Wrecking Crew Stuff
Well, I got some interesting emails over the last few days... Anyway to make a long story short we may be making some kinda significant changes in the future. We may be locking our server down on a permanent type basis in the future. We may only use the server for practices and matches. The problem is that we have attracted a small flock of retards to our server that insist on spoiling the fun for everyone. So, we may start organizing to play with each other on other servers and keep ours locked down for member use only. I know this sucks but it may be necessary at least for a few months or so. We will have the equipment here very soon to bring up our second server so maybe we will have one private and one public at that point. Give me some feedback on what you think. - Jazzman-X 10:25am EST

 

Wrecking Crew Member Database
Part of the new members-only site will be the Wrecking Crew Member Database which is a central location for you to let the clan administrators know what your current email address is, etc. Hopefully this will end communication problems that I know we had earlier with some members missing out on clan meetings, etc. Go sign up and please remember this is a prototype so be patient if it goes quirky. Soon I will add an option to email everyone in the database right from a web page, but I've been coding all day and I'm tired... :) - ZapMan 11:25pm EST

Stats...
Well I plan to start posting stats again in a very limited fashion. As everyone is aware there is a problem with the way the gibstat's implementation in Viking logs the CTF stats. It logs several stats ok, including all the regular DM ones. I will start tomorrow to post some of the these stats on the Fragboard page. I plan on only posting the frags, efficiency, time on server for now. I have an idea to run a script on the log and pull out all occurrences of flag captures and defenses. This shit should work on its own but since it doesn't I am going to try an extract the info myself. It hopefully shouldn't be that difficult. We will see come tomorrow. I deleted the current log that was there. I will say that Frag God was overwhelmingly in first place on the old board. He had like 22 hours logged and was like 150 frags ahead of the second place (Freezer) player. I will say that the top 8 players were all WC members also. These stats were ranked by Frag's. Meaning: Kills minus suicides.
- Jazzman-X 12:24pm EST

Uhhh...hey
Not much to write. Everyone remember we have practice this Wednesday night. We are setting it to start at 900pm (EST). It will be password locked. We will send you the password the day of as usual. More info will be coming about the practice either today or tomorrow. P.s. I also got to see the X-Files movie this weekend. Very cool movie if you are a fan of the show. I can definitely see how others may be turned off. It can be confusing if your not a fan. Awesome flic though.
- Jazzman-X 12:24pm EST

 

3D Tables, HTML, and why Microsoft will rule the world...
Well Netscape was kind enough to mail NeoReality a copy of Communicator 4. I've installed it and I've been trying to get the crew site to look as good in Navigator as it does in IE. I thought CSS could solve the problem. Unfortunately, after much frustration, I learned that Navigator just doesn't implement all of the current CSS commands, so, short of a major overhaul, the site will look ok in Navigator and excellent in IE. This only really concerns Jazzman-X and FRaG GoD but I'm posting it for all interested. If anyone thinks of a workaround, I'd love to hear it.
- ZapMan 10:08pm EST

Updated Roster page
I cleaned it up quite a bit. If your name is not there and you feel it should be, let me know. I cut it down to only people I have seen play in the last 2 or 3 months. So everyone is clear on it, WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING ANY NEW MEMBERS! At least not right now. The only new members that will be allowed are people that someone in the clan knows personally (as in you see fairly often in real life). This will only be temporarily.
- Jazzman-X 11:44am EST

 

Need some people to write stuff
I have worked a little more on setting up the private clan area, and on finishing my BluePrint file... It's all gonna look pretty sweet when it's done (on IE browsers anyway heh), but I'd like to have some more stuff in there before it's opened.  Anyone who has some free time or is interested in writing something about a level, CTF strategy, tricks while fighting, etc. please let me know.  Even if you don't want to write a whole section, just send in a little bit of info on something and maybe it can be added to something else.  Credit will be given for anything submitted, and entries WILL be modified to fix spelling/grammar errors if they are not understandable.
  Until this stuff is done, I suggest anyone who is just starting to play and is still learning about CTF, go through the tutorial at Clan Xenocide's CTF Academy.  It was made before Q2 was released, but I'm sure all the strategy stuff is still valid.
- FRaG GoD 3:34pm EST

Upcoming Clan stuff...
We are in the process of getting a few more matches set up very soon. Its funny, we have challenged like 20 or 30 clans now and only maybe 4 or 5 have responded. I think the problem is  that most so-called clans either don't stick together very good, or just plain cant get organized all at the same time to have matches. I have even had 2 clans write back saying to certain degrees that they didn't want to play us because we were too high level for them!! HA. We have only had 2 scrimmage matches! Too funny.

I wish I could find a good clan to play against. The sad truth is it is very hard to find anyone who is good, will not have baby members who quit after one level, can get their people all together at the same time, has their own server to split the match levels between, and plays Q2 CTF. We have a few new ideas on getting matches that Frag God is in the process of doing now. We should probably have another match within the next couple weeks. Jazzman-X 12:40pm EST

CTF Practice next Wednesday night
We do plan on having another practice next Wednesday at 900-930pm on our server. It will be password protected and we will email that to all participating members early next week. Everyone please try to show for this practice. Be prepared to practice. I will run this practice and if for any reason I have connection problems Freezer will pick it up while I am gone. I have a very specific practice guideline to use so be prepared and I think everyone will benefit from it. It will be fun I promise, but informative at the same time. I will probably post more here outlining some of the practice schedule very soon. - Jazzman-X 12:40pm EST

Sinday Bloody Sinday
I have seen everywhere that the Sin demo will be released Sunday, July 26th. Look forward to finally seeing it.....maybe.  - Jazzman-X 12:40pm EST

 

Email from EXO...
Well I did have a bunch of stuff here for about 2hrs before now (you may have seen his email if you were on. If not and you want to just let me know and I will send it to you.) I came back on and decided to delete all that I had said and also EXO's email. I am done messing with him. I WILL NOT post anything about him ever again (I will try my best). I wish him luck in whatever clan he goes to. I only hope someday that he does get smart enough to realize how stupid everything was that he did.

We had no reason to hate him. He says we were just jealous cause they "were so good, and we all suck". Well, to be honest skill has nothing to do with it. Hell, if he was so good and his brother too I would want them in our clan! Why wouldn't we want them? This has nothing to do with being good. It has everything to do with being friendly and just having fun. Who cares who is best? Thanks for the lesson EXO. Also, to EXO... If we really did hurt your brothers feelings please tell him I said I was sorry. I would never want to go so low as to say anything personally bad about you or your family. I have never met you. I will just ignore the things you said about me and my family (and for your info you couldn't be further from the truth in what you said). The end. - Jazzman-X 5:00pm EST

Clan Crap
Man, will this crap ever end? Well for everyone's info as of right now EXO is no longer in the clan. This is not a call by only me. It was basically a general consensus decision that Freezer, Frag God, Voodoo, Antimatter, and myself all agreed on. Eveyones reasons may be different but they all come to the same conclusion. I want to go on the record right now as saying I have nothing against EXO personally. I think he is a very good Quake player and I am sorry things did not work out. The key thing here in my mind is that this is all supposed to be fun. Since, EXO joined the clan many people have been getting upset at things either he has done or now his brother has done. AGAIN, THIS IS NOT JUST ME and FREEZER MAKING THIS DECISION! IT WAS DECIDED BY WHOLE CLAN! I know that EXO will probably not believe that but it is the truth.

