maturin Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Many of us remember the first XP-wipe on the unreleased OW. Back then the PvP hotspot was Plymouth, on Montserrat. A few weeks before the wipe, the devs gave every player full XP and millions of gold so we could all buy SoLs and duke it out. Then everything was wiped. Now, I can't believe I didn't know this until now, but dear old Plymouth didn't fare much better in real life. In the late 1990s the town was completely destroyed by a volcanic eruption. It is abandoned to this day, and much of the island's population fled to Britain. It is the only ghost-town that is technically a capital city. You can see how the pyroclastic flows surrounded the town on this satellite imagery: https://www.google.com/maps/@16.7031728,-62.1849888,7241m/data=!3m1!1e3 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macjimm Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Wow. This game just keeps getting more realistic all the time. On levels that I was unaware of. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegfried Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 That was a true wipe lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperion74 Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Thankee for sharing that. Very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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