BWUHAAHAAHAAAAAA.... I WIN!
Some of you may have noticed me disappearing for a little while... I was fighting two (symbolic) battles over the last few days.  The first one was against a terrible cold that left me completely useless for two straight days and continues to nag at me.  The other was against the evil electrons in my computer equipment.  But I am victorious!  I am able to swallow real food and breathe through my nose again (yippee) and I also have a new motherboard and 450Mhz processor!   (I knew you'd be excited to hear about this)   I'm still reinstalling all my software (damn windows don't like being transplanted to a whole new body like a kidney or something), but I should be totally finished in about another day.  HA HA HA  NO LONGER will the evil Lag Monster be able to kill me as I wait for the damn map to redraw.  I will be as quick and nimble as that guy with the candle thingie.  I AM INVINCIBLE!!!  OW... cough cough

I'll be testing out my new stuff over the next few days against whoever shows up online.... so step right up!  Oh and I had two people write to me about 3TeamCTF.  Both of them said they downloaded it but nothing about playing it.  The maps all seemed pretty big and cpu-consuming so I'll be trying some 3TCTF as well.  ciao!
- FRaG GoD -[7:45 pm EST]

Crew in Action...
Last night we had our practice with 6e9 on the server. We didn't have many guys show up but that was to be expected due to the time of year. Jobujo and Marv were both there with me. Also I think Freezer showed up later on as well. 6e9 had around 5-7 guys coming in and out. We had a good time. I was doing some major sniper action on them on the Urban2 map, hehe.

Anyway we are planning on having a much more...organized practice on our next night. This will be 2 weeks from now. So not next Tuesday but the one after that. (1/12/99 to be exact). I updated our practice list above. - Jazzman-X-[11:00 am EST]

*CTF practice cancelled
I got word from Gator that the practice for tonight was cancelled by the IWG clan. Basically the holidays are still going on and it is a little to much to expect people to show up. So feel free to play on our CTF server tonight if you want. I know that Gator and Toxoph are probably both planning on being on there tonight.  - Jazzman-X-[11:00 am EST]

Daily Jazz...
I hope all of you had a good X-mas. Mine was great. I got plenty of cool stuff. Several DVD movies, clothes, etc. I got some gift certificates and money also. With those I went and bought the new game "Starseige: Tribes" yesterday.

All I can say is very cool. Gator, you should check this out. It has several versions of online multiplayer including a CTF variant. The game is very cool. The big thing about it is there is like zero lag!! You heard me right. I didn't believe it either when I heard it from others but after playing for 3 hours last night I can truly say this game has mastered the internet ping/lag situation. Very impressive.

This game is also very team oriented. You can have a team commander that can go to a command window and assign commands, waypoints etc. He can watch his teammates, control gun turrets, among other things. You have things that require players to work together like one guy who fires a long range mortar while another sets up laser aim points at the target. You even have flying crafts that you can travel in to raid the enemy base and drop off your teammates or attack from the air. You have 3 types of armor to choose from and a good selection of weapons. If any of you get it let me know so we can play together. - Jazzman-X-[9:00 am EST]

***AQ2 Practice tonight with 6e9
We have a practice with 6e9 tonight on our server. The server will be locked down with the same password we have used with them the last 2 times. I will post it on the members page for WC guys. I am sure Blake or RRyan will remember it. I will send an email to them here in just a bit. As it says above 9pm EST. This is an hour later than we had originally planned but today is Toxoph's B-day (All WC members write him and call him an old fart, hehe). I am going to his house for it around 630pm so 8pm just would not work for the 2 of us. You know that women thing would keep us from playing. Should be home and done by 9pm. See you all there. - Jazzman-X-[9:00 am EST]

New articles for members site coming soon...
I received material from Gator and....someone else for articles. I will be posting them soon. Anyone else that has some cool tips, strategies, whatever please send it to me so I can get it up on the site. Antimatter, lets see those articles you been hyping for a couple months, hehe. Also I would love to see maybe a one map strategy section from Marv or Jobujo describing how they play a particular level. Areas to be in, weapons to use for different situations, etc. I am going to write one on cliff and should have it up soon. Just send me articles as a .txt or MS Word file attached to an email and I will convert it to the site for you. - Jazzman-X-[10:00 am EST]

AQ2 Classic map of the week...
As some of you know I have decided to run 1 classic map a week on the Action Quake server. This is of the maps that were out in the beginning that captured the some of that original feeling of AQ2. Last weeks map was hostage2. This week the selection is locknload. You can get it here. This file is actually the classic maps of locknload and Coventry I think. Anyway go pick it up. This is a cool map. I used to love try to kick guys off the roof of this map.

Any of you WC guys that want to recommend the choice for next week just send it my way. I know Antimatter was thrilled with Hostage2 last week, hehe. Let me know what you guys would like to see. - Jazzman-X-[10:00 am EST]

Action Quake files update
I forgot to mention this as soon as it happened but the MapDepot guys fixed the TeamPack file so all 3 map packs are working now.   They are a little different from the original ones.  If you haven't done so already, you should clean out your Action folder and install all 3 new mappacks so you have the latest stuff.  Well actually you might want to wait until the next version of the AQ client files comes out and do it all at once, but make sure you make backup copies of your config.cfg and any other .cfg files before reinstalling AQ.  If you're still using the old client files or mappacks, you may see people running around as reservoir dogs because the skins have different names now, or you may see different sections of maps as colored squares.  Two maps currently run on our server but not in the new map packs are the original Cliff, and Avenue11 which you can download by clicking on the names.
- FRaG GoD -[4:00 pm EST]

