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Archived News from the early days of factions on Europa - Latest first, so start reading from the bottom up - awkward i know but.. well they were written that way ;-)
DDi leave Minax, the end of an era - Posted by Myst 5.3
DDi, the largest, highest Scoring Faction guild on Europa today announced plans to take a break from the Faction System. Leaving Minax with all 8 towns and the only available sigil in base, Hatchet Harry issued the following statement;
"Through these past months as Commanding Lord, it has been an honour and a privilege to serve with those who make up the Minax team. For all things there is a time, and now it is time for us to take a break from Minax. It was a hard decision to make but the confirm box is clicked and the Delucian Defence Initiative [DDi] are leaving the Faction. One day we will return and once more paint the towns red, but that is tomorrow, today we say farewell.
Many ask why leave.. well it is a culmination of many different things, they include but are not limited to – getting fed up with notos, traitors an griefers… the need to sleep more often, and not be the only ones on base defence at server up, the need to refresh bank accounts drained from 3 months of factions, frustration that the tight Minax team was becoming diluted by trammel glory hunters, wannabe’s, and selfish faction whores, and the simple fact that we won all 8 towns twice… we need a new challenge.
Many others ask what will DDi do next? First thing I want to clear up is that we will NOT join another faction, nor will we enter into order/chaos blue healing festivals – it sucked before factions, and I doubt its got any better since (tho we may take wars). When the time is right we will rejoin Minax and rebuild our team – like a game of civilisation, when you win, you take a break, and play the next game on emperor level. In the time between now and then DDi will remain intact and concentrate on other projects.
To the many players who had fun making Minax’s life hard on base defence with blues and traitors, turned us red, notoed and betrayed us during attacks, during our break from Minax we will take the time to thank you people properly for all you have done. Now you can flame me, tell me we didn’t win jack and j00 r0x and we sux, you can call me arrogant and egotistical, yet we walked-the-walk these past months, DDi were the first to take towns (5 on day2) lead Minax to total victory twice, and I remained as Commanding Lord for over 3 months.
To all who supported the cause from the beginning, spent long hours on base, died on raids so that the sigil carriers made it out, won the victories and fought to the death in the last stands of a fallen base...
I salute you, your loyalty has been priceless, and your dedication unquestionable.
Hatchet Harry"
The Fat Lady is Singing (again) - Posted by Myst 2.3
Once more Minax demonstrates shard dominance as all eight towns are once more under Minax control. Despite a CoM thief disrupting Trinsic at server up yesterday, preventing us from holding all 8 towns, this-morning our victory was completed as the trinsic sigil was placed bringing the score to 8:0 to Minax.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
The Battle continues... - Posted by Myst 24.2
Heavy fighting has continued these last few days and whilst Minax has held sigils almost constantly, each day one combined attack by the enemy factions breaks the fortress and prevents the sigils from bring corrupted. The recent attacks have been made all the more deadly by the growing number of Minax traitors assassinating our reds and greys during attacks, Minax leaders have issued the following ultimatum to the Shadowlords on the issue of noto's
"In the past months you have turned Dozens of our faction red with your suiciding blues, both at our base and inside you own, more recently your assassins have been so bold as to take a count or two to aid your cause. In the past we have condemned such actions as lame pathetic acts of desperate men, in the hope that public shame would force you to withdraw the army of notos that camp our fortress within and without - yet they remain. So now I say to you, withdraw now, or reap what you have sown, today you drank a little of the cup of revenge as SL agents loyal to Minax killed many of your reds and gave out over 50 murder counts, turning 4 more of your faction red, placing some in statloss, and others at their 4-count limit.
This is the latest parley I will admit, withdraw your notos from Minax or like men proud of destruction defy us to do our worst, If I see one more SL lamer turn up in my faction, you will find the 3 we have in yours multiply to 12 within the week, they will kill your reds, loot your greys, betray your defenses, destroy any hope of multi-factional alliances, and send those that kill them into statloss without hesitation.
This is the Last warning, what you do now is up to you"
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
Minax annihilate TBs at their castle - Posted by Hatchet Harry 20.2
An epic battle took place in Britain today, as forces loyal to Minax laid siege to Lord British's Castle. Beginning with the occupation of the library roof Minax steadily sealed off the defenders behind their portcullis, battlements and 1001 red boxes. As the battle raged Minax troops taunted the defenders across the walls
'They came from trammel, they brought their carpenters and their (young), they hid behind little red boxes, they are, the True Brits'
As the Minax forces grew in strength and the TB tamer was taken down, the Minax agents within the TB ranks finally removed the little red boxes and Minax troops poured across the battlements as the TBs fled for the safety of the inner walls, many dying on the way and many more cut off and slaughtered at the main gate.
