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2016-02-17T16:31:58Z

Nukevil:

[[Category:Introduction to Earth Empires]]

'''Earth Empires''' is the ''Massively Multiplayer Online Browser Game'' (MMOBG) for which this wiki was created. Its is located at [http://www.earthempires.com www.earthempires.com].

[[Image:EarthEmpires_Mar2011.jpg|thumb|right|The Earth Empires homepage in March 2011.]]

The game was founded by [[qzjul]] and [[Pangaea]] around the same time as news was coming out that OMAC/Jolt would be discontinuing [[Earth: 2025]]. It had been suspected for some time that this would occur, as any kind of development on the original game by its relatively new owners had come to a complete halt, and hourly disruptions were killing the game.

[[Slagpit]] was initially brought on board to help with formula, but quickly became a core game [[:Category:Developer|developer]].

[[Image:EarthEmpires_Portal_March2011.jpg|thumb|right|The Earth Empires portal page in March 2011, showing the six active servers.]]

As of August, 2011, Earth Empires has six main [[game servers]], each with a particular rule set and different increments of when turns are generated or the server is reset. These servers are accessed through a unified account and [[portal page]]; game and forum accounts are loosely integrated, but will move towards a more fully-integrated experience in the future.

'''For more information visit the [[Main Page]]'''.

Earth Empires and its forums are developed by [[Pangaea]], [[qzjul]], [[Slagpit]], [[NukEvil]], and [[Zarcon]], who also administrates Earth Empires [[IRC]] server. [[Dark Morbid]] was a former forum developer.
[[Category:Basic Gameplay]]

Hey, can someone update this? It's been soooo long since anyone has even looked at the wiki, let alone fondled it to the point of editing it. Thanks!

Hanlong

2013-02-25T01:19:31Z

Nukevil: /* Cheating/Hacking Scandal */

[[Category: Current & Former Alliance Presidents]]
[[Category: LaF Members]]

{{infobox contact
| alliance = [[LaFamiglia]]
| alliance_pos = Don
| icq = 36923162
| forum_pm = [http://forums.earthempires.com/Messages.php?sid=723 message]
}}

Hanlong was a long time member and Don (President) of [[La Famiglia]]. He is also known as hlw.

==Earth History==
Hanlong first played [[Earth 2025]] in 1997. Originally playing only the tournament server, he eventually finished rank 3 in the August 1999 reset when he quit from the tournament server for good.

===Earth: 2025 Era LaF History===
Neal, a friend from Hanlong's high school, was a LaF member and recruited Hanlong to the alliance server to play in LaF in late 1998. Hanlong finished in the t50 the first reset he played in alliance. After recruiting a sizable group of members from his high school into LaF, he was promoted to DL in 1999 to lead this group of RL friends. He rose to Head IA in late 2000 and served that position until 2002.

Hanlong took a short break from the game and came back at the end of 2002 and became the Head FR of LaF. He became the Don of LaF for the first time in 2003 and served until 2004 when he stepped down and served as an advisor role and played on and off until 2007 before retiring.

===Earth Empires Era LaF History===

Hanlong came back in the end of 2010 to serve as an advisor, but quickly taking over Head FR the next reset and became Don again, a position he held until May 2, 2012.

===Achievements===

A strong netgainer, Hanlong has placed t100 and t10 multiple resets throughout all eras and won alliance a total of 5 times during the October 2003, March 2006, January 2007, August 2011, and most recently the April 2012 reset*.

===Cheating/Hacking Scandal===

On May 2, 2012, the game administrators [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=17254 announced]{{linkrot|2013|02|23}} on [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?forumid=6 Alliance Talk] that Hanlong, with assistance from former game administrator [[Turtle Crawler]], had gained access to the game's database, allowing the two to view all countries without requiring the turns needed for [[spy operations]], change anything in any of the countries, and view private messages sent via the Earth forums as well as those sent in the game itself. With this level of access, Hanlong was also able to read and possibly change private messages and other communication in qzGT, Evolution's hosting site. Also, at an unspecified time, Turtle Crawler allegedly gave Hanlong full access to [[Boxcar]], allowing Hanlong to potentially view and possibly change anything in the forums or private messages sent between members of all alliances hosted by Boxcar.

