abstract
| - The Ice Ocean was first launched in February 2005. Spoke Cleaver: "As long mooted, today we are opening a Test Server, to be known as the Ice Ocean. The Ice Ocean will be available only to subscribers and will usually be running a preview version of the next full release. As such it will require a separate client be installed on your machine."[1] For the first week of Ice's existence, the testing ocean served as a place to test the doubloon mechanism prior to the launch of Viridian, the first production ocean to use doubloons. It also tested the concept of cold start ocean launches. After that first week, Ice saw its first and currently only database wipe. Captain Cleaver said at the Ice Ocean's launch: "Although we hope that players will establish a vibrant, if small, community and economy on Ice, it will be subject to instability and it may be necessary to perform wipes. We will try to avoid such, but be warned that they may happen."
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