History of Excalibur Relic Raiding?

[Xajorkith]

Before 1.69 gets here and the relic reset, I thought it would be nice if we documented our history thus far, no flames (yeah right Albs will flame me as fecking usual, but I can live and hope). Just facts please!

Rough times, organisers and realm details, type of raid (e.g. Alarm Clock, Log Out, Ninja, Zerg, Sneaky Beaky Hib raid).

This is all I can remember, some facts may be wrong (I’m getting old) or in wrong order, I’m very sketchy on Alb v Hib raids too.


1) Alb did Alarm clock raid on mid?
2) Aradmels (FoM) did a retaliatory log out, 11 am Relic Raid against Alb and took 3 relics. (Though to be fair Relic Raid started on Friday with Mid taking 4-5 keeps and and carried on right through.)
3)Ardamels did a 5pm Sunday raid against hibs, but server crashed (no log out, but was a Ninja raid?).
4) There was also the Alb raid on Hib that went wrong (X-realmer spilt the beans of Alb log in point and 80 albs were killed by 1fg? X-realmer was banned)
5) Nol pinched the mid power relic from Mid whilst Mid and Albs were scrapping (best relic raid so far imho, no log out, no alarm clock, no ninja, no zerg).
6) Herbal (SS) did Log out + and Ninja Raid against mid and took 1 str relic?
7) Herbal did Log out + and Ninja Raid against mid and took other 2 str relic?
8) There was a “Red Guard” raid about here, but albs got wind of it and were at AMG waiting.
9) Ardamels did a failed Brute Force Relic Raid 9pm Saturday against Alb (Small door team Logged out, took all keeps and were but defeated at Excalibur). Albs knew in advance this raid too as they were at Excalibur before first door team turned up (me!).
10) Ladonna (WR) fed up with alb x-realmers did Log out + Alarm Clock raid & took str Relics from Albs (8/9 am Saturday morning).
11) Herbal did several retaliatory uber zerg raids (probably largest zergs on any server!), but were defeated by sever crashes.
12 + 13) Hibs have twice done raids against Mid str relics, but failed.

Try and keep in neutral peeps.... don't turn this into a flame fest....

 

[Frostor]

i know Edrillian organized one aswell but turned out in a server crash
was on mid
and he was like lvl 45 at the moment on his main char

 

[behatch]

Try and keep in neutral peeps.... don't turn this into a flame fest....

just makes me want to flame,but then again i'm an arse hole :wub:

 

[Bracken]

Try and keep in neutral peeps.... don't turn this into a flame fest....

Your descriptions are hardly neutral, so expect flames inc tbh

 

[Fluid]

they are so not neutral, very mid orientated, and afaik mids started the alarm clock shit, not albs

 

[Nuked]

missed alot tbh, i can't document them, i just remember being part of more sucessful hib relic raids then listed

 

[Xajorkith]

they are so not neutral, very mid orientated, and afaik mids started the alarm clock shit, not albs

Well correct me then, just don't flame, as a Mid I only know Mids story.

I'm pretty sure Albs have done Alarm clock raids.

There was some reason why Ardamels did the first Mid Alarm clock raid against Alb, but I can't remember what it was.

 

[Fluid]

Well correct me then, just don't flame, as a Mid I only know Mids story.

I'm pretty sure Albs have done Alarm clock raids.

There was some reason why Ardamels did the first Mid Alarm clock raid against Alb, but I can't remember what it was.

i am not flaming u, just pointing smth out. theres several thigns i see wrong, for example "ladonna alarm clock rr'ing cos of alb cross realmers" thats bs, ladonna alarm clock raided cos they could not get the relics the normal way, plain and simple

 

[Fatbelly]

First off-hours raid was by finster if i remember correctly?

I thought hmmm, can they do that? =)

(back in the days when mid had way more high lvl players than hib/alb)

 

[Nalistah]

there is no such thing as a "correct time" for a rr.. if u get the relics, u have succeded.. who gives a flying fuck if it was in the middle of the night or in the sunny day. Get a grip.
Or... do ppl have to play when YOU feel its right? :C mmkay. twisted, ye.

