Redid some of the EDK page today adding a different menu bar on the left. Also updated and cleaned up some of the code/pages. Basic maintence that needs to be done from time to time. I should probably look into using Frontpage98 since it is my new favorite editor and seems to keep up with the links better than by hand. I will also be updating the members page with graphics shortly...

Saturday November 1st, 1997 3:32pm

WooHoo, 2 updates in a day! Anyway. I finally got to see the pmodel/emodel in action, and boy was it interesting. I actually caught some fool cheating. The funny thing is he was the only player of his clan whose userinfo would display the emodel/pmodel crc's. Here's the kicker...I got a screen shot. Feast Your Eyes!.

Saturday November 1st, 1997 1:21pm

EDK has offered Wild1/2Wild4U an invitation to join EDK. Wild shows great potential and is well respected in the quake community and will make an excellent addition to the clan. On a sad note, [EDK]Vengence has emailed everyone saying that he's going to be going inactive for a while.

Commentary on QW 2.10:Even tho I haven't gotten the mdl checking thigie working for some reason I think QW 2,1 is a worthy upgrade for it's improvements on the client side for OpenGL players. I haven't read anything to the fact but my GL playing is twice as smooth as it used to be. It's a lot like the Q2demo in the fact that it's consistent thru out. I have heard some issues of lockups and unbearable lag when using the 2.1 client over the older 2.01 client so I would recommend backing up your quake directory up before installing. On a down note...the Qspy is about to expire that I use so I have been forced to upgrade to gamespy, which isn't as groovy as Qspy in respect to Quake servers

In others news, I put in a request like 2 weeks ago for a www.gibbed.com site (free) and haven't heard but one thing from them, and that was that they were working on it. The funny thing is that if you goto www.gibbed.com/edk, it'll actually return a blank (sorta) page. So maybe something is forth coming...I have figured out why I can't get the forums working with authentication and will implement that on monday. That should be cool having the forums back.

LAN Party....people have asked me "When the next?". The answer is "Whenever!". Confused? Well here's the deal...with all the holidays coming up and Quake2 nearing release...when should the lan party be? What date would work for the majority of the folks that would want to come? Even tho it sounds a long way off, around New Years has been suggested, New Years eve falls on a Wednesday. Either we could do it like Wednesday & Thursday and/or a variation of days around that time. Drop me some mail if anyone has more ideas...

Wednesday October 29th, 1997 8:21pm

QW 2.1 is out. The readme info from Quakeworld.net...

The new QuakeWorld clients only have a couple new features; the console command crosshair 2 give you a better looking red crosshair.
You may check the CRC values of the player and eyes models of other users on a server by typing users to get a list of users, and user id's
on the server, then user <user id> to see information about that user. The keys pmodel and emodel are the CRC values of their player and
eyes models. The default player CRC value is 33168, the default eyes CRC value is 6967. If you plan to use the new Solaris clients, check
out the readme file and note that an Ultra Sparc is recommended for ideal performance.

The second mentionable thing that happened was we finally played the EDK / Lagitus GangGreen Div Genocide match that got rescheduled last thrusday. Somehow we found a server we could all live with...pings weren't bad at all. Of course this wouldn't be a Genocide match without it's fair share of problems. In the second game I got dropped by my ISP and had to completely reconnect (Which I've never had to do) as did another LagGG guy. And before that we had been on a server that was having some serious PL spikes, and between switching servers [EDK]Vengence blew a fuse at his house...fun never stops. Anyway, long story short (too late). We lost by one in the first game and took the next 2 to win the match. Here's the screen shots with efficiency (the ones I sent to Asus). Game1  Game2 Game3. Work it...        -T2d

Also [EDK]Cornell has been offered and has accepted an invitation to join EDK. We're still looking for a few more folks...but I think this is a good start. -T2d

Wednesday October 15th, 1997 2:49am

Couple cool things. Off of the Genocide Tournament Home page:

Beacuse of the fact I have gotten some complaints about people cheating and such, the Genocide Tpurnament has implemented this rule. If some clan feels the other clan is cheating they can talk to an official and ask them to make the other clan take pics with people in front of them. This is at the officials regard for him to implemented or not. Please dont start making clans take pics just cause they kick the shit out of u!! -V1rg1n

• An OFFICIAL observer must BE PRESENT for the matchs for verification of the match.
• Only 1 observer per clan will be permitted, so he can go in incase of some clan member timing out or disconnecting. Other observers must watch using the QW FAQ Proxy that will be setup.
• A Demo MUST be made of every match. This will be done almost always by an official observer.
• NO PLAYERS CAN LEAVE SERVER AFTER EACH ROUND UNTIL EFFICIENCY PIC ARE TAKEN!!! ( This is done by going to console and typing "efficiency" and taking a pic of all the player stats.)

