Great Cycron Purge

The **Great Cycron Purge** was an event which took place on January 22, 2022 during which the Cycron Industries servers were permanently deleted. It not only halted normal Cycron activity for several months, but it also resulted in the loss of dozens of levels, many of which were rated.

## Synopsis

Prior to the deletion of the Cycron servers, LakiFarux received an email from 7m.pl that stated "there have been addresses on your account created that you do not use." Due to manual editing of the Cycron DemonList and an overall lack of awareness, 7m.pl believed the page for Cycron was merely a database (which their policy prohibits). This message was allegedly intended as a warning, but it was largely ignored due to its cryptic nature as well as it being lost in a cluster of other junk emails also sent by 7m.pl.

On January 22, 2022, sometime before 5:50pm EST, 7m.pl deletes the page for Cycron Industries. Initially this appears to be a relatively normal server issue, but over the next few hours LakiFarux realizes the entire database has vanished. Only NagromX is informed of this at first, but the news is slowly released to first the moderation team and then the whole community. By February 9, it is made clear to everyone that the servers have been permantently deleted.

The following day, NagromX organizes an effort to rescue any levels which are still in people's *Create* and *Saved Levels* tabs, as these are still accessible by individual players. This involves creating an enormous list of every known rated level with their current statuses and reinviting retired members including 99percent and AppleWow in order to salvage their level files. This proves to be incredibly complex due to levels not necessarily being saved by their creators as well as other issues which arise from reuploading to the new server.

One such complication is discovered when Myranea attempted to save PIZZA TIME by 99percent. Upon a level refresh, the level name and rating suddenly changed to Deliverance by NagromX, but still remained on 99's account. It was soon realized that by uploading levels back to the servers, pre-purge levels which shared an ID with a post-purge level were erased even from local save files. This caused a temporary halt in the reupload process; only after it was deemed no pre-purge levels with high IDs were left to save that level reuploading eventually continued. The deletion of Pizza Time however is still widely considered to be the most serious loss from the purge as a whole.

Levels begin being reuploaded again on March 16, 2022 and new Cycron levels also begin to be made and released around time. Due to the loss of several levels within districts, LakiFarux decides to create the District Replacement Contest in order to fill the now empty spots in those districts. Over the next two months, activity on Cycron slowly return to normal, with new levels now being regularly released. Administrative systems such as the Cycron DemonList also become operational again during this time. On May 17, 2022, the final level from before the server deletion, Midnight Slaughter, is reuploaded to the servers, marking the unofficial end of the Great Cycron Purge.

In total, a confirmed 118 rated levels were lost in the purge as well as an estimated 150 - 200 unrated levels. Creators such as SYDY and Daivrt lost *all* of their own levels, effectively resulting in their departure from Cycron. The greatest number of rated levels lost were by Xoa (49), SavCat (21), NagromX (12), 99percent (8), and AtomicC (7). As of late July 2023, Cycron has just about reached the same amount of levels it had at its peak right before the purge.

## Timeline

### January 2022

* **14** - In celebration of LakiFarux's birthday, NagromX releases CYCRON II, which is given ID 526.
* **15** - Coopertonium releases 15 Seconds Of Bora, which is given ID 528.
* **17** - Xoa releases Oogga Boogga at around 8:00pm EST, which is given an unknown ID. Coopertonium releases I Am Not Cooperonium at an unknown time, but likely *after* 8:00pm EST (and potentially the next morning). Its level ID is unknown, but is likely one higher than Oogga Boogga's.
* **18** - Oogga Boogga, I Am Not Coopertonium, and two other older Coopertonium levels are rated. They are the final levels to be rated before the purge.
* **20** - Mbazoya releases Anna, which is given ID 540. It is the final level to be uploaded before the purge. Later that morning, and unrelated to the purge, Cycron servers temporarily go down for several hours presumably due to a network issue. While this is fixed by the morning of the 22th, it prevents NagromX from reviewing Deficiency Closure by SavCat, and because of the upcoming purge, the level will never be reviewed nor recorded.
* **22** - 7m.pl deletes the Cycron database. SuperSquad33 notices the servers appear to be down again. SavCat temporarily quits Cycron due to mental health issues.
* **23** - LakiFarux discovers the database has been deleted and asks 7m.pl for an explanation. NagromX informs the Cycron Mod Team.
* **27** - LakiFarux receives a response informing them that 7m.pl does "not allow the use of only the databases of the 7m.pl platform." This message is shared with the moderators and the community is warned to not delete local levels or to log out of their accounts. Laki responds to 7m.pl explaining how the DemonList is manually edited and asks when the page will be restored.
* **28** - SuperSquad33 becomes the second victor of Venom by NagromX, marking the final major level completion in this era of Cycron.

