Good Bye, Yakisobans.

I am sad to announce that due to commitments in school, I will be unable to continue playing GE on a regular basis and will be taking a long break from it.

For all members, I’ve written more details regarding my departure from this game, and this fantastic faction on the forums, so please read about it here. I know this is a very sudden decision, but some of you are already aware of my situation and how it has become increasingly difficult to keep up with my final year diploma and GE at the same time.

Yakisoba will also be disbanding soon. The disbanding will be a slow process as we slowly iron out certain issue. I want to make sure everything is properly settled before I leave, and thus here is the future plan for all Yakisoba members who still wishes to stay together in contact.

I also want to thank the many Yakisoba supporters who have quietly come up to me and encourage us to continue achieving things. Thank you. While it is sad that things have to end up this way, I think it is the best for all since it is unfair for Yakisoba to go on without a leader.

3 Cheers to Yakisoba. Thank you for surviving the odds for 6 months, since the start of CBT till now.

Angel Bear hereby presents RavaNa with his new Baron toys: The Revanants, the Wheel of Destiny and the Coffin.

Number of people killed: Unknown. Well, he’ll definitely piss off some players for baroning them, but hey, it’s for a quest. Blame the creators of Granado Espada for coming with such a idea. I’m not sure whether he went around baroning people in his croc suit, but it would be really funny if he did so.

But anway, congrats to RavaNa. And the big pocket hole too. Those plate mails and fanatic costumes must have cost a bomb. To know more about Baron items, check out RCM Hrin’s blog for details.

And I’m not kidding.

We’ve got a zoo full of bears and crocs ever since the IAH allowed players to input their GP. A number of people went for the Pioneer Package and got the super addictive Andre Boxes. Did I mention how much money I blew on that crazy box? The items that it drops is just superb.

Oh and since we’ve got all of these animals, we’re in the process of making short 4komas. Probably a collab story between RavaNa “CrocVaNa” and Tsubaki “TsuBearKi”. Enjoy the the love making scene:

Also, we discovered a really awesome promotion that Singtel mobile users get to enjoy- Buying GP via SMS. Do note that this is only for Singaporeans. Details can be found here. It’s SGD$9.90 for 30 days and SGD$24.90 for 90 days. And there’s also a 20% extra bonus point to get if you buy it during this promotional period. I’ve personally tested it and it works, and it’s instantaneous. Definitely much faster (not to mention the extra 20% points) than buying GP from Gameshop.sg.

Just make sure you control your spending, or you’ll be receiving a really hefty mobile phone bill at the end of the month. I’ve already added 42637 to my address book… god knows how much I’ll spending soon.

It’s the start of the bear hunting season.

Word got in that those who bought their limited edition boxsets will be able to use their points today. Go top it up here.

It’s good news for everyone that paid money for a game that was still in beta. And you will have the option to choose either 180 days + 30k GP or just 35k GP. An advice to all members would be to go with the 180 days + 30k GP package. Calculations and further discussion can be found here.

While you are busy planning on what to buy with your 30k, remember to buy TEH BEAR SUIT! LOL.

I apologize for the lack of updates. The new 2.1.18 patch has brought in plenty of new content to keep us busy, even reviving some of dead members back into the game. The new offerings of Veteran modes and stances have wet our appetites for this game, and we are a all set to race to the top once again. Looks like we won’t be step down competitively any time soon.

And now that I’ve managed to steal some time of Granado Espada, here’s a couple of updates.

The last Colony War saw the revival of the Yakisoba spirit, going all out with our attacks and securing 5 colonies after a 2 hour grueling battle against the Republican alliance. We’ll slowly shift the face of the map back into the hands into the Royalists, and we welcome factions to join us in this battle. We also like to thank our allies who have lend their arms with us.

Also, after having a series of discussion with Dominion’s leader Lezard, we have come to a common understanding that the war between Yakisoba and Dominion must go on, in order to constantly keep the competition going in the server. Without this competition, it makes this game boring.

Matters regarding bosses, locations, etc will be fought for, all in the name of healthy competition. We’ve both agreed to keeping this competition clean and free from underhand moves. However, we’ll draw the lines of sending members to attack lower level members while they train. With this in place, we hope it will end the unnecessary politics that is going on.

I expect all Yakisoba members to uphold this new understanding we have with Dominion. You’re still free to decide whether you want to attack them on sight or not, retaliate when killed or not, and likewise it will be the same for themselves. But however, please refrain from smacktalks.

This starts effectively from now. Please do not take past feuds into account. Thank you.

And, most people should have noticed by now that Yakisoba has a mascot bear running around the streets of Auch! This bear is otherwise known as the “Flying Angel Bear” or sometimes transformed into the “Ressing Angel Bear”. It pretty much reflects how awesome bears are.

Support the Angel Bear. Buy a Bear Costume. Did I mention how funny it looks when your Scouts wears it and runs around in dual dagger stance? Hahaha. It’s completely hilarious.

And no, IAHgames has not paid me in any way to promote this awesome bear.

And the next wave of Promotions is here. Perhaps the smallest number of recruits getting promoted, but that’s only because there wasn’t much joining us to begin with. Hah.
AhXing
xBlitZx
LunaRosa

Also, the following ex-Norgard members have been granted access to our forums:
Sleazy
elf
Xill
DewaMaut
Dodol
Immelmann
Rerenge
xXSoYaXx
DrAgoNHeArT
GloryofKingdom
TaOfu
IIIvictorIII
shininichixZ
ya
Akugata

For the other ex-Norgards who have not registered on the forum, please do so, and let me know personally. I will then grant you access to the forums.