I could go on and on here about reasons and all but why bother. I am way past tired of talking about this whole thing. Lets just have fun guys. If anyone has a problem with the way me and Freezer do things remember you live in The United States (or at least Canada). You do not have to be happy with our clan and can join another clan anytime you want. You can send us a little email and say "Hey, guys I think I am going to join another clan. Thanks anyway.". I promise we wont cry or anything. We do what we think is best for everyone in the clan to have fun. So far we have like 20 members that think we do things right and have had 1 (Yes that is ONE) that thinks we are screwed up assholes. Well, hey that's life. If we all loved each other it would probably be a better world but that shit ain't gonna happen.

This is the last time I will write about EXO (I hope). I wish you the best of luck EXO. I am sure you will find a clan that will appreciate your tremendous Quake abilities much more than we do. We acknowledge your good Quake abilities actually, its your personality and sense of humor (or some may say lack of) I think most people have a problem with. Sorry. Please show us you want to be an adult and just quit quietly and lets just all go our own ways. Don't try to turn this into a little kiddy fight match. I promise your name will never appear on our site again if you just drop it now. When you get in a new clan someday write me an email and we can have a friendly match. - Jazzman-X 9:40am EST

1st Annual WC party!!!!
It is in the planning stages right now but for the Florida members we are going to have a WC party here very soon. It is going to be here in Ft. Myers within the next couple weeks. We are still planning place and time right now.
- Jazzman-X 9:40pm EST

Clan issues, ABE banning...
I just finally got a chance to add something here. I have been real busy all day. First of all I guess I should mention the ABE (I believe that is his name) ordeal. I will start off by saying I was not real familiar with this whole deal since I have not had much time to play as of late. I have heard quite a bit from everyone else.

Last night Frag God was at my house playing on his computer on one line while I was in spectator on my computer on another. I sat and watched what was said and what was going on. ABE had a ping of 330-400 never going lower than that. He was running around never hardly getting scratched (and definitely not getting killed) shooting people with the railgun with ease.

Now, I don't care how good you are. If someone has a ping consistently 100-150 lower than you and they are a good player (note I am not saying the best) there is no way you can just go off popping them with the railgun from long distances with perfect accuracy. I witnessed this happen at least 2 times and probably happen more. Once it was Frag God (who is a very good player) who was nailed at long distance once. Plus he got into several shoot outs that I witnessed where he was pinging much lower and was never able to hit him, and when he did seemed to never have any effect.

The bottom line is I don't have anything against LPB. Hell, I love playing with Biff when he comes around. Because, he is honest plays fair and doesn't act all sneaky about it by altering ping or saying he is on someone else's computer. If anyone has a problem with what I'm saying or feel maybe I am wrong in something I have said please let me or Freezer or Frag God know. Frag God banned him with me saying go ahead. We just want to have fun and this soap opera shit is getting real old. I do not have the patience to put up with someone like ABE who ruins the whole game for everyone on the server. Which is exactly what happen. Not just WC people were there complaining.
- Jazzman-X 9:33pm EST

 

Clan Central up again!
I just noticed that Clan Central is up again with their new design and all. We probably need to go in there and update our listing, as I notice some members are not listed and we don't have a spiffy little USA flag next to our name.
- Jazzman-X 11:40am EST

Member Sites...
Man you guys are poppin' sites out like a 14 year pinching zits. (hehe). Very cool though. Some of you guys seem to have pretty good HTML skills in different areas. Wish you all lived here so we could bring you in to work with us, we have too much work as it is, hehe. I haven't had the time to really check them out in depth yet but I will. Seems most all of you are in the very early, low on content stages so I will probably wait till you all have a little more meat there. I wanted to explain one thing to all of you. I am at a computer all day. My daytime computer does not have ICQ. (On purpose, never get any work done). So if you want to send me an address or something you should do it through email not ICQ. I only check ICQ late at night most of the time, and sometimes not for days on end. I do check my email about every 15 minutes all day long. Just so you all know...- Jazzman-X 9:40am EST

Jazz-X's B-day stuff..
Thanks to all of you for the Happy Bday emails and stuff. I had a pretty good bday and scored on some cool stuff from family and all. I got a couple cool DVD movies and a couple of cool games too. I got Forsaken which seems pretty cool from what I have played of it. I will say one thing for it, the graphics are awesome and it runs silky smooth on my system. Wish every game looked that good and ran that smooth (ahem, Unreal..). I also scored on some hard cash too, so I may invest in some other things soon...- Jazzman-X 9:40am EST

 

Nice...Very nice...
Hmmm, this is nice I can see all sorts of possibilities for this page now.  Well Just got back from St. Pete, and caught up on some ramblings in email..my brain hurts from all of it.  I also would like to say to the people who showed on Wednesday, thanks for being so professional and sportsmanlike and also great job for those who played.  I hope we can find a clan that will stay for a few levels and play instead of leaving after the first level.  I guess we need to challenge more professional clans or find some sort of tournament to enter.   Anyways, great job, keep practicing and I hope we will have a new clan match soon.- Freezer 3:50pm EST

New Splash Graphic on Intro Page
I just had a few minutes and decided to make a simpler and cleaner graphic for the splash page. Its not real fancy but I think I like it better than any of the past ones we had. Let me know what you think.
- Jazzman-X 12:33pm EST

 

New section ready soon
We have begun constructing a members-only area on our site that will contain any news updates that would normally be sent in email, as well as the new Blueprint pages and any other stuff that shouldn't be on the public sections.  More details will follow as when it finished.  I am almost finished with my Blueprint on The Smelter, but I'm going to wait to release it until this new section is finished.  It should be helpful, especially since we haven't ever actually gotten to that level during a match or practice... Anyone else interested in writing a Blueprint file or something similar, let one of us know so we don't end up with two people writing about the same thing.
  Anyone who didn't bother to check out the new Pic-of-the-Week or didn't see it because your browser doesn't refresh automatically, you must check out this latest one.  It is PlanetQuake material right here baby! - FRaG GoD 8:33pm EST

Updated the SH match results page...again
Toxoph just gave me a few pics he took. I used one of his final score shots because it had the red background on for our team, and he had a cool action shot I added to the bottom. - Jazzman-X 2:31pm EST

Screwing with Layout
As you can see I am in the middle of playing with the layout in order to try and get the articles etc. to fit a little nicer. For the info of Freezer and Frag God: I saved the old news layout on the site. If after playing for a few days we don't get it right we can revert to old one.
- Jazzman-X 1:11pm EST

