Clanbase - Game Over
For those unfamiliar with the name: ClanBase once was a cool site to visit if you were an online gamer. With cups and ladders hosted for games such as the RtCW, ET, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike and Call of Duty series, a teenager really had quite some options for multiplayer entertainment. Heck, we even had LAN finals for our renowned EuroCups.

Those days are far behind us and as it stands today, the company that owns the ClanBase site - GGL - is unable to cover the costs required to run the website. Moreover, lately the owners of the site do not wish to cooperate with the voluntary crew, keeping everybody in the dark and thus showing complete disrespect to people who spend many hours a day trying to make our tournaments a success.

The website has now been offline for more than three weeks due to an unpaid bill. No action is being taken by the owner to get the website back online. Having no vision for the future, we - the ClanBase Crew - have lost our last hopes about ClanBase ever coming back online, and unfortunately we announce the end of a great era.

The history and the truth as the ClanBase Crew sees it

A US-based company called Global Gaming League (Professional Interactive Entertainment, Inc.) noticed the success of the site and bought it from the original owners in December of 2004. They had financial backing for server hosting and our tournaments. Things were going well until in 2007 CB suffered its first heart attack when GGL couldn’t deliver the prize money they put up for the EuroCup. This can be marked as the start of our downfall.

The CB Crew has always been made up of volunteers with the majority being just teenagers. There was no possibility for us to come up with the money on our own that was promised, yet we were always the ones getting blamed. After all, it was our cup season and our name. It is no surprise that after this blow there was no way for us to host another season with the promise of any kind of prize until the debt was settled with the previous winners.

To this day, GGL owes around €24,000 in prize money which will never be settled. The other sites who were in the same gaming business of course had no problems hosting their tournaments however they wanted. ClanBase, however, lost a great deal of its reputation along with some top teams who never got their winnings.

As time went by the site also started to decay. After the takeover we had paid developers who tried to put the code in shape. There were some noteworthy developments such as the seasonal and invitational ladders, but after the first test run we couldn’t get the necessary changes implemented - because GGL stopped paying the developers.

Money. The source of all evil.

GGL started moving the servers between hosts (RackSpace, Amazon, GreenQloud) to save costs, and to avoid further missed payments. This appeared in the news a few times when providers came out with how they were lied to. We also lost the ability to upload files anything other than demos. Fortunately, a Crew member had the means to help out.

Funding continued to dry up. After the first wave of cuts where we lost the two developers and a head admin, things cooled down for a while. Recently, a general system administrator was cut off which got interesting at one point when CB suffered a denial of service attack to which the host (GreenQloud) responded with moving the servers to a different IP address. However, the domain name had to be updated as well to point to the new address. Since our sysadmin was not getting paid, he refused to perform this, essentially holding the site hostage for a while.

So how do we get money? The site had ads for a while which obviously was not enough. We may have been naive thinking that upping the quality of the site would be a good move, which was promised more times we bother to count. GGL thought otherwise. In fact, many of the cool features our gamers would have loved to see on the website were never implemented - because "CBv2” was supposedly just around the corner.

Their first bold move was trying to get adult banners on CB - a website that was home for thousands of teenagers. The Crew was shocked and appalled by this. Fortunately, we managed to get our voice through (by threatening to go on strike) - but we also lost several valuable crew members who had enough of the poor conditions and bad decisionmaking.

Next to adult material, gambling can also be a good source of income. The Poker and Betting ladders were introduced. It is doubtful that much money was ever made of this, at least nobody said otherwise. The only thing certain is that these projects never got off the ground.

A poor attempt was also made to gather money in the form of offering VIP membership. Nobody took this very seriously and as expected, nobody bothered to opt in after a while. The only benefit to having VIP was the ability to get rid of some of the ads. Perhaps a regular donation system would’ve been more useful.

By the end of August 2013, yet another problem surfaced: the money ran out for the hosting. This is when CB started to go down every month when the time came to pay for the next 30 days.