As for the rest, Welcome aboard Yakisoba! Please take some time to explore our forums, especially introduce yourself to the family and such.

Taking advantage of the server down time, I’ve worked on a new banner for Yakisoba, together with a new blog theme. The banner is inspired by our recent events, the ups and downs, the goods and the bads. I thought it would be nice to capture it for our next banner. It’s also partially inspired the Zouk Raid party Graces, but the color scheme is a lot different. I’m not a big fan of Grace, but it’s one of those few stock picture available that worked with the idea I had in mind.

But if I really had a choice, I’d have two Catherines or something. Some hint of yuri would be good too. I wouldn’t mind working a spoof version using Andre too. Let me know if anyone’s interested and I’ll hit you with one. Hahaha.

Anyway, for members who wish to use it as their new signature, here’s the code for it
[URL=http://yakisoba.wordpress.com][IMG]http://www.yakisobaguild.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/yakilatestbanner.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Family name: yourname

A couple of updates for all Yakisoba members, firstly if you haven read about what will be happening to me in the next few weeks to come, please read all about it here.

Next up, I’m sad to announce that Miracle has informed me that he will be taking a break from Granado Espada. For whatever reason, I’m still unclear at the moment, but he has kindly offered 20 of his best members to join us, in which I have accepted. To our new Norgard members, welcome to Yakisoba! We do hope you’ll be able to quickly fit in and be a part of our family here.

Random picture. Don’t ask why, Lol.

There’s a couple of watering holes that the Yakisoba members gather whenever the server goes down, and it’s our IRC Channel and our forum. Kindly register yourself on our forums with your family nickname, and telling me about it.

Also, I’ve finally finally, found out the problem with our Teamspeak server and it’s finally up and running again! Yes! After what happened during last Colony War (chats were lagging so bad, communication was reduced to zero on faction and squad), I’ve made it a priority to get my ass on fixing it, and it’s done. Our TS IP can be found here for here for all members only. Oh and do check out the little niffy tool that Aelesia has posted for TS.

A little bit of update on the progress of trucing- We’ve been able to truce all but Dominion and CARNAGE, who have rejected my offer to do so. I’ve spoken to Lezard and according to him, he says it will take some time for them to recover from it. He has given me his word that his members will not attack on sight, and we’ll oblige and do the same. I don’t quite understand why he would have the war on-going while setting up a temp peace treaty, but we’ll leave it as it is for now. I think I approached him at a wrong time- Dominion apparently had a hacking incident of one of their leaders and a number large members were booted out.

I’m still not too clear on the details at the moment, but there are suspects, and Lezard has assured me it isn’t anyone from Yakisoba. I think it’s a real punch below the belt to attempt to do something like this. All the best in Dominion’s speedy recovery.

And I don’t think I’ll need to point this out, but I’ll say it anyway- Remember to download the new 2.1.18 patch (it feels more like an entirely new client if you were to ask me), otherwise you will not be able to log into the server when the server goes live again on the 16th of August, 10am.

I’ll see everyone on 2.1.18! Cheers.

And here are the results for tonight’s Colony War.

After fighting with seems like an impossible war, Yakisoba has gained another colony, controlling a total of 2 colonies. We’ve lost Lago Celeste, but gained Rion Parie and Rio Aibi instead. We succeeded in taking El Canon and Ferrucio Junction, but lost them in the last leg of the war.

I would like to thank the 44 members who turned up for tonight’s war as well as our allies, Norgard and Cloudnine, and the other factions whom have come to our aid by keeping our rivals occupied. It was certainly an uphill battle, and while this war has yet to produce major results, it certainly has deepened our ties. Yakisoba owe our 2 colonies to our allies. Thank you.

And also, congratulations to all factions who fought in the war.

As a parting statement, I wish to announce that Yakisoba will soon be hanging up our boxing gloves. We’ve reached a point where we are functioning at 30% of our original strength due to members leaving Granado Esapda for commitments in the real world. Since we are not in favor of mass recruitment to repopulate the faction, we have decided to slow down on being a competitive faction. We’re going back to becoming noodles.

This being said, I sincerely wish to offer truce to Dominion and its allies on non-colony war days.

We will, in regards to Boss Raids no longer attempt to control any particular faction, and will now enforce a first come first serve basis. It was fun while it last, but dragging a war over a long period of time has put a toll on many people. Both side has suffered enough, and I feel it’s time for a server wide peace.

I look forwardly to a favorable response. Thank you very much.

Peace.

One of my long standing policies to my members is to maintain silence. No smack talk, no complaining or whining on broad, nothing verbal; Yakisoba should work solely on actions, not words. But lately, I believe most of my members are hitting their limits (including myself, sadly). Being constantly barraged by statements that are mostly untrue or unfair in nature, and be forced to be silent about it has finally reared it ugly heads on people, and this has quickly been used by our enemies against us, branding us as the Evil of Cervantes.

Apparently, words seem to have more value in this game, as opposed to actions. And thus, here are my words.

Since I’ve been asked a lot lately about what is going on between Yakisoba and Dominion, I’ll take this opportunity to explain the whole issue, strictly, from our point of view. I think it’s about that we started revealing matters like this to the public on our blog, instead of just posting achievements. And I’ll leave it up to the public to decide on what’s the truth and what isn’t. Do take in consideration that there are no 100% rights or wrongs. Matters like this have always have their goods and bads so intertwined together, it’s become a judgment of who’s the lesser evil.
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