Archive for December, 2000

Server update, Nexus news, CS admin

By K2 on December 19th, 2000 at 9:43 pm EST

Hi gang… sorry for the four day wait on news, but it’s been super busy around here :-/ Welp, down to business…

First off… I’d like to introduce the person who has been helping us admin the Hardfought CounterStrike port… Vicious-=CDH=-. He’s a forum moderator at the Counter-Server website. I posted there looking for help on setup and actively watching the CS port, and although most of the replies I received were good, his seemed to be most of what I was looking for… and he’s been doing a damn fine job, too. So hats off to Vicious for the help and the advice! If you happen to see him in our clan channel (as hulio496) or on the server be sure to say hello :-)

Nexus will defend it’s #1 title on the OGL CCTF ladder tomorrow at 9:00pm EST against the Masters of Destruction… I think :-) I have heard rumors of a possible reschedule but no one from MaD has approached me nor anyone else on the team that I am aware of… so unless something changes we’re still on, baby! :-P This should be a good match indeed… MaD held on to #1 on this ladder for quite awhile. Be sure to check back here soon for the outcome.

The Hardfought server is getting an upgrade tomorrow morning, at around 4:00am CST… *GAH!* It’s the only time available to do this before New Years, so I’ll be going to bed early so I wont look and act like the living dead tomorrow at work. Here’s a list of what changes are taking place…

CPU upgrade – going from dual P3-500’s to dual P3-900’s (socket 370 coppermines)… muhahah :-) Not only will the speed increase be almost double, but the L2 cache speed will be at core speed (900MHz) as opposed to ½ core speed (250MHz) on the older Katmai-class P3’s that are currently installed. If you thought the server was smooth now, just wait…

Team Arena full version port will be brought up on port 27960. This means the CCTF port is going down :-/ Sorry folks, I asked for some more traffic, but it barely happened. I may bring the CCTF port back up once version 1.1 is released. The Team Arena demo port will stay up on port 27999 until New Years… this should give most of ya enough time to purchase the full version.

Rocket Arena III port will be upgraded to 1.27g point release/1.4 RA3 code, as well as a re-worked map rotation script.

The CTF Match port running Q3Comp will also be upgraded to comply with the new point release once the Q3Comp team gets their update finished… probably sometime this weekend. Expect to see a few tweaks to the website here as well right around X-Mas.

Ooooh yeah almost forgot… those pictures that HaDeS and I took at the Babbages CPL tourney this past weekend… you can view them all by following the ‘Pictures’ link to the left :-) Also, the messageboard forums now work again… I had to reboot the webserver the other night because of an OS patch I installed and somehow the Internet Guest account settings changed… ah well. Anyways, you can view and post messages again.

OK… time to catch some zzzzz’s. Until next time…

K2