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Requiem

2013-03-01T18:01:13Z

Leech:

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Requiem was a formed PDM player, he is currently playing in LaFagmilia.

Qzjul

2013-03-01T17:59:07Z

Leech:

[[Category:Evolution Members]]
[[Category:Real Estate Developers Members]]
[[Category:TehClub Members]]
[[Category:Monks Members]]
[[Category:Current & Former Alliance Presidents]]
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[[qzjul]], or qz, is one of the [[:Category:Developer | developers]] & Administrators of [[Earth Empires]], and the Vice President (appointed) of [[Evolution]] on the [[Alliance Server|Alliance]] server. He also founded [[Evolution2025]] along with [[NukEvil]] Has also gone by Storm RED in the past.

==Earth History==

===RED History===

qzjul joined [[Earth 2025]] on April 4th, 2001 in the [[Real Estate Developers]], recruited by Lordrealm, who is now known as [[The Little One]]; at the time [[Shinigami]] was president of RED, very shortly getting into war with [[Clowns with Guns]]. His first country number was #13007, a country number he never surpassed, though hopefully one day that will change. By the end of this set he had been made an "Assistant [[Division Leader]]" (ADL) after spamming the RED forums, and starting the tradition of [[Number Threads]] in RED.

During his third [[set]] he achieved rank 25 in 1A, during RED's [[ANW crown]]; this turned him truly into a [[netter]]. By the time of this third set, he had become an [[FA]] in RED. During the next set when RED warred [[Ragnarok]] and [[ICN]], he was used as an excuse to be FS'd by [[PDM]], having been in their IRC chat some weeks earlier suspecting they were going to [[FS]] RED; it turned out they FS'd [[TIE]], but they ended up being convinced to give up that war, and were looking for another target. As damage control, [[Shinigami]] "booted" [[qzjul]], having him rejoin as [[JJXV]], and being made an [[AIA]]; by the end of the month he switched his title to [[Storm]], having used the country name [[RED STORM]] repeatedly, and had been given the position of [[IA]]. During this month, January - February 2002, the Edmonton Public School Board had a month-long strike, and so he spent excessive amounts of time fixing up the IA structure within RED, setting up some structures that would be used for years by both RED and subsequently [[Evolution]].

After internal difficulties in RED and several presidential changes, a presidential election was called in July 2002, with qzjul, still going by Storm, facing off primarily against [[Secret Squirrel]]; with a narrow win, qzjul became President, and Secret Squirrel was made Vice President. During this reset, Secret Squirrel founded [[Slappaho]], a spam tag in 1A, which gained some hundreds or perhaps over one thousand members, and SS recruited from it directly, causing RED to balloon over 130 members.

In September, 2002, qzjul started university, and apparently so did almost every other head in RED, and activity fell to an all-time low. During this period, [[SOL]] had been topfeeding RED heavily, so after negotiations broke down, qzjul told RED members simply to enforce L:L on SOL, as their sets were not going to turn out well anyway. SOL FS'd after about a week, and several heads, including qzjul, did not find out about the FS for more than 48 hours, having been away doing school work; he subsequently stepped down from the presidency into an advisory role, which he maintained as either Head IA or Advisor or Vice President from then until present, with a brief hiatus in another alliance.

Other than numerous Top 100 finishes, many placing in the Top 25 and a few in the Top 15, but seemingly never in the T10, most of qzjul's activities in RED were uneventful. He followed RED to [[LCN]] for a war against [[LaF]] when RED's internal structure dissolved, and briefly outposted in [[LaF]] when RED went there due to more internal issues. At some point he began a formula sheet which became RED/Evo's primary formula sheet, and began verifying and refining formulae, first with [[Revalat0r]] of RED, and later during the Evo years, with [[Slagpit]] of [[IX]], who eventually joined [[Evolution]].

===Early Evolution History===

One day when chatting on {{w|ICQ}} with FA's over pacting, qzjul jokingly suggested to [[Foobooy]], president of [[un4given]], that RED and un4given should merge; after discussing it for some time, it was decided that this idea should be pitched to the leaders, notably [[Liono]], president of RED at the time. After some deliberation, and warnings by such people that mergers never work, RED and un4given announced they would be merging, and tagged as red4givn for the next set; qz became one of 8 members of a "Council" with 4 heads from each former alliance. A vote was called for deciding a name, and qzjul campaigned hard for the name [[Short Fuse]] to be picked, his former division; when a run-off between [[Evolution]], another RED division name, and something else was called, qzjul campaigned hard for [[Evolution]], which eventually won.

The first year of [[Evolution]] had some amounts of tension between the two sides, the "RED" side and the "un4" side; the RED side was committed to netting and winning Average Networth, while the un4given side was more committed to having fun while playing, without necessarily focusing on improving. This finally came to a head when qz insisted to Foobooy that people who refused to follow strat advice and couldn't finish above some minimum networth should be booted; as this was primarily about 5 or 6 members from un4given, Foobooy refused, and a minor coup ensued, at the conclusion of which qzjul resigned and left Evolution for [[Raheel]]'s new alliance [[tehClub]].

=== tehClub and Monks ===

Having joined tehClub, and being extremely familiar with [[Gamerstown]], qzjul helped set up a large majority of the new alliances GT site, however being somewhat disappointed with the turn of events of no longer being in RED/Evolution was somewhat less than active. tehClub eventually became [[Monks]] which again needed a new GT site, which qz helped set up once again. He started playing more seriously, but was shortly botted and [[AB]]'d several resets in a row, causing his activity to fall off again, almost leaving the game; it was later revealed that it was in fact an Evolution player that had been botting Monks, though that was not known at the time.

