More Observations of Jazz...
This will probably be my last update of the day as I am feeling pretty sick right now (bad allergy problems).  In regards to the FragBoard,  I did seem to be able to fix the time problem. As you can see Gator is the king of time on server and also rules the stat board as a result. So since I am resetting the logs today now everyone has a chance to keep up with him, hehe.  Everyone should also notice that I changed so the ranking is in order by "Team Capture". This is how it will be. So, who cares if you get killed 100 times more than the frags you get . If you capture the flag and defend it a lot and your teammates score you will be ranked higher. We are a CTF server after all, that's how it should be.   - Jazzman-X -10:00am EST

Updated Boards....reset coming....
Well, I updated the boards and it appears everyone is doing a little better at getting back to CTF. I know I haven't been playing but I have been real busy as of late. I will make a comment towards Voodoo. He messed up the boards because of using [ WC] and (WC). For everyone in the clan here is the way your name should appear:
     (WC)-Joeblow
Now please don't be retarded and use JoeBlow, it wont be that funny. I am going to reset the logs as of today for several reasons, including Voodoo's mishap and also because I messed up in the way I configured the log recording. After I make the few adjustments I should be able to get better information out of the logs.   
- Jazzman-X -9:00am EST

 

Added HighScores Leaders board to Fragboard page
Pretty cool chart I just put up. Ranks the highest scores under certain criteria. Just check it out.  - Jazzman-X -11:35am EST

New Fragboard up
I put up the new board. You will notice a bunch of new stats. These stats are somewhat incomplete. I had the log down some on one day and also many of us in the clan have not played the last couple days. As you will notice the stat I have highlighted is the most important-"Team Capture". Anyway if any of you think you understand the stat sections I made comments on at the bottom let me know.  - Jazzman-X -11:20am EST

 

Unreal in Space
Here is a pic I took in Unreal after being amazed at flying around. Pretty awesome. Click on the image to see larger version.

Here is a page telling how to do it.
http://home.tampabay.rr.com/visari/Unreal.htm - Jazzman-X -6:40pm EST

Unreal review update...
I made a few small corrections to the review and added the system specs of the systems I tested the game on at the bottom of the review. - Jazzman-X -4:20pm EST

Unreal review
I posted my Unreal review above in the articles section. - Jazzman-X -3:10pm EST

Site changes #134578667893
Ok, maybe not that many but..... I changed back the front page to the way it was with a better box for the quotes. I also deep sixed those outstanding "new" pics Frag God so bravely placed on the roster page. Freezer made a small boo boo on his Unreal article above but I am sure he will have it fixed sometime tomorrow. I also plan to put up my Unreal full review maybe tomorrow.

One last thing upon further review Frag God's kill / death ratio is actually backwards on the Fragboard page. So he has now decided he probably will not retire after all. :)
- Jazzman-X -12:40am EST

Hey look I almost got this
Gee after three days of not getting my email I am back up.  I would like to request that in the future anyone wanting to send me a file or something attached to email, contact me FIRST and wait for me to reply and tell you if I want it or not. - Freezer 12:00am EST

Unreal LAG Tips
For those of you who purchased UNREAL and are unhappy with multiplayer, we have put up a FAQ on how to remedy some of your lag issues.   Check them out above and as always USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
I also added a News Archive accessible off the bottom of this page..
- Freezer 12:00am EST

 

FRaG GoD becomes bored with Quake 2
After playing against the bots on our server for a few hours and totally destroying them in every way possible, I realized that Quake is a stupid game.  I mean it's just shooting imaginary objects at imaginary people.  Those bots just didn't stand a chance, and I've become bored with it.  It's no longer a challenge.  I'm going to quit while I'm ahead, retire while I'm still on top.  So I've decided that I have mastered the art of Quake2, and am moving on to the more advanced realm of Solitaire.
  (this not intended to be taken as real news, and I was just thinking about getting a dog too)
- FRaG GoD -08:00pm EST