Updated the SH match results page
Ummm....that pretty much says it. The link is above (to left)... Somehow I just received the pics from Freezer a few minutes ago even though he sent them last night. hmmmm. His ISP mail server must be taking naps.- Jazzman-X 12:01pm EST

Site Changes...
I moved the links to the clans we played site to the match results page for each match. We are in the process of getting a few more matches so everyone keep practicing and checking back here for more news. - Jazzman-X 11:01am EST

Fatality, WC wins!
I just put up a match results page with a link above (to left). Nobody has sent me pics yet except for Frag God who sent me Hirudin's pic. Please if anyone took score pics send them to me so I can complete the match results page. Everyone did real well from what little I saw. I have been having bad connect problems the last week here. I have a solution I think to fix it and will try it today. - Jazzman-X 10:01am EST

 

Paul Steed on Quake Arena
I just read Paul Steeds .plan on Quake Arena in regards to the editorial that appeared on Planetquake. I found some of the content very humorous. Check out his .plan: http://www.stomped.com/finger/psteed@idsoftware.com.html - Jazzman-X 3:01pm EST

MATCH TONIGHT!!!
If you don't know about it there is probably a reason for that. Contact Freezer or Frag God via ICQ if you want some more info. - Jazzman-X 3:01pm EST

 

Carmack announces - Quake Arena
I just saw over at Blues about how id is now canning Quake 3 and single player FPS altogether to work on a Deathmatch only project called Quake Arena. I personally like the sound of this a lot better than what I was hearing on Quake 3. In his .plan he even mentions that there will be fallback settings to get it to run at Quake 2 comparative speeds (with lower systems not getting snuffed altogether now I guess). Head over and check it out if you haven't already. - Jazzman-X 8:42pm EST

Jazzman-X non-Quake2 gaming..
I just had to share how I have become re-addicted to "Carmageddon" as of late. If you have never played this game you ought to try it out. Its pretty damn fun. I have had it for a long time but didn't play it much at first. Well, they came out with the 3DFX patch (which improves the graphics big time, very big difference) a little while back so I went and got it and reinstalled the game. I started playing it again last weekend and cant hardly stop. Its one of those games that should be pretty cheap right now. Pick it up and let me know what you think. Too bad it doesn't have tcp/ip play, damn! Any game that you get extra "style bonus"and "3x bonus" for doing a spinout on 3 fat pedestrians gets an "A" in my game review book any day. - Jazzman-X 3:12pm EST

Programmers hit upon.....common sense.
I got kinda a good laugh this morning reading all the news on Bluesnews about Carmack, Romero, and the Raven software guys all saying that on their next Gen games they will be shifting stuff to the client side as far as complicated effects, projectile animations, etc. and only have pertinent info for collision detection and all on the server side in order to speed up multiplayer aspects. Is it just me or do all of you also say to yourself "Duh!" after reading all of that.

They make it all sound like this great new idea they just came up with. I mean it does kinda make sense to do more client side so less data packets are transmitted back and forth. Here is a clip from Carmack's .plan "The new paradigm is that the server controls all information necessary for the rules of the game to function, but the client controls all presentation of that information to the user through models, audio, and motion."

Here is even a funnier one to me where the Raven guy wants to make it clear they are not copying off of id: "Just so no thinks we are just following id. This strikes me as a general paradigm shift in the whole industry as we all simultaneously discover that the dumb client/server model isn’t ideal for fast action multiplier gaming."

Like I said maybe it is just me but, damn I thought this shit was funny. Hell, maybe I'm reading it wrong or something. Seems pretty clear reading it though. I know in Quake 2 models are handled client side, but no other effects are is my understanding. That means flag animations, moving objects, explosion debris, blood, chunks, animating wheels, door movement, etc are all done server side. Now they Brainstormed and figured out that should be client side to help make it faster. hehehe. - Jazzman-X 2:12pm EST

Practice Night...
Last night we had the clan  CTF practice. I thought that overall it went pretty well. I think early on we had some good training and I think a few guys got a better understanding of working as a team and how to communicate better. I think those guys who played on McKinley's were doing real well.

I do have to make one comment about last night and hopefully there will not be many more. Everyone seemed to get kinda mad last night and tensions flared for a few minutes. Everyone needs to understand one thing....Practice night means just that...PRACTICE. You can "Lets just play" any other night 24 hrs a day 7 days a week all you want. The one night we have practice we kinda would like to do just that. We should be running scenarios, switching teams, resetting, trying different defense's etc. I saw a few people start making comments like "Are we gonna play or what?" and "That was fun" (sarcastically I believe). This is not productive.

I will shoulder some of the blame in that I was having major connect problems and wish I could have been there a little better to keep things rolling along. It seemed just when I would get something going I would disconnect and come back to chaos sometimes. Anyway, like I said before though I feel we did do pretty well early on. After I gave the one tip to Gator, Hirudin and Tox on Defense in McKinley's I saw immediate improvement. One of the most important things to remember is to know what your job is. You should know whether your on defense, flag carrier, or flag carrier interference duty. I will be posting more tonight about rosters, last minutes tips, etc. Just for your info I know that the other clan is supposed to have at least 4 guys show we think.

So, as of right now I believe our starting roster for 4 players will be: Frag God (D), Gator (D), Hirudin, and EXO. The (D) denotes defense. For EXO and Hirudin they will go for flag. If both are present together EXO should be primary flag carrier with Hirudin on interference. As I said before, when I find out more I will post more.   - Jazzman-X 10:31am EST

 

Site stuff
I know this has probably been repeated several times but I wanted to make one more comment on it: This site does look much better with Internet Explorer than Netscape. We do not intend to snuff out Netscape because we know several people in the clan use it. But, if you ever get a chance to take a look at the site with IE please do. The way we have done the tables looks very nice in IE but just looks kinda.....cheap I guess in Netscape. This is a fun clan page so we are not real concerned about it.

We have quite a few other additions and changes in mind for this site but probably wont get to all of them for a little while yet. We intend to make a password protected "Members" section, where we will be posting all of the BluePrint and strategy files. This kinda stuff we don't really want to leave lying around for anyone to see. I know that Frag God is working on a huge BluePrint section to add to it. I also plan on (sometime) making a new strategy checklist of sorts, for things to remember while playing CTF. (Like, do anything to protect flag carrier, let lowest ping player carry flag, etc.) I will probably have it done in the next week or so. - Jazzman-X 3:22pm EST

Server Problems...
It appears the server problem has gone away. The server ran for like 3 days without crashing. It appears something was going on with the voiced mode access. We are going to report this and may start giving access back to people slowly over the next few days. For now always remember that if your on the server and need help, want to change map, kick someone who is causing problems, etc. you can ICQ Freezer, Frag God, Toxoph or myself and we can try to help you out. - Jazzman-X 9:42am EST