Something not as cool is the fact that the first (out of two) Quake2 demos to come out won't have the network options (Sux1). O well. The new [Time-bot] script died yesterday (that too sux'd1) and had to be replaced by the original (my homebrew script).

The time is right on this post. I've been REAL busy with work and haven't been around during prime time. I am a night owl and do believe that...the best quake played is the quake played late...just my 2 cents worth (I'll be paying for this time tho in the morning when trying to get up). -T2d

Monday October 13th, 1997 4:49pm

I suck...I let my ISP bill get over due so they locked my account (for the weekend). That sucked. Anyway, news in review. Clan EDK (that's us) looks to have finished the Genocide pre-season at ranking of 15th (out of the 32 clan that made the cut.). After the Genocide season is over I'll post my thoughts on the tournament (please email me your thoughts). We had some real good times and some real bad times over the course of the season. I think that when the next tourney comes around, whether it be the genocide tourney or otherwise, that things will be different just from the experiences and lessons learned from the last. We will be playing Lagitus GangGreen div. This Wednesday at 10:30pm EST. They are a East coast clan so Hopefully we won't have to much problems finding a serve that's good for both teams. One change in the rules for tournament play is that it's best of 3. It's not a combination of scores...win or lose.
In other news...we have an IRC bot up now in the Channel. [Time-Bot]. This is my own bot running a slightly modified version of the Mirc script "Ne><gen". It has a few tricks the other one didn't have. !edkmenu will show users a list of commands it recognizes from users (of any level). Pretty Cool.
Something else that might be happening is that this page once again might be moving. This site might eventually become permanent since I know the dude who's machine it's running on.  For those keeping count (no one but me), this would be the 3rd move of the EDK page. The good news is that their are pointers from the original spot to the current home (including from cltonline). The reason? A possible domain name might also be in it's future, Vengence would be able to help in editing/updating, the public and private forums would return. better CGI/Frontpage support(Counters/New member Forms), and overall better quality of service.
O, and I finally got the LAN party pictures back (after throwing a fit) and will scan (and rescan some of) the pictures in and post them up here today and/or tomorrow. The ones I already have aren't worth posting till I rescan them...
I will probably update this again tonight but went ahead and did a quick update now since I had a second. -T2d

Wednesday October 1st, 1997 11:49pm

Not particularly Quake - Went and Saw Talk Show (Basically STP) and the Foo Fighters livein concert tonight. Both bands pretty much rocked. There's a TON of bands coming around in October. Primus/Sister Machine Gun/Offspring/Type 0 negative. Pretty cool. Also found a REAL cool mirc script page that tells it just like it is. Instead of offering large over sized scripts that no one would ever learn or use, it gives you just what you want, which are the core componentsin easy copy/paste examples. Mirc scripts and add-ons. I will say if you can't get them working at first...try subing:

1:ON PART:#:{
for
on 1:PART:#:{

Zoid> Ok, the CRC of player.mdl and eyes.mdl is in. You can tell if people are playing with modified eyes or player models. Heh, CTF uses a different player model, so you can check that too. :)
EG|Drakken> wow Zoid
EG|Drakken> so people cant use the eyes.mdl hack?
Zoid> Not unless you want to show everyone you used the eyes.mdl hack :)

In future LAN party news...looked into renting a conference room from the Cary Chamber of Commerce. 2000sq ft. room for...200$ a day. O well, the search continues. I sent off the little disposable camera I used to grab the LAN pictures with, have to wait a little longer than usual since they have to send it somewhere different than were they send regualr film rolls. The Clan Doppelganger page mentioned the LAN party...

Sunday September 21st, 1997 7:49pm

LAN Party...wow! That was a blast...just seemed to go by too quick. Sleep is the only thing I didn't get an excess of. I would like to thank [EDK]Lonka for the use of the tables and extra network cards and DG|Vandal for bringing them from Charlotte to Raleigh for us and of course all that came and played. Check out the Raleigh Quake LAN Party Link for a more in depth summary of the Party.

