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69.25.22.7 Located just outside Washington, DC in Ashburn, VA within the TypeFrag server farm. Intel Xeon 3060 dual core @ 2.4 GHz with 2 gig of ram. The entire machine is ours to play with and at the moment this is all that runs on it. AntiTCC2009 active. Super Weapons are ON. Map Voting is enabled. Kick Voting is enabled (60%+) Chat Filter is enabled (no bacon though) Heaven of Relics 1.2 enabled to spice things up. 20 relics spawn and disappear around the map. Pick one up and maybe you get something good...maybe you get something bad. Relics drop on death. Relic tossing is active provided you bind the right key. More speed, health regeneration, shields, more damage, shrunken size, radiation, etc... Look it up. Maps are the usual mix of ONS regulars (minus Primeval and Frostbite) plus the following: ONS-Nevermore-LE ONS-UP-Sandcrack ONS-ChainIsle2 ONS-Icarus ONS-SpiffengradSE-TSE ONS-Tropic32p ONS-TropicNightfall-32p ONS-Urban-LE Server is NON-STANDARD! Be sure to bookmark it after you uncheck the standard servers only button in the browser. EDITORIAL: Hard times for UT2K4... NaliCity is gone, Unreal Playground is a shell of it's own self. The official Epic forums look generic having lost all the previous UT skins in an upgrade I guess (or by choice) and the UT forums are an absolute mess, especially the maps and mods forums where dead links are the rule rather than the exception. The server browser itself is error-prone these days and may be down for hours/days at a time. Searching for ONS standard server games shows maybe 20 servers, 40-ish if you uncheck the box. And that's world-wide. UT3 not much better. Hard to believe how much UT3 hurt the Unreal community. I praised the game when it released but that was the game itself, not the god-awful server browser, menu system, server hosting, and everything else Epic dumped on to push it out the door. Although many point to it as a classic example of a game engine demo masquerading as an actual game I'll point out that the publisher was Midway who probably forced Epic to release before they wanted to on the account of them going bankrupt/out of business. Couple that with the concurrent work on Gears of War and Epic just let it go. They made bank on the 360 and are making super-double bank on the iPad of all things They did stand by the game and support it, finally patching it up with the Titan release but ultimately a case of too little much too late as Xbox360 pushed to the fore-front of gaming. Those remaining ONS servers are almost entirely filled (and played) with spammy maps, goofy vehicles, and too many players. Reading through Unreal community forums is just as depressing. Did you know that when you search for ONS-Urban-LE.ut2 the second link in Google is *our* redirect server with the compressed file? It really is that bad. I thought I had a local copy stashed in my UT archives and was surprised I didn't. Equally surprised I had to download our compressed version and unpack it to actually get a copy of it. I know the game is old now but the sheer expanse of the disappearance of maps, mods, archives, etc. is amazing. That said. Be safe and archive maps and mods if you like them. There are no guarantees anything sticks around forever (including our archives in fact - we back up our forums very regularly but not so much the maps and other stuff on the web server). This game server is a gift from TypeFrag; if it goes, the server goes. Not much I can do there given how little it is played. If any of the old regulars want a particular map on just let me know. There are no reserves; I'd be pleased as punch if I actually have to concern myself with such a thing in the future. As this is a legacy server I'm fine with dolling out admin privileges to any of the old hands provided they were once a GC member. Again just PM me so I can get you hooked up. I'm considering putting up a 12 player 6-8 spec slot old-timey back-in-the-day UTComp competitive server with all the LE ONS maps I can get my hands on (and the usuals as well). If that ever goes live I'd email some of the old folks in the ONS community to let them know they have a free server to use for nostalgic competitive play. And if I get really ambitious, a FREON server ain't out of the question as well. Post up any bugs, tweaks, maps, mods, etc. you want added or dealt with.

