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Founded · Twenty-one years

Eternal Vigilance

A multi-gaming guild

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Eternal Vigilance

An international guild across many games

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The archive

Twenty-one years, kept here

The Old website, forums and EV-Pedia are frozen as they were on the old server, with their original look.

37,908forum threads
429,047forum posts
3,399forum accounts
2005–2026forum years
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The archived forums

Open to everyone, as a new forum account saw them. The Core members’ forums and the old leadership forums open with their passwords.

The surviving threads and posts from 2005–2026, with their original look and search.

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EV-Pedia

EV-Pedia, the guild’s wiki, has 45 pages and first went up in 2006, with a rebuild in 2014.

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Old website

The Old website holds 15 pages from EV’s public WordPress front site.

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Guild museum

Logos, rank charts, ribbons, signature banners, screenshots and recordings from EV’s history.

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Guild charter

The full charter, EV’s written basis, in the version posted to the guild’s public announcements forum on October 25, 2017.

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From forums to Discord

The life of the website

Forum posts per year, 2005–2026. From September 2015, conversation began moving to Discord: activity grew there as the website grew quieter. Markers show milestones; lower bars show EV’s game branches.

Forum posts per year, 2005 to 2026, and EV game portals Posts peaked at 70,754 in 2011. 2005: 12,624 posts; 2006: 58,111 posts; 2007: 51,054 posts; 2008: 30,808 posts; 2009: 58,130 posts; 2010: 60,602 posts; 2011: 70,754 posts; 2012: 31,242 posts; 2013: 20,382 posts; 2014: 14,172 posts; 2015: 6,261 posts; 2016: 3,168 posts; 2017: 6,262 posts; 2018: 3,854 posts; 2019: 2,579 posts; 2020: 658 posts; 2021: 141 posts; 2022: 71 posts; 2023: 4 posts; 2024: 3 posts; 2025: 9 posts; 2026: 3 posts. Discord opened; move began · September 2015: Conversation continues on Discord, outside these forum bars.. Portals: Action & Sports: 2006–2018; Star Wars: The Old Republic: 2008–2012; Battlefield: Bad Company 2: 2010–2011; Fantasy Sports: 2010–2015; World of Warcraft: 2010–2019; Virtual Table RPG: 2011–2021; Guild Wars 2: 2012; PlanetSide 2: 2012; Star Citizen: 2012–2022; Tribal Hero: 2013; WildStar: 2014; Arma 3: 2014–2015; Destiny 2: 2017–2020. FORUM POSTS 20k 40k 60k 2005: 12,624 posts12,624 posts’05 2006: 58,111 posts58,111 posts’06 2007: 51,054 posts51,054 posts’07 2008: 30,808 posts30,808 posts’08 2009: 58,130 posts58,130 posts’09 2010: 60,602 posts60,602 posts’10 2011: 70,754 posts70,754 posts’11 2012: 31,242 posts31,242 posts’12 2013: 20,382 posts20,382 posts’13 2014: 14,172 posts14,172 posts’14 2015: 6,261 posts6,261 posts’15 2016: 3,168 posts3,168 posts’16 2017: 6,262 posts6,262 posts’17 2018: 3,854 posts3,854 posts’18 2019: 2,579 posts2,579 posts’19 2020: 658 posts658 posts’20 2021: 141 posts141 posts’21 2022: 71 posts71 posts’22 2023: 4 posts4 posts’23 2024: 3 posts3 posts’24 2025: 9 posts9 posts’25 2026: 3 posts3 posts’26 2011 peak: 70,754 posts Discord opened; move began · September 2015Conversation continues on Discord,outside these forum bars. MILESTONES 1. Jan 6, 2005: Guild founded1Jan 6, 2005: Guild founded 2. Jun 16, 2005: EV 2.0 charter2Jun 16, 2005: EV 2.0 charter 3. Dec 26, 2005: EV 3.0 charter3Dec 26, 2005: EV 3.0 charter 4. Feb 13, 2006: First EV-Pedia4Feb 13, 2006: First EV-Pedia 5. Feb 17, 2008: EV 4.0 charter5Feb 17, 2008: EV 4.0 charter 6. Apr 25, 2012: EV 5.0 charter6Apr 25, 2012: EV 5.0 charter 7. Jul 26, 2013: EV US Meetup7Jul 26, 2013: EV US Meetup 8. Aug 8, 2014: EV US Meetup v28Aug 8, 2014: EV US Meetup v2 9. Dec 12, 2014: EV EU Minimeet9Dec 12, 2014: EV EU Minimeet 10. Jan 6, 2015: Tenth anniversary10Jan 6, 2015: Tenth anniversary PORTALS Action & Sports: 2006–2018Action & Sports Star Wars: The Old Republic: 2008–2012Star Wars: The Old Republic Battlefield: Bad Company 2: 2010–2011Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Fantasy Sports: 2010–2015Fantasy Sports World of Warcraft: 2010–2019World of Warcraft Virtual Table RPG: 2011–2021Virtual Table RPG Guild Wars 2: 2012Guild Wars 2 PlanetSide 2: 2012PlanetSide 2 Star Citizen: 2012–2022Star Citizen Tribal Hero: 2013Tribal Hero WildStar: 2014WildStar Arma 3: 2014–2015Arma 3 Destiny 2: 2017–2020Destiny 2
  1. Guild founded
  2. EV 2.0 charter
  3. EV 3.0 charter
  4. First EV-Pedia
  5. EV 4.0 charter
  6. EV 5.0 charter
  7. EV US Meetup
  8. EV US Meetup v2
  9. EV EU Minimeet
  10. Tenth anniversary

EV today

How EV began

A guild governed by its members

Eternal Vigilance began on January 6, 2005. Its twelve founders came from an older guild rooted in the Star Wars Galaxies pre-beta community of 2002. Roughly a month after World of Warcraft launched, they broke away over disagreements about guild management. They wanted members to hold power together, with elected leaders and a written charter.

The founders worked in temporary forums, in a section called the Constitutional Convention, alongside a nearly nonstop MSN chat. Roughly half lived in the United Kingdom and half in North America. They drafted a code of conduct and chain of command. The permanent forums opened January 6, 2005; the name Eternal Vigilance was chosen on January 9.

Read the founding story on EV-Pedia

From the archive

Veteran ribbons through the years

Members received a ribbon for each year of membership. See the full set, from 1 to 21 years, in the museum.

1 year veteran ribbon
5 years veteran ribbon
10 years veteran ribbon
15 years veteran ribbon
21 years veteran ribbon

All museum ribbons and badges

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