Until early 2013, most players used the roads of the realms in an effort to level up faster. These “EXP Road Trains” were the ancestors of today’s Fame Trains. They did not offer large fame gains and were focused purely on hitting level 20. However, EXP Road Trains revolved around the same principle; players attempted to build fast-moving groups to mow down enemies in an effort to cap out experience gained per unit time. It is very rare to see a EXP Road Train today. Most players opt to make use of the larger, more well-organized fame trains.
In late 2013, several individuals (Fiddy, MCitadel, DRMINI) began to realize that the Godlands could be used to make a more efficient train. This was the start of the Fame Train as we know it today.
While there are variations on Godlands fame trains, the core pattern is a group of players circling the godlands in an effort the maximize spawn rates. Based on inherent spawn patterns, the circling / edge method was able to offer previously unreached fame gains.
The (2013-2014) fame train was originially located in EUNorth2. This train had no strategy or method to maximize spawns and relied on player bulk to steamroll gods.
After a period of decline, the second train server (2014-2015) became EUW2. Circling became the norm and people starting becoming familiar with spawn patterns enough to exploit them. This period was most commonly referred to as the “Golden Age” of the train, where FPM (fame per minute) was constantly above 15.
Unfortunately in 2015, the inception of botted accounts and several fame exploits rendered many trains obsolete. To get past this issue, several fame trainers attempted to start a “private” train. These trains were extremely effective and were able to capture the essence of EUW2 trains. “Mooning” also became a train flavor during this period. It relied on a small cadre of support and LR classes to do exactly what a larger group did. Despite these efforts, botters still exist in the train today.
Several prominent trainers were banned in the Fall of 2017, resulting in another period of decline in training. A public “EUN 2.1” discord server was started in an attempt to publicize the train, leading to mixed results. Once again, most of train consisted of botters and the public train relied on searching for ptrain locations to achieve its desired effect.
The ptrain has had a distinct revival as of late 2017; FPM has met or exceeded that of EUW2 during its peak.
If you get access to the discord, there are several rules that bind the people in the train from ruining the train, if you do break them then you WILL be recognized as the train as the clown of the group, you will be banned from the train discord, and if you carry on then the train will switch servers. These include:
Do not stasis enemies, take off your orb or never use it. Once you’re comfortable and practiced cursing enemies instead of stasising, you may use the orb. However if you do use the orb on purpose to stasis every enemy in sight, you will be banned.
Do not teleport to the “Dragger” who will drag enemies behind them for the train to kill later and kill enemies that they dragged on purpose.
Do not use famebotting, the bots follow people and stay in place if the person they are following nexus, they only ruin the train and don’t have as much gain as normal training without any scripts or cheats.
If you wish to get to an fametrain quickly, simply zoom out the minimap completely and teleport to the largest clump of yellow dots closest to the center of the realm.
The popularity of the fame train often leads to very full realms, with the number of people in the realm exceeding the limit of 85. The realm the train is in can be identified by a clump of players on top of the realm portal, waiting to get in. To bypass the long waiting times, simply enter “/nexustutorial” in the Nexus chat, complete the Nexus tutorial and Oryx’s kitchens, and enter the realm portal. This transports the player to a random realm in the server, regardless of whether it’s full.
