I quite happy to say that we Yakisoba, have constantly set benchmarks that have inspired other guilds to adopt, modify and apply it into their own guild.

Well let’s set our next benchmark. By the 20th of May 2007, 4 days after the official launch of pOBT, all members are expected to hit at least Level 40. We will proceed with our faction recruitment from that day on and the basic requirement will be Level 40 and of course, the usual 5,000 vis entrance fee. I’ll increase the basic level requirements as the guild grows.

So for those who are interested to join us, come to us on the 20th with a level 40 character, and we’ll talk.

6 more days to the launch!

PS: All Yakisoba members, please read this.

PSS: I will be updating the guild pages this week with fresh information, together with the confirmed structure plan as well as how we will go about with it. So meanwhile, please be patient about it.

Okay, I hope everyone hasn’t forgotten about this.

After some consideration, Hrin and I have decided to shift it to this Saturday or Sunday in the evening, so those who have school can come for this. Let me know which day is better for you.

Please let me know ASAP.

As mentioned in my previous post, I have a structural proposal that i would like to hear from all Yakisoba members. Basically the objective of having this hierarchy system is to promote individual growth as a player as well as contribution to Yakisoba in many ways. This also help instills a sense of belonging, discipline and pride in being a Yakisoba member. We want to be the best faction out there, and so long as our members work and believe in that vision, Yakisoba will achieve it.

Having said that, please take a look at the proposal and give me feedbacks on whether you feel it’s worth implementing, or whether there are certain improvements or adjustments you have in mind.

The Faction Leader role is to ensure unity in the faction. He/she is required to keep the faction together and provide a direction in which the Yakisoba will take. Squad Captains, together with the Faction leader and Vice-Leader, will lead the faction into greater heights by creating, implementing and upholding rules and regulations. The Faction leader is required to post regular news about the Faction and its surrounding, to keep all members informed at all time.

The Vice-Leader is the 2nd in command of Yakisoba. He/she is required to be attentive to potential issues problems that may arise in the faction and report them to the Faction leader, where corrective measures and action will be taken. The Vice-Leader is also in charge of administration such as updating the Faction’s Blog.

The Squad Captains will be in-charge of a small group of members comprising of Senior Members, Members and Recruits. Squad Captains are expected to be very active members with good leadership skills. They are expected to be able to lead their own squads into battles and be observant and mindful of each member. Being high leveled is naturally expected of them, but it is not a necessity.

The number of Squad Captains will increase as Yakisoba grow. With a cap limit of 100 members per faction, it is ideal to have a roughly have 5 Squad Captains, but may expand if the need arises.

Senior Members are members whose contributions to the factions have been recognized. Squad Captains will recommend members for promotions.

The rest of Yakisoba members will fall under the Members category. This group is the backbone and pillar of Yakisoba, and has their own say in electing Squad Captains.

Recruits are players who are new to the Yakisoba family. They will be observed by all Yakisoba members, and at the end of a certain period, they will either be recommended as Members, or be requested to leave.

If you find it hard to imagine how it would turn out to be, I think the best visual example I can give would be Bleach’s Gotei 13. Of course our hierarchy is a much watered down version, but basically I want to empower Squad Captains with such leadership position. It would be a waste if we have potential members with great leadership experience and not let them use it and contribute to Yakisoba.

I can already see potential members becoming Zaraki Kenpachi, Kuchiki Byakuya and hell, I don’t even mind having a Unohana Retsu or Soifon.

Alright, with another 10/12 days more to go, everyone should already have more or less finalized your builds and all. I just want to find out who’s going to playing an insane amount of time, aka Cage-mode. I will probably be playing 20 hours a day for the 1st 2 days or so, and I’m balance out accordingly. Need to know who are the potential hardcore Yakisoba members first so we can form parties or something.

I understand that most of you still have school/going to NS/etc, but try if possible to gain as much level as possible. Because your levels will roughly determine the recruitment cap of Yakisoba. There has been an overwhelming amount of requests to join Yakisoba, but I’m holding out first. I want to see their leveling abilities first before we go with recruitment.

Oh and if everyone has read the forums by now, Cage has left Granado Espada for World of Warcraft. It is a great loss to us, and I hope everyone can try to convince him to return. Even Hrin’s doing her job. Lol. Ah well, but if Cage truly feels that he belongs in WoW, then I wish him all the best.

You will be missed dearly, but should you choose to return to Granado Espada, Yakisoba will always welcome you back.

And lastly, in a couple of days time, I will be releasing a structural plan for Yakisoba members. This will basically be the standard rank and file we will adopt and hopefully integrate into Yakisoba.

That’s all for now. Goddamnit, I’m having major Granado Espada cravings.

With the client up, the next hurdle is the painful wait….

…of being able to actually log in.

