RMXP Unlimited - The History(Updated 15th Dec)
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3-October 06(The new forums is made)
This is when I first started the new forum. With completely new members and posts. I didn't want to lose all of the data from the previous forums, but it would take up to four weeks to get the Database, so we had to start over. Things started ok, but then it started to go down hill.
The forum was hacked by Arab Hackers who did not like Westerners, according to the page which replaced the forums. So every time I went on the forums, I had to fix the forums again. And again. The forums were hacked because the people doing it had access to the host. The host then decided to format its servers, and every account was deleted. This meant the forums were down, for two whole months.
I could not restore RMXP Unlimited for two months, so I had nothing to do. That is when I visited the old test forum I made a while back. I needed to see if InvisionPlus would be picked up by Google faster(Didn't know how it worked at the time), so I made a forum there to see if it would. Well when i visited it again, I played around a bit, and made RMXP Ultimate. It was just a test, so I made an account, Neon, and got one or two active members. One of the first guys was Jake. I didn't know anything at all about him. But I sent him a PM saying that I was leaving for one month, and if he looked after the forum, he could have 50% of it when i returned. One month past, and I come back. Jake did ok with the forum, so I gave him 50%. RMXP Ultimate being on InvisionPlus, I couldn't do anything with it, that i could on invisionfree. So we moved to Invisionfree. Here I added a lot of features, and even made a website. Things were pretty good, and the forums were quite active. I made a banner and Advertised on Creation Asylum. That is where I picked up Advent Cloud. He was quite forward, and asked straight away to be a moderator, in fact, that was the first thing he said to me. I think he liked the forums, and wanted to help. So, Advent Cloud being the master advertiser he was, we soon picked up hundreds of members, and the forums blasted into life. This is also where i met Leon, and Dark Dragon, who play a big part in this also. By this time, I had Unlimited up again. So i had two communities, one as Marked and the other as Neon. I felt like I was lying to everyone, which i was, Ultimate just being an experiment for me, so I quite as administrator from Ultimate, and changed my username to Marked. Jake then gave Advent Cloud the position of Administrator in my place, and I bet he is over there right now working on the forums.
24-December 06(RMXP Unlimited is up again)
I quite administration of RMXP Ultimate sometime on Jan 4 2007. So, I finally got RMXP Unlimited back up again. By this time, I was on my own. I had lost contact with Blazinks(Who disappeared on 20th December), SCMike, and Ravenclaw(The only staff member from RPGXP Unlimited). So I was on my own. I wanted to get the forums active, and fast, so I accepted any member who applied for a staff position. This caused problems of course. I had new staff, but they didnt do anything, I guess they thought that it wasn't a serious forum. But then a couple of friends came from Ultimate. Dark Dragon forced the link to the forums from me, and Leon found his way here. Things were going well from there on, posting was good, we were getting more members, and so on.
4-January 07(I make my last post on RMXP Unlimited)
This is a bad day. One I would rather forget, I did something that you should never do on forums, and I paid the price. This changed the way I run and act on forums, and, everything really. Things will never be the same again. Even now. Well anyway, I give the forum to Leon that day. This was bad of me. He made a post on RMXP Ultimate sayhing that he had to go, because he was so busy. And then I go and give him a forum. I then leave all the forums that I was active at, and sort of disappeared myself. RMXP Unlimited stayed quite active, and SCMike and Wyzrd were made Administrators(Not root admins). I went to RMXP Unlimited and RMXP Ultimate as a guest, just to check up on things. At this time, more and more bots where coming. And tons of their posts and accounts were being deleted. Then one day something bad happens while a modification is being installed. When I visited RMXP Unlimited, there was a post saying what had happened, and all that they were starting again. Since I restored the old database to get things working in December, I knew how to work with database tables, and how 110mb.com worked, and luckily SCMike made a back up of the database. So I knew I could restore the database, and get things working again. 10 hours later, I got RMXP Unlimited working again. This is when things started going down hill again. I cant remember why, but for some reason, I had to do this again. Anyway, by this time, most people had given up on RMXP Unlimited. SCMike stayed of course, and with all the bots coming, things just got tiresome, well I assume, I was only a guest. Soon enough, there were no posts being made.