The battle then moved to the inner castle as the defenders tried to keep the attackers at bay with poison and energy fields, but sensing their victory was almost complete Minax troops rushed in, and despite casualties took control of the sigil room as fighting continued inside the castle.
At this time the TBs allies showed up to the Minax rear, and ShadowLords stormed the empty battlements and barricaded the Minax troops inside the castle, and with only the moonglow sigil on the way to base already things did not look good for Minax
Despite this those trapped inside continued the fight for half an hour before at last, Minax reinforcements arrived and routed the remaining shadowlords and TBs allowing the battle weary sigil carriers to escape into the city, and on to the Minax stronghold, losing only one sigil on the way to a shadowlords ambush.
After a bad couple of days for Minax, this victory has done much to raise morale and to remind the shard that one faction can still go it alone, and that faction is Minax
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
Chaos reigns as server goes down - Posted by Myst 18.2
Tonight after a long days raiding by Minax forces the sigils are currently in the the hands of enemy factions. Despite many attacks throughout the day Minax has been unsuccessful in holding onto the sigils for any length of time, and were at one stage completely routed form the Shadowlord base, 30 or so Minax fleeing in panic up the stairs and out. Minax leaders were in a state of shock after this disaster, summed up in a faction message issued by our Commanding Lord after the attack.
'Never in all my time as CL have I seen such cowardice, running like trammelites from a few poison fields, u are an embarrassment' - HH
Serious concern has also been expressed by faction members as to the use of Blue suiciders inside the no-blue-zone of the Shadowlords base - main offenders are 'Sweety' and 'Scottia the Witch' with many Minax, including myself now red as a result of this.
The good thing to come of it is that for once the other factions seem back in the game - even CoM have a sigil in their base! At 22.30 hours tonight the Europa shard crashed, now all wait to see the battlefields when it returns to service.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
Minax Fortress Stormed 3:1 are hard odds.. - Posted by Hatchet Harry 17.2
Tonight after a long and hard battle against overwhelming odds the combines forces of CoM SL and TBs finally broke through the Minax defenses and took all the sigils from within the sacred walls. For once the fragile multi-faction alliance held together and Minax forces suffered their first major defeat in a month of success.
The future seems undecided at the moment as several Minax guilds are in the process of quitting, the main reason being the lack of opposition to Minax rule. Many guilds and members feel the lack of any real challenge from the opposing factions, and as a result have made the decision to even up the odds themselves and bring the faction balance on Europa back to a more even footing.
As for the future of Minax's largest guild, DDi, many have speculated a move from Minax to another faction, some suggest CoM others have spoken of TB, one thing I can say for certain is DDi was formed to join Minax, not to join CoM, SL or TBs, and we have no intention of so doing at this stage. If DDi does take a break from Minax it will NOT be to join another faction, more than this I am not prepared to say at this time.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
The Purple Problem - Posted by Azure 0900 hrs 16.2
Rumours abound about banning of players for owning purple items, as yet all we can say for sure is the some accounts have been banned on other shards for purple item creation. It is impossible to say at this stage what level of purpleness constitutes a bannable offence - so far on europa GMs have simply re-coloured purple items.
The difference between First Degree Purpleness, and accidental purpleness is as yet undefined, but it is our belief that pre-meditated purpleness with intent to supply, together with dealing in purple contraband is likely to carry a heavier sentance than simply having a purple spellbook for personal use.
After all it is still possible for purple spellbooks to naturally occur - such as becoming spell-bugged and having to dissarm spellbook to cast again, a court is less likely to be convinced as to how somones blessed deer-mask accidently dissarmed whilst casting in combat and *whooops* there it is purple.
Minax hold all the towns.. again - Posted by Al Phazour 0600 hrs 16.2
Minax continue to dominate Europa Factions, holding onto all eight towns once again, and show no sign of losing their grip in the near future. Although a stealther did manage to steal the Brit sigil, and transport it outside the fortress walls via 'questionable' means (yes we know exactly how u did it), the sigil was quickly retaken and is set to corrupt a few hours from now.
Some concern has been expressed by the Minax Leadership with regard to the (lack of) strength of the opposing factions and at the growing number of new recruits signing onto the Minax stone, but as yet no statement has been released.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
Minax Own the Shard - The Fat Lady is singing! - Posted by Hatchet Harry 0400 hrs 11.2
For the first time since factions begun, ALL 8 towns are owned by a single faction. At Xmas CoM had 7, TBs managed 7 after the faction reset.... but until now, no faction had controlled all eight. Minax accomplished this today and seem set to secure the avialble sigils to coninue overall dominance of Europa factions.