CTF Practice TONIGHT (930pm ?)
Well I saw from an email this morning from Freezer that our practice is now at 930pm. That is probably because some people are working a little late tonight so we had to push it back. Anyway I will email everyone off of that email with the password I intend to set on the server tonight. I plan on being on the server around 830pm EST so if anyone wants to show early and just hang out, come on by. - Jazzman-X 9:42am EST

 

ZapMan may market "Fun With Grappling" in association with FOX Video
Rumors of ZapMan's recent appearances may be true, undisclosed sources revealed today, as more information leaked that may indicate a recent deal signed with FOX to star in one of a series of Quake II instructional videos. According to a source within the media network, "Fun With Grappling" will star playful ZapMan carefully demonstrating advanced grapple+fire techniques, concentrating on the "strategic suicide" method where ZapMan blows himself to hell for the apparent benefit of the team, and the "high dive" method which involves dropping hundreds of feet only to drown like a retard underwater, while firing distracting volleys at enemy players. We remind readers that this news is speculation at this point. - ZapMan 3:31pm EST

 

CTF Practice next Monday (15th, 800pm EST)
Since we didn't have practice last Wednesday everyone please try to make this one. Our last before the match. - Jazzman-X 8:42am EST

Server issues...
As some of you may have noticed I have removed everyone from having the voiced status on the server (the +). This is for a couple reasons. After our "Night of Crashes" practice night I came in and reinstalled everything. I had the server up and running all day with multiple coming in and everything was fine. Then I got home, went on, and it was crashed again. So, I took all voiced access away and restarted. Then what do you know.......it stayed up all night. Amazing isn't it? Well, maybe it was just coincidence. But, I intend to leave it this way until Monday and see what happens. If its up all weekend I think we found out the problem. If that is the case we will start letting people get voiced status again at a one at a time pace. - Jazzman-X 8:32am EST

Wrecking Crew is a year old...
That's right, we're a year old and becoming a kicking, screaming, wild, crazy bunch of fools.  Heck pop a cold one out of the fridge and say a toast to the Crew (for you minors, pop a cold Coke).  Also make sure you thank your founding fathers for everything that we have done for you this year (web site, server, your inclusion in such a cool clan..etc.) - Freezer 1:12am EST

 

No news, good news?...
Well this is the only news and it was done a day late..heheh - Freezer 11:59pm EST

 

Old site link...
Ok everyone it's time for a history lesson.  Here is the OLD Wrecking crew site, and here is how it looked up until we made a few changes in December '97.  As you can see over the last year the Crew and our site have changed quite dramatically.  Remember this we threw the old site together very quickly and it served its purpose.  One more thing, if anyone can tell me (excluding Jazz, Tox, Me, FRaG, and ZapMan) who Pipe-layer used to be.  I'll send you a stick of gum..hehe. - Freezer 10:50pm EST

ZapMan sightings supported
The alleged ZapMan sightings on the Demolition Site appear to be supported by this recent screen shot.  Confirmation will require more time, but the only thing we are DEFINITELY sure of, is that this is NOT Freezer in the picture... - FRaG GoD - 7:33pm EST

 

Clip of the Month: Computer Abuse
Check this out. If you don't laugh at this you may not have a pulse. Something only computer users can really appreciate. This clip is in the .mpeg format. Most of you should not have any problem with it. Computer Abuse (416k) - Jazzman-X - 3:24pm

Next scrimmage match details changed
Look above. We have been talking back and forth with [SH] clan. Match is still definite go. We are now only playing only on our server. - Jazzman-X - 1:38pm

An Evening at NeoReality HQ...
FRaG GoD and ZapMan were over last night for some CTF action on our server. We had 2 machines up and I think ZapMan logged the most time playing Q2 since its release. hehe. Anyway, FRaG GoD's excellent radio sound pak made the whole experience last night extremely cool. I can see already that the radio can be very useful. Any of you that have not DL'ed the pak from the files page needs to do so ASAP. You can send any questions about setup to FRaG GoD. I believe he intends to do a FAQ to outline step by step what to do for new members (if we decide to get more) and for those that want more information. (p.s. I'm back from vacation. FRaG GoD ingeniously used the coolness of the radio to draw me back in. bastard! heheh) - Jazzman-X - 1:35pm EST

History repeats itself...
I will be putting up a new section in the next day or so for those clan members who cannot remember what the clan page of old used to look like.  This is in preparation of the Wrecking Crew's 1 year birthday (June 12, 1998, well its the oldest file I have to show the date of the Crew's beginning) Yeah that's right the Crew is going to be a big bad ass one year old soon... and we will reflect on this soon with an original roster page..ooooh scary..heheh hell you might get a good laugh..I know some people will..
- Freezer LATE EST

ZapMan Rears his ugly mug...
In a history making appearance ZapMan was on the Demosite in the early morning hours..Details are sketchy at this time but as soon as more  details are available you will be made aware.. - Freezer LATE EST

 

Clarification...
Ok I'm sorry. Let me try to clarify my news update from yesterday.  I got email from like 4 or 5 of you thinking I was just quitting and was done. That is not what I was trying to say. I am NOT quitting the clan as of right now. I still plan on being at the practice on Wednesday night and I plan on being at the Match the following week. Unless...I for some reason decide before then to quit. I just don't plan on doing much of anything else for the next few days at least. I am not going on a real vacation as some of you seemed to think. I meant that as a....kinda fake vacation....just a break of sorts from all of the clan stuff I have been doing. That's all. So don't everyone go writing me goodbye letters and start trying to get my trailer on the construction site, I'm just taking a long lunch for right now. - Jazzman-X - 8:35am EST

Small update
Anyone who downloaded the sound pak yesterday and doesn't mind doing it again should.   There are a couple of small fixes and updates in it.  The original one will still work if you don't.  Also, anyone who has trouble downloading sometimes and gets really angry when you've downloaded 98% of a huge file and then your modem hangs up, should try this nifty little program. GetRight 3.10 is a shareware program that lets you resume transfers that you've aborted or got disconnected.
- FRaG GoD - 1:02am EST

Two demos added
Added two small demos to the Blueprint #1 article.  To play the demos, download the files into your quake2\ctf\demos folder (if there's not one there make one), and then run CTF Quake and type 'demomap filename' at the console.  Obviously replace filename with whatever the name of the demo is.
- FRaG GoD - 2:35am EST

 

Don't change the maps and stuff...
Well that sucks about Jazzman-X not having enough time to play with the clan. Hopefully his vacation will end in time for the clan match, cause he kicked ass at the end of the last one.  Anyway, I just woke up and thought I'd see how things were going... and Freezer, there has to be some kind of law against collecting money on behalf of another party without their knowledge.  I don't know where that law is but I will find it.  Well as the ever-alert Hirudin pointed out to me in an email a little while ago, the server crashed AGAIN.  It appears that changing the levels from the menu causes something to happen which makes the server crash after a little while.  So until we figure out what it is and the next version of Viking comes out, don't change the maps.  You'll just have to suffer through The Outlands for a while man.  :)  
- FRaG GoD - 6:45pm EST

Jazzman-X going to take vacation...
This is the first time I have mentioned this to anyone so you are all finding out at the same time. As of right now I am taking a short leave from the clan. I do not want all of you think that this latest event is the sole reason for me doing this. It is a factor but not the whole reason.

