The crew at TWHL have a server, specifically an HL1DM server. MuzzleFlash is good enough to not only run it but to donate it for a project. It is hoped to spark some interest in a waning game. Beginning Saturday February the 10th at 3pm British time there will be a 12 hour team based competition. The participants of course will be TWHL and Snarkpit. It is also hoped that the admin of both site will support this endeavor and get behind it with a bit of a participation of their own. Specifically, but not only related to promotional backing with news on the front pages of both sites.

[color=tan]Goal: [/color]Team Deathmatch games between Snarkpit and TWHL.
Server: MuzzleFlash's server at TWHL. 84.244.130.45:27015 (Please take a moment to check out the ping and such)
Server Capacity: 4 per team.
Server Rules: The "Good Sportsmanship Rule" will be strongly adhered to. This goes for within the server, and the forums proper.

(We do not foresee any problems but it will be left entirely up to the Admins of the server to govern the game. The forums are the Admins responsibility to police any ill feelings.)

Games desired goals:
There will be a possible 6 or more maps in rotation. Half chosen by each team. For simplicity, default maps would be preferred, but custom maps are acceptable as long as an outside link is available. It is hoped that if custom maps are selected that the maps be made available by both Snarkpit and TWHL for easier location to avoid any hardships due to people not being able or willing to search for them. Map downloads will be disabled during the games to reduce download ping issues. The maps will be played by the two teams each having a pre-designated model. Since members joining may be members of both sites, playing on either team is perfectly acceptable. Weapons stay will be on. This will help promote movement. Friendly fire will be set so everyone can take damage by any ammo fired. This will prevent 4 team mates from tossing contact grenades at one hapless opponent because they know they won't be hurt. If the server is filled to capacity, it will be expected that anyone playing give another member a chance to join after a couple maps played. As long as there are open slots, you may play till you drop. The server will be run for 12 hours. This will help for everyone not on the same time zones. You may frag anytime within that 12 hour period. This event will continue each Saturday until the novelty wears off, or until the owner decides its time to end.

This event is 100% for entertainment purposes. Anyone not interested in playing please keep your negative ideas to yourself. Anyone interested in playing please remember that its all for fun. Scoring isn't of the highest priority. Half-Life 1 is old. It is hoped that this will renew some of the flagging interest. Being inter-site, this might also promote some interaction and dispel the preconceived notion's each site shares about the other...

Also, Muzzle has couple of server mods such as fireworks mod, entmod and adminmod. They will of course be disabled to improve ping, except adminmod, for administration purposes.

Things subject to change/discussion:
How many maps and of what type.
What day of the week.
How many hours played.
Starting time.
Password.
Frag limit/Time limit.

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This better work, people! :biggrin:

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I fight for Nod!

I am so in.

I suggest that we make the map rotation only quality SP/TWHL made maps. then relese the list so everybody can download and explore them

You have 6 days to decide all the options open to change. After that....

I am confident that this can be pulled off with a minimum of difficulties. After all, we all were weened on same the HL1 tit.

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it's a good thing it's only for fun.
maps: crossfire, rapidcore, de_inferno, frenzy... SNARKPIT.. and some customs like... ...fling, de1m1, gasworks?

password: ******
frag limit is usually 50 but some people get to 50 too fast.
time limit would be 20m but people would have to wait about 40 mins to play.
both: frag 50 time 20.
mmm but there will be only 4 people to kill so it might take a while to get to 50.

how many hours played? what's that?
starting time: 9 or 10am
day: i don't know.

:rolleyes:

sounds like a good idea. i know very little about hl1dm maps and gameplay though, so i can't really offer any suggestions about how to procede.

ZombieLoffe, who's that woman in your avatar. i'm sure i know her...

:biggrin:

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fishy said:
ZombieLoffe, who's that woman in your avatar. i'm sure i know her... :biggrin:

Excuse me, I peed, just a little bit.

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3pm british time?

French Toast said:
3pm British time?

If you have a better term, I am open to suggestions. However, trying to use 12 hours to coincide with as many timezones as I can was a bit tedious to figure out.

We have people who are up nights,days,24/7 and who are never awake. I felt it best to start it at 3pm, for those of the members who live where the majority reside.

Both Snarkpit and TWHL are peopled mainly by Brits. It seemed prudent to center the times around them.

