Been under a rock for 4 months

So back in july I thought I would wait for the update (New game apparently) and forgot and came back to this. To a guy whos been under a rock, what the hell has happened in the past 4 months?

I'd suggest checking all the news posts made after you left, in chronological order. Uber long post coming up, so be prepared. Lots of links as well. You WERE gone 4 months.

Basically, custom maps was delayed til November 15th, and it was released as a separate game in alpha mode for bug fixes. Then they announced they'd merge the two on December 1st, and change the name to atWar to be more generic and descriptive (please don't bother complaining, it's not gonna change). Then their new overqualified promotion manager left, and abfahren became the new guy, putting in an SP Superweek last week, giving lots of SP to premium players. Then abfahren introduced international forums and promotional pages. Then the merge came, and people complained while others cheered. Go here for a comprehensive list of changes to the game; nothing changed between July and November except a buff to DS and a nerf to Ukraine.

Other stuff in approximate chronological order:

Art of War disbanded. Was restarted last week.

The mods created a Player of the Month award. This topic has all the latest ones.

I created a news network that lasted 2 weeks and hosted a presidential election for Afterwind. Gardevoir won against NateBaller, Fruit, and WinterAnomaly.

Caulerpa beat VRIL and won the Spring/Summer 1v1 tournament.

My news network died and LDK started a new one called Afterwind Times, which has been around for about 2.5 months.

Empire SRB, Warborn Legion, and Macedonian Empire were the Top Coalitions of the Summer.

Safari and Tzeentch started up a casual survival tournament, which I think is still in progress.

VRIL and Tzeentch got modship. Tzeentch resigned, and Safari replaced him.

hdrakon stopped trolling and was given a new account.

A huge fight between players and mods happened in early to mid November.Gardevoir ragequit and deleted his account due to this and the name change.

BiteMe died and was resurrected last month.

Pulse became mod.

A few weeks ago, some of the best players in the game created Victorious Secret.

Stalins Martians, Dalmati Pups, and A-Team were the Top Coalitions of Autumn. Doesn't seem like the news has been posted yet.

On scenario related notes:

250 BC, Cold War, deviL's WW2 (published since he got premium), My Medieval 1200 AD got a lot of steam for a while in August.

utahrapter3 emerged as an incredibly popular historical scenario creator, creating like 20 scenarios in September.

Shortly before custom maps, Cpt.Magic and Kronos created a few roleplay scenarios focusing on the United Nations, which became immensely popular.

Shortly after custom maps alpha was released, Pulse made the first admin favourite map, A Song of Ice and Fire.

ezzatam started up a series of custom maps called the MEGA series that blow up the size of a particular country and make all the provinces its countries. Among the more popular ones are USA, UK, China, Japan, Central Europe, and Germany. He also has GIGA scenarios, which blow up historical conflicts.

utahrapter moved into custom maps, creating a large version of Europe, the first custom WW2, and an unfinished Renaissance Map.

avatar made a hilarious custom map called cln wars which gives each coalition a country and makes players the cities. OPERATOR is half of an island, the other half being the admin clan Squirrels. You're like the Haiti to the Dominican Republic, sorry.

Talos came along and created some of the most popular custom maps to date, including a quick admin favourite, Greek World, a fan favourite 40k map called Imperium of Man, and THE most popular map, Battle for Middle Earth. Seriously, try it out.

And that's about it. Welcome back, mate. Your clan died by the way. Sorry. :/

Mathdino you are like the historian of Afterwind!

Prispeval raetahcodeupon, 05.12.2012 at 11:21

Mathdino you are like the historian of Afterwind!

Not really. He was just there to see everything. If you want a real historian of AW before times ask Aristo or Fruit.

Prispeval Reporter, 05.12.2012 at 21:48

Prispeval raetahcodeupon, 05.12.2012 at 11:21

Mathdino you are like the historian of Afterwind!

Not really. He was just there to see everything. If you want a real historian of AW before times ask Aristo or Fruit.

From notes, I have a list of every change and update that occurred, the first 50 topics ever made, the first few players, the first clans, the various conflicts that occurred throughout, various player's odd secrets buried in the depths of the forums, some players that aren't even here anymore but were prominent a long time ago, the different players who have been mod, and way more.

So no, I wasn't here to see everything. But I have compiled tons of notes on the subject; they're just waiting for the right time to be posted.

I wasn't even here to see everything that happened in the past 4 months. How did I know about the stuff that happened in the month I was gone?

Prispeval Mathdino, 06.12.2012 at 01:02

How did I know about the stuff that happened in the month I was gone?

You could simply just ask someone...

Prispeval Mathdino, 06.12.2012 at 01:02

Prispeval Reporter, 05.12.2012 at 21:48

Prispeval raetahcodeupon, 05.12.2012 at 11:21

Mathdino you are like the historian of Afterwind!

Not really. He was just there to see everything. If you want a real historian of AW before times ask Aristo or Fruit.

From notes, I have a list of every change and update that occurred, the first 50 topics ever made, the first few players, the first clans, the various conflicts that occurred throughout, various player's odd secrets buried in the depths of the forums, some players that aren't even here anymore but were prominent a long time ago, the different players who have been mod, and way more.

So no, I wasn't here to see everything. But I have compiled tons of notes on the subject; they're just waiting for the right time to be posted.

I wasn't even here to see everything that happened in the past 4 months. How did I know about the stuff that happened in the month I was gone?

Awesome thanks. My clan never even really started. I might make it a ponyfag one now, lol. Awesome that custom maps started, im going to make a galactic conquest star wars one