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2004
mIKe used to host a SETI server (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) for fun and often played Doom multiplayer with a player named Darlene. Whenever she created a server she always named it, "Darlene's Revenge".
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was released on November 30, 2004, and not soon after, mIKe began hosting a server with a friend. He named their server, "mIKe's ReVeNGe".
Not soon after that, he learned how to mess with source physics. Players like ThrowingChicken and Paperthintelevision joined his server.
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2005
mIKe founded the first website for mR - a geocities based website with general server info.
The Half-life 2 DM map "Hometown 1999" (http://www.smartzenegger.nl/maps/hometown.html ) was
later discovered and set as the default map on mIKe's server. This surprisingly generated a lot of traffic, bringing in a lot more members, some that would help solidify the foundation of mR, forever.
mIKe began to implement a lot of commands into the mR hl2dm server using eventscripts by Mattie (http://mattie.net/cs/ ). He added commands like !jumpwalk which resulted in launching a player upward, allowing a player to glide across a map, and added !spider which made a client take steps over
props. There were also special effect commands. Mani was another plugin added to the server, allowing for votemap, rtv, and administration of the server.
His server's rank jumped all the way to the top of the 2nd percentile, rated 12th in HL2DM and his webpage started getting hits. ( http://i.imgur.com/OXvdH.jpg ) (The server's highest rank was 8. However it was not recorded.)
Late 2005, Papertintelevision setup Invision Power Board Forums as a primary way for people to socialize outside of the server and to tell people wtf is
going on. The website at the time was mR.j-prod.com
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2006
mIKe created a build system which allowed for the spawning and deletion of props and the ability to rotate and color props. This lead to the creation of some wicked builds. A money system was added to the servers, with an effective lottery and bet system all while generating money the longer you played. This system allowed players to buy weapons and npcs, things the build system could not offer. A musicmenu and skinmenu were also added, giving a player the ability to play music (clientside) or change their skin.
Scripting became a popular thing to do after it exploded by its discovery. If sv_cheats were on, a client had the ability to run a config file containing different scripts which allowed for different results such as spawning an invisible watermelon on fire that players could throw about.
The abuse of commands became increasingly popular in the servers. Players spammed props and effects and killed each other when it was stated not to for build modes. By then mR had two severs, one running hometown1999, and the other running rp_cscdesert_v2
Project "Skyboat" was announced with Throwing Chicken as the concept artist and Rand0mNumbers mapping.
Around this time we began to deal with copycat Servers, like "civil Protection" and "Orbit". Tag protection was implemented to prevent players from imitating mR members or admins.
At this time we had eleven admins; mIKe, Paper, Sophie, ThrowingChicken, Pheonix, Michael, Rand0mNumbers, Bob_Smith, ( ^_^ ), Silence, Pcpakamo, and LostBrother.
The clan consisted of 33 active members, all of which played hl2dm.
Six222, Antlion_King, B1x, Babeboom, Blaze, Chris0494, Crowbar_Man, Dracula, Dragon, Easyjet, Flatcher, FullMetal Alchemist, Ghost, H4Z3, Hl_Guy, Jaybird, Karuberutsu, KelloggsKhaos, King Arthur, Master_Frag, Mojoho, MorpheusOmikron, Patio, Redrum, Rockagie, Sgt.firefly, Shadow, Shortbus, Starfighterjesus, Tanner55111, ThirdHeart, Wolf_rising.
We also had some pending members; Fred, Phantom, Tron, One Hit, and Rambo, and some regulars; Tuna_Can, Mark, Lumii, AceGec3D, Singe, Dr. Timothy, Cougar Tail Furry Kid.
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2007
Tournament.com began covering server cost for mIKe each month in exchange to be an affiliate. About this time mR moved to godaddy dues to previous troubles involving the last host.
mR benefits were activated, mR's were given commands like !heatvison, !deathbeam, and were given the deletion tool to delete spawned props belonging to others. Admins were also given the right to carry the admin guns. These included; the slay gun, ban gun, kick gun, freeze gun, burn gun, and teleport gun.
