History of CivRealms

Civrealms is a Minecraft server in the Civ genre that was started on May 19th, 2019. The server has a rich political landscape and has, throught its year-long history, already had its fair share of notable historical events. This page aims to provide a general overview of the history of the server.

Beta
Before the current iteration of Civrealms, there was an open beta of the server, that lasted from __ to __.

Early history
Civrealms was started on ___.

Alexandrian Independence
Alexandria am be independent now

Founding of Bobanga
Teno is dead, long live bobanga

Anvardian-Bobangan War
On the ___, VolutionFs founded the Kingdom of Anvard on an island in the southern part of the Bobangan Jungle. The territory that Anvard was founded on was also claimed by Bobanga. On December 23rd, 2020, DarkyDu built a building in the middle of Anvards claims, to enforce the Bobangan claim on the territory. This started a fight with VolutionFs, which resulted in VolutionFs pearling DarkyDu. After much negotiation, the conflict was resolved and Bobanga ended up recognizing Anvards claim.

Founding of Accelerada
Write a bit about it here and do a link to the main article about it on the accelerada page

Founding of the IWW
Main article: Industrial Workers of the World

On ___, RainOfPain123 announced the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the IWW. The goal of the IWW was to serve as an organization of different anarchist communes. RainOfPain123 posted many ads on different anarchist subreddits on reddit, resulting in a huge influx of new players, which quickly made the IWW one of the more populated areas of the world, despite its location on the barren continent of Napistan.

The first commune was ___, which was founded by ___ on ___. Many communes followed shortly after, although not all of them stood the test of time. On ___, Narwhal_19 and Orcishtimmy found Bremerhaven on the east coast of Napistan. Bremerhaven quickly grew to be one of the largest communes in the IWW.

Bombing of Tolstoy
On ___, a player by the name of PartyAnimal committed what has been described as the servers first terror bombing. PartyAnimal pearled RainOfPain123 and exploded a lot of TNT in the Commune of Tolstoy, destroying many of the buildings, that hadn't been reinforced. The reason most buildings were unreinforced was that Tolstoy had been built by newfriends, who hadn't yet learned about the importance of reinforcing everything.

The Carbon Island Purchase
That one time carbon sold an island to yamato (this might be moved to yamatos page idk. we could also have a short version of it here and then a longer version on the yamato page)

The Ez2War
Main Article: Ez2War

The Ez2War was the first conflict on the server that achieved the scale of a world war. The war involved most of the major power and left a lasting mark on the history of the server.

Ez2Raid on Bobanga
When the ez's joined and raided bobanga. They were pearled and then later released

Construction of the Ez2Vault
When the ez's grinded and built a vault

Ez2-Bobangan War
When the ez's blitzkrieged bobanga

The Molokan Coalition
When Moloka + some others attacked the Ez2Vault

Post Molokan Coalition
The period of relative peace after the failure of the Molokan Coalition

The Unitas Crisis
The claims dispute between Accelerada and WE that the Ez's joined

Aftermath
After the fall of the Ez2Vault, the economy of the server was devastated and the player numbers in the week following the war were at a record low.

Closing of CivCorp
That one time civcorp was closed for a while

Age of Migration
The Age of Migration is the period that followed shortly after the Ez2War. It was marked by a great influx of new players coming in two waves. The first wave was started by a series of reddit posts that reached the top of the r/imaginarymaps subreddit. These posts brought many newfriends to the server, helping bring the server back from the low player numbers it had had in the immediate aftermath of the Ez2War. As the servers player numbers grew, many people from the CivClassics server decided to give Civrealms a try, which created a second wave of new players.

Re-opening of CivCorp
When civcorp opened again, this time with a whitelist

Bobanga Conference
Main Article: Treaty of Tenochtitlan

That one time bobanga was partitioned after the war

Partitioning of New Jersey
That one time New Jersey was partitioned for being inactive

Founding of Mount Augusta
Main Article: Mount Augusta, this is about the founding of the Civrealms instance of Mount Augusta, for founding of Mount Augusta on CivClassics, see: Mount Augusta (CivClassics Wiki)

That one time Mount Augusta moved to Civrealms.

The Acceleradan-Western Empire Compromise
That one time the Western Empire recognized Acceleradas claim to Unitas

The IWW Union Organizer Conflict
The conflict between Rainie, and many members of the IWW, about who should have mod ranks on their discord and nl groups.