Demolition Site setting changes...
I made a few changes to the server today, in part to get ready for the match.
-Turned off painskins
-Turned off shock effect
-Activated particle effect (larger particle effect on explosions)
-Left Hyperblaster in low lag beam mode
-Activated "weapons stay" mode (weps always stay, one pickup per person)
-Activated Gibstat logging
These changes are all pretty standard and are what we will probably have on for the match. BTW: the other 3 clans I challenged have not replied yet (scared?), I intend to re-submit challenges to all of them tomorrow. - Jazzman-X -7:50pm EST

Gibstat in beta Viking Mod!!!!
Well I just noticed it appears that the Gibstat logging is working in the new version we are running now. I will clear out all the logs today and start the server fresh tonight recording new logs to be posted tomorrow hopefully. Keep in mind now that the new logs will record much more than the old fraglog we had been keeping. It keeps track of all the CTF stats such as flags captured, flags returned, flags defended, etc. So we will now shift the focus towards everyone becoming a better CTF player and get away from the frag minded ways we were going towards the last few weeks. Not that frags are bad.... :)  - Jazzman-X -10:20am EST

Viking Development Team
As some of you may already know I am now on the Viking Development Team (see: http://www.sod.net for more info). What this means is that I am responsible for helping to test the latest versions of the Viking mod as they come out. As of right now we are running the v 0.99a version on our server and are one of only 3 servers to be running it. So, I would greatly appreciate it if any of you see any problems on the server or notice anything weird to report it to me so I can input the information to the main Viking programmers. Also, if any of you have any ideas for additions to the mod let me know and if they are good ideas I will pass them on to them for addition into to mod. As I'm sure all of you can imagine this is a great opportunity for us and if Sgt. D reads this I would like to say thanks to him.   - Jazzman-X -9:50am EST

Clan page news section...
As you can see below we are getting all kinds of guest news updates as of late. This is great, every day you come here you never know what to expect. If any of you have any news to report just drop me an email with it and I will post it for you (as long as it is some kind of news, not just talking about your dog or something). We have really been trying to make some visual changes to the site so please be patient while we keep changing things around. We just realized the other day that the site was looking good in IE 4 but was all spaced goofy in IE 3.0x. So we will keep trying to clean things up over the next week.- Jazzman-X -9:50am EST

 

FRaG GoD returns!
After battling with the minions of hell itself (Microsoft Products),  I have regained control over the smoking mass of wires and metal I call my computer.  If I can get Quake2 in time to install it, I'll be able to join the clan match.  If Win NT gives me shit, I will be formatting my hard drive (for the 10th time in 4 days) and installing DOS 6.22 again.  I know of at least one other clan member who will join me in a Doom2 Modem Player clan if such events occur.  :)

   I have finally been able to install ICQ again.  My new number is on the Roster page.  I added two other people's numbers as well.  There is a NEW symbol next to the recent UIN additions.  I liked having a UIN in the 2 millions.  Having a 13 million UIN makes me look like a newbie.  That sucks.  Oh, for the people who I didn't see on the server in the few weeks before my computer crashed, this is my new name.  I'm not using ANiMoSiTY anymore, some other people started using it and I was getting annoyed by their friends sending me ICQ messages to ask me if I was the one they were thinking of and stuff.  This is also why you will have to wait to be validated if you want to add me to your ICQ list.  Sorry.  - FRaG GoD -03:30am EST

FRaG GoD on Unreal
I watched and played UnReal at Jazzman-X's house a couple nights ago.  I don't want to make this news page much longer than it already is, so I'll save most of my opinion for when the articles section on this gets made.  What I will say here is that it is a pretty cool game, a little better than Quake 2.  I think it falls somewhere between Quake 2 and what Quake 3 will be when it comes out.   It is slightly to moderately better in most aspects of the game, except for a few significant flaws.
   1) Multiplayer - not good
   2) Weapon sounds - kinda weak compared to all the visual effects
   3) Speed - getting Quake2 level performance requires a top of the line
        system or  turning off several features.

