Sinister
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History
Ultima Online
Released Sept 1997 In the early days of UO Sinister wasn't present, its members were, but the entity as a whole was not. This is Sinister's motherland so to speak. the guild was formed here and still holds many original players and good memories from this game. Sinister played on the Great Lakes server. No other game since has allowed players to be anything they want, do anything they want. More a social experiment then a game, in a time when there were no online games, Ultima Online will never be replaced.
Everquest
Released March 1999 by Sony Online Entertainment. This was a classic (many would say genre defining) MMORPG. Far and away EQ held the title of MMO King until Blizzard's World of Warcraft eventually took the reins.
Sinister initially played on Rallos Zek, the PvP server. Experience loss and Item loss on death made losses in pvp real, and drove away the light hearted players. When the racial PvP server opened (Tallon Zek) there was a brief stint on that; but not a long stay since the sides (Good, Neutral and Evil) were fundamentally unbalanced.
Asheron's Call
Released November 1999, only a handful of months after Everquest. Turbine developed and published what was one of the better Player vs Player games. Sinister played on the Dark Tide server known for its harsh rule set with no rules and rampant loot-filled combat. Impressions made in this game include a long war with The Merc's and one notable characters who essentially cornered the monarch exp system and powered Blood to its dominating state long after Sinister and The Merc's had quit playing.
Dark Age of Camelot
Oct 2001 Mythic releases a game which is mostly incomplete. Sinister fights for the Hibernian cause. Forming an early alliance with Disciples of the Darkhand and The Merc's known as Angry Elves. This alliance purpose was to break the Midguard stranglehold on the battle zones. Many great fights between Angry Elves and Conquest over crucial leveling spots found only in the battle ground. A two week long battle over Crimthain ended sadly with a patch from Mythic which diminished the rewards found in that area. We left yet another game where PVP had been reduced to having no reward.
Shadowbane
Several Sinister were a part of this games development process from early beta on, in particular, Bone Dancer and Angus the Grimm, formerly of Covetous Crew. Through countless phases of the beta a Sinister lead coallition of UO PK guilds dubbed the Burning Legion conquered the world. Game officially released March 2003, published by Ubisoft, and Sinister targets the Scorn server as the home for the hard core. Using the same model that dominated all of the beta the Sinister lead coallition called "Burning Legion" conquered the server in less then a week. We dominated and controlled every land location of value and punished any guild that attempted an uprising.
This game was designed with the PVP experience in mind; but bugs in it's core engine, and a development crew incapable of reacting to the incredible demand resulted in a mass exodus from the product in under two months.
EvE Online
Released May 2003 by Simon & Schuster Interactive; later sold to CCP. Sinister came to EVE late, missing most of the critical knowledge gathering stage of the beta. A small fleet by today's standards we mostly engaged in small scale PVP until joining a lose coalition of gamers in a small alliance attempting to take over a system known as Curse. A great game for crafting, one of Sinister's economic leader Mule found a real home in this game cornering the market on mining and ship building long before that idea had become mainstay. This could have been 'the perfect game' for Sinister having PVP, economy, and real accountability behind every action. Sadly, the scifi nature and lack of WASD movement in ships turned many of our players off. Sinister maintains a small contingent of players in EVE and is currently aligned with Goonfleet.
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft, the premier MMO game of the century. Sinister organized a congregation of PVP minded guilds to play on the Archimonde. Game goes gold and live in in Nov 2004 with over 250,000 simultaneous connection attempts per day on the Archimonde server. Over the next seven days Sinister members and friends alike pound the log in button before moving to a newly released server called Gorefiend. Sinister fought for the Alliance side and in short time discovered a number of reputable PVP guilds had followed them for combat. As a means to an end Sinister took up PVE on Gorefiend, a better equipped player, was a better player killer. Notable accomplishments include server first on Ragnaros, Nefarion, and was the guild to open the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj. PVP continued to be our focus, dominating both open field battles and the WOW's new form of combat the battleground. Notable enemies from Wow included EPK and No Quarter.
Jan 2007 - The Burning Crusade Sinister switches races for the Burning Crusade. Players change races, classes, and roles, but the consistency remains the same. Now burned out on over 3 yeas of the same game Sinister takes it easy in this expansion. Playing on a new server who's only selection was for it's access to the highly competitive BG9, Sinister takes on all comers in the arena and holds ranks in the top 10-20 for a number of months.
Nov 2008 - Wrath of the Lich King
Age of Conan
Released May 2008 by Funcom.
Warhammer Online
Official Launch Sept 2008. Sinister played on the Skull Throne server on Destruction. The game had some good elements, and claimed to cater towards PvP. But much of the end game was undeveloped; so after a quick sprint to max level the game became boring due to lack of an incentive for players to actually pvp (instead just trading undefended objectives). Majority of the guild left to go back to WoW when the expansion (WotLK) was released.
Darkfall
High hopes.
SiN Core
| Name: | Game: | Role: | Join Date: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bone Dancer | Darkfall | Guild Master | 1996 |
| Myshella | Darkfall | Founder | 1996 |
| Kane | World of Warcraft | Founder | 1996 |
| KilROCK | Warhammer | Founder | 1996 |
| Zorgx | World of Warcraft | Core | 1996 |
| Radek | EVE Online | Core | 1997 |
| Smokedog | DoTA | Core | 1997 |
| Bloodfire | DoTA | Core | 1997 |
| EDW | World of Warcraft | Core | 1997 |
| Silverwolf | Darkfall | Core | 1997 |
| MethodMan | Darkfall | Core | 1997 |
| Mule | EVE | Core | 1997 |
| Nigasaki | DoTA | Core | 1997 |
| Khayman | World of Warcraft | Core | 1997 |
| Mors | World of Warcraft | Core | 1997 |
| Shrike | DoTA | Core | 1997 |
| Partysan | World of Warcraft | Core | 1997 |
| Misery | Darkfall | Core | 1998 |
| Sancho | DoTA | Core | 1998 |
| Eye | World of Warcraft | Core | 1998 |
| CKD | World of Warcraft | Core | 1998 |
| Kaizen | World of Warcraft, Darkfall | Core | 2001 |
| Stinkfist | retired! | Core | 2001 |
| Ren | Darkfall | Core | 2002 |
| Rafe | Darkfall | Core | 2003 |
| Argonic | Darkfall | Core | 2003 |
| Shame | Darkfall | Core | 2004 |
| Wired | Darkfall | Core | 2004 |
| Sacrifice | Darkfall | Core | 2004 |
| Kast | Hollywood | Core | 2004 |
| Seifer | Canadian | Core | 2004 |
| Zoe | Darkfall | Core | 2004 |
| Fud | World of Warcraft | Core | 2007 |
| Meir | World of Warcraft | Core | 2007 |
| Jabby | World of Warcraft | Core | 2007 |
| Slade | Warhammer | Core | 2007 |
| Angus | Travian | Core | 2008 |
| Creslin | Darkfall | Core | 2008 |
| Drek | World of Warcraft | Core | 2008 |
| Surehand | World of Warcraft | Core | 2008 |
| Oompa | World of Warcraft | Core | 2008 |
| Simbala | World of Warcraft | Core | 2008 |
| Nefarious | Darkfall | Core | 2008 |
| Cede | World of Warcraft | Core | 2008 |