===Later Evolution History===

In October, 2006, qzjul received an email from Foobooy announcing a reunion set of [[Evolution]]; [[Yank]] was president of Evolution by this point, with [[TMAS]] as a Vice President; qz rejoined Evolution, and rapidly became [[Vice President]] of Evo, a position which he currently maintains. TMAS was revealed to be the botter by intensive IA work by [[Kingme]]? and was booted from Evolution. During the year qz had been away, Evolution had warred almost every reset; Yank and qzjul decided that Evo needed to re-focus on [[Netgaining]], and set about trying to [[pact-out]] as much as possible, and recruited netters and ex-REDers heavily; most of the un-committed members had been worn down by Evo's many wars, so a solid dedicated core was what was left, a good foundation to start a better future. Evolution slowly climbed the ANW ranks, eventually beginning strings of ANW crowns, which they continued into [[Earth Empires]].

== Formula Reverse-Engineering ==

Wanting to build an accurate Earth Simulator in C to brute-force casher-startups, qzjul began working on various formulae, trying to improve them. His biggest individual contribution to the Earth Formulae was to determine the exact rounding and some fixes for the population growth formula, in order to simulate population gains and losses exactly. He also did this with the PCI formula, though there was the occasional turn every 10 turns where it would be off by $0.01 PCI, which would then be fixed the next turn. These formulae were incorporated into Earth Empires.

Working with [[Revelat0r]], and later [[Slagpit]], a number of refinements were made to various formula; with [[Slagpit]] many other rounding details were elucidated, and the tech formula were refined - although the forms were known, they were highly erroneous, especially [[Military Technology|military tech]] and [[Medical Technology|medical tech]]. A scheme, using status-tidy data, was derived to determine the tech formula exactly by using [[agricultural tech]], because farms, land, technology and food production were all available on the status, so could be found exactly. This scheme required finding the exact rounding for the [[food production]] formula, but was only partially successful due to the number of terms involved, and so the tech formula remained an estimate, albeit a fairly good estimate.

When [[Earth Empires]] was developed, [[Slagpit]] and [[martian]] primarily did what reverse engineering of formulae were left, although qzjul participated in many such trials, including [[Slagpit]]'s efforts to determine exactly how allies contributed in [[Earth 2025]] attacking with [[SS]] and [[PS]] attacks.

== Development ==

One of the things qzjul did for [[Evolution]]'s netgaining program was to build an advanced [[status-tidy]], with many things that had not been pioneered by other status-tidies at the time, such as networth breakdowns and estimates of the numbers and types of allies, and other economic information; plus with further formula refinement, as mentioned above, many things were more accurately defined, such as the [[tech]] percentages.

Having some experience with LAMP (Linux-Apache-Mysql-PHP) from this status-tidy adventure, another opportunity for development arose: [[Gamerstown]] announced it was closing, and [[NukEvil]] and qzjul decided that [[EarthStats]] was not where they wanted [[Evolution]] to be hosted, so they began developing a new site, [[Evolution2025]], which was nicknamed EvoGT and qzGT. Evolution is still hosted on this site, which taught both qzjul and NukEvil much about PHP and optimizing PHP and mysql queries. [[Slagpit]] later joined in the development of Evolution2025, especially its war tools.

While Earth 2025 slowly dwindled under the [[Jolt/OMAC]] administration, [[Pangaea]] of [[LaF]] and developer of [[Boxcar]], a site which had been developed for the same reason as Evolution2025 for LaF, but which had diversified to host multiple alliances, talked occasionally about perhaps developing a successor to Earth 2025, as the maintenance was becoming very bad, and causing more people to leave the game than were already leaving for other reasons. When OMAC announced Earth Empires was closing in one month, in mid November 2009, [[Pangaea]] quickly contacted qzjul about picking up the idea of building a successor; within a few hours of that conversation, a database was built, and permissions were assigned for Pangaea, and the basics for a website were set up. Over the next month the rest of the [[Earth Empires]] game were set up and built, qzjul focusing mainly on the database, routing, server setup/portal and back-end for the game, while Panagea focused on the game engine, display pages, and the game's look; [[Turtle Crawler]]'s forums, hosted on Boxcar's servers, were initially used. [[Slagpit]] and later [[NukEvil]] from Evolution also joined in the EE development, NukEvil later focusing on forums, after [[Dark Morbid]] created some initial forums, and Slagpit being instrumental in coding the attacking and spying, reverse engineering the last required formulae for attacking in the month that [[Earth 2025]] had left to run. [[iTavi]] of [[Imaginary Numbers]] did all the images for the game.

== Rockman's CD and QZ's mod abuse ==

In the last few minutes of the Dec 2012 - Feb 2013 reset, Rockman CDed qzjul's country, causing qzjul to lose an equivalent amount of networth of 10 million troops. Since all of Rockman's spy ops were successful, qzjul decided to use his moderator access to check up his country after the reset had ended. He later revealed this to a few evo members and proceeded to post his findings on AT. This met with outrage from the earth community, although some evo clan members tried to justify qzjul's actions. Qzjul promptly released a "newly developed feature" which makes public the news feed for individual countries from previous earth rounds. This was done without consultation or warning with the other game developers or the community. This was indeed a sad day for the community and it is difficult to fully believe in the impartiality of qzjul.

