CivReign

CivReign is an in-development civ server currently in closed pre-alpha, whose development was announced publicly on the 12th of November, 2021. Currently, only patreons and other recommended individuals can join the server. The public beta is currently planned to be released on April 9th, 2022. The goal of CivReign is to innovate the civ genre by expanding the tech tree by building off old plugins and introducing new plugins such as Smeltery and Descent.

History
CivReign had been in development since August 2021, but it was publicly announced on November 12th, 2021. The server was initially planned to be run on 1.12.2 but an expansion of the staff team allowed the server version to be moved to 1.16.5. The administration initially communicated to the community through DevDiaries posted on the subreddit. The alpha of the server was initially planned to be launched on January 22nd, but due to a lack of factory configurations it had to be delayed. The project remained inactive until it was announced that CivRev would be merging with CivReign to centralize development, with CivRev acting as a test server. After more config work was done, the server pre-alpha was announced on February 22nd and launched on February 24th for patrons and their invitees only. A public beta was announced on March 28th, with a launch date of April 8th. It is unknown how long the beta will last.

Team
Main Dev: Orinnari/Protonull

Descent Devs: EarthComputer, Samnrad

Assistant Devs: Owain_X, Requalre

Map Maker: Zem

Community Manager: Cortwade

Funding/Owner: Kannon

Consultants: Bloof, Leobonet, JuniorTide, Uniter, SharpCastle33

(If you feel you can contribute, please contact Kannon#1870)

Descent
After the official end of CivEx, Descent was left without a home, until the suggestion of the Reign staff team led to Kannon contacted Samnrad and EarthComputer about their plugin, eventually leading to the pair officially joining the Reign's team, finishing the final touches on their plugin (Descent was essentially finished by the end of CivEx).