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Well it's been 5 years of Salem. It's gone through 3 gaming companies, 5 servers, almost 69,000 registered accounts, 18,000 topics, 280,000 posts, 8 Chiefs, 5 Heffernans and one Biddas.
It all started when 2 gay Swedish game developers named jorb and loftar, who were deeply in love with one another, in what can only be described as a gay version of the movie 'Titanic' but with more hidden penises, decided to design a game. They decided to create a game about having to manage infinitely smaller alchemical values so as to spam farm your fields for hours on end. To win the server all you needed to do was travel the world with a bucket to find 10% pure water in all 4 colors. Unfortunately this wasn't marketable and Totalymoo had to cut them loose with nothing to show for it but the fully coded game and 2 years of salaried masturbation.
Luckily they eventually sold out to MM gaming who introduced space aliens and massively increased the number of hats and capes for us to wear.
Some new players have come up to me asking for some history about the early in-game and forum politics...
These are my recollections:
The very first EVER player post to the forums would define the next 5 years of the forum's substance and its meaning to the actual game.
As great minds and deep philosophers such as Ass_Kraken, Realak, painhertz, Dallane and Colesie debated the important topics of the day such as Colesie's guitar work, Realak's rap career and the importance of forum spamming so as to maintain a feeling of self worth, other players were forming zergs so as to kill newbs.
The HnH guys couldn't understand how to walk around 3 dimensional trees so they quit early
Darnok raised a phalanx of Polish winged cavalry and for an early moment in the beginning controlled the server.
Darwoth was mocked by all and found out he couldn't play well with others.
Eventually a greater power would be formed and take over the initial Plymoth Rock server, forcing jorb and loftar to create better, more fun servers.
...eventually even the mighty Tribe spectacularly failed.
So goes Salem, THE LAND OF LOST PILGRIMS and PROVIDENCE OF SPAMMED NONSENSE
5 Greatest Raids of Salem so far:
5. The Second Sacking of the City of Dreams/Hunkpapa
4. The Looting of Gudtown
3. The Battle of Brest Fortress ending the last great Russian town on Plymouth
2. The Raid on Mushiville finally ending the Rebellion on Plymouth
1. The Great Fall of Gallows Hill
* I would have included the 4 month siege of Arcadia but we still have no footage OR thread of this from Darwoth 2 years after it happened but he keeps promising to give us pics from his massive file of Salem pics.
5 Greatest PvP Battles of Salem so far:
5. The Lilypad Waste Claim Wars
4. Kristian raid on Moleburg crews
3. The full Candy Gang rangering the last 3 titan Russian raiders of the 'City of Dreams'
2. The Death of Mushibag
1. The Battle of Lake Nod ..... Full Thread
5 Greatest Forum Threads of Salem so far:
5. The Day of Grandmothers/The Candy Queen gets trapped by Darwoth
4. The Treaty
3. The Great Roanoke Scavanger Hunt
2. ***** the Treaty
1. The Moderation Complaints Megathread
5 Greatest Tribe Videos of Salem so far:
5. Make Love not War
4. The Tribe attacks a dev ingame
3. The Fall of Gallows Hill
2. 'The Tribes' Harlem Shake video
1. Porn Stars payed to Larp and advertise for 'The Treaty' in RL
Here's to the next 5 years of Salem.
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