Qzjul

2013-02-25T15:11:08Z

Leech: /* Rockman's CDs and QZ's mod abuse */

[[Category:Evolution Members]]
[[Category:Real Estate Developers Members]]
[[Category:TehClub Members]]
[[Category:Monks Members]]
[[Category:Current & Former Alliance Presidents]]
[[Category:Game & Forum Developers]]

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[[qzjul]], or qz, is one of the [[:Category:Developer | developers]] & Administrators of [[Earth Empires]], and the Vice President (appointed) of [[Evolution]] on the [[Alliance Server|Alliance]] server. He also founded [[Evolution2025]] along with [[NukEvil]] Has also gone by Storm RED in the past.

==Earth History==

===RED History===

qzjul joined [[Earth 2025]] on April 4th, 2001 in the [[Real Estate Developers]], recruited by Lordrealm, who is now known as [[The Little One]]; at the time [[Shinigami]] was president of RED, very shortly getting into war with [[Clowns with Guns]]. His first country number was #13007, a country number he never surpassed, though hopefully one day that will change. By the end of this set he had been made an "Assistant [[Division Leader]]" (ADL) after spamming the RED forums, and starting the tradition of [[Number Threads]] in RED.

During his third [[set]] he achieved rank 25 in 1A, during RED's [[ANW crown]]; this turned him truly into a [[netter]]. By the time of this third set, he had become an [[FA]] in RED. During the next set when RED warred [[Ragnarok]] and [[ICN]], he was used as an excuse to be FS'd by [[PDM]], having been in their IRC chat some weeks earlier suspecting they were going to [[FS]] RED; it turned out they FS'd [[TIE]], but they ended up being convinced to give up that war, and were looking for another target. As damage control, [[Shinigami]] "booted" [[qzjul]], having him rejoin as [[JJXV]], and being made an [[AIA]]; by the end of the month he switched his title to [[Storm]], having used the country name [[RED STORM]] repeatedly, and had been given the position of [[IA]]. During this month, January - February 2002, the Edmonton Public School Board had a month-long strike, and so he spent excessive amounts of time fixing up the IA structure within RED, setting up some structures that would be used for years by both RED and subsequently [[Evolution]].

After internal difficulties in RED and several presidential changes, a presidential election was called in July 2002, with qzjul, still going by Storm, facing off primarily against [[Secret Squirrel]]; with a narrow win, qzjul became President, and Secret Squirrel was made Vice President. During this reset, Secret Squirrel founded [[Slappaho]], a spam tag in 1A, which gained some hundreds or perhaps over one thousand members, and SS recruited from it directly, causing RED to balloon over 130 members.

In September, 2002, qzjul started university, and apparently so did almost every other head in RED, and activity fell to an all-time low. During this period, [[SOL]] had been topfeeding RED heavily, so after negotiations broke down, qzjul told RED members simply to enforce L:L on SOL, as their sets were not going to turn out well anyway. SOL FS'd after about a week, and several heads, including qzjul, did not find out about the FS for more than 48 hours, having been away doing school work; he subsequently stepped down from the presidency into an advisory role, which he maintained as either Head IA or Advisor or Vice President from then until present, with a brief hiatus in another alliance.

Other than numerous Top 100 finishes, many placing in the Top 25 and a few in the Top 15, but seemingly never in the T10, most of qzjul's activities in RED were uneventful. He followed RED to [[LCN]] for a war against [[LaF]] when RED's internal structure dissolved, and briefly outposted in [[LaF]] when RED went there due to more internal issues. At some point he began a formula sheet which became RED/Evo's primary formula sheet, and began verifying and refining formulae, first with [[Revalat0r]] of RED, and later during the Evo years, with [[Slagpit]] of [[IX]], who eventually joined [[Evolution]].

===Early Evolution History===

One day when chatting on {{w|ICQ}} with FA's over pacting, qzjul jokingly suggested to [[Foobooy]], president of [[un4given]], that RED and un4given should merge; after discussing it for some time, it was decided that this idea should be pitched to the leaders, notably [[Liono]], president of RED at the time. After some deliberation, and warnings by such people that mergers never work, RED and un4given announced they would be merging, and tagged as red4givn for the next set; qz became one of 8 members of a "Council" with 4 heads from each former alliance. A vote was called for deciding a name, and qzjul campaigned hard for the name [[Short Fuse]] to be picked, his former division; when a run-off between [[Evolution]], another RED division name, and something else was called, qzjul campaigned hard for [[Evolution]], which eventually won.

The first year of [[Evolution]] had some amounts of tension between the two sides, the "RED" side and the "un4" side; the RED side was committed to netting and winning Average Networth, while the un4given side was more committed to having fun while playing, without necessarily focusing on improving. This finally came to a head when qz insisted to Foobooy that people who refused to follow strat advice and couldn't finish above some minimum networth should be booted; as this was primarily about 5 or 6 members from un4given, Foobooy refused, and a minor coup ensued, at the conclusion of which qzjul resigned and left Evolution for [[Raheel]]'s new alliance [[tehClub]].