If you have a system new/fast enough to run Unreal at its maximum performance, then you've already blown several grand on computer stuff.   Another 40 bucks isn't anything compared to that, so you might as well get it, as a good game to play alone.  The built-in Bots are better than anything I've ever seen made for Quake/Q2, in their realism and skill.  They get stuck on corners and stuff occasionally like all bots do, but they seem to handle it better.   Unreal also has several new game styles built in like King of the Hill, Team Games, and Dark Matches which the bots will play with you on too.  If you're still running a computer you bought more than 8 months ago because your computer upgrade allowance is shot for a while, you might as well pass on this one and keep playing Q2.  Turning off enough features to make it playable on your system will give you only a slightly better experience than Q2.  If you don't have a hardware 3D card, don't even bother.

New updates and new computers will likely follow, so you'll probably want to keep Unreal in mind for a later date.  New computer buyers will probably start grabbing Unreal in the next few months, depending on how soon id comes out with something.  Carmack's response to Unreal's release sounded like he had no time to waste.

Hmmm... I hope nobody else has any news today.   You might never get the whole file downloaded.  - FRaG GoD -03:30am EST

 

New ICQ for Jazzman-X
As some of you already know I had to get a new ICQ acct. due to adding a new HD and forgetting my old accounts password. I put my new number on the roster page.

Jazzman-X on Unreal Part 2
Well after spending more time with Unreal my opinion of it is getting higher and higher. It really is a very good game. The single play experience is in my opinion is a million times better than any other game of this type ever. The online play is still very bad so far due to terrible lag (even after getting the patch and trying some of the tricks I have read around on other sites).

I will say though that after digging deeper into the options and settings and also after adding a new hard drive to my system that I have been able to get a lot better performance on the game and have actually turned several of the options back on that I had turned off before. I have almost all of the cool lighting and effects on and get great speed on the game in both single player and Bot matches (which is so far my favorite of the game).

I will post in the article/review I write on it here Tuesday what settings I have adjusted for best performance and how to do it (not all of it is obvious and I gathered it all from like 5 different sources). One thing I will say is that Unreal seems to like to have plenty of free hard drive space on your system for temp/virtual memory swapping etc. You need to have like at least 300mb or more free space after the 400mb install I would think. They say 150 but it seems it likes as much as you give it. There is also a way to allocate more of your ram to the game and this really smoothes it out. - Jazzman-X -8:50pm EST

Zap Man makes the news!
Hi. Jazzman told me to update the news. So, um, Mother Teresa is dead. Princess Di too. And JFK. For some time now. Oh, I did the 3d effect to the tables above too. (Most browsers should see it. I left most of the ones below as they were.)
- Zap Man -11:02pm EST (late Sat night)

 

Holy cow!
Hey look I'm back up and running.  I replaced the navbar with a new one with the challenge link, The link doesn't work right now so don't click there..hehe.  Anyways, now I have to get used to all the changes that Jazzman has made here over the last week or so.  No problem, I'll just snoop around..heheh - Freezer 2:30am EST like Jazz's was a late update..

Jazzman-X on Unreal...
I just got done playing Unreal for the last 3 or 4 hours and I decided to stop and just give you guys my quick observations on it so far. I intend to write a article/review on it in the next few days also. I will make this quick but I figured some of you thinking about buying might like a little info:

Test system I used: P166, 48mb, Monster 3D. (I will test it on my other system on Monday- a P2 233, 64mb, Riva AGP 4mb)

Graphics: Awesome. The Monster 3D really brings it out nice. Cool lighting, nice level layouts, etc. I would say if you don't have some kind of 3D accelerator don't even think about buying this game.

Sound: The music seems ok nothing real special although it does seem to pick up at key moments real nice. The sound effects are very nicely done. Especially in the beginning with cool computer voice sounds, sparks etc. The weapons sounds seem kinda weak but they are ok.

Multiplayer: Forget it. Totally sucks right now. I tried hooking to 2 different servers and everyone was complaining and lagging. Remember though Q2 was the same way at first.

AI: The best I have seen so far in this type game. They roll, duck, run, go behind columns, everything. I am playing on easy so I'm sure they get real tough on other diff. levels.

