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Hell Inc In AoC (Age of Conan)
Posted Friday May 16 2008 - 08:54AM
Myself, and several others will be starting a branch of Hell Inc in Age of Conan this weekend, when early access opens. We will be starting out on the Derketo server. Anyone is welcome to join us there. You can contact me for more information. Quite a few people will be trying it out with us.
We'll also be address the server issues very shortly. If anyone knows of any hosting sites, please get in contact with me ASAP. I'd like to get a fully functioning, and workable web site up and running ASAP so we can maintain decent communication in AoC. This is one thing that was severely or is severely lacking in WoW.
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State Of The Guild - 5/16/08
Posted Friday May 16 2008 - 08:52AM
I originally was not going to post anything about this, but then I read something this morning. One of WoW's most prominent and well known guilds, Death & Taxes has disbanded. While we were never as well known, as progressed or even as skilled as they were, the reasons for their disbanding struck a chord with me. Many of the problems they ran into are the same problems that put is in the situation we are in now. Many of their problems were the very same we ran into.
Effective immediately, all 25 man raids are suspended until the expansion. There will still be 5 and 10 man runs, and most of us will still be around. However, any and all major raiding has come to a stop. Many of you have seen this coming, so I'm sure this comes as no surprise. It was time though, to make it official. This is something I have long avoided and something I really did not want to face. You may be asking why and what happened? Well, let me tell you...
For years I have taken responsibility for this guild, it's actions and the blame when anything has gone wrong. Today, I take a stand and I deter from that normal route. This guild was made up of more than just me. It was once made up of a strong, dedicated group of people who had pride in the guild and who had a desire to work towards being something bigger and better. We once had a strong, skilled, and dedicated raid team that had a desire to progress, a desire to meet new challenges, and a desire to excel. A group of people who would not turn tail and run at the first sign of adversity. A group of people who did not turn at facing insurmountable odds, but relished in meeting an exciting and impossible challenge head on.
The only thing I ever asked of people was that you show up, and you give your best effort. That you understand and realize, that we as a guild, are a team. We share in the victories and the defeats, as a team. We weather the tough times, together, as a team, and we bask in whatever glory we achieve, as a team. Somewhere along the line, people lost sight of all of this. People stopped seeing that we were a team, working together, to achieve something greater. Instead, people started thinking about themselves, and no one else. Somewhere along the line, many people just stopped caring.
People started to became frustrated with the fact we were not progressing fast enough. They believed our efforts were simply not good enough. They started to think we should be beating new encounters the first time, and were unwilling to put forth the work and effort to learn things over time. Eventually, people just stopped showing up, with no word. Instead of taking the high road and having the decency to tell us they could no longer raid, they kept us waiting. They made hollow promises, and lead us to believe we could depend on them, and I like a fool, believed people and had faith in them. I believed that these people were genuinely loyal to the guild, and shared my vision of where we could take this guild. As DnT put it, these people did not even have the common decency to quit. They promised, time after time, that they would be here and then never showed. You want to know why we are where we are folks? Take a good look in the mirror.
Fast forward to today. We have fallen far from where we once were. We once had pride in our guild and we once stood upon a pillar, at the top. Now, we stand in ruins.
I want to thank the Officers who shared my views and my vision of making this guild great. I want to thank the few (very few players), who's unwavering loyalty and dedication served as the chief reasons for the progress we were able to achieve. Many of you know if you were guilty of what I've spoke of here. We had a strong potential as a guild to be great...and many of you took this for granted and dismissed it.
Great guilds are not born, they are made, through hard work, and through unwavering dedication. It takes people of great skill, and great character to achieve great things. We had those people long ago, but they have since moved on. Too many good, decent, and skilled players got replaced...with people who simply could not make it. Over time the temporary fillers became the vast majority, and the skilled, and dedicated players that had carried us to success had become the minority.
Times changed, and all things must end. This guild was first formed in 1999, back in AC1. We have survived almost 10 years, through multiple games, and we will continue to do so, wherever we wind up. That much is certain and that much is true. This is merely the end of one chapter, and the beginning of the next in the long history of Hell Inc.
We will be laying low, and maintaining our presence in WoW throughout the year and until the expansion comes out. We will see what happens then. We will also be starting up a branch in AoC (Age of Conan), on the Derketo server.
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IRC Back up
Posted Sunday December 17 2006 - 10:56AM
IRC is back. Have not heard from Squal so I do not know the full status, if this is temporary, or all is well again.
