Quote from: Iridion on November 06, 2013, 05:28:29 PM
allie pls do ur thing
righty
At the end of BOTS, an ex-staff member Tok and a random hacker Auron worked together on a private server named BOTS Evolution. Tok decided to derp out and Auron released a horribly coded source that barely worked at all. Many people took the source and tried to make it work, we happened to be the only ones who succeeded.
We hacked all the other private servers at the time, and then hacked BOTS to the ground and stole their users. DDoS'd the BOTS servers so it was down 100% (originally started with DoS, but they just started ip banning) and orange text spammed our link while it was up. Yeah, we were pretty immature back then, but hey, look where we are now.
Originally was entirely free to play, but a lulz game. We never really intended it to ever be a serious game, but eventually BOTS actually died after our year and a half of trying to shut it down. Zirak, who was on our team at the time, suggested we try to make money off it. At this point, it was still a hobby for free, though poorly hosted because it was entirely f2p. We made a horrible membership system that didn't really work, enough to get a VPS for awhile, but eventually evolved into a system that actually worked.
Eventually, we started making money, and decided to change it from a hobby to an actual job. In time, I quit my rl job because I moved and decided to move with kenny (until he decided not to live with me) and make it a full-time job, but Kenny lost interest.
That's where we are now, minimal updates previously because I was too busy working, now because Kenny doesn't feel like coding. I probably left out a lot, if you have any questions I can answer.