Caledonia: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 119:
In real life, a worldwide pandemic broke out in March, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic Novel Coronavirus (AKA COVID-19)], a once in a century illness that caused heavy quarantine measures across the whole world. Maybe due to the combined effect of quarantines and the renewed interest in building things, activity in Corinth exploded, with many new and old Caledonians alike building houses along the shores of the half-finished Lake Rubicon, along with some other earlier build like the main road and rail station. The Mall was also remodeled to look more modern to fit more with the theme of the town. Despite the [[Infinity War]] still raging on, the majority of Caledonians took a break during the [[Valyria|Valyrian]] Campaign to refocus efforts on improving infrastructure at home (and building Corinth). This was seen as a good rest before weathering more of the storm.
Both March and April came and went with a slow pulse of activity, mainly due to the competition of rivaling server CivRealms. At this time in Classics history, many players were fed up with what was seen as a bad job at addressing issues by the Admins, with conflicting Admin opinions on the more toxic elements of politics, and also the seeming lack of drive by the admins to try to play with the plug-ins to make the server better. The Infinity War had tested people's nerves and the playerbase has been worn thin. The 1.14 update had become a myth and many people were just tired of it all. CivRealms presented a very tantalizing alternative, and many people migrated away form Classics. Caledonia didn't migrate wholly in itself, but several prominent Caledonians began playing more on realms, launching a business to make money on the opportunity filled fresher server. Some Caledonians would hang around and build things here and there, but all was quiet on the Classics front. Other games caught the active Caledonians eyes as well, affecting play in Caledonia even further. To make matters worse, Meat had decided after dealing with a lot of stressful things going on in his life, that playing video games just wasn't good for him at this point, and so quit, officially leaving Wing the only reigning Consul. The admin/developer Maxopoly officially announced that 1.14 was coming soon after a last bug testing period midway through April. Some were hopeful this update, some weren't and some chose a middle ground of healthy skepticism. Whether this would breathe life back into the server or not was unknown at this point.
== Geography ==
| |||