Action Movies update:
Evil Hong Kong Kung-Fu Legions Petition For Right To Attack Two At A Time
VICTORIA, HONG KONG--The Red Dragon Legion, a union representing Hong Kong's 22 largest evil kung-fu goon squads, formally petitioned the Hong Kong action-film industry Monday to lift its long-term ban on dual-attacking in fights against the forces of good. "We feel it is both reasonable and fair to permit evil henchmen to pair up, attacking the hero two at a time," the petition read. The union cited a study which found that from 1989 to 1997, 100 percent of diabolical armies who took on lone heroes in a single-file fashion were defeated. 
- FRaG GoD -[4:00 pm EST]

Server changes...min ping & max ping
Ok I made a small setting change on our servers today. I set a min ping of 80 and max ping of 850. I did this after quite a bit of thought so please think about your reply to me before emailing me with a complaint.

I did this because of a particular thing that happen a few nights ago. Two players from the {RAV} clan were on the AQ server. They had pings in the 70's. They were on the same team and only had 4 people on their team vs. 7 on the other. They were still winning. Every time I got killed it was by the LPB players. My ping was like 200-220 so it was not that bad. Same with everyone on our team. It got to the point of being ridiculous. This kind of thing can take all the fun out of playing for the normal player.

Same thing as when we had the CTF practice on the IWG server. They had one guy in the 30's and another in the 60's to 70's, and yet another (I believe Biff) in the 80's. All of the other players were in the 120's to 300's. This made it very frustrating and unfair. (Note: IWG I know this is not your fault, please do not confuse this as me being mad at you guys.)

The deal is I want regular modem players and even cable modem players to have a good time. Those {RAV} guys..I know them. They all work at some big media firm in South Carolina and have a T3 in their office. They all come on our server around lunch time and just wail on all the regular players. I like them but that has got to stop. They need to just play on their LAN or something.

The good thing on these settings is the max ping one. This way if someone is really lagging out once they get up to 850 it kicks them. Most the time when a normal modem player lags for a few seconds they go up around 500-700 so hopefully by me making it 850 it won't kick you just for a quick lag. If you get up to 850 that usually means your going down for the count.  Let me know if any of you have problems.

Any feedback about this is welcome. I would love to hear any other solutions or comments.  
- Jazzman-X-[3:10 pm EST]

WC, Holidays, & Year in Review
First of all I want to wish a Merry Christmas to all of you. We have had a great year in WC and I look forward to another great year in '99 as well. We have added some excellent members this year and our core group has stayed strong. WC is going on 3 years old. This clan was built on the goals of making friends and having fun. I am very proud of how well we have achieved those goals set forth so long ago. Here is a few things we achieved this year:

• Went from having 1 server to 2. (CTF and AQ2 Teamplay)
• Played 7 matches in '98 compared to none in '97.(played scrimmages no "matches") All 7 of these took place in second half of the year.
• Played in AQ tournament and got to final 10 of 48 clans.
• Made alliances with IWG and 6e9 to have other clans to practice with.
• Moved main WC site under NeoReality and expanded on it immensely. Regular updates made almost daily through entire year.
• Now have 3 WC sites. One of which is a very informative members only site. Another is a secondary members created site.
• Went from around 10 members in '97  to 20 in '98. (we are looking to get to about 25 and then pull the plug)
• Had our first "LAN BLAST 1" WC LAN party. Was a great success and we look to having more in '99.
• Had our first WC party (Hooters) with several members showing up.
  

As you can see we accomplished a lot in '98. We had a small bump a few months ago but that has been worked out some (although we are still working at it). We have some huge things coming in '99. There are some great new games coming out, new tournaments starting, and we have several alliances set up with other clans to get more practices etc. going on.

There will also be a pretty big and cool new announcement coming from The NeoReality guys in early '99. We won't give any details out now but it will be cool.

Over the next week we will not really be planning anything. It is the holidays and we know everyone has things going on. So no practices or matches this week at all. The servers will be up and I will check them to restart as often as I can. Everyone just have fun and be careful. We are looking at next week on Tuesday having a Action Quake Teamplay practice with 6e9 on our server. Then on Wednesday I think we have a CTF practice with IWG on their server. Then the rest of that week will be nothing due to the New Year coming later in the week. So....again happy holidays to you all and if you have any questions let me know.  - Jazzman-X-[10:10 am EST]

Daily Jazz...
That news about TeamFortress II is not real surprising. Everyone knew it was gonna be a separate product but most thought it would be like a $19.99-$24.99 type add-on product. Now they just spend and extra month adding some stuff and make it install the HL engine stuff in a different folder and they can charge us $49.99 for it. Don't you just love the marketing guys at these companies? Hehe.

