-=- Zone Announcements -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 06/18/06 - New TWEL Duel Season, Subspace on Myspace, Staff Applications and the TW Marketing Campaign! The third season of TWEL has begun!!!! Visit http://www.trenchwars.org/TWEL/ for more details. A Subspace profile has been made for Myspace. Visit http://www.myspace.com/2dspaceshipgame to join! Trench Wars is now accepting Applications for Staff positions. To submit your application Please login on the main TW Webpage with your TWD Login information. Once logged in, You will see a staff application link on the left column under The Staff link. Fill out all the fields carefully! Thank You The TW Marketing Campaign has begun. Visit http://forums.trenchwars.org/showthread.php?t=25352 and Post some good ideas!!!! TW is actively seeking new programmers and bot developement personnel. Please contact D1st0rt for more information! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 07/17/05 - TWD Reset & TWSD (Trench Wars Spider Division) introduced! The sixth season of TWD has begun and all match statistics have been reset. The TWD website, www.twdivisions.org, now has a new design and several new features, including advanced individual statistics and RSS feeds. For more information, check out the news on the TWD website. In addition to the TWD reset and the new website layout, a new division for Spiders has been created. It differs from the other duelling divisions (TWDD, TWJD) on one aspect: Instead of every player having 10 deaths, the team together has a death limit of 50. This makes TWSD somewhat like a mix of basing and duelling; it is a duelling division where the team play is even more important than in the other duelling divisions. Please also note the Trench Wars Proposal System news below! -TWD Staff -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 06/30/05 - The power to change Trench Wars! The Trench Wars Proposal System has been released, allowing anyone to propose a change or addition to the zone. Have a great idea that you could never figure out how to make happen? Then check out the new TWPS website: www.trenchwars.org/twps/ All it takes is this: first write up your propsal using the provided template, ask some friends to co-sign, and submit it to proposals@twsites.com. If it meets the proposal guidelines and upper staff decides it's a good idea, too, it will become part of TW. For any questions, please refer in-game to your Arbiter of Discourse, qan. You can also send an email with the subject line 'TWPS Question' to the email above. It's your zone, too ... why not make it a better place to play? Not sure how to improve TW, but still want to help? Visit twsites.com and register your website today! All proceeds go towards paying for the TW servers -- it's as good as making a donation. (NOTE: Staff lists have been updated. Old news can be found at bottom of the file) -=- Trench Wars Zone Rules and Commands -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To report cheaters, use the ?cheater command. Example: ?cheater X-Kroz teamkilling This will automatically notify the mods that are online. Moderators usually do not reply to these messages. If no action is taken, try reporting one more time, but do not flood. To ask a TW-related question, use the ?help command. Example: ?help How to I shoot? The following things are illegal in Trench Wars: 1. Cheating (no warning) or abusing bugs in the game. 2. Third party programs, such as debuggers (EG: SoftIce), bots, cheats, etc. 3. Deliberate or excessive team killing. Including team killing somebody back! 4. Discrimination, racism, childporn or anything related to it inside the game. This includes but is not restricted to names, squad names and banners. 5. Excessive and deliberate verbal harassment, spamming or flooding of public or private channels. If it is less serious the victim(s) will be advised to use '?ignore Name', ESC I (for public macros) or change their ?chat. 6. Flooding and spamming rules also apply to the ?cheater and ?help commands. Use ?cheater only for reporting cheaters or team killers. Use ?help only for asking game related questions. 7. Advertising other zones is not illegal, however bothering people with private ad messages or flooding the public chats with it is! 8. Manipulating your lag, no matter how this is accomplished (downloads, modem feature, program). Non-abusing players exhibiting extreme lag will be asked to reconnect to the zone. Refusal may result in a forced kick off the zone. 9. Using spectator mode to locate and hunt a specific enemy (spec hunting). 10. One person running multiple Subspace/Continuum clients at the same time. 11. Going outside the map boundaries, no matter how this is accomplished. 12. Idle players may be put into spectator mode, so other people get a chance to play in that team or arena. A small ban may be issued in extreme cases. 13. Pretending to be a staff member, for example by threatening to ban people or wearing a or tag. Also, if your name is too similar to that of a moderator you may be asked to change or adjust it to avoid confusion. 