Edit: Got word from Squal, he's at work. Got some problems there, but IRC should be good to go and Voice server should be up soon if it isn't already.
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Power Outage and IRC
Posted Saturday December 16 2006 - 03:24PM
Squal has experienced some power outtages with the high winds and weather in the area. Server reboots okay for the website, obviously, but IRC needs to be manually restarted. He's frozen, but alive.
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Happy Birthday AC! Asheron's Call Turns 7 Years Old!
Posted Thursday November 02 2006 - 04:01PM
Yes, that's right. Asheron's Call is officially 7 years old! The place where Hell began!
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OMG a New Poll
Posted Saturday October 07 2006 - 11:57AM
Ok, I got sick of looking at the old Poll on the front page, so I posted up a new one.
With the PS3 and the Wii Launching just around the corner, and Christmas upon us soon, which Console (Or Consoles) are you interested in getting?
Personally for me, I already have a 360, and Plan on getting a Wii next month.
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September 11, 2006: 5 Years after a Tragedy
Posted Monday September 11 2006 - 09:04AM
5 Years Ago Today, the will and strength of a Nation were tested. Those who brought destruction, planned for fear to be struck into the hearts of the Americans that they attacked. What they would see is what we have been telling the world year after year, since the creation of this Nation, Unity.
Not only did the attack unite the American public, it united a world. Even if for a short while, we saw the absolute worst of mankind, and the absolute best.
The best of which we as a race have strived to accomplish for millennium after millennium. .
Today, we honor those lost. We honor the Office worker who never asked to be put on a front line. We honor the Hero’s who rushed into a burning and collapsing building, never to exit. We honor the civilians who fought back, and brought down a plane, knowing it meant their very own death. We honor those who lived and we honor those who died.
Today, we honor our humanity, the absolute best of it.
Please take a moment, to bow your head in silence today. Regardless of race, regardless of religion, regardless of nationality, bow your head in respect to your fellow man.
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The State of the Server *Hell Inc. Webserver*
Posted Monday June 26 2006 - 11:52PM
Just wanted to let everyone know, that I have worked out terms with my old employer to keep the Hell Inc. Webserver Co-Located at my old workplace.
What does this mean?
This means that none of the current services will be affected and there will be no move.
How this is good and how this is bad?
This is good because we will continue to have the bandwidth to host the services that Hell Inc has been using (Dedicated Downloads, Voice Server, IRC, Website, Etc).
How this is bad.
The only issue that will eventually rise will that something is bound to happen. Murphy's law dictates that if it can happen. It will. My new residence and job is located about 5 hours away from where the server is co-located.
If it requires a simple restart, and it is durring the week. This can be accomplished durring the normal business hours.
If it requires a restart durring the weekend, then it will probably have to wait until the next business day.
Overall, the server has been ok. And there are still plans for a new server (You can speed this up by hitting the paypal link at the bottem of this page!). So far we are about halfway there. Just recently we recieved a very generous Donation from an individual.
I wish everyone well. I won't be around much to monitor things, so if there are issues they will need to be reported to one of the following people who know how to get ahold of me.
Hellhawk
Slammer
Tazzer
Fzzt
Agate/Basalt
Everyone take care.
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Hell Inc Downs The Twin Emperors!
Posted Friday June 16 2006 - 09:42PM
We finally did it foks. Late Friday evening, just short of midnight EST, Hell Inc dropped the Twin Emps. It had been a long night and we had gone through several wipes at around 20-30%. We decided to hang in there and re-flask for a few more attempts. On our second re-flasked attempted, we dropped the Twin Emps in roughly 10 minutes with almost perfect execution and only a few deaths!
It's been a long hard road the past few months. Hell Inc has undergone many changes, especially in regards to our roster. We've lost some good people over the past month, some being some of our oldest and members. We've also gained a lot of new people who have proven they have the skill and determination to meet our standards.
We thought we had seen the worst with Princess Huhuran, but she was only the beginning. The Twin Emps were definitely the hardest challenge to date, not only because of the difficulty of the fight but the constant changes we, as a guild have undergone the past month and the transitions we've faced and the new faces we've brought in and trained.
We've been fighting a challenge on two fronts the past month. Learning the Twin Emps with a constantly changing raid group and traning and bringing new people up to speed and gearing them up. I'm proud to say we won one and we're winning the other.
Next stop, C'Thun. Congratulations everyone!
Edit: Thanks to Alduzan for the FRAPS of our first Twin Emps kill.
http://files.filefront.com/TheTwoEmperorswmv/;5161901;;/fileinfo.html
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