To be honest I am just too busy. I without a doubt have more things going on in my life than anyone else I know right now. The only person I think that can truly appreciate this may be Toxoph. I work a full time job, have my own company to help run, am married with a kid, house, bills, the whole works. I wish I had the time to sleep till 2pm on weekdays or go fishing all the time, or go out at night but the sad truth is I cannot do any of this because I have like 10 different people on me and so many responsibilities I cant. Then to have to put up with problems with the one leisure activity I have is honestly just a little much.

I am not quitting the clan, and I will continue to run the server and update logs for now. I am just taking a break to decide if I want to continue. I just didn't want all of you to wonder what happen to me when I don't update the site or schedule matches or anything over the next week or so. - Jazzman-X - 4:11pm EST

EXO...
Just when you thought it was over..I go ahead and say the LAST word.  EXO has hopefully apologized to all parties concerned, if not he will.  This is the LAST time I expect to see or hear about this, it is in the past and enough has been said over the last several days.  In the future we expect EVERYONE to respect others while on the server.  Also, if a server admin, you know the guys with a @ before their name, asks you to stop doing something..be like Nike...Just do it!! no discussion just do as we ask on the server and you will have a much more enjoyable experience on it...
- Freezer - 10:51am EST

FRaG GoD on crack?...
Yes it's true we had to take FRaG GoD to get some help, he's on summer vacation and he gets up with the birds (7:35am update) and updates the news, or did he ever go to bed?  Any all support for him should be sent in large denominations to me and I'll make sure he gets them.  Thank you for your support. - Freezer - 10:45am EST
 
Demolition Site Workers get CB radios...
On Monday (June 8th) we will begin testing the Radio feature of the Viking mod.  It has been turned off up until this point. The radio feature originally appeared (from what I know) in the Loki's Minions CTF mod, but because of its enormous size, most people never downloaded it.  The feature was soon added in Viking and several other mods, but no sounds were distributed with it.  Each client must have the sound files on their computer to hear them, so in order to hear any of the sounds you will need to download the Sound Pak file.  Eventually the Viking authors released a Radio sound pak file for Viking clients, but unfortunately, they are extremely gay sounding.  So I have stolen some of the sounds from the LMCTF mod as well as quite a few other sounds and made a custom sound pak for our server. 
  The DSsound.exe file will extract the pak9.pak file to the C:\Quake2\ctf\  folder by default and will also unzip the CTFsound.txt and autoexec.txt files. 3 out of 4 dentists surveyed highly recommend that you read the CTFsound.txt file so that you understand what to do to be able to use the sounds properly. The autoexec.txt file contains bind commands that I set up on my system to use all the team sounds, and two useful aliases that I have used for a while that I think everyone should use.  If you do not already have an autoexec.cfg file in your 'ctf' folder, then you can simply rename the autoexec.txt to autoexec.cfg or if you do have one already, you can add the lines to it.   Before you do either, edit your config/autoexec file(s) and change any keys that you already have binded if they match the ones in the new file.  The following keys are used because they match my setup, but may not fit yours: F2 - F12 (function keys), BACKSPACE, and  ].  I find the Fx keys work very well for this purpose.  I put the keys that the Flag Carriers would use most as F5 - F8. 
  These Radio sounds, if used correctly, allow you to operate much more easily as a team.  People do not have to miss what you're saying because they're being chased down the hall, and they won't get killed because they stopped to scroll back to find out that you were warning them of an incoming attack. The biggest thing is being able to tell the flag carrier the condition of the base without having to stop and type something in. It also sounds pretty cool to hear people talking...
   If you feel that you will be unable to stop yourself from hitting the sound keys over and over again for no reason other than to annoy the other people playing, please tell someone now so that we can add your IP range to the ban list.  I don't think we'll have any problems with that from clan members but just in case, there is the official plan of action for that situation.

One more thing... the lines in the included autoexec.cfg file include the words that are being said as a text message saying the same thing, so even if you don't download the pak file, you will still know what's going on.   There are a bunch of other sounds that are included in the pak file but do not come binded to any key in the autoexec.txt.  You will have to manually bind any of those sounds if you want to use them.  It is up to you whether you want to include text messages when playing those sounds or not.  Instructions for this in the CTFsounds.txt file.

Oh, and stop raggin on EXO.  He's a pretty good player who had an Asshole Attack.  He is over it now.  Don't everybody else feel it is necessary to repeat it.  Everybody lay off the crack for a while and try to remember it's just a game.  There's no need to insult people.  Curse at Lag, or global warming or something...
- FRaG GoD - 7:43am EST

 

Latest stats up...
I need to make a couple points on this first. I deleted all of the levels where we had the incident the other night with EXO playing as others. I felt this needed to be done. I can't go in and just delete particular events just individual map games played. So because of this I think Frag God and Hirudin's stats got hurt some. I'm sure they can recover but my apologies for having to do that. Also I am very upset that I cant get better CTF data out of the logs. The team Capture stat is not what I thought it was. It is only the points you receive when a team member scores. (ie 10 points per). It for some reason will not calculate flag captures etc. I can go in and look at them but I can't get them to post to the chart correctly. I am going to try and email the appropriate people to get some assistance. - Jazzman-X - 2:00pm EST

Members personnel site...
I just checked out one of our new members site's last night. Voodoo has a very nice site. It is in the early stages of development so he still has a bunch of content to add, but it looks as though it is coming along very nicely. Here is a link to it: http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~voodoo1/defence.html - Jazzman-X - 12:00pm EST

Enough already!
Ok we have had way too much name calling and mud slinging going on. I had a chat with EXO about an hour or so ago and we discussed in more detail what happen. I still stand by my comments that what he did was..... in bad taste. To summarize for all of you that don't know here is what happen:

EXO came on the server and at some point started switching his name to everyone else's name and started saying stuff like "I'm gay" etc. Several members started getting a little upset. Freezer told him to stop. He didn't. Then Freezer kicked him from the server. Then EXO came back again under another name and started doing it again. At this point Freezer threatened him and told him he was going to kick him, ban him, kick his ass, etc. EXO did not stop. So then Freezer kicked him again and attempted to ban him. After all this then EXO came in again using another name of a player who frequents our server. He pretended to be him and lied to everyone about why his connection was slow among other things.

When I talked to EXO he said it started just as a harmless joke and that he thought Freezer overreacted and pissed him off by threatening him. So he kept coming back to "retaliate against Freezer".

I think that maybe a couple of things happen. It was late and Freezer was not in the mood for it. Everyone should know by now that Freezer is a very cool guy, but when he says stop or quit he means it. He has no patience to keep repeating himself. I think also that EXO didn't know when to quit. After the first time he was kicked he should have said to himself,  "Hey, Freezer didn't think that was funny". He should not have come back in just throwing gas on the fire. Maybe they both took the offensive to quick.