Of course we tried contacting GGL through our manager who was in charge of handling communications. As you may have guessed by now, he also failed to receive his payment for a while and a company owing money to you, and who knows how many others, is not in a hurry to get back to you.

The ClanBase management tried to directly contact the GGL founder and president Ted Owen (since everyone else left), with very little success. Whenever we got a response it usually consisted of no more than a few words.

The last we heard from him, he stated that "GGL will move on without ClanBase, and besides, why did the Crew never put any money in it?”

Mr. Owen, the Crew put time in it. A lot of time... for free. Every day. And to clarify, nobody has ever reached out to us to ask for any kind of financial aid. Not that we would’ve ever agreed to anything if the money had to go through GGL as that would’ve resulted in the money never reaching its intended destination.

Ultimately, we understand that our users would have expected us to come out with the truth sooner. It has taken us three weeks to make a public statement - but the only reason it took so long is that we were trying to not lose the hope and to reach out to mr. Owen. Unfortunately, our last request (or offer) to him - to release the ClanBase site to the crew for us to be able to continue running it on our own, without the GGL - was not welcomed.

It is thus our sad duty to inform you that ClanBase is gone. We would like to sincerely thank over a thousand admins working on the website over the past 15 years of ClanBase’s existence. And an even bigger thanks goes out to all the players who supported us over the years and who did not lose faith no matter what.

This writing has not come easily because ClanBase has been a big part of our lives, and we definitely did not want to see it end like this.

Clanbase - Game Over
Die Clanbase war einmal eine sehr coole Website für Online- Gamer, mit Cups und Ligen für Spiele wie RtCW, ET, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike und der Call of Duty-Serie.

Diese glorreichen Tage sind nun hinter uns, und heute steht es um die Clanbase Website sehr schlecht - wir sind nicht mehr in der Lage, die erforderlichen kosten der Website zu decken.

Die Website war offline für mehr als drei Wochen, wegen einer unbezahlten Rechnung. Keine Aktion wird vom Eigentümer übernommen, um die Website wieder online zu bekommen. Da sie keine Vision für die Zukunft mehr hat. Wir - die Clanbase Crew - haben unsere letzten Hoffnungen die Clanbase jemals wieder online kommen jetzt endgültig verloren, und müssen leider das Ende einer großen Clanbase-Ära verkünden.

Source: etpro.de | clanbase.org

Teuthis release his new ET Map Teuthonia - Quote: I am mapping for ET because I enjoy mapping, irrespective of whether the map is finally released or not. Reason I released this one and not others is because I believe that people will specifically like this one. If you are familiar with ET you will recognize some similarities to goldrush. This is on purpose because I personally think goldrush is by far the best custom map and I wanted to create something that has kinda similar gameplay and texturing so that people who like goldrush will likely also enjoy playing this one. Also the goldrush.map file is open source and its legal to use brush and script work from this map (what a great coincidence YEAH!).

Story, well if you know goldrush you know what's coming now:
- The Allies have to steal a tank and steal some gold bars
- Escord the tank, clear the tank barriers and blow up the bank door
- Steal the gold bars and bring them to a nearby truck
- Escord the truck with the gold to the home base
- The Axis have to prevent the Allies to steal and secure the gold. 

Objectives:
Allies:..
1:..Repair the tank
2:..Escort the Tank and destroy the tank barriers
3:..Escort the Tank into position to blow up the bank door
4:..Steal the gold and bring it to a nearby truck
5:..Escort the truck
6:..Build a Command Post for faster charge times
7:..Stop the Axis from constructing a Command Post

Axis:..
1:..Prevent the Allies from repairing the tank
2:..Build up the tank barriers
3:..Prevent the Allies from blowing up the bank door
4:..Stop the Allies from stealing the gold
5:..Stop the Allies from escaping with the gold
6:..Stop the Allies from constructing a Command Post
7:..Build your Command Post for improved charge times

Source: dark-alchemy.com | forums.warchest.com

	TEUTHONIA Version:beta  Teuthis  06.08.2014  5,403 MB  251

Meteos released a new Version of the map 1944 Huertgen Forest

Story: 1944 Huertgen Forest was thickly wooded, cut by steep defiles and trails.
The Axis built deep, artillery-proof bunkers, surrounded by fighting positions.
AXIS - The Allies are attempting to steal valuable supplies from the Axis Truckyard, stop them at all costs!
ALLIES - The Axis Truckyard contains valuable supplies. We must secure them to claim victory in the Forest!

