Chapter 1 - The Beginning of the End (Estimated to have occurred in 2015)

The beginning of the end wasn't orchestrated by anyone at all, it just simply happened out of entropy: The combined blow of two forces - the resurfacing of FNaF and the greater frequency of admin visits to the server. I'll explain how these two clashed and began the roadtrip to hell:

• FNaF's fandom and even the game itself were considered "cancerous" by a majority of people outside the group, that included the gang of actual edgelords in DFS's (Dispenz0r's Fun Server's) community which happened to be inhabited by most of MSTR's admins. This sort of opinion persisted since the beginning of FNaF's first wave of popularity.
• A part of MSTR's community was still relatively young (12 - 13 years old) and still held onto FNaF. Motivated by their appreciation towards the game, this group made roleplays that sought to replicate FNaF's gameplay and... story.
• Ultimately, these two minorities and 1 extremist group managed to clash: the admins held their opinions strongly , they were plagued by the bigot attitude and filled to the brim with logical fallacies, which resulted in them generalizing the entire RP community as cancerous and cringy and the ultimate prohibition of roleplaying in MSTR's TF2 Sandbox server.

But we weren't only left in the hands of the roleplay prohibition, we were left on the hands of the administration's overall egotistical and edgy personalities. Unfortunately, the owner ignored this sort of event, allegedly, but nonetheless, the owner didn't retaliate the high admin's decision and he was still allowed to loosely set some of his or her own rules which reflected on his/her own views and personality. Since these other rules were set loosely (they were announced to a small amount of people through admin messaging) and the prohibition of roleplaying was a big deal, the admins turned over to enforce anti-roleplay policies and measurements:

• Permanent banishment of avid and known roleplayers if they didn't seize or cooperate (such was the case with an individual that used to be named "FatherJango", he used to be a pretty common sight amongst roleplays but turned over once the admins came back. If you ever happen to encounter him, please treat him with respect because he's not the same person that he was back then);
• Warning and punishing builders that build any shop or building that COULD potentially and probably serve for roleplaying (they were extreme with how far valid "cancerous" roleplaying went);
• Implementing an undercover enforcement force (Secret police) to oversee, record and report any roleplay activity in the chat to the administration. This secret police acts as an extra layer of anti-roleplay enforcement but I also speculate that this undercover force was a replacement for the admins, who happened to be nearly as busy as they were before (outside MSTR);
• Admins would physically be more prevelant in the server.

Chapter 2 - Migration Era "Search and Destroy" (Estimated to have occurred in 2015 - 2016)

Despite these measures, people still managed to roleplay and build for roleplaying purposes outside the eye of the undercover force or the admins. The admins nor the undercovers had access to chat logs, nor did they change names or profile pictures to effectively BE undercover and fool rule breakers into a false sense of security. Once the clandestine activities were discovered, the adminhood decided to be even more vigilant and more punishing to role players, most of these punishments were permanent bans from the server. The restrictions and permanent banishments from the server forced many people to quit roleplaying altogether, those who weren't banned had simply remained in the server, building obscure monuments and buildings like that... Or in my case, build minigame courses. Most of the permanently banished moved on and gave up on TF2 RP, while others didn't give up so easily and simply participated in other servers, one of those suitable roleplaying servers was GmodTech's GmodTech Hotel, which served as the new TF2 RP center for a long time, but it died by the end of 2018.

MSTR had been dethroned, their RP center status removed and their creative community began degrading, being replaced by less creative and commontype players. In fact, the flow of these players was reversely proportional to the flow of creative people, which was decreasing rapidly. This was a radical change to MSTR, its appearance was defined by freedom, creativity, comfort and opportunity, all of which were weakened by the administration's new policies. MSTR headed towards a new direction and I bet you know how terribly good it was just by the next chapter's title.

Chapter 3 - Degradation Era "Black Mold" (Estimated to have occurred in 2016)

It's theorized that MSTR's radical transformation was a decision taken by the inner friendship circle between the admins: all of these admins came from DFS (Dispenz0r's Fun Server), which was confirmed by their DFS name tags as well as their high frequency in the community. This nativity and great playtime in DFS may have caused them to view DFS as a model for a good TF2 community server, mix that with the high admin's ego hunger and you get MSTR's roleplay prohibition which is based off the "edgy" beliefs and attitudes used in DFS. The admin's final objective is then speculated to have been the reformation of MSTR into a casual talk server with a few side party tricks, which in this case were encapsulated into Sandbox. Working this speculative objective further out comes to the conclusion that they were putting Sandbox away from the community's arms and only at the hand of "trusted members" (VIPs and members of the administration). In a matter of words, the admins wanted their own personal paradise, which, funnily enough, didn't comply with all of the admins' views: there was one or more instances of moderations and administration members coming up to the server without a clue about the new set of rules or even the RP prohibition, most were against this type of decision since they still knew what the good population of this server was gifted for. We can speculate that these obscure staff members were simply forgotten by the high admin's inner circle due to their inactivity, but it could be that they were forgotten because the inner circle was simply focusing on its own members and objectives, not having the competence to inform these shadow admins before the possibility of a revolt happened. Either way, these shadow admins were very obscure, even to me and others. We don't know what happened behind the curtains, but we're pretty sure that they were gone pretty quickly after the beginning of "Black Mold".

