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Congratulations for making it One Year Alpha! On November 16 we had our first anniversary and we stand proud of our accomplishments. We have recently reformatted some of our servers to offer a better variety. The new format has been successful with more and more people coming to play. Some of our offerings are on a trial basis and will be shifted as we get new ideas. We have founded a New Zealand/Australian branch of our community with Delirium taking the helm. Look for more from him soon. We have promoted a new group of server admins and they have been patrolling the servers well. We added over 30 ips to our banlist this week alone. Our servers will remain a clean place to play. Hackers may be drawn to our popular servers but they don't last long. Our community of players supply us with demos of hackers constantly. We have the best program in Urban Terror for monitoring hacking. Every player can be a low level admin. We appreciate all the demos and the hard work that you guys do to help us keep them off our land. If you are new to Alpha Servers you can visit www.downloads.urtalphaclan.net to find out how to start busting hacks today. We have also established our live support admins for real time hack busting. Just login to our forums and click the live help logo at the top of the page. If an admin is on duty you can report server problems for real time assistance. We encourage you to use this feature often. Please remember that our time is volunteer so their may not always be an admin logged in. Next month we will be shutting the 3rd Party NYC Deathmatch server down and transitioning to the new 3rd party maps server. The new server is located in Washington DC and is currently running. There should be minimal effects to the community during this transition. The new ip is |ALPHA|Clan's 3rd Party Maps 174.36.195.251:27960. Our bans are also live streaming to three of Death Valley Servers. If you get banned on Alpha, you will also be banned on DVG. The current servers we are streaming to are:
Death Valley |D'V'G| FFA Atlanta November Mapcycle 63.211.110.183:27960
Death Valley |D'V'G| CTF Dallas November Mapcycle 8.12.65.181:27960
Death Valley |D'V'G| TDM London November Mapcycle 217.163.27.103:27960
This makes getting banned on our servers more of a risk to hackers and griefers than before. Now they not only lose the right to play on our servers but also these three other highly popular servers. We are working on brining Hoosier's servers online to the live ban feed. That would make the total servers lost to a hacker 18. That's a lot of servers to be banned from in a matter of 10 seconds. I hope that you will think twice before causing issues on our servers! If you own a server and would be interested in getting our bans streamed to your server in real time, PM |ALPHA|Slayer. This is a highly effective tool and we back our bans 100% with demos and documentation.
We still need contributions to complete November. We survive from you the community and your support. Without you we would not exist. If you decide to contribute please email Slayer with your gamer tag so he can get you credit on the website! Thanks to all of you who play on our servers and visit our site. We would also like to thank the Development team for providing us with such a great game and community in which to operate! |