However, if there are any other suggestions? Bare in mind that I am 6 hours behind them.

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? quote:

ZombieLoffe, who's that woman in your avatar. i'm sure i know her...
:biggrin:

LOL! Thats a picture of him. Do you think Loffe looks "girly" in his picture or what? Hahahaha!

By the way, IM MuzzleFlash from TWHL, in case you guys did'nt know...

My server is now public for both TWHL and Snarkpit. Feel free to join in and do some practisin'. :razz:

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ppssss

No stop, please. :eek:

I can't take any more.

girly..

continues wetting self

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Sounds like a good idea. I'm in.
British time = GMT?

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying

all the time!

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Stadric</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>British time = GMT? </DIV></DIV>Sure, if thats what it is. Look guys, I don't keep up with anyones clock, save my own. I know that most of the people are 6 hours in front of me. A few are 7. So, with 12 hours to bash around in, what does it matter if you miss an hour one way or the other?

For arguments sake, it will be 3 PM on the big island. Knowing Muzzle, I bet he picks 3 PM on his Dutch timepiece. Which is +7 for me. :heee:

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ping said:
Ping statistics for 84.244.130.45:
Packets: Sent = 8, Received = 8, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 136ms, Maximum = 145ms, Average = 141ms

Ouch.

I may drop in and get owned for a little while, I never played HL1DM much.

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Sorry. :sad:

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Tis the price bud. Look at it this way, we had very similar pings on our very own SP/HL2DM server.

However, I got sorta used to it and, after a bit you can still do well. I never get to worked up till it gets upward of 200+.

I would greatly appreciate any and all SP participation. I would really not like end up looking foolish for setting this up... And I don't mean getting my ass whipped in scores. :wink:

I for one plan on playing both teams. :smile:

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The hell you will, snarkpitter!<br style="color: white;"><br style="color: white;">Y'all will get so pwned you won't be able to show your face to the internets ever again.<br style="color: white;"><br style="color: white;">

:razz:

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:kitty:

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ZombieLoffe, you talk like you are good at HLDM. i hope you are not like those cowards that use gauss only and run like little girls when they're about to die. they die once every 50 kills though.

Stadric said:
British time = GMT?

yes, what is it? GMT + or - ??:?? ?

The Mighty Atom said:
My server is now public for both TWHL and Snarkpit. Feel free to join in and do some practisin'. :razz:

ping >195

You're on the same timezone as I am Asterix. I envision us playing about the same times. :smile:

You are 6 to 7 hours behind those guys, just like me.

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mmm then 3pm for them is 8-9am for us? that's a good time.

im playing the test server and im getting owned.

for the main game can sv_maxspeed be set to 320?

I will be gone on my next run till Wednesday night or Thursday morning guys. Try to work out the yet to be decided details between now and then.

Post your suggestions for:

• How many maps and of what type.
• What day of the week.
• How many hours played.
• Starting time.
• Password.
• Frag limit/Time limit.

Also, keep track of this thread for note comparisons on the choices of the other team.

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Im just going to name some random maps from TWHL that would probably be good for this, I don't know alot of the good ones in your vault.

either dm_crete or dm_Crete3 by Rimrook and maybe Sancefar as well
Composition by Kasperg (you can pretty much add any of kaspergs stuff since its generally of very high quality, eg Oceanic and Suspended.
Warpcore by Kasperg since its been such a favorite amoung DM'rs
lab17:quake by darkphoenix_68
souptemplev2 by Jahzel
maybe Apex_V2 by orph
Necropolis: Mausoleum by darkphoenix_68
Sinister by DocRock
ANNOPUS by Jackar

those are just some good ones that I remember. feel free to yay/nay them based on there own merits

I really should get some practice in if I plan on showing up those snooty TWHLers. :rolleyes:

Ping~200ms

I'll try anyway.

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying

The server will be passworded and the password will be given to both TWHL and SP.

When you join, please use the [Snarkpit] - your_Snarkpit_username playername combination, so that we can identfy eachother.

To change your name via the console use this command:

name "[SnarkPit] - your_Snarkpit_username". Quotation marks required!

The server will stay online 24/7.

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I fight for Nod!

Don't forget to post this on the front page. Yes, I could do it, but it looks better with an admins name hooked to it.

See you guys Thursdayish.