Two things that were cool in terms of must have was a sound file that Jackal/Mike brought called Internet from the show King of the Hill. And a gfx.wad replacement that chages the crosshair in quake from white to red and brightens the Quake fonts (makes them look REAL cool...thanks DS|Bacchus). Just place this in your QW directory. To download to your harddrive, hold down the Shift then click on the Link.

Friday September 19th, 1997 9:09am

LAN party...Always seems like there is just not enought time to put one of these together as the time closes near. Hopefully we'll have enough tables and LAN adapters. I decided at the last minute to run the QW server off my P166/64meg Laptop...the respawns are almost instant after death...there is no waiting or studdering. I also downloaded and tried the QW32 player expansion pack and came to the conclusion that those boards are big, almost TOO big. SO! I've selected some prime Id levels for play and have created 2 local loop files; Small and Big for level looping. I was unable to get the Drop Quad/Invis to work as I had in the past...still don't know why, but it just doesn't work like it did before. It was a QWctf progs/qwprogs.dat that I was using for DM that worked...but now doesn't. I have all the servers using the "localinfo" varible to setup map rotations. This why no ones has to sit there and manually change levels to skip over levels that aren't as tasty as say the next level.
Here's the tip of the day for all you folks wondering why "-game qwring" never finds the qwprogs.dat on dedicated QW servers. Exchange "-game" for  "+gamedir" and all will work. Maybe someone knew this one, but I've never seen it mentioned anywhere. I got it from the setup instructions for Rocket Arena.

Monday September 15th, 1997 7:59pm

Loser boy...Really nothing going on except that I found a fly mouse pad that makes my mouse seem like a a puck on a air hockey table. It's called the "3M Precise mousing surface" and it ran me about 15$ but it was worth. Rocket Arena is pretty cool as well. There are tons of quake mods out there so it's easy to get saturated but this one's pretty cool. Put the server together for the LAN party and ultimately for a spot on a friends T1 as a private EDK server for scrimms and testing and stuff. It's only a P90 (Thanks to Raider for MB/CPU) but it's RedHat Linux 4.2 on 32mes of RAM so it should turn and burn under the user load...we'll see during the LAN Party. The "Localinfo" command for the 2.0X QW servers pretty much rocks...I'll be setting up all the QW servers here for the LAN Party with it so that the servers only loop between only the "prime and tasty" levels...If the P90 doesn't hold up, I do have a backup p166mmx/64meg machine that I can use if needed. Last time we used a p100 with 32megs and had no problem running 3 servers (FFA/CTF/QWring). We'll see what the load of 16+ folks does in terms of performance. I've heard folks on the net bragging of P2 machines as QW servers...what a waste.

Tuesday September 10th, 1997 11:59pm

Genocide Update:Finally played clan WolfPack in an intersting but mostly straight forward Genocide match. Lost the first match with some heavy Packet Loss for some by 21-36 and after a change of server won the second 55-22 to win the Genocide Match 76-58. A pretty Close game...Check out  Why You Can't Find Your System Administrator" for some classic/timeless support humor. Fill in all the Doom references for Quake. Are good friends at  DoppelGanger have gotten their own domain and have moved their web page. And speaking of web pages, all ex-ecc can see the new and improved ecc web page. The members page was interesting...

Sunday September 9th, 1997 7:11pm

Not Quake...Went and saw the Pantera/ColdChamber/MachineHead concert last night in Fayetteville NC...that was some serious fun. The Raleigh Quake LAN Party graphic is now a link to the LAN party info page...

Friday September 5th, 1997 7:11pm

O man...More genocide news. Played Clan COTE in a very heated match (for us anyway) that was filled with trash talk from both sides...bad. Couldn't agree on a server for what seemed like forever...found one everyone could agree on and got on. We compromised a good server connection in an effort to get the show on the road, big mistake....lesson learned. We lost both games and the match, live and learn. We then played Clan WD, that was fun. I actually had a good connection and enjoyed getting my butt beat by the best with out any lag to get the way. Thursday we played Clan SeismicForce and one that one. Good to end the week on a positive note even tho WolfPack was moved back to Tues 9pm EDT. I will be putting a comprehesive Email about the details and need to knows about the LAN Party (Correct Like directions, aka Exit 289).