=== tehClub and Monks ===

Having joined tehClub, and being extremely familiar with [[Gamerstown]], qzjul helped set up a large majority of the new alliances GT site, however being somewhat disappointed with the turn of events of no longer being in RED/Evolution was somewhat less than active. tehClub eventually became [[Monks]] which again needed a new GT site, which qz helped set up once again. He started playing more seriously, but was shortly botted and [[AB]]'d several resets in a row, causing his activity to fall off again, almost leaving the game; it was later revealed that it was in fact an Evolution player that had been botting Monks, though that was not known at the time.

===Later Evolution History===

In October, 2006, qzjul received an email from Foobooy announcing a reunion set of [[Evolution]]; [[Yank]] was president of Evolution by this point, with [[TMAS]] as a Vice President; qz rejoined Evolution, and rapidly became [[Vice President]] of Evo, a position which he currently maintains. TMAS was revealed to be the botter by intensive IA work by [[Kingme]]? and was booted from Evolution. During the year qz had been away, Evolution had warred almost every reset; Yank and qzjul decided that Evo needed to re-focus on [[Netgaining]], and set about trying to [[pact-out]] as much as possible, and recruited netters and ex-REDers heavily; most of the un-committed members had been worn down by Evo's many wars, so a solid dedicated core was what was left, a good foundation to start a better future. Evolution slowly climbed the ANW ranks, eventually beginning strings of ANW crowns, which they continued into [[Earth Empires]].

== Formula Reverse-Engineering ==

Wanting to build an accurate Earth Simulator in C to brute-force casher-startups, qzjul began working on various formulae, trying to improve them. His biggest individual contribution to the Earth Formulae was to determine the exact rounding and some fixes for the population growth formula, in order to simulate population gains and losses exactly. He also did this with the PCI formula, though there was the occasional turn every 10 turns where it would be off by $0.01 PCI, which would then be fixed the next turn. These formulae were incorporated into Earth Empires.

Working with [[Revelat0r]], and later [[Slagpit]], a number of refinements were made to various formula; with [[Slagpit]] many other rounding details were elucidated, and the tech formula were refined - although the forms were known, they were highly erroneous, especially [[Military Technology|military tech]] and [[Medical Technology|medical tech]]. A scheme, using status-tidy data, was derived to determine the tech formula exactly by using [[agricultural tech]], because farms, land, technology and food production were all available on the status, so could be found exactly. This scheme required finding the exact rounding for the [[food production]] formula, but was only partially successful due to the number of terms involved, and so the tech formula remained an estimate, albeit a fairly good estimate.

When [[Earth Empires]] was developed, [[Slagpit]] and [[martian]] primarily did what reverse engineering of formulae were left, although qzjul participated in many such trials, including [[Slagpit]]'s efforts to determine exactly how allies contributed in [[Earth 2025]] attacking with [[SS]] and [[PS]] attacks.

== Development ==

One of the things qzjul did for [[Evolution]]'s netgaining program was to build an advanced [[status-tidy]], with many things that had not been pioneered by other status-tidies at the time, such as networth breakdowns and estimates of the numbers and types of allies, and other economic information; plus with further formula refinement, as mentioned above, many things were more accurately defined, such as the [[tech]] percentages.

Having some experience with LAMP (Linux-Apache-Mysql-PHP) from this status-tidy adventure, another opportunity for development arose: [[Gamerstown]] announced it was closing, and [[NukEvil]] and qzjul decided that [[EarthStats]] was not where they wanted [[Evolution]] to be hosted, so they began developing a new site, [[Evolution2025]], which was nicknamed EvoGT and qzGT. Evolution is still hosted on this site, which taught both qzjul and NukEvil much about PHP and optimizing PHP and mysql queries. [[Slagpit]] later joined in the development of Evolution2025, especially its war tools.

While Earth 2025 slowly dwindled under the [[Jolt/OMAC]] administration, [[Pangaea]] of [[LaF]] and developer of [[Boxcar]], a site which had been developed for the same reason as Evolution2025 for LaF, but which had diversified to host multiple alliances, talked occasionally about perhaps developing a successor to Earth 2025, as the maintenance was becoming very bad, and causing more people to leave the game than were already leaving for other reasons. When OMAC announced Earth Empires was closing in one month, in mid November 2009, [[Pangaea]] quickly contacted qzjul about picking up the idea of building a successor; within a few hours of that conversation, a database was built, and permissions were assigned for Pangaea, and the basics for a website were set up. Over the next month the rest of the [[Earth Empires]] game were set up and built, qzjul focusing mainly on the database, routing, server setup/portal and back-end for the game, while Panagea focused on the game engine, display pages, and the game's look; [[Turtle Crawler]]'s forums, hosted on Boxcar's servers, were initially used. [[Slagpit]] and later [[NukEvil]] from Evolution also joined in the EE development, NukEvil later focusing on forums, after [[Dark Morbid]] created some initial forums, and Slagpit being instrumental in coding the attacking and spying, reverse engineering the last required formulae for attacking in the month that [[Earth 2025]] had left to run. [[iTavi]] of [[Imaginary Numbers]] did all the images for the game.

== Rockman's CDs and QZ's mod abuse ==

In the last few minutes of the Dec 2012 - Feb 2013 reset , Rockman CDed qzjul 's country for about 10 million troops. Since all of his spy ops were successful, qzjul decided to use his moderator abilities to check what happened to his country and later revealed this to a few evo members and on AT. This met with outrage from the earth community although some evo clan members tried to justify qzjul's actions. In an attempt to placate the community, Qzjul promptly decided to release a "newly developed feature" which allows access to the news feed for past earth countries. This was a sad day for the community. Qzjul's actions might very well be the tip of the iceberg for more moderator abuse and it is difficult to fully believe in the impartiality of qzjul.

