As quoted from Hrin’s latest entry:

Woot! The V2.1.18 patch is available for download now! There are two options of downloads for you over here – the full game client of V2.1.18 or the manual patch of V2.1.18. Just a quick reminder though, it has been password protected because the server side V2.1.18 patch has not yet been installed. Any attempts to install the patch to your current client will result in game client corruption and your current Granado Espada client will be unable to run. We will release the password on 16th August 2007, after we patch the servers during server maintenance.

Grab the file over here. Just make sure you don’t patch your client until the 16th of August (2 weeks more), or your client is screwed.

Also, a couple of quick pokes for everyone:

– Please update your levels and progress here as often as you can.

– The pictures thread is dying! We need more pictures of everyone here!

– The Yakisoba internal event is still on-going, you may start submitting your harvested items to Tsubaki and he will log them down and rank you accordingly. Details of the event can be found here.

After discussing it with some members, we will be organizing our first internal event for all members. Details on this event can be found on the forum here, and prizes worth up to 10,000,000 vis is up for grabs for the winners.

Every member is strongly encourage to participate, whether or you you will win the top prize or not. There will also be a score board ranking table, which will allow members to rank themselves against each other not in just grinding, but the participation of these such events.

So what are you waiting for? Check out here for more details.

I apologize for being a little late, for here’s the newest addition to our list of 100s- Tsubaki (27th), Vinch (28th) and Defrance (29th). I’m finally Lvl 100 after such a long time -.-” Work sucks. Also congrats to Vinch, our first girl with a set of Lvl 100 characters. She’s not the first girl to hit Lvl 100 though; that award goes to Salty, but she’s not ranked since only her Catherine is Lvl 100.

Anyway, congrats to all of our new 100s!

Finally, the day of reckoning has arrived. After the numerous number of trial (and suprise) Colony War that IAHgames has thrown at us, the first official Colony War started at 8pm on Sunday. Around 45 Yakisoba members turned up for this war, and despite being heavily outnumbered, we managed to conquer and hold 10 colonies.

For the benefit of some of our members who were unable to turn up for the war, here’s a recount of what happened.

As soon as the war started at 8pm, we took down El Tierra Blanco in a record time of 5 minutes and went on collecting another 4 more maps (Scorching Plateau, Zona Uno, Zona Dos and Ferrucio Junction) before the clock hit 8.30pm. Those maps were met with zero resistance, until we arrived at Lago Celeste, where a huge battle between Dominion occurred. After some initial resistance, Lago fell to us and we proceeded to Rio Aibi.

At this point, it was a battle between defending an onslaught of Dominion and continuing our hell march for more colonies.

We managed to grab El Canon de Diablolica while resisting attacks from Dominion on all our maps. We then attacked Dominion’s control of Tetra Hills together with our ally, Norgard. We lowered the pillar on Tetra Hills to about 50%, and left it to Norgard to take it, but shortly after we left for Topolo Durga, another Dominion controlled colony, Norgard fell to Dominion.

Somewhere at this point Vradical declared war on us and we returned them the favor by conquering one of their colony, Rion Parie. We took an undefended Topolo Durga and went straight for Tetra Hills again. Dominion gathered all her forces there and it was a total blood bath. Vradical then launched and all out attack on our Topolo Durga colony which we succeeded in fending off, while handling the Dominions in Tetra, and yet another zerg rush at Lago Celeste.

Dominion concentrated most of her strength on Lago Celeste and that allowed us to attack and lower the pillar further for Norgard. With 15 minutes left on the clock, Tetra Hills, Dominion’s last colony fell to Norgard. Vradical launched another Topolo attack on us, and Dominion attacked Lago Celeste again. The sheer magnitude of enemies attacking us was amazing. We were clearly outnumbered, but we fended off all attacks again.

The Colony War ended at 10pm and not a single Yakisoba colony fell. It is something we are all very proud about, considering how our biggest rivals have merged under one faction.

