Originally Posted by
ssfgrgawer
indeed most of the Earlyer servers were 500x500 (i thought it was 600x600 tho), however, the first civony servers and a few early evony servers were 800x800. my server was sever 6 the first true pure evony server, and i was in Bohemia, which is just below Romagna on the map, and my original coord's were in the high 600s to low 700's, (and of course i have no remaining screenshots, since i removed coords for posting on the forums (doh) )which would be impossible on the 500x500 map, and i remember the mail they sent out saying they were changing new servers to come to the smaller 500x500 size since they were releasing servers so quickly they weren't filling as much as the older servers had done, so a smaller map would be sufficient (I believe there was a forum poll at the time as well), then when the first super servers came out, they used the older style, pre designed maps at 800x800 since the newer servers were smaller, it gave everyone extra room. (IE 100x100 for each state)
When servers 1,2 And 3 merged to become ss37, they got lumped in a 800x800 map, the exact same size as all 3 servers previous maps, so it was extremely squishy, ss38 had the same issue (Servers 4,5 and 6) i don't know the exact server they changed it over from being 800x800 to the smaller 500x500, but it was sometime after the release of server 6, which was in the may of 2009
You must remember at there peaks, server 1-6 had active players in the top 100 alliances, with the top 40 being full of active players. Unlike the modern standards of the top 100 players, mabey 20 are active per top 3 alliance that we see now days. BUT they were also open for a longer period of time before the next server, unlike today. Evony realized there was more money to be made in the first few months, or Just that opening new servers attracted more people, so servers were spat out like they were going out of fashion
Im not even sure if the server 8 was 800x800 or the newer 500x500.