Mark released his first version of the mR plugin for hl2dm which made the build system more efficient, allowed useres to save their spawns, and contains its own code for mR scripters.
A New Map By F.Kalkman was released, this became hl2dm's new default map for roleplay. (HL2_Amsterville_2006) http://www.smartzenegger.nl/maps/amsterville.html
Team Fortress 2 was released and soon mR had a stock server that populated quick when one or two people became active in the server.
Half-life 2: Episiode Two and Portal was also release around this time, these were big topics for discussion in the forums.
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2008
A year of mR parties hosted by Soph, hl2dm scripting and TF2.
An experimental two division administration was formed, super admins (mR^2) and server admins. The super admins had rcon, whereas, server admins just had basic admin commands.
Super Admins
mIKe, Paperthintelevision, Jamie, Kelloggs, and LostBrother
Server Admins
( ^_^ ), Ghost, Haze, Michael, Pcpakamo, Phoenix, Soppy, Starfighterjesus, and TheWorst
[mR] Clan
Ajax, Antlion King, AnythIng, B1x, Babeboom, Blaze, Crowbar Man, Dragon, Easyjet, Flatcher, Fred U, Fullmetal Alchemist, Hl_Guy, Jaybird,Karuberutsu, KingArthur, MadMan, Master_Frag, Mojoho, Patio, and Redrum, Rockagie, Sean, Sgt.Firefly, Shadow, Six222, Skippy, Tanner55111, ThirdHeart, Tron, and Wolf_Rising
Bioshock was released, this created a lot of hype within the community, later on, on April 23th, 2010, Doctor Who/DrKamina created the
CoR-CityOfRapture Minecraft Server as dedication to this wicked game.
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2009
mIKe issues a farewell as he leaves for a temp break and Lostbrother runs the forums and servers for 6 months. During this time Lostbrother tries experimental community projects, creating "jobs" [mR] Abuse, Artist, and Banker teams for the forums and hl2dm servers.
Diggity_Dan introduced Tinychat to [mR], this became a regular thing to do for over a month, mIKe's ReVeNGe would join and talk using webcams.
San Andreas Multiplayer was big at this time, people would join Tinychat and mess around in GTA together, building import cars, killing each other and doing stunts.
This was a year of hl2dm coding breaks, where things would work one day and not as eventscript_tools was abandoned. Lostbrother created custom skins for the forums, and optimized alot of code within it to make it run smoother and add additional functions. He began to recoding HL2DM Servers in python and with marks plugin due to the increase of crashes with the c++ version of the servers. He also released a few maps.
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2010
mR switched over to vBulletin Forums as an alternative to Invision Power Board Forums due to a lack of features needed by the community and because of the inconvenience of a recent database lose (Davis).
Sophie resigned from mR around this time. She will be missed.
Master Frag on March 2nd was made admin and became channel admin for the Teamspeak server, this time around, TS lifted off. This may have cause the slight downfall of the forums. Discussions now happened inside teamspeak rather than textually on the forums.
mR Minecraft was founded by Michael around April 5th, 2010. At this time it was just one server running minecraft classic. This was merely an experiment for mR which later exploded into success for the whole community.
B1x, Master Frag, and LB started Pariahs-Riposte which was renamed as Isotropic-Overture. Crowbar man, B1x's sister K0ttin-K0b, and Sophie all became active members. This later died and branched back to mR, TBG and PM5.
Six222 came back on April 24th, 2010, and started coding for HL2DM Server with Marks Plugin, this time involved leaving the mani and eventscripts plugin and doing all code entirely on the mR plugin.
Due to the high cost of running so many servers EGN and mR formed a hosting merge, they hosted servers on the same box and split the bill. This ended after some issues.
Madman redesigned the homepage (to be more suited to the rising minecraft community) from scratch! It contained server info, about mR,forum and wiki links.
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2011
mIKe and Doctor_Who/DrKamina start Terre_Connue RP Project Server.
This was also the year of the Lladar.
mR took a Trip to Minecon!
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2012
We died.
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2013
And the story continues....
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