Well I will buy it regardless. The game looks to be the ultimate FPS for online team play. I always liked the idea of different character classes because it allows you to play to the style that you feel best suits your talents. Everyone should read the article FG linked below. I am sure you will all be as hyped up about it as we are. The mission types just sound too damn cool. - Jazzman-X-[10:10 am EST]

TeamFortress update
Not really a clan related thing, but still interesting... Valve, (makers of Half-Life) acquired the crew that made the original TeamFortress mod for Quake a few months ago with the intent of making TeamFortress II a commercial mod for Half-Life.  But as of yesterday (I think) Valve is saying that TeamFortress II   will instead be a full game by itself, based on the Half-Life engine.  Read that: TeamFortress II will be a full-priced game, separate from Half-Life.   So while they're basically shooting Half-Life in the foot as far as online multiplayer goes, they'll probably make up for it with TeamFortress sales.  Here is a link to a good Gamecenter Interview with Valve Guys that gives a lot of details about what TF2 will be and why they did it.  After reading that article I'm thinking that this game will be the best 1st person shooter game ever made so far.  It really takes on the best aspects of team play with a pretty good graphics engine.  But of course we'll have to wait and see what Q3: Arena has to offer...
- FRaG GoD -[2:45 am EST]

another thing
I did download the 3 team CTF mod a couple weeks ago and walked through the first couple maps by myself.  The whole concept seems really cool, but I haven't gotten a chance to play it online yet.   Anyone out there tried it yet?  Is it worth considering to upgrade to 3TCTF status as "old skool" CTF continues to grow stale, or is regular old CTF still the best there is?  Lemme know.  All you non-clan members can write me too.  I know you're reading this stuff so you might as well become involved...
- FRaG GoD -[2:45 am EST]

 

*New & Important article up on Members page
I just put up a new article on the members page. All of you should go check it out. Several of you will probably be very happy. Make sure you send any feedback my way. Let me know if it works or not. - Jazzman-X-[12:10 pm EST]

Crew at work...
I only played a little AQ last night. The following workers were on the job...Jobujo, Antimatter and  @myth. We had a good time. Me and Jobujo tore up some ass on Hostage2...Antimatter refused to play on it (he hates the level). I had a classic performance on teamjungle. I was down to only a knife against 3 enemies. I took out one guy..ran around and stayed alive for a good 2 minutes before the other 2 cornered me. The funny thing was how long I stayed alive with them shooting all around me. I would love to have a demo of it. I think the 6e9 guys were there making one. Maybe Blake will send a xmas gift my way. (hint hint) - Jazzman-X-[9:10 am EST]

Daily Jazz...
I spotted some activity over at the 6e9 site today. It appears Blake is now helping to update the site. We are still working on a bi-weekly practice thing in AQ Teamplay with them. I have 1 other clan interested in practicing with us but I feel 6e9 would be a better choice since we all get along pretty good already. We are shooting to practice on Tuesdays like around 8pm EST. I will let you know when I hear more from them. Hopefully it will be soon and we will shoot for next Tuesday.   - Jazzman-X-[9:00 am EST]

Crew at work...
Last night I showed up for the CTF practice with IWG. It was a fair turnout. Gator, Hirudin, Cheasy and  Canadian were all there. I think Freezer showed up later but the server crashed once. Its weird how the CTF server only crashes when we try to play with IWG, hehe. To much chaos going on I guess. The CTF server at one point when I was there was full with 16 players. Pretty cool.

Later on I went on the action server. Violent Marv and Toxoph were there with me. The 3 of us got on a team and for like 2 or 3 levels we whooped the other team of 3 to 4 guys really bad. The server was kinda quiet for a level or two then people started piling in around when Urban started up. I got to show off some of my sniper skills on teamjungle to Marv and Tox, hehe. Pretty good night overall.   - Jazzman-X-[1:00 pm EST]

Another new AQ map...
I am adding the map "cracked" (get it here) to the server. I am not sure about this one. Several people have said though that it is their favorite teamplay map so I am taking their word for it. I looked at it in single player and it seemed kinda tight..we can try it out for a day or two I guess.- Jazzman-X-[1:00 pm EST]

CTF Fragboard updated
I updated the board with stats for 12-4 through 12-17. You might notice a gap in the stats from the last one to this most current one. I reset that log by accident. Anyway check them out. We had an outsider at # 1. Gator came in with #2. Also we had 9 members in the top 40 of 198. Hell I was 32!! Pretty good for the amount of time it says.

A few other comments..man look at cabman's time!! Hehe, 14 hours!! Even Diablo was 9 hours. That shows how good Gator was with hi stats 3 hours less and so close to him. That wrathchild's stats look mighty suspicious. 185 frags in like an hour and a half?? I know that's only 1.7 per minute but still..seems pretty steep, he obviously plays like its deathmatch. I also thought Voodoo and Cheasy showed real well. Good job by all.- Jazzman-X-[10:00 am EST]

L-Fire CTF??
I was just doing some looking at this CTF server side mod. Has anyone played on a server using this? If you haven't heard of it go here to take a look. I sounds kinda cool, kindof like a combo between Lithium and maybe Viking it seems, not sure though. If any of you have any feedback on this I would like to hear it. Also I would like to know how many of you have played 3CTF. Just curious if either of these are something we may want to change our CTF server to. Let me know. - Jazzman-X-[11:50 am EST]

*Daily Jazz...
Well hopefully everyone knows we have a CTF practice on our server tonight at 9pm   with IWG. I am going to up the server to 16 but not use a password. One side note to all..I may not make it right on time. I have to go to my folks house tonight to get some help from my dad on fixing something. OK,OK...I got to get him to help me fix my damn lawnmower, hehe. The freaking thing is not working right, he knows more about that stuff than me...I mean shit the thing doesn't have a modem, ram, HD are anything in it. How the hell am I supposed to fix it? Hehe. I will hopefully make it later on depending on how long it takes. - Jazzman-X-[11:50 am EST]

Server stuff...
I did a little work on the server today. I was able to free up like almost 200mb of HD space. What I did (and don't try this at home kiddies) is something I believe Freezer recommended a while back. I deleted the pak0.pak file from the baseq2 directory on the server. This file is like 180mb. The only thing it means is I cannot play here at work (which I never do anyway) and I cannot run a regular DM server. Since we are running CTF and Action that pak file is not needed. It is only needed for client side not for a dedicated server like we are running. So....hopefully that should help the server perform a little better overall.