Qzjul

2013-02-25T15:09:10Z

Leech: /* Rockman's CDs and QZ's mod abuse */

[[Category:Evolution Members]]
[[Category:Real Estate Developers Members]]
[[Category:TehClub Members]]
[[Category:Monks Members]]
[[Category:Current & Former Alliance Presidents]]
[[Category:Game & Forum Developers]]

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[[qzjul]], or qz, is one of the [[:Category:Developer | developers]] & Administrators of [[Earth Empires]], and the Vice President (appointed) of [[Evolution]] on the [[Alliance Server|Alliance]] server. He also founded [[Evolution2025]] along with [[NukEvil]] Has also gone by Storm RED in the past.

==Earth History==

===RED History===

qzjul joined [[Earth 2025]] on April 4th, 2001 in the [[Real Estate Developers]], recruited by Lordrealm, who is now known as [[The Little One]]; at the time [[Shinigami]] was president of RED, very shortly getting into war with [[Clowns with Guns]]. His first country number was #13007, a country number he never surpassed, though hopefully one day that will change. By the end of this set he had been made an "Assistant [[Division Leader]]" (ADL) after spamming the RED forums, and starting the tradition of [[Number Threads]] in RED.

During his third [[set]] he achieved rank 25 in 1A, during RED's [[ANW crown]]; this turned him truly into a [[netter]]. By the time of this third set, he had become an [[FA]] in RED. During the next set when RED warred [[Ragnarok]] and [[ICN]], he was used as an excuse to be FS'd by [[PDM]], having been in their IRC chat some weeks earlier suspecting they were going to [[FS]] RED; it turned out they FS'd [[TIE]], but they ended up being convinced to give up that war, and were looking for another target. As damage control, [[Shinigami]] "booted" [[qzjul]], having him rejoin as [[JJXV]], and being made an [[AIA]]; by the end of the month he switched his title to [[Storm]], having used the country name [[RED STORM]] repeatedly, and had been given the position of [[IA]]. During this month, January - February 2002, the Edmonton Public School Board had a month-long strike, and so he spent excessive amounts of time fixing up the IA structure within RED, setting up some structures that would be used for years by both RED and subsequently [[Evolution]].

After internal difficulties in RED and several presidential changes, a presidential election was called in July 2002, with qzjul, still going by Storm, facing off primarily against [[Secret Squirrel]]; with a narrow win, qzjul became President, and Secret Squirrel was made Vice President. During this reset, Secret Squirrel founded [[Slappaho]], a spam tag in 1A, which gained some hundreds or perhaps over one thousand members, and SS recruited from it directly, causing RED to balloon over 130 members.

In September, 2002, qzjul started university, and apparently so did almost every other head in RED, and activity fell to an all-time low. During this period, [[SOL]] had been topfeeding RED heavily, so after negotiations broke down, qzjul told RED members simply to enforce L:L on SOL, as their sets were not going to turn out well anyway. SOL FS'd after about a week, and several heads, including qzjul, did not find out about the FS for more than 48 hours, having been away doing school work; he subsequently stepped down from the presidency into an advisory role, which he maintained as either Head IA or Advisor or Vice President from then until present, with a brief hiatus in another alliance.

Other than numerous Top 100 finishes, many placing in the Top 25 and a few in the Top 15, but seemingly never in the T10, most of qzjul's activities in RED were uneventful. He followed RED to [[LCN]] for a war against [[LaF]] when RED's internal structure dissolved, and briefly outposted in [[LaF]] when RED went there due to more internal issues. At some point he began a formula sheet which became RED/Evo's primary formula sheet, and began verifying and refining formulae, first with [[Revalat0r]] of RED, and later during the Evo years, with [[Slagpit]] of [[IX]], who eventually joined [[Evolution]].

===Early Evolution History===

One day when chatting on {{w|ICQ}} with FA's over pacting, qzjul jokingly suggested to [[Foobooy]], president of [[un4given]], that RED and un4given should merge; after discussing it for some time, it was decided that this idea should be pitched to the leaders, notably [[Liono]], president of RED at the time. After some deliberation, and warnings by such people that mergers never work, RED and un4given announced they would be merging, and tagged as red4givn for the next set; qz became one of 8 members of a "Council" with 4 heads from each former alliance. A vote was called for deciding a name, and qzjul campaigned hard for the name [[Short Fuse]] to be picked, his former division; when a run-off between [[Evolution]], another RED division name, and something else was called, qzjul campaigned hard for [[Evolution]], which eventually won.

The first year of [[Evolution]] had some amounts of tension between the two sides, the "RED" side and the "un4" side; the RED side was committed to netting and winning Average Networth, while the un4given side was more committed to having fun while playing, without necessarily focusing on improving. This finally came to a head when qz insisted to Foobooy that people who refused to follow strat advice and couldn't finish above some minimum networth should be booted; as this was primarily about 5 or 6 members from un4given, Foobooy refused, and a minor coup ensued, at the conclusion of which qzjul resigned and left Evolution for [[Raheel]]'s new alliance [[tehClub]].

