Hola everyone,

Today was an extremely fun day. Both sides fought hard and i am thoroughly impressed with how mostly-flawlessly the war took place. Pretty much everybody was respectful of the rules and the turnout was amazing.

I will be uploading my video of it soon (its like 40 minutes long so im trying to figure that out first) but I would like to thank everyone that made this possible. All of Cuba's allies were incredibly fun to fight alongside and to talk to in mumble. The Orionites were dirty bastards very respectful and fought like champs. All of the bystanders were good sports about getting killed here and there, and the bouncers in prot were very helpful by not getting involved in the war and just making sure everything ran smoothly.

There was a huge risk in having an organized, rule-driven war like this and I want to express my deepest gratitude to all involved for keeping it clean and fun as much as possible.

I had been planning to have this happen for over a month now. It began as a quick two-week type building spree and the idea of having a cold war, and turned into something much more interesting. Propaganda popped up on the subreddit, support and messages began to flow in from basically every corner of the map, and everyone really seemed to get involved in the conflict in a lighthearted manor.

I wanted to do something like this as my "last hurrah" on civcraft. I was very disheartened with the possibility of being banned for the battle, but thankfully the ban hadn't been administered yet. I have been contemplating hanging it up for a while now, but I couldn't quite figure out how to go out. Some choose to grief, some choose to make public all of the shady things they have done, some choose to make scathing posts on the subreddit about the community or the admin team, and some (like Pixelseverywhere RIP) just fade away barely even saying "goodbye".

I guess this was how I say goodbye. I have had many experiences on Civcraft. Things happened that I never even imagined could be possible. I looked through screenshots thinking I had some awesome pics that everyone needed to see but most of my screenshots had to do with the building and maintaining of Aurora heheh. If you care to read on, Ill quickly talk about my civlife:

1.0

I started out in 1.0 by being pearled by camxd on my first 5 minutes on the server and didn't even bother logging back in until january 7th. When I did log in I was greeted by a group of people that I soon found out were New Agorans. They were very cautious of new players and almost did not let me in, but Nukejay convinced them otherwise.

I moved in, built a house, and quickly had it burned down as a result of the near-constant lightning storms. I hung out with the great people of New Agora and stuck it out through raids, griefs and dramas. Mandy dropped DRO all over town and we hunted her for three days straight. I finally pearled her one day and we partied like it was 1999.

I also met RyanAmidon from Bay City and built a nice house there. That was cool.

Then the map ended.

2.0

The 2.0 map was very different.

I'd get really stoned in the first few weeks of the server and go on mining trips. These trips consisted of me running around and digging straight down only to fall to my death in giant caverns full of floating diamond ore. I mined a good few of these on my own and amassed enough wealth to say "fuck mining".

I helped found and build the infrastructure of Aurora and managed the city for a few months. During Aurora's golden era we had 40-50 unique players a day and an amazingly active and friendly core group of people. Read more about it in my damn history book. ffs. Oh, also, Mandy dropped DRO on my town again.

I banded together with a bunch of people from cities across the map in order to fight the HCF many times(there are more videos i never uploaded). Most of these players I had despised on 1.0 and a few even early on in 2.0! We became the World Police and we fought together in almost every major city on the map. Ill never forget the hours of planning and coordination it took to have 5-7 WP members attempt to arrive at one city to fight the HCF when they were all coming from different parts of the world. I spent many hours traveling, fighting, then traveling, repairing, traveling, fighting, etc. etc. I never once mooched off of Cliffnerd's resources (something i figured hed be happy about). We broke a vault, then fought again and watched WP members get pearled only to go break another vault. The war really ended up being HCF vs WP while the rest of the civilized world could mostly go about their business as usual. Many people say that the war was like that because the WP weren't liked so nobody helped, but im OK with that.

After breaking Dill's vault we declared our victory and went on to better and brighter things. Whenever we would be in a town and tensions would begin to get a bit high, id message the towns people to make them as aware as possible to what was going on. Sorry WP friends, I always did that. It never really helped all that much in the end anyways. I never felt like fighting the civcraft people we were supposed to be protecting.

LADS were created, and I built a house in Duck City. Duck Roast happened while I was hanging out in FAGT trying to pearl a gerfer. Later dill and recharge people ransacked Duck City out of spite when most of the LADS quit playing. At this point I had no real reason for playing and most of my time consisted of jumping around in circles. I came up with the idea of using the forgotten land east of the Orion river in order to role play a Cold War.

Recharge happened and I sat around building Cuba. Recharge was banned and I attempted to lead a Cleanup Crew into Recharge to break the vaults. That was fun. Lots of hard work was put into that vault break. Here are a bunch of good pictures from that vault break. Notice the no-cavemode-on-10-minutes-after-taking-that-video.

So that ended and I focused on Cuba. I made the walls pretty and reinforced and started the war. What a great time that was. This was basically a summation of the entirety of my civcraft career.

I have met so many cool people through Civcraft that it is impossible to even make a list because I would accidentally leave someone out. I'd like to thank everyone for making this whole year a few months some of the most interesting and sleep-deprived days of my life. I'll be on mumble still every now and then playing other games but I think it is time for me to go see the real world some more.

Thanks everyone. Its been fun.

You da bes.

tl;dr: sup