ZHENINJAS

I come here today to speak on behalf of Zheninjas. I guess you’ve heard about me many times so far so there’s no need for introductions. 
As you may all know (or read in our site and groups on FB) Zheninjas is not just a clan but a Rising Gaming Community. This vision has been incepted by me when I first joined Ninja Saga since it seemed to be a promising game offering a good opportunity to build more than just another top clan. 
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Before NS I’ve been leading BurningBlade’s rank-1 Clan (world of warcraft) as well as the rank-1 dominant clan in Legion:ClanWars game (browser game – it was closed down 1.5 year ago after there was no other interesting clans to compete with us) 

..and so far everything has worked for us perfectly. 

• We’ve managed to build a clan financially supported and able to pay for Servers, Websites, Forums as well as participate in special events such as Disability *** day in PH. 
• We’ve gathered a group of people with special skills such as musicians, animators, graphic ***, web designers and network specialists. 
• Most of all we’ve managed to become the most known and successful clan in Ninja Saga being the only ones who ever managed to strike 8/13 Championships, 2x Hat-Tricks and 12/13 times in top-3 

All those things also had a great impact in the evolution of NS since our name has echoed loudly all over FB and inspired even more people to join NS and join Clan-Wars dreaming that they would one day become as great as Zhen members were. 

So far so good, however, we’ve reached a point that all of our dreams and goals in NS have come true and with all challenging clans formerly beaten there’s no new top to conquer and continuing clan wars has no other use but to remind people that we are not just lucky to be the No1. 

Recently, we started to believe that NS might have been a good game to make a good start but it’s just a facebook application with many problems, physical caps in development and unable to always stay balanced or cheat-free. Therefore, we cannot reach our full potential or further expand to catch the attention of sponsors etc.. (as a matter of fact, there have already been sponsors who had enter discussions with us and they said our clan meets their popularity requirements, however, NS is still not a good place to put their *** through us) 

All these have made us enter some internal conversations and decide that it would be better for us to move to a new game, widely spread and out of Facebook! 
After wise thinking and long discussions we’ve decided to move to the next world’s most popular MMO-RPG named RIFT (1 million subscribers on release date and 600k formerly WoW players who have already dropped WoW for RIFT) 
It’s a 3 month old game with over 300 developers and $50 million budget, so we’re going to be old-school there by the time you’ll start reading everywhere about it in about 6-8 months. 

As a result, Zheninjas will now enter “peace mode” in NS and will no longer participate in Clan-Wars! 
This will also withdraw our domination in Ninja Saga and leave enough space for the rest of NS clans to start winning championships and getting Exclusive CW Rewards! (Yes, we know that this is what many players have been asking from big clans to do for so many seasons and since we are the Greatest we think we are also the first ones to make this step and open the way for other clans to control their greed and do the same in the future. Give people a chance to feel the joy of becoming a Champion!) 

We came, we saw, we conquered! Time for new lands full of new advantures! 

In order to avoid writing big monologues to answer all the questions you many have I am going to put the most critical of them bellow along with the answer to them. 
If there is another question you would like to apply I will try to include it on my post later. 

Thanx for reading. 

Is Zheninjas Clan going to return to NS and Clan Wars in the future? 
We don’t have such plans.. For now we are going to focus on RIFT and prepare for Diablo-3 where hopefully we will meet our full potential. 
However, it’s wiser to never say never. 

So, are you quitting Ninja Saga (and why)? 
No, we are definitely not quitting Ninja Saga. Many of us will continue to spend time in this App. 
It is just that during those 2 years we are NS players including 1 year we’ve spent in Clan Wars, we’ve pretty much achieved everything that a Ninja Saga player would ever desire. 
• We’ve built the most powerful Clan in NS (8 championships while others had just about 1-3). 
• We’ve filled a full jutsu bar with Clan Wars Reward Jutsu 8/8. 
• We’ve reached a Hat-Trick of Championships (twice). 
• We’ve won against great Anti-Zhen alliances twice already. 
• We have exposed cheaters and even beat them too for not a few times. 
• We’ve beaten up those couple of worthy opponents, who’ve ever managed to bring us a little bit of challenge, in such extend that they’ve either disbanded their Clans or had most of their worthy members joining Zheninjas. 