The implications of such knowledge over most of the alliances were serious, as it potentially meant that LaF had recently obtained its top spot in the Alliance server with the help of information obtained with this access. In the 3 resets leading up to the scandal, LaF had embarked on a series of wars designed to put LaF in the top spot of the Alliance server and keep it there. Countries ran by Hanlong and Turtle Crawler were allegedly modified by the two, giving one country an extra 10 million troops. However, since the tracking logs were on a rotating basis, it would be nearly impossible to determine if any other countries had directly benefited or were otherwise changed by Hanlong's and Turtle Crawler's access.

Upon the posting of the administrators' announcement, Hanlong's Don access to LaF was immediately revoked, and his country was deleted. *Also, his top-ranked country from the reset before was deleted, as it was possible that it benefited from Hanlong's ill-gotten database access. Turtle Crawler was then permanently banned from the game; Hanlong soon stopped posting on public boards under his name, and was never heard from again.

Hanlong

2013-02-25T01:18:44Z

Nukevil: /* Cheating/Hacking Scandal */

[[Category: Current & Former Alliance Presidents]]
[[Category: LaF Members]]

{{infobox contact
| alliance = [[LaFamiglia]]
| alliance_pos = Don
| icq = 36923162
| forum_pm = [http://forums.earthempires.com/Messages.php?sid=723 message]
}}

Hanlong was a long time member and Don (President) of [[La Famiglia]]. He is also known as hlw.

==Earth History==
Hanlong first played [[Earth 2025]] in 1997. Originally playing only the tournament server, he eventually finished rank 3 in the August 1999 reset when he quit from the tournament server for good.

===Earth: 2025 Era LaF History===
Neal, a friend from Hanlong's high school, was a LaF member and recruited Hanlong to the alliance server to play in LaF in late 1998. Hanlong finished in the t50 the first reset he played in alliance. After recruiting a sizable group of members from his high school into LaF, he was promoted to DL in 1999 to lead this group of RL friends. He rose to Head IA in late 2000 and served that position until 2002.

Hanlong took a short break from the game and came back at the end of 2002 and became the Head FR of LaF. He became the Don of LaF for the first time in 2003 and served until 2004 when he stepped down and served as an advisor role and played on and off until 2007 before retiring.

===Earth Empires Era LaF History===

Hanlong came back in the end of 2010 to serve as an advisor, but quickly taking over Head FR the next reset and became Don again, a position he held until May 2, 2012.

===Achievements===

A strong netgainer, Hanlong has placed t100 and t10 multiple resets throughout all eras and won alliance a total of 5 times during the October 2003, March 2006, January 2007, August 2011, and most recently the April 2012 reset*.

===Cheating/Hacking Scandal===

On May 2, 2012, the game administrators [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=17254 announced]{{linkrot|2013|02|23}} on [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?forumid=6 Alliance Talk] that Hanlong, with assistance from former game administrator [[Turtle Crawler]], had gained access to the game's database, allowing the two to view all countries without requiring the turns needed for [[spy operations]], change anything in any of the countries, and view private messages sent via the Earth forums as well as those sent in the game itself. With this level of access, Hanlong was also able to read and possibly change private messages and other communication in qzGT, Evolution's hosting site. Also, at an unspecified time, Turtle Crawler allegedly gave Hanlong full access to [[Boxcar]], allowing Hanlong to potentially view and possibly change anything in the forums or private messages sent between members of all alliances hosted by Boxcar.

The implications of such knowledge over most of the alliances were serious, as it potentially meant that LaF had recently obtained its top spot in the Alliance server with the help of information obtained with this access. In the 3 resets leading up to the scandal, LaF had embarked on a series of wars designed to put LaF in the top spot of the Alliance server and keep it there. Countries ran by Hanlong and Turtle Crawler were allegedly modified by the two, giving one country an extra 10 million troops. However, since the tracking logs were on a rotating basis, it would be nearly impossible to determine if any other countries had directly benefited or were otherwise changed by Hanlong's and Turtle Crawler's access.

