Date / Time
History
Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear
The Enclave was first established in January of 1998 as a Rainbow 6 gaming clan on Mplayer. The Enclave held the title of champions for 2 years in Rainbow Six and one in Rogue Spear. The style of gameplay and use of tactics of the Rainbow Six Genre appealed to many members of The Enclave.
Team Fortress Classic
Having completely commandeered the R6 scene and with Mplayer’s sellout to Gamespy Industries the Enclave looked towards Team Fortress Classic for their next game. However, The Enclave failed to achieve the instant success they had in Rainbow Six. After a few months the decision was made to join CLQ and start partaking in tournaments. Soon after, SOPs or Standard Operation Procedures were established for TFC maps such as Well2, NML, CZ2 and others.
The Enclave was responsible in creating several of the most popular maps in TFC tournament history such as the Wstland series (1, 2, 3 and 4) and the ever popular and self titled map "Enclave" which was used in nearly every single league after the fall of the CLQ.
The climax for The Enclave in TFC was their victory in the 10v10 CLQ championship match against "DNoD" - the top tier clan from QTF and previous CLQ champions for 99'. This was considered by many to be the most controversial championship of the CLQ in that the clan who won it did so on a map one of their members made. After a 2 year CLQ championship reign, many members were experiencing severe burn out. many left and were never heard from again and the lost passion to play quickly lead to the Enclave becoming, according to many of its members, a shell of it's former self.
PlanetSide
Undoubtedly the Enclave's claim to MMO fame, The Enclave quickly became the most effective yet controversial outfit in all of Emerald/Konried. It’s reputation for being a brutally effective yet culturally uncouth group of players spread across multiple communities and their presence lives with the remnants of the PlanetSide player base to this day.
The Enclave pioneered and improved upon the most tried and true tactics and strategy on both a global and planetary scale. The Enclave unlike no other outfit was capable of pulling off impressive feats of organization, at it’s prime it’s numbers swelled to over 300 and with this they were able to run the most effective combined arms operations in all of PS.
Early in 2005, with the advent of BFR’s and dwindling interest in the game, the Enclave decided to leave. In little over 1 year The Enclave accumulated 6.9 million outfit points, the highest on its server across all three sides to this day, beating out outfits with twice as many members and who played for twice as long as The Enclave did.
Notable Events and Partakings
The Cyssor Bombing
In December 2003 the Planetside server Konreid was merging with its sister server Emerald as a part of the “Battle Concentration Initiative”. The leaders of each of the three empires staged a meeting on a small plot of land south of Planetside's largest landmass: Cyssor. The meeting was purely ceremonial and was meant as a place for all 3 sides to meet and take screenshots during the final hours of their server. The Enclave, being strictly loyalist to the Terran Republic, would not have any part in it. So during the climax of the event, which was to be a massive screenshot, 3 liberators manned by members of the Enclave flew over the island and decimated everyone on it, thus beginning hostilities between The Enclave and some of the Planetside community.
The Battle of Neit
Late in 2005 a little known planetside player name Raider05 was reported to have “died”. A massive funeral procession was held for this in game. Former members of The Enclave, as the Planetside phase of The Enclave was officially disbanded, took it upon themselves to bomb the “ceremony”. The resulting debacle is considered one of the more intense in the history of online gaming. The situation eventually developed into the permanent banning and blacklisting of many The Enclave's members from all SOE games.
Watch the "Battle of Neit" video (YouTube)
World of Warcraft
Release - Bleeding Hollow, Mug'thol
World of Warcraft was The Enclave’s first experience in MMORPGs. The Enclave played on the server Bleeding Hollow and later Mug’thol. The Enclave achieved numerous milestones such as becoming the first guild on Bleeding Hollow with a charter and a tabard, as well as becoming the first guild to have 5, 10, 25, and then 50 level sixty characters, and being the first Alliance to win a 40v40 AV on the server.
The Enclave focused almost exclusively on PvP. However, one and a half years after World of Warcraft’s release date it dawned on The Enclave's members that in order to compete in the game’s “endgame” they had to partake in raid instances. The Enclave eventually attempted raid instances but quickly "burned out" as it was not what many of its members wanted to do. The Enclave was soon after disbanded as its core membership lost interest in the game.
During this interim period, many members continued to play WoW, while others played strategy games such as Dawn of War. Some even took part in a limited venture into DAoC.
The Return - Tortheldrin
The Enclave returned to WoW in 2007, with a promise to not leave until something better comes out, and to play WoW the "Enclave Way". While the majority of old members rolled new characters, many transferred from other servers to rejoin the guild. The Enclave took Tortheldrin by storm, bringing world PvP back to the game. Even though the server was massively Horde dominated, the Enclave suceeded in killing all faction bosses, at prime-time, which many thought would be impossible.
A New Server - Andorhal
Seeing that Tortheldrin was dying (as was the case with most new expansion servers for Alliance), The Enclave decided that a transfer would breath new life into the game. In preperation for Lich King, most members wanted to be on a server with better population and ping, hence a transfer was agreed upon.
