HAS IT BEEN THIS LONG?!?

Well, it's been near two years now I've been playing this game. My travels have taken me through many servers, and the top of many leaderboards. I've spent alot of money, but I regret it not, I've destroyed more armies than you would believe, I've been banned and I've won competitions, I've written many guides and most importantly, I've befriended more individuals than I can count, and even met some of 'em in real life.
Now, after all this time, I think back on all my haypi memories and smile. There's been ups and downs, i've seen relationships formed and broken, injuries, recoveries and even death. Natural disasters in real life that have affected our community here, births, marriages, new jobs and houses.  And of course, I've seen many changes to the game....major and minor. 
Through it all, I've experienced elation, contempt, frustration, boredom, excitement, anger, treachery, and of course, lack of sleep. But in the end, I am glad to play and have these experiences, and looking back can be emotional.
Many of you know exactly where I'm coming from with this, and I'd like to ask you to respond to a few questions about your haypi experience(s):
1. How long have you been a member of the community?
2. What is your favorite moment in haypi? 
3. What change to the game are you glad was made?
4. What change do you wish never happened?
5. Who is the person who helped you the most do whatever it is you do in this game?

Thank you everyone, for making this game successful and entertaining for so long! 

1. may 2010

2. Joining the dragons clan in s8/ reaching (and keeping) alliance rank 1 in s13......that was hard work cuz of those dang eapadas....

3. City teleporting, and showing which city an oasis/fort belongs to on city management screen

4. Troop starvation during dispatch

5. This would have to be frentic, one of my best friends in this game, who just happens to be the god of haypi.........also asiantony, dreadnot and synsual

1. It was s10, i think it was around july 2010

2. When we had the possibility to create a new account by reaching lvl 10.
Some friends were dispatched on others servers when we started to play Haypi and most of us created a new account on s27.

3. City teleporting and items enhancement.

4. Version 3.0 with all bugs and multilinguage support which is really not good since july 2011.

5. LyonsRawr and Ribo who learned me to hunt in less than 15 seconds by wiping my whole army. ThatGuy2 who took the time to explain me what i didn't understand in english. And all my alliance members who are making me trying to be better day after day.

1. About January 5th, 2011. A day I will never forget.
2. Hmm, this is a hard one. Some time in S44.
3. Update 3.0.
4. S41-S44 merge, if it counts to say that. I know they had to do it but still, most people I knew quit or moved on after it.
5. Scarygreat.

1) When GoldenRico was #5 on s3.
2) Achiving number one on s11. Also being in top 10 alliances with only myself in it
3) Warping FORSURE! Also how they got rid of troop glitch
4) Merges, Enhancements, Mine wars.
5) The person who helped me the most was actually either you taem (we've never met but ive read all your guides) and finally the great Darkrobe who's 96k cavs wiped my army. LULZ.

1. S85, July 2011

2. The first time I crushed someone in battle as punishment for taking my oasis.

3. Warping for sure

4. Mine wars

5. My first alliance leader on 85, **Daemon** for helping me with the basics, and my good friend Sweep on 90 for telling me some aadvanced tricks.

1. may 2010

5. This would have to be frentic, one of my best friends in this game, who just happens to be the god of haypi.........also asiantony, dreadnot and synsual

...also erraven. In my eyes, he has posted some of the most useful info on these forums.

Ok, I've been looking at this thread for a few (just tried to spell it thew for some reason, I must be more tired than I thought...) days and now I will answer it! Yeah!

When did I start? Sometime around 2 years ago, the first week of S14.

My favourite moment. Two answers for this. I met the woman of my dreams on Haypi, so that was a great moment but I doubt that's what you're looking for. So the other answer, there was this guy who stole my oasis and left his army in it. I thought only a noob would do that instead of hunting so I attacked. Our armies were very evenly matched. I had a really fun battle and I think he won. So I sent a letter afterwards congratulating him and saying what a good battle it was and we became friends. We've both moved on by now but it was good.

A good change... I'm not really sure *thinks hard*. The achievements are good, and I like the new map now I'm used to it. Ahh! Enhancement! I like that!

A bad change. Easy, mines.

Most helpful player. A lot of S14. One person in particular, whose name I've forgotten. Leader of Wolf_Pack. We had 12 (I think) members and were in constant war with most of the top twenty alliance most of the time. That taught me a lot. There have been so many players I've befriended and lost contact with, it's quite sad... They've all helped me a lot

1. How long have you been a member of the community?
I started playing and found my way to an alliance shortly after, and only stayed there for a week because I never saw another person talk, ever. I discovered WC, and some awesome people, and when Party53 invited me to join Kaotica, I really felt like I joined a community! I really can't say exactly when it was, but it was about a year ago. The first guide email I had saved to my PC from Kad53 was in March 2011.... he was our leader then.

2. What is your favorite moment in haypi?
I was pretty excited at being given leadership of Khaotica from Party. When he had less time for the game, I had more and the vices voted me in. I have been enjoying every day since.

3. What change to the game are you glad was made?
Actually, as much as I enjoyed being able to get free coins from app downloads, I'm kinda glad it's gone. My downloads list was ridiculous, and I hated how jailbreakers had an unfair advantage.

4. What change do you wish never happened?
Even though alliance mines has actually been enjoyable to me and my alliance, I wish it would have happened differently. It caused major rifts in my server.
Also I do regret still that they would not transfer the old alliance to my name as new leader, and so it was the 3rd time we had to start the alliance over. The 3rd and final time was after the Alliance mines creation so we had to lose our rank. But it is still nice to be able to become ranked 5 twice.

5. Who is the person who helped you the most do whatever it is you do in this game?
Party53 Has taught me more than I could say...
Kad53, even though he's on retirement right now, gave me a great lead on getting knowledge about the gameplay when I first got started.
Zooropey, has been there for me and my alliance and has been the greatest ally!
and all of those hardcore guys last year that taught me how to watch my back as if every day is PVP!

1. S15 i think sept 2010
2. getting caught with 0/25k/0/15k by 0/20k/0/25k and winning or taking NO 1 spot on s104 when we wiped TheChosen in the first big mine battle ( I was jumping around the livingroom)
3. warping, scout report to map feature.
4. enhancements, i like them just should have made them not a gamble as it costs loads and alot of ppl quit when they brought this in.
5. tough one i've self taught myself or used the forums (thanks guys) but in general in terms of who i've took the most from i'd have to say Backburner as although i was pretty competent before i met him he's still my goto man if i need to check something also become a good friend.