Patch day = screenshot and story day
First mansion on the server by The law a few days ago.
Fishers are allied with EVERYONE, even pirates:
Thunderstruck tree on my farm yesterday:
Another one today ^^:
Today was patch day, we know the reds (nui) outnumber us 3 to one on this server so we decided to work together as a faction and help eachother at the mine/with carrying the packs to the lodestone for protection.
Arrival at the mine <5 mins after the server went up: My screenshots don't show the sheer number of reds as I had to limit maximum players shown onscreen to 100 to prevent it from being a slideshow.
Our alliance had about 200 people there, there were another 200-300 from other guilds, and at least a thousand reds (at one point we had a screenfilling zerg behind, in front and at our flank at the same time inside the mine)
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It looked grim when we arrived as reds were already inside and they had a humongous zerg inside, we managed to wipe most of the ones outside and take control of the entrance but as soon as we went deeper inside we ran into their main force which obliterated us with overwhelming numbers.
At this point we feared we'd not get any castle at all on the east.
We did fully regroup outside before reentering and they got split up after the fight , after about an hour of fighting and pushing into the mine we had finally had full control of it as the reds had become too scattered (never more than 100 or so people coming at us at the same time)
After 2 hours some of the reds started teleporting out, one green guild called eastern coalition that is not part of our alliance teleported out and a whole bunch of the pebbles started showing up on AH (150 of them) right before they left.
At this point we had no idea how many pebbles the reds had managed to get during the rough beginning and we were worried we'd be too late, so we bought all the pebbles, if only to deny them to the other guilds. (about 4000gold, which is only half of what we spent on consumables for the fight over the mines anyhow).
We had our miners give the mined pebbles to one guy who then mailed them all to our smelter who was waiting at his house with the crafting station.
As soon as the mats for the pack were ready our guild (except our miners) teleported to pirate island to take off with the pack, while the other guilds in the alliance stayed behind to keep mining and keep the reds at bay.
5 Minutes later: First castle claimed on the server belongs to us.
A few minutes later the russian guild (bunch of hackers and cheaters, half of them got banned in the ban wave) got their castle up.
Then our GM gets a whisper from the first green guild that teleported out.
OOPS, they didn't know they needed the 20k vocation badge metalworking boost item on their smelter to craft the ingots. (most guilds did not know this, we assume most of the reds didn't know either seeing how they still didn't have a castle down at this point)
They offered 20k gold to get to use ours, we declined.
Another 15 minutes later we got enough pebbles for a second castle for another big guild in our temporary (literally for one day just for the mining war) alliance and they crafted their pack:
At this point the reds and non allied green guilds decided they were running out of time and they all left the mines and instead went to guard the paths to the lodestones in numbers hoping to kill another guild for their castle pack.
We escorted the other guild with 2 full raids and formed a circle around their pack carrier (who had to be shitting his pants at this moment because of the threat of being killed by reds/another green guild)
Took a screenshot of what the pack looks like but the name makes it a bit hard to see.
The fuckup guild (eastern coalition) that wasn't able to craft their pack showed up to try to grab the pack we were protection, so we all turned on bloodlust and wiped them before they could take a coordinated shot at it.
Success:
The reds took the fourth castle shortly afterwards.
Never expected the login servers to function but there were no issues and they stayed up.
Never expected to get 3 green castles considering how hard the reds outnumber us.
The eastern coalition was declared war upon immediately by the alliance after the castles were built for trying to pk the pack (and some of them turned on us while mining too)
Their gm is apparently quitting the game over the failed crafting of the pack (no vocation badges on their smelter) and failing to get a castle.
There were large numbers of guildless people around during the evening after everything was said and done. Their guild in particular will probably disband.
Working together really paid off, initially the plan was for our guild+its allies to go alone and the other 3 big guilds to go alone in their alliance but we wouldn't have gotten a single castle that way.