Are you going to disband your Clan? 
No. We are not going to disband Zheninjas. It is the oldest Player Clan that still exists in Ninja Saga (ID:10003) and the best of reference for future clans to be inspired by us and never lose hope if they are planning to ever become Champions. 
Who knows.. maybe the clan can be used as a PvP clan in the future (we are examining this possibility) 

Are you going to participate season-15? 
Like I said before, we have decided that it is time for us to give some space to smaller clans to become Great and Popular like Zheninjas. Therefore, it would be vain to interfere with Clan-Wars anymore even if season-15 would have been a rather easy season for us to get another championship. 
Besides, we already have enough CW Champion Rewards and a really great CW History that we don’t have to prove every season. 
Hopefully, smaller clans will rise with the help of Zhen members who will join them soon. 
May the Spirit of Zhen lives on in NS and players finally come to understand and respect each other. 

Why did you chose season-14 to be your last one and not another? What happened with PK on that season? 
We’ve chosen s14 to be our last season because we’ve complete all our desired achievements back in season-13 when we got our 8th cw rewards to equip our 8-slot jutsu bar. 
Therefore, the reason we ever played season-14 was because we have anticipated by earlier seasons that there was something wrong with PK’s defense and we wanted to check it out. 
We’ve technically asked the DEVs to focus on specific logs during the last hour of Clan Wars and went into full and non-stop draining against PK to see what would happen. 
Keep in mind that we would have easily keep on gaining reps and get rank-2 with a big gap from rank-3 but Zhen has never been a clan to fight for lower than rank-1 so we have at least decided to become the sacrificial lambs in order to trigger a series of new measures by DEVs to make NS and CWs a more fair game. 
We first thought that PK were using some sort of debugger on 20-30 of their members to refill non-stop with incredible speed only bots can reach using cheap tokens at the same time. 
However, to everyone’s surprise, our experiment has been successful! Devs have checked their logs and realized that during those 15 minutes we’ve all used our chars to drain PK it appeared as if Zhenijnas has stopped gaining reps but not attacking anyone either..!! 
Since that was not what they expected to see, DEVs opened PK defense logs for the final hour of season-14 and realized that from 23:00 to 23:59 Server time PK seemed to have received only 1 attack in total by all clans of Ninja Saga! 
I guess now you can all understand why PK has decided to dismiss their clan.. 

Ofcourse, there was another positive side effect in the whole story.. DEVs have decided to check payments of all top10 Clan members and deduct reputation gained of anyone who has ever bought illegal tokens during that season. I’m sure it will take some while until NS is totally clean but I’m confident that the day will eventually come and proud that my Clan has been the main reason this “hunt” has started! 

Why do you announce all these just a few hours before the end of season-15? 
We knew the alliances for the last day have already been formed and so we wanted to make things interesting by completely changing the scene as late as possible. This way Zhen haters will be left without a target and season-15 allies might stay without a target and start thinking of attacking each other. 
We never liked alliances either that’s why we never had any since season-1, therefore we hope clans will be “forced” to play on their own this season. 

In addition, there's something more that made me decide it would be the best to make a very late announcement. 
Many of you have been saying in the past that Zhen is not boycotting and you used that as an excuse not to boycott with your clans but the truth is you never had the balls to boycott for real. 
Our late announcement has actually left players with almost no time to think of an alternative way to spend their tokens in clan wars to either support zhen or fight against them.. 
In other words we've indirectly caused a mass boycott in Season-15. Yay! 