The Enclave was first established in January of 1998 as a Rainbow 6 gaming clan on Mplayer. The Enclave held the title of champions for 2 years in Rainbow Six and one in Rogue Spear. The style of gameplay and use of tactics of the Rainbow Six Genre appealed to many members of The Enclave.
Team Fortress Classic
Having completely commandeered the R6 scene and with Mplayer’s sellout to Gamespy Industries the Enclave looked towards Team Fortress Classic for their next game. However, The Enclave failed to achieve the instant success they had in Rainbow Six. After a few months the decision was made to join CLQ and start partaking in tournaments. Soon after, SOPs or Standard Operation Procedures were established for TFC maps such as Well2, NML, CZ2 and others.
The Enclave was responsible in creating several of the most popular maps in TFC tournament history such as the Wstland series (1, 2, 3 and 4) and the ever popular and self titled map "Enclave" which was used in nearly every single league after the fall of the CLQ.
The climax for The Enclave in TFC was their victory in the 10v10 CLQ championship match against "DNoD" - the top tier clan from QTF and previous CLQ champions for 99'. This was considered by many to be the most controversial championship of the CLQ in that the clan who won it did so on a map one of their members made. After a 2 year CLQ championship reign, many members were experiencing severe burn out. many left and were never heard from again and the lost passion to play quickly lead to the Enclave becoming, according to many of its members, a shell of it's former self.
PlanetSide
Undoubtedly the Enclave's claim to MMO fame, The Enclave quickly became the most effective yet controversial outfit in all of Emerald/Konried. It’s reputation for being a brutally effective yet culturally uncouth group of players spread across multiple communities and their presence lives with the remnants of the PlanetSide player base to this day.
The Enclave pioneered and improved upon the most tried and true tactics and strategy on both a global and planetary scale. The Enclave unlike no other outfit was capable of pulling off impressive feats of organization, at it’s prime it’s numbers swelled to over 300 and with this they were able to run the most effective combined arms operations in all of PS.
Early in 2005, with the advent of BFR’s and dwindling interest in the game, the Enclave decided to leave. In little over 1 year The Enclave accumulated 6.9 million outfit points, the highest on its server across all three sides to this day, beating out outfits with twice as many members and who played for twice as long as The Enclave did.
Notable Events and Partakings
The Cyssor Bombing
In December 2003 the Planetside server Konreid was merging with its sister server Emerald as a part of the “Battle Concentration Initiative”. The leaders of each of the three empires staged a meeting on a small plot of land south of Planetside's largest landmass: Cyssor. The meeting was purely ceremonial and was meant as a place for all 3 sides to meet and take screenshots during the final hours of their server. The Enclave, being strictly loyalist to the Terran Republic, would not have any part in it. So during the climax of the event, which was to be a massive screenshot, 3 liberators manned by members of the Enclave flew over the island and decimated everyone on it, thus beginning hostilities between The Enclave and some of the Planetside community.
The Battle of Neit
Late in 2005 a little known planetside player name Raider05 was reported to have “died”. A massive funeral procession was held for this in game. Former members of The Enclave, as the Planetside phase of The Enclave was officially disbanded, took it upon themselves to bomb the “ceremony”. The resulting debacle is considered one of the more intense in the history of online gaming. The situation eventually developed into the permanent banning and blacklisting of many The Enclave's members from all SOE games.
Watch the "Battle of Neit" video (YouTube)
World of Warcraft
Release - Bleeding Hollow, Mug'thol
World of Warcraft was The Enclave’s first experience in MMORPGs. The Enclave played on the server Bleeding Hollow and later Mug’thol. The Enclave achieved numerous milestones such as becoming the first guild on Bleeding Hollow with a charter and a tabard, as well as becoming the first guild to have 5, 10, 25, and then 50 level sixty characters, and being the first Alliance to win a 40v40 AV on the server.
The Enclave focused almost exclusively on PvP. However, one and a half years after World of Warcraft’s release date it dawned on The Enclave's members that in order to compete in the game’s “endgame” they had to partake in raid instances. The Enclave eventually attempted raid instances but quickly "burned out" as it was not what many of its members wanted to do. The Enclave was soon after disbanded as its core membership lost interest in the game.
During this interim period, many members continued to play WoW, while others played strategy games such as Dawn of War. Some even took part in a limited venture into DAoC.
The Return - Tortheldrin
The Enclave returned to WoW in 2007, with a promise to not leave until something better comes out, and to play WoW the "Enclave Way". While the majority of old members rolled new characters, many transferred from other servers to rejoin the guild. The Enclave took Tortheldrin by storm, bringing world PvP back to the game. Even though the server was massively Horde dominated, the Enclave suceeded in killing all faction bosses, at prime-time, which many thought would be impossible.
A New Server - Andorhal
Seeing that Tortheldrin was dying (as was the case with most new expansion servers for Alliance), The Enclave decided that a transfer would breath new life into the game. In preperation for Lich King, most members wanted to be on a server with better population and ping, hence a transfer was agreed upon.