Things are said in the heat of arguments that people always try to say later on that they didn't mean. But, usually there is truth to some of what they are saying or they wouldn't have said it in the first place. (whew, too deep for this late at night, hehe) Here are two examples.

I said that he sucks anyway, cant play CTF and is just a bulldog type player. That was way too harsh and not entirely true, but..... it was true in some respects. First of all EXO does not suck. He is a good player. I do think he is lacking in CTF. The stats prove that. (sorry I deleted his stats from the fragboard,   in the all the madness but I have the logs still and will post them back with his stats He was the missing number which was 8th or 9th I think) He mostly just goes for frags and almost never has any protecting flag carrier events and his frag to CTF point ratio is the most off balanced of anyone in the clan. That is why I made the remark I did. That's not to say he couldn't be a great CTF player. I'm sure he can. He just doesn't play as a team member, he plays as an individual.

Now here is a comment that EXO made several times to me and to Frag God in ICQ and to everyone on the server last night. "I'm the best guy in your clan, you all suck.", "You will never find anyone as good as me" etc. I feel he really believes that. Hell, it may be true...in regards to frags but not in regards to CTF play. Please EXO, do not think I'm trying to be insulting here. I am saying EXO may be the best individual player in the clan but he is far from the best CTF player in the clan. No disrespect intended. Hell, I don't think I'm the best in the clan. If I had to say who was, I think probably either Freezer or FRaG GoD is the best CTF player in the clan. They know how to sacrifice for the score and can both defend and attack real well. I truly think I defend much better than I retrieve but hell them scores I made in the match were sweet, hehehe.

We may all be a bunch of average individual players, but I think we make an excellent CTF clan because we can play as a team. I know that when some of us longer time members and some of the new guys like Gator and RIPley are on a team we are almost unstoppable. You throw EXO in there too and it gets downright scary how good we could be. (Along with a little more training for better tactics for all of us, hehe)

If EXO wants to stay in the clan that's great. I personally think EXO is a great addition to the clan and would like him to stay if everyone can get along. I'm sure we can all be adults and just play and get ready for our match on the 17th (everyone please make practice on next Wednesday to get ready). If he wants to quit I hope we can just all do it on friendly conditions and just let it end. If any of you in the clan have strong opinions or comments let me know.

Again I would like to stress the only reason I do this is to have fun. The day it stops being fun I'll quit. I'm not getting paid a single penny to do any of this. Everyone please remember to just have fun, respect other peoples feelings and opinions and try to work as a team. If you cant do that maybe a different clan is best for you.
- Jazzman-X - 1:00am EST

 

Log Files....
I have saved the logs we had been keeping but I guess unfortunately I am going to have reset the log again now (man this is getting old). I am doing it for like 3 reasons. 1) A certain "Butt Ranger" has been changing his name screwing other peoples stats up. He cant do that to certain users because of ip filtering I have set for logging preferences but for others it has been done. 2) There is something wrong with the way the CTF stats are logged. It logs the regular stats fine, just doesn't give credit for all the CTF stats it should, so I am going to try something to correct that. 3) I want to test a few other things out involving stat conversions. Hey look at it this way....someday I will get it right and by then you will all be so good your stats will really smoke. hehehe. I'm thinking that the upcoming Viking 1.0 and Quake 3.16 will make the world a much happier place for us. (I hope)-Jazzman-X - 12:30pm EST

IP Bannings, idiots, and new members...
Nice title huh? Well for those of you that were not there last night here is some of what happen on the server. Someone, believed to be EXO KILLER came on the server and was a huge idiot. I reviewed the server logs and saw everything that happen and also have all the data including ip addresses and now ISP names, locations and name and address of the person who was being an ass. For those of you who do not know I am a asst. system administrator at the ISP where our server is. We have the ability to find out anything about anyone connecting into the server, and we have tools and contacts that allow us to trace back anyone connecting to our server.

Almost all ISP's keep logon connect records that show who connects from where and at what time and what ip number they are connected on. The person who was causing problems last night was using a connection from pacbell.net which is a part of pbi.net based out of CA (Pacific Bell Internet). Their ip address was 206.170.29.226 and they were on the server and thereby online between 1200am and 4am EST. Now as an ISP administrator I can call to pacbell/pbi and ask them to help me in this matter. But, I am not going to this time. I have only banned every isp involved with pbi.net.

This is real stupid. I swear are people that freaking stupid and bored that this is all they can do to entertain themselves? EXO if you read this (which I know you will) ,grow up. I know that was not Biff on last night it was you, using his name. Do you think your that smart? I think not.

Anyway, if this problem happens again I will take further actions. As a result of this we will not signup any more new members. We are full. The only new members we will allow are members in the south Florida area, that members have physically met and know. No more out of state, only met online members. We are closed. EXO_KILLER is out of the clan also. Whether it was him or not, he sucked anyway. He didn't know how to play CTF and was just a rabid bulldog type player, anyone who plays smart could whoop his ass. So no big loss. I'll gladly keep our newest member RIPley over him any day. Anyone offended can find me real easy...I don't hide like a punk. Freezer and I would gladly have a meeting with anyone wishing to discuss our stance on Quake 2. Hehehe.
- Jazzman-X 10:49pm EST

 

Organized article sections above.....
Not much else to say...(old pics of the week now at bottom of current pic page)
- Jazzman-X 3:44pm EST

Site optimized for...
Good question, for you Nutscrape..uhh I mean Netscape users (myself included) this page is becoming really ugly..heheh well the fancy borders on the tables here cannot be seen by Netscape.  Now don't run out and download IE4 or anything. Like it was stated before by Jazzman-X we're not gonna force you to get IE on your machine, just be aware of the fact that some changes may not show up on your browser..that's all.. - Freezer 3:41pm EST

Fixed previous news...
Well not the previous news, just the table surrounding it.  I made it look like the rest of the page here and removed the articles header from the index table made it look more streamlined - Freezer 3:34pm EST

Practices...
We will hold clan practices next Wednesday and the following Monday, please note this on your calendars, we already did it on ours (see temp calendar).  We would like a good turn out for these practices as you won't get any better if you never play.  Our main goal with these practices is to help one another with the finer points of flag guarding, flag running, escapes, and various other tricks.  We have made an attempt here to give some of that information in the BluePrint section but doing is far different than reading.  So I hope to see a great turn out next Wednesday. - Freezer 3:17pm EST

New intro graphic...
I just put up a new intro graphic on the home page. Its not that it is that much better I don't think,  just a change of pace. I think everyone was maybe tired of the one that was there for so long. Maybe we will keep rotating those 2 or maybe get a new one altogether soon. -Jazzman-X - 12:30pm EST

