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Topic: Oldest City
Posted By: Corwin
Subject: Oldest City
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2017 at 18:54
What is the oldest town in Illyriad? My first town was founded on july 8th 2010. It's exo'd but still exists. I'm sure there are older towns in the game. 

Is there a way to track how old captured towns are? I believe the date in your castle is the date it was captured, but the city is older. I'm curious what towns still exist from the first months of the game. 



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Posted By: Tensmoor
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2017 at 20:47
https://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/#/World/Map/383/-1815" rel="nofollow - Stormont was founded 21 Feb 2010 at 22:08:02 but I think the oldest non-dev town is https://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/#/World/Map/-458/-796" rel="nofollow - Taiphoon founded 22 Feb 2010 at 15:17:23


Posted By: Corwin
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2017 at 20:57
how do you know this? 


Posted By: Tensmoor
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2017 at 21:01
I looked at the datafile the devs make available for download each day. To give you an idea of the data in the towns file:

    <town>
        <location>
            <mapx>383</mapx>
            <mapy>-1815</mapy>
            <terraintype id="9">Clay Seam</terraintype>
            <terrainoveralltype id="4">Small Hill</terrainoveralltype>
        </location>
        <player>
            <playername id="1">GM Stormcrow</playername>
            <playerrace>Human</playerrace>
            <playeralliance>
                <alliancename id="18">Band of Devs</alliancename>
                <allianceticker>DEVS</allianceticker>
                <alliancetaxrate>0.01</alliancetaxrate>
            </playeralliance>
        </player>
        <towndata>
            <townname id="1">Stormont</townname>
            <foundeddatetime>2010-02-21T22:08:02.917</foundeddatetime>
            <population>14517</population>
            <iscapitalcity>1</iscapitalcity>
            <isalliancecapitalcity>1</isalliancecapitalcity>
        </towndata>
    </town>


That data is repeated for each town in Illy and the file is updated each day.


Posted By: Starry
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2017 at 02:16
Congrats, Tensmoor you have me beat:

Sunset   
City FoundedSat 20 Mar 2010

Not sure when Kumomoto and Killerpoodle started but it was a bit before me.


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Posted By: Lord Stanley
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2017 at 02:49
I was just looking at the oldest players the other day. 
Kumo is player id number 10.  I never heard of the people before him except the devs are the first few.


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Posted By: kodabear
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2017 at 03:29
the datafiles can give you alot of information and tools if you know what you are doing


Posted By: Tink XX
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2017 at 05:47
The city ID is updated when it is captured, so you can only track history of cities continuously owned by the same player.


Posted By: Tensmoor
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2017 at 06:46
Originally posted by Starry Starry wrote:

Congrats, Tensmoor you have me beat:

Sunset   
City FoundedSat 20 Mar 2010

Not sure when Kumomoto and Killerpoodle started but it was a bit before me.
That city belongs to Stormcrow not me - I didn't start playing this time till 2015.



Posted By: Corwin
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2017 at 06:59
I suppose there is no way to tell the age of a captured town then?


Posted By: Tink XX
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2017 at 07:05
Corwin: yeah, it's impossible from a single datafile. If you build up a history from the files correlating the cities with the same coordinates over time, you can track down captures, except for the cities that a player exodused shortly after capture (before the next town file update).


Posted By: Tensmoor
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2017 at 08:12
I've got the datafiles going back over a year so in theory I could work out things like changes of ownership during that period but it's a lot of work.



Posted By: Corwin
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2017 at 12:26
Would it be possible for the devs to find that information back to tge beginning of the server? The title legendary city seems more fitting for a town that exists for 7 years and has changed owner several times then a prestige build town that's only 3 months old. It' also interesting to know who's controlling the towns of the players who long left the game.


Posted By: Tensmoor
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2017 at 18:16
Possibly but that is something you'd have to take up with them. Personally I don't think they'd be willing to devote the time/effort required but it also depends on how the data is structured on their server if the still have that info.


Posted By: phoenixfire
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2017 at 18:55
Originally posted by Lord Stanley Lord Stanley wrote:

I was just looking at the oldest players the other day. 
Kumo is player id number 10.  I never heard of the people before him except the devs are the first few.

Sarky is the only one ahead of Kumo that still has towns and he is player Id 3. Which means he is the first actual player besides the Devs


Posted By: Neytiri
Date Posted: 21 Nov 2017 at 15:38
Lucyville:  Fri 05 Nov 2010
Still, it's pretty old.


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