Quake ONE Network - QIN 'Start-up' (birth) / Quake-ELI 18th Anniversary / DUD's Birth

[RL Clown]

Clown, your suggestion reminds me of the old G4TV when it was all about video games. Good times.

G4TV = The MTV of technology

I'm just playing!

G4TV is still good!

[Mindf!3ldzX]

G4TV is dead ;(

[Shadowswift]

It used to be so much better. Arena, Portal, Cheat...good stuff. I miss that channel.

[Zop]

Before this, Mark I knew as a guy who would say sentences oddly and repeat his catch phrases a lot. When he first contacted me, I was a bit surprised when he started talking about a group effort he was putting together. Then when I saw the org chart, I became apprehensive. It seemed like it was like a kid's club where you make believe about presidents and CEOs. I joined anyway to test the waters, as it were.

After a couple meetings, I learned more about the goals. There are different groups within the network, each with its own goal. I also learned that Mark learned English as a second language. So... it turns out he's not just an idiot! (Sorry, Mark)

Back to the goals. One of them is working on something to do for the 20th anniversary of Quake. The sky's the limit, you can even ask for funding, but chances are that you will need sponsors or charge admission. Can two or three dudes on a quake forum do this alone? Oh no way, Jose. So, obviously this subgroup is still nebulous and will need a lot of help.

Another goal is having a better way to organize games between players. This is part of the Live section. The primary idea is something like a calendar which will say when and where people will play. I feel this could help putting tournaments together and also help having weekly games, like ctf used to be. There's even an idea of gaining "commitment" points for keeping your dates. Is this a good idea? Can't say, yet. There's no feedback. There's not even a calendar yet.

Yet another goal is a new ranking system. Stats and more stats to compare each other. Obviously frags count differently on different mods, so we need a way to compare correctly. Additionally, it might be nice if achievements were made possible (no word on this). I'm pretty sure all this would have to exist on a website to be compatible with all servers- yes, euro servers and all of qw would be ideal. To make this interesting for everybody, we need regulars from all mods to even have a chance.

Honestly, I really do not like that they chose quakeone.net as the domain name... it was chosen before I knew about it. If there is going to be a forum on quakeone.net, it would be technical stuff for the site and the projects. It obviously would be suicidal to compete with every single quake community already existing. Many people are already giving a lot to the community, like golden_boy mentioned himself, so I certainly don't expect them to give that up.

Now that some responses to this thread remind me of my initial apprehension, I find it hard to defend the use of titles like president/CEO. But they are simply names for job descriptions. You might think Mark is having fun on the throne, telling people what to do, but he doesn't do that. It really seems he's working the hardest, trying to keep things together. Sometimes he shows his screen for something (the meeting website gives this option), and in the background I see that he's doing many things at once, and he has a LOT of things organized in order to try to remember names, conversations, plans- you name it.



tl;dr
If you have time to put into doing something new for quake 1, check it out. But it's not possible yet to put much work into it, since it's in a planning... even pre-planning stages.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Before this, Mark I knew as a guy who would say sentences oddly and repeat his catch phrases a lot. When he first contacted me, I was a bit surprised when he started talking about a group effort he was putting together. Then when I saw the org chart, I became apprehensive. It seemed like it was like a kid's club where you make believe about presidents and CEOs. I joined anyway to test the waters, as it were.

After a couple meetings, I learned more about the goals. There are different groups within the network, each with its own goal. I also learned that Mark learned English as a second language. So... it turns out he's not just an idiot! (Sorry, Mark)

Back to the goals. One of them is working on something to do for the 20th anniversary of Quake. The sky's the limit, you can even ask for funding, but chances are that you will need sponsors or charge admission. Can two or three dudes on a quake forum do this alone? Oh no way, Jose. So, obviously this subgroup is still nebulous and will need a lot of help.

Another goal is having a better way to organize games between players. This is part of the Live section. The primary idea is something like a calendar which will say when and where people will play. I feel this could help putting tournaments together and also help having weekly games, like ctf used to be. There's even an idea of gaining "commitment" points for keeping your dates. Is this a good idea? Can't say, yet. There's no feedback. There's not even a calendar yet.

Yet another goal is a new ranking system. Stats and more stats to compare each other. Obviously frags count differently on different mods, so we need a way to compare correctly. Additionally, it might be nice if achievements were made possible (no word on this). I'm pretty sure all this would have to exist on a website to be compatible with all servers- yes, euro servers and all of qw would be ideal. To make this interesting for everybody, we need regulars from all mods to even have a chance.

