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History - Second Era
Second Era
"The Turbulent Blow"
Spartaccus's manipulations and Akarine’s treason
(19/09/2009)
In about September 2009 EFF was visited by a player named Spartaccus. He introduced himself as a member of a team, which helped new clans to grow stronger, and offered to introduce a set of improvements. While the clan was discussing about his offer Spartaccus started spreading offensive rumors and tried to make Arkaine - one of the current Councilors - get mad at Apophis.
Apophis, along with some other members, remained very suspicious towards Spartaccus, though most of the clan believed the rumors. This caused some issues and disagreements between the supporters and opponents of the innovative ideas. Moreover, soon Arkaine declared his leaving due to grievances to Apophis's attitude towards him. Hearing this news Spartaccus revealed himself dispelling any doubts and admitted to be Drist - an old member who had been kicked. He returned just to make quarrels between members and make attempts to destroy the clan from the inside.
Afterwards Arkaine left EFF. Some time after he wished to come back by making up unbelievable stories which didn't met a warm welcome. Drist was banned. Since then he has made many other accounts, attempting once more to harm the clan, but so far each of his attempts have been seen through and thwarted by the Predator Division. BBB, one of the current Predators was promoted to sit in Council for his input in this case. Since this case, clan members have become suspicious towards any incoming 'innovators'. Back then the C rank was a kind of natural continuation of Predator career. Each Predator sooner or later ended up sitting on the Council. Now this habit has disappeared and both PD and C positions are divided and self-standing ranks.
Source: Hello, My name is Spartaccus, I believe it's time... I am sorry
Ruxith team incorporation
(--/03/2009)
During March of 2010 a group of new members joined EFF. Most of them were friends from old clans who had united in a base team called eQualize, which leader was Ruxith. However, joining the EFF, they were given permission to set themselves a base server and keep on using eQ tags, as a team inside EFF clan. This was the first, and probably the last case of an inside team. Most of eQ members were old-pro basers who had extensive knowledge about the game mechanics and graphics. They offered to work for the EFF as designers and trainers.
This was probably the only case in EFF history when a job other than the PD gained itself a self-standing rank (see: Designer rank). The period was very fruitful considering the amount of new projects. At this time EFF had its first base server. See also: The Team Treachery.
Although referred to as a "team within EFF" the eQ team was said to be dead, and only for this reason was allowed to join. However, due to the occurrence following their joining, from a historical point of view it's easier and more logical to consider the whole group gathering around Ruxith as a, dead or alive, team.
Source: Ruxith wants to join!, EFF Designers
First rank reforming attempts
(22/04/2010)
At the end of April 2010 the current Council with the lead of WildCat decided to open a discussion on changing the current rankings system. However, members' creativity exceeded their expectations as the amount of various different suggestions was just amazing. After few different threads no final conclusion appeared. It was decided that there is no option of suiting everyone's expectations and the Council closed the discussion leaving everything as it was. The vast variety of open choice, simply overwhelmed the clan and showed EFF's inability of agreeing in such big cases.
In this attribute the germs of the Old Times Twilight crisis can be traced.
However unsuccessful, the rank reforming attempts led by WildCat provided many innovative and interesting ideas being the starting point for the Era of Changes. In this period we can trace the beginning of the jobs and further ranks renaming.
Source: Suggestions for Ranking system.
Promotion rosters and Elite Wiki creation
(--/05/2010)
At the beginning of May 2010 something occurred. The main members roster (located on the EFF main page and updated by Apophis) had not been updated for a few months already. Back then it was the one and only list of EFF members. At this time the clanpass protection hadn't been introduced yet, so it posed a threat of impersonating our members.
As the data was becoming more and more outdated one of the members- Seraskus - made an attempt of reanalyzing promotion, acceptance and leaving threads on forum to restore the data about members. He put it all into 2 rosters- one for Jedis and Siths- each of which contained also the next promotion date of each member to save Council long searching through old promotion threads.