Despite all three factions arrayed against them, and an army of notos both inside and outside the fort, enemy blues turning Minax members red, against all the odds, only one faction stands above the fortress walls, weathers the storm, looks the shard in the eye and says 'bring it'. Eight towns and the spoils of war to the victor... to Minax.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
7 Towns to MinaX, and Delucia in base.. Unstoppable? - Posted by Hatchet Harry 0400 hrs 9.2
After capturing all the towns aside from Delucia, Minax forces won a series of running battles beginning in Delucia itself and ending at the Minax Fortress after the sigil was successfully placed inside the sacred walls. Once more TBs and SLs united against Minax, and once more their efforts met with no success.
Despite having 3 town guards active with commanding sheriff Minax troops commented on how swiftly the guard were dispatched and why the sheriff (Prince Valaris) ran away so fast. Minax soldiers in delucia suggested that "picking a 'showscore' sheriff with fast con, and no real pvp ability made it a whole lot easier to kill guards since he was too busy running away saving his score to make any real effort to command them"
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
Minax secure 5 more towns, and look set to make it 7 - Posted by Al Phazour 0700hrs 7.2
Despite Shadowlords claiming Delucia once more, Minax continued to re-secure their towns, with Moonglow, Minoc, Yew, Magincia and Trinsic successfully placed on the townstones, Minax hope to add Britain and Skara to this list by noon today.
Fierce fighting on the fields to the north of their fortress and the crossroads to the south continued thoughout the yesterday, with mainly shadowlords as adversaries and casualties on both sides their was no real threat to the integrity of the sigils within the fortress walls. The day also saw the re-emergence of the noto army, many of whom actually joined Minax to get through the blue exclusion zone and ply their trade within the fortress walls.
After re-election once more to the leadership, Hatchet Harry expressed dissapointment at the influx of certain new recruits who he belived were either signing up to noto their red faction mates or jumping on the bandwagon of Minax success and would find a better challenge within the ranks of CoM, and once more called for the ability to kick out 'known traitors' from within the Minax ranks.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
Shadowlords Storm MinaX Fortress, Sigils Lost - Posted by Hatchet Harry 1500 hrs 5.2
After long defense throughout Sunday, withstanding heavy server-up and peaktime raids and sieges, late Sunday night depleted and exhausted Minax forces were overrun by a massive Shadowlord force with heavy Dragon and Wyrm support.
Many Minax had logged off thinking all would be okay with only a couple of hours till the sigils would corrupt, but although not short of dragons in base, the owning tamers were either dead or long since logged off, when the enemy dragons finally came in the weary defenders could do little to stop them.
Even with base overrun the defenders did not go down without a fight - many sending their war-horses into battle and continuing the fight on-foot inside the fortress walls, not leaving the fight until the sigils were long since gone. Big respect to both Squeegee and Catweazle of DDi who fought inside to the last, and still combat flagged, yours truly managed to drop a whole load of SLs inside base before making his escape on-foot through enemy lines into the Papua jungles.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
Lord British's Castle Stormed - Posted by Maximus 0300 hrs 3.2
Late tonight Minax forces successfully stormed the TB defences taking the sigils of Brit and Delucia by force back to their Papua Fortress. Fighting for every inch of ground the long battle progressed into castle from the outter walls it seemed at one point that the fight would be lost for minax at the drawbridge, but after the first few through the gates had been cut off and killed, Minax troops had secured the battlements and troops poured through the open gates and into the courtyard where a pitched battle raged. Minax Dragon support turned the battle as TB tamers were cut down before they could reach the stables and claim their own
Beliuguered defenders fought to the last man, not once did i see TBs recalling even when Minax broke into the sigil room corpses on both sides continued to go face down, and in the aftermath of the battle there were more ghosts than live Minax (Myself included). During the bloody struggle inside the castle, a shadowlord force had assembled outside waiting to snatch the sigils for themselves, however with minax reinforcements arriving they SLs seemed to loose interest in any kind of organised attack, and withdrew to the ress hut to join in reskilling the constant stream of ghosts.