Comments: Well first of all if you do not have at least what I tested this on (as stated above) don't even think about getting it. I had to turn down several rendering features and turn off music and downgrade a few other things to get it to run real good. Mind you,  it ran with everything on just fine and looked awesome but soon as I would get near a creature it would start getting choppy. So after turning some things down I got it to run at a very good speed. Everything is smooth and nice, I just had to lose some things like reflections, special lighting effects, etc. It still looks just as good as Q2 even after I turned all these things down. It looks much better I think with them on, just this system wont handle it.

I'll be very interested to see it on my other system. It is much faster and it should run great. I will do a second opinion after I do.  - Jazzman-X -11:30pm EST (Friday night late)

 

Viking Mod Files
Just added some Viking client side files to the files section. These are from sod.net, which is the site of Sgt. D who is the Viking Mod main man now. I saw note there that they will be coming up with a .099 version soon perhaps and I have communicated with him some about being a beta Viking mod tester since we run and administer our own system. Hopefully we will see new releases very soon. I do plan to now turn on the pain skins on our server so if you don't have it already go to the files section. We will probably mess with the radio sounds very soon also. - Jazzman-X -12:05am EST

Fragboard note
You may notice that there are not as many people listed on the fragboard. I set it to only list people that had at least 20 total frags+kills. There were to many 5 and 6 total frags/deaths on the list before. This may be a irrelevant point considering the news I posted below, but hey.....  - Jazzman-X -10:45am EST

New Members...
We would like to welcome a few of our newest members: EXO_KILLER and Gator. Gator has been a member for a week or so I guess and EXO_KILLER is a brand new member via Hirudin. Gator I believe was drafted by Freezer. Both play very good and are both LPB I think. The (WC) is getting stronger all the time. We are just getting matches started so its great that we have so many members to fill in if needed. Everyone say "Welcome Aboard" to these guys when you see them. (sorry, I was having bad Navy flashbacks there for a sec, hehehe) - Jazzman-X & Freezer -10:40am EST

Fragboard Updated
Just updated the Fragboard. I made a mistake with regards to the logs but it didn't seem to really effect anyone. To make a long story short, I accidentally deleted one of the log files from like 2 days ago. Looking at the score from yesterday and today it doesn't seem that it really effected anyone. I think the log I deleted didn't have very many frags on it. The way our server works is every time the server is reset or started it starts a new log file. I think the log that got deleted was like one where we restarted before really anyone got killed. Hell, it sure as hell didn't seem to help my score at all, hehehe.  - Jazzman-X -8:20am EST

About Fragboard.....
I have been getting some feedback from some of you that we shouldn't even be running the fragboard at all and wait until we start running the Gibstat before we post results. This is because the Fragboard as it is now only keeps track of frags and doesn't take into consideration that we are playing CTF. Being its CTF sometimes you need to sacrifice yourself to help the team to score. What is happening is many people now just play to kill and ignore playing CTF because it doesn't help their Fragboard stats.
This is a very valid argument that I have to agree with. I caught myself the other day playing for frags and not to win CTF. So..... we may stop updating the Fragboard until me and Freezer can decide what to do. I may go beg Sgt. D of Viking to please hurry with the Gibstat supported Viking. - Jazzman-X -8:40am EST

Low pingers....
Ok, some of you may have known this was coming.. You guys that are in the clan that are low pingers need to get smart REAL fast. Last night we kinda had an incident that really defines the whole problem of LPB. Freezer got very upset and rightly so. This is directed towards Gator, Exo-Killer (I think) and hell even Biff who frequents our server. If you come on the server and see another Low Pinger (I.E. under 100 ping) do not join his team. Go on the team with the guys with the highest pings.

Last night I came onto the server and Biff (LPB), Gator (LPB) and Tox (HPB, but only 100-150) were on the same team against Freezer (HPB-was around 300) and some other guy with a ping around 4000. So I joined to help Freezer out some. Then another guys came in with like a 12 ping and joined the already low pingers team. As most of you know it got real ugly real fast. This could have been solved very quickly if Gator or Biff would have just switched to our team to even it out. But no, they had fun stomping on me and Freezer (seemed Freezer got the most of it) and it ended up with everyone quitting.