Temporary test calendar....
I just put up a calendar using the same plugin that is pretty popular on a bunch of other clan sites right now. I will start off by saying I know it is ugly. I am not sure if I even like it yet, but I had to admit it could be useful. It may be useful especially for me and Freezer to plan out matches and stuff. Only Freezer and I will make updates to it right now. We may decide after using it a day or two that we don't want it and may just make a better looking calendar the old fashioned way.
-Jazzman-X - 11:40am EST

Next match starters...
Gator and Hirudin are as of right now guaranteed starters in the next match. They were there last night ready to play on the second map and then the CQC quit so they didn't get to play. So, we have already decided regardless of how many show from the team in the next match, Gator and Hirudin start. -Jazzman-X - 10:40am EST

Clan Stats for Match...
Here are some more stats I was able to beat out of Gibstats. On a side note I noticed in messing with the stats this morning a fatal flaw with the way the logging is done with our server. I noticed that for some reason the only thing the Team Capture stat is comprised of is when you are on a team and a teammate captures flag (you get 10) but you get nothing for anything else, not even for when you capture the flag!!! I am going to write the Viking author today. No wonder it seemed to be so hard to build up points.. For these stats I went in and gave points for flag carrier captures (ie 15x7 for us 15x6 for them) -Jazzman-X - 9:50am EST

 

Team	Kill	Deaths	Frags	Efficiency	Skill	Rank	Frag / Min	Flag Capture	Mod Total	Total
WC	54	34	48	59	33	14	1	7	245	293
CQC	34	54	33	38	13	-21	0	6	210	243

Wrecking Crew WINS!!!!
Well we won our first scrimmage match last night. I thought it went fairly well considering all the factors. The other clan only had 3 guys show up and then they quit right after we won the first level. It was a close match but for anyone that was there I think everyone has to agree we showed a lot of toughness to hang in and get the win. Click the image to get a final score screenshot and write up of the match:
  - Jazzman-X- 12:15am EST

 

June 3, 1998 - Match today vs. CQC -

Important!!!
I just sent an email to all members regarding how to log on to the server tonight. To make a long story short when you come on the server it will start saying "connection refused" at this point it wants you to enter the password. If the password was "butthead" you would type this: password butthead
This is right at the console while it keeps repeating "connection refused". If you do not have the password email or icq Freezer. -Jazzman-X - 12:10pm EST

New Member!!!
I would like to welcome our newest member (WC)-RIPley. Yes, she is our first female member. I have played with her at least once and she is one of the best female players I have had an opportunity to play. I'm glad she joined (I think Gator might have had a little influence on her joining also, hehehe). Everyone tell her "Welcome to the job site" when you see her. - Jazzman-X - 9:40am EST

Some notes on the Fragboard
I just posted the new Fragboard. As you can see Toxoph and I logged some serious time on the server last night getting ready for the match. (tox 4hrs +?) I have had a few of you ask about some of the stats so...... here goes some explanation: Team Capture-This is just what you think, every point you get involving team scores when at least 3 or people are on the server. Frags- This is the total amount of kills you have minus suicides. Efficiency- The higher the number the better. Rank- The higher the number in positive figures the better. Has to do with among other things your death to frag ratio. Time- Amount of time logged on server. Frag/min - Think about it. Maps played- ummm duh. Total- this is the total of your Frags and Team Capture points added together. I am going to put this on the Fragboard page for reference also.
- Jazzman-X - 9:30am EST

FRaG GoD armed and dangerous with HTML editor....
It appears FRaG GoD (he only does his name that way cause it takes me forever to get the caps/lowercase correct when typing it) was up reallll late and was reallll bored. hehehe, I will say one thing he is 100% right about most other clan sites in relation to ours. Anyway I will have to disappoint him in that the Frag logs are not to be reset. They are fine. I know it was getting to be a regular thing because of problems but it should be ok now. The only other thing that could cause another reset now would be if something goes wrong when the 3.16 patch comes out. Well, I gotta do some work, I'll update more later... One last thing if you haven't checked out the starting rosters yet Go here an check it out . - Jazzman-X- 8:45am EST

CLAN MATCH TODAY!!!
I don't really have any news about it, I'm just happy that we actually have one. Woo hoo!
- FRaG GoD- 5:45am EST

THIS SITE LOOKS DIFFERENT EVERY DAY
Myself, Jazzman, and Freezer have been going around fixing up stuff around the site. The Roster, Links, Files, and News Archive pages have all been updated in the last few days to fit the new style.  People using Nutscrape Grabmygator browsers apparently can't see the cool new 3D looking boxes and stuff.  Bummer.  It is a rare occasion that I suggest someone start using a Microsoft product, but IE3.02 is free and is available from a lot of places, and them 3D boxes do look pretty kickass. (Note: I would NOT suggest installing IE4.0 in any way. That version does NOT even try to pretend that it is not a child of satan...)

There will be some more minor changes in the next week or two as the rest of the pages get done, but most of it is finished. I think it's coming along nicely. I have spent a large amount of time recently looking at other Quake/Q2 clans' pages and think ours is one of the best out there. If you look at other clans' sites and compare them to ours, you will notice some distinct differences, which I have conveniently put into a table below:

OURS	THEIRS
Pages load pretty fast,even during high traffic hours	85% are hosted on geocities and only start loading after you click on it 3 or 4 times, take half an hour to load
Have a couple pretty cool looking graphics & headers	Has at least one enormously huge animation which causes your computer to actually go to sleep for a short period while its waiting for it to load, has several expertly designed Java Applets that scroll the name of the clan and some kind of inane babbling that is usually repeated in normal text somewhere else on the page
Has news updates almost every day now,other pages updated regularly	All pages are the same as when they were first made, except the team roster page which changes once a week as people keep joining and quitting
Has a page that lets you see who's on our server or quite a few others, and join right from the web page	Has at least one page telling how their particular clan is the greatest band of warriors ever to exist and goes into great detail about how they would utterly mutilate anyone who challenges them if they had a server to accept challenges on...

  These are just my observations. I HAVE seen a couple of Quake/Q2 clan sites that were as good or better than ours, but you have to spend a long time looking to come across them.  This is due in part to the fact that the better ones tend not to have those damn Quake-Clan-Web-Ring-Member-Click-Here-to-Visit-Next-Ring-Member's-Site boxes at the bottom of the page. I have never seen a use for those things except when was enjoying myself by looking for crappy web sites. If YOU find a good clan site, let me know about it! - FRaG GoD- 5:45am EST

FragBoard Reset
The FragBoard had to be reset today because it was ranking schlong size instead of flag captures, as well as the logs becoming slightly corrupt because of el niņo.  I just put this section here in today's news because I'm betting that a similar report would have appeared anyway.  I think we can all just assume that there are going to be some more problems with the stats reporting especially with the buggy upgrade patch, so nobody complain to Jazz or Freeze about your stats being wrong for at least another week until 3.16 is released.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Anyone know if the CQC guys have all upgraded to 3.15 yet? I'm guessing they're a little slower in Canada, so they might not all have it... someone should make sure otherwise we'll be playing against ourselves the whole time.