I also went through and cleaned out some other junk that helped some more. I was running the server with only around 150mb free now its up in the 300's. Much better overall I think. - Jazzman-X-[4:50 pm EST]

Daily Jazz...
Last night I was not around the servers too much. I played on the AQ server for about 20 minutes.

Right after I got on some little jerk using the name "Martagh" came in and started talking shit. He was complaining about the server lag, maps we were running, how everyone was killing him cheap, on and on. I told him to please shutup and just play. His response was of the colorful four letter "F" variety. I asked him a second time to just play. He replied same as before. So I promptly kicked him.

A few minutes later he came back. He said something about me kicking him because I couldn't stand to lose an argument. Huh? I asked him what argument. He then replied with "umm uhh, see you don't even know what it was. You just kicked me cause I killed you". Hehe. I had 8 frags to his 2 when I kicked him. Hehe. I asked him again to "Please just play, ok". He comes back with a "What a fucking jerk, ok Mr. Rcon bastard". Well you know what happen then.

I kicked him and then went on the server and added his IP pool to the ban list. After doing this the rest of the players on the server all applauded and said thanks to me, hehe. Still it ruined my attitude for the night and I went and watched TV and then went to bed. Sorry if I didn't see any of you on last night. Just thought I would share the whole story with you. If you guys ever see this jerk on another server give him some shit for me. - Jazzman-X-[8:20 am EST]

AQ2 tournament...
I am pretty sure we are entered in the tournament. I am going to email the main guy again to confirm but here is a link to the tournament site so you guys can check it out. They revised the rules to make it a little easier for clans to participate. Everyone playing make sure you go here and read over the rules. I do not think this tournament will be starting for a little while so we all have more time to practice. It appears they are still needing more clans to signup. - Jazzman-X-[8:20 am EST]

Important Q2 files to download page updated
I went and updated my list of important files to download for Q2.  It now has links to the latest versions of Q2 point releases, AQ, and CTF download files.  The NEW AQ MapPacks are out, but as of right now the TeamPack which was supposed to have been fixed, is still sending a corrupt 64k zip file when you try to download it.  I have already sent an email to Spectacle at MapDepot about it and I'll let you know when it's fixed.  There is also a link to a page I made which lists all the maps that are included in the New MapPacks with links to their Review pages.  I hope to soon have a page listing just the maps that are being run on our AQ server so that you can go their to quickly get any new maps that get put up.   Few days on that.

This whole section is to help those of you who can't find certain files, or who have just reinstalled their OS again, like I will be doing soon, and need easy access to all the major files needed to play CTF/AQ online.  In your weekly ritual sacrifices, please continue to pray for the downfall of Windows NT and Microsoft in general.  Hopefully one day we will be free of the oppressive power of shitty software forever.  Amen brothas!

Oh yeah, and CLQ is still crapped out.  I haven't played AQ DM mode for many months, and for the last two weeks I've gotten over two hours listed.  I also played well over 5 hours of CTF last week and it lists only 120 minutes.  What a huge waste of resources that thing is...
- FRaG GoD -[2:45 am EST]

 

New AQ map added to server..removed 2
I added the map Avenue11. When you unzip it though it is called avenue1. Hmm. Anyway You can get it here: Avenue11 telefragged mirror . I have not played on it but I have seen some pics and it looks good. I also read a few reviews on it that sounded good as well. I removed office3 and hostage2 from rotation as well.

So...everyone try to get Avenue11 and I will see you on there tonight. I plan on playing on the AQ server tonight around 7pm EST or so. I will then try to head over to CTF server around 9pm if I am still up by then.

Also has anyone else noticed that CLQ is screwed? I played several hours last week on CTF and it shows no CTF minutes for me. Remember Gator, me you and Tox played like 2 hours that one night. Weird.- Jazzman-X-[1:00 pm EST]

Something funny
Some of you guys that have known me for awhile know that several months back I was a writer/reviewer for Gamer's Digest. I quit because they kept redesigning the site so often that they would lose content and start from scratch. They also kept losing a following because the site was down so much for redesign. They redesigned the site 5 times in 6 months. Well check this out for you guys familiar with all this that I am talking about: Gamer's Digest. Pretty funny huh? - Jazzman-X-[11:30 am EST]

AQ Teamplay tournament- WC registered!
Ok, I think I have registered us in another AQ tournament. The reason I say think is because I tried to use the form on the tournament site and it did not work. So I sent an email to the guy running it. I have not received a confirmation back yet. I will put more details up on this as I get them. - Jazzman-X-[9:30 am EST]

This week in WC
Ok, just a few things going on this week:

Wednesday- CTF Practice with IWG clan on our server. 9pm EST.
Thursday- Possible AQ Teamplay practice with 6e9 on our server. 8pm EST.