More or less at the same time Boneweaver created the Elite Wiki. At first some difficulties occurred, as in the first tries of filling the Wiki with some data Boneweaver put there a list and descriptions of many other JA clans, which was not accepted by the Council and Apophis. Nevertheless the Wiki was soon approved and the undesirable info - deleted.
The Main Members Roster, which disappeared off after the creation of Promotion Rosters was rebuilt on the wiki, now updated daily and containing detailed data about each member.
Efforts while creating the wiki and rosters were one of the reasons for promoting both Seraskus and Boneveawer to admin positions - Council and PD (which was considered a lower step in the way to become a Councillor back then). Both Elite Wiki and Promotion Rosters exist and serve our members to this day.
Source: Wiki thing
The Team Treachery
(12/06/2010)
At the beginning of the June 2010 unexpected event took place. One of the Predator Division members, Zulu, joined the eQualize team. This instantly resulted in a huge scandal, as while joining ex-eQ members declared themselves to be just a dead team, who keeps using their old tags just to cultivate old traditions within the group of friends. Moreover, each PD knew the agreements between the EFF Council and ex-eQ team, and was aware of the Council's opinion about teams*. In effect Zulu was demoted to SI , which was the rank he had before becoming a Predator.
This caused a strong disagreement of Ruxith and his team who started belittling the importance of the whole case, negating the former agreements and offending Council and Apophis along with their decisions. Apophis insisted on agreeing with the consequences and dissolving the team, or they're leaving.
Soon, causing much tension and drama around it, the whole team along with Zulu left EFF.
The Team Treachery resulted in enormous amounts of drama, tensions and the huge decrease of members morale. It was the biggest wave of leavings in our history. "The world is ending, the clan is dying" these thoughts made a few younger members leave, mostly those who considered this step for some time already and to whom the situation gave the final impulse.
After this time Ruxith and some members of eQ wanted to re-enter EFF either officially and under alias, but all of this tries ended with banning their accounts to prevent any other tensions caused by the repeating complains on the Council's decisions from their side.
No more teams were allowed to enter our clan. EFF also exacerbated the recruitment policy and tolerance of both old basters and members of any team.
Source: Zulu Demoted.., Goodbye EFF.
"The Turbulent Blow"
Spartaccus's manipulations and Akarine’s treason
(19/09/2009)
In about September 2009 EFF was visited by a player named Spartaccus. He introduced himself as a member of a team, which helped new clans to grow stronger, and offered to introduce a set of improvements. While the clan was discussing about his offer Spartaccus started spreading offensive rumors and tried to make Arkaine - one of the current Councilors - get mad at Apophis.
Apophis, along with some other members, remained very suspicious towards Spartaccus, though most of the clan believed the rumors. This caused some issues and disagreements between the supporters and opponents of the innovative ideas. Moreover, soon Arkaine declared his leaving due to grievances to Apophis's attitude towards him. Hearing this news Spartaccus revealed himself dispelling any doubts and admitted to be Drist - an old member who had been kicked. He returned just to make quarrels between members and make attempts to destroy the clan from the inside.
Afterwards Arkaine left EFF. Some time after he wished to come back by making up unbelievable stories which didn't met a warm welcome. Drist was banned. Since then he has made many other accounts, attempting once more to harm the clan, but so far each of his attempts have been seen through and thwarted by the Predator Division. BBB, one of the current Predators was promoted to sit in Council for his input in this case. Since this case, clan members have become suspicious towards any incoming 'innovators'. Back then the C rank was a kind of natural continuation of Predator career. Each Predator sooner or later ended up sitting on the Council. Now this habit has disappeared and both PD and C positions are divided and self-standing ranks.
Source: Hello, My name is Spartaccus, I believe it's time... I am sorry
Ruxith team incorporation
(--/03/2009)
During March of 2010 a group of new members joined EFF. Most of them were friends from old clans who had united in a base team called eQualize, which leader was Ruxith. However, joining the EFF, they were given permission to set themselves a base server and keep on using eQ tags, as a team inside EFF clan. This was the first, and probably the last case of an inside team. Most of eQ members were old-pro basers who had extensive knowledge about the game mechanics and graphics. They offered to work for the EFF as designers and trainers.