Honestly, I really do not like that they chose quakeone.net as the domain name... it was chosen before I knew about it. If there is going to be a forum on quakeone.net, it would be technical stuff for the site and the projects. It obviously would be suicidal to compete with every single quake community already existing. Many people are already giving a lot to the community, like golden_boy mentioned himself, so I certainly don't expect them to give that up.

Now that some responses to this thread remind me of my initial apprehension, I find it hard to defend the use of titles like president/CEO. But they are simply names for job descriptions. You might think Mark is having fun on the throne, telling people what to do, but he doesn't do that. It really seems he's working the hardest, trying to keep things together. Sometimes he shows his screen for something (the meeting website gives this option), and in the background I see that he's doing many things at once, and he has a LOT of things organized in order to try to remember names, conversations, plans- you name it.



tl;dr
If you have time to put into doing something new for quake 1, check it out. But it's not possible yet to put much work into it, since it's in a planning... even pre-planning stages.

^ thank you infinitely. These are my sentiments as well, but you've articulated that very well exhibiting some serious patience.

[lust]

zop is a good shit, nailed it

[lust]

but setting up like tourney and/or scrims CA styles im down, mark start organizing teams and events

wanna be on the win team? aka lust team accepting applications haha I will even try, just don't fall in the water dude

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I've recently started receiving a huge amount of spam in my mindfieldzx AT gee mail DOT com from god knows where. Has my email been listed somewhere that I don't know of? I ask you directly Mark/Mom.

Have I been listed somewhere? I would like to take this moment to request before anything relating to me is slathered across ANY website / listings / ANYTHING , ask me first. I'm getting annoyed by the spam that just as of recently is hitting my inbox.

IF my email is listed somewhere, please delete it and provide a link to my profile @ Quakeone.com instead. IDK what good it would do now, I'm already listed and I am not enjoying it. Here's todays spam

ตอบกลับ: 1-8-2014****NEWSLETTER TODAY
Pranee Fucharon <[email protected]>
3:11 AM (6 hours ago)

to Pranee
You are picked; contact ([email protected]) for claim

Yes I know I posted that bots full email,I give less than two shits about a bot's email being spammed back.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

okay, who the fuck is GoatAvenger AT Quakeone DOT net and why are they contacting me? Mark you're going to need to respect the privacy of others, and I'm trying to bite my tounge and keep my tounge in check (inside my cheeks)

For anyone interested, since going public, we now have several IRC
chatrooms you can find on the quakenet IRC servers (irc.quakenet.org).

There are several IRC clients to choose from, KVIRC is quite a robust
IRC client if you are in need of one, and it's available on the Windows OS.

We are at:
#QuakeOne
#QuakeOne-Society
#QuakeOne-Network
#QuakeOne-Lounge

To become an owner of the chatroom, simply register with Q. So far only
I have OPs, so just sit tight and idle, if you can, after registering,
and I'll be sure to grant you owner status when I'm available.
Instructions are as follows in the link -->
https://www.quakenet.org/help/q/how-...account-with-q

Warm Regards,
Goat

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I dont even know a GoatAvenger, the only Quaker I know who remotely gave two shits about Goats was QuadRaptor, and I'd bet anything, that the guy in question is NOT Chris aka QuadRaptor.

I have a list of email addresses also who may or may not have requested to be apart of this.... make a note that when I said I would support you and your endevors that didn't mean to fucking put all our emails at risk of being spammed.

I'm at a loss of words now, I'm shutting up right -> here <-



Read it ~ Know it ~ Study it . I'm not bullshitting you.

[wicked_lord]

Just checked my gmail account to ensure i am not receiving any email's from outside and luckily i am not. GG

[Shadowswift]

After reading the last several emails, I'm glad I chose to delete all forms of contact for me from my profile. Too many Kimps out there these days.

[Polarite]

Thanks for the birthday wishes but its only on thursday tho
And I`am turning 39 then , still 38 today

Omg 18 years of playing quake !
Let me real quick calculate my frags

[Mindf!3ldzX]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMHTK15Pik]Its Over 9000!!! [Original Video and Audio] - YouTube[/ame]

[Grim Warlock]

Yeah, Quake can now drink and smoke!

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Yeah, Quake can now drink and smoke!

Heh,really depends on where you live....

unless you just choose to ignore legal age limits