The beginning of "Black Mold" is estimated to have started when roleplay was completely exterminated off the server following the anti-roleplay policies and measurements, and when the amount of relevant and unique players started to die off rather quickly. The Degradation Era is the ultimate testament to the administration's incompetence in their job of allowing the server to thrive freely from personal bias:

• The server's community turned into a boring selection of players that could not build properly, had a very short grasp of English and didn't have the competence or inspiration for a proper building, it's also to be noted that these players barely communicated with others at all, which destroyed any opportunity for skill or Sandbox knowledge development;
• The admins lost interest in the server and left the job of vigillance to the secret police members that still had faith. This proves that the admins didn't even have the necessary motivation, time or capacity to innovate that a competent admin would have to use for the better of the server and the service that it provides to its statistics;
• Secret police still making efforts against roleplaying despite the fact that it resulted in the degradation of the server's popularity.

The Degradation Era ultimately ended when the undercover enforcement and the admins disappeared off the face of the server as well as when the server began having technical issues that put it in an unusable state. The unusable state consisted of hellish levels of ping and the Sandbox plugin being dead and unequipped for the server. Frankly, nobody could enjoy or play the server in this status and some considered it to have finally died. However, if having an admin dictatorship wasn't weird and twisty enough, the server had its own miracle...

The long Degradation Era had finally ended.

Chapter 4 - Freedom Period "Why won't you die?" (Happened in 2016, there is screenshot proof)

The Freedom Period began when the small group of people who still had good faith in TF2 Sandbox realised that MSTR's unusable state had its periods of functionality, which usually lasted 1 to 7 days, and lacked the presence of any enforcement, signifying the total loss of interest from the admins and undercover enforcement in the server and therefore the closure of the infamous admin dictatorship. News about MSTR's periods of functionality spread and quite possibly reached the ears of admins. However, they did not make use of these periods as their expectations said that the server was quickly gonna become dysfunctional and unusable but also that the server was not gonna keep up with the administration's policies, since they learned that the hard way.

The hopeful population of roleplayers and skillful builders who had luckily remained unbanned from the server took this opportunity to enjoy TF2 Sandbox freely, yet again. This old generation was small but enough to motivate newer generations to build more creatively and collaboratively through verbal communication and visual communication (Buildings). Thus, the Freedom Period is similar to MSTR before the admin dictatorship, the only difference is in the names of roleplayers and builders, most were less known, obscure or just new people in the scene, these are the the ones that resisted the dictatorship. Despite this kind of development, this era is incredibly obscure to most people, even me, who only arrived at the end of the Freedom Period. This phenomena is to be blamed on the number of roleplayers with a very memorable grasp into MSTR banned from the server and the lack of richness and longevity to the newer generation of MSTR that ended when the Freedom Period ended upon the closure of the server by XP, the owner.

As mentioned before, this phase wasn't as rich as pre-dictatorship MSTR because it was still forgotten and plagued by periods of hellish lag that can last for days and fool unaware newcomers into the sense that this server died. However, it still had things that modern TF2 Sandbox missed like roleplayers, player numbers that go beyond 5 for most of the time and occasional collaborations between builders to essentially make a town, and no, it's not like having a lotta builds in spawn, that's not really a group of builds that has the point of collaborating to form what appears to be a town, where builds have this mutual interest of "comforting" each other.

The town section of the Freedom Period is usually celebrated as its true signature, people had a greater tendency to stick to each other but to also build closer to each other and such was the case with the legendary Lake Village. Lake Village is considered by most to be the last town and last player aglomerate to have happened in MSTR before it permanently shut down, founded far away the spawn zone in the water treatment station which we called "lake".

- Lake Village Section -

Lake Village was unintentionally founded by a stray GibusVision Engineer named "ddomster" (He's still active nowadays but he doesn't want to be involved with the past anymore so I won't give any more profile information), initiated by a single wooden grocery store that was surprisingly detailed. Following this building, another builder, M.Bison who's still a roleplayer, built an enormous house near the wooden shop and that ultimately kick-started a chain reaction of more builders coming by and adding more and more buildings to the region of teamcity, creating a town in the area that was named Lake Village. Since the save feature didn't exist, Lake Village only lives in death because of screenshots (From me, the writer). The historical texts that You're reading here and the memories that everyone lived that day allow you to know how it appeared and how it held throughout its evening of existence.

It was beautiful to witness the development of this town. The agglomeration of people in one place that wasn't motivated by exposure (Building in spawn is often motivated by the higher exposure to newcomers and most players in the server) shows what truly defined this period: peace, unity and freedom.

Lake Village has been screenshotted as a part of recording such a great event, I, the writer, can provide you the source of such screenshots if you'd like to see them.

- End of Lake Village Section -

In the end, the Freedom Period was not as rich nor as long as normal MSTR, but I guess that's the result of the admin dictatorship because the poor community was beat to death because of one minority group, a reckless, egotistical act that wouldn't have happened if the administration was better maintained. The Freedom Period was sealed when the server was shut down permanently by the owner, we don't know what motivated the owner to shut his server down but if that wasn't the case, maybe TF2 Sandbox could've had a better grasp into the joy of each newcomer's experience.

- END OF MSTR'S HISTORY -

SOME FEARED THE END OF TF2 SANDBOX AND THE END OF TF2 RP IF GMODTECH DIED. BUT THEN CAME A MIRACLE.

To be continued in Modern Sandbox historical report.