Discord Nations Server

Server icon used by DNS between November 9th and December 14th, 2018. Was the first icon or logo used by a DNS-Family server.

### Important Individuals

Wildelite, Panzer-Chan, Golden, Mr. President

### Status

Declared Dead

**Discord Nations Server** or DNS as it was called, was the first server in the DNS-Family of GeoRP servers started in 2018 by the creator, Wildelite. It was deemed dead by its staff on April 11th, 2019, lasting around 6 months making it the 2nd longest lasting server behind Discord Nations Server Two. Most of the current key figures in the DNS-Family of servers met via DNS and have continued to be part of the community, despite their disagreements with other members. Its often regarded as the least controversial of most of the servers as the staff were considered helpful and kind by most of its members.

## **Inception**

#### **Background**

During Summer, 2018, the user Panzer-Chan, then going by the username "Onkarinonka", had starting becoming interested in the concept of micronations along with historical nation RP servers on Discord. He had been friends with a user by the username "Wildelite" as they went to the same middle school and Panzer got Wildelite interested in the subject as well.

#### **Wildelite & DDN**

Wildelite initially was brought to a server known as "Discord Democratic Nations" or DDN and submitted his nation by the name of "Cornopolia". The submission was originally rejected which lead to Wildelite deciding to create his own RP server based in the 1900s and in October, 2018, created Discord Nations Server. His nation, Cornopolia, would become the first ever nation in a DNS-Family server.

## **History**

### **Creation**

When Wildelite made the server, he took several aspects from DDN and adapted them for his server. DNS copied the time passage model from DDN and used one month a day as the standard. DNS also used a submission and template similar to that of DDN. However one important change made that DDN lacked was the use of a complete building system for creating and managing buildings and resources like Coal, Lumber, and Steel.

#### **Map Creation**

When Wildelite created the map, he started using Scratch, a coding software with a built in vector art program, however he switched the map to using GIMP for editing and he completely changed the shape and style of the map. This was mostly due to an argument with the user Czechoslovakia about the appearance of the map and Wildelite was encouraged to change it. This marks the first example of the community working with mainly Wildelite on DNS.

This was also around the time the user Mr. President would join DNS and submit his micronation "Kaden" to Wildelite which was approved. Soon they're relationship would continue growing and they became friends, allying their nations. This would start Mr. President on the path to become DNS staff and an influential member years later.

### **Early DNS**

Between October 4th, and December 31st can be described as the first phase of DNS where the community was small and the even smaller staff team was still learning how to run a GeoRP server. Prior to DNS, Wildelite had no experience managing a server like this which caused some road bumps along the way. Important events during this period include:

* Map program changing from GIMP to Paint.Net
* DNS got its first logo
* Wiki for DNS was created by Wildelite
* Warfare server was started for wars
* Mr. President was made an admin

During this time, the number of members expanded dramatically to around 30 or 40 in the span of around 3 months. Its at this point that DNS was starting to be noticed by outside members like Panzer-Chan and several members from DDN. The user Sevas4Pol also joined as a friend of Mr. President and had his nation added as a puppet state to Mr. President's nation. Someone#9999, the owner and head admin of DDN at the time, also joined, submitting his nation of Lanodola.

### **Mid DNS**

#### **New Year**

Following the new year, updates were added as a highlight of features added to DNS by the staff with the first official version, 1.1, being released on December 31st. More updates soon followed with a great deal of the work being handled directly by Wildelite and the staff taking on more of a supportive and helpful role for members of the community. In January, Wildelite began rapidly releasing updates and modifying the game's mechanics. On the 8th, starting resources were added, on the 9th, all buildings were required to consume coal to function, on the 13th, a naval update was released which added naval combat and ship mechanics to the game, and on the 20th, the last January update was released adding booster cards as a mechanic which gave free resources or buildings to nations. During the month of January, the mechanics had changed significantly and the growing complexity was worrying some members of the community.

February was rather uneventful as 2 minor updates were released which fixed some issues with old buildings or mechanics. Wildelite made several announcements reminding nation leaders to build buildings and train divisions, however the server had continued growing and hit 50 members in mid February. Late into the month was when Wildelite announced he'd started another server unrelated to GeoRP focused around company simulation in the 1980s. The server lasted about 3 weeks and never took off with many members, it was canceled about 2 weeks into March.

#### **Activity Starts Dropping**

March was the last month in which the date or map was updated as activity of members began rapidly dwindling. The month saw the start of a war between Panzer-Chan's nation of Vineland and Wildelite, Mr. President, and Sevas4Pol's nations in a scenario similar to World War One in real life. The war resulted in a slight increase of activity however the war would never get to finish as the server would soon be abandoned. The war did however result in Panzer-Chan and Sevas4Pol meeting for the first time and they soon became secret allies, starting their friendship.

### **Late DNS**

Halfway through March, the Late period of DNS began with many members leaving or becoming inactive. Although this did have the user Golden join DNS and submit his nation of Astros. At this time, Wildelite's enthusiasm about the server began going away as he looked to different projects and starting giving DNS less attention. One of his new projects included a spinoff server in the spirit of DNS but in the 1800s, titled Discord Empires Server. The server was never publicly announced but those who did gain access to it were worried that it would kill DNS. This was only worsened by the 1.4 Kaiju Update in late March which added Kaijus to the game. The update was received very poorly by the community and Wildelite would remove it a week later.

#### **Death of DNS**

Only 5 days following the Kaiju Update, Wildelite announced DNS would be on a temporary shutdown to reorganize the staff and fix several issues people had with the server. This was considered a serious blow to the community's hope that the server could continue and only a few days into April, he would make another announcement clarifying that DES isn't a replacement for DNS after hearing people talking about the new server. A day later on April 5th, Wildelite announced DNS would be reopened with the release of the 2.0 version. Despite the new version changing many aspects of DNS, the community had lost its steam and the server was extremely inactive. 5 days after 2.0 was released, on April 10th, Administrator Mr. President would make an announcement on behalf of Wildelite that the server was to be declared dead and permanently shut down.

## **Legacy**

Years after it was declared dead by its staff, many veteran members of the DNS community still have a general feeling of nostalgia about the server. Despite it's flaws, for a long time it was seen by many as the best DNS had been. DNS had been responsible for starting friendships and relationships for many and was the very start of the DNS-Family that is still continuing 3 years later. It gained its owner a reputation of being a responsible, brotherly figure to many in the community which has led him to helping others continue their own servers. In 2020, Discord Nations Server Two was started by Wildelite which was soon handed to Panzer-Chan to lead and managed to excel in many ways that the original DNS failed to. It also started many trends that continue to be seen in it's members newer servers due to their practicality. Overall DNS was an experiment by Wildelite which was successful enough to give birth to a new genre of GeoRP servers in it's wake. It's impact is even starting to reach servers outside of DNS lineage.