News - 26th June - Ex-EFF's Traitors

Now, today's news links to a certain clan called EFF, The Elite Fighters of the Force. For a long time now (as far as I can remember), they have had a rule which states;

Once you have left / been kicked out of the clan, you won't have a second chance in re-joining us.

This is number 6 of their list of rules. It does then however, state that "If you haven't done anything wrong at all, except just leaving; you may re-apply, but dont expect it as easy as at the first time. ", but this I have yet to see be used, as every player I have seen re-apply has been instantly denied by their leader, the "mighty emperor " apophis, there was only 1 person we know of who was able to re-join EFF, Boneweaver, in fact Apophis himself asked for him to re-join. Besides the humour that he genuinely believes to be some great god of jka, his power in using his saber (which is what the game is all about right?) lacks deerly. For example; when EFF first got a base server, Ruxith beat Apophis in a duel (to test out the new server.cfg) something like 40/4, and upon beating him by such a big score, the server settings were never the same since ... ironic right?

Anyway back to the topic at hand, so anyone who used to be in EFF, despite the efforts they made for the clan cannot rejoin ;

Smile & Devon - Fought many clan vs clan tffa's and won 100% of them, yet Smile was not allowed to rejoin

Azai/Kural - Was in the clan for a very long time and did alot to help out including working on a map, became a trusted member of the community. He knew this rule and re-joined under alias. Under the name Knox he was never truely discovered,save 1 person who decided to keep it a secret at the risk of compromising her friends identity, Kural eventually revealed himself to the people and was discredited by Fluffy and a few others but more importantly welcomed back and congratualted by many members he calls friends, they called him a traitor and made out as if him rejoining under alias was insulting them and such, when the real reason was that he wanted to play with his friends again, but knew that if he tried to join as his real nickname he would be denied the chance. He left the clan for the second time.

Ruxith - Upon joining the clan, he quickly progressed through the ranks, making reskins and signatures for clanmembers. He then became "head designer", a graphic group for the clan; Sexy - Signatures, Vulcan - Sabers, Morabis - Map. He was also involed in taking responsibility of about four clanmembers who became his padawans for training. He also helped out in many promotion events (EFF uses duels vs higher ranked members for promotions) as he was considered one of the more skilled members in the clan at the time. Ruxith left due to the leader's attitude towards the clanmembers (no respect), and seeing how people changed when given admin, he realised the clan was not for him. Due to his influence and friends gained during that time, several followed his decision to leave, which in turn gave the leader the thought that he "stole" their members and was then classed a traitor for somehow betraying their clan.

Doesn't seem fair right? Obviously there are some players who were part of the clan who clearly were making the wrong decisions and did nothing to benefit the clan. In that case, sure they don't deserve to be allowed back in, but the players listed above are just a handful of the many members who in the past have made a difference to EFF clan, and have been denied the chance of rejoining them, thus being kick and ban on sight on the server. How can a clan who claims "We don't take playing so serious :) All the time we remember that JA is a game, and game... game should give fun!" not give members who made a difference to their clan a second chance, or atleast give them a chance to defend themselves when they are marked as traitors and banned from the forum and server.

It's amazing how a clan you were once a part of can change so much in the way that they act towards you, the influence of someone can greatly effect someone's actions, even if they once were a close friend to you. As a final note, I would just say not to believe anything they say about the "ex-EFF" members, as they do not fully know them or the real reasons behind it for those that left. They claim some members did things and acted in certain ways which didn't actually happen; such as referring to the stereotype "baser" mentality and making out like we thought we knew better than everyone else because we were "basers".

Judging people and filling in the blanks basing it upon what you know or were told by someone, becomes false knowledge never tells the true side of the story.