History of Zuluhotel Sweden/Scandinavia

Late in the year 2000 Scuiridi took upon him the damn hard task to start a new Zuluhotel buying components for his server and using his home DSL connection from his ISP with dedicated IP and started on http://zuluhotel.darktech.org with server, and the website. After 3 weeks of testing, server configurations, and alot of asking help from Zulu, Omero, Shilohen in the early start with the save/crash problem it was finaly fixed and he booted the server. Then came the hard part of getting staff for the server, it happend to be Scuiridi was talking to me on ICQ about my website and i was asking for info to put on it when this site was rather bare, he mentioned he just started a new shard called Zuluhotel Sweden and he was looking for staff members. and guess who was wanting to be staff to work on his site more *Me* :P So it became a fact ME "Terence" first staff member on Zuluhotel Sweden *fire works shoot across the place and other fancy stuff*, aswell recruited with me due to my recommdations was Admin Sarah (Also know as Silver/Mark ingame) and GM Anthrax (Ed from Zuluhotel Canada he became Admin later). To my knowledge this was the only staff we had the first few weeks. Players started coming in first players here were people like Shadow, AK, Hallas, Cressida, Infinity, Sunshi, Femme Red Dragon and the others that were around in the early days. Back in those days there still was Chaos and Order guild and alot of people joined these guilds without knowing what the results from it would be *Perma red for chaos GRINS* lots of killing went on around the entrance to Bucs den and the mining place near the graveyard. Also a few quests were held for chaos and order with rewards not allways liked by all like the first might weapon gave a HUGE problem for some players (yes the ones who did not get it :P) As soon as people started to make own money guilds started popping up around the shard the First one was the Guild from AK/Silver/Shadow [WASP] was it called, and put on a reign of terror over the shard that cause alot of comotion around the townkilling rules. And those rules changed a several times over time as you all know. Somewhere around the days of first guild we had 3 new counselors : Phoenix and Raven and Azelin not long after that Phoenix got promoted to GM and Azelin to Seer. Start of 2001 (april or so) the shard was on a roll and we were averaging 50-70 players a night and then the usual quests were going down a bit players became strong and rules were being bent more and more people started macroing and macroing only it became all like it should be and people started killing the strongest creatures and found the current dungeons to easy, that was the time when the people wanted more dungeons and most of all harder dungeons well seeing from Zuluhotel Canada how you make a hard dungeon i went to work. I created a fairly large dungeon with much balron's, golden dragons, behemoths, black wisps and other nasty inbreed monsters the first day it openend people lost full water sets, devastation weapons, exceptional armors by the score and i watch it all happen *Grins*. After about 3 weeks players found out working in a team was the best solution to conquering the dungeon and getting the nice cloak and robe in Zulu ore color. i believe it was Infinity and G-thunk and a group of others who cleaned it out first and defeated all monsters. Not to lang after this Scuiridi went on vaction and Admin Sarah and I (Admin Terence got into a major dispute about the rules and the cheating behavior of his mortal and the special treatment that were given to the characters to AK and Shadow (releasing early from jail, allowing town killing, extra hard punishment for those who killed them verbally abuse them and even suspecting of creating resources and other stuff i wont go into here :P) anyways after the vacation it was pretty simple Either Admin Sarah out or Admin Terence and GM Antrax out, with the support of Phoenix and Raven Admin Sarah, AK, Shadow and all there 14 accounts got banned from the shard. That pretty much woke up the complete shard some were disagreeing with what I and Anthrax brought up and told and most were happy to see the rule breakers go away. not to long ago Scuiridi got threathened by Shadow with all kinds of stuff that i dont know precise details about but it must not been nice cause it caused the shard to shut down for 2 months. After the long downtime alot of players came back and it seemed all ok and we hired more staff and did some simple script changes to catch cheaters and enhance the carpentry skill the shard ran almost flawless till january 2002 then Scuiridi announced the shard was going down and being merged with Zuluhotel Russia, alot of protest came up and they were right unfortunatly after the merger people had more lag then ever, there were cheating staff with personal behemoth spawns, speedhackers, and boosted items for some players, after 2 weeks of playing there i quit my Admin postition on Zuluhotel Russia/Sweden, just a week after i quit Phoenix and Raven started to talk about ressurecting the old shard with the account data, we kinda figured if we get a server/connect he'll files to us and we can play again on the real shard we call zuluhotel sweden, we were horrible wrong Scuiridi was giving us a hard time and had alot of talk about morals and stuff and he could not give out the account files cause he said to zulu he would no that, after long talks to Zulu, Scuiridi they finaly handed over the files to Phoenix, with the Server files he allready recieved from me he went at work to ressurect the shard. 4 months later 9th of June 2002 13:00 GMT+1 (Swedish time) Zuluhotel Scandinavia opened due to alot of effort from Phoenix and Raven and their Development team and offcourse Dago/Poi for there server/connection arrangement. When i get more history to write here you'll see it but for now this is it :P