History

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The history of Godville is fraught with difficulties, many bugs and glitches and an amusingly large number of mistakes, or am I just being unfair? Probably, yes, because despite the mishaps, the number of Gods in Godville continues to grow daily. For this reason, most new players will be unaware of what has happened in the past and how the game came to be what it is today, so presented here is the entire history of Godville for all to behold.

To start with, in the realm of Godville, the date is not measured from the birth of Christ (A.D. Anno Domini) but is measured from the day Godville first came online. We therefore use g.e. (Godville Era) instead. It is important to note that the English version of Godville first came online on Day 902 g.e. of the original Russian Godville. Therefore their Day 902 g.e. is our Day 0 g.e. We will only deal with the dating system of the English Godville since that is all we are concerned with.

To convert a date into its g.e. equivalent, use the GE Template.

These are the chronicles of Godville. It lists all important events in its entire history in descending (reverse chronological) order.

Date (G.E.)	Date (A.D.)	Event
2053	Dec 23, 2015	The Godville Times begins featuring the Godpower capacitor.
2033	Dec 03, 2015	For the first time, arks can set sail and adventure on the high seas.
2012	Nov 12, 2015	Heroes discover the joy of fishing for the first time.
1929	Aug 21, 2015	The Godville Times begins featuring the Bingo game.
1848	Jun 01, 2015	Kingdada 庙舟畜 becomes the first god to reach the savings goal of 30,000,000 gold coins and, as a consequence, to open a shop.
1689	Dec 24, 2014	Guild leaders and elections are introduced.
1517	Jul 05, 2014	Pantheon of duelers is unveiled. The pantheon of duelery replaces pantheon of aggressiveness as the equivalent for guilds.
1487	Jun 05, 2014	Arena 2.0 opens and skirmishes are abolished. This means that each fight can have slightly different rules, levels no longer matter and a few other things too.
1447	Apr 26, 2014	Kingdada 庙舟畜 becomes the first god to construct an ark.
1320	Dec 20, 2013	Some dungeons become special with nice and not nice effects.
1229	Sep 20, 2013	A hero uncovers the first secret entrance to a dungeon, discovers gopher wood, and learns it can be used to build an ark. Many other heroes with temples follow.
1186	Aug 08, 2013	Budapesties 庙畜 becomes the first god to obtain twelve first level (or higher) achievements.
1175	Jul 28, 2013	New artifacts are introduced. Godville invites become free to activate (previously it cost 50% of godpower). Boss monsters develop four new abilities. Boss-monsters start leaving special boss trophies. The somewhat inaccurate progress meter for waiting for a duel finally gets fixed.
1166	Jul 19, 2013	The Godville National Tournament commences.
1158	Jul 11, 2013	The Windows 8 App is introduced.
1143	Jun 26, 2013	Gods participating in ideabox voting receive a bonus from heroes praying in towns. Godville receives updates of diary entries, new monsters, and a long awaited shipment of high-level equipment.
1096	May 10, 2013	The Godville Times introduces the Daily Astrology Forecast and the Daily Crossword.
1058	Apr 02, 2013	The Amusing QC Drama takes place as insults are submitted to the Ideabox and people rush to defend others actions, along with angry rants over what they find offensive, with the arguments extending over to the QC submissions section of the Ideabox and even the Godwiki. It ends after about three days.
1048	Mar 23, 2013	Godville App for Android version 4 released. Activatable artifacts for finding Underground Boss monsters released. Herowin and Lostway created. Teleporting artifacts now teleport the hero to a random town instead of just Godville. Inventory limited to 50 artifacts.
955	Dec 20, 2012	Heroes learn how to craft with artifacts. Release of Christmas Satan Claus monster batch.
904	Oct 30, 2012	Halloween additions added on All Hallows’ Eve.
895	Oct 21, 2012	Underground Boss monsters created; for the first time ever heroes can work together. Godville Times has Ideabox and ER sections added to it.
851	Sep 06, 2012	The pantheon of savings is created. The pantheon of greed is discontinued. The Ideabox and Enhancement Room process is slightly changed.
805	Jul 23, 2012	Best pets forever is created; pets no longer die.
804	Jul 22, 2012	Little Ghost   wins the Tournament of Champions.
769	Jun 18, 2012	Epic Quests are created. Enhancement room is extended to include submissions for duel phrases. Browser version of Godville (without Facebook) comes online.
747	May 27, 2012	The pantheon of popularity, pantheon of aggressiveness and the pantheon of mastery are created, and temple-owners are moved to a new pantheon of templehood. A new pantheon classification system is introduced. Arena duels now last for at least 3 days, along with a few other minor updates.
730	May 10, 2012	Second anniversary of Godville (everyone receives 20 charges) and the release of mini-quests and their associated new boss monsters.