All members, I am very very proud of all of you today, today’s victory was certain the biggest and sweetest victory ever. It was the most electrifying and intense war that I have ever experienced, and I’m certainly proud to have all of you here in Yakisoba.

Yakisoba Banzai! Let’s enjoy our week’s worth of colony benefits! =D

Note: This is not a 100% accurate recount, since there were other minor skirmishes not mentioned, but most of the intensive battles that we encountered has been mentioned.

I’m proud to announce that Yakisoba emerged top in Cervantes’s 15 vs 15 War of the Faction event organized by the Philippines Granado Espada CMs.

And the prize that we all won: Angel Wings and 10,000 points for the item mall. Woot!

The following members took part in this event:
01. Tsubaki
02. RavaNa
03. Renji
04. Testarossa
05. Zin
06. Mina
07. Sedai
08. Grimmway
09. Kazel
10. cara
11. Nuub
12. Luciora
13. LoK
14. Lionheartz
15. Valkrice

Also I would like to thank the following 15 members who took time to practice over and over again, as well as the other Yakisoba members who generously allowed the 15 members to practice on them. And cara, for his very well drafted plan for this event.

And what really was cara’s secret?

Love. Seriously, lol.

Oh and on a side note anyone realized the acronom for War of The Factions? WTF. Brilliant way of naming things, CMs!

The revision to the current raid system can be found here on the forum. Kindly read it carefully, especially the people that will be involved together with me in handling our guild items.

Also, last night a total of 19,000,000 vis was used from the guild fund to upgrade our large number of item left overs in the guild bank. As a result we have a number of +5 and +6 items up for loan. Do refer to the list for these available items.

On a side note, good luck to all those participating for today’s 15v15 War of the Factions event. All members, please be on early at 3pm for a some last minute trainings and tactical briefing. Thank you.

Another chain of level 100s to join the ranking table- Mina (25th) and Zeny (26th). Congrats to the 2 of them!

I believe there are few more that will be hitting 100 today. Please let me know or post it here. Thank you.

Haven been updating news around the guild for a while, so let’s get the ball rolling again. A couple of news for all Yakisoba members to take note off.

Firstly, I’ve updated our Treaty page with our new alliance with Norgard. xXMiRaClEXx, the leader of Norgard used to be our biggest enemy in the past, but it’s all over now and I’m very proud to say that we will be able to work out a strong alliance between us. All members, please take note of our new ally and do not Baron their members. Should there be any conflict of interest, please inform Tsubaki immediately and we we will discuss with them.

Also, it seems the TheEmpire is no longer active and we will drop them from our list of allies. RakiChanneru, our buddy faction is still regarded as friendlies.

Next up, our guild bank has close to 300 items and each member is now entitled to borrow up to 6 items at a time. Also, each member is limited to only 1 elite weapon or armor at a time. We work on building up item bank so that everyone can get what they need, so please be active in our raid sessions.

Waker, a ForeverVN member was caught de-leveling RavaNa while he was AFK-ing his characters. RavaNa lost 2 levels from level 100 to 98, and…. we’re back in the business of returning favors. It’s been a while since we de-level people. The last time someone tried to mess around with us lost 15 levels in a night.

We’ll try to break this record again. But honestly, we don’t go around de-leveling people unless someone starts first.

And lastly, Yakisoba recruitment is now closed. We have enough members for now. It’s probably going to be a long while before we open up our recruitment again. To our applicants, we thank you for taking time to apply, but we are closed for now.

Another chain of level 100s to join the ranking table- Mois (22nd), Crimzama (23rd) and Isaya (24th). Congrats to the 3 of them!

All members, when you have hit level 100, please make sure you inform Tsubaki asap so we can add you to our table of level 100s!

Another 3 more members joined to Lvl 100 rank, Stalwart (19th) , Pyros (20th) & Renji (21st). What’s nice is that Stalwart and Pyros, our newest recruits have really proven themselves to be as hardcore as the rest. Hahah, keep it up guys! Also, Renji’s the 2nd dual Elementalist to hit Lvl 100 here.

A big congrats to the 3 of them!