Spring Hiatus

The World I Spring Hiatus, aka the World I Reboot, refers to the time period of March 2011 to May 2011 in which the CErver was down and not accessible by the public. This occured between shyfe and UnPhair's ownership of the CErver. The reasoning for shyfe's closing of the server was that kerred, the first Owner, opened another CE server, known as Kerredia. More of the CE population seemed to drift to this new server. However, in late May 2011, UnPhair was able to convince shyfe to allow him to reopen the CErver.

In retrospect
The Spring Hiatus/reboot is usually used as a divider between two halves of World I. Users who joined before the Hiatus are usually known as Generation 1 Oldfags, and those who joined after being Generation 2 Oldfags. Members of the former group include all CErver Owners like UnPhair and GameSultan. Examples of the second are Eagle, 412maksim, and HazMatt94.

Due to some Gen 1 Users losing interest in the server once the Spring Hiatus hit, many did not return for some time after the reboot. Because of this they were sometimes referred to (mostly by Eagle) as "Those Who Came Before," in a typical reference to the Assassin's Creed series.