Sigh! Heya GC! GenoPsydE here. Good to see you guys are still around :-) Smil3y is still rocking too and you are all welcome to stop by anytime: http://clansmil3y.com/index.php - Grab a beer, jump on our TS and you will probably not regret it!!! Anyways, I keep looking for you guys on the Clarity server Tuesdays and Thursdays but, so far, nobody has been on. I was on tonight and got accused of hacking by one guy named DangDang. I promise you I don't hack. I said "um yeah" and he replied "well two can play at that game" and turned on his bot. Didn't miss a shot and could see me coming through rocks and other obstacles. Way too cocky IMHO and to brag about using a bot - stupid. If FK is around please ban this guy, it was around 30 minutes ago. Peace and hope to see you ingame soon.

There is someone always playing on the server going as ( . He an ok player not that great, but every time I join he starts calling me a ()&&*^( hacker. Today he was playing but then he left, rejoined and never missed me. Check the logs please Flitter. Is Flitter even around???

I think I missed last month. Let's rock it this month instead. -Fk

January 6th and 8th; usual times. Also: Did you know GC now has a dedicated server that allows us to have different types of games besides CSS? Did you feel that those UT servers we tried to play on all sucked for various reasons? Don't mind playing with only a few players? Yes... -Fk

Is that this coming week, or the one after? I can play both

Well, either we rock it the 3rd and 5th, or we bump it to the next week. Your calls -Fk

There ya go Wentz - nice to see you back - how's the parental life treating you? Feel free to commiserate with teh Tek Mini Tek -Fk

I will try to be on Tuesday night around 8 pm and maybe Thurs 8 pm...hit me up with steam friends (Tekmet). Anyone else?

First week of the month, so that means Tuesday and Thursday evenings we get it on! Except Tuesday for Los Americanos. Canucks can frolic whenever they like but I, like others south of that border may be engaged in patriotic-type amusements and the chaos and destruction that follows. We can invade a populated server or just take over an empty one somewhere. So for those that hate freedom (and bacon), feel free to play on Tuesday. USA Patriots and Canadian American sympathizers will be on Thursday some time north of the 9/10pm eastern hour. -Fk

I'm thinking something along the lines of the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Tuesday or Thursday evening of the month; hit up OMNI, etc. maybe some FREON... Of the two variables, I'm thinking we need to set on the day of the week as a group in order for this to work. 830 to 900pm central start time seems a good balance between the time zones involved. Post up and let's get this set for November. -Fk

That which should have been canceled t'was not but now tis. Server subscription has been terminated - lights out on October 4th or a random soonish time thereafter. I'll put out a cattle-call for, say... Thursday October 2nd? If you need another day post up. Expect an email to hit current and long past GC UT2K4 member in-boxes (if I can find them and they are still being used) to try and dredge up some old hands for one last ride. -Fk

So FK hijacked my "for sale" thread to tell us about his new internets... It was suggested that Sat night (or sometime soon after that) be turned into a GC last bash murder-fest on our server for old times sake. I am suggesting a time of 8 pm EST for the festivities on Saturday. Anyone else wanna ring in on their availability/choice>?

Not many people on the gc server even counting Tuesday and Thursday. Last time played only like 4 gc players and that was a while ago. Any plans on another get together. People post up and it happens. No posting and nobody shows. Here is a post. I am on tonight. Will look to see who is playing around 8-9. If not, I will be on omnipotents using their double powered hellbenders to snipe people to oblivion.

Ahebban Summer and two kinds of BeachSlap (filter...) are up now. Anything else? -Fk

What are the chances of getting ons comp on our server? I miss hitsounds/skins/etc

Nep is dead. Dead to me. Dead to the world. UT3 Beta Demo server browser requires a "mygames" folder on your boxen, in your user account, etc. and it is *that* which is the deal breaker for these guys showing up in the in-game browser when the demo is hosted on W2003 dedicated servers (More clearly put, WinServer2003 doesn't play well with all those my-type folders, even more so when every instance of the game requires its own happy my-type folder. Just not doable on WS2003) Soooo... PM in to flip us back to UT2K4 for the next week or threes - we'll have voting on of course and we'll try to see if we can get it to vote between gametypes (TAM Freon, ONS, etc) Look for this "soon" as in, not until late tonight at the earliest. -Fk