What username were you most known by on CivClassics?

Magmus

What was your first Civ server?

Civcraft 2.0

What other civ iterations have you played?

A bunch, but I only played Civcraft 2.0, Devoted 2.0, Civcraft 3.0, Devoted 3.0 and Civclassic 2.0 properly

What got you into Civ?

Saw a map of civcraft on /r/minecraft and was like "damn i want to explore all these cities"

What was your first nation that you joined?

Iria

What citizenships have you had, which do you currently have?

Irian, (i guess) Beneshirian ,(which was only me lol) Augustan, (Multiple servers) Verdan, (i mean i literally founded it) Threeper (before it was part of CCCP) and Cortesian). Im pretty sure i have none of these citizenships now civclassic is over.

What would you consider your greatest achievement on a Civ server?

Probably running Verda, even though it eventually died

What do you think most people know you for?

Being dumb probably, or verda

Were you politically active on Civ? If so, what positions of power have you held?

President of Beneshire and Queen of Verda

Who was the most influential person in your nation and what did they do?

If you mean influential on the server as a whole probably Pirater, who mostly just shitposted a lot and then fucked the country over by attacking Nyasaland, but he probably also was the most influential in Verda after me or Thalio I would guess

Where did you spend most of your time on CivClassics?

Verda, probably, specifically in the capital city of Crowsroost.

Where did you live on CivClassics?

Crowsroost, Pinnacle, (Both cities part of Verda) Threepton, Mount Augusta and New Sol.

What was an event you were involved with that you remember well?

Can't really remember anything lol maybe certain stuff in iria

Were you ever involved in conflict with other players or nations?

Oh boy! Ok so apart from being pearled twice during the titan war, (i was on neither side really just fucking around in active warzones for fun) got pearled trying to loot duck city for treasure, I was at the Goten conflict talking shit at people, was pearled twice for fucking around in the Nox War, then there was a bunch of shit on Devoted and stuff i cant remember, Verda was attacked by a shitton of raiders and I got pearled by a few of them, and also had to deal with the aftermath of the Nyasan-Channer war with Nyasaland occupying Verda for a few months.

You’re listed as the leader of Ravenport, why was Ravenport abandoned and what led to its annexation into Beneshire? And then Beneshire being sold to Oz?

No idea about the actual history of Ravenport since I was never around when it was active, I just annexed it into Beneshire. I sold Beneshire to Oz cause I was tired of being the leader of a shitty one-man nation and wanted to do something else.

What was Chestplatism?

Some dumb religion I tried to make in Civcraft 3.0 and Devoted, it never became a thing but some of the ideas behind it eventually became part of Verda's pantheon, the idea was worshipping some bugged golden chestplates awarded in an Irian horse race.

What was Yoahtl like in Civcraft 3.0? What caused you to leave?

iirc it was kinda boring so i decided to move to Iria instead.

What did you witness during the Titan War? What do you remember people saying about the war at the time?

God, that was a long fucking time ago, I was 12 back then. Basically i remember attack on titan jokes and stuff, along with typical subreddit arguements and memes. I went to Titan not long after joining the server cause a guy in Iria was also going there cause he wanted to see "the tower". (I later found out this was the vault tower) I followed him on a vast journey across the map until I eventually reached Titan. (the guy, Darkdude, was never seen again) I tried looking around the tower before getting pearled cause I was a stupid kid who was trying to get close to the core objective of a fucking war. I tried negotiating with Titan and was shocked when they actually let me free as I guess I thought that they were all crazy and evil or something, and ended up writing a book about it. A while later Titan attacked the Carson Vault, The Playpen. I went there just to watch or something and got briefly pearled lol

How has the culture of Civ changed since you started playing?

Uhh people were a lot more racist and transphobic back in the day, (especially on devoted) its good that nowdays being a nazi is usually considered a bad thing, and as far as I know there weren't any nazi countries by the end of Civclassic. There don't seem to be many Channers anymore, which I feel should be a good thing, but I almost feel as something has been lost despite that feeling going against everything I stand for as a person. Anarchism isnt so much of a thing, especially not ancaps. Also, international politics ingame have changed a lot too, with large alliances fighting each other instead of just international WP vs like one nation consisting entirely of PvPers. Raider groups and raiding outside of warfare in general seem to have mostly gone away, too. Exilepearl made the end in Civclassic completely abandoned, which made me feel kinda sad as someone who found themself pearled quite a bit in Civcraft 2.0. Also, im kinda sad that a lot of the "quirkiness" of some Civcraft communities seems to have gone away, I hope that it might come back in CivMC.

In your book Iria Revolution (https://civbooks.github.io/books/Civcraft_2/Lord_Magmus/Iria_Revolution.html) you talk about what DawgTheMelon3 did, after their punishment and exile from Iria did you ever have any more issues with them?

i mean yeah kinda i became obsessed at the one person sillier than me we argued quite a bit he made an account on reddit called "magmusshivcraft" to try and harrass me??? but nothing serious oh and wiki edit wars cant forget the wiki edit wars

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--This interview was conducted over discord on the 17th of March, 2022--