One last tip: don't ever write anything important when you're really tired. You may end up with little stickers on it.
- FRaG GoD- 5:45am EST

 

CLAN MATCH STARTING ROSTER'S!!!!
Go here an check it out . If you have a problem in being able to play and fill your position or anything else email Freezer or Jazzman-X  - Jazzman-X- 5:15pm EST

New Match CONFIRMED...kinda
We have gotten a reply from another clan as can be seen above on the Clan Matches banner. It is with the "Shadow Hunters" clan. We will most likely start by playing 3 maps on their server and then 3 on our server. Again this will be a friendly CTF match. My goal is to try and have us a match scheduled every other week. If anyone has major problems playing Wednesday nights let me know. We may not be able to do anything about it but.. hey, I will try.
Our plan is to probably have a match one Wednesday then practice the next Wednesday. Then repeat.  - Jazzman-X- 4:15pm EST

Crew worker of the week...
This honor goes to Gator this week. After reviewing his old scores and the most recent ones it is obvious that Gator makes the best effort to play as a true CTF player. He showed in his stats yesterday he was more concerned with team wins and mod points than Frags. I don't know if this was by accident (hehehe) or on purpose, but looking at the full stats in appeared he sacrificed high frag counts in exchange for team points. - Jazzman-X- 1:30pm EST

Upon on further review...
After thinking and looking at it more I have decided starting tomorrow that I will adjust the Fragboard to rank by Team Mod score, not by Frags. I did it by frags today initially because it was quicker. But, in retrospect we are a CTF clan and I will spend the extra 30-40 seconds (hehehe) to adjust the fragboard to reflect that. - Jazzman-X- 1:30pm EST

Blueprint Files
We are unveiling a new site feature with the Blueprint File's pages (appear under the articles section above). These will be tutorial/walkthru type articles showing tips (mostly aimed towards clan members) for playing the levels we play and team play secrets and hints. This weeks first Blueprint was found by Toxoph. Check it out.- Jazzman-X- 12:40pm EST

Clan Match is on....we think....
Well as far as we know the clan match for Wednesday is still on. The leader of CQC emailed me and Freezer yesterday telling us they still planned on having guys show up. Now how many, etc. is still unknown somewhat. Like I've said before consider this a casual and fun match. The server will be locked down for the match with a password. All WC members need to ICQ either Freezer or me for the server password so you will be able to get on. Like we said before, if they don't show we plan on splitting up the WC members that show and having a inner clan match. Should be fun regardless of what happens.- Jazzman-X- 9:30am EST

Fragboard up and last night notes....
The new Fragboard is up. I did not put the Highscores leaders up because there were so many non (WC) involved and there really were like 20 people each holding like one stat. It looked stupid so I didn't bother. I will say it looked like of the WC people EXO had the most titles I think. He had like 4 or 5 (but like 2 or 3 of those were not good titles). I was quite proud that I had most suicides tied with like 4 others though, dammit!

Man, the 3.15 patch sucks ass. There is definite problems with it. As many of you may have noticed a bunch of members had problems last night with lag and lockups, overflows etc. I had quite a bit of problems with it myself as I'm sure many of you saw by my constant coming and going (hell look at how many maps I played, just because of locking, leaving and then coming back on stats). I decided to cut out a bunch of the fat on the statistics and get it down to just the important stuff. I left the ranking as is with Team capture at end in order to help speed up the update process. But, I still highlight it. I guess I should be happy with my stats considering how bad a lockup problem I was having. I realllllllllyyyy hope 3.16 comes out today. - Jazzman-X- 9:30am EST

 

Quake 2 3.15 release
Well it is 5:00pm and I still do not see the 3.16 patch out. Here is the 3.15 locally for those of you who haven't gotten it yet. You need this to play on the server as of yesterday.   - Jazzman-X- 5:10pm EST

Toxoph's Page
Here is a link to Toxoph's Archery page. He is a nationally ranked archery champion (holds #1 in Florida almost all the time and ranked very high nationally) If you have any interest in archery you should check it out.
If any of the rest of you have a personal site you would like us to mention here let us know just no porn sites........well at least none with schlongs! We do not support schlong sites!!!! hehee (also Freezer said none of those he/shemale ones either dammit!!) - Jazzman-X-5:10pm EST

What Happened?
I know what you're thinking, "where did all the news go"  I burnt it..no just kidding I archived it.   Just scroll down and click on Previous news.  It will bring you the news of old..I swear.. - Freezer 2:10pm EST

Freezer on Clan Match
My, My, My, Why won't they play us?   It's a simple thing, Gator's stats scared everyone away (you bastard!!)hehe.   Anyways, like Jazz said if they don't show just plan on being there anyways, we can just have a big clan killing fest.  Hell it would be easier for the Canadian Quake Clan to show up they wouldn't get all this bad rap in the news.  Heck they MIGHT be able to beat one or two of us but you know, Canadians are strange (sorry VooDoo, heheh) they only worry about their Labat's Blue and sneaking our merchandise back over the border..

Well on other news, the company I work for,  Babbage's Etc, has an exclusive deal with the Cyberathlete Professional League to sponsor the winner of the next six tournaments.  Kinda cool I wonder if I won what would happen..hmmm well I'd get a 5% hike in my discount, I'd get a $2000 bonus, and some unique prize..and my ugly mug in a CPL sponsored in-store video.  Naaa I don't want that..I'll take the $2000 though.
- Freezer 1:50pm EST

3.15 update and stats...
I updated the server early on Sunday to the new 3.15 release version. I have read in several places that there are some problems with this release and there is to be a 3.16 release any minute now. I hope to catch it today when it comes out and I will update our server immediately. For some strange reason when I did the patch upgrade our logs went completely haywire and just stopped recording. I tried to salvage them but it was useless. So.....once again I guess I will reset them. I hope the 3.16 comes out early today so I can just reset the logs now for the last time. From then on I think we will probably let the logs run like 2 or 3 months at a time before resets. Let people really build some impressive stats up. (I know Gator is licking his chops already, hehehe) 
- Jazzman-X -9:30am EST

Clan Match
Some of you may have already noticed this but,... our clan match for Wednesday seems up in the air somewhat. If you go to the CQC site they don't even have the match on their calendar. I already sent 2 emails to the same guy I set the match up with trying to get a confirmation and I have not gotten a reply yet. I will send him an email again today. I also have not gotten a reply from any of the other 3 clans I challenged.

I am truly starting to think clans may be scared to even play with us. To be honest if clans visit our site they see what appears to be a very organized clan with updates almost everyday, lots of members, etc. Oh well..... I am going to go challenge like 5 or 6 clans today. At least one of them will hopefully have the balls to play us. I mean hell we just want to have a match for fun!! I will let all of you know by tomorrow morning what the status of the match is. If it falls through than we plan to have a massive clan members vs. clan members match with whoever shows up. So plan on being there at 9:30pm regardless. - Jazzman-X -9:30am EST