This was probably the only case in EFF history when a job other than the PD gained itself a self-standing rank (see: Designer rank). The period was very fruitful considering the amount of new projects. At this time EFF had its first base server. See also: The Team Treachery.
Although referred to as a "team within EFF" the eQ team was said to be dead, and only for this reason was allowed to join. However, due to the occurrence following their joining, from a historical point of view it's easier and more logical to consider the whole group gathering around Ruxith as a, dead or alive, team.
Source: Ruxith wants to join!, EFF Designers
First rank reforming attempts
(22/04/2010)
At the end of April 2010 the current Council with the lead of WildCat decided to open a discussion on changing the current rankings system. However, members' creativity exceeded their expectations as the amount of various different suggestions was just amazing. After few different threads no final conclusion appeared. It was decided that there is no option of suiting everyone's expectations and the Council closed the discussion leaving everything as it was. The vast variety of open choice, simply overwhelmed the clan and showed EFF's inability of agreeing in such big cases.
In this attribute the germs of the Old Times Twilight crisis can be traced.
However unsuccessful, the rank reforming attempts led by WildCat provided many innovative and interesting ideas being the starting point for the Era of Changes. In this period we can trace the beginning of the jobs and further ranks renaming.
Source: Suggestions for Ranking system.
Promotion rosters and Elite Wiki creation
(--/05/2010)
At the beginning of May 2010 something occurred. The main members roster (located on the EFF main page and updated by Apophis) had not been updated for a few months already. Back then it was the one and only list of EFF members. At this time the clanpass protection hadn't been introduced yet, so it posed a threat of impersonating our members.
As the data was becoming more and more outdated one of the members- Seraskus - made an attempt of reanalyzing promotion, acceptance and leaving threads on forum to restore the data about members. He put it all into 2 rosters- one for Jedis and Siths- each of which contained also the next promotion date of each member to save Council long searching through old promotion threads.
More or less at the same time Boneweaver created the Elite Wiki. At first some difficulties occurred, as in the first tries of filling the Wiki with some data Boneweaver put there a list and descriptions of many other JA clans, which was not accepted by the Council and Apophis. Nevertheless the Wiki was soon approved and the undesirable info - deleted.
The Main Members Roster, which disappeared off after the creation of Promotion Rosters was rebuilt on the wiki, now updated daily and containing detailed data about each member.
Efforts while creating the wiki and rosters were one of the reasons for promoting both Seraskus and Boneveawer to admin positions - Council and PD (which was considered a lower step in the way to become a Councillor back then). Both Elite Wiki and Promotion Rosters exist and serve our members to this day.
Source: Wiki thing
The Team Treachery
(12/06/2010)
At the beginning of the June 2010 unexpected event took place. One of the Predator Division members, Zulu, joined the eQualize team. This instantly resulted in a huge scandal, as while joining ex-eQ members declared themselves to be just a dead team, who keeps using their old tags just to cultivate old traditions within the group of friends. Moreover, each PD knew the agreements between the EFF Council and ex-eQ team, and was aware of the Council's opinion about teams*. In effect Zulu was demoted to SI , which was the rank he had before becoming a Predator.
This caused a strong disagreement of Ruxith and his team who started belittling the importance of the whole case, negating the former agreements and offending Council and Apophis along with their decisions. Apophis insisted on agreeing with the consequences and dissolving the team, or they're leaving.
Soon, causing much tension and drama around it, the whole team along with Zulu left EFF.
The Team Treachery resulted in enormous amounts of drama, tensions and the huge decrease of members morale. It was the biggest wave of leavings in our history. "The world is ending, the clan is dying" these thoughts made a few younger members leave, mostly those who considered this step for some time already and to whom the situation gave the final impulse.
After this time Ruxith and some members of eQ wanted to re-enter EFF either officially and under alias, but all of this tries ended with banning their accounts to prevent any other tensions caused by the repeating complains on the Council's decisions from their side.
No more teams were allowed to enter our clan. EFF also exacerbated the recruitment policy and tolerance of both old basters and members of any team.
Source: Zulu Demoted.., Goodbye EFF.