Changelog > Final 2.1 (since previous public release)
    * Time limit management:
        - Initial time limit reduced to 20 minutes;
        - Extension when the Tank is stolen (not on first repair) (+10);
        - Extension when the Truck is stolen (when exiting the Truckyard) (+5)
    * Slightly improved VIS blocking.
    * Optimized T-Junctions some more.
    * Caulked more non-visible surfaces.
    * Rewrote shaders and cleaned map script.
    * Added a flash animation and a firing sound to the AT-Gun when used.
    * Adjusted the Tank turret rotation angle while shooting the Truckyard Gate.
    * Fixed the trigger time of the AT-Gun: it will shoot only 5+ seconds after a shot.
    * Updated the map coordonates so the original Command Map fits with the objectives locations.
    * Terrain lighting is now on a single lightmap, for a smoothed lighting. However, func_group's still affect it.
      Also note that the texture blending is affected (only the brushes going through the skybox).

Additionnal thanks to Dragonji, Micha, Sedra12, Smurfer, Teuthis, Thunder, WuTangH and |MTC| clan peeps for their feedback!

Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | wolffiles.de

	1944 HUERTGEN FOREST Version:final 2  Meteos  24.10.2014  7.75 MB  488

Tardis has created a nice spring version of the map Transmitter.

Story of Transmitter Spring:
Civilians manipulated by the Volksempfänger's propaganda program are resisting the allied forces.
To break the resistance, Allies have to overtake a local Transmitter, which is amplifying the master-signal from Berlin for local receivers.
They have to manipulate the transmission-frequency by installing a radio Modification Kit on the Transmitter.
The Allies also have to rotate the Antenna towards their pirate sender.

// Axis Objective Descriptions
1 "Primary Objective:**Prevent the Allies from building the Bridge."
2 "Primary Objective:**Don't let the Allies carry the Modification Kit to the Transmitter."
3 "Primary Objective:**Prevent the Allies from rearranging the Antenna towards their pirate sender."
4 "Secondary Objective:**Defend the Grate Door from the Allies."
5 "Secondary Objective:**Defend the Forward Hut from the Allies."
6 "Secondary Objective:**Defend the Serpentine Barricade from allied sabotage attempts."
7 "Secondary Objective:**Stop the Allies from constructing a Command Post in the Forest Hut.**Construct a Command Post!"

// Allied Objective Descriptions
1 "Primary Objective:**Construct the Bridge."
2 "Primary Objective:**Carry the Modification Kit to the Transmitter-Station inside the Castle complex."
3 "Primary Objective:**Rearrange the Antenna towards our pirate sender."
4 "Secondary Objective:**Destroy the Grate Door. Keep the attack rolling!"
5 "Secondary Objective:**Capture the Forward Hut from the Axis. Keep the attack rolling!"
6 "Secondary Objective:**Destroy the Serpentine Barricade to secure the Forward Hut."
7 "Secondary Objective:**Stop the Axis from constructing a Command Post in the Forest Hut.**Construct a Command Post!"

Objective's Not listed - Allied
Constuct The Cave Ladder
Destroy The Bunker Wall ( AmmoBunker Side )
Destroy The Tunnel Wall ( Grate Side Only distoyable from one side )

Objective's Not listed - Axis
Prevent the Allies from building The Cave Ladder
Defend the The Bunker Wall ( AmmoBunker Side )
Defend the The Tunnel Wall ( Grate Side Only distoyable from one side )

Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | wolffiles.de

	TRANSMITTER SPRING Version:Spring  Tardis  24.10.2014  23, 324 MB  322

Happy 14th birthday, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory!

