====== Brief History of PkHonor ====== This page needs to be expanded. Extra information can be found [[https://forums.pkhonor.net/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=8373#p81861|here]] and [[https://forums.pkhonor.net/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=20658&p=190311#p190311|here]].\\ Only facts that have been verified should be added to this page. ---- ===== 2008 ===== ** May 2008 ** PkHonor is founded by Sami. ** August 2008 ** Hamade becomes owner, Sami stays on as programmer. ---- ===== 2009 ===== ** Summer of 2009 ** Sami hires a new developer, known as Dakota. Disagreements lead to the new coder quitting shortly after being hired and releasing the PkHonor source code on [[http://www.rune-server.org|Rune-Server]]. This marks the end of the first generation of PkHonor. ** November 1st, 2009 ** Hamade hires Mike as new developer and manages to convince Sami to join him once again. With Hamade as owner, Mike and Sami as developers, Chris as co-owner and Dylan as administrator, PkHonor is born anew. ** 2009 ** The God Wars Dungeon is released. ---- ===== 2010 ===== ** Early 2010 ** Mike becomes the lead developer, Sami becomes mostly responsible for the website. ** December 6th, 2010 ** PkHonor changes to a better source, obtained by Dylan. Mike migrated as many features as he could from the old source to the new one. ---- ===== 2011 ===== ** Early 2011 ** Dylan replaces Chris as the new co-owner. ** Mid 2011 ** The Grand Exchange is released. ** Mid 2011 ** The Pest Invasion quest is released. ** July 2011 ** Rapsey joins the development team as database administrator and network engineer. ** July 16th, 2011 ** RSGP is no longer accepted as a form of donation. ** July 18th, 2011 ** Database transition. As of then, all the players, banks, inventories, shops, bans, ... were saved in the database. It took 3 weeks and 3,000 lines of code to make it happen, but it was finally done. ** August 2011 ** Sami resigns from his position as developer. ---- ===== 2012 ===== ** January 27th, 2012 ** Dylan resigns as co-owner. ** March 4th, 2012 ** Nex is released. ** Late November 2012 ** A new phpBB forum is set up. ---- ===== 2013 ===== ** March 31st, 2013 ** After an interim period of temporary freeforums created by Dylan (Donderstone2), the second generation of phpBB forums was released. ** August 2013 ** Hamade resigns from his position as owner, Mike and Rapsey become equal co-owners. Maurits takes over as staff manager. ** October 24th, 2013 ** The Construction skill is released. ---- ===== 2014 ===== ** December 7th, 2014 ** Maurits resigns as staff manager. ** December 9th, 2014 ** Dylan passes his trial and becomes the third official PkHonor developer. ---- ===== 2015 ===== ** January 29th, 2015 ** Billy becomes the new staff manager. ** November 21st, 2015 ** The Iron Man game mode is released. ---- ===== 2016 ===== ** December 30th, 2016 ** The PkHonor client is upgraded to the latest OSRS source, featuring improved graphics and resizeable / fullscreen mode. ---- ===== 2018 ===== ** March 17th, 2018 ** Billy has resigned as staff manager. Billy made many positive changes throughout his time as the staff manager, most importantly, he changed the mentality of the staff team and introduced rules and regulations to help better the server as time went on. ** March 17th, 2018 ** Ryan becomes the new staff manager.