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To the developers and all the players of Illyriad:  Thank you so much for making a great game and a great community, worthy of all the time I squander dwell here.

Here's to the next five years!

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Hi everyone,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO... SHALL WE?
It's a bit of a shocker, but it's actually Illyriad's 5-yr anniversary today. 

Whilst the server booted up for the first time on the 21st of February 2010, players didn't get access until the 22nd; so that's the official start date for this grand journey.

In that time we've seen many, many changes to the game.

For those who weren't around at the beginning, here's a sample of what you missed from the early days...

We started off with a "world tree" theme around the borders, with all the content placed inside large scrolls.  The town map was a very different beast.



The world map was randomly generated (rather than hand-drawn) in those days, so there were no rivers, no seas or lakes, no sprawling forests or mountain ranges and no regions; just a mish-mash of different squares.  

The world map, with Chat version 1 visible.  Note the awesome way the arctic area blends so subtly with the rest of the map :)


POP-QUIZ FACTOID BUZZFEED LISTICLE
During these five years, you have:
  • Undertaken some 62 million trade missions and traded 4 trillion Gold (4 thousand billion)!
  • Performed 21 million harvesting missions and nearly 12 million quests
  • Gone on 125 million military missions and nearly 40 thousand sieges for a total of 1.6 billion casualties
  • Sent 104 million ingame mails and spoken 334 million words in chat.  That's the equivalent of the entire works of Shakespeare 377 times over, or the equivalent of 425 Bibles - in chat alone. I won't speak to the relative quality of the text ;)
  • 287,000 players have been through the gates, settling 350,000 towns across 1,300 alliances
  • You have collectively played 22,364,898.12 hours of Illyriad
  • That's 931,870.75 days or 2,553 years!
During this 5-year period we have had just under 6 hours of unscheduled downtime, and 15 hours of downtime in total (including patches and server moves).

OHHH, RELEASE ME, LET ME GO...
Over the following day we'll be making a large number of changes, patches and updates to the game.

We'll announce each one of them as and when they occur!  


Stay tuned, and thanks for joining us on this journey.

Best wishes,

SC

Edited by GM Rikoo - 22 Oct 2015 at 18:18
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