Lol am I the guide guy now?
As far as archaeology goes, I found some of the earliest threads on this forum a little bit ago (from 2012!!) in the Art Museum. They are about art design/signatures. I'll link them in a sec.
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[LINK] This is from May of 2012.
[DISCLAIMER] My story breaks game rules, but then I realized I was wrong and fixed it. I actually didn't realize it was against game rules until a guildie told me. Don't do what I did. Read the rules first. And follow them. And if you are breaking them, stop.
As far as my story goes, it gets a bit complex. So, I was UBERnerd14 on FoE originally, and I started at the tail end of the event that gave the Menagerie. Playing around, I got to EMA with no diamonds and a horrible city (In Dunarsund, I've tried to find the guild I was originally in, they were really nice and I'd like to thank them, but they either changed their name or I forgot it). Looking at the "Invite your Friends" thing, I saw that you get diamonds for friends! Now, what does stupid me do but create a push account! UBERhelp1! (Get it, I was helping my main. I was going to create more called UBERhelp(insert number) but I never did.) I had a city on D that I was trying to get up to Iron for the 50 diamonds. Ironically, I began to fall in love with my push account, as I was making better decisions and saving diamonds, and I created a new world on Angkor with that account, which is currently my main. I used the UBERnerd14 one less and less, until one day I deleted all the worlds and left it behind. I haven't touched the UBERnerd14 account since August 2018* **.
My Angkor city was great, and I made some friends and found a nice guild. I've tried creating other full cities, but all have failed except for my neglected diamond farm and the tiny town that I really should put more effort into. I joined the forum without really lurking too much and posted some crappy proposals that obviously failed. I started to get more involved and created a city on Beta, but now I mostly just stay on the Beta forum. On there, I found out about settlements, and that became a guide, which failed (as it should have), and then it improved to the CS guide you guys know today.
Now, I've moved on to some other projects in my free time, but some are secret for now (not what you think SC), not related to FoE, or just ideas... but those will be revealed all in their own time.
*If you see anyone on the internet with UBERnerd14 as their name, it is probably me. Feel free to say hello.
**Don't ban me for the story. Please.