### February 2022

* **8** - LakiFarux receives one final email from 7m.pl informing him the page will not be restored.
* **9** - LakiFarux formally announces the deletion of the Cycron database to the community. 99percent and AppleWow rejoin Cycron to help.
* **10** - NagromX begins the *Cycron Level Restoration Effort*, a detailed list of every known Cycron level and their current statuses (whether their creator has them, another player has them, or if they're deleted). FancyFarux rejoins Cycron to help.
* **21** - LakiFarux announces the birth of the new servers and gives instructions for PC users to prepare reuploading their levels. NagromX announces a system for determining the order in which players reupload
* **27** - Xoa, who had believed all of his levels had been deleted, discovers he can copy levels within his saved levels tab, thus rescuing a handful of both his and others' creations.

### March 2022

* **1** - NagromX announces that all players are allowed to reupload levels.
* **5** - NagromX and Myranea discovers that reuploading levels to new IDs overwrites levels with old corresponding IDs, resulting in the permanent deletion of PIZZA TIME by 99percent. LakiFarux warns the community to halt the reupload process.
* **16** - After determining it is safe to do so, NagromX announces once again that all players are allowed to reupload levels. PSA 3 by Hidden is also uploaded and rated, being the first release of a new level after the purge. The vast majority of the remaining reuploads occur over the next few days, including most but not all of Trixem's.
* **24** - LakiFarux announces the District Replacement Contest, an event designed to refill the districts with new levels after some were declared lost during the purge including Pyrodynamix by Daivrt, Snowy Woods by 99percent, The Wanderer by NagromX, Toxic Aura by AVRG, and Gunk Shot by SavCat. NagromX also reminds Trixem to continue reuploading levels.
* **25** - Trixem sends his last message in the Cycron GDPS before abruptly going inactive. It is discovered several months later in September that he became busy with his personal life and that in that time he lost all his data on his computer. Due to this, his own levels, Cyka and Blyat, and Toxic Woods by 99percent are permanently deleted, which opens up another spot in the District Replacement Contest.
* **27** - Operation ShockWave by NagromX is made the weekly demon due to the lack of suitable easier demons. As of July 2023, it is still the most difficult level to ever be made weekly.

### April 2022

* **1** - Snowing by Sensei is made the daily level as an April Fools prank.
* **3** - AppleWow reuploads all of her saved levels.
* **9** - 99percent releases F uck Shin Splints, being his last level on Cycron before quitting (though Yag Eht Sah Aox will later be reuploaded to his account).
* **12** - NagromX reuploads all of Stretcho's levels from VPS by using GDShare.
* **13** - Trixem is demoted from moderator due to his inactivity.
* **24** - LakiFarux officially announces the return of the Cycron Demon List. List staff had been quietly working on it throughout the purge, and 14 level placements and movements are announced at once. As of July 2023, this is still the greatest number of announcements made by the list team in one day.

### May 2022

* **3** - The Cycron Demon List begins a policy of announcing *all* levels added to the list rather than just Elite and Main Class levels. Captain Cool by Hidden is the first Lower List level to have its placement announced.
* **13** - Due to the disproportionate amount of easier levels lost in the purge, the mod team temporarily raises rate standards for hard, insane, and extreme demons.
* **15** - Xoa resigns from moderator.
* **17** - Midnight Slaughter by AtomicC is reuploaded by FancyFarux, being the final level saved from the purge. A handful of other levels that were lost will also be remade from scratch over the next few months.

## Deleted levels

### 99percent levels

* ConcuSsion BurgErs
* Hourly
* Toxic Woods
* Weekly
* Haunted Woods
* Snowy Woods
* Daily
* PIZZA TIME

### AtomicC levels

* Grey Night
* Counting
* Laki Boss
* Brainstorm
* Vibrant Night
* Foamos
* Optimism

### AVRG levels

* *Ultra DemonLust X*
* Toxic Aura

### Daivrt levels

* *Scream*
* Awesome
* Awesomer
* Pyrodynamix

### Foxx levels

* *H*
* Level One

### Heshii levels

* Harpacrates
* Hollaback
* In n Out Hell

### NagromX levels

* *Twenty Seven*
* One Hundred
* Kalm
* Nice Level Name
* Serenity
* Flux
* Henry
* Sunrise Sandstorm
* The Bronze
* The Flight of the Ghost
* The Wanderer
* The Gold
* Nagical Forest