 

[Fluid]

there is no such thing as a "correct time" for a rr.. if u get the relics, u have succeded.. who gives a flying fuck if it was in the middle of the night or in the sunny day. Get a grip.
Or... do ppl have to play when YOU feel its right? :C mmkay. twisted, ye.

mythic don't like night raids, albs and hibs don't either

 

[nol]

np raided Albs
<-sketchy bits
Albs raid mid early(finster I think)
Mids raid alb (Albs blame world cup soccer match)
Albs raid mid early
Killgorde raids albs for str <-- Brilliant raid, brilliant plan, brilliant execution
Novamir raids Albs for power
<-sketchy bits again
Mids raid hibs at 5am for power
Hibs fetch power back the same night
Ardemel raids hibs at 5am
Ardemel raids Albs at 11am
Jahar raids Mids at 9pm
Albs raid mids at 10am (mids blame necro's)
Mids raid albs at 6am
Jahar raids Mids while mids attack Bledmeer to get it from Albs <-- cheeky raid, but hilarious
Ardemel raids hibs at 5pm
Nol Raids mids at 8pm
Herbal raids mids at peak (mids blame ninja tactics)
Herbal raids mids at peak (mids blame ninja tactics))
Someone from mids raids Albs at 6am

The unabridged relic history of the server.

 

[Snakester]

wasn't daoc out about 1 year before this account of things happening, happend?...

ive been playing since release and i remember my 1st RR when i was about lvl 30ish on me scout.... what a fun time


and yes, Mids did start the alarm clock raid's.

 

[Gordonax]

np raided Albs
Killgorde raids albs for str <-- Brilliant raid, brilliant plan, brilliant execution

Oh god, yes. A week of non-stop keep taking, that ended with Albs basically just saying "don't worry, it's just Killgorde keep taking again"... then he takes the relics.

Bloody hell, that was annoying. And, yes, probably the best relic raid of all time.

 

[Snakester]

There was some reason why Ardamels did the first Mid Alarm clock raid against Alb, but I can't remember what it was.

maybe cos with numerical numbers on alb side they wouldn't succeed?


or maybe he work's night's and sleeps throughout the day ?

 

[Ttillub]

No relic reset untill 1.70 and NF.

- Ttillub

 

[nol]

Oh god, yes. A week of non-stop keep taking, that ended with Albs basically just saying "don't worry, it's just Killgorde keep taking again"... then he takes the relics.

Bloody hell, that was annoying. And, yes, probably the best relic raid of all time.

Aye, total respect to Killgorde, he knew exactly how to make things work. War of attrition for the win, people nowdays are too lazy and expect 1 day perfect raid everytime. When I raided mids, I hit them every night for 2 weeks(bar a couple of days).

 

[Xajorkith]

np raided Albs
<-sketchy bits
Albs raid mid early(finster I think)
Mids raid alb (Albs blame world cup soccer match)
Albs raid mid early
Killgorde raids albs for str <-- Brilliant raid, brilliant plan, brilliant execution
Novamir raids Albs for power
<-sketchy bits again
Mids raid hibs at 5am for power
Hibs fetch power back the same night
Ardemel raids hibs at 5am
Ardemel raids Albs at 11am
Jahar raids Mids at 9pm
Albs raid mids at 10am (mids blame necro's)
Mids raid albs at 6am
Jahar raids Mids while mids attack Bledmeer to get it from Albs <-- cheeky raid, but hilarious
Ardemel raids hibs at 5pm
Nol Raids mids at 8pm
Herbal raids mids at peak (mids blame ninja tactics)
Herbal raids mids at peak (mids blame ninja tactics))
Someone from mids raids Albs at 6am

The unabridged relic history of the server.

 

[nol]

maybe cos with numerical numbers on alb side they wouldn't succeed?


or maybe he work's night's and sleeps throughout the day ?

The reason at the time was because Mid as a realm were feeling particularly depressed.