689	Mar 29, 2012	Pantheon of survival is created. Wanted feature goes live. Android App v3.2 released.. Godville Subreddit is created.
664	Mar 04, 2012	The Tournament of Champions “Hunger Games” begins. This was the first ever Gladiator Tournament in Godville, with the guilds selected to participate being LoA, StA, KWSN and its main organiser HM.
636	Feb 05, 2012	Guild Councils are created (private messaging). Many guild forum headquarters suddenly go quiet.
606	Jan 06, 2012	Guild Pages are created (not the Godwiki article ones). Guild popularity section of the Godville Times introduced.
592	Dec 23, 2011	Achievements expand from Godville apps to main browser-based version. New Activatable Artifacts with new gameplay effects are released. Invites are now activatable to stop heroes selling them. Christmas additions to gameplay.
553	Nov 14, 2011	The Enhancement Room of the Ideabox opens along with new IQ points system. Now players have more say on what gets added to the game. Read more here.
523	Oct 15, 2011	Sparring duels now begin to take place. Everyone receives 5 invites and the ability to gift charges to other players. The old 'hero' page finally becomes deprecated and is replaced with the 'super(hero)' page; More info here.
501	Sep 23, 2011	Gladiator Test Tournament hosted by Harvest Moon to see whether the idea works, given the seal of approval by the admins.
470	Aug 23, 2011	Pantheon of Storytellers is created. Gold bricks now become Bold Artifacts after temple completion, to be collected in the usual ways.
449	Aug 02, 2011	The Great API Scandal broke out as accusations of cheating were hurled, which involved some of the largest guilds in Godville at the time (Harvest Moon, Rise of Evil and the League of Adjudicators to name but a few) and fizzled out on around 09/10/2011 or Day 488 g.e. after a long and fierce debate.
435	Jul 19, 2011	Gods gain the Eye of the Beholder ability.
403	Jun 17, 2011	The Lucky God Casino guild is founded which marks the first ever instance of gambling in Godville, with the vast majority of its gamblers not actually being members of this guild. Goes on to host gambling over the duels of the future tournaments among other things.
398	Jun 12, 2011	The first ever Warped Quantum Puzzle is released, marking the first instance of a regular guild puzzle (which you could gain points for completing successfully). The idea was later to be taken up by other guilds, such as the Harvest Moon 'Over The Moon' Quiz.
367	May 12, 2011	The Guild Name guild introduce their Guild Points, marking the first instance of an earnable points system run by any guild in Godville, later copied by other guilds such as the Warped Quantum Q-points.
366	May 11, 2011	First ever Animalist medal received by Kosh 庙畜.
365	May 10, 2011	1st Anniversary of Godville. Everyone gains a free amount of charges equal to half the level of their heroes as well as 3 invites each. One free charge now for every extra level-up. Voice of God change to avoid the creation of guild duplicates. Large Godville Android App upgrade.
348	Apr 22, 2011	Finally, Registration for Godville becomes available for everyone. Login using Facebook feature is added. Godville Facebook page is created.
338	Apr 12, 2011	Hero's page gets revamped with a new appearance and super-turbo mode; christened the (super)hero page.
327	Apr 01, 2011	April fool's day joke - the 'I'm feeling lucky' influence.
311	Mar 17, 2011	Godville Android App goes live.
275	Feb 09, 2011	Ability to Influence traders.
257	Jan 22, 2011	Heroes are no longer killed in skirmish Duels. Quest now only resets to 50% and no godpower is lost after Death. Names of Healing Artifacts are now written in italics.
227	Dec 23, 2010	First ever issue of the Godville Times is published. Christmas additions to gameplay. Godville iPhone/iPod app version 2.3 is released.
221	Dec 17, 2010	First ever Temple is completed by Godzillla 庙.
211	Dec 07, 2010	Auras are first released. Ability to report offensive players is created due to the forum's first ever troll (who was subsequently banned).
180	Nov 06, 2010	The pantheon of taming is created. Godville iPhone/iPod app version 2.2.1 is released. Heroes can now meet their friends in-game.
163	Oct 20, 2010	Godville iPhone/iPod app version 2.2 is released.
148	Oct 05, 2010	Pets become available.
134	Sep 21, 2010	The pantheon of gladiatorship is created. Godville Twitter account is created.
124	Sep 11, 2010	Godville iPhone/iPod app version 2.0 released (also for iPad).
110	Aug 28, 2010	Godwiki comes online.
108	Aug 26, 2010	The Arena comes online. Ability to purchase charges is created.
103	Aug 21, 2010	Activatable Artifacts are created.
78	Jul 27, 2010	The pantheon of creation, pantheon of destruction and pantheon of construction are created.
69	Jul 18, 2010	The Godville iPhone/iPod app is released in the appstore.
55	Jul 04, 2010	PvP is released.
25	Jun 04, 2010	The Ideabox comes online.
13	May 23, 2010	Godville informers are released.
0	May 10, 2010	First version of Godville comes online (private, invite-only beta of Godville).

* dates are displayed in Month/Day/Year format corresponding with the date format of the Godville Blog.