14. Violating event rules in (sub)arenas hosted by a referee or in (Base)Elim. Rules and warnings are usually given in the form of (green) arena messages, so pay attention to them. 15. Being disruptive to the game in any other way than listed above. PS: Killing players as they spawn is lame, but you will not be banned for it. BaseElim: Killing outside of base during a jav elim is allowed. In all but a few cases you will/should be warned by a staff member with either a red or green private/arena message accompanied by a sound. If you choose to ignore all warnings you will be banned. Depending on the severity of the situation, you may be banned up to a week after you have been warned, if you break the same rule again. Exceptions excluded. Always show respect and listen to the moderators. However if you think you have been mistreated or have a _serious_ complaint about staff, contact one of the upper staff members (see Staff List below). Banned players should email the ban address at bans@trenchwars.org Do not forget to include your nickname(s) and ban number (EG: #1000). Your password is NOT needed. Staff will NEVER ask you for your password; do not give it out to anybody. -=- Zone Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= To ask any game related questions, use the ?help command. Example: ?help How do I shoot bombs? Type ?go Arena_Name or press ESC A (and PageUp/Down) to enter a specific arena. The events in ?go elim and ?go baseelim are recorded and fully automated. Select the bot (Robo Ref or Robo_Ref) and type /!help to see all available commands. You need at least 36 playing hours in Trench Wars to participate in these games! If you get nostalgic, old Trench Wars maps are up in arenas oldtrench1 to oldtrench4. Score resets are the responsibility of iNET's billing server staff, The zones have nothing to do with it. They occur approximately every two weeks or so. -=- Gameplay -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trench Wars is a fast-paced zone where there is 1 stationary flag, and only the team with the flag gets any real points for a kill. If your frequency owns the flag, then you get 200 extra points for each kill. If your team doesn't, you only get the player you killed's bounty added to your score. The flag is in the upper section of the base in a easily-defendable part of the base. A team properly organized including people mining the entrance, people roaming the outside of the top section to protect against leviathan shelling the flag area (leviathans can nail people through the wall using their ultra-powerful bombs), and lots of attack ships inside the base keeping people from even coming near the flag area should be able to defend it forever. It's when the teamwork breaks down and people get selfish and go spawnkill that the base gets lost. For more detailed information, visit our web page at: http://www.trenchwars.org -=- Staff List -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=- SYSOPS -=- DoCk> System Operator (DoCk@twsites.com) - Bot core Creator/Developer -TWSites.com Administrator PriitK System Operator (priitk@trenchwars.org) - Robo Ref Creator/Developer - SSC Billing Operator - Continuum Creator/Developer -=- ZONE STAFF -=- Arilou Lalee'lay Retired (arilou@ds98.com) - Creative Director - Maps/Settings Operator - Event Creator/Developer Pure_Luck Dean of Staff (pureluck@trenchwars.org) - Head TWL Coordinator - Maps Uploader Kim TWPS Coordinator Crazi Event Coordinator Rudy Local BanG Operator (bans@trenchwars.org) Beasty TWD Head Operator -=- DEVELOPMENT STAFF -=- 2dragons Game Development Coordinator (2dragons@trenchwars.org) - Bot Developer Ikrit TWDev Bot Coordinator (farren2006@hotmail.com) SuperDAVE(postal) TWDev Map Coordinator (superdavepostal@gmail.com) qan TWCore Maintainer -=- LEAGUE STAFF -=- Pure_Luck Head TWL Coordinator 2dragons TWEL Head Operator lnx Retired (lnx@trenchwars.org) - Bot Developer - Web Site Developer Current TWD Ops: Beasty, Dameon Angell, Dangergirl, Dyers Eve, Kim, M_M God, Nycle, Spider, and WorstPlayerEver -=- Credits -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dgus = The original settings creator of Trench Wars SilentDragon = For the original map AkIlLa~ = For redoing the settings MikeTheNose = For creating the very first elims -=- Old News =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 05/22/05 - Good at Web Site design? TW NEEDS YOU!! Check out: http://forums.trenchwars.org/showthread.php?p=348672 for the Subspace Banner Emporium Site Design Contest!!! 05/12/05 - TWEL Season 3 Begins TWEL Season 3 has begun! Anyone and everyone can participate in all of the three leagues, warbird, javelin, or spider, by typing ?go duel. More information can be found at: http://www.twextreme.org/ 08/22/04 - TWL Final Games Schedule and TWD Reset TWLJ Final: Pallies vs. Syndicate - 14:00 EST TWLD Final: Grapevine vs. Syndicate - 15:30 EST TWLB Final: Anti-Scrub vs. Pallies - 17:00 EST Everyone is welcome to spectate the matches! For more information visit the website at www.twleagues.org Trench Wars Divisions will be resetting for the start of the third season on Friday, August 27 around 3PM EST. More information about the TWD reset available at www.twdivisions.org 06/19/04 - Staff lists have been updated. 06/10/04 - TWSites.com's new website has just been completed! Online signup is now available! TWSites now offers one-stop domain registration and web hosting services for the Trench Wars community and beyond. The profits from TWSites.com sales benefit the TW Server Fund, and help ensure the survival of Trench Wars. TWSites.com has evolved over the last 8 months into a very serious web hosting company with nothing but the best servers and technology to offer. You won't find a better value for your money anywhere! Special: Pre-pay at least 6 months in advance, and get free domain name registration! Pre-pay 12 months in advance, and also get one month off! New Affiliate program: Once you are a member, you can become an affiliate! You can earn 12.5% of every sale, monthly, that is initiated through your account! That's right, at some point, I'll be mailing checks out