Please don't any of you even try to say that the ping doesn't matter either that its all skill. I know first hand. I have a T1 connection here at work and any of you who think other wise let me know and I will make you look stupid in front of everyone. When you have this kind of connection its like your a different player. I love playing with LPB's when I'm at home as long as the teams are even to keep them from taking games over.

Some of you who were there may say "Well why didn't you say something?" Well first of all I shouldn't have to. If your on a team with 3 LPB whooping the other team senseless how much more obvious can it be? We can turn on the LPB ping evener feature on the server but don't feel we should have to. So all of you start paying attention to the teams, if there are LPB there make sure they are all switched to even the teams. In the future when I come on to the server I will start putting people on the teams I want to make it even. If you don't like this tough shit. Its about being fair and having fun. Hopefully we wont have to talk about this again. - Jazzman-X -9:20am EST

 

Server Screen Shot
I just put up a screen shot of our servers desktop while its running for you curious types who always wondered what it looked like. Not real fancy huh? hehehe, works just fine though. Notice you also see a little bit of the cool Viking front end window in the corner. The link is above under "Special" category. - Jazzman-X -4:30pm EST

Match Set!!!
I just received a confirmation from the CQC (Canadian Quake Clan) on a match date. Our match is set for Wednesday, June 3rd at 930pm EST. It will be a 6 on 6 -Q2 CTF match. We plan on playing all 5 CTF levels in order, with basically the team to win 3 of 5 levels wins. This is just a fun scrimmage match in order to let both clans have some fun. The match will be played on our server.

We will be releasing more info over the next few days and all of you should expect an email from Freezer pretty soon. We will have at least one practice before the match which will be very important to attend if you plan on playing in the match. We will probably have the practice next week sometime around the middle of the week.

You can visit the site of the clan we are playing here: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Battlefield/9924/cqc.html

We will most likely rotate players out of spectator mode each level if we have more than 6 that are going to play. So everyone be aware that if you really want to play AND try to be around as much as possible on the server the next 2 weeks AND hopefully make it to the practice when we have it, you will be able to play in the match. We just want to make it very clear that if your name doesn't even appear on the fragboard by then (meaning your not playing on the server) or you don't show up for the practice do NOT expect to play in the match. Most likely only people that have at least 50 total frags/deaths on the fragboard will even be considered (no 50 suicides will not count). - Jazzman-X -10:20am EST

Site changes....
I know that I am probably driving some of you crazy (Freezer for sure) with the site changes everyday. I am just trying to get things nice and tight and clean so we can update easily and also so everything is more compact and easy to read and find what you want to know. Please be patient as I continue to mess with layouts. - Jazzman-X -9:20am EST

Fragboard Updated
Just updated the Fragboard.  - Jazzman-X -8:20am EST

 

Clan Matches
We are currently in talks with like 3 different clans about having some fun Quake 2 CTF matches. So everyone knows we will most likely try to schedule matches for Wednesday nights around 930pm EST. This is the best time for about 5 of our members so we need to do it then. Everyone that will usually be able to play then drop an email to either Jazzman-X or Freezer letting us know. When a match is scheduled we will let everyone know right away here in the news section. We also anticipate them to be 6 on 6 matches.Additional people can show but will be sent to spectator to wait a chance to play. We will rotate players in and out each level. We will pick the people who show up the most to play in the match. So if you haven't been on the server playing in 2 months and want to play you better start logging some more time soon. We are doing everything we can to have us match either May 27th or June 3rd.  - Jazzman-X & Freezer -2:20pm EST

Changed Servers Page
We changed the server above. The other one was out of date. We now have a bunch of new servers listed including our server and  id servers.  - Freezer -11:20am EST

Fragboard Updated
Just updated the Fragboard. Looks like we had quite a bit of action last night.  - Jazzman-X -9:20am EST

Unreal goes Gold!
Just saw this over at Planetquake:

While the word got out yesterday that Unreal had indeed gone gold, Epic Megagames has now published a press release confirming this fact. The press release also has some info about the Unreal level editor, along with a confirmation on the release date.