30-March 07(I ask Leon for Administration again)
On this day, I told Leon I didn't want RMXP Unlimited to die, so I asked for administration back. And he told me he was 100% sure about this decision. I never saw it in my mind that Unlimited was going to die, it just couldn't. The effort that people have put in...I couldn't let that go, and that is why I asked him. I then moved the forums to a new account, to remove the bots, and have the new url. I then installed all the mods we had once before, including some new ones. This happened just a few days ago from the time I am typing this. I told Leon I could get the forums active, and that pretty much brings us to now.
6-April 07(Blazinks appears from no where)
I was on MSN, then suddenly Blazinks starts talking to me. After 5 months, he suddenly appears. I tried to explain to him what happened while he was gone, but that didn't go that well. So I told him I would type up a quick summary of what happened. And that brings us to exactly what I am typing. And now I am left with what I have been trying to do for 11 months. I have failed to many times...but this time is different.
26-June 07(I give the forum to SCMike)
I finally decided it was time to leave for good. I tried my best for over a year, and did all that I could. I was perfectly happy with the decision. SCMike was the most loyal member, and I knew he was a good administrator, so he was the obvious choice. The forums are here because of him anyway. I was confident the forums would do ok.
28-June 07(The forums move)
Even with me no longer the administrator, there was still the problem of the forum being with my host. Noob saibot offered payed hosting, and a domain name. An irresistible offer. SCMike accepted. It was my job to move the forums. I had the forum moved and working, with all the redirects set up within a few hours. I then had no power at all over the forums.
7-July 07(Leon creates RM Galaxy)
Leon got frustrated with what was going on here, so he decided to create a new forum called RM Galaxy. In the process, he takes the active RMXP Unlimited members. RMXP Unlimited starts to get more and more inactive.
10-September 07(Return of the originals)
Dark Dragon, Demondaze, Ryanrulz and even myself come back to the forum all at around the same time. All past staff members. Dark Dragon makes a post demanding the members to become active again. This sort of sparked a reaction. The forum starts to slowly pick up in activeness. Like it has so many times before. Things are starting to look up again...
19-November 07(Another Start Over)
The forums go down once again(This is late October), Noob Saibot(who supplied hosting and a domain name) had suddenly decided that RMXP Unlimited was dead, and he gave up on site. Removing our hosting and domain name, we are left with nothing. All the traffic coming through would be completely destroyed thanks to the domain name not working at all. Mid-November I goto SCMike and offer to restore Unlimited as an administrator. I setup the forums at the domain rmxp.trap17.com, a big downgrade from rmxpunlimited.com. I restored my trap17 account, and retrieved the database. After restoring the forums, and fixed almost everything and installed almost all the mods plus some extras in attempt to restore what we had lost. However there was still the problem of next to 0 traffic. The loyal members still at the Dev forums could make it through, and i sent out bulk emails to old RPGPX Unlimited(Invisionfree forum) memebers, and setup redirects at all my 110mb.com accounts(Theres a few). With RMXP Unlimited nearly wiped out once again, I am back to restore it. Although i am unable do anything for another 2 weeks, as I have final exams. Infact I have an exam in 3 hours as im writing this. Things look dull at the moment, but i will try to get the forum active once more.
6-December 07(First signs of activity)
I have started to selectively advertise the site, and it seems to be working. From no posts for the last week, 13 new members register in the last 48 hours as well as 60 posts made. Google has been at the site for three days, indexing over 5000 pages, and only after 20 days at the new url. Some new members come back, and affiliates re-affiliated. The gallery and downloads manager are finally being used. Things are finally starting to look up for the site, but nothing to get excited about. The activity at the moment can come and go at complete random, and in no way is the forum "active" yet. There's still a lot of hard work to be done, but the few old members returning seem like they want to help.
Other than activity, new RMVX forums are made in preparation for the release of RPG Maker VX.
12-December 07
According to the Statistics, half way through this month, and already its been the best overall month since February. Apart from the first two months of this year, the forum is doing the best it has ever been doing. However a lot of old members have come back. Most of the active ones from before actually, so I think this may be just a short period of activeness. Even though there have been a few new members coming in and posting. Which is a good sign. My own activeness is dropping also. Having given up RMXP a long time ago, the only reason I'm here is to restore this forum. And since its almost as active as it ever has been, I don't have a purpose here anymore. I'm planning to leave the forum AGAIN in February permanently(AGAIN) as this is when my final year of high school starts.
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