Goon Playground
This article is incomplete. You can help the wiki by adding to it.Goon Playground was a Goon hosted Rust server co-owned by Bishyaler and Shadowgate after the latter agreed to fold his own server into the formers. The server served as the stage for the Playground Wars and directly contributed to the creation of BMW.
History
Goon Playground was started on April 25th 2015 by Shadowgate as Goon interest in New Rust began climbing.
Pre-BMW
By May 1st, many of the big names were on the server setting up clans. It was around this time as well that Shadowgate began experiencing problems with his host, forcing him and Bishyaler, who was running a smaller server at the time, to merge the two together, retaining the Goon Playground branding. The server was also upgraded with several mods, including the much abused Sign Image Artist, the very first image uploaded being a hentai image by Succ.
Post-BMW
After the formation of BMW, the servers population dropped to near zero, with only Method Man and a few random pubbies and Goons hanging around. The server would languish in this state for months until the Fall 2015 Hiatus.
THUNDERDOME Rebrand
After BMW went silent for a few months, Bishyaler, at Taylors behest, tried a fresh reboot of the server to inspire interest from the diaspora of Bimmers and hopefully pubbies as well. The effort was mildly successful, with many Bimmers using it as a chance to fight against each other, including Taylors infamous GMFORD DREADFORT solo raid and The Christmas Day Massacre. In January of 2016, BMWs revival led to the server to return to its period of inactivity. However, handfuls of pubbies would later find the server and keep it going throughout early 2016.