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The Mighty Atom said:
To change your name via the console use this command:

name "[TWHL] - your_Snarkpit_username". Quotation marks required!

did you mean [SnarkPit] ?

The Mighty Atom said:
To change your name via the console use this command:
name "[TWHL] - your_Snarkpit_username". Quotation marks required!

did you mean [SnarkPit] ?

Oopsies! Missed that one. Changed it. :smile:

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Since noone else proposed any maps, except M_garg...

Here's the current mapcycle i've just compiled:

Crossfire
Sancefar
Apex_v2
composition
n_mausoleum
sinister
warpcore
annopus

I've downloaded all these maps and placed them in a zip, so you don't have to download and install them one at a time. When new maps are added to list, i will add them to the zipfile as well and increase the zip version number by 1.

Get these maps here: TWHL vs Snarkpit - Team Deathmatch maps.

The server has now been passworded. Password is: 471533

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sv_maxspeed 320 please!

wait, i think it's 320.

Good luck Snarkpit!

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

you lot had better show up.

Do you have enough players for Snarkpit? And is this happening today at 3pm?

I can't really post anything on the front page when there's no dates/times etc :/ ?

today 3pm GMT+0

Server: MuzzleFlash's server at TWHL. 84.244.130.45:27015

Maps: http://www.themightyatom.nl/stuff/TWHL-SP_v1.zip

Password : 471533

Well that was a shame - was just me and Gwil representing the Snarkpit, against 4 TWHL guys :sad: Was a good laugh anyway - we just played Deathmatch on Crossfire for a while - but obviously rather disappointing we didn't get any real turn out.

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eh.. Players: 0/8

i forgot about this, i could have helped a little.

i thought this was a 24 hour thing that only started 2 hours ago?

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I see fisheh and "[Snarkpit] Players 1/8" in HLSW, I'll be there in a sec :wink:

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New map collection: http://www.themightyatom.nl/stuff/TWHL-SP_v2.zip

First, let ma apologize. I just got home. Anyone familiar with the situation in upstate New York will understand. It was rather difficult getting home.

2nd, this is a 24 hour affair. I assume that patrons will mosey in as they see fit sometime during that time period.

Understand, TWHL still thinks HL1 is all that and a bag of chips. They will of course have more people available to play. Snarkpit will have to scrounge a bit, but methinks that 24 hours is ample time for most to squeeze in some showup time for themselves.

This event is open to everyone, but it doesn't mean you are being forced to play. If you have time, show up. We'll all thank you for it later.

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I'll give it a shot.

edit: I tried their server and its PW'd, did I miss something?

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The Mighty Atom said:
The server has now been passworded. Password is: 471533

I will be there in about 5 minutes.

Join up guys

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Got my ass pretty much ripped, but I had a blast losing to some great guys.

Next week. I pick the maps.

No offense but... There are some better'uns out there.

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We still gots 45 minutes. Anyone wanna frag?

Meet me inside soonish.

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I had the honor and distinction of holding firmly onto last place in the standings.

Tis a sucky job, but someone must do it.

Had a blast.

Next week, I want a list of smallish maps guys. Some that play well and are not mine. TWHL doesn't like my mapping.... Style. :razz:

This is expected to be fun, not sniping my maps.

So, pick some maps to represent SP.

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That was somewhat fun - we need some better maps though...

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yes, we do! i played yesterday and there were really bad ones, and others were huge. we're 8 people, not 32! no offense.

it was fun though.

Don't whine about'em. Go find 4 worthy options.

You don't really want me to pick'em out. I'm a bit more picky than most. :heee:

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i'd say.. more official ones!

people say that we are 2 mapping comunities and etc. but hey, how often do we get to play like this? it was the first time i played with people from the SnarkPit. let's enjoy it!

i don't know much about customs, i downloaded some many years ago but not from this site, from hlcenter.com, it died many many years ago. then i found the snarkpit and i didn't download maps from here because of a good reason: none plays hl (besides there're too many, i feel lazy).

i like these customs i have, maybe the person who mapped any of these is registered here?:

2houses
area51
cliffside
de1m1
etomb
fling
highschool
hullu5dm_templecore
kitkat_gallery
y2_nuke

they're old and simple, exactly what i like: old, classics (or they're old but made by noobies?).

and officials: crossfire, frenzy, rapidcore, datacore, undertow, killbox.