The News Pause is over. Im no longer ill, the test-tc's have 1 1/2 weeks (means until this wednesday) time to show how they can adapt, some new strategies where already discussed in chat/icq/etc.

TC visiting Ocllo

Now many will thinkt hat i completly lost my mind. Its a test. Please consider all Test-TC as that what they are: in test for that week. I will personally try to get them the group feeling like you hopefully will also provide this week and show them what TC exactly is. We dont took them to lose identity. I am VERY aware of dangers recruiting too many ppl at once. I try that this time, and i hope for support of the old TC's.
Some old TC's felt not asked etc. Dont forget: the test week was in the past never so hard to reach. remember when you entered tc if there was soo much discussion about you joining. no. the main discussion was at end of test week, so it should be. Of course taking that many ppl will be an exception, BUT i think if all goes well we all will benefit from them. If it doesnt goes well we finish that experiment. If you have problems with them, or you as Test-TC problems please communicate with us.
Im sure some of them are great and will be cool in tc, but its also up to you to find out who fits and who doesnt, as the test-tc's for themself will see if we are the guild they were looking for.
Im aware of all, and i will take much time this week besides university and still chaotic appartment to train etc.. most dont need training, but the team-work has to be trained, our main "+" as guild.
Today i never saw TC in such a chaos like hm.. it remembered me of the start of TC.. everyone was going in gates from no-tc ppl, while the old ones still were waiting for other TC's to group. at the beginning chat was not followed, retreat was not working, etc. etc. all those things that comes with the time but are not really a great deal.

btw: some TC's already got the first bless deeds, so you know what some old TC's where doing all the time :)
The main thing of the idea is that: back to the roots, and make it more easy to be a test-tc, but make the real difficulty to stay after test week. after we really know the one seeking membership.

or maybe making a second stone for tc's in test week. that could be also an even better idea. anyway i really need the help an input from the old ones.

so just some pictures of the koth. at the beginning, only order was there.. at the end only chaos was there. most of the fights where hold though in ocllo and later t2a ice.

Chaos with 1 chat, in 1 line


:)

All ppl on hold will get the test-week. if they dont make it, they dont make it. as i can understand that all are a little tired after all these big fights the last weeks, with much online presence, well not do now pause forever. think good about what are your goals in this game. beeing in tc means responsability for your team.
awaiting only ppl online when you are online in the mood to fight, but else nursing your newbie etc and even stay out of chat isnt that what tc is for. i will feel more comfortable with 5 ppl in tc that you can build on that on 14 from which some have lost their fire.
i thought long about all that while painting the walls of my appartment, and why i was not feeling comfortable.
though some will feel mentioned i exclude the following things: if i know and we know why a certain person is not online atm a lot, its ok. if he is NOT UP fighting its also ok, really. its not planned as "you have to fight each fight". also me after 12 hours work in the appartment or coming from university i dont wish to only fight each day. i never played UO as Quake. if i want to play quake, i play quake. i dont speak of "player "platzen lassen" or else completly idiotic stuff like raping or else. i would love to meet some of ppl talking like that irl i would gladly argue with them. i think it would be problematic. like the ones chopping ppl only for lowering karma not understanding the deeper aspects of it. i mean if you ever were in the army and were in sarajevo (saying cause i was) and have SEEN ppl chopped by mines or so.. you would really consider doing that. to continue the first sentence .. BUT you should be able to help your team if the help is really needed.

as side note it may be added that from now on some specific ppl may notice the differenct between treaten nice and not so nice if they die. this goes specially to funny ppl like reskillers, horsekillers and choppers.
so we decided to group and grouped also with ebr to fight the annoying order pulk consisting out of 3 guilds. we visited oc, bd, shame, dec, well whatever spot and killed all what was to be found. run and ebr didnt found a way to stop the war while hunting, though while the other orders disappeared extremly fast only soa tryed to attack some times, so that the warring run and ebr werent such a problem.
concerning that both gm's asked us to decided for ebr or run, cause its a complicated situation for run or ebr hunting with us, and beeing lead by us in the enemy, or beeing killed under our eyes.
while we had that with MiM some months before, when ebr was allied with mim and we were warring them, mim was not that big problem.

