The First Experiment

On June 17, 2022, the First Experiment was conducted. A vote took place in the now-archived #scheduling-nightmare channel the day before with papercliphoarder66 announcing that there were now 33 members in the server, to achieve the original 32 player count desired. The Experiment began in the evening, with papercliphoarder66 hosting the Portal server so that the unwashed masses could join through Portal's developer console by connecting directly to his IP address. Some media still exists displaying parts of the experiment from different members' points of view. 
The experiment began on the map dm_resident_r1, a Half-Life 2 deathmatch map. Here, players could shoot and kill each other while papercliphoarder66 made sure everything worked and fiddled with his Dick or whatever. Once the server crashed (as expected), it's not wholly known which maps came after one another, but one which definitely appeared was portal_playground_with_glados_cores, a sandbox map where cheats were enabled and the giant room was shortly filled with airboats and Eli. This one also crashed after papercliphoarder66 attempted to spawn a Combine Sniper. Other insignificant maps may have been hosted after this, but papercliphoarder66 doesn't remember. Next, the group of 16-or-so players at this point all decided to simply play Portal's default campaign maps, due to the agonizingly slow download speed of custom maps for everyone except papercliphoarder66. The attempts to play Portal's main campaign with a dozen-or-so other players were arguably the most memorable part of the experiment. Much of the time it didn't work as intended, with players getting stuck inside each other, doors closing and being locked permanently, and portals from the portal gun not working at all. This eventually led to cheats being turned on and chaos ensuing for a while before the players remaining concluded the experiment. Once it was over, the members in the discord server who participated in the experiment were given a role titled "Survived the Portal Experiment" for their wasted time.
The original goal of 32 players in a Portal server at one time has since been determined unfeasable, but in this first experiment the server reached up to 16 players at one time, the highest reached in either of the experiments. It is also possible that this could have been the highest amount of players ever seen in a Portal multiplayer server, but that is impossible to know.
In addition, babyexploder2003
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