Wednesday September 3rd, 1997 12:11am

Genocide Update...yet another strange genocide match (which one isn't?). EDK over GEC 129-61. The first game went terrible with one of the GEC dudes dropping and someone having to replace him. On top of that I was having the worst case of lockups and lag ever. So we lose the first game 39-48, I reconnect (Different ISP), and everyone ready's up. I get a TON of lag (blue bars) right before the start and some bad lockups during the game (but not as bad as the first game). Then like a few minutes into the match one of the GEC dudes start calling for a change of server...the general rule I've always followed was once a match has started, to just play thru it. To make matters even weirder, one of the dudes said one of our guys popped in right before the game started and type cl_playmip (which everyone saw because it was the wrong syntax) and that caused/started all the lag (gl_playermip is the correct syntax and it's a GL command...We all use GL in EDK). When I tried to explain all this he cried be and when I was in the channel further explaining with url's and pasted text he wanted to kick me from the #clan_GEC channel. I was just trying to defend myself and EDK's win. I do understand where GEC was coming from but they should not have readied up if they wanted to change servers. Guess it's time to repost my favorite top ten list:

Top 10 ... ways that goats & llamas run their clans!
10 Post your clan on every tournament page but never accept any challenges.
9  Be very unorganized, and then claim the other clan is unorganized to cover it up.
8  If you play a clan that uses team strategies, flame them as cheaters and campers. Why should they play as a team?
7  Designate a teammate as the "whining llama," thus distracting the otherclan in hopes of getting a frag.
6  If the other clan does not respond to 7, argue amongst yourselves.
5  If  you win the first round and start losing the second, complain about severe and unplayable lag and try to end the match. It doesn't matter that you're onthe same server.
4  Ask some of your teammates to leave during the match (this helps 3).
3  If you get slaughtered in the first round, cancel the second and call the whole match a scrimmage. If they have email proving you agreed to an official match,heck, they edited it!
2  Post wins, but not losses. Tell them you haven't had the time if they notice...stall! They'll forget eventually.
1  When all else fails: close down your clan, change the name and start a new one.

The answer is simple. Hexen II doesn't have any dynamic lighting. (Even if you use the torch, that's not like Quake) It appears that all the lighting is pre-rendered, as opposed to Quake where a lot of the lighting is drawn on the fly. The equivalent would be to play Quake with r_fullbright 1. Not that this is anything but an approximation, but you get the idea. I think that if we asked Raven they would say that the rendering of lightmaps happens a bit differently than in Quake. Fire a rocket in Quake or GLQuake with gl_flashblend 0 and you'll see the difference from Hexen II in a nutshell

• The height of the pink lines towards the bottom is your latency on received packets.
• Red lines are lost packets. (bad)
• Yellow lines are from the rate command kicking in, it's data that wasn't sent to you because you didn't have the bandwidth for it.      (OK)
• Blue lines are very bad, they invalid delta's, and are related to the U_REMOVE warnings.

In other cool news the JavaQuake web page that was closed down due to Copyright infringments with ID has been redone and reopened... Frag Isloand - Caffeine Overdose. It takes a while (ie a long time) but it's worth a look for sure. Also a site named simply 24 has about every 3rd party level availible categorized on one web site. Also all you QW server admin's take a look at this cool site that offers a modified qwprogs.dat with droppable Quad/Ring of Invis as well as cpu optimized code...Possum's QWprogs Patch. Also check out Plantet Quakes Console Command List. For all those super secret console commands...

Saturday August 23th, 1997 5:55pm

Real life keeps cutting into my Quake...the ultimate twitch game. Some late Genocide News: Lost Cause handed us another Genocide loss. In the first game, Mindfazr got dropped/timed out in the first minute of play that cause the next 13minutes to basically be a 3v3 (again!). Lost Cause took the second game to take the match. We have an incrediblely full next week with already 5 genocide matches planned and already another one planned for the week after that! We are trying to limit the genocide matches to Tuesday and Wednesday since those days are good for most everyone and the rest of the week can be spent scrimming and practicing and enjoying other RealLife activities....and of course we don't do weekends (Saturday/Friday). Check the Genocide Results page for scheduling.

We are activiely trying to recruit another LPB and a couple of HPB's. A note that I don't like to mention but will is that joining EDK is based on 2 things: Playing ability and how well that person gets alongs with everyone else in EDK.

