The Era of Decay (Classic)

The era started around august 7th when due to summer ending and terra nova being announced the population slowly shrunk to the point where ate times there were 0 players online.

August

• (August 7th - ???) Great Hibernation. Between waiting for Terra Nova, school returning, and the growth of other servers, player numbers dwindle on server, never reaching more than 10 (sometimes hanging around 0-2). The current belief is that the server will bounce back once the update is released later in Fall. In some regards this may also have been made worse by the continual slowdown on the server that dates even back to the Kerala War.

• 32Gold started massive projects designed to destroy the map (such as draining the Mediterraian and others) prompting huge pushback and arguments for rules protecting the environment.
• (August 21st) EarthMC turned 2 years old
• (August 27th) The 1000th article on the EarthMC Wiki was published

September

• (September 4th) fabian2003 was perm banned for reaching 5 warnings.
• (September 10th) Chilhelm griefs Volgograd
• (September 15th) TheNakedSnail_YT turns 11 irl
• (September 29th) Periano Nukes Petrozavodsk (his own town) and deleting it
• (October 2nd) Russia wins the Battle of Orleans, a decisive battle in the Russo-Hungarian War
• (October 2nd) Tang disbands