The YoungWorld

Fort Europe · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:33 am Post subject: History of The YoungWorld

History of The YoungWorld

This thread details the events of The YoungWorld through the ages, from it's creation right up until the present day.

If there is any facts that you wish to add to this thread, or anything in this thread that you wish to dispute, please inform a moderator or myself.
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Fort Europe · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:00 am Post subject:

2004

Creation

The YoungWorld was one of two regions founded by Corinthes phoenix, a puppet nation of Carinthe, in March 2004. The Gothic Underground was also founded at about the same time.

The YoungWorld was created as a Defender region, while The Gothic Underground was intended as an Invader region. Both regions were run by Carinthe, with their own forums.

Additional Regions

There were also a number of additional regions created in 2004 as back ups and places of refuge for nations involved in different elements of the game. The Young World, TheYoungWorld and theyoungworld were some of the names used. Links from these regions all lead to The YoungWorld forum, and some nations were recruited using these other regions.

The YoungWorld Defense Force

The YoungWorld Defense Force (TYWDF) was created as the region's army, tasked with protecting the region, assisting in Defender actions and for use in the Warzones.

2005

Record Population

The YoungWorld reached its pinacle in the early part of 2005, when the total number of nations in the region passed the 600 mark. However, when the founder nation Corinthes pheonix "ceased to exist" for the first time in late 2005, there was a sharp drop off in region population. By the end of the year there were only around 140 nations left in the region. Much of the population drop can be attributed to the death of puppet nations, and activity levels remained high.

The Second Forum

The original forum created for The YoungWorld was quite small, and was quickly overcrowded. A new forum was created to cope with the increase in population, and quickly became popular. The new forum was created using the phpBB boards, very similar to the one we use today. Many of the areas you see on our current forum were created on that second incarnation, as were many of the traditions we have today.

The First Great Forum War was a role play held on the forum in The Battlefield. It lasted several months and involved in excess of thirty nations. There were two main sides in the war, The YoungWorld Alliance and The Rebellion. Two new areas on the forum were created as headquarters for these two factions during the war, and they remained long afterwards, using the rivalry to make role plays more interesting.

Warzones

The YoungWorld Defense Force (TYWDF) made a name for its self in 2005, becoming the first to capture and hold all the Warzone regions at the same time. In a brave move, TYWDF attacked and successfully captured all 6 warzones on the same server update.

It wasn't until 2009 before the region '00000 A World Power' managed to capture and hold all the Warzones, and several others have achieved this since. However, to date, no other region has managed to take them all on the same server update.

TYWDF held lost control of some of the Warzones quite quickly, while others remained under their control for a considerable length of time. Warzone Africa was held for 154 days, with Welchyland as the Warzone's delegate. The YoungWorld Defence Force were finally defeated in Warzone Africa by the region Gatesville on 20 May 2006. To date that record has not been broken either.

2006

Founder Nation Restored

The Founder Nation Corinthes phoenix was restored to activity in January 2006 by Carinthe, but by then a large number of nations had left the region or stopped playing Nation States all together. The absence of the Founder Nation had also put the region under threat of invasion, requiring all members of TYWDF to help defend it.

The Third Forum

The second incarnation of The YoungWorld Forum suffered a major technical fault. It became inaccessable due to server corruption and was eventually deleted completely.

The forum was restored using a back up made from an earlier saved version, but the decision was made to move to a different website provider, becoming the third forum. This new server allowed for greater expansion upon the phpBB boards, and a points based credit based system was added. With this came games and other things to do on the forum, from which credits could be won or spent. Members earnt credits for every post they made. A bank, stock market, lottery, shops and casino were all included.

Another addition to the new forum was the Alice Forumbot program, which replied automatically to posts made by members of the forum with all sorts of random comments. Our forumbot was called Jester.

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013
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Sir Lans · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:56 pm Post subject:

I feel I should point out that we never held all the WZ's at one time...though, we almost did. We were actually 1 endo away from doing it. TFL was livid. Galts Gulch also at one point held 5.

EDIT: I do think it should be removed from the WFE
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Dark Miyte · Private First Class Joined: 11 Aug 2011 Posts: 36

also.... wheres the rest lol
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