The Age of Abandonmen is a time referred to stating the general collapse of the of MineZ Clan Community. After the game wide failure of Spookyfest 2018, clan activity was at a new all time low. Clans such as TB, DB, TNW and the UTC were not hosting events regularly or playing the game to any high consistency. After the disbanding of TB, TIN was almost immediately the most active clan trailing slightly behind the UTC. After TB's Family Reunion the UTC's newfound common wealth had a huge crush to morale and activity while simultaneously surging TIN into it's spot as the best current clan in MineZ. Shortly after TIN began going to Hasa as the rest of the game was considered "dead."
During December TIN and the UTC had multiple skirmishes, as well as Jam Stepping down from the Leadership.
After being scammed 9 months earlier cyclone had finally gotten the chance to scam Irish by killing him with combat alts left over from TB. It should also be noted that this was the last notable usage of combat alts.
TB Family Reunion included half TIN, half ex-TB member. In an approximately 7v15 at logging camp TB/TIN forces crashed a UTC-Common Wealth Cake Party. The Coalition got 12 kills, a few being repeated kills on people running back north and suffered no casualties. This event marked the last time all Brotherhood Elders (Except Jam) would fight along side one another.
On December 14th 2018, Kevory baited Cyclone and Alfa into a fight against three hostiles. Kevory said he had died at Frostbain to hardcore kids and asked for someone to come and kill them for him. Cyclone and Alfa both responded and met at the Agni Statue. However once walking into the town, just minutes after Kevory had died there were not entities despite Cyclone keeping the chunks loaded from just a minute after Kevory's death. Moments after Cyclone and Alfa cleared the town they were attacked by Treetop_Archer and one of his friends. After seeing Treetop Cyclone imeadietly gave the call to retreat. However it was soon very clear Alfa was in no condition to run due to having only one sugar. Cyclone and Alfa then turned to take the fight. During this time a third hostile appeared and Alfa died. Treetop chased Cyclone to Paluster before saying "your fucking cancer" and leaving Cyclone. It was unclear whether or not it was affiliated with the UTC or not, but it should be noted Kevory told Irish where he actually died to the hardcore kids, Crowmure.
On December 18th 2018 Jam stepped down due to being too busy with his real life commitments. In this respect Jam showed that TIN's leadership was drastically different than TB's as a leader who was unable to put forth the time necessary to run the clan, stepped down.
A Revenge 9 Months in the Making
TB Family Reunion
The Actual Location of the Hardcore Kids in the Common Wealth's Travel Advisory Text Channel
January of 2019 featured many controversies in TIN as well as MineZ.
The Noob Army was the backbone of TIN's military strength until early March. The Noob Army consisted of cannon fodder, accompanied by Cyclone and Teckit. It should be noted Tuna was hacking at this point so his accolades aren't to be noted.
On January 10th members of Team No Lackin, formerly known as S-Class learned how to use a hacked client to disconnect players. This was used to combat log any players and then hit their defenseless NPC and steal all of their loot. Now Mini-Admin AsianLittleKid was strongly affiliated with this group at this time.
During a slew of inactivity Zbot for a second time leaked classified information from the leadership text channel into the minez text channel of Shotbow's discord. Cyclone had the inside scoop that Doc was going to add a PvE town in the future despite the community being against it. After this leak, Cyclone demoted Zbot. Zbot stated that he was going to step down shortly anyways because of his inactivity so he didn't mind the demotion.
On January 27th the Recode Update was released. This update rebalanced most locations loot and also added the South pole.
It was around this time that TIN's first real dungeoneering began. TIN members attempted had at least one serious attempt at the dungeon each day from its release until the clan beat it on January 31st.
Legendary Item from the Christmas Dungeon shown by Teckit
February of 2019 featured the end of the Age of Abandonment following the weeks after the Recode Update
On February 6th 2019 Shotbow added a 7x multiplier to everyone's current multiplier. This was very quickly used in an Exp farm set up on GG to get multiple new players to their grapples. After an hour and a half of farming three people had gotten 50k exp in combination with a 70k exp code and had purchased grapples. The clan also did a game of slaughter on Moria and won, getting everyone another 5-7k exp.
On February 10th 2019 Roquel, Asianlittlekid, ACrispyTortilla, Pichu2002, and Gjrocks09 got the staff rank Mini-Admin. Imeadeitly after being promoted Cyclone warned his clan members to keep their eyes peeled for any suspicious activities. Shortly after being promoted Roquel began to leak things to Cyclone about how staff worked. Things such as premium players being harder to ban than non-premium players were confirmed. Later, during the investigation against Ex-TIN Noble Alfa, Roquel provided vital information stating Alfa had been lying about not playing and showed proof of him using reach in a fight.
Fun fact: Cyclone originally thought Asian would be abusive, and after a month of there being no abuse Cyclone issued a public apology to Asian.
One week after the Recode Update was released and after understanding the new banning system Cyclone began to disassemble the combat alt network from TB. Using combat alts with the new ban rules ran the risk of everyone who logged into said combat alt getting all of their accounts banned. If Person A logs into account X on their IP, IP J, and person B logs into account X on IP K and then proceeds to hack on account X, any accounts that have logged into IP J and K will be permanently banned. This update didn't hurt TIN very much though since combat alts were already largely phased out due to the man power not being competent to wield these alts effectively. The decommissioning process was completed by February 18th.