Colony Wars (10/14/07): The tides have shifted + other updates!

Again, my apologies for the late CW update. And I'd like to apologize yet again because this report won't be that much detailed as I wasn't able to fully watch the events happen. Last Sunday's war also happened to be the birthday celebration of one of our faction mates, so please pardon the things I've looked over.

Anyway, I just learned (c/o AF's leader Welling) that this particular CW will be ReBorn's last hurrah. Note that this faction has once been an adversary of AdeptasFraternas for quite some time, and the news of the faction's impending disbanding caused such a ruckus all over Caravaggio. ReBorn is actually a known group in the server, along with Ethereal, who have held a vast majority of colonies for the past few wars.

And so, with ReBorn's final stand that day, Colony Wars in Caravaggio will never be the same.

As for the people in AF, defending all their 7 colonies would be a daunting task. With only 50 or so people online, I had expected quite a number of factions to declare war on AF, but such a thing did not happen at the first hour of battle. AF went for the colonies of other factions, particularly those with 1 or 2 territories on the map, particularly those of Azyr's in Tetra Hill.

The initial conquest of this colony was fairly an easy one, and afterwhich, EdeN's colony in Scorching Plateau was targeted next. AF had a pretty easy first hour during the war, and I kinda assumed that there wouldn't be that much problems.

But I guess I spoke too soon.

Perhaps it was about 45 minutes until 10PM when everything fell into place. The lag was starting to kick in and factions started declaring war on AF to reclaim their colonies. Azyr struck back, followed by EdeN. Ethereal likewise took a hack out of AF's colony in Porto Bello's Deserted Quay. Meanwhile, ReBorn got the Tres Hermanas colony, which was their last until finally disbanding.

The end of the war saw a few factions on the Caravaggio GE map: Ethereal (which was back in being the dominating faction), AdeptasFraternas, Eclipse, EdeN and SupperClub™.


I'd like to congratulate all factions for a job well done. My hats off to ReBorn for a the last good fight as well.


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A very good friend and GE blogger, Reclusion, asked me to pimp plug his upcoming GE machinima teaser, of which the full movie will be available on the eve of Halloween. Do check out this fantazztic preview!



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I'd like to take this opportunity to invite Pinoy GE bloggers for an unofficial get together on October 27 (Saturday), at McDonald's El Pueblo in Ortigas. We'll be talking about blogging GE and a few other stuff. Individual and faction GE bloggers are welcome to attend!

Please do drop a comment if you're interested! We'd love to have more people with us. ^_^

faction EBs, quests, blogging and everything else in between

I have moved!

Okay, so I previously said I won't, but after Veya told me people had to sign up just to comment, I knew I had to move the DeSanggria abode to a more user-friendly host.

GE PH gamers have recently started conducting meet-ups to get to know their fellow GEeks (a term I coined to describe GE players XD). Talks among factions to have their own Faction EBs (eye-balls or get-togethers) are the buzz these days in the forums. GE PH Community Manager Veya has attended some of these and have written a post-event account in her blog.

Likewise I'm excited for a CARNAGE Faction EB sometime soon. Some of my factionmates have arranged impromptu EBs a few weeks ago, though I'd really like to see a huge attendance of the members in a grand meeting of sorts (although, I'm not too sure of a 100% attendance because some members reside in the provinces). I know for a fact that this faction is one bunch of crazy, funny gamers and I do want to meet them in person to put a face to those funny anecdotes I encounter in each of our faction chats.

The big question though is who will steer and organize this meet-up? What of everyone's availability?

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I'm glad to say that some members of the Yakisoba Faction have cleared the air regarding the heated posts in the CARNAGE Faction blog. Apparently, some people have been using the names of the known Yakisoba families to spam and flame in other factions' blogs. It's a good thing some people condoned these flame wars, or else we'd have some serious problems in our hands.

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I've been meaning to put up an Alaena entry, but I've been so engrossed in finishing the quests and leveling up to actually chronicle Alaena's exploits with her sisters. Oh, I've been taking screencaps and all, but some of them are not nearly as significant to merit an entry in this blog. I've been going to just 2 places in the map (Tetra Grand Corridor & Golden Road) so I can level grind and get more quests. I want to level faster coz I can't wait for Alaena to don the Heaven and Hell stance, which I've been rambling on for the last two entries or so. XD

Plus of course, I want to be worthy of being in CARNAGE, since this faction actually has a level requirement.

I guess I am taking my time to some extent because I love doing the quests as well. I've recently stopped doing Carlos' Escudo Pecher quest coz my slow PC puts the game in a perpetual state of lag, thus I can't complete the mission.

And I've finally acquired Gracielo! Hahaha. After 48 years of trying my luck, I actually beat the dude at around level 34. Some people have acquired his character card at a much earlier level, but as I've said, my PCs not cooperating so the girls die most of the time in combat missions. This is also the reason why I can't finish the stuff about Gracielo beating some three hulky fiends at the Coimbra Observation Point.

I've recently finished Brunie's initial request of Hard Chalcedonies, and I'm now doing her quest of obtaining the Golden Horn at the Tetra Golden Road. I've also taken on Idge's quest for some armor parts (yet again).

I'm just taking things one at a time. ^_^