Yew & Magincia fall to Minax - Posted by Hatchet Harry 0300hrs 2.2
Late tongiht after a last desperate attempt to assault the Minax fortress ended in the falure in the Papua Marshes for outnumbered Shadowlord forces, Minax successfully gained control of two more towns, making the score Minax 6 : Shadowlords 2
The rest of the day passed without serious challenge for the defenders, who even had time to arrange a tourney inside the base. Other events of interest included the sighting (and subsiquent removal) of a [Young] True Brit, and later a disgruntles noto released 4 dragons infront of the fort, they lasted all of 30seconds as the minax Dragons met them head-on with mages supporting.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
Minax Hold out under heavy siege - Posted by Hatchet Harry 1900hrs 2.2
Last night all three other factions made repeated attempts to take minax base, despite superior numbers, and at times defenders running out of regs, bandages and arrows, and fighting for much of the night in statloss, Minax forces emerged, once more victorious. The night was not without losses however, with the blue exclusion zone being so limited at minax base, whilst attackers could freely throw in fields and area affect spells, at least 4 minax turned red due to enemy blues giving out murder counts. The exclusion of enemy blues inside the base meant they could not take advantage of this by noting the defenders.
Early morning raids were also limited, although the Skara sigil was briefly stolen by a shadowlord thief, the morning defenders were otherwise unchallenged - obviously AoE felt unable to mount server-up raids without the support of their blue notos. Later today the sigils of Trinsic, Moonglow and Minoc were successfully corrupted and placed in their respective towns, Minax forces now look forward to a long night as they try to hold onto Skara, Magincia and Yew sigils.
In related news the Commanding (Red) Lord of the TB's was sighted by Minax forces, though we are as yet unsure if he was running away alive or scouting as a ghost, since he didn't come close enough to base to be seen.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
Heavy Fighting in Brit throughout the night - Posted by Hatchet Harry 1200hrs 1.2
Minax, True Brits, and Shadowlords were all out burning reagents on the streets of Britain last night, with no sigils to fight over and no territory to defend, the Brits nonetheless were active in large numbers, and presented an easy to find target for the other factions out hunting. At various times throughout the night different factions held the upperhand, but with nothing to be won or lost, it was an exercise in mindless violence just for fun.
Also in the news today, several True Britainian 'PvPers' issued calls to their factions trammel contingent to 'Quit and make room for some good pvpers who wanna sign up, and cant because of people with 60str who are in TBs but play in trammel' - If nothing else this further confirms the great size of the TB faction, one is given to wandering who these great pvpers are, and why they dont join CoM to give the struggling faction a much needed boost.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
Applications are being processed - Posted by Hatchet Harry 1400hrs 31.1
DDi has hired a Dissarmer at last!! Sources also state they have two more in training. Traps that have in the past been used so effectively against Minax will no longer be permanent fixtures in enemy bases. Already on a healthy bonus scheme the dissarmer earned himself a nice 600silver last night taking down 2 CoM traps, 3 SL ones the last remaining TB Trap.
Also in the news is the 'various fixes and changes to the faction system' posted in general testing on the OSI updates site, these include some tidying up of buggy town management code, a blue exclusion zone, and a modification on the CoM base design.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
SL and MinaX control Europa - Posted by Hatchet Harry 2400hrs 30.1
Currently SL and Minax control four towns each - This means no towns for AoE, no towns for TBs, and heavy fighting between SL and Minax forces over the two available sigils, Delucia and Britain. Minax mounted several assaults on SL crypts last night, but all without success, well placed traps together with buggy barrels covering blocking obstacles and a 5th column of blues working for SLs meant that despite casualties on both sides Minax were unable to break through.
And they whine we dont play fair? Ptf..
Situation Vacant - Minax Dissarmer, must be skilled in the art of removing traps, have an outgoing personality, the ability to work as part of a team, a healthy death wish, and enough moral fibre to cope with being 'RuLeD' 'r0xXoRd' and '0wNeD 1:1' by our 'l33t' adversaries. Pay is purely on a commission only basis, 100silver per trap, apply ASAP.
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
Welcome to the site - Posted by Hatchet Harry 1200hrs 29.1
Welcome to the new minax site, here we will do our best to keep you up to date on the current state of play for minax, who owns what towns, and time permitting who is minster and sheriff for the towns we control (no promises on time tho;-).
This Link is to an excellent German site , and although you will have trouble with their message boards if you are not fluent, the 'political map' feature on that site is really awesome.
Eine sehr gute Seite uber die Minax Faction beinhaltet den Europa Shard wie auch den Drachenfels shard mit politischen karten und deutschen Foren - (Link)
Britain - Delucia- Magincia - Minoc -Moonglow - Skara Brae - Trinsic - Yew
We Started Capturing towns on Day1, Week1, when did you first take yours?
From day one of factions Minax has taken a leading role in the faction wars of Europa, we were the first faction to capture any towns (5 towns were ours by day2), we were the first faction to have any kind of organization or team work with an effective set of faction thieves. We have always been the 2nd smallest faction, but have never let the enemies superior numbers diminish our teamplay or our success.