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== General History == | == General History == | ||
+ | 1997-1999 The innocence | ||
+ | - First servers (www.archmage.com) | ||
+ | - Growth of servers | ||
+ | - Introduction of banners and clicking adds to get 'Luck' in the game | ||
+ | - 'Game of the Month', a big hit. | ||
+ | - Many players communicating using ICQ. | ||
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+ | 2000-2001 The glory days | ||
+ | - Moving of game URL (www.magewar.com), portal update. | ||
+ | - Growth of multimaging, admins handing magical compasses to those reporting cheating | ||
+ | - Thread of sewing for violating copyrights. Change of mage speciality names and some unit names. | ||
+ | - Introduction of a beta server | ||
+ | - Growth of custom archmage interfaces | ||
+ | - Growth of scripting, movement-tracking and spellbots - Archmage servers to open. | ||
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+ | 2001-2003 The decay | ||
+ | - Growth of bug-exploits, e.g. negative power bug, unlimitted devils bug, find armacaster, unlimitted wishing bug etc. etc. etc. | ||
+ | - Announcement of MARI focusing on ArchSpace | ||
+ | - Introduction of beta units on all servers | ||
+ | - Different language servers | ||
+ | - Announcements of trying to make some servers Pay-2-Play | ||
+ | - Announcement of MARI focusing on a graphic online roleplaying game. | ||
+ | - MARI going bankrupt and going web-dead totally. | ||
+ | - MARI forums going web-dead. | ||
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+ | - Dawn of ProjectX (what became The Reincarnation) and some other Archmage inspired webgames. | ||
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<ul><li>[[Ager Guild History]]</li> | <ul><li>[[Ager Guild History]]</li> | ||
+ | <li>[[Ager Non-Guild History]]</li> | ||
+ | <li>[[Ager Guild History]]</li> | ||
<li>[[Ager Solo History]]</li> | <li>[[Ager Solo History]]</li> | ||
<li>[[Apprentice History]]</li> | <li>[[Apprentice History]]</li> | ||
<li>[[Beta History]]</li> | <li>[[Beta History]]</li> | ||
+ | <li>[[Blitz Non-Guild History]]</li> | ||
<li>[[Blitz Guild History]]</li> | <li>[[Blitz Guild History]]</li> | ||
<li>[[Blitz Solo History]]</li> | <li>[[Blitz Solo History]]</li> | ||
+ | <li>[[Server Non-Guild Histoy]]</li> | ||
<li>[[Server Guild Histoy]]</li> | <li>[[Server Guild Histoy]]</li> | ||
<li>[[Server Solo History]]</li></ul> | <li>[[Server Solo History]]</li></ul> |
Revision as of 19:31, 28 January 2006
General History
1997-1999 The innocence - First servers (www.archmage.com) - Growth of servers - Introduction of banners and clicking adds to get 'Luck' in the game - 'Game of the Month', a big hit. - Many players communicating using ICQ.
2000-2001 The glory days - Moving of game URL (www.magewar.com), portal update. - Growth of multimaging, admins handing magical compasses to those reporting cheating - Thread of sewing for violating copyrights. Change of mage speciality names and some unit names. - Introduction of a beta server - Growth of custom archmage interfaces - Growth of scripting, movement-tracking and spellbots - Archmage servers to open.
2001-2003 The decay - Growth of bug-exploits, e.g. negative power bug, unlimitted devils bug, find armacaster, unlimitted wishing bug etc. etc. etc. - Announcement of MARI focusing on ArchSpace - Introduction of beta units on all servers - Different language servers - Announcements of trying to make some servers Pay-2-Play - Announcement of MARI focusing on a graphic online roleplaying game. - MARI going bankrupt and going web-dead totally. - MARI forums going web-dead.
- Dawn of ProjectX (what became The Reincarnation) and some other Archmage inspired webgames.