time went on, players became aware of our server. Out of 10 people, there were 50 at one time. We have decided, due to swearing and complaints, to finally completely cancel the communication between the horde and the alliance. Suddenly I was not in contact with McBogy, which may have been the reason for his departure from the server. I started to correct my mistakes better than I thought at that moment or what someone told me that this is definitely how it should be. I started correcting with honesty and correctly and stopped sending bosses to events, to public places, etc. For the first time, we were really close to each other. The number of players grew and my interest somehow decreased. I no longer wrote ten-page news, but devoted myself to learning programming languages and corrections. I started to lose it and over time I stopped playing. Later, I joined the team of developers of the new Trinity kernel and began to work officially as a kernel and database programmer at the same time. At one point I was in two database projects. I managed one and was an active developer in the other. I was really excited about it at the time. Lately, however, due to disagreements with the team, I have officially stopped working and we are going independently. However, I still provide them with corrections and information that we will do, but not publicly, I no longer want publicity and status, but the welfare of the server and yours without commitment to the programming team. From zero we finally got to this point, where we unfortunately have up to 945 people online at the top. We didn't drag anyone from other servers, we didn't have any ads anywhere. I say unfortunately, because I have always had (and will always have) a smaller server rather than a large one. More worry, more commitment, less time. The server's birthday has been counted since the creation of the first normal game character (My first non-GM character Eldar, which has already been deleted nese now my name is Death-Knight) on 15.11.2006. I always remember the date as the birthday of my first character rather than the birthday of the server, because the server as such started earlier but we chose this date as the date of creation and I am glad for it. Most of you already know the next one, and so it is useless to write history when we are at the point of a dull present and looking forward to the future. I would like to dedicate this article, among other things, to McBogy, who believed in me from the beginning and to all those who no longer play on our server and helped create its history. Thank you.
1) Added the last data recoverable from data version 3.2.2, the next will be with the transition to a new patch such as quests (Crystals of Power, Troll Patrol): Done to Death, Fueling the Project, The Battle for the Sun's Reach Armory, Meat on the Hook, Amidst the Confusion, Saragosa's End, Towers of Certain Doom (for horde and ali), Destroying the Altars, Sneak Preview (ali and horde), Blood is Thicker, Lupus Pupus, The Liquid Fire of Elune, Lupus Pupus, Suppressing the Elements, Reclusive Runemaster, Re-Cursive, The Great Hunter's Challenge, Strength of One, Ruuna the Blind (for horde and ali), The Black Knight of Westfall, The Black Knight of Silverpine, Burn in Effigy, The Art of Persuasion, Phantom Ghostfish, Fletcher's Lost and Found, But First My Offspring, Planning for the Future, Fueling the Project and more), NPC, Items and Objects
2) Further corrections in NPC behavior, especially in Dalaran, for smaller scripts and stats - I will ask GM to review unclosed errors with the above listed quests and other similar problems
3) Added reputation to Darkmoon Card quests
4) Fixed achievement Mountain o' Mounts
5) Fixed boss immunity (estimated) - official values are only from 3.3 and therefore invalid for our version
6) Added basic scripts to Trial of the Champion instance
7) Removed the hack at the spell Spirit Wolf
8) Turned loot into Trial of the Champion instance - please GM, do not go there yet, have loot from 3.3 and the client may fall in this connection not found new data
9) Added loot to Ulduar and other scripts - because GM terribly wanted to test some other instance much more time-consuming to spend with tests I will try on Ulduar, where the test of one boss takes as much time as almost the whole Naxxramas :-D
10) Fixed fishing in WG, but I do not recommend staying there these days
11) It is possible that a ton of new data caused the respawn of some bosses prematurely, especially in Naxxramas - but we could not predict the problem in time
12) Fixed totem models again
13) Fixed learning of transmutation in alchemy
14) Repaired Loot from Titanium Lockbox
15) Fixed Lady Sylvanas Windrunner <Banshee Queen>
16) Fixed problems with death and resurrection of the corpse
17) Reduced protection against spam and multiple messages
18) Accelerated sending of money from auction
19) Today's server crash fixed
20) Znovu opravena Lady Sylvanas Windrunner
21) Added hack to warrior shouts before completing the system for these cases in the exact and offlike system using tables in DB
22) Fixed item Wormhole Generator: Northrend
23) Fixed learning warhorse, fly form and others with given trainers
24) Other minor script fixes in instances for you
25) Fixed PVP quests, removed broken - now only available for lvl 80 before we fully run the scale reward system for lower levels
26) Fixed misuse of Mind Contol spells
27) The Third and Last Corrected Lady Sylvanas Windrunner
28) Fixed states at the NPC in Alterac Valley - for full functionality a system of three different instances is needed, where in each NPC will have different states, the system is almost ready to be corrected from higher positions and helpers, for now given the highest states
29) Fixed boss states in AV before deploying new system - AV allowed again
30) Fixed problems with Inscription skills (170/40 etc.), further learning should bring it back in order, if not I recommend to unlearn the profession and start again
31) Corrected Nasty Futajbl Hack Solution of our problem with shouts and replaced with correct offlike solution together with proper stacking of Blessing of Might