Unless you’ve been living under a rock, Square Enix announced a slew of information for Final Fantasy XI for 2010, with the first version update coming up on March 9th.

One of these updates is the server-merge of Hades with Cerberus, removing Hades from existance.

The Server Merge

So with this server-merge, we will all be moved to Cerberus next week, breaking all of the Hyozan linkpearls in our possession. However! I’ll be granted a new unopened linkshell and we’ll be going back to the “Hyozan” name! I’m thinking of hanging out at the Chocobo Circuit for easy access from any major city in the game to distribute new pearls.

With that said, I’m wiping the current member sheet on the website and will be listing current pearls after the merge. So all current sackholders: please contact me after the merger for a new pearl and sack!

As for the other site changes, read on.

Bringing back “This week in Hyozan”
We’re gonna start up the weekly threads again in the forums. If anyone else wants to write up the summaries of what everyone’s done in the past week, contact me ingame or send me a PM on the forums!

Archiving Moblin Maze Mondays categories/updates
MMM hasn’t been going on since Segan retired and returned to the game and hasn’t been picked up by anyone. If anyone does want to do this regularly again, by all means go ahead!

Archiving ENM category
This didn’t really last long, but the Events category is still up. Anyone who wants to report on the occasional event on the forums, feel free to do so! We’ll have it featured on the main page.

Screenshots
Feel free to send in screenshots of LS events or parties  for us to put in the galleries!

1: New layout. I’ve only been trying to get everything displayed the way I wanted, and now that that is out of the way, I’m gonna start working on the design and make it more Hyozan-ey.

2: Edited the gallery a bit, been uploading screenshots here and there!

Nothing else, really. The Ventrilo server is still down, unfortunately. Sigmund’s investigating this! I’ll have new things to post soon, as well ^^

People have been busy in the LS, keep it up !

I wasn’t entirely happy with how the old layout looked, so I found a new theme that was cleaner and easier for me to edit. I’ve ditched the Event Calendar since everything is mostly planned in the forums anyway. In its stead, the gallery has been added! I’ve asked many times before for people to send in screenshots, because now we can post our Hyozan memories on our website!

I’ve also added a quick-navigation menu on the right to access specific categories faster I dig the icons!

Check out the Gallery to poke around two albums for now, I will have albums for Mission + Events, and non-battle related events. Thank you all for helping Hyozan grow strong and create wonderful memories all over!

Speaking of wonderful memories…Today is me and Sooraya’s 5th anniversary~ I’m happy to be with someone who is as much a nerd as I am~

Hey guys,

I’ve been messing around with the site a bit and updated two pages on the site: “About Hyozan” and the “Members” page. Give it a look, especially the rules! If I’m missing anyone or got something wrong in the Member list, let me know at tamtu [at] hyozan.org and I’ll change it ASAP.

Thanks!

There’s an issue that’s been raised to my attention lately.

No, we don’t have any of the JAN22-bans. Hyozan doesn’t do that kind of endgame stuff at all. So we’re still complete and together and rockin’ like a hurricane!

What I want to address is the podcast I do with Sooraya, “HE SAYS, SHE SAYS”. Thanks to this podcast, we’ve been able to advertise Hyozan and Hades (when we really didn’t have to), as well as welcome many new people into our LS after transferring to the server. But here’s the thing. Hyozan is NOT the official HS/SS linkshell. Most of the transfers that came to Hades through HS/SS were actually looking for a new Linkshell, for (hopefully) a better environment than the ones they’d been in. Some came over because they already knew us and created a mule or a new character to play with us casually and sometimes progressing nicely, even if they were just testing the waters. For others, the Hyozan members became new friends.

Here’s an example from my post in the forums: Limit Break Radio. While popular with a large fanbase, I know that the hosts are actually active in their own non-LBR linkshells. Personally, I don’t want or even have time for a HS/SS linkshell because I love Hyozan and as its leader, I can’t really afford to stay away from it. Perhaps it was my error in advertising it like crazy on the show. But that was only because I wanted to let the fellow server players know that Hyozan is open to anyone who is looking for an eventful and friendly linkshell.

Although I can be quite an ass at times !

Hyozan existed before HS/SS. Way before me and Sooraya were even on Hades. We were doing events and parties with them long before people had even heard of my songs and parodies on LBR. In its latest incarnation under my wing, The Hyozan Legacy, it is first and foremost a place for players to do in-game stuff with. I try to follow through with this concept out of respect of the original founders. There are plenty of LS members who don’t really care about the podcast. They consider HS/SS as something Soo and I do in our spare time. As it should be. There’s a freedom for the members to be wherever they want to be and we don’t expect anything from them. But if you do decide to hang out on the forums and the vent server, which serve the purpose of a communication tool for the actual LS members, I only ask of you to follow through with your ambition to participate in the many group events we do, and not just hang out on a level 1 character just to talk to me and Sooraya. It’s not fair to the rest.

I find the most fun to be in doing things with the members, which usually can only be done if they actually have a character that can survive a couple of hits. So do the other members.

When Sooraya and I are in-game, in the linkshell, we’re players. Not hosts of a fun podcast, not web-celebs, just two adventurers trying to having fun with their friends in FFXI. Just because we’re FFXI nerds outside of the game as well doesn’t mean we need to do everything relating to the show in-game too. The podcast is a nice extra feature that Hyozan, but Soo and I are really the only affiliation it has with the LS. Honestly, if you want to socialize with me and Sooraya, try the HS/SS forums.

I really appreciate the support for HS/SS, but please keep the HS/SS related chatter out of Hyozan. In the forums and the vent server, it’s about really only the game and the people, our friends, residing in the linkshell.

Thanks.

http://hyozan.org/event-calendar/

I’ll update the calender whenever we’ve decided on any LS-related event. We’re here to help with anything, so please don’t hesitate to ask for help in the Events forum.

Nothing like a yawn and a nice, long stretch when you overcome your obstacles.

Welcome to the new and improved Hyozan Legacy!

In more ways than one, we’re working to make the community in-game and out an incredible experience, for results extraordinaire! Come join us online or in the forum, and become part of the tightest group that kicks the most ass~