Unreal will ship with a fully functional beta version of Epic's Unreal Level Editor - an advanced 3D authoring tool which provides a sophisticated, yet easy-to-learn, method of creating 3D environments and objects by which players may create their own Unreal worlds. According to Computer & Net Player magazine, "if this doesn't bring level editing to the masses, nothing will." A feature-enhanced, fully supported and documented version of the Unreal Level Editor with additional 3D content and a tutorial is currently under development and will be released separately later this year.

Unreal will be available at retail outlets nationwide on Memorial Day Weekend at a suggested retail price of $54.95.
- Jazzman-X -9:20am EST

 

Fragboard Updated
Just updated the Fragboard and for some reason found myself on top. To be honest I didn't expect it because I didn't play that long before the Jazz vs. Lakers game dragged me away from my computer. (Yeahhh Jazz!! 2-0 now!!). It looks like not too many people played very long last night since no one really had a bunch of total frags.  - Jazzman-X -4:40pm EST

Fraglog reset
As of tonight the Fraglog will be reset and we will start posting the new results tomorrow morning. We will leave the current one up until we get the new ones tomorrow. - Freezer -12:05am EST

Aliases FAQ Article up
Just put up another article about Aliases.
If you have any questions about it let me know - Freezer -11:25am EST

Server Crash Investigation Part 3- Solved...kinda
Ok, we know what happen and who did it. We are testing to see why exactly it happen so everyone can chill. It kind of appears the person switched to operator mode to make changes then changed back to Voiced mode. Then when he left the server or did something we are not sure of the server had invalid info of a number of voiced vs. operators logged in and for some reason we do not understand it crashed. It may even be because you cannot change from an operator to voiced in the game as you are connected by just changing your name. We are going to test it and forward any info to the Viking guys to look at.
The guy who did it I'm sure knows.....- Jazzman-X -11:22am EST

Bots renamed...
I just made an adjustment so that in the future we can go ahead and run the server with bots and at least it wont be so bad on the logs. I have changed the name on all the bots to have "Bot-" before their name (example: Bot-Cipher). This way when you look at the Fragboard you will know who is real players and who are bots. - Jazzman-X -11:25am EST

Server Crash Investigation Part 1-Probable Causes
Well after taking a look at the server it seemed the crash was caused by someone that was on the server at the time it crashed. Somehow someone had been either switching their name trying to get access in operator mode or were trying to reset server in some other way. I have made a few changes and also intend to make sure I can access the server remotely after today even if the Q2 server program crashes. - Jazzman-X -9:12am EST

Server Crash Investigation Part 2-Log Issue
Another problem that I should be able to track down was that someone turned the bots on. The only 3 people that should be able to do this are myself, Freezer, and Toxoph. I've already confirmed that neither I nor Toxoph turned them on. I still need to talk to Freezer (will about an hour after this). I will be able to then narrow it down to who did it if Freezer says he did not.

If anyone tried to fake their way in to do things let us know now. Don't make us be dicks. If we have to we will lock everyone out of even voiced mode and then change our access everyday. That seems very childish to have to do that. There is a reason only a few people have operator status. Too many hands in the pot causes problems. I don't want 10 people in our server changing config. files and the such. Anyway as a result of someone turning the bots on the logs are shot for the whole weekend (or least Friday while it was up) and I'm sorry to say I saw that there probably were a bunch of legit kills but the bots running around screwed up the logs to the point where I will not go in and edit it. There were like 15 pages of logs and I'm not going to go through them all. I will say sorry to Gator cause I saw he had many legit looking kills. - Jazzman-X -9:14am EST

Article submissions
If anyone has articles they have seen or want to write and have posted in our articles section please send them to me via email and I will post with credit given to you. - Jazzman-X -9:17am EST

 