=== tehClub and Monks ===

Having joined tehClub, and being extremely familiar with [[Gamerstown]], qzjul helped set up a large majority of the new alliances GT site, however being somewhat disappointed with the turn of events of no longer being in RED/Evolution was somewhat less than active. tehClub eventually became [[Monks]] which again needed a new GT site, which qz helped set up once again. He started playing more seriously, but was shortly botted and [[AB]]'d several resets in a row, causing his activity to fall off again, almost leaving the game; it was later revealed that it was in fact an Evolution player that had been botting Monks, though that was not known at the time.

===Later Evolution History===

In October, 2006, qzjul received an email from Foobooy announcing a reunion set of [[Evolution]]; [[Yank]] was president of Evolution by this point, with [[TMAS]] as a Vice President; qz rejoined Evolution, and rapidly became [[Vice President]] of Evo, a position which he currently maintains. TMAS was revealed to be the botter by intensive IA work by [[Kingme]]? and was booted from Evolution. During the year qz had been away, Evolution had warred almost every reset; Yank and qzjul decided that Evo needed to re-focus on [[Netgaining]], and set about trying to [[pact-out]] as much as possible, and recruited netters and ex-REDers heavily; most of the un-committed members had been worn down by Evo's many wars, so a solid dedicated core was what was left, a good foundation to start a better future. Evolution slowly climbed the ANW ranks, eventually beginning strings of ANW crowns, which they continued into [[Earth Empires]].

== Formula Reverse-Engineering ==

Wanting to build an accurate Earth Simulator in C to brute-force casher-startups, qzjul began working on various formulae, trying to improve them. His biggest individual contribution to the Earth Formulae was to determine the exact rounding and some fixes for the population growth formula, in order to simulate population gains and losses exactly. He also did this with the PCI formula, though there was the occasional turn every 10 turns where it would be off by $0.01 PCI, which would then be fixed the next turn. These formulae were incorporated into Earth Empires.

Working with [[Revelat0r]], and later [[Slagpit]], a number of refinements were made to various formula; with [[Slagpit]] many other rounding details were elucidated, and the tech formula were refined - although the forms were known, they were highly erroneous, especially [[Military Technology|military tech]] and [[Medical Technology|medical tech]]. A scheme, using status-tidy data, was derived to determine the tech formula exactly by using [[agricultural tech]], because farms, land, technology and food production were all available on the status, so could be found exactly. This scheme required finding the exact rounding for the [[food production]] formula, but was only partially successful due to the number of terms involved, and so the tech formula remained an estimate, albeit a fairly good estimate.

When [[Earth Empires]] was developed, [[Slagpit]] and [[martian]] primarily did what reverse engineering of formulae were left, although qzjul participated in many such trials, including [[Slagpit]]'s efforts to determine exactly how allies contributed in [[Earth 2025]] attacking with [[SS]] and [[PS]] attacks.

== Development ==

One of the things qzjul did for [[Evolution]]'s netgaining program was to build an advanced [[status-tidy]], with many things that had not been pioneered by other status-tidies at the time, such as networth breakdowns and estimates of the numbers and types of allies, and other economic information; plus with further formula refinement, as mentioned above, many things were more accurately defined, such as the [[tech]] percentages.

Having some experience with LAMP (Linux-Apache-Mysql-PHP) from this status-tidy adventure, another opportunity for development arose: [[Gamerstown]] announced it was closing, and [[NukEvil]] and qzjul decided that [[EarthStats]] was not where they wanted [[Evolution]] to be hosted, so they began developing a new site, [[Evolution2025]], which was nicknamed EvoGT and qzGT. Evolution is still hosted on this site, which taught both qzjul and NukEvil much about PHP and optimizing PHP and mysql queries. [[Slagpit]] later joined in the development of Evolution2025, especially its war tools.

While Earth 2025 slowly dwindled under the [[Jolt/OMAC]] administration, [[Pangaea]] of [[LaF]] and developer of [[Boxcar]], a site which had been developed for the same reason as Evolution2025 for LaF, but which had diversified to host multiple alliances, talked occasionally about perhaps developing a successor to Earth 2025, as the maintenance was becoming very bad, and causing more people to leave the game than were already leaving for other reasons. When OMAC announced Earth Empires was closing in one month, in mid November 2009, [[Pangaea]] quickly contacted qzjul about picking up the idea of building a successor; within a few hours of that conversation, a database was built, and permissions were assigned for Pangaea, and the basics for a website were set up. Over the next month the rest of the [[Earth Empires]] game were set up and built, qzjul focusing mainly on the database, routing, server setup/portal and back-end for the game, while Panagea focused on the game engine, display pages, and the game's look; [[Turtle Crawler]]'s forums, hosted on Boxcar's servers, were initially used. [[Slagpit]] and later [[NukEvil]] from Evolution also joined in the EE development, NukEvil later focusing on forums, after [[Dark Morbid]] created some initial forums, and Slagpit being instrumental in coding the attacking and spying, reverse engineering the last required formulae for attacking in the month that [[Earth 2025]] had left to run. [[iTavi]] of [[Imaginary Numbers]] did all the images for the game.

== Rockman's CDs and QZ's mod abuse ==

In the last few minutes of the Dec 2012 - Feb 2013 reset , Rockman CDed qzjul 's country for about 10 million troops. Since all of his spy ops were successful, qzjul decided to use his moderator abilities to check what happened to his country and later revealed this to a few evo members and on AT. This met with outrage from the earth community although some evo clan members tried to justify qzjul's actions. In an attempt to placate the community, Qzjul promptly decided to release a "newly developed feature" which allows access to the news feed for past earth countries. This was a sad day for the community and the trust between the community and some developers was lost forever.