Upon the posting of the administrators' announcement, Hanlong's Don access to LaF was immediately revoked, and his country was deleted. *Also, his top-ranked country from the reset before was deleted, as it was possible that it benefited from Hanlong's ill-gotten database access. Turtle Crawler was then permanently banned from the game; Hanlong soon stopped posting on public bosrds under his name, and was never heard from again.

Talk:Hanlong

2013-02-23T20:42:28Z

Nukevil:

Revisions back and forth are getting annoying. So is speculation. I'm reverting this back to hanlong's last edit, and if you want to make reference to the hacking, keep the speculation out of it. -[[Azz Kikr]]

There IS no speculation involved. Everything that is stated in that edit actually happened. The only uncertain aspects of it is whether or not it was Turtlecrawler or Hanlong that made the actual modifications to the countries involved. That's why the word "allegedly" is in there.

Just because you're a LaF member doesn't mean you should remove information pertinent to why Hanlong should no longer be the game. -[[NukEvil]]

Nukevil:

==Summary of the Ninth World War==

World War IX was a colossal conflict between the ARROW/SOL bloc & allies versus the bloc of the Illuminati X. It began on October 30, 2004 with SOL's attack on LCN and Unknown. It ended on November 30, 2004. Over 2,500 players were involved between the two sides and thousands of countries were killed. The ARROW/SOL bloc was headed by powers such as ARROW, MD, Omega, PDM, RAGE, SoF, and SOL, meanwhile the IX bloc was headed by IX, LCN, and TIE. The war ended in a general victory for the ARROW/SOL bloc, as the majority of the IX bloc's alliances were defeated.
==Origins of the War==
===SOL: Revenge on LCN/Unknown===

The previous set's Stooges War left SOL defeated at the hands of LCN and Unknown. SOL thus wanted revenge and a shot at defeating LCN/Unknown on their own.

===PDM and RAGE: Revenge on IX===

PDM had been wanting to fight and defeat IX since the latter smashed PDM with a then record FS during TIL War II in 2002. PDM and IX did not fight in 2003, but PDM intervened briefly and cut short IX's participation in the TIS War of May 2004. Relations were briefly established in 2004 till PDM dropped pact with IX at the end of September and prepared to join RAGE in an anti-IX campaign.

RAGE had also been wanting to fight IX since the latter crushed RAGE in the Fourth IX-RAGE War of January 2004. IX and RAGE fought again in the TIS War, but President Icez of RAGE wanted revenge for the winter war.

===ARROW/SOL: Searching to Defeat IX Bloc in Coalition War===

The ARROW/SOL bloc had already been defeated twice between May and July 2004 by the IX bloc. SOL again was defeated by IX's allies during the Stooges War, meanwhile ARROW decided on a low-key conflict against TH. By October 2004, ARROW and SOL were looking to build an anti-IX coalition that could employ the services of MD, PDM, Omega, and SoF. PDM was clearly anti-IX, and MD, SoF, and Omega were looking to re-establish themselves in Earth politics. At this point in time they sided with the ARROW/SOL bloc and agreed to help them in a coalition war.

==The ARROW/SOL Bloc Strikes==

SOL began the war by attacking LCN and Unknown on the evening of October 30. ARROW then followed on October 31 with its attack on TIE.

PDM and RAGE then attacked IX on the evening of November 1, while Omega was also FSing Steel. MD followed the next day with their attack on LaF.

==IX Bloc Calls in Allies==

After sustaining ARROW's attacks and stabilizing the situation, TIE called in Elitez against ARROW.

IX also brought in Ragnarok against PDM, and MX and Exodus against RAGE. The latter two had to withdraw soon after when they were threatened by SoF. Ragnarok hit PDM unchallenged and helped IX defeat them. Shortly thereafter IX dropped loyal Ragnarok for no apparently reason.