I also have 2 other clans wanting to do practices with us on AQ which I am looking in to right now. Just trying to make sure we have time for all of this. Plus 6e9 is still trying to get stuff figured out for practices with us. I wanted to do them on Tuesday's but I have not had word back from them yet. - Jazzman-X-[9:30 am EST]

glDoom
Last week I downloaded the glDoom patch and fired it up on my system with Doom 2. I have to say that it is pretty cool. It makes Doom 2 look almost as good as Quake 2 in terms of sharpness and texture quality. Very cool. I sat and played through the first 8 or 9 levels again. You can get it here I think: gldoom stuff. I was not able to get there this morning, the server must be busy or down. If you have any full retail version of Doom or Doom2 you can use this I think. I recommend you guys check it out. It will bring back those fond memories of the game that started it all.  - Jazzman-X-[9:30 am EST]

Daily Jazz...
Well last night I did 2 things to my PC. First my damn anti-virus came up and said I should go get some new updates. So I figured sure go do it. Come to find out after a few minutes it wanted to download 10 megs worth of updates!!! Geez, I should be safe from myself now!

Then I have noticed the last few days after playing for a short time my HD would start popping some and give me some lag. So I went ahead and did a defrag check. Well 3 hours later it was done. But, I could notice a difference right away. I know most of you probably do this often (like I usually do, just forgot on the new PC) but if you have not in like the last couple months and have installed a bunch of new programs I highly recommend it.  - Jazzman-X-[9:30 am EST]

Match vs HPK Update
I have recieved a good response from all about this match, as it stands it looks like we will be holding this match next Wednesday (not this coming Wednesday) at 9:00pm.  The HPK would like to play 5 on 5 on two maps Smelter and Capture Showdown.  These maps should prove to be interesting for a match, I'm not too excited about the Lag level but hey I 'm not complaining..heh.  Remember this Wednesday is our practice scrimmage against IWG.   More info will follow I'm sure. - Freezer 1:33pm EST

WC Mailbag page up in members section
Well the title pretty much says it all. The Mailbag page has its first feedback comments on it from our newest member jobujo. - Jazzman-X-[12:10 am EST]

New article up on WC members page!!
I just put up a new article on the members page. It is a very informative article and a must read for everyone. As always remember all materials on the member site are top secret and the penalty of death or flogging with chocolate salty balls may apply if you reveal anything contained there.

I am still waiting for replies from many of you to let me know you can get into site ok. Please check the site out if you have not already. It will start to get a bunch of new articles added very soon. - Jazzman-X-[10:00 pm EST]

FG updates stuff
Finally a break from jail! errr school... if you wanna use the Politically Correct term.  Anyway I fixed up a bunch of stuff in the new members area but there's still alot more coming.  I also fixed the CLQ links AGAIN for anyone who still looks at that stuff.  They have a new domain now: www.theclq.com

Anyone who wants something put up on the site or some changes made, now is the time to speak up because I have about a week of free time to do this kind of stuff. 
- FRaG GoD-[2:00 pm EST]

New WC member!!
We added a new clan member today. His name is jobujo. He is a very good AQ2 player. With the additions of him and Violent Marv over the last few weeks we are quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with in AQ Teamplay. Everyone make sure to welcome him to the clan.

We are looking at adding about 3 or 4 more and then we will be shutting down our search for members. We have a few guys right now that we are talking to and finding out details. Expect more announcements soon. I still have not received word from all of you on if you got into the member site ok. Please let me know. Also keep watching that site for more cool stuff.  - Jazzman-X-[2:00 am EST]

3 new articles up on WC Members page
There is as the title says 3 new articles up on the members page. If you do not have the address, username and password let me know. I will ask again that everyone go to the site and make sure they can get in. Then please email me letting me know you can get in ok. Only Hirudin and Toxoph have responded. Also give me any feedback regarding the site. "Throw me a fricken bone here people..." - Jazzman-X-[Fricken Midnight EST]

***New CTF challenge recieved
Hey this looks like its your first "Respond or Die!!" message..hehe  I recieved a challenge from a new clan called The High Ping Killers , you may have seen them on the server lately, they use  [HPK] after their names.  I am wondering from all of you what day I should schedule this.  SO respond or die..hehe   Man I think I'm gonna like this new news key. 

In other biz, I will be on the AQ server tonight, I finally feel like actually playing more than a half an hour and I hope some of you can show up to make this interesting.  One more thing, in response to Jazz and his sniper rifle..it looks like he's kinda comfortable with that thing now..heh  I think he's been sleeping with it lately cause he has become one with it. - Freezer 11:32am EST

AQ2 server changes...
Ok I made a few map changes on our server. First of all I removed cliff2 from the rotation. That map pisses me the hell off. It has to have the most crappy spawn locations ever. I went ahead and put 2 old classic maps back in rotation: hostage2 and office3. This was per request from the AQ2 message board. I will probably only leave these 2 maps on for a couple days if that. All of you should have these maps already. If not go to mapdepot and get them. I am thinking about getting the new police hq map they have there. If any of you have played it let me know what you think of it. - Jazzman-X-[10:20am EST]

AQ2 practice tonight with 6e9
Well I have only had like 3 of you say you would show for practice tonight. So...this is going to be a real casual practice. I told Blake we may not have many show up so his guys could just come on by and we will see what happens. We are not going to lock the server down. It will still be open to the public. If we do get enough guys between our 2 clans there then we my restart the server locked down for a short time to get in some closed practice. Just have to wait and see. Everyone that can make it should try to be on around 8pm EST. - Jazzman-X-[9:00am EST]

WC Members Site
All of you should have received and email last night from me regarding the new WC members website. If you did not receive this email with the username & password then let me know. We will be try to convert articles there over the next few days. Plus, we have about 4 new articles that just need to be finished up to go on there. - Jazzman-X-[9:00am EST]

Butthole Surfer server crasher caught
Yesterday I was able to catch an individual that had been intentionally crashing our AQ2 server. It is a long story how I caught him but I did. I banned his name: DT and his entire IP pool. Last night the AQ server only crashed once. Hmmm. Kinda funny huh? It did crash 4 or 5 times a night before. I also banned one other guy who I half suspect for crashing the server. Decided not to take a chance. He is someone I had on a name ban but not IP. He came in last night doing...questionable things so I went ahead and added his IP to the ban list as well.- Jazzman-X-[9:00am EST]

Crew at work...
Last night I just played a little CTF. It was a small turn out but that was expected since this was a optional open practice night. Gator and Toxoph were there with me last night. We had like 5 walk-in's or so and it made for a pretty fun night. I think one level it was us three WC guys against 3 or 4 of them and we pulled it out.