Qzjul

2013-02-25T15:07:24Z

Leech:

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[[Category:TehClub Members]]
[[Category:Monks Members]]
[[Category:Current & Former Alliance Presidents]]
[[Category:Game & Forum Developers]]

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[[qzjul]], or qz, is one of the [[:Category:Developer | developers]] & Administrators of [[Earth Empires]], and the Vice President (appointed) of [[Evolution]] on the [[Alliance Server|Alliance]] server. He also founded [[Evolution2025]] along with [[NukEvil]] Has also gone by Storm RED in the past.

==Earth History==

===RED History===

qzjul joined [[Earth 2025]] on April 4th, 2001 in the [[Real Estate Developers]], recruited by Lordrealm, who is now known as [[The Little One]]; at the time [[Shinigami]] was president of RED, very shortly getting into war with [[Clowns with Guns]]. His first country number was #13007, a country number he never surpassed, though hopefully one day that will change. By the end of this set he had been made an "Assistant [[Division Leader]]" (ADL) after spamming the RED forums, and starting the tradition of [[Number Threads]] in RED.

During his third [[set]] he achieved rank 25 in 1A, during RED's [[ANW crown]]; this turned him truly into a [[netter]]. By the time of this third set, he had become an [[FA]] in RED. During the next set when RED warred [[Ragnarok]] and [[ICN]], he was used as an excuse to be FS'd by [[PDM]], having been in their IRC chat some weeks earlier suspecting they were going to [[FS]] RED; it turned out they FS'd [[TIE]], but they ended up being convinced to give up that war, and were looking for another target. As damage control, [[Shinigami]] "booted" [[qzjul]], having him rejoin as [[JJXV]], and being made an [[AIA]]; by the end of the month he switched his title to [[Storm]], having used the country name [[RED STORM]] repeatedly, and had been given the position of [[IA]]. During this month, January - February 2002, the Edmonton Public School Board had a month-long strike, and so he spent excessive amounts of time fixing up the IA structure within RED, setting up some structures that would be used for years by both RED and subsequently [[Evolution]].

After internal difficulties in RED and several presidential changes, a presidential election was called in July 2002, with qzjul, still going by Storm, facing off primarily against [[Secret Squirrel]]; with a narrow win, qzjul became President, and Secret Squirrel was made Vice President. During this reset, Secret Squirrel founded [[Slappaho]], a spam tag in 1A, which gained some hundreds or perhaps over one thousand members, and SS recruited from it directly, causing RED to balloon over 130 members.

In September, 2002, qzjul started university, and apparently so did almost every other head in RED, and activity fell to an all-time low. During this period, [[SOL]] had been topfeeding RED heavily, so after negotiations broke down, qzjul told RED members simply to enforce L:L on SOL, as their sets were not going to turn out well anyway. SOL FS'd after about a week, and several heads, including qzjul, did not find out about the FS for more than 48 hours, having been away doing school work; he subsequently stepped down from the presidency into an advisory role, which he maintained as either Head IA or Advisor or Vice President from then until present, with a brief hiatus in another alliance.

Other than numerous Top 100 finishes, many placing in the Top 25 and a few in the Top 15, but seemingly never in the T10, most of qzjul's activities in RED were uneventful. He followed RED to [[LCN]] for a war against [[LaF]] when RED's internal structure dissolved, and briefly outposted in [[LaF]] when RED went there due to more internal issues. At some point he began a formula sheet which became RED/Evo's primary formula sheet, and began verifying and refining formulae, first with [[Revalat0r]] of RED, and later during the Evo years, with [[Slagpit]] of [[IX]], who eventually joined [[Evolution]].

===Early Evolution History===

One day when chatting on {{w|ICQ}} with FA's over pacting, qzjul jokingly suggested to [[Foobooy]], president of [[un4given]], that RED and un4given should merge; after discussing it for some time, it was decided that this idea should be pitched to the leaders, notably [[Liono]], president of RED at the time. After some deliberation, and warnings by such people that mergers never work, RED and un4given announced they would be merging, and tagged as red4givn for the next set; qz became one of 8 members of a "Council" with 4 heads from each former alliance. A vote was called for deciding a name, and qzjul campaigned hard for the name [[Short Fuse]] to be picked, his former division; when a run-off between [[Evolution]], another RED division name, and something else was called, qzjul campaigned hard for [[Evolution]], which eventually won.

The first year of [[Evolution]] had some amounts of tension between the two sides, the "RED" side and the "un4" side; the RED side was committed to netting and winning Average Networth, while the un4given side was more committed to having fun while playing, without necessarily focusing on improving. This finally came to a head when qz insisted to Foobooy that people who refused to follow strat advice and couldn't finish above some minimum networth should be booted; as this was primarily about 5 or 6 members from un4given, Foobooy refused, and a minor coup ensued, at the conclusion of which qzjul resigned and left Evolution for [[Raheel]]'s new alliance [[tehClub]].

