Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Issue: 96   Editor: Mikamon


The 11th Crew Mikamon
The wipe of Winter Hill Gang (WHG) didn't bring us one new crew. It brought us two. Alongside The Rapture (TR), Excel also pressed “Create Crew” and successfully created Helpx. As a result, there were now eleven crews were ten crews are allowed. It seemed like a small glitch in the statistics page.

As Help Desk Tickets were made and people received the usual “Thanks for the report”, it turns out the Elite Guard (EG) is still unsure of what to do with this eleventh spot. To find out more, Andy was contacted. “Can't say anything until an Admin shows up,” was his comment to the Buzz. For the moment, this leaves us with eleven crews until an Administrator reviews the matter and decides on what to do.

In the mean time, the Buzz took a closer look at Helpx and talked to its creator, Excel. “I just picked up the spot at first,” he said. “I didn't know there were 11 spots.” Seemingly unaware, Excel had just created the eleventh out of ten crew spots. Weird as that may seem, it did happen. “Nothing strange happened,” he added. “But I can't see my crew in the users online pie.”
A closer look on the Pie revealed that the crew can be seen in the Pie itself but isn't listed in the list of crews on the right side of the pie. Unlike the Statistics, it appears the Pie is only suitable for displaying ten crews in its list. “I don't really know what happened,” Excel commented. “But it is a problem in the game and not mine.”

As we were awaiting an Administrator decision on the matter, the Buzz wanted to find out what Excel's plans with the spot were. “I intend to keep it and invite my friends,” he said. “I am not going to sell it. As for the crewname, it will either stay Helpx or I'll change it into Eternal Labyrinth.”
For now, Excel's crew is still on the Statistics and hasn't been shot. It seems like it will stay where it is for a while unless an Administrator choses to remove it.

The trouble with removing it would most certainly be the refund, providing there would be any. A crew is worth over 1,000 points where founding it only costs a couple of million. Now, this eleventh crew is preventing anyone from doing on oldschool takeover by simply wiping on crew. Now, two crews need to be wiped instead because wiping one crew will simply put us back to the normal ten. For now, we wish Excel and his crew all the luck as we await a decision from the EG.