Toxoph said he was playing some AQ last night but did not mention who was on with him. I plan to be on the AQ server tonight from about 7pm to 9pm maybe. That is if the little woman doesn't come in and start harassing me. Hehe.
- Jazzman-X-[9:00am EST]

Urban and Urban 2 map
I have been told many of you do not have the Urban2 map from AQ2. Here it is locally for you to get: Urban2. Unzip to your quake2/action folder. If our site is too slow for you go here and take your choice of download locations: Urban2 Telefragged Mirrors.

Here is where you can get the first Urban if you do not have it either: Urban Telefragged Mirrors.- Jazzman-X-[10:20am EST]

News, News, News...
Lots of news so kick back, put that rocket launcher down and grab your beer. The latest and greatest is here...also notice the new key above. This will hopefully grab your attention if we need you to respond. It will appear in front of news title as seen below. Of course you respond to whoever wrote the news item by clicking the name link at the end of the article. Thanks. - Jazzman-X-[9:20pm EST]

Crew at work...
Well tonight I played a little Action Quake. Freezer, Skream and Toxoph all stopped by while I was there. We had a pretty good time. As Freezer was witness I did some ass kicking sniper action on Urban2. I had like 21 frags at level end. I am definitely getting better and better with it. I can only use them on the Urban maps and Teamjungle though. Any other map forget about it. I saw Skream get a couple cool kills when I had an opportunity to spectate some.

I went on the CTF server for a little while and played with 2 guys I have never seen before. I was there for like 30 minutes but nobody else showed. Look forward to more CTF action tomorrow night. - Jazzman-X-[9:20pm EST]

*CTF practice
Tomorrow is our CTF practice night. I do not think though that this is the night we practice with IWG on our server. I think that is next Wednesday. Anyway everyone try to show up tomorrow for some casual practice with the walk-in's. IWG guys if you read this come on by for some fun. Gator or Freezer correct me if I am wrong on the dates but I think it is next Wednesday for the official practice of sorts on our server with IWG. - Jazzman-X-[9:20pm EST]

**AQ2 Clan Practice/scrimmages with 6e9...
I have been talking with Blake of 6e9 about us having some kind of regular practices with their clan. It looks like they are up for it. We still have to discuss some particulars. They want to have a practice/scrimmage on our server this Thursday around 8pm.

Please everyone let me know if you plan to come. This would be a good opportunity for some of you guys who have been playing but did not play in tournament to get some good team/match oriented practice. Please email me ASAP if you plan to come on Thursday. If we have enough then I will lock server down for our practice as I think they plan to have several show up. - Jazzman-X-[8:50pm EST]

AQ2 tourney...
After some heavy consideration and talking with members i have decided not to sign up for the tournament I mentioned earlier. Its just that the tournament was for 8 weeks, you had to play 2 matches per week, and a few other wacky rules. It was just too demanding. As it it looks they are not getting anyone signing up anyway.

I emailed them explaining and suggesting some things they should maybe change to help get a better turn out. If I get any more info i will let you guys know. As always if any of you see a AQ2 or CTF tournament starting up let one of us know and we will look in to it. I think Freezer has a CTF match in the works so stay tuned.
- Jazzman-X-[8:50pm EST]

Team Fortress 2
I received the new PCGAMER in the mail yesterday. In it there is a big feature about the upcoming Team Fortress 2 coming out for Half-Life. Now please nobody get pissed at this but.....I got a feeling that game is gonna ROCK!!!

I played the old Team Fortress on Quake 1 and I always did like it. I didn't play for a long time because I remember when I started playing it they released updates at one period there like daily. I did play it a lot though. Team Fortress is the most team oriented mod there is. Hopefully it will be as good as they are hyping it. If any of you get a chance I definitely recommend picking up the mag and taking a look. Also if any of you have not gotten Half-Life yet I highly recommend it. It is a very good game.  - Jazzman-X-[8:50pm EST]

Daily Jazz...
Just one thing...I recently lost a bunch of emails. I signed up for a Quake2 server ops mailing list and it dumped like tons of emails on me. So to make my point if you sent me any emails in like the last week or two that I did not respond to its not because I was being an ass. It was probably accidentally deleted when I went through and cleaned house in my mailbox. Please accept my apologies and send any emails to me again that I did not answer. - Jazzman-X-[8:50pm EST]

 

More WC server upgrades...
I also updated our version of BW-Admin. This is the Zbot and banning utility that I use for our servers. I upgraded from ver 1.28 to 1.36 (yeah I missed a few). It has some new features but I have not figured all of them out yet. Will let you know if I find anything news worthy. - Jazzman-X-[1:10pm EST]

WC Servers upgraded to 3.20
I upgraded the servers today so you should all upgrade your Quake 2 versions also if you have not already. Get them here:

Download Quake 2 - v3.20 update from Planetquake.  Or get it from sCary here.
You can read the 3.20 Changes.txt file while you download...
- Jazzman-X-[1:10pm EST]

Final Patch for Quake 2 released!  (v3.20)
This is supposed to be the last patch you will ever have to download for Quake 2.  The smallest version is 5 megs, full versions with the DM maps and CTF mod are available as well, but I'm only going to put links to the small update because everybody should have the CTF stuff anyway.