Do you think that there will be new clans to become the “New Zheninjas” in Power after your pacification in Clan Wars? 
Ofcourse! We are looking forward to this, in fact, the reason we pacify from clan wars is exactly to let someone else take our place.
For your information, Zheninjas is the only clan that has built its own Clan-Management System (Designed and Programmed by Jin) therefore managing Zhen in NS as a side project while we put our full focus on RIFT and Diablo-3 would have been possible and quite easy. 
However, wouldn’t that be just Greedy? We won like 70% of Clan Wars already.. It’s better for CWs and NS to see another one rising in our steps and having Zhen pacify in CWs a big space for all other clans to occupy will open up! 
There’s also the possibility that there will be a new clan to break our Records in the future but this will happen only because we won’t be there anymore.. :p 

There must be many Zhen members who are not happy with this decision.. Why don’t you just leave the clan to someone else or call a council of experienced old members to take care of the clan? 
Zheninjas is the most organized Clan in NS so far therefore a quite complicated one to lead. My experience in leading Rank-1 Clans in other games before Ninja Saga has shown me that teams, groups and clans in general require a strong figure that everyone will believe in and whose name will be linked with that clan. Creating councils etc has been tested before in the previous games I’ve been and prooved me that Leadership is a Virtue, it can’t be taught or learned. Officer systems 99.9% of times create rings of influence within the clan and lead to schisms (if you check CW history you will see many of these occasions). 
Even if there was a council or a new leader to take over, they would still use the Clan’s History and Achievements to progress.. However, our intentions are different.. we want fresh clans to infest NS top-ranks and we expect that ex-Zhen who will still be interested to play Clan Wars will bring the desired effects when they join new clans or create their own. 

What else do you see in the future of clan wars without Zhen? 
As you know, Zhen has always had a love-hate tragedy with many CW participants.. that’s because almost everyone wants to join Zheninjas but a few could manage to make it through so far. 
Therefore, there have been some disappointed ones (mostly kids) who had decided to “hate us”, in addition to those who have used this hatred as their only pitiful way to keep their clan members united. As they say “Envy is nothing but crashed admiration.” 
With our clan out of Clan-Wars we are putting an end in NS World hatred not only because Zhen vs Anti-Zhen flaming will cease to exist but also because ex-Zhen will join several clans while keeping their old bonds with each other creating this way a friendship and understanding between clans in the future that will prevent new hatred from being created. 

So, what are you going to do from now on Jin? 
Well, we’ve already said that Zheninjas is not quitting NS, just pacifying from ClanWars in NS and moving to a new, subscription mmo-rpg game called “RIFT”. 
We are also planning to make our big appearance in Diablo-3 hopefully on November-December 2011. Expect to see us leading the world wide rankings there :p 
As for NS, I’m going to keep in touch with my Zhen friends who are not moving to those games with us and focus on my position as NS Forum Global Mod as well as writing NS stories, WIKI and forwarding suggestions for a better CW System & PVP System. (No, you are not getting rid of me) 

If you are interested in following us in RIFT or D3 feel free to send me a PM in my forum account. 
We will keep you up to date through our official website: http://www.zheninjas.com/ 

Anything else you would like to add? 
I want to thank all those who have contributed in their own way to make Zhen what we are today. 
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(alphabetically placed and the season they joined - some of them were leechers or spies but we still thank them) 

I could have never manage to build such a great clan without your valuable help and I admit that of all the clans I’ve brought to rank-1 so far Zhen is the best.. 
Now that we are too big for a FB game like NS it is time for us to start a new adventure in a more serious game where our efforts will pay off to their full extend. Ofcourse some are not able to follow and we completely understand but we hope to keep in touch through our Zhen FB-groups and Xat-Rooms. 

Special thanks to Zhen haters for crying our name every time they got pounded, making us more and more famous. :p 

Last but not least, all the money that we have collected through our member contributions so far have been used for Charity with the help of my dear friend and fellow Zheninja, Khaled, who has organized a poor-feeding delivery in Jordan on behalf of Zheninjas.