Splash Damage's first game - Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - was released exactly FOURTEEN YEARS ago. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was born on 29/05/2003. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was originally planned to be released as a commercial expansion pack to the popular FPS Return to Castle Wolfenstein and later as a standalone game.

However, due to problems with the single-player aspect, the multiplayer portion was released on 29 May 2003 as a freeware standalone game.
In January 2004, the source code for the game logic (not the game engine) was released to the benefit of its modding community.
The game uses a modified Return to Castle Wolfenstein engine, itself being a heavily modified Quake III: Team Arena engine (id Tech 3, which has been open-source since 2005).

As of the first day of the 2010 QuakeCon, 12 August the entire source code was released under the GNU General Public License v3.Multiple source ports have been started.

While the attempts made by OpenWolf and ET:Xreal concentrate on innovating the renderer, the most active community project ET: Legacy focuses on fixing issues by backporting improvements from ioquake3 while staying binary compatible to the original game client, server and its mods.

Source: splashdamage.com | twitter/splashdamage

	ET ULTIMATE INSTALLER 1.6 Version:1.6 Final  Kashu  29.05.2010  346 MB  6806

	ET FULL VERSION 2.60 Version:2.60  SplashDamage  31.03.2009  263 MB  2578

	ET-LOGOS HI RES Version:-  dexter  19.04.2009  6,400 MB  768

1944 Norwind 2.1 is the latest release of this Axis-attack map by Mateos.

~~~Storyline~~~

The Allies have hidden a stash of gold in a truckyard depot in town. The Axis forces are fully aware of this and are launching a surprise attack on the Allied stronghold in order to steal the gold and escape with it by truck. They will escort their Jagdpanther, destroying all obstacles in their path, until they reach the truckyard depot. Once there, they will use the Jagdpanther to destroy the main gate.

They must then over-power all Allied forces, get the gold on to the truck and fight their way past two truck barriers to make their escape to safety.

Mateos would like to thank dFx, KeMoN, ailmanki, Rebel, acQu and Thunder for all their help and advice in the making of this map.

Source: wolffiles.de | Splashdamage - Mateos

	1944 NORDWIND Version:2.1  Mateos  21.04.2014  13,527 MB  332

STARTED TO TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION -NO NAME-
We cordially invite all players to participate in the tournament.
Participants will measure up to each other on the map Valhalla Station TE
in one-on-one.
The exact method of elimination will be announced when the entries are completed.

To sign up for the tournament enter your nickname from the game on this post.
Entries will last until Friday, October 17, 2014 y.
The fun will begin on Saturday, October 18, 2014 y. 23:00.

The tournament will not take place if you do not report at least 8 volunteers.
(translate by google)

ROZPOCZYNAMY ZAPISY DO TURNIEJU -NO NAME-
Serdecznie zapraszamy wszystkich graczy do wzięcia udziału w turnieju.
Uczestnicy będą mierzyć się ze sobą na mapie Valhalla Station TE
w pojedynkach jeden na jednego.
Dokładny sposób eliminacji ogłosimy gdy zakończą się zapisy.

Żeby zapisać się do turnieju wpisz swój nick z gry pod tym postem.
Zapisy potrwają do piątku 17. października 2014 r.
Zabawę rozpoczniemy w sobotę 18. października 2014 r. o godzinie 23:00.

Turniej nie odbędzie się, jeśli nie zgłosi się co najmniej 8 chętnych.

Link and more infos: wolfenstein.pl/forum
Source: wolfenstein.pl

Missing in Action (final) - a new map created for ETNam Mod

The storyline: After the last big attack, Charlie (Vietcong), have managed to capture 3 allied soldiers. These soldiers will be interrogated for any valuable information they may have. The soldiers are being held in a secret P.O.W. camp in the Pleiku jungle, awaiting their fate.

