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History of Gemstone III

02:49 PMWe'll there alot to Gemstone III, and I think alot know that it was once ran by I.C.E., and was also a free game on AOL before going to the interent, but as for the history of the game, that's about all I know. I'm kinda curious of the games beginning to now. I've tryed to look for some sort of timelines or any history, but it seems like Gemstone III is similar to ancient Eyptian history, that the "New Rulers" chisled out the past history and pretended it doesn't exsist. Any info would be interesting. Edge, I know you know something on this.

Draack reg

05:59 PMActually Gemstone was never ran by Iron Crown Enterprises. The mechanics and history were based on I.C.E's game rules.

When you say game history I'm not sure if you mean the development history or if you're speaking of the in-game history.

In-game history was pretty much trashed when the rights to use I.C.E mechanics and history were no longer allowed. I believe this came about when TSR bought the rights.

From what I remember being told. The licensing of I.C.E fell through just a couple of weeks before Gemstone was suppose to go live on AOL. This threw Simutronics into a panic but GM Cyper had been working on the side, for fun, developing code that wasn't dependent on I.C.E mechanics. Simutronics jumped onto this as just what they needed at the moment and have been patching/adding things to that every since.

There's more to the story than that but none of it is what I'd call entertaining reading.
reg

11:42 AMYeah, exactly the kinda of information I was looking for. No, not the In-game history, just the history of the game. Really cool stuff, thanks

Draack reg