LCN and Unknown called in DA and the Union coalition (Sanctuary and Unforgiven) against SOL. The latter three, however, were then crushed by SoF.

==Deciding the War==

==ARROW/SOL Bloc Achieves Victory==

==Aftermath of the War==

==The Omega/Steel Relations==

The Omega's 10k FS of Steel and subsequent defeat of Steel left Steel's leader Viper looking for revenge. He tried and failed to get revenge two sets later. For further details of this war in WW9 please see [[Omega-Steel Wars (2004-2005)]].

World War IX

2011-06-27T16:37:22Z

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===Summary of the Ninth World War===

World War IX was a colossal conflict between the ARROW/SOL bloc & allies versus the bloc of the Illuminati X. It began on October 30, 2004 with SOL's attack on LCN and Unknown. It ended on November 30, 2004. Over 2,500 players were involved between the two sides and thousands of countries were killed. The ARROW/SOL bloc was headed by powers such as ARROW, MD, Omega, PDM, RAGE, SoF, and SOL, meanwhile the IX bloc was headed by IX, LCN, and TIE. The war ended in a general victory for the ARROW/SOL bloc, as the majority of the IX bloc's alliances were defeated.
===Origins of the War===
==SOL: Revenge on LCN/Unknown==

The previous set's Stooges War left SOL defeated at the hands of LCN and Unknown. SOL thus wanted revenge and a shot at defeating LCN/Unknown on their own.
[edit] PDM and RAGE: Revenge on IX

PDM had been wanting to fight and defeat IX since the latter smashed PDM with a then record FS during TIL War II in 2002. PDM and IX did not fight in 2003, but PDM intervened briefly and cut short IX's participation in the TIS War of May 2004. Relations were briefly established in 2004 till PDM dropped pact with IX at the end of September and prepared to join RAGE in an anti-IX campaign.

RAGE had also been wanting to fight IX since the latter crushed RAGE in the Fourth IX-RAGE War of January 2004. IX and RAGE fought again in the TIS War, but President Icez of RAGE wanted revenge for the winter war.
[edit] ARROW/SOL: Searching to Defeat IX Bloc in Coalition War

The ARROW/SOL bloc had already been defeated twice between May and July 2004 by the IX bloc. SOL again was defeated by IX's allies during the Stooges War, meanwhile ARROW decided on a low-key conflict against TH. By October 2004, ARROW and SOL were looking to build an anti-IX coalition that could employ the services of MD, PDM, Omega, and SoF. PDM was clearly anti-IX, and MD, SoF, and Omega were looking to re-establish themselves in Earth politics. At this point in time they sided with the ARROW/SOL bloc and agreed to help them in a coalition war.
[edit] The ARROW/SOL Bloc Strikes

SOL began the war by attacking LCN and Unknown on the evening of October 30. ARROW then followed on October 31 with its attack on TIE.

PDM and RAGE then attacked IX on the evening of November 1, while Omega was also FSing Steel. MD followed the next day with their attack on LaF.
[edit] IX Bloc Calls in Allies

After sustaining ARROW's attacks and stabilizing the situation, TIE called in Elitez against ARROW.

IX also brought in Ragnarok against PDM, and MX and Exodus against RAGE. The latter two had to withdraw soon after when they were threatened by SoF. Ragnarok hit PDM unchallenged and helped IX defeat them. Shortly thereafter IX dropped loyal Ragnarok for no apparently reason.

LCN and Unknown called in DA and the Union coalition (Sanctuary and Unforgiven) against SOL. The latter three, however, were then crushed by SoF.
[edit] Deciding the War
[edit] ARROW/SOL Bloc Achieves Victory
[edit] Aftermath of the War
[edit] The Omega/Steel Relations

The Omega's 10k FS of Steel and subsequent defeat of Steel left Steel's leader Viper looking for revenge. He tried and failed to get revenge two sets later. For further details of this war in WW9 please see [[Omega-Steel Wars (2004-2005)]].

2011-01-11T14:44:49Z

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