Flitterkill

So literal... 1) MOTD - close enough - says local stats are running - go to gamerscoalition.com 2) All admins aside from myself are now "secret" - I will however continue to have my name out front and center. 3) Title is what I meant - still "ehh..." -Fk

I just finished "skinning" the stats package to something more GC UT Style Mainly just hacking the php and css files and figuring out which images are being used and replacing them with my own. Do you mean matching the CS stats skins with the UT skins? Prob some room for overlap but given how very different in presentation styles the packages are (psycho vs UT) it might be a whole lot of work for very little reward. Lets take off publics and to PMs - no need to hash this out here. -Fk

1) Only admin listed is myself - been like this for about a week now? 2) MOTD was already tweaked when stats went live 3) Stat whores are always prevelent - if some folks get too out of hand (coupled with attitude) this stats package does allow me to "ban" from stat listings - doubt anything will ever come to that level but that option is there. 4) Server name change - ehh - maybe... -Fk

http://www.expeditiary.com/utstatsdb/ Global stats may be down (if you haven't noticed the master stats page hosted by Atari/Epic has been out of commission since early May) but we got ours. -Fk

Hmmm.... Interesting. I hate plodding around though (that would be walking) - too much UT in my blood. Need more time in and more config of controls. This is just single player so far. Do wish general movement control changes would carry over automatically to the vehicle stuff but oh well - just more config time for me I guess That punkbuster license agreement is something else though - nothing like it on the UT side - essentially sez we can look any where at any time and upload that info to our servers - ouch.

That filerush one that was posted. Gamespot was non-responsive. Make sure you have more than one port open for the torrent stuff (if you haven't done that already) - even so, my max speed was between 60 and 90 tops - with a lot of 45 for most of it. So many people, not enough seeds at start. -Fk

90% - bout 10 minutes left or so ---------------------- And done - torrent sez it took me 3 hours to pull down. Now lets take a peek... -Fk

I was poking around for some new maps for the UT2K4 thing and when I went to dl from FileFront I thought to myself, now that's very odd, usually I can just nab these immediately without a 15 minute+ wait in the queue... Oh yeah, I bet... And sure enough, yes. Not a small DL - 560megs or sumthin like that -Fk

Sorry to bear bad news but as of right now the chances of a GC Battlefield II demo server went down to a statistically low number. If we can we will but really, don't count on it - stuff happens and in this case, out of the blue, it happened. On another note, the demo for BFII will drop in a day or two - gamespot apparently will have it "exclusively" for DL - both to members of gamespot and lowly non-paying folks like myself. http://www.gamespot.com/promos/bf2demo.html Again, even though they seem to be promo-ing thier gamecenter thing - the demo will be avail for free, etc. -Fk

And indeed, they are full GC members from the long ago time and do not need additional dime to get CS reserves - now those two *need* to return to the right game but that is another discussion altogether... -Fk

LOL Can do. Wonder what Penty will say... -Fk

1) GC member reserves are now back in play as of June 4th. GC reserves will kick random non-GC off the server to make room for them when the server is full. You can solve your being kicked problem by *joining* GC! $50/year gets you email, ftp, coalition-only forums access, an opportunity to play on our UT TWL ladder team (totally optional), friendship with a gaggle of like-minded folks more interested in good play and a solid server environment, more folks to play *other* games with, and, of course, reserves on not only ALL our UT servers but those on the Counter Strike side as well! (Did I mention full admin access to our UT match/practice server too?) 2) Welcome our newest admin HWarrior/-=GC=-/ 3) Nepenthe is a 22 player plus 2 specs server. Tick is at 25, netspeed is 9500. All map dl's are redirected to *our own* redirect server. Perimeter is the largest redirect DL you will have here at 25 megs - so give it a minute or two to pull down for ya! 4) Map ranking as of June 6th, 2005 based on total votes each map has recieved: 1) Arctic Stronghold 2) Echo-101 3) Crossfire 4) Torlan 5) Dawn 6) Deserted Sands 7) Tropic Nightfall 8) Nevermore-SE 9) Dria 10) Red Planet 11) Severance 12) Primeval 13) Frostbite -Fk

I'll just yank it from votable rotation for now. EDIT: Done. -Fk

Yep - Decayed is a fairly new GC member from the UT side - for the few months we were going through musical servers we offered membership at $25/year but with only UT reserves. If Decayed wants to bump up to a CS reserve as well that would be another $25.... Sorry guy. -Fk

