Monolith Server Crash of 11/21/2008

During the evening of Friday, November 21st, T3 Empire/Chaos was in a complete state of disarray on the Monolith server!!! For a majority of the evening, Destruction and Order were see-sawing for position on StoneClaw Keep after Order’s stealthy and swift take over of the High Pass objective.

The open field RvR battle waged on for hours as numbers on both sides exponentially increased as the war raged on. On numerous occasions Destruction would push to the outer wall gate door only to be reverted all the way back to their Warcamp by solid, organized pushes from Order. In turn, Destruction was slowly wearing the keep door for every push that was thwarted.

After about an hour of relentless assault of the StoneClaw Keep gate door, it fell. A massive influx of Destruction rushed into the gates to be met by several warbands of Order.
Many bodies fell, reinforcements were re-routed, defenses were broken, and offensive maneuvers were countered. Another 20 minutes attrition by Destruction led to the collapse of the StoneClaw Keep Door.

Round 3. The take over felt eminent, as Destruction continued it’s push of reclaiming it’s lost keep. The server began having intermittent lag spikes fairly frequently. At one point, all hope seemed lost as most of the Destruction group wiped and many others CTD. A quick regrouping and burning resolve quickly drove the Destruction forces back to it’s ultimate objective: the re-capture of StoneClaw Keep at all costs! Time, nor server lag were going to get in their way. Order was to pay for it’s treacherous take over and it was going to happen this night.

Destruction slowly began a push up the keep stairs, focus firing and picking off one order at a time while routing any reinforcements that were incoming. Order’s rank and file started to slowly thin and Destruction was able to take about two Keep Lord guards that found their way to the staircase.
As the group finally made their way to the second floor of the keep…

*Crash to Character Select Screen*

Crash to character select screen??? Within moments ventrilo went crazy with numerous amounts of rated R language. It wasn’t me. I did not CTD! The entire server went on a frenzy and shut down!!!
Numerous attempts to relog were unsuccessful, until finally the Monolith server was no longer an option on the server select screen.

Wow and Kudos!!! A battle like no other I’ve experienced in any MMO. Still excited from the level of play I had experienced, I had no time to be upset about the crash. I wanted more and so did the rest of the CoW members that were with me that night.

Sismic Six Questing

Seismic Six Group Pic

The Aftermath
Wanting more WAR, a small group of us decided to roll Order characters on the Averheim server, CoW’s Order server. We agreed on rolling Dwarves and that evening the Seismic Six (Barach, Patchum, Indica, Zigster, Golddigger, and Cleava) was born! Thanks to everyone that participated in the events of the evening. It was by far the most fun I’ve had in a long time in any MMO.

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