Cannon_Fodder

It's not like everyone that is posting in there now is a current GC member and if it helps him decide... And yes, a saw the smillie.

I'd forgotten that the TWL forum was private. There has been lots of talk there lately though no decisive action. Could we let DarkArchon have the TWL password temporarily so he can get in on the discussions there rather than try to recap everything here?

That was probably about the only time I gave you some decent competition! I think that map was cramping your usual style! Once in a great while this old fart does OK. I loved playing against Bushwack on Severance a few weeks back on Nep. Both of us were trying to take out the other's primary node. I'm usually the one that's too late but as I took out the node I hear Bush whining something like, "Man, just one more shot!" That made my evening especially when Bush was the one that taught me how to correctly take down nodes with a shock rifle during a TWL practice session.

Be sweeter if you joined GC and just straight up played *on* the team... Jus' sayin.... -Fk I second the motion! It would be great fragg'n with ya versus being on the receiving end!

Now that I know that Lincoln6 = Primus I'll know when to go Hellbender hunting! :-)

Is it just me or have others been seeing more stuck starts on Nepenthe than usual? Where your player starts out not being able to move and you have to get out of the map and back in to clear it.

The hard part with building a scratch PC is not the physical building and connecting especially in these days of Windows XP. The hard part is all of the decisions on what's compatible with what, and what's the best bang for the buck, etc... Fortunately, I've got several good friends that live and breath this stuff. I often wait to see what they do and when the dust settles just duplicate their systems. I suspect there is that kind of expertise floating around on GC... Personally, I favor NewEgg for components followed by Mwave. Tiger Direct is OK but it's saying something that I get little from them even though they have a direct outlet about 40 minutes away.

I think HWarrior is away until after the new year so probably no changes until at least then. I believe Bushwack hates Primeval so he (and I) agree about not liking it. IMHO witchslap (with a is a terrible map (sorry tek). I always thought aridoom would be a good one to work into the rotation.

And I wish you had joined after the Dria marathon had ended... It was a hard long fought marathon and suddenly our slim lead vanishes. sniff...

It was never clear to me that there was a regular time for TWL practice or I'd have tried to be there more often. I wish I'd have joined sooner when everyone was more into it. Of course then I'd have spent a lot more time watching than playing as we weren't desperate just to get a full team.

There doesn't seem to be enough interest do anything meaningful in TWL at this time. I'm up for it if we could enough people to play.

And Nepenthe just went down again too...

There must be some issues with the master server. This afternoon it seemed like all was well with about the average number of servers coming up and being played. Just now only 2 servers came up and it didn't show Nepenthe though I know Nepenthe is up as it's in my favorite list??? This sounds like the way to go with Nepenthe, thanks. I think you should have asked before paying that 3 month bill for Temerity. I don't see us being able to have enough people for TWL and it seems like kind of a waste. I don't want to see you eat the whole expense though. How much is a 3 month bill and what's a fair share to contribute? Also I believe I used paypal last time but don't remember the email address I sent it to.

No one has talked about it. Personally, I think we should just drop our practice site Temerity unless it makes sense to hang on to it until UT2K7.

I tried playing around noon and again around 6PM and there is next to no one playing? Only 2 servers came up with anyone on them at 6. Did the master server go down for a while or something like that? I know things are slow these days but not this slow.

Last evening I got kicked twice for no apparent reason though I was able to rejoin. This evening with a full 18 people playing (which made me want to cheer!) Nep went down altogether. H or Flitter, and idea what's up?

It has been very slow. It used to be where you could jump on Nepenthe when it was empty and have a host of people joining up in no time. These days I'll jump in sometimes going through 3 or 4 complete maps with no one joining at prime hours. We really need UT2007 to breath life back into things.

You should join us with the TWL matches where we actually work at strats and team work. We are often short of players too and could use the help.

And I can just hear Tek gibbering madly the whole time he's halucinating his victories as he getting beating to a pulp!

Well, I thought I'd already had this stuff installed and I wasn't having problems before vacation but doing as you suggested seems to have fixed my problem. Thanks Flitter!

So I'm gone for a week. I get back wanting to join a game and it takes forever to load things like ONSBBTextures just to join a common map like Dria. I tried for 20 minutes just to join a game and the downloads kept timing out before I could even join. What's up????

How about some more info to help decide? How much does it cost to support 20 versus 18 versus 16? I agree that things are getting dismal but there are still some good crowds on occasion and I always hear lots of compliments about GC being a good place to play. I'll be on vacation starting tomorrow for about a week. Good luck with the match.

Bushwack I can believe. How I came out looking like that is something I don't understand except for the one time the whole game seemed to be acting up when that player initially said I was hacking.

These pics are a bit old but here is a typical party at my place taken by a friend of mine: http://www.chimenti.org/arcade/092003/index.htm This is before I started building my big cabinets that support all of the game systems I mentioned previously: http://www.ricksgamerepair.com/misc/big_cab.jpg BTW, I'm the one on the white T-shirt with the "and you're telling me this because?" stuff on the front. I don't have time to deal with this before vacation but I build my own spinners. If you have a wood control panel and the right interface and like mine I can help you out at my cost which is something like $30.

This thread has turned into my expertise. As Primus knows what I do for living keeps these games alive with the emulation systems I put together. You guys haven't mentioned a game yet that I can't walk over and play any time I want home console or arcade. My big machine supports: MAME 4000+ arcade games daphne 20 laserdisc games (all that daphne supports) vpinball 1751 boards (vpinball stands for visual pinball) PacMAME 100+ (all pacman type games) Plus a host of home console and PC games: SNES 3741 roms (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) NES 8373 roms (Nintendo Entertainment System) N64 1003 roms (Nintendo 64 bit) Gameboy 5806 C64 ~18000 (Commadore 64) Amiga (several thousand) AtariST (several thousand) Apple2 1000+ Vic20 1000+ Atari 2600 (maybe all) 500+ Atari 5200 100+ Atari 7200 (maybe all) 50+ Vectrex ~100 Atari 800 100s Atari Lynx 100+ Colecovision 50+ Nameco22 (1 - Rave Racer) PCEngine 100+ MSX 100+ Commodore SID (30,000 sound files)