TC and EBR visiting shame

TC and FOB searching the reskillers

special for Catskills: Ghost Conscriptor was in tc test week somoe months before but didnt made it. he is GREAT LORD DEATH from cats, which was banned for using uoe some time ago, was ex DR (Der Rat) (some odd but somewhat pecaful guild) which had a PvP stone called "BDS" which was some subsection. it was in german something about "Bruderschaft" if my memory doesnt leave me. Ghost Proselyte was Tuor BDS friend of Tim HdF which married Jii Nevever (pseudo XTC on df, HdF on cats.) i remember him as newbie in serverwars on xroads brit. BDS came from time to time to xroads to have battles with the tank thiefes there. at least i remember one fight against Zermous TN and Kraken TN (spec ops TN.. my god over 1 year ago) where they lost nearly the whole guild against them. Tuor joined later a german guild called MAD with members like Hatschi etc.
i write so much of it, cause i have to much memory for all cats stuff and i cant find any note in my memories telling me a reason why they think beeing that cool today. must be the df syndrom where everybody thinks beeing a pvp-god.
(maybe its just a memory test. i really didnt had anything to do with them, excluding jii nevever which was on cats a great friend knowing her since her nice starts helping newbies of CSO in mai98.
in the last days i visited cats. i saw incognito some old people, fighting old fights. old guilds still in the little-big fights that were so cool. xroads still full of life, though not like when we left cats. but when you remember your sources, you remember what you are here, and btw why you are TC and not some doodis 0815 guild. :)

Manga, Team Goat died with around 865 kills and 186k bounty guardkilled out of guarded area by a hm lost guard. (no comment)
The gold was taken by some newbie coming along
Tower we finally have the Team Cow tower. Thanks to Fredo.
Fredo is back on TC stone.
IceMan his red brother will come on TG stone
Geordie makes a break cause of some rl problems related with uo (yes we all know them)
Delekahn takes a break cause of his new job
Imperator will be longer not active the week until his hm "grundausbildung"in the AU army ends

Some Dules news sent in today and some days before: by Yume:
duell tag....Cyber, Ich und Vamp, Dragan ....
Cyber vs Vamp = 2
Cyber & Yume vs Vamp = 1
Yume vs Vamp = 1 ! =)
Cyber vs Dragan = 2
Dragan vs Vamp = 1 (bug)
Dragen vs Vamp = 2
Dragan + Cyber vs Vamp = 2
julio vs balaar the fool 1
julio vs balaar the fool 1
julio vs balaar the fool 2
julio vs balaar the fool draw
julio vs balaar the fool draw

all that is not in usual style but as written below its new pause atm.

There are products like AtGuard or Conseal (www.signal9.com) which were tested to be good.
They are Packet Scanners and block ports/give rights and rulesets for applications, so that nothing can communicate with the internet without a right, or nothing in internet can share/nuke/etc you without you wanting that ;)
check international tests or C'T 3/99 for it.
Especially the Conseal Desktop Private version offers a VERY easy installation, where you give certain programms the right to communicate. All other things dont have the right. Its easy to set up, and has inside the same software working like Conseal FIREWALL.
I write that so specific cause the dangers become much and much more.
You should also install a virus-scanner. There is a great for private persons free virus-scanner that had a very good test in C'T. F-Prot. You find it here: http://www.complex.is/cgi-bin/home_pager
(you can also find f-prot on sites like www.tucows.com or www.download.com if you dont trust that url, though you are redirected to that official page over www.f-prot.com.
there you find also the actual virus .def and makro .def files for updated virus/trojans recognitions.
F-Prot is used in a dos shell, but F-Stopw that comes also along in that packet is a Vxd running in background as system tray and will check all opened files on the fly. A scanner like that with always updated virus-files is the minimum security that you should install. Better also a desktop-firewall, or even a special computer as firewall though as long as you dont need masquarading or have already trojans on your system, or have specific trojans altering the specific firewall to non-sense, you should be happy with it.
Besides all that: Conseal is a pure firewall. it does not look insede the packets what they do, if they ActiveX components you look on a site are devasting, or the Java application outruns the SandBox.
If you look on Microsoft.com and see the last patch for the Internet Explorer which will patch it cause there were possibilities to use ActiveX scripts and some Java stuff to install and run code on your machine, you should generally turn ALL acvitve things, java and some script parts off,even if you cant see your beloved active-internet site.
note: also in the "highest" security setting, some ActiveX things are still on. you have to turn manually all off.
If you want more information, ask me in chat.

We woke 4 and gathered together with run and fob which already had fights with them before. The attack on ocllo surprised them, and we killed some of the opposition.

You see Chaos after the successfull Ocllo battle

Shortly after we heard them gathering on BD. We gated there to come over the bridge. While the fights began against the somewhat even matched opposition we wondered where half of our men (on the chaos side) were. The fight couldnt be won with our numbers, and some retreated, just to find the other half waiting on the other side of the bridge where they still saw the Shadow images of all which crossed already the serverline. They simply missed that half of chaos had already passed the bridge and had with our Shadow Images surely interesting and entertaining discussions. :P
With some kills on order side, more losses on chaos side from the 1st group we all had to retreat, though without tc losses.
Late in the night we had confrontation with the new order guild BSD which were in numbers of 5 and died on each confrontation. (Serpents Hold, BD, Ocllo)

Besides ICE,C*A and one SoA showing up, no order was seen or sighted. We had a town battle with EBR together vs ICE, some C*A i think and the SoA which they lost. After that no order was to be found, so we were going over to further

first duels on raw earth

Vampire begins to make the duel field

looks good :)

Fighting on the Duel Area