 

[pbaz]

There was some reason why Ardamels did the first Mid Alarm clock raid against Alb, but I can't remember what it was.

As far as I remember, that first "alarm-clock" raid (there had been previous early raids, as pointed out by Nol, but this was the raid that created the "alarm-clock" terminology) was from Ardamel against Alb in retaliation for what Mid felt was necro LoS abuse during the previous (spontaneous) Alb-on-Mid RR.

In his defence, I seem to recall Ardamel saying at the time he had hated doing that early-hours raid, but there were just too many Mids angry at their relics being taken by "LoS-abusing necro scum".

 

[Calo]

its a 24h game and u wont ever change that, oh btw making "agreements" between realms when u know that only 40% reads the forum is just bs.

 

[Gordonax]

its a 24h game and u wont ever change that, oh btw making "agreements" between realms when u know that only 40% reads the forum is just bs.

Facts don't agree with you. The agreement we made last time lasted a good six months, with only primetime raids. That suggests that, although only 40% read these forums (you're making that figure up, I guess), most people knew about the agreement and stuck to it.
The agreement wasn't broken by people who didn't know about it, but by people who thought that it was the only way Mid would get relics again (whether you agree with that or not).

 

[Gordonax]

Aye, total respect to Killgorde, he knew exactly how to make things work. War of attrition for the win, people nowdays are too lazy and expect 1 day perfect raid everytime. When I raided mids, I hit them every night for 2 weeks(bar a couple of days).

It wasn't nice for us, I can tell you

 

[noaim]

Jahar raids Mids while mids attack Bledmeer to get it from Albs <-- cheeky
The unabridged relic history of the server.

We fought at Nottmoor you noob

But nice to see the history, but didnt Wildfire hold a raid against mids that were successful? And you forgot to mention when albs attacked Mjollner with over 200 people at 9 a sunday morning, and failed, cause they sent first relic back with only 1fg and lost it at amg hihi

 

[Exioce]

It's true that the necro raid pissed off Midgard quite a bit

 

[Jiggs]

Albs raid mids at 10am (mids blame necro's)

i think that was the one where albs took some keeps in the late evening and it just snowballed over night, ending-up with albs taking relics at 5am or something?

was divinia/HB who eventually took credit iirc?

 

[nol]

its a 24h game and u wont ever change that, oh btw making "agreements" between realms when u know that only 40% reads the forum is just bs.

You don't need agreements between realms, all you need is the leaders within a realm to adhere to non prime time raids policy, and push that mentality down. Hibs won't do it, because the various alliance guilds & leaders agree that it is not good for the server.

I get the feeling that the majorityof the people that think it's ok, are the same people who attend these raids and are looking for some face, because they know they're too chicken/lazy to do it the proper way.

I see their pov and I think shame, it would embarrassing for me to sneak in to take them at 5am, nevermind the idiocy associated with synchronising an alarm with 200 other people to go do it. You get the relics, but you're considered the limp wrists of the server, and the other 2 realms feel sorry for you

No thanks, not for me, I proud to be aligned with realm in which the majority feel the same way.

 

[nol]

i think that was the one where albs took some keeps in the late evening and it just snowballed over night, ending-up with albs taking relics at 5am or something?

was divinia/HB who eventually took credit iirc?

yes, but at the same time, the middy 11am raid they took keeps all night too, so it sort of cancels each other out

 

[nol]

We fought at Nottmoor you noob

But nice to see the history, but didnt Wildfire hold a raid against mids that were successful? And you forgot to mention when albs attacked Mjollner with over 200 people at 9 a sunday morning, and failed, cause they sent first relic back with only 1fg and lost it at amg hihi

There were some periods where I was on the US servers so missed some of the raids. One of those times I wasn't there was when Jahar lead the hibs in to take the power relic while in the middle of the fight, so excuse the minor mistakes.

Yes wildfire did have a sucessfull raid, but I don't remember when exactly or what happened, once again I was on the US servers

 

[Aussie]

albs have always had str relics at start of daoc so starting with 1)albs doing alarmclock raid = teh funny or you daoc newb xD