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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As of today, after observing these 2 gentlemen who have selfless spend a great deal of time calling for the faction for boss raids, I hereby promote

LoK
Defrance

to Raid Captains of Yakisoba. They have been given Deputy powers and will have the ablility to change faction topics and such. All members, please give them their due respects and listen to them when they call on you for boss raids. At the same time, our new raid captains, please be mindful of your new powers.

But anyway, let’s congratulate LoK and Defrance for their new promotion. Congrats!

A stunning 170 (and still growing) comments, flames and whatnots on the previous entry.

Now that everyone has been given their own space to grief, it’s time to put accusations into it’s proper place. Interestingly, according to the IPs logged, the flaming comments come from the same group of people, who are the ones attempting to smear our name and paint a picture of nasty hate.

We’ve stay mumble on these accusations, and it’s time to give our side of the story.

Yakisoba members bots.
It’s a known fact out there that we do not tolerate bottings, and have kicked out members who have done so. We have never lost a single member to those major bot sweeps that the GM had, and that’s a fact. We’re clean on bots. Our human grinders are much more sophisticated against those program bots.

Yakisoba members have a lot of money because they bot multi accounts/buy vis.
Our money comes from selling our items to people. Apparently these people have a lot of money to pay for our items. I wonder who’s the real botters here, when people will just offer 20 million for 1 Lvl 96 pistol. And so, why do we need to buy/bot vis when we have those botters paying for our items?

Yakisoba members got GM connection to ban people who offend them.
If we really do, we would be submitting IPs of these flamers to our “GM friends” to get you banned for harassment.

Yakisoba members delevel those that PK them.
False, totally false. We never delevel people first. It’s only after when a member gets delevelled do we return it in 10 folds. Most of the time, we’ll simply return the delevel back to any member from the faction that started on us first.

Yakisoba members do not share bosses.
This we are guilty of, especially against our rivals. Simply because game rivalry is necessary to spurn competition. Apparently some people cannot take the heat of competition, they expect to have a nice queuing number for bosses. We only share bosses with our allies, including telling them the time of which the bosses spawns.

Yakisoba members have no life, no future, nothing. They are arrogant showoffs in this game.
One thing that we dislike a lot is personal attacks, especially coming from people who don’t even know us. Our members are mostly working individuals, or students in Universities having their long semester break. We’ve organized gatherings and meetups that are large in scale, and we know each other far more well to know that none of us deserve such a label.

Regarding the big shots comment, I think a lot of people have trouble differentiating achievements and arrogance. We work hard to get to where we are, legit even when the server population bot outnumbers normal players. We achieve them, and we display them like trophies in a cabinet. We didn’t win competitions like just like that. We’re all competitive players. By drawing accusations that we are showing off our achievements, it reveals the jealous nature of these flamers.

Yakisoba is going to fall. No colonies anymore for them.
It’s certainly a great fall for us, since it’s our first taste of defeat from our long standing accomplishments. But we’ll recover. The pain that we have all experience has excited our bloodlust. We’re very driven for a comeback shot, and we’ll hope to see it this week’s war. Colony war hasn’t never been more exciting now that lines are drawn and alliances are forged.

Norgard is being used by Yakisoba
This is a very very nasty accusation. Norgard is an official ally that we have sworn with. We’ve helped them achieve their Lvl 52 faction quest, even though we have never agreed to help any other factions with it. Miracle, once a sworn enemy of us, has shown us a side of his that we can trust with and I am willing to put my name down and say that he’s like a brother. He and his members are capable players and both factions have benefit from each other. Likewise, it can be said that Dominion is using its allies to achieve what they can’t do against us in a one on one battle.

Tsubaki is an evil tyrant and he sends RavaNa to pk people.
I think if you ask my members about me, I’m less of a tyrant than believed to be. I’m strict with rules and conduct with my members, but other than that, most of them are free to do whatever they wish. However, some of them may have had very unfavorable conducts against others, and people have drawn conclusions that I was behind those. Regarding the Ravana statement, here’s a newsflash: RavaNa disses me all the time for being too soft with declaring war on people.

Tsubaki is arrogant for telling Vradical he will reduce their colonies to zero.
I admit I said those exact words. However, what led me to saying these words was because a certain Vradical member chose to hit me with personal attacks, insulting everything from my character, to my looks after he was pked by me. It’s certainly wonderful to see how this has triggered such an incredible uproar, but nobody has approached me for the truth. I was definitely very pissed off at the point of time, but that I’ve looked at it, I’ve shrugged it off already. I’ve nothing against Vradical. Oh and I was told by a certain someone that….

Tsubaki will send RavaNa to PK you if you PM him about his players KS/PKing you.
I laughed at this. Really, this is the best joke I’ve heard in my entire life in Granado Espada. Let me assure you, I don’t. And neither will RavaNa bother listening to me on that, hahah. But the underlying fact is that, it’s a PK server. If my member PKs you, you’re entitled to PK him back. We’ll only step in when you decide to hit under the belt and start to delevel people.

In which, I just lost 14 levels to Baobao and Peacebringer yesterday. Do you see my broading about it? Of course not. It’s part of being in a PK server.

Tsubaki sends a massive number of Yakisoba players to gang up and pk one person.
Firstly, get the Baron system facts right. When you are in Baron mode, you’ve susceptible to attacks from everyone, including your faction mates. What is the point of baroning 1 person with so many members? That will only lead to more friendly fire. It’s an incredibly convincing accusation, but when you look at how the Baron system works, it’s a complete slander. It’s a shame there’s still so many people who don’t know how the Baron system works.

And that’s about it. I’m pretty sure there are more doubts about how Yakisoba and myself works, and I’m quite happy to clarify things, but as advised by some people, all comments will be moderated and screened from now on. I’m personally against limiting a person’s freedom of speech, but this freedom has been abused by too many.

Cheers.

And the results are in.

Yakisoba is left with 1 Colony after an extreme exhausting battle. We’re down from our original 10 losing to a vastly superior number of players. It’s certainly a very humbling experience, but it makes the last Colony that we hold, oh so much sweeter than having 10 colonies.

Even more so when you have the 9 factions on your toe, and 44 members to hold the line. For that I applaud all our members for a fantastic job well done.

The last 30 minutes of Colony War sparked the final and most intensive last standing battle at Lago Celeste. It was almost a scene recreated from 300, where the Spartans were zerged by the Persians (though I must admit I wasn’t really into playing the role of King Leonidas, lol). But it was sure as hell fun and not to mention, very laggy.

The war ended with us thawing an all out combined attack from 9 factions to leave our mark on the map, and not forgetting they all have more HP buffs over us.

But anyway, Congrats to the other factions for their victory! This war certainly has strengthen our resolve, and we certainly look forward to next week.

With the x2 EXP boos going on, we’ve a lot of member joining the ranks of Lvl 100. And here’s the list of them!

Grimmway (30th), Stormbringer (31st), Ooyuki (32nd). As well as our two new recruits and their shiny new ranks: Casol (33rd) and TaiwanStar (34th)

Congrats to all of them! I’m looking forward to more of our members hitting 100 by the end of this 2x exp event. Cheers =D

And it’s here again, the much anticipated Promotion day for our recruits. Another 4 more new recruit joins us as members, let’s welcome these 4 new members:

dThirteen
Valhalla
Casol
TaiwanStar

Congrats to these new members, and your forum accounts have been validated. Make sure you you check out some of our stickied threads- especially Member introductions, Members Photos, the on-going Yakisoba Event and more.