Download Quake 2 - v3.20 update from Planetquake.  Or get it from sCary here.
You can read the 3.20 Changes.txt file while you download...
- FRaG GoD 2:50am EST

New Action Quake tournament?
Ok I just found out about another AQ2 tournament getting ready to start. I need to find out from all of you who would be interested in playing in another tournament. Again like the last one it is a for fun tournament with rules very similar to the last one (5 on 5 though, play full season not single elimination). Go here and read the rules and details. Everyone email me and tell me if you would definitely want to play in this one or not. I need to make sure we will have enough people to always play. I would like to have at least 7 people say they will play before I sign us up (2 extra for substitutions and rotation).

Hurry with letting me know because I do not know how much longer they will be accepting clans. Right now I know for sure me and Toxoph are in. Let me hear from at least 5 more of you.- Jazzman-X-[2:50pm EST]

AQ2 firing test results
Any of you who play Action Quake need to go look at this. A guy named Dr Bob made a map of a firing range and then he conducted numerous firing tests on targets using mp5, M4 and pistols in various configurations. He then has pictures showing spreads of the bullet hits based on each configuration. Cool stuff to know. Go here to check it out. (hate the blue and red colors though, yuck) - Jazzman-X-[1:00pm EST]

CTF server setting changes
Ok I have been doing a little tweaking on the CTF server. I mean hell that's the advantage of Lithium is that you can adjust almost everything! I did not do anything real major.

First of all I adjusted both of the shotguns damage. I made them do more. To be honest nobody ever uses them because they are weak compared to the RL, Grenade Launcher, Hyperblaster and Chaingun. Not anymore. I do not think I made them too powerful but I did increase the damage amount per pellet from 6 to 9. So break out those shotguns boys they are worth a damn again. Quad double barrel..sweet!!

Next I also have it where players start with 10 armor. This is just a small adjustment to help against spawn spot killers. Should make it where you can survive a close up rocket hit..barely. Also in case some of you never noticed before..I increased the hand blaster damage a long time ago. It fires faster and does 20 damage per shot instead of the original 17 I think. So that means someone with no armor and 100 health could be taken out with 5 shots. So...don't give up if all you have is blaster..you may get lucky. Let me know what you guys think of these changes. I am doing these to help make it more fun. Nobody says we have to leave all settings like they were on original CTF release.

I was thinking of playing with the grenade launcher damage area of effect to make it larger. What do you guys think? Seems to me that unless you hit them square in the face with it you hardly do any damage. I would like it to maybe do less damage but a larger area of effect. Give me your opinions on it. - Jazzman-X-[10:40am EST]

CTF Practice last night...
Just a few comments from me on the CTF practice last night. Mostly all good. I want to say WOW on the great WC participation. We had like 8 or 9 WC members show up. I cant even remember who all was there but good job guys. As some of you could see we need to practice a little more. I think with a little more organization and a slightly more even battleground we could have done better. By that I am referring to the insane pings a few of the IWG guys had and also the whacked ON-hand grapple the server had. I am not knocking on IWG at all but it was definitely a factor in our playing. (2 of them had 26 or so pings? crazy man, hehe)

I want to thank IWG for a great practice. I think both clans had a great time. There was a little tension and temper because of server issues (max players, BFG in game, players trying to be too serious for a practice, etc) but no big deal. Hopefully that will be all cleared up by the next practice.

I just want to stress to everyone that this IWG/WC thing is just a fun practice arrangement. The purpose being for both clans to get on the server at a semi-set time and just play. Have fun, maybe work on a few strategies etc. We don't need any fighting, name calling, synchronized starts, etc. It is just to play and have fun.

The next one will be on our server in about 2 weeks I think. I will pass along more info as I receive it. Again thanks to IWG for a great time and thanks to all of you WC guys that made it.- Jazzman-X-[9:00am EST]

Site hits 10,000!!!
Well this morning our site hit the magic number (hell, I guess it's magic to someone). Toxoph was the person to hit it. I do not know how legal it was though because he hit 9,996 - 10,000 to get it. Hehe. Anyway lets keep cranking until we get to 15,000.- Jazzman-X-[9:00am EST]

Freezer spotted..
Well I'm spotted often actually, but I have had very limited time to play over the past few days after starting a new job (hopefully not the permanent one I want) that requires me to be at work around 8:00am.   I was playing with Antimatter and FRaG GoD (from Jazz's house?) on the AQ server and I did OK but not anything spectacular, nothing like my five man kill the other night with Jazz..I must say that had to be the best kill I have ever had, too bad I didn't record a demo..I got bitched at for not letting anyone else have a shot but oh well that's what I get for bum rushing all the time..hehe  I think my computer was working too hard as it hadn't been turned on in two days and I guess the stress was too much, as I was solidly lagged a few times.

