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See [[List of remakes]] for a list of remake attempts and games inspired by Space Station 13. | |||
Here's a brief account of the history of Space Station 13. When the path branched, the path that leads to /tg/station is taken. | Here's a brief account of the history of Space Station 13. When the path branched, the path that leads to /tg/station is taken. | ||
Yogstation was first known as Apocalyptic Station, founded by IDWMno. The community grew between 20-50 players average a day and night. Over time the server decayed and another server, hosted by an Apoc-Senior administrator was formed, and Apoc fell to its superiority. The new server was renamed Yogstation and everyone jumped ship to it, including the admins and players. EliteIxHitman was the host of this new station. Over time, as with the predecessor, the server fell on hard times and became laggy and unbearable. And thus, one of the council members, 05rhardy/Xantam, stood up and hosted a server and offered anyone who wished it, to jump over. The old server could not compete and a split happened. Eventually the old server collapsed gracefully, and now stands the all powerful Yogstation13! | |||
== 2003: The Original SS13 == | == 2003: The Original SS13 == | ||
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In the era from 2007 to 2009, Space Station 13 gained a lot of popularity with communities like Penny Arcade, Goonstation and OpenSS13 starting to grow. Player numbers reached unbelievable peaks of 18 players! The map everyone played was still Oldstation. Each codebase however had its own, slightly edited version. OpenSS13 used the [http://www.ss13.eu/map_openss13.png OpenSS13 Oldstation] map, while goons used the [http://www.maplib.net/map.php?id=2990 Goon Oldstation] map, the latter of which is now the [[Derelict]]. It was during this time that the Goonstation community revised the original SS13 backstory and produced what is now generally accepted as the proper backstory. | In the era from 2007 to 2009, Space Station 13 gained a lot of popularity with communities like Penny Arcade, Goonstation and OpenSS13 starting to grow. Player numbers reached unbelievable peaks of 18 players! The map everyone played was still Oldstation. Each codebase however had its own, slightly edited version. OpenSS13 used the [http://www.ss13.eu/map_openss13.png OpenSS13 Oldstation] map, while goons used the [http://www.maplib.net/map.php?id=2990 Goon Oldstation] map, the latter of which is now the [[Derelict]]. It was during this time that the Goonstation community revised the original SS13 backstory and produced what is now generally accepted as the proper backstory. | ||
In 2009, as Space Station 13 servers were getting up to 25 players at peak time, Goonstation coders and mappers made the biggest advance in years. They created a new, much larger station: [http://www.ss13.eu/map_donut.png Donut Station]. As Goonstation was closed source, no other community could use the map, so they stuck with the OpenSS13 version. popularity of SS13 steadily increased through 2009, eventually leading to the creation of yet another map design in 2010, dubbed Uterus station. The release was accompanied by a rewrite of much of the old Space Station 13 code, much of which was still tainted by fallout from the reverse engineering from years before that. In April 2010, as player numbers on servers were hitting 50, Goonstation decided to release their source under the name Goonstation r4407. | In 2009, as Space Station 13 servers were getting up to 25 players at peak time, Goonstation coders and mappers made the biggest advance in years. They created a new, much larger station: [http://www.ss13.eu/map_donut.png Donut Station]. As Goonstation was closed source, no other community could use the map, so they stuck with the OpenSS13 version. popularity of SS13 steadily increased through 2009, eventually leading to the creation of yet another map design in 2010, dubbed Uterus station. The release was accompanied by a rewrite of much of the old Space Station 13 code, much of which was still tainted by fallout from the reverse engineering from years before that. In April 2010, as player numbers on servers were hitting 50, Goonstation decided to release their source under the name Goonstation r4407. Until 2016, this was the latest version of the Goonstation code publicly available. | ||
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== 2010: The original creation of Yogstation == | |||
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== 2013: | == 2013: The Yogstation Split == | ||
Around June/July 2013 05rHardy decided to do something about developing lag and disconnects becoming more and more prevalent in the original Yogstation server hosted by ElitexHitman. Despite attempts to work something out with Hitman Yogstation was nearly shutdown as a whole and the new Yogstation13 was created! From then til now it has seen pretty balanced player counts ranging between 40-70 players at a time. | |||
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