This Week In C&G: 7/1/12 – 7/7/12

Welcome to the second edition of This Week In C&G, where we cover the latest developments in the clan world and make sense of it all.

New Alliances

No new alliances formed during the week.

New Wars

Right as they’ve ended a friendly war with NFC, led by fireantfive, The Robloxian Army, led by Tonitoni, went to war with Noble Blade, led by jlcompton89. Tonitoni announced this on his Twitter account late Saturday leading into Sunday.

“The Robloxian Army is now at war with Noble Blade!” “Victory shall be ours!” – Tonitoni announcing the war on his Twitter account, @tonitoniROBLOX

As always, keep reading Roblox Command for updates on this war and others that spring up!

War Updates

LSF (led by Mari0fan64) has declared a victory on the significantly smaller Roblox Army of Swords (RAS for short, led by LordHalo1157), with LSF winning with a shut-out score of 3-0.

RAT’s war on JC was at first ended by ColourTheory due to what he said was the most rude group in his career, but has now said it is actually suspended instead for RAT to finish up their Spectrum engine and due to the absence of some of their war leaders. While RAT was raiding, it appears that their war on JC was one of the rare times that the widely-hated VAK actually teamed up to raid JC, which caused quite a stir in C&G.

The Grand Imperium has declared a victory over The Imperium of Man. TGI’s leader, brickster1324, accused IOM of their high ranks exploiting, with photo and video proof. The thread detailing it can be found here.

They also were made enemies of JC by their leader, pspjohn1, on July 2nd. TGI’s recap of the first day can be found here as well.

Clan Elections

Roblox Night Wing, led by LordCopper, held an election for two Generals to be elected within the clan. GeneralN0torious announced the elections with the list of candidates, with a short speech from each of the candidates in the thread.

The United Clan of Roblox is holding another senatorial election. The nomination thread is here.

Alliance Relations News

No new alliance relations news occurred within the week.

New Clan Tech

ColourTheory launched RAT’s new Spectrum engine in a beta testing phase on Canada Day (July 1st), encouraging players to report any bugs, latency (ping) issues, and/or FPS issues to them. People have been widely anticipating the launch of it, even in a beta phase. It borrows several sounds from Valve’s own Source engine which powers several games like Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Portal and Portal 2, Half-Life, DotA 2, along others. Said sounds were uploaded by Roblox admin clockwork when people were still able to upload sounds. However, controversy still remains over Spectrum itself as CT hasn’t revealed a lot of details up until now. Beta tests continued throughout the week.

Meanwhile, WIJ’s competing Back In Business project is also coming closer to completion. This has sparked several debates in the forums about which one is better, but until both are out of alpha/beta testing phases, conclusions can’t really be made. SilentSwords said that there won’t be an open beta of BiB. VAK also beta tested new technology, with new weapons. stroudie posted a thread asking for people to sign up for tests. The thread can be found here.

Miscellaneous News

VOID’s leader, Culaure, has decided to reform the clan. Culaure says that the reform will bring new bases, uniforms, and a cadet program. The thread detailing what will happen can be found here.

Vortex Security, Roblox’s second largest clan with over 90K+ members, and a participating clan in ColourTheory’s Rising Wings Initiative alliance, implemented more ranks. opperblox24, one of the Generals in the clan, posted a thread detailing what has happened as well as a link to their revised promotion guide.

UCR (United Clan of Roblox, led by TDFall) also implemented more ranks, and UCR Officer darkspade1 detailed this in another thread. He also set up a poll for UCR members to see what would work best for them in the long run.

Several other clans have also added new ranks. If you’re in one, check to see if your clan added new ranks and familiarize yourself with them.

Conclusion

That’s it for this edition of This Week In C&G. The next edition will cover from this coming Friday to next Thursday. Got feedback? Feel free to contact me or Alpha5001 on Twitter (@wickedplayer494 and @Alpha5001 respectively) or leave a comment here.

We do apologize again for the delays, but better late than never. Due to the fact that I’ll be away next week, the next edition will not come until August 3rd. However, thanks as always for reading!