Wednesday August 20th, 1997 5:00pm

Not so good genocide news: Clan EG handed us a lose...this match was decided in the first 5 minutes with EG doing a very good job of sweeping the board of all weapons and enemy (us). Moving...as most of you know EDK is activiely recruiting some more members to help file some spots we have open. I have added a "New members form" link to the left for all new candidates to fillout. This form will help answer some basic questions that have to be asked but that get old after asking 3-4 times...going to do some more web page renovations by the weekend to help enhance the look and feel. Something is eating the spaces between words...I'm looking in to why.

Sunday August 17th, 1997 11:50pm

Updated the Genocide page (Doh!). So hard to keep things up to date. Update one thing only to find the next out of date. [EDK]Mindfazr updated the EDK skins this weekend. You could almost call it the EDKskin pak! The big difference between the new edk1/4 and the old onesis that the new ones allow the vest color to change to what ever you haveyour shirt at. Very Nifty.

Thursday August 14th, 1997 9:10pm

Thanks go out to the DigitalCorp. for putting me up in great Hotel over looking the SanFrancisco Bay. Our Genocide match with clan Rage was postponed. I was in their channelWednesday And saw that they had like 3-4 matches all lined up...pretty good idea. Monkey see...monkey do. Hopefully we'll get a day or 2 set asideand do the same...In other news I finally got 2 PC's on my network to bothshare the ISDN connection with a decent playable ping (just around 200).I'll also finally put a date in stone for the LAN party (Sat. Sept. 20th?).I would also like to say that California has some pretty groovy folks aswell...

Wednesday August 13th, 1997 12:40am

Some More Genocide News:Finally got with Clan Quest and had our Genocide match.A very close match. The second match was plagued with lag and timeouts.Mindfazr was dropped and Raider was having crazy timeouts. The lag wasso bad (how bad was it!...) that Spitfire and Vertigo couldn't come inbecause of 400+ pings. Quest did a good job and were real good sports whenwe were trying to get everyone together (it took us about 30-40 minutesto find a server and get everyone together)...only switch servers once...finalscore was 72-60 EDK.

TuesdayAugust 12th, 1997 5:20pm

Some Genocide News:Our Sunday Game with Quest fell thru...andthere never seems to be anyone in their channel that can help me reschedule.Then our Match with LostArmy blew up yesterday.I got tied up and couldn't make it till 10:30 (suppose to start around9). But the first game seems to have taken 2 hours to get going. Then thesecond one they could only get 3 folks. We changed servers 3 times (includingthe "Evil" LoD QWring server!) and in theprocess pissed multiple members of both clans into uncontrolable fits offrustration.  The bottom line was a 139/27 EDK victory. Rumor hasit that Lost Army [LA] has disbanned. I bookeda Genocide match with Lost Cause  forNext wednesday (8/20) 8pm EDT (Early match).  Check the EDK Genocidepage for more details.

SundayAugust 10th, 1997 11:40am

QuakeWorld Client 2.0Released...but you probably knew that. Check Redwoodsfor some juicy details (Better than Blues). Also added the Genocidelink to the left for Scheduling and Genocide Record. One note onthe new GLQWCL...man it flys!!!! Having toget used to the smaller display and where thing are. Some folks have beencomplaining of slower frame rates...not me! Thing just FLYS!!! Fixed mostof the wierd spacing problems in the EDK page. Don't know how or when theystarted...but they're fixed (for the most part) now.

ThursdayAugust 7th, 1997 1:40am

Third Genocide MatchWrapup: A happy ending!In our Third genocide match we were victorous over ThePhoneJack Devision of Lagitus 107/58. I would like to take thistime to thank Lockness for working with us on scheduling the match sinceit was moved back and forth a couple of time before actually settling ontoday and for also understanding some connection issues we worked thoughbetween the first and second match. I will be putting a GenocideMatch Results page up soon with a link to the side as an easy wayto glance at our genocide tourney record.

