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Europa 1700
“Europa 1700”, also known as Onionscraft 3 or just i32 was a server in late May and early June 2020. It was Onions' last of his series of three servers hosted in 2019–2020. It is notable for the being the first server to use the Nodes plugin. It had a canonical start date of 1701 and used custom muskets, cannons, and other weapons to replicate the era's tools of warfare.
Development
Shortly after the end of Middle East and the beginning of the global plannedemic, Xethyr, who had previously been a relatively minor player albeit a regular core member of British group since i28, privately began development on a new server plugin.
This plugin was intended to replace the traditional Towny plugin used by /int/craft for most of its iterations, and solve some perceived issues with it. In particular, it was hoped to design a system to increase trade with region-limited resources, to mechanically deter warlogging (to avoid a repeat of the Lebanon situation), and to make outlying regions a viable war goal, rather than having every war be focused on capturing a town's core chunk, as in Towny. The new plugin was called “Nodes”, and the main difference from Towny was the division of the map into provinces, similarly to a Paradox grand strategy game such as EU4 (which Xethyr had spent some time playing). Each province held a resource that could be acquired by mining or passive income.
Soon, Jonathan and then Onions were invited to contribute to the plugin's development, and Onions quickly planned on having this plugin be a core part of his next server. The theme of the new server was also inspired by EU4: 1700s Europe and North America.
Development of Nodes was done primarily by Xeth, with Jonathan and Itsame painting the province map. Onions did most other server development, with small contributions from Xeth and BotJesus. Previous Onions server contributor Stongduke was dropped since Onions was dissatisfied with his previous maps; Onions made the server map himself, and Xeth made the weapon models.
The server's PvP meta consisted of single-shot muskets which had a long (~10s) reload time. There were also pistols and melee weapons, and muskets had bayonets. The only “vehicle” was a cannon, that could be rotated in place and aimed.
Pre-launch
Large tensions existed between Onions and the community during the time of the server's development, due to previous grievances from Yugo Wars and Middle East. In particular, Onions had found himself a persistent rival in Stryker.
The largest nation emerging in pre-launch was Sweden, led by Brogrammer, and also including the former Turkey group and Rurik's group as satellite states in Estonia and Finland, respectively. Since the previous server's campaign had not gone particularly well for them (as Kuwait), Brogrammer and his group now seemed to be back with a vengeance to win i32, desiring to be the most powerful state (as evidenced by their huge recruitment), and cozying up with admin Onions. Sweden was opposed by many other players, particularly Stryker's group, who claimed neighboring Norway. The Discord channels were filled with very autistic propaganda, both pro- and anti-Sweden.
Other pre-claimed nations were the Netherlands claimed by LeiteArts, Venice claimed by Haan, Russia claimed by the British (now led by Boyarsky), Savoy claimed by polandcrafters, and the Papal State claimed by Onions. Poland, France, Spain, and England became notably large nations led by newfags. The server had once again seen a large increase in population due to the efforts of Onion Wizard and others in mass recruiting new members from 4chan and elsewhere. However, there was more controversy than usual, as many of the newfags were denigrated as Redditors. One new player, Phantomguy, would make himself especially iconic during the pre-launch and turn his nation, Spain, into a pariah state (at least among oldfags).
Overall, pre-launch was defined by a lot of faggy Discord tranny e-drama (more so than usual) and the overall playerbase quality had (debatably) hit a new low.
Map of towns
