Version 1

EarthPol: Version 1.0 was the first version of the EarthPol Geopolitical Sandbox Server that consisted of approximately 200 towns, 40 nations and an average online player count of 50. Version 1.0 lasted approximately a month after its release in October 2020. Version 1.0 was closed after an exploit vulnerability with the BungeeCord Proxy setup was abused to gain administrative access to game server through '*' permissions.

The Great Hack

Meme showing the aftermath of the hack

The hackers had ruined the localized economy by giving everyone creative mode, as well as spawning in multiple items and giving everyone billions of gold in their economy accounts. In addition, they had griefed the entirety of Germany down to the void with WorldEdit. They further exploited a plugin to wipe backups from CoreProtect and an automatic backup system installed on the server at the time.

Key Events

Screenshot of the raid on Finland. By Wolfanize42

The Battle of Finland, occurred after the Nazi/racist & anti-LGBTQ Nation of Finland started war against all nation and players. The United Nations & other alliances formed together to start a battle against the Finnish and their leadership to put a stop against them once and for all after many raids and targeted harassment occurred against the marginalized people of the community. After multiple raids and banning of nearly 100 something alternative accounts, Finland was finally put to an end after their base and surrounding area was completely rolled back to natural order.

The Villager Snap. The villager snap was an event which made it so villager numbers per town were to be limited. This event was caused by a number of nations, but most notably the nation with the biggest influence was the nation of Australia. What Australia did to cause this change was on one person. The founder, Matty661. Matty661 built a highly efficient villager breeder which would have caused entity lag. It would be kept running until one of the staff members would message him telling Matty to stop the machine.

The Election Day Massacre: It all began when The King of The Union, InvertedColors listened to the cries of his people and submitted to the demand of democracy in North America. InvertedColors authorized the independent hermit nation of Cascadia to instate a third-party election for North America. The candidates included MrAwsomeBurgers of Ohio, Quinitican of Illinois, InvertedColors of New York. The head of the election was Bolshebricks of Portland (Cascadia) & Zqppy of Ohio. After many votes from all of the Union were received, the electors decided victory for MrAwsomeBurgers and InvertedColors refused to pass the crown after a fair election.

Unknowingly, Bolshebricks and InvertedColors had a deal to rig the election in favor of InvertedColors but failed after the votes were moved by Zqppy before the election could be rigged. Bolshebricks issued a state of emergency for Cascadia and declared that their sovereignty was in violation after MrAwsomeBurgers had made promises to unify the entirety of the United States, which was seen as threatening to Cascadia. Therefore, Vice xTORAxX lead Cascadian Troops and allies to Colorado where they began a FlagWar Siege, taking over parts of towns one claim at a time.

Eventually, Cascadia had pushed so far into the United States that MrAwsomeBurgers & Zqppy declared they were leaving the server. After this, a merge was initiated that made every single town in North America under Cascadian rule. Elections were in established by Bolshebricks with disqualifications for InvertedColors & himself to allow the United States to reform under a new nation with promises to not violate Cascadian sovereignty. The only registered candidate for the election was Rageus11. This would however never occur thanks to the Great Hack.

A Mycenaean Palace in Cyprus.

The Mycenaean Flood, all while the Election Drama was occurring in the United States, a light-blue wave was sweeping across Asia, Africa and Europe in the form of the Mycenaean Empire. The nation had just gained rule over two of the largest nations in the server. The Mycenaean Empire was ruled with an iron fist by God Emperor Malibu_Kane (not yet a staff member). Malibu would go on to have the biggest nation the server had ever seen with nearly 400 residents and around 40-50 towns directly under rule. The Mycenaean Empire capital was Cyprus, a island outside of Greece, designed by Pancen.

Notable Statistics

Biggest Nation: Mycenaean Empire

Biggest Town: New York

Key Players: MrAwsomeBurgers, InvertedColors, Quintican, Bolshebricks, Malibu_Kane