Development and History of Enarthia

Pre-Development (July 19, 2018 - August, 2018)
7/19/18 Enarthia I's development was started by Kai, Strikke, a deleted user, The Element, and Commie out of spite because Kai was kicked out of ZWR. Kai's original plan was to make a post-apocalyptic RP on earth, with the ruins of ancient cities buried underground, "Homo Ultra Sapiens" and... space zombies. The apocalypse would have happened in 1990, and the RP would have taken place millions of years later. Cabbink and Del™ were soon brought on. There were ideas for like, vaults of pre-end survivors.

However, most the talk was Kai being updated on ZWR happenings while not rejoining the server because of a feud with Dain.

7/24/18 Now, well before most the current Dev team even joined, we start to see the ideas of actual Enarthia come through, for example, NPC nations were proposed, as was the idea of making Earth deformed into a new map, as was the idea for the admin team to be a lot less forgiving in events and such than in the Otherans.

On 7/30/18, the next development spurt came, and decided to move the apocalypse into the future to allow a terraformed mars, and in addition, it was decided there would be alternate history, with the Soviets victorious in the Cold War. This was also when it was decided the Mediterranean would be mountains.

7/31/18: Kai decides he wants to make a bot to manage parts of the RP, in some effort to remove bias since he wants a "competitive" RP.



8/01/18: Kai tries to start coding the bot.

8/12/18: Kai wants to work out how staff will work. This is also when Kai Proposed his Card-Based War System.



8/15/18: Kai proposes the use of math to develop """Economies""" to balance the RP, Dain is brought in to make the map, and Com also joins.



8/16/18: Dain makes the first prototype of the map, forming the basis of Eurasia in the RP, though the Americas will be changed.



8/16/18: Kai finishes his "Core Roleplay System", a system which would never be used.



8/16/18: Dain Proposes his Dwarven Empire, unclear if this was to be humans with dwarven culture, or the actual dwarven species later added.

8/17/18: Kai makes the only card for his card system.



8/17/18: Kai shows the first map featuring what would later become the regions system. It features only two, and the map would have otherwise worked just like a normal Otheran Map, a Map was also made by Del™, of proposed ancient supply points.



8/18/18: Strikke Proposes the Basic Enarthia Rules, most of these will be used come actual release.

8/20/18: Development stalls from there for a month.

Proper Development Begins (September 28, 2018 - November 30, 2018)
9/28/18: Kai decides to expand from 9 to 20 developers, bringing in zombielizard218 (me) to start. Kai also proposes a wiki for the Enarthia series, and years later, that would actually be made, and you are reading it now. Pretty meta huh?



9/28/18: Discussion of Mar's Role in Enarthia Two (that's right, the original plan was for mars in E2, not E3.), where it would be in the 1500s by the time Earth encounters them. zombielizard proposes giant magnets on mars to sustain a magnetic field.

9/29/18: The idea of multiple directly connected Enarthia RPs is proposed, the specifics of each one would change wildly, but the core ideas remain.



9/30/18: Developer submissions are opened, and several people ask to join.

10/2/18: The first of these is accepted, Bisbeedog.

10/3/18: It is decided to pre-establish basic cultures based on locations. Zombielizard makes Enarthia's First Culture Map.



10/6/18: Cabbink proposes the Univseral Ban System. Azarua, without even joining, becomes Enarthia's first ban.



10/9/18: Enarthia One's Logo is decided on.



10/9/18: Antonio is brought on as a developer.

10/12/18: Kjack is brought on as a developer, Kai leaves the development team.

10/14/18: zombielizard proposes the region system as it will be in the actual RP, with 6 starting regions.

10/16/18: Tae is brought on as a developer.

10/20/18: Jair is brought on as a developer.

10/21/18: Tiber is brought on as a developer; It is decided Enarthia and Arcan will be under the "singularity" roleplay development team, and the idea of multiple playable species is agreed upon.

10/22/18: It is decided a role system with a lot of modifiers would be better than cards.

11/2/18: Someone leaks the map.

11/9/18: Because of the leaked map, dain decides to tweak the map.

11/10/18: Dain makes the new map, which will be the one used for the RP, and the playable species are decided and mapped in their final locations.

11/11/18: The Region System is decided, and region maps made.

11/16/18: The first few nations, Baldar-Dum, Imaor, Etc. are made by the staff. With Kai Gone, it is decided to not have the Otheran style age system at all.

11/17/18: 1.Commie 2.ihatenames 3.Tiber 4.Tae 5.Palp 6.Element 7.Zenix 8.Eclipz/bongo 9.Trialite 10.Tanga 11.Dankan 12.Anakin 13.Prescott 14.Warpower 15.Alaygrounds are all invited to make their nations.

11/20/18: it is finally decided there will be absolutely no ancient precursor tech on Earth. It is also decided the date of the apocalypse will be kept intentionally very vague, both in terms of the year the world ends, and how long from that time to RP start. It remains vague until Enarthia IV, where it is revealed the apocalypse happened in the 24th century, though the time from then to the RP remains vague.

11/30/18: Enarthia One Starts.