DAMN IT. THIS IS MADNESS.

http://client.ge.iahgames.com/ge_pobt_1.zip
http://client.ge.iahgames.com/ge_pobt_2.zip
http://client.ge.iahgames.com/ge_pobt_3.zip
http://client.ge.iahgames.com/ge_pobt_4.zip
http://client.ge.iahgames.com/ge_pobt_5.zip
http://client.ge.iahgames.com/ge_pobt_6.zip

Torrent: http://forum.iahgames.com/showthread.php?t=265

The downloads are out, and you can get them now. IAH has only posted 1 part of the 6 files, but if you have a little bit of common sense, you’d figure out you can hammer the site for the rest of the downloads. I’m currently download part 2 and 3 already, and the speed is love.

Since my downloads are capped at 700kbs, downloading 2 at the time means their speed is split. =( If you get the Service Unavaliable message, just keep refreshing the site. If you have a G15 keyboard, here’s what I did:

Macro F5 (short delay) enter (short delay) and set on auto repeat. It will keep refreshing for you until it downloads. >D Nifty eh?

For those who want a program to help refresh the download page, download ReloadEvery, a plugin for Firefox browsers.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115

After installing it on your Firefox, restart your Firefox. On the Service Unavailable page, right-click and select Reload Every.
Go to Custom, and set 1 second. Then select Enable. It will keep refreshing the page until you get the download pop up. Remember to disable it.

One good thing about this plugin is that while refreshing that tab, you can surf other sites.

Okay, Hrin has kindly requested for more Yakisoba warriors to partake her quest to babysit kids.

Currently Voyage, Luciora and Sinistral have offered to join her party and I’m deciding to extend this to the rest of the Yakisoba team to join this outing. It will be held on the 10th of May 2007, Thursday from 11am-6pm. Pssst. This is your last chance in obtaining a 2 day pre-OBT pass. But of course, you are expected to serve with a heart!

We’ll also be having a Guild Dinner at around 6pm too. I will join you guys for the dinner because I have something to attend to on that day. Pantheon will also be coming for the dinner, if i recall correctly.

Send Hrin an email with your name and mobile number if you want to join.

Let’s go pk some kids!

Oh and btw, it’s finally the 1st of May! The downloads should be up in a couple of hours time. I’m assuming somewhere between 10am-12noon.

Okay, I have finalized a couple of Yakisoba plans and structures, and here it is. This notice is for all former Yakisoba members, as well as players who are interested in joining Yakisoba.

Yakisoba will be recreated in OBT, and we will still be known as Yakisoba. I will create it as soon as I farm 200 family points. While the names of the servers are still not known at the moment, we will be playing on the 1st main server. Should there be separate servers for PVP/carebear, we will be in the PVP server, no questions asked.

Former CBT Yakisoba members can request immediate entrance to Yakisoba as soon as you verify yourself. If I cannot remember you for the love of God, then I am so sorry, you will not be permitted into it. Just kidding. All members as usual, are required to pay the usual 5,000 vis entrance fee. However, as a benefit to existing members, you may defer your entrance fee until you have sufficient money. But please don’t make me hunt you down for the fee again, like in CBT.

The Yakisoba forums will be wiped as well. The confirmed wipe date for our guild forum will be on the 14th of May. If there are important posts, pictures of fel-chan, guides, etc that you wish to keep, please back them up. I will not back up anything. As soon as the forum is wipe, you may register yourself again. However, please register your forum nickname as the same nickname as your family in game. This is because when we grow to 100 members, we will have a difficult time knowing who’s who. As soon as I see your registration, I will validate your account and you will be able to enter the private sections of the forums, as usual.

New players who are interested in joining Yakisoba, look out for our in-game announcements. We will also post recruitment notices on this site as well as the GE forum. At the moment, we have not finalize our recruitment requirements but you can be sure that we will have one of the most demanding level entry requirement. Our level entry requirement will be capped according to the average of our member’s level. Thus it will constantly increase itself until a certain level. I daresay our future requirements would be at least level 72. Do note that we have also have a entry fee of 5,000 vis. This will go into the guild treasury where it will be used to pay for guild level increments as well as war declaration letters.

That will be all for now.

3 more day before the client is available for download! I’ll see those some of you on the 15th and the rest on the 17th. Cheers, stay healthy and sleep more. When GE starts, it’s time for the great leveling spree. I hope everyone’s pumped up to go nuts, because Yakisoba is so going to pwn the server!

Let’s paint Yakisoba all over the world map!

5 days to the Download release of the new v2.0 client.
20 days for those who won 2 day early pre-OBT Passes.
22 days to the launch of pre-OBT.

I’ll start posting more guild-related news at a later stage, but I can assure everyone that Yakisoba will be back in full force. Heck, I have 3 months of holiday starting next week. Muhahahahaha.

It’s time to go CAGE-MODE.

Blatently ripped from the sgGE site:

Just a quick update for you guys! Great News – we are running on schedule for the launch of Pre-Open Beta on 17^th May 2007, Thursday. Granado Espada V2.0’s Pre-Open Beta Test (POBT) Client will be available for download on the web from 1^st May 2007, Tuesday, onwards. Mirror sites for the client will be listed in the ‘Downloads’ section on 1^st May 2007, Tuesday.

HOOOOZZZAAAAH. Get ready to spam the download server.

Oh and IAH finally got rid of their old ugly forum and got a damn sweet looking one. Login using your IAH passport and start making Yakisoba’s presence known! In a good way of course.