Worlds/Atrius
History of Atrius
Atrius started out as just a small blip originally created by Frankie Cassini. When MadJ came to Frankies staff team, Frankie and MadJ got quite close, so close to the point that Frankie actually allowed MadJ to use this servers content as his own.
Madj later made a server called 'Atrius'. A fair-sized modern server that basically depicted a different style of Era. Years passed and Atrius went through more and more development, going through about two stages (Or versions, if you may) of Atrius. Later in the years a new version of Atrius came along, one that wasn't owned by MadJ, but owned by James (samsan1337 at the time.) Although conspiracy came up, and people argued that MadJ gave permission to James to use this content, or never gave the permission, MadJ never argued.
This new version of Atrius was called 'Trinity'. Trinity was basically the same exact server as Atrius, same content, same levels. It was really unknown how Trinity survived for so long, and kept its playercount from 30-50 players daily. Some arguments presented facts such as the management of Trinity was much better then Atrius, other arguments were about events, guns, and special features that James, along with Danny Fiery released to Trinity, including some of the first smoke and flash grenades. Although later in the years, newer servers came out, more modern servers were established such as Spawn and Graal X, and players flocked out, leaving Trinity at a horrible 10 playercount daily. Months passed without development getting done, and due to a few key staff members quitting Trinity, James and Danny switched Trinity to a western theme, which only lasted for one month without finally killing Trinity totally.
MadJ came back from the 'dead', and created another Atrius, this atrius was a bit different, with a few different ideas. One thing lead to another, and James lead himself onto this Atrius scene. MadJ later just died out, and wasn't seen so much, so James finally asked him: "Can I go on with this project?" Well, MadJ told him yes. And the construction of Atrian City began. This time James had a lot of work in front of him, he rehired Danny Fiery, and established a new staff team containing Ise, IceDragonX, Brad, and the early Mag. With all these new talents together, Atrian had a lot of diversity. Containing a very nice Event's house, that was one of the only good things Atrian had to offer. It's levels were called 'bland', 'too ghetto', and just plain boring for the current servers, even Era. Atrian was not as successful as Trinity, but it was given a nice boost anyway, and contained a 30 player daily count. But all good things come to an end, and Atrian died after staff quit again for other things, James told everyone that he was finished, he was retiring.
But, then MadJ came back, again. He created Atrius V4. This Atrius was going to be extremely different then other modern servers, promising extremely different things compared to Era and Graal X. This made Atrius go down in the history books, but what did MadJ do that was so amazing? He created the first modern custom bodies. This revolutionized the whole modern period, modern servers looked at this as: "Whoa, custom bodies? Those are possible?" James came back as a player this time, but found out this was too much to bear, MadJ became inactive and gave James Atrius V4 content. James promised he would not let MadJ down, and he finally created Atrius, using the Atrius name. This time he had some of graals greats at his disposal, some of his veterans from Atrian and Trinity, Ise, Brad, Mag, XiLe and then some of the newbies to atrius; Sam, Antonio, and many other on-off staff members. This was by far the most sucessful Atrius ever created, and probably the biggest job James ever did. The only thing he was presented was a GS1 system, custom bodies, Atrius graphics, a small amount of levels, and a dedicated staff team. It took about 6 months for Atrius V4 to be released to the public, although it did not create too much of a bang. Atrius had a playercount of 60 to start, then gradually reduced, James wondered what he did wrong, and finally it hit him, he needed to change some of Atrius. He reverted the bodies back, but him and his staff did it as quickly as possible, and even publically called their effort 'half-assed'. James released with these normal bodies, but forgot many things, such as systems, sidewalks being too large, door sizes, and flat out said they need to close down. Another 4 months was taken out, during the time James ran out of gold, and bought a new account, TheJames. More time was taken to develop, and finally Atrius V4 was called finished. A player called Grimm_P2P USDed, Cross traded, and caused general problems for the Atrius public, and just destroyed the server. James released to an angry public due to so many resets during the 'beta' version. Players finally left, and Atrius V4 was called a uncomplete failure.
Month's passed, and MadJ considered Atrius DEAD. He gave all Atrius graphics to the forums, and called it FREE USE.
More months passed, it was the end of 2005. MadJ came back with G-Man, Drogan, Sage, XiLe, and a few other staff members, including Frankie. They created a new server, using the same custom body ideas. This server was called Icarus
Of course James came back to Icarus to find this development, and figured that it would work out both ways if he brought back atrius V4. This new atrius was called Atrius V5. It used all of the Atrius V4 content, but used a shortened overworld, and better scripts. Although this wasn't very bad, it was later worked on harder, and was released to the public with more guns, about 10 in all. The public LOVED this huge hit, and James immediately applied for Hosted. He finally became hosted, and hit the record for graal. Atrius was hosted for TWO HOURS. Era flocked into Atrius, and *Chris immediately saw that Atrius was using an Era P4 graphic as a test graphic, Houdini came back, extremely confused, and took Atrius off hosted, and banned them from hosted for a week. James gave up but said we WILL be back.
Atrius staff took a break.
The current version of Atrius, Atrius V6 came out. It suffered from a massive staff drought, only himself, Brad, and Hotrian. And a few newbies to Atrius, mike, and LB. And the on-off work of Mag and XiLe. It received a HUGE change in EVERYTHING. Ganis, levels, events, staff, everything receieved a change. And Atrius came back as a in-dev server. Although it is still being worked on, it is far from being a failure, doing what MadJ never accomplished and made Atrius hosted, even if for a bit.
Juicy Tidbits
During Trinity, James scripted one of the greatest staff rooms in history, with a built in spyer, music center, everything-item shop, tag center, guild center, and attacking NPC's, all in horrible GS1, it was commented on by globals later saying that it was a huge lagfest to the graal public, so James threw in some fog and lights and called it a deal to establish the best lagfest on graal.
Atrius once received permission to become Bravo in its early years (2003), although it never worked out because 3 staff members whined and had it turned back to Atrius.
Atrius once beat Era in playercount during the Jenn-period, 57-35
3/4 of Atrius staff are guaranteed a job in Era within a year as of 2006
Atrius is the only server to die 7 times and come back to become sucessful.
Atrius has a 10 page RC Bloopers list dating all the way back to 2003, with backups hidden all over.
Atrius content was estimated in 2006 to have its content used/stolen on 40 servers on Graal, may it be graphics, levels, scripts, ganis, sounds. After MadJ's forum giveaway was revoked by Globals and James, that changed to 10 servers.
Atrius was the first modern server to have custom bodies
Atrius holds the current record for fastest hosted on-off in graal history
The only staff members to stay with every single Atrius were XiLe and Brad Atrius was only hosted once
Known Atrius staff
This is not a FULL list, if you have other staff to list, go ahead, but please note their staff ranks!
Current Atrius staff (As of May-07)
TheJames (Owner/Co-Creator) Mike (Co-Owner, Gani Admin) Danny (LAT Admin) Luke, BlankMan (LAT's) XZiro (General help, NAT) Mag (General help, NAT) Brad (General help, Dev)
Old atrius staff, and original staff. (MadJ's Atrius)
Frankie (Ex. Owner/Creator) MadJ (Ex. Owner/Co-Creator) G-Man (Ex. Owner, Ex. Co Owner/Co-Creator) Sage (Ex. Co Owner) XiLe (Ex. NAT Admin) Hotrian (Ex. NAT Admin) Sam Mayu (Ex. LAT Admin) Ise Snowblade (Ex. LAT Admin)
More information
Atrius is currently up, going up for its 'final' run. It has an estimated release time of around Summer, 2007.