WednesdayAugust 6th, 1997 8:40am

Starting to formulate the date of my nextLAN party...probablylooking towards the 2nd weekend in September(13th)(The little flamingskull is the EDK version of a happy face...blues has his, why shouldn'tI have mine?). We wont be doing the separate rooms thing again (at leastto the extreme it was last time). Why? I felt the two room were a littlealienated from each other. Things will probably be a little more scheduledas well since I know there will be some who will want to play some 1on1stuff and some other types of game play. I am in the minority when I saythis, but with over 10 folks who are interested in playing team games,CTF provides support of 5plus teams a lot easier than trying to organizea bunch of DM Team games. This especially becomes an issue when we hadodd numbers of folks (say like 12) and folks have to sit games out. Themain point of LAN Parties is to play...to sit around watching others isvery frustrating (sound familiar?). I probably will mail out a questionnaireasking what folks want and/or expect in a LAN party experience.I learned a lot from the last one, I just need to have a feel for whatfolks are expecting to play and/or do at the LAN party.
Still can't make heads or tails of Frontpage97'seditor. I can edit this page twice as fast in Commincator4 than I can in. Frontpage. Frontpage97's editor  reminds me of Netscape3's editor.Can't get Frontpage to use Netscape as the default editor either...thecommand for the netscape editor it like "netscape -edit", but it doesn'tlike that...

TuesdayAugust 5th, 1997 8:50am

Second Genocide Match Wrapup:Wouldliketo play a straight forward match with no problems (Extreme problems,likeall the vnet guys not getting dropped) or misunderstandings. We gotbeatin our 2nd Genocide Match. Towards the end of the match (last 7 minutes)wefinally got control and weren't giving it up. So the match ends andallthe LoD guys take off...little did we knowthat the rule of playing 2 games and adding the scores up only appliedtothe last genocide tourney. LoD were lessthansportsman like...and so that they didn't feel lonely, we started showingourunsportsman like side to,.we felt like they were blowing us off, saidsomethingswe probably shouldn't of...I got kick/bannedfromthe #lod channel and that about did it. What started as a misunderstandinginthe rules got blown out of proportion. The whole Situation left a badtastein my mouth...

In other news...the little flaming dudeabovewas actually a creation of mine from scratch. Only took a few hoursto whiptogether. Also check out this GL Bench mark page this guy put together...Matt'sGLQuakeBenchmarks and Configs. I hope no one has installed DirectX5. I'veheard of either people having no problems or nothing but problems.Checkout ZanShin'sGLDojo for more info on that...

FridayAugust1st, 1997 1:50am

First Genocide MatchWrapup:Outofall the matches that needed to go smoothly from amechanical stand point,ourfirst genocide match crashed and burn. Or Ishould say my ISP crashedandburn. At first I thought it was somethingon my end that was causingmy connectionto lock up everytime I ran intosomeone. Then right afterthe second gamestarted everyone that was onvnet was dropped....crazy.Needless to say thematch didn't go well. OnaStickplayedwell andI congratulate them but I just wish it had beena more succesfulfrom a connectionstandpoint. I of course could not usemy ISDNsincethis is a HPB tourney. We lostboth games and the Match. Ifanyone wantsto mark their calender as tothe exact "birth" of EDK..I lookedit up inthe "old" news, It's WednesdayJune 11th. Someone asked so thereit is...

ThursdayJuly 31st, 1997 6:50pm

A place that I didn't expect to see QW newsshedsome light on when the new QW Client willbecoming out...2 weeks. That came from Zanshin'sGLQuakeDojo. Also been meaning to put the HistoryofTeamplay link up as it's pretty Cool. Also a pretty good page isThresh'sQuakeBible. A news page I found out about that had some good news goodieswasBuzzkill'sQuakePage. I'll be popping these onto the links page soon.Also QuakeWorld.nethadsome cool new QW screenshots to tease me with...

WednesdayJuly30th, 1997 5:00pm

EDK has successfully entered the GenocideTourney.I think we tried to late to enter the QUAD tourney, but Ithink Genocidewill keep us more than a little busy (4 Matches in lessthan a week). EDKhas been pretty successful in scrimmages but since scrimmagesare off therecord...I haven't been posting any scores. The Genocides arepostable matchestho so that will change. The members page has been updated.I'm still tryingto get my ISDN up and running...Sure wish the new QW clientwould come out.
Found this on Lagitus_PhoneJackDevision(Couldn'tstop laughing):
Top 10 ... waysthatgoats & llamas run their clans!
10 Post yourclanon every tournament page but never accept any challenges.
9  Be veryunorganized, and then claim the other clan is unorganized to coverit up.
8  If youplay a clan that uses team strategies, flame them as cheaters andcampers.Why should they play as a team?
7  Designatea teammate as the "whining llama," thus distracting the otherclan in hopesof getting a frag.
6  If theother clan does not respond to 7, argue amongst yourselves.
5  If youwin the first round and start losing the second, complain aboutsevere andunplayable lag and try to end the match. It doesn't matter thatyou're onthe same server.
4  Asksome of your teammates to leave during the match (this helps 3).
3  If youget slaughtered in the first round, cancel the second and call thewholematch a scrimmage. If they have email proving you agreed to an officialmatch,heck, they edited it!
2  Postwins, but not losses. Tell them you haven't had the time if they notice...stall!They'll forget eventually.
1  Whenall else fails: close down your clan, change the name and start anew one.
 