"Epic is encouraging its level designers to create a range of level-specific 'super-weapon' effects for the target painter. In one level, for instance, you'll be able to set off an earthquake, sending hundreds of boulders crashing down from the hills around you. In another, it may cause a roof to collapse, a dam to break or the earth to split asunder." Nice - I like. The magazine scans are here - below those links in the forum post someone has transcribed the magazine text. http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=159584 -Fk

Give me two seconds here - net has been down all afternoon in BLoomington - just came back up (obviously...) -Fk

Note to self - do not join server, go to spectate leaving 6 bots running, then exit server. Fixed And the restart script switch will prob be taken care of on Monday from what I can figure - so if ya see it in ONS mode, give a yell here and I can flip it till then -Fk

*cough* UT *cough* Oh wait, I'm not going... -Fk

Ahh, that 5th grade math - something to behold... -Fk

All better - ticket in to recongamer - the only knock on them from an admin point of view is that you have no access to the startup line. Which is to say, if they reboot the server for wahtever reason, it still has the "start up with ONS" bit in the startup script - which I can not access. Server up and DM'ing away now - will post up when ticket is completed -Fk

Whoa - sumthin really funky happened there from what I gather from the logs - let me deal with it... -Fk

http://media.ps2.gamespy.com/media/748/748505/vids_1.html More E3 Stuff - this being from the Playstation 3 / Unreal Engine 3 demo The first movie looks like a movie, and well, it is an in-game movie. The second clip though is the punch-line: The preceding movie was rendered in real time on the PS3 - they ppause, move the camera around, explore a bit, etc. Again, jaw-dropping as usual (esp. the 2nd movie when they pause the action and you can see the rendered sparks/tracer fire/etc. ) No vehicles but still worth your time. Gamespy nonsense so that means the only clips that will play nicely without you spending some dime are the large QT streams - all the windowsmedia stuff I believe req. registration. -Fk

Needed to do some map link changes this morning while Nepenthe is empty - noticed this stuff coming down the pipe today for you CS folks - just trying to save the inevitable posts here and/or in the Trouble Ticket forum about the servers being offline. -Fk Scheduled Maintence - May 22, 2005 "Sunday" 05/20/2005 6:54 pm CDT Sunday Morning I will be going through all boxes to upgrade the Kronos Server Side Tool and install the ones that do not yet have the newest Server Side at all. This update is mainly for Steam based servers to work out a few bugs with the update tool. While I do this maintence I will be giving a courtesy reboot to all Rack Servers for performance changes. The maintence will start around 8AM and will last until about 12pm. Total Downtime for any individual server or service will be about 10 minutes. Each rack server does not take long but since we have quite a few boxes the total maintence time is longer. If you have any questions or concerns please let me know. Barry L. Walk Network Administrator Xgamingservers.com

Steam Update Problem! 05/19/2005 10:36 pm CDT The Steam update is having a slight issue and I am going thru and updating all servers manually and connecting to a certain master server myself. The problem is some of the master servers are missing or have corrupt files thats causing the update not to fully finish. Some servers updated fine and quickly others are not. I am going thru all servers and fixing them now and by the time you read this we should be completed. Have a great day and sorry for any confusion with Steam issues. Barry L. Walk Network Administrator Xgamingservers.com Steam Update Released! 05/19/2005 8:14 pm CDT A new Steam update has been released. I wish someone could tell me why they do it during peakhours everytime think it would be smoother if they did it in the morning so everyone could be updated before the good playing hours but who knows.. Anyway login to your Kronos CP and update your servers if you have a HL2 CS:Source then make sure you update! There is only a couple of boxes left that dont have the newest kronos installed. Those on those boxes will be updated by us immeidatly. Counter-Strike: Source: Updated de_inferno Made the radio menu more responsive When bullets hit grates and chain-link fences they play the appropriate effects Bots will not join or leave during the round when bot_quota_mode is "match" or "fill" Improved bot ladder usage Bullet decals are now scaled based on distance, to make them more visible at long range Fixed bots filling a server and preventing players from joining after round change Source Engine: Fixed the compressed file mode of sv_downloadurl only downloading one file at a time Barry L Walk Network Administrator Xgamingservers.com

*MANDATORY* viewing! Speechless - god this is so gonna rock Tank, scorp, manta, raptor, those shock ball explodes, so much to see in that 2 minute demo I want this *now* -Fk