Server is Down!!
We already found out from Toxoph that the server is down. Unfortunately I haven't installed the remote access software to the server yet so I cannot restart from here. I will check what happen on Monday and then get it setup so that in the future if this happens I will be able to have the server back up rather quickly after someone informs me of a crash or whatever the case may be. I thought a pic would be appropriate for this situation so I created one below. :) - Jazzman-X -5:32pm EST

 

 Fragboard Reset

In case you did not catch it the other day we have reset the logs on the server as of 5pm on Friday. I didn't erase the Fragboard yet, (decided to leave up the old numbers till Monday) - Jazzman-X -1:07am EST

Clan Match

So everyone knows I am trying real hard to get us some kind of a match with another clan setup real soon. The problem is finding a clan that has enough guys and will show up to play. We plan to def. have a match within the next 2 or 3 weeks. Even if we get our ass kicked it will be good because then we will know how much practice we need. It will probably be a CTF match 6 on 6 or so, on our server. - Jazzman-X -1:07am EST

 

Fragboard updated

Hell I don't know that I needed to though. I think there was only like 8 frags total added in. Seemed like everyone took last night off. On a side note: I just picked up "Gran Turismo" for PSX. Man that is the Quake 2 of driving games. The game is the best racing game of all time. Just thought I would let you guys that are PSX gifted know. :)
- Jazzman-X -9:07am EST

HELP ME!!!

Help Jazzman-X has kidnapped me and is holding me for ransom.  His demands are simple so listen up.. He wants a Yugo, $20 cash in small unmarked bills, a personal T1 at his house, and a box of ten year old Twinkies..PLEASE help me!!
- Freezer -12:18am EST

Update:

I've decided that I also want one of those Velvet Painting things. If it has either a bullfighter on it or Elvis I'll waive the Yugo and $20.00. I still want the Twinkies regardless. :) - Jazzman-X -9:05am EST

Fraglogging

Hey if you haven't seen it yet there is a ranking system going on here, yeah yeah yeah I know what your saying..my ranking sucks..well do something about it.   don't get killed so much, kill someone..by all means try to kill me..heheh but do something..I hope the new version of Viking, which will have GibStat built in will please you all more than the fragboard has.  Its just a way for us and any potential opponents to see what kind of talent you have.  Its nothing personal if you are on the bottom, just try to get above the others who frequent the server.  The rankings will also make you improve your game..try joining another server and see what you can do out there. heck the worst you can do is get fragged.. - Freezer -12:25am EST

Prize Locker??

Hey! when did we get one of those?  Anyways make us a damn cool model and skin and you'll get a crisp one(no not $100, $10, ten bucks) and a pretty kick ass game.  If you're really lucky we'll fly you to the Foreman's trailer and hit you in the thumbs with a hammer.  In all seriousness (is that a word?) try to come up with something cool.  Make sure you send it to Freezer or Jazzman-X BEFORE you go posting it anywhere.
- Freezer -12:30am EST

 

Articles

Make sure you check out our articles above if you haven't already. - Jazzman-X -2:57pm EST

Clan model needed!!- Prize involved!!

Ok, Freezer and I are begging any of you to please, please, please make us a Quake 2 Model (skin) for the clan. The only real requirements are that it looks like some kind of a kickass construction worker to fit into the theme of our clan name. Hell it could even look like some kind of a futuristic mechanic or something. Just maybe put the (WC) on him somewhere. The only other requirement is to send it to either Freezer or Jazzman-X before posting it anywhere so we can check it out first. I will even go so far as to say whoever comes up with the skin we use will in addition to getting praise from all will receive from the WC Prize locker (didn't know we had one huh Freezer,hehe) the following: $10.00 and a Full copy of Dungeon Keeper. The prize package will only be sent out to the person with the winning model (as decided by Freezer and Jazzman-X) May not be a huge prize but it is better than a stick in the eye. Hell,  then you can brag to people that you won a Quake 2 contest (just don't tell them all the details, hehe) 

Fragboard updated

Updated again after some lunch time play.

Fragboard updated....for now.