Enough of that like Jazz said if you see any good to spectacular players on CTF or AQ let us know and get their email or ICQ so we may contact them to setup a viewing (no not a wake, at least we hope they won't be dead) as soon as possible.  I have a person in mind for CTF but I'm not sure he is into the whole clan thing, but I will ask if he is interested, TRUST me he is BAD to the bone at CTF and FEW people can stop him even with his 400+ ping against a 30 ping.  Make sure you get either a ICQ or an email address from the people you nominate..Thanks - Freezer 1:00am EST

WC Recruitment?
After looking over our rosters some I think we need to maybe expand a small amount. We are gonna open up our signup for 2 AQ players and 2 CTF players. So if any of you have any candidates let either Freezer, Gator or me know about them. Please get their email or have them send an email to us. Don't just say "This guy I saw seemed cool". Look for guys on our servers and put the word out that we are looking for a few members. - Jazzman-X-[3:00pm EST]

WC scene last night
Several members got in some good gaming last night. I was on the AQ server early on and Antimatter and Jundice both showed up. It was quite a surprise to see Jundice. He seemed to be holding his own the few times I checked out what he was doing. Me and Antimatter worked on a couple levels with me sniping and him covering. It worked some but we need to work on it more. I did ok sniping but not as good as the night before with Freezer. Here is a pic to prove Jundice was there for you non believers, hehe. Click to get full size. This pick was taken as you can see on top, right as he just gave someone a headache.

Later on I swung into the CTF server. At first it was real quiet. Ripley showed up and the two of us commenced on whooping on two other guys real bad. We played 2 levels I think and smoked them 8-0 both times. Then more strangers showed up along with Gator (taking RIPley's place), FRaG GoD and Voodoo. The four of us went on to slay the other team for several levels. I don't know that they ever scored a capture. I know I was on Defense most the night and I think they only got out of the base with our flag like once or twice. I must have defended it like 40 times. Gator dropping off nice rune gifts to me helped a lot, hehe.   - Jazzman-X-[2:00pm EST]

***CTF Practice/scrimmage with IWG
Ok so far I have only received emails from 3 of you saying you would be there tonight. All I am asking from you guys is to click my email link below and say "Yes I am coming" or "No I cant make it". Please take 10 seconds after reading this to reply. We have the practice scheduled for tonight at 10pm EST. It will be taking place on their server at: iwg.org:27910   - Jazzman-X-[2:00pm EST]

CTF Strategy #2 from Voodoo
Voodoo has put up a nice CTF strategy article regarding position keeping. This can be very informative for all members. Especially the few of you that I know are kinda new to the CTF scene.   - Jazzman-X-[2:00pm EST]

Email from Skube
All of you should have received the email from Gator that he forwarded from Skube. I personally want to thank Skube for taking the time to write such a well thought out and polite email. Thanks for the compliments and I appreciate everything you said. It is nice to know that there are other clans out there that are not a bunch of dumbass retards (80% of the clans I have ever known, hehe).   - Jazzman-X-[7:00pm EST]

**CTF practice/scrimmage with IWG
We have a practice scheduled for tomorrow night at 10pm EST. It will be taking place on their server at: iwg.org:27910

I will be there along with Gator and Freezer I am sure. I would like all of you to please try and show up. As you can all see I have started putting an email link on the signature of these news updates. All members please click it now and tell me if you are going to make it or not.

You only have to show up and play for like 30min-1hr. Of course you can stay longer if you want. We are trying to have monthly CTF practices with IWG and this is our first "Official" one. The next one will be on our server later this month. - Jazzman-X-[7:00pm EST]

King of zbot cheaters...
I decided to look at the zbot logs today since I had not checked them in a while. I saw 5 new people try on the CTF server and 9 new ones on the AQ2 server. Once I looked at the AQ2 one a little closer I saw something kinda funny. Look at these three:

[BW-Admin 1.28] Wed Nov 25 22:38:04 1998 : player goodgulf @ 24.0.243.68:27902 Refused Connection (ZBot)

[BW-Admin 1.28] Mon Nov 23 17:27:37 1998 : player voir_dire @ 24.0.243.68:27902 Refused Connection (ZBot)

[BW-Admin 1.28] Tue Nov 17 19:11:18 1998 : player sandman @ 24.0.243.68:27902 Refused Connection (ZBot)

See the common element? Hehe. Let me tell you also..this guy was very persistent. He tried like 10 times to get in with one, 13 with another and 5 with the last. He was determined to get in. Its funny that he also has a fixed IP address with what looks to be a media one connection. Having a cable modem just is not good enough huh? Bastard. Soon as I get a chance I will ban this one retards IP. - Jazzman-X-[6:00pm EST]

Daily Jazz...
As promised here is who was kicking some ass last night:

AQ2 Server: I was only on for about 30min. Freezer and I were on there kicking some good ass. I was fine tuning my sniper skills and was doing very good on teamjungle and urban2. Freezer was causing some major havoc with the mp5. One round on urban2 he took out all 5 guys on the other team by himself before I ever got a shot off. Tonight if Marv, Antimatter or Freezer show up I would like to work on some Sniper/Cover man tactics and see how we can do on like urban and urban2.

CTF Server: Well we had a great turn out on the CTF server last night. According to what I got the following people played last night: Toxoph, Freezer, Ripley, Antimatter, Cheasy, and I think Skream. Anyone let me know if I missed someone. From the reports I got it sounded like some great playing. I would like to suggest if possible that when several WC members get on the server try to all get on the same team as others enter to play. The more we all play on the same team and learn each others strengths and weaknesses the better.

I think I will have a better chance to play some tonight. I am going to be on the AQ2 server around 7pm and the the CTF server around 9pm. I will play on each as long as some others are there or until I have to quit. Please as many of you as possible try to show up. - Jazzman-X-[10:00am EST]