SundayJuly27th, 1997 5:07pm

EDK Joined the Genocidetourney.Contemplatingthe QUADtournamentaswell. Both are ladder based so that clans with like skillplay each otherinsteadof really good clans whipping up on less skilledclans. For as muchas everyoneis in the Channel, I think 2-3 days of plannedof tourney playis in order.Making some improvments to the web page inabout everyway youcould think...ittakes some time developing a page butthat's what Sundaysare made for. Checkout what my favorite QW dude Disruptorisupto on the Id QW server (forget Dm3...DM4 is for winners!). Ona sidenote...wehave a Genocide match thisThursdayWith onastickat 9pm Est.

FridayJuly25th,1997 5:07pm

Haven't had much to up date this week. DirectX5.0wasreleased...I slipped some changes to the page in Wednesday.Workingon aTeam DM Link page to tie together a few links into a one stopshop.I wouldlike again to thank everyone who came last weekend for coming.Ittook alot out of me tho...but my Quake playing will ramp back up I'msure.

SundayJuly20th,1997 1:07pm

The big LAN Partyupdate....wow!Hadabout 12 folks at one time playing 1on1's, team andFFA stuff. The RedHadBoxheld up like a charm running at one point 3 QW/QWRINGservers and oneNQCTF server with no problems. Thanks go out to all thatattended. I thinkeveryone(for the most part) had a pretty good time.There was a lot moreto havinga LAN party this big than I thought. I hateto see what a REALLYbig gatheringwould take in planning. A normal pingwas about 33...spikingupto around66 if the player was in a busy room,but I think that actuallyhad more todo with the CPU being overloadedthan actual any kind of bandwidthproblems.Check the RaleighQuake LAN Partylinkabove for more ramblings and news of future events.In other news,Zoid hasmade a deal with id to include CTF in Quake2 (PrettyCool). Notmuch to say...stillrecovering from having 12-14 folks takeovermy houseand force me to playQuake till past 3am everynight (don't youhate whenthat happens?).

FridayJuly18th,1997 5:00pm

One Word on GlQuake/GLQWCLwithaMonster3D...screaming. 44.5 FPS onTimedemo2at640x480with a p166. I actually have some GL links I'll postlater tonighton a subpage for reference later...Today is the day of course.Today isthe startof the LAN party. Completely revis'dalltheId  and CTF 3/4 levels...and of course uploaded them to theLANserver.I predict that anyone that omes to the LAN party without aGL boardwillhave one ordered by next monday. QuakeCon97ofcourseis going on right now...we have RQLP.Halfthepeople, twice the fun.

Wednesday July 16th,1997 11:35pm

Re-arranged the page (Again) and put the newlogoup.Still not 100% Satisfied, but a lot better than it was. Foundtablesforthe LAN table...which frees me up from having to buy some. Thenumberoffolks attending is up to 14 now.If allgoeswell...this might become a regualr event (not monthly but ona 5-6week rotationmaybe). LAN partys always burn me out on Quake...atleastfor one day. NewQspybetais out foryou guys that have the reg'd version...Qspy5.3Beta2.Also saw on Blues that the author of the PingbotwroteBlueto say:

I would liketooffera public apology to all members of the Quake community that havebeenundulyaffected in a negative manner by any of my creations (LoefBotandPingBot).I would be more than happy to lend my programming skill toanyperson orpersons who is currently working on or has plans for a feasiblebotdetectorAll those wishing to contact me in these regards can do soat jamesloe@mindspring.com.Onafinal note, I would like to say that I do not regret any of my actionsinthepast.

Incase you guys haven't checked the id page lately, you might want to be
 checking the Quake II page daily as I'm adding stuff to it...

