History of PtR MC

The history of PtR MC
==Tony's Growth and Folly: "Season 11"/Homie MC==
Indeed, DeathCow did intend to do something with his ownership of the formerly WAP discord, recently used for the unified Season 11. In November of 2022, Tony and Sungross decided to start another PtR MC season, using much of the tradition concept of the earlier seasons. Shiite met this with laughter as well as annoyance, knowing the season would fall into the same traps that had doomed all previous attempts. Though Portal to Reality's now former owner would attempt to convince Tony to change the name of this new server, it would be in vain. DeathCow and Sungross would proceed with their newly (very erroneously) christened Season 11.
Though initially the server did have some activity, in the end it fell prey to the same spectre that killed the last 6 seasons: grinding. Tony had neglected to ban LemonQuartz, the main instigator of this grinding. In the end, Lemon's faction would declare war on Tony's, and Tony would very predictably fall into a similar trap of exploiting in order to prevent his defeat. Seeing this, Lemon would quit the server with his faction. After this, the server very quickly faded into inactivity, another season killed by intense grinding to one big war.
Yet it must be noted, this was not the Tony of old. Though initially taking advantage of mechanics, he came clean and tried his best in order to play fairly. It was clear to anyone paying attention that he genuinely desired to become a better owner, and was working towards that goal. For this he should be commended. In the end he only failed because he was up against an unmoving wall in LemonQuartz. And so Homie MC (as it was derisively nicknamed by Shiite and PtR) would fail, the last known project of DeathCow's continuity of PtR MC to this date.
==To Escape a Grinded Death: Shiite's Post S11 PtR MC Seasons==
However, one of PtR MC's original creators had his own ideas about how new seasons should be structured. Returning to the confines of Portal to Reality itself, these seasons epitomized the name "Portal to Reality Minecraft". However, all of Shiite's attempts to create a season free of grinding where roleplay could flourish have met with failure, for one reason or another.
===First Attempt of Season 12: Modded===
In the direct aftermath of the failure of the unified season 12, Shiite would cooperate with his fellow co-creator Borat and veteran player Hueoslavia to attempt the creation of a modded PtR MC in early 2022. This server would contain mods such as Nukemod, Galacticraft, Drugs, and Minecraft Comes Alive. Though initially, it seemed the season was poised for success, unfortunate circumstances would cause it to never materialized.
Hue had built the spawn for the server, a replica of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza from the video game Five Nights at Freddy's. One day while Borat was afking in the pizzeria, a Nuclear Creeper would spawn close to him. Borat would jokingly attack it, leading to the mob exploding, destroying Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. This act would cause Shiite and Hue to be furious at Borat, and in its aftermath all enthusiasm to finish the server faded.
===Season 12: A Microcosm, by Zawen===
In the summer of 2022, Shiite would again return to the idea of a PtR MC. With the return of many old users over the summer and the seeming revival of the server from the dark days of June, Shiite would formulate a new plan for the server. It would be terribly simple, too simple in fact. Simply put, it would be the old PtR MC strucutre, but just limited to PtR players. Shiite wagered that with the server only being played by <10 good friends, no large conflicts in the style of s9 would be able to occur, and thus a more roleplay friendly environment would develop. This assertion would prove to be naïve.
A traditional war would develop: Japan, led by future PtR owner Neat and Malleokid, joined later by Shiite's Confederate Brazil would be attacked by a coalition consisting of Goktug, Sleier, Zawen, and Dolphin. In this first war, the Japanese were easily dispatched while Shiite would die after attempting to seize Zawen's loot from his deathchest while not being aware of the rest of the coalition attacking him. Intent on revenge, the Japanese-Brazillian alliance, now joined by England, would build up to counterattack the coalition. However, such a war would never materialize. Coalition leader Goktug would quit the server after tping to Shiite's secret based and being killed by Shiite in rage. This act triggered the war, with the combined Allied forces (Tom Brandy Touchdown, as they were officially called) descending upon the bases of Sleier and Zawen.
Yet, a curious thing would occur. Zawen would... refuse to get online. He kept making excuses, while in private confessing that he knew he would lose and thus wouldn't play. In response to this news, the forces of Tom Brandy Touchdown started to lay siege to his town. It must be noted that this is the exact purpose of sieging, to make sure players can't just refuse to get on and thus never lose. Nevertheless, the coalition would loudly decry the Touchdown as cheating. Flames were further stoked with the very unpopular banning of Tea Cup (in order to prevent a similar situation to what would occur in Homie MC) which occurred concurrently.
All of this fire, combined with the coincidental damaging of Neat's laptop by her dog (rendering her unable to play) would lead to the departure of the vast majority of the servers playerbase. The comedy of errors would conclude when one of the last players, Perseus, would be informed that his automatic sugarcane farm that he worked on for hours was illegal. In a rage, he would leave the server as well, leading to its final fall and collapse. In the end, S12 showed that the traditional PtR MC model was untenable, and needed to be changed to avoid the same pitfalls of old. In the interest of this, Shiite would start to imagine very different concepts for future seasons.
===Season 13: Modded===
The first of these ideas Shiite would attempt would be a return to the modded concept of the stillborn first attempt at S12. Retaining the same mods, this season would debut in December of 2022. Yet, an unexpected problem would lead to its failure. That being the simple fact that the server ran very poorly. An error with world generation of the Nukemod led the server to consistently have less than 10 tps. Though the gameplay was fun and engaging and there was much hype and excitement in the server's first few days, the performance issues would ultimately do it in. Within a few weeks, the 13th season of PtR MC would become the 15th season to die.
===Season 14: Naval===
In the present, Shiite is testing and preparing to launch a 14th season, with a radically different naval focused concept. It is to be seen if this attempt to revive roleplay will be successful or fail like the 15 iterations of the server before it.