I just updated the Fragboard. I didn't play last night (just for a few minutes when I first brought it up) but I guess I should have to see the ass whooping Biff and Wheelman must have put on everyone! sheez, look at them scores. Also I would like to welcome Toxoph to the Monster (3dfx) club. His scores also dramatically improved once he upgraded (from 13th to 8th, and mega better numbers). As you may have noticed I mentioned the log reset date of 5-15 on the Fragboard page. I am going to reset because those first 2 days the numbers really got screwed because of the bots running around and also many clan members said they didn't realize we were running a log and were goofing off killing their selves etc. So......we will reset it for the weekend. -

Gibstat and next Viking Release

Just for your info in regards to the above,  in the next release of the Viking mod Thedd intends to set up Gibstat support which is much more detailed than the standard fraglog logging we are doing now. It will create graphical charts and track many more details including CTF specific performance like flags captured, defended etc. So in other words don't everyone get all whiny about the current stats they are only temporary.
- Jazzman-X -10:07am EST

 

All is happy in the Quake Universe again....

I Just saw that Blue made comments (wed. May 13th news) apologizing for his comments and clarified what he meant. He did acknowledge exactly what the purpose (as far as I'm concerned) for the feature was. If the feature was used in a way where you just left it on all the time I could def. see his point (we do not intend to do that). We only intend to use it for matches and tourney's. This way all is fair and even(or at least as close as it can be) - Jazzman-X -11:00am EST

LPB Viking debate

Just noticed over on the Viking mod page that Thedd has posted a email I sent to him and Blue (of Blues News) regarding Blues unfair news mention of the Viking mod update released the other day. Blue's comments (tue. May 12th news) were done in bad taste and I'm glad to see many others including Thedd feel the same way.
- Jazzman-X -9:15am EST

Fragboard Updated

Just compiled and uploaded the new fragboard. Where are the rest of you clan guys?!! We had some stranger slip up into the top 5 last night(Dumpmaster)!! Well, he was pretty good although he was taking advantage of kinda cheap kills on Toxoph while he was having lag problems last night. Make sure you all try to show up and start bringing those stats up. Even you guys who started out kinda rough just get in their and go at it because the more your playing regardless of how bad your doing (well...not real bad anyway) your stats will improve because of the total number of frags involving you. You will notice by looking at the board in some situations a guy who has a better ratio may be ranked lower than someone else because their skill is lower. That's because the other guy usually has more total frags, deaths and suicides- thereby being more experienced and having more skill. - Jazzman-X -8:10am EST

 

Viking Mod Upgrade

We have updated the server to the latest version number of .098b. We recommend everyone going to the Viking page and download the painskin pak as soon as you can. We are not currently running it but plan to very soon. This will make it where you can see how hurt someone is by just looking at them. Here are some pics showing what it looks like. - Jazzman-X Wrecking Crew site development... As of today I will be helping Freezer with the updates, stats, articles etc. on the clan page. I have closed down my game page due to lack of time to update the site on a the timely basis that was needed for the type of site that it was. Now that there is two of us here the updates should be more often and we should start putting up a lot more content etc. - Jazzman-X

UPDATE to Scoreboard

We just updated the Scoreboard page to list the fragboard for our server. The numbers there now should not taken very seriously due to having bots running around that kinda make the numbers inaccurate. We will be starting the logs tonight with the bots turned off so we can start getting a more accurate log. - Jazzman-X Server bug workaround... As some of you may have noticed  when you come into the server and join a game your status bar info on the bottom is missing (ie. health, ammo, etc.). There is a temp quick fix to this that I have found. If you join a team and then once your in the game hit the "Tab" key to bring up the menu once and then hit it again to close it. This will make your status bar appear again. Email Freezer if you don't understand... - Jazzman-X

 

UPDATE

Howdy folks, just sending an update.   Everything is progressing nicely, we are still in the planning stages on the "King of Destruction" Tournament and are presently negotiating a clan match with AeGiS.  If all goes as planned we will most likely hold the match next week.  - Freezer