• No Lightning Gun in Quake 2
• So far, weapons include Shotgun, Rocket Launcher, Grenade Launcher, Railgun (ala the movie Eraser), bfg type weapon (not designed yet), a disintegrator (enemies literally fade away), grenade type weapons: mines, personal nukes, black holes)
• no midi support
• Quake maps will not easily be converted to Quake 2
• monster models with be extremely smooth animation due to interpolation allowing as many frames of animation as the machine can create
• More of an inventory system along with the basic weapons,
• Something I thought wasn't going to be in but he says is, is ducking. I don't think I like that, as I don't think it adds well to the gameplay.
• The use key is back in, except from what I understand it will be used for puzzles only, not for door opening, etc.

I might add an SMP rendering module to quake 2, depending on time constriants. I have the framework set up, but it would still take me a day or two.

Well, seems like my request for serveradmins to use the correct port went largely unheard. Here's the new structure.

192.246.40.12:27000 Limbo (Big, unorganized mess)
192.246.40.12:27006 Deathmatch
192.246.40.12:27002 CTF
192.246.40.12:27003 Team Fortress
192.246.40.12:27004 Modified Progs

I would immagine that most serverops running Deathmatch only servers with the standard QuakeWorld progs would want to use the port 27006 master.

Wednesday(Round 1/Round 2)   
7:30pm Jones/RaiderX(Round 1)   
10pm Round 2a (Spitfire/MrBungle)

Thrusday (Round 2)   
7:30pm Round 2b(Vicster/Joltar)
10:00 Round 2c(Vdog/Time2Die)

     I was working on the QuakeWorld progs for a bit and fixed a few
     issues. The updated progs are running on our QuakeWorld server at;

     underworld.idsoftware.com (192.246.40.169)

     The fixes are;

     - Double, tripple, and in some cases, quadruple damage bug fixed
     - Player velocity is no longer carried over on respawn
     - Respawn telefrags are now a thing of the past

     I would like to "stress-test" them for a while before I release them.
     Please e-mail me should any of the aforementioned bugs crop up
     again.

Hopefully the patch will be out before this weekend so we can use the QW server and client that we're all used to now.

Monday May 19th, 1997 7:45pm

Got some cool info...Qspy 5.2 is supposed to come out today, but their homepage was down as of 2pm today.. Here are the certified SoundBlaster Drivers for DirectX. Not using these current drivers has been linked to machines crashing while running QW. Also take a look at these screen shots for this killer level that is still under development... SkyBase. Also check this cool Java IRC client out from Stomped. Also, here is the word from Stomped's console commands web page on the SV_AIM issue that keeps popping up...

SV_AIM 
Default: 0.93 

The SV_AIM variable controls the treshold for autotargeting, ie. how far from an enemy must you be pointing for the weapon to automatically target it. With a value of 0 you can't miss, with a value of 1 you _almost_ always fire exactly where you point at.

If noaim 1 is set in quakeworld, the value of sv_aim does not matter at all for that client.

sv_aim is actually a vector dot product compare to determine how far the angle is away from straight on.

John Carmack

As much as I hate to do so, it's time for me to "retire" from ECC. I just received a job offer, which I've accepted, that will require long-term absences. I'm going to manage a computer department aboard ship, and will be at-sea for long periods of time.

Monday(Round 1)   
7pm Vengence/Spitfire   
9pm MrBungle/Keelay   
11pmVicster/Noogman   

Tuesday (Round 1)   
7pm Joltar/Hunter   
9pm Rezin/Vdog   
11pmRedRound/Time2Die   

Wednesday(Round 1/Round 2)   
7:30pm Jones/RaiderX(Round 1)   
10pm Round 2a   

Thrusday (Round 2)   
7:30pm Round 2b   
10:00 Round 2c   

Friday (Round 3)   
7:30pm Round 3a (Round 2a winner plays 2b winner)   
10pm Round 3b (Round 2c winner plays 2d winner)   

Saturday (Final round Double Elimination)   
7:30 Losers from round 3 play each other for 3rd and 4th.   
10pm Winners from 3 play for 1st and 2nd spot.

Crusher, Myself, and a DG "Mr. Montaya" defeated DOA in a scrimm last night! Montoya was ahead but only by 5 frags from Crusher and myself.

I asked John Carmack in email about when the next public GL Quake version would be released. He did not specify a timeframe but said the next version released would be the unified GL/QuakeWorld client. I can't wait! Also, I asked what video cards coming out in the near future might be fast enough to play GL Quake and he said the Verite V2000 and Permedia P2 will probably be fast enough.