Grid War
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The Grid/Swarm Conflict, commonly referred to as The Grid War was a war between a coalition of numerous small factions, notably GRID and Re:struct, against Neuro-sama's Swarm on Canvas 81.
The war has been condemned by many small factions, all viewing osu!'s actions as heavily monopolic in nature. (Citation needed, lil bro -User:Neurofumo)
Origins
osu! earlier encountered tensions with Slavborea, a Re:struct provincial faction dedicated to the creation of Slavic artwork. Re:struct's lattice, a vast extension of their bird's yellow tail, was rapidly colored in and reduced to the original rectangle by the purple osu! lattice. osu! argued that the Slavborean lattice was a bad example of virgin abuse, or the deliberate avoidance of using non-default background colors. Slavboreans were unhappy with the divide between their lattice and half of their artwork, fearing a wipe of their artwork by osu!. Ultimately, they retreated, trusting the osu! lattice with handling their artwork.
Later, Neuro Sama's Swarm joined C81 after Sinder Canvas ended, by now consisting of a fraction of the most dedicated and enthusiastic players wishing to learn more about the game. As they joined 2 weeks after the latest canvas reset, the canvas was too full for large arts and thus The Swarm focussed on small arts instead. After quickly finishing all of their small arts, they were told of a possible collaboration on the next canvas, C82, with GSm and osu!
As a result The Swarm members were told to be in hibernation for the rest of C81, but were given osu!'s template for any dedicated placers who wished to keep placing(Gsm's art template had been completed by this point in time). At this point osu!'s template consisted of expanding a purple arrow lattice across the canvas.
Following the osu! template provided, The Swarm were keen to expand northward to secure and connect to the co ordinates 727,727 which osu! had placed a mini-osu! logo at, thus connecting of all the osu! and Swarm arts on the canvas under one unified lattice.
During the expansion, Re:struct's lattice was quickly forming along a bottleneck and was seen as a roadblock that cut off the connection to mini_osu!
Deeming the lattice and the grid behind it as a threat to their connection path, The Swarm now enacted Operation Connect-To-Mini-osu!, which involved placing over the Re:struct lattice and The Grid in order to open a path for connection. When later asked, The Swarm claimed they were unaware of the (currently mostly empty) Grid's purpose as a place for newcomers to place small arts, and were keen to place over it as it appeared to be a mostly empty and inactive faction claim that due to it's shape, spawned alot of flat flags which The Swarm notoriously hunts and is vocal about repeatedly destroying on event canvasses on which they had previously participated. To this effect, one member of The Swarm drew a "No flags!" sign next to the grid days earlier to discourage new players from making flat flags in The Grid.
The expansion operation was expectably met with resistance from Re:struct and The Grid. Noticing the defense and learning from pxls chat that The Grid did not wish for their grid to be covered by lattice, The Swarm decided to put up an Art template with which to cover northern expanse of The Grid, and pushed on with their connection operation. During this operation, members of osu! were also expanding the lattice on various fronts around the map, but included some placers on the north front, who joined on building The Swarm artwork and covering of The Grid, whose participation was noticed by and angered various members of other factions. Noticing the community's anger, template-managers of osu! rushed to mask out various still-intact artworks that still existed on the grid, but by this point the majority of the grid had already been covered, with many Swarm members simply following anything their template told them to place.
With help from some osu! placers, The Swarm were successful in constructing their artwork and covering what remained of The Grid, but left a couple grid blocks with art which managed to be masked from the template in time.
Due to The Swarm's usage of the osu! lattice and some placers from osu!'s faction participating in the expansion operation, there was some confusion amongst other factions and members of pxls chat on who was behind the expansion, which lead to an ersatz alliance against the "osu!" faction who copped a major portion of the blame, due to earlier tensions relating to Slavborea, and also in part due to osu!'s large size and high placing power. This resulted in an ersatz alliance being formed in pxls chat between the already collaborating factions Grid and Re:struct, joined by volunteers from chat to block the rest of the expansion attempt.
Due to being very vocal in pxls chat, a significant amount of players joined in on the resistance, some of which would use various tactics which The Swarm would later consider as dirty, such as using duplicate artwork placed in chokepoints, certain individuals switching to osu!'s lattice colors to grief arts that osu!/swarm had been instructed to protect and had pledged not to cover and blaming the swarm/osu! for doing so in chat in what the swarm would later consider as "reputation smearing attempts", the usage of various lattices to attack on multiple fronts, some of which being very lazily or entirely skipping connection to previously established latticed areas to more optimally block the expansion attempts, and later being vocal about how it was unethical for the expansion to continue over other such lattices.
The resistance and expansion then continued for much of the rest of the day, with pxls chat being very vocal against The Swarm who by now seemed to be widely recognised as the primary culprits and seemingly allies of the unpopular "evil osu!" faction.
After a day of resistance and what The Swarm would later consider as increasing brazen and dirty tactics, The Swarm was successful in establishing a solid connect to mini_osu!, during which The Grid was almost fully rebuilt and was beingexpanded, which The Swarm allowed as it was being quickly filled with small arts and not attracting flags and not wanting to further atagonise other factions. However, it was noticed by The Swarm that many small grid blocks weren't filled by "new players" as advertised in the earlier conflict, but rather names The Swarm recognised as being part of the resistance from the day prior. The expansion of the grid continued and eventually reach the "No Flags" sign placed earlier by a Swarm member. As tensions rose amidst The Swarm members after almost a full day of what the Swarm considered untruthful statements in pxls chat and the now-obvious attack against The Swarm's sign, a Swarm Art template was thrown together, aiming to cover The Grid as retaliation for the past day of tactics and attack on the sign, thus resulting in the Grid War.
Battles
On 20 July 2024, an unprovoked attack against an underpopulated GRID began with the takeover of the Liberia cell. Negotiations between two sides quickly fell apart due to hostility, manifesting as smugness from osu! and dismay from GRID; this can be attributed to a lack of major conflicts for multiple canvases straight. (Citation needed -User:Neurofumo) After valid complaints from many unrelated minor factions about the GRID community being replaced with a simple lattice, the NSS painted a major part of the grid over with their art, an indisputable maneuver.
GRID, in an attempt to revive the community project, relocated southwest. On 21 July, construction began once more. Land was donated for the project by Meta:struct and the Brazilian Empire. The NSS once again painted this section over following a conflict between one GRID placer and their poorly placed "NO FLAGS" sign. (this is biased. afaik the sign was there before the grid even started building near it -User:Neurofumo) As part of further negotiations, the GRID offered to move this sign slightly further down, allowing for the final row of gridcells to be finished, but this proposal was rejected. The Swarm Council offered to relocate the grids somewhere else but this proposal was also denied. The Swarm Council claimed that GRID didn't give any chances of negotiation and so the war began.
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