to people for helping bring more customers in for TWSites Web Hosting. Support Trench Wars. Visit TWSites.com. 03/31/04 - It seems our websites has been taken over by the US DOJ... http://www.trenchwars.org for more info. 10/18/03 TWEL Season 2 has begun! Anyone and everyone can particapate by playing at ?go duel. More information can be found at http://www.trenchwars.org/TWEL -2dragons 10/16/03 Minor update to the rules regarding warnings. We now keep track of everybody's history of warnings they received. Read below (line 47 TWRules Section) 09/28/03 Trench Wars server hardware was upgraded. TW is now running on Dual Xeon 2.4GHz server with 1GB of memory -PriitK 08/19/03 Trench Wars Radio SPECIAL EVENT! DoCk> and Cpt. Guano! co-hosting a radio show, tomorrow on the 20th! (Wednesday) Cpt.Guano! has shown up at my front door, and we'll be hosting a radio show together. The show will start between 5:00 to 7:00 PM EST (or whenever) and ends... whenever!. Remember that all Trench Wars Radio shows are interactive! You can help add to show yourself by being there and participating. We'll be gathering in ?go radio ahead of time, and we'll send out zoners when we're about to begin. Once you're there, type :radiobot:!help to get some info about how to use the bot during the show. All you need to tune in is Winamp (www.winamp.com), though I've heard reports that it also works with Real One player, and possibly even Windwos Media Player. I expect you to be there. -DoCk> Sysop 07/30/03 Potential Trench Wars Radio hosts! This message is for you! If you want to be a Trench Wars Radio host, there are a few requirements. - You must... 1. Be a somewhat interesting person with something interesting to say. 2. Have basic knowledge about computers and the Internet, and Trench Wars. 3. You must have the proper hardware and software. We use Shoutcast. 4. Provide me with a 20 min. or longer sample of what your show might be like. 5. Intend to remain active and host shows regularly. 6. Not ask me questions that I might feel you should already know the answer to. Do not worry about your music taste. If there's an audience for it, it won't cause us to deny your application. We are primarily interested in commentary and fun talk radio at least partially related to Trench Wars, mixed with some music, although you're welcome to come up with your own style. We're not interested in you if you only plan on introducing song after song after song. Once you're done with your unedited sample broadcast, please encode it to mp3 format at a bitrate of your choice and put it on some webspace. ?message me or email me with the URL. My email is dock@yaunet.com. It will be shown to many people for screening purposes. -DoCk> 05/16/03 The settings for the Leviathan and Weasel have been changed. Please playtest them and post comments on the forum. Some minor adjustments had to be made to the map as well. Side holes into the flag-room were patched. -TWStaff 03/09/03 Mythrandir is moving trenchwars.org and all of its subsites to a different server. While the transfer is being made, you won't be able to access it. It should be up soon. Congratulations to the TWL squads that qualified last night! -DoCk> 03/02/03 We're home! SSCU Trench Wars is back online! The switch should have been seamless, but if it wasn't, you should redownload your server list. Everything should be back to normal, and TWD should be running once again. -DoCk> 01/06/03 TWD League has started! For those who don't know what TWD is, go to http://www.twdivisions.org and read the introduction. Yes, this league is for *YOU!* Go read about it now. -DoCk> 12/28/02 You can no longer log in using Subspace 1.35/1.34. Please use Continuum .37 for everything. -DoCk> 12/26/02 Happy Holidays to everybody! As you might have noticed we put up a festive map for your enjoyment. We hope you like it and wish you a great time, either in TW or at your families :) -TWStaff 11/21/02 Zone Rules and Staff List have been updated. Please read them very carefully. We shall change/remove the rules in the pub arenas some other time. -Ari 08/28/02 New feature: When a TWBot is in use, type !host to it to find out who is hosting the game you're playing. Feature suggested by Ara. -DoCk> 07/30/02 Just some administrative news: The Zone Staff section below has changed. Please note the changes. Also, please do not ask me for names or help with squads, as I do not have access to the names database and cannot help you. There's this widespread rumor that sysops can get names and lost squads back, but that happens to be absolutely false. :) -DoCk> 06/30/02 The new official Trench Wars forums have launched. Be sure to head on over to www.trenchwars.org for the details. -Dantax 04/21/02 Hello all, as some of you know by now, the Speedball Tournament has been suspended. I know this will upset a few folks but there just isn't enough support or participation to continue it. The possibility remains for the tournament to be resumed some time in the future. I know many people have brought league ideas to my attention. I have not forgotten any of them. Please email me if you have any other ideas. I would also like to add that player-run leagues will not be supported by Trench War staff. This does not mean a staff member won't host; after all we are all here to serve. It just means your player-run game won't be a priority on the list. -Overstrand 03/30/02 Elim arena was split to 2 arenas. Old ?go elim arena will have now on only fighter-type elims in open space and new ?go baseelim arena will be used for elims in base. Both arenas will have independent ranking system -PriitK