# /OPG/ History

## Chapter 1. Genesis.
Foreshadowing: Seth's unrelated posts in other threads as he discovered openpony (mainly bat thread).

First thread: Tuesday May 10th, 2022. https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/38576034/

Friday giant Neighberry party, "day 0".
Waves of new ponies joining daily at that point.
Getting kicked out of Chungland into Voidicus.

## Chapter 2. Life at Voidicus.
Daily field trips. SLMC training, the first raids with Rose.
The first wedding: https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/38638293/
The Popen typo OP post, word is coined: https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/38667046/
The second wedding, with the first major shitstorm (oldfag janny acting like a furry). The first Havok wars. *TODO: add desuarchive references for these. Any other notable happenings or firsts?*

## Chapter 3. Trottingham.
Our own sim! Deerfag offering to make assets and stringing everyone along for several weeks. Hangout getting moved into big parcel in sim skybox. Regular Friday parties get established.

Fabio visiting. The first real widespread feelings of displeasure against outsiders; Fabio banned.

The first rentals, immediately selling out leading to total sim redesign; the second wave of rentals.
Hangout being moved to ground level at some point.

*TODO: references/dates. Anything else of major note happened in the hangout in the sky?*

## Chapter 4. Baltimare genesis.
Sim renamed. Quote offering to help and rapidly working to take the sim out of development hell. Shops being built, and eventually (with much delay) opening.

Mounting feelings from some of "touists" being a concern: the dilution of the original highly tight-knit group all fitting into a tiny parcel. The start of the split between "live and let live" vs. "anti-tourist gatekeeping" sides, which rages on to this day.

Sim management consolidated with group management, many grandfathered oldfags kicked out so the janny group starts looking a lot more like it does today.

*TODO: again, any major events worth mentioning? Other than stuff like "thread had a 1000 post long argument, again".*

## Chapter 5. Life (and drama) in Baltimare.
Honestly at this point the sim looked mostly similar to what it does now, so the history from here will look less like "here's how things evolved in the olden days" and more of a linear recounting of events.

There was drama of all kinds that I can't be bothered to recount. Mostly about tourists, which again continues to this day. The biggest resulting changes were Rose leaving, and later Nutsy getting kicked out. Rules were also overhauled at one point to be more detailed. *TODO: add dates for these*

Various fun events were had, including hoofball minigame being built from the ground up, mayoral elections, some seasonal stuff like a big Hearts and Hooves celebration, etc etc. *TODO: flesh out with a full list of the most notable happenings? If so, also add dates and desu links*

Ongoing work on the sim, from new buildings being constructed to things like creating the only non-shit chat extender in the entirety of SL. We started getting seasonal makeovers for our sim, too.

Cloudsdale was created at some point around December I think.

More recently we HH opened as a rental sim.

*TODO: this history is incomplete. (You) can help by extending it.*