### SavCat levels

* *Midnight Sadness*
* *Poop*
* *World Without Love*
* 10
* In a Nutshell
* Peace
* Time Warp
* Bomb
* Coopertonium
* Happy Xoa Month
* Red X Silver
* The Chinese
* Zachary
* Chuck
* Deficiency Closure
* Gunk Shot
* KoKo
* New Flurries
* The Silver
* Divine Diablo
* Effect Spore
* White Colors
* Decagon Force
* Counterplay

### SYDY levels

* Back Then
* DeuX
* Straight Ballin
* Get the Wet

### Trixem levels

* Cyka
* Blyat

### Xaika levels

* Just Wait
* I Kinda Like You

### Xoa levels

* *Pandemonium*
* Players Choosing
* 16
* 83
* LSD
* Sb1th
* Skyline
* Aqua
* Blue Black White Gray
* Cha Cha Slide
* Kinda Like
* XtRmE rAmEn
* Zloy
* ARo
* Bandinf
* Fx2
* IRo
* Lax
* Marzenia
* ORo
* Count to 100
* eBic
* FluxO
* Glow Point Zero
* Infernodynamix
* Love
* Lykkelig
* Minecraft Bread
* Oceanos
* Overcast
* Paraprosexia
* Snoew
* Darkened Woods
* Deep in the Forest
* Ego Buster
* Gloew
* Good Ol Days
* Oh No PinWheels
* Oogga Boogga
* Spoop
* Deserted
* fuckED
* Simplism
* Trapped
* Experiment 402
* ecnarevileD
* Attack
* Broken Mind
* Deathwish
* A16
* Single Double

### Other deleted levels

* 15 Seconds Of Bora (by Coopertonium)
* *Larux Chalingu* (by **MozzyFluorum**)
* *SuperChallenge* (by FancyFarux)
* *Terrible Challenge* (by **NeutKat**)
* Dont Skip Theres Snacks (by EpiclyY)
* Rate This Level (by Hidden)
* Annoyingly Simple Trials (by TheJToHProject)
* Clovers (by Lenvaa)
* Everest (by HopeChan)

## Trivia

* Mobile players had a much more difficult time transferring their saved levels due to being unable to access their CycronDash folders
	+ PC players also had the advantage of using tools such as GDShare to reupload levels
		- NagromX used this to reupload levels by Stretcho
	+ FancyFarux attempted a fix for this problem to allow SavCat to reupload some of her levels. This unfortunately failed due to a data corruption.
		- This corruption resulted in the permanent deletion of around half of her levels, including the finished but unreleased *Kris Never Savage*
* The first levels to be reuploaded were mostly by NagromX and Coopertonium due to the relatively smooth process of saving their levels
* During the restoration process, LakiFarux and NagromX allowed players to reserve early level IDs for their levels
	+ ID 1 was retained by the first ever Cycron level, The First by LakiFarux
	+ ID 2 was given to *Rate This Level 2* by Hidden, the sequel to a level he had lost in the purge
	+ ID 3 was given to Flames by Sensei
		- Sensei accidentally reuploaded this level with a start position, though this mistake was quickly fixed
		- Due to a community vote, the level was awarded with an 8\* rating instead of the 7\* it had prior to the purge
	+ ID 9 was retained by The Ninth by Hidden
	+ ID 10 was given to CYCRON by NagromX and more
	+ ID 11 was given to the Permanent Song Transfer Level
	+ ID 20 was given to CYCRON II by NagromX and more
	+ ID 42 was given to Appomattox by SavCat
	+ ID 55 was given to LV by AppleWow, but this ID was (possibly maliciously) stolen by the level *Trash* by **Neeeenah**
		- This creator has no other recorded activity on Cycron and has never been identified
	+ ID 69 was given to Thomas Circles by SavCat
* Many levels ended up being rescued due to Sensei's and FancyFarux's habit to forget to clear their saved levels
* Mephitis by NagromX was saved by 99percent when NagromX gave him access to his MegaHackv7 account in order to copy the level
	+ NagromX has stated he will from now on never upload a serious level with a password
* Due to 7m.pl's role in this incident, players began referring to the website as "7 months pregnant lol"