=== tehClub and Monks ===

Having joined tehClub, and being extremely familiar with [[Gamerstown]], qzjul helped set up a large majority of the new alliances GT site, however being somewhat disappointed with the turn of events of no longer being in RED/Evolution was somewhat less than active. tehClub eventually became [[Monks]] which again needed a new GT site, which qz helped set up once again. He started playing more seriously, but was shortly botted and [[AB]]'d several resets in a row, causing his activity to fall off again, almost leaving the game; it was later revealed that it was in fact an Evolution player that had been botting Monks, though that was not known at the time.

===Later Evolution History===

In October, 2006, qzjul received an email from Foobooy announcing a reunion set of [[Evolution]]; [[Yank]] was president of Evolution by this point, with [[TMAS]] as a Vice President; qz rejoined Evolution, and rapidly became [[Vice President]] of Evo, a position which he currently maintains. TMAS was revealed to be the botter by intensive IA work by [[Kingme]]? and was booted from Evolution. During the year qz had been away, Evolution had warred almost every reset; Yank and qzjul decided that Evo needed to re-focus on [[Netgaining]], and set about trying to [[pact-out]] as much as possible, and recruited netters and ex-REDers heavily; most of the un-committed members had been worn down by Evo's many wars, so a solid dedicated core was what was left, a good foundation to start a better future. Evolution slowly climbed the ANW ranks, eventually beginning strings of ANW crowns, which they continued into [[Earth Empires]].

== Formula Reverse-Engineering ==

Wanting to build an accurate Earth Simulator in C to brute-force casher-startups, qzjul began working on various formulae, trying to improve them. His biggest individual contribution to the Earth Formulae was to determine the exact rounding and some fixes for the population growth formula, in order to simulate population gains and losses exactly. He also did this with the PCI formula, though there was the occasional turn every 10 turns where it would be off by $0.01 PCI, which would then be fixed the next turn. These formulae were incorporated into Earth Empires.

Working with [[Revelat0r]], and later [[Slagpit]], a number of refinements were made to various formula; with [[Slagpit]] many other rounding details were elucidated, and the tech formula were refined - although the forms were known, they were highly erroneous, especially [[Military Technology|military tech]] and [[Medical Technology|medical tech]]. A scheme, using status-tidy data, was derived to determine the tech formula exactly by using [[agricultural tech]], because farms, land, technology and food production were all available on the status, so could be found exactly. This scheme required finding the exact rounding for the [[food production]] formula, but was only partially successful due to the number of terms involved, and so the tech formula remained an estimate, albeit a fairly good estimate.

When [[Earth Empires]] was developed, [[Slagpit]] and [[martian]] primarily did what reverse engineering of formulae were left, although qzjul participated in many such trials, including [[Slagpit]]'s efforts to determine exactly how allies contributed in [[Earth 2025]] attacking with [[SS]] and [[PS]] attacks.

== Development ==

One of the things qzjul did for [[Evolution]]'s netgaining program was to build an advanced [[status-tidy]], with many things that had not been pioneered by other status-tidies at the time, such as networth breakdowns and estimates of the numbers and types of allies, and other economic information; plus with further formula refinement, as mentioned above, many things were more accurately defined, such as the [[tech]] percentages.

Having some experience with LAMP (Linux-Apache-Mysql-PHP) from this status-tidy adventure, another opportunity for development arose: [[Gamerstown]] announced it was closing, and [[NukEvil]] and qzjul decided that [[EarthStats]] was not where they wanted [[Evolution]] to be hosted, so they began developing a new site, [[Evolution2025]], which was nicknamed EvoGT and qzGT. Evolution is still hosted on this site, which taught both qzjul and NukEvil much about PHP and optimizing PHP and mysql queries. [[Slagpit]] later joined in the development of Evolution2025, especially its war tools.

While Earth 2025 slowly dwindled under the [[Jolt/OMAC]] administration, [[Pangaea]] of [[LaF]] and developer of [[Boxcar]], a site which had been developed for the same reason as Evolution2025 for LaF, but which had diversified to host multiple alliances, talked occasionally about perhaps developing a successor to Earth 2025, as the maintenance was becoming very bad, and causing more people to leave the game than were already leaving for other reasons. When OMAC announced Earth Empires was closing in one month, in mid November 2009, [[Pangaea]] quickly contacted qzjul about picking up the idea of building a successor; within a few hours of that conversation, a database was built, and permissions were assigned for Pangaea, and the basics for a website were set up. Over the next month the rest of the [[Earth Empires]] game were set up and built, qzjul focusing mainly on the database, routing, server setup/portal and back-end for the game, while Panagea focused on the game engine, display pages, and the game's look; [[Turtle Crawler]]'s forums, hosted on Boxcar's servers, were initially used. [[Slagpit]] and later [[NukEvil]] from Evolution also joined in the EE development, NukEvil later focusing on forums, after [[Dark Morbid]] created some initial forums, and Slagpit being instrumental in coding the attacking and spying, reverse engineering the last required formulae for attacking in the month that [[Earth 2025]] had left to run. [[iTavi]] of [[Imaginary Numbers]] did all the images for the game.

== Rockman's CDs and QZ's mod abuse ==

In the last few minutes of the game, Rockman CDed qzjul 's country for about 10 million troops. Since all of his spy ops were successful, qzjul decided to use his moderator abilities to check what happened to his country. This met with outrage from the earth community although some evo clan members tried to justify qzjul's actions. In an attempt to placate the community, Qzjul promptly decided to release a "newly developed feature" which allows access to the news feed for past earth countries. This was a sad day for the community and the trust between the community and some developers was lost forever.