Expansion on the Horizon!

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Written by Grey

Created: 24 June 2011

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Is growing larger!

IGC is really taking off in the latter half of this year!  Not only are we building two new gaming chapters, but minor guilds are also popping up.  Right now we are discussing ways to increase our exposure on the net to extend our reach even further.

We here at Impact Gaming want everyone to know who we are.  We want to become somewhat of a household name in the gaming community at large and draw in more and more players each day.  A few of the ways we plan to do this are already in the works.  For example, our site now streams news from popular MMO feeds right to the frontpage!  Soon, game masters here at IGC will also become Assistant Community Managers and will be out there trying to bring you to our website and into our fold as well.

The "Friends & Family" policy, pioneered by Violent Impact, has become a standard across our community as well.  While we still cater to the semi-hardcore gamer lifestyle, we also share our knowledge in teachable moments to upcoming players within our guilds.  In the coming weeks we will also be seeking sponsorship from certain database websites that we are already loosely affiliated with.

Bookmark us right now as new things are happening each and every day (no joke)!  And of course, if I didn't mention that you are always welcome to hop on our TS, apply to one of our guilds, or just talk to us in-game, I wouldn't be a very good Community Manager now would I?

Rock on gamers.

Dredging through the trenches!

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Written by Seifer Arumashi

Created: 09 April 2011

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Firing on all Cylinders!  Neutral Impact has made significant level progression in both crafting/gathering/battle classes, and NM skill proficiency despite the lack of enticing patch news for the upcoming April/May patch and ever growing content stagnancy.  Yet we and the FFXIV community as a whole still persevere in hopes that this will finally be the patch that instills some faith back in the community to help jump-start this game into what it should have been from the start - a masterpiece.

In the meantime, those of us still wanting to be ahead of the curve with battle classes have been leading consistent, and successful leve groups for cross class abilities and job main flexibility.

Our crafting juggernauts and up and coming craft enthusiasts have been working hard to reach personal as well as needed goals for both the future and present of the linkshells' infrastructure demands.  Shout out to Lux Aeterna! crafted some type of Pre-Relic monster! Congratulations on taking all my money :(.

And we have made great strides toward tweaking and mastering our current NM strategies as well as our group dynamics for battle regiment efficiency.  Dodore and Uraeus main focus at the moment.

What lies next on the horizon for FFXIV and Neutral Impact?  apparently clouds and hillsides in this picture, but lets pretend they are game content in landscape format!

Alot seems to be riding on this April/May patch anticipation, will our new dev team show us what made them so successful in FFXI?  Or will another wasted opportunity pass with a myriad of mediocre fixes and then follow-up patches to fix the things broken in the preceding patch /sigh.  FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT, FIX IT FIX IT!

Neutral Impact on the Rise!

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Written by Seifer Arumashi

Created: 04 May 2011

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Neutral Impact is booming! Welcoming the addition of four new members to the community as well as new Patch 1.17!

Patch 1.17 came and went with more system fixes, guild task/more quest additions for the novelty adventurer, full party/light party buffs, and 20 brand new NMs.  Neutral Impact has been hard at work testing the new features and NMs while still continuing our advancing march toward self improvement and group rank leve progression!

A look at the overly ridiculous Full Party notification.

Silly bug with the Nether Newt description.

We have gotten our fill of all the new NMs and what gear we wanted from them.  Although it was not the endgame challenge we would have hoped for, they still proved to be a refreshing change to our normal schedule.

Still rocking the original 'end-game' NMs for continued practice and training for new and old members alike.  Special shout out to Ghunter for having 100% attendance at all 177 NM kill events, good job!

Continuing our objective of pushing battle classes to 50 with leves!

Our crafting and gathering class divisions have been burning the candle at both ends, reaching goals and expectations far exceeding the Linkshells demands.  Grats to all who have earned 50 in the past month!

Our latest letter from the producer states that 1.18 is going to be a very large content patch, with quest-hubs (possible dungeon flag points?), Rank 30 and Rank 50 dungeons!, possible fatigue system abolishment, and the beginning of a battle class system make-over.  It was a little depressing to hear it being pushed back to mid-June instead of May, but just official news and pictures of the upcoming content is enough to build that anticipation hype again.  In the meantime, we will be continuing business as usual.  Chance favors the prepared mind, and we are ready for what comes next!

Welcome Back NI Members!

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Written by Seifer Arumashi

Created: 25 March 2011

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Welcome back NI members!  It's been 2 weeks now since the devastating 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan - with Tsunamis, hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, and food/power shortages compounding the problem into a dismal impasse that will affect the country for years to come.  To help contribute with World-wide generosity and prayers for those affected,  Square-Enix decided on March 13th to shut down FFXI and FFXIV servers to conserve power until further notice.  It's been about 14 days now since the disaster, and the shattered country is already demonstrating it's trademark resilience to recovery with hopes that this trend will continue for the country and it's people.

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Extremely goofy /welcome emote incoming~