Fortunately, U.S. armed forces pick up a Vietcong radio transmition in which they learn the whereabouts of the allied P.O.W.'s and they send in a rescue squad that are camped nearby.  Equipped with a Huey helicopter they are flown to a drop-off point where they will have to navigate their way through the jungle to the P.O.W. camp.

Once there, they will have to blow the maingate and get the M.I.A.'s out of the Vietcong camp, one by one, then bring them to the safety of the allied camp hospital. The Vietcong forces, however, will do all in their power to prevent this.

Thunder's >website<

Changelog:
# Fixed some of the fps problems
# Changed the texture on the sandbags to be more fitting with the ETNam theme
# The Huey helicopter is now destructible ( Thanks to acQu  )
# A more suitable skybox for the map's fog effect

Source: wolffiles.de | splashdamage.com

	MISSING IN ACTION Version:final  Thunder  09.02.2014  18,11 MB  233

The Team from mygamingtalk.com releasedET-Mod silEnT 0.8.2.

    Version 0.8.2
    Added: g_goatSound server cvar to enable/disable goat sounds on knife kills.
    Added: enemy team objective carry indicator (http://mygamingtalk.com/forums/topic/3165-objective-captured-visual-screen-indicator/). Use g_misc flag 1024 to enable it on the server and cg_objcarry client cvar to enable it in the HUD.
    Fixed: Players carrying objectives are now shown correctly.
    Fixed: !useredit was not able to set level higher than 99 when executed as rcon. !setlevel was working correctly.
    Fixed: The name of the disguised covert op was not drawn to spectators.
    Fixed: The class icon in the crosshair player name to be the current class instead of the latched class.
    Fixed: wm_sayPlayerClass now announces the latched class correctly, even when using class swithcer.
    Fixed: If map voting was enabled but g_mapVoteFlags 4 was not enabled. It was possible to issue multiple votes by hand using /mapvote command.
    Fixed: debriefing screen buttons didn't handle highlight theme parameter properly.
    Fixed: The output of finger command didn't show warnings if there were more then 2 in total.
    Fixed: UI crash in menu (http://mygamingtalk.com/forums/tracker/issue-242-client-game-crashes-in-menu/)
    Fixed: Minor bug with g_maxPanzerSuicides introduced in 0.8.0. If panzer suicides were disallowed completely, the player was not informed about it.
    Fixed: g_muteRename allowed to change the name when player used /reconnect (http://mygamingtalk.com/forums/tracker/issue-248-possible-bug-g-muterename/)
    Fixed: When unmuting/muting during intermission/warmup, the mute wasn't saved.
    Fixed: cg_effectDistance was affecting the played sounds.
    Fixed: g_classWeapons not working for class command (http://mygamingtalk.com/forums/tracker/issue-252-g-classweapons-not-fully-working/)
    Fixed: class command not handling secondary weapon parameter properly, it didn't influence the limbo menu, e.g. /class s 3 2 wouldn't select akimbo pistols or SMG as secondary in limbo.
    Fixed: switching problem with double SMG (http://mygamingtalk.com/forums/tracker/issue-244-cant-switch-to-primary-when-having-two-smgs/)
    Improved: If player is completely dead in the game, the scoreboard shows the player's latched class to other team members.
    Improved: UI tabbing to edit field makes it focused.
    Improved: limbo weapons menu for soldier class.
    Improved: sort order of the map vote menu map list.

> full changelog

Special thanks for Krauersaut for building the Mac OS X client.

Source: wolffiles.de | MyGamingTalk

	SILENT MOD Version:0.8.2  TheSilencerPL  16.05.2014  966 B  334

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - Alanbrooke v1

This a new Axis-attack map for "Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory", created by Loffy. The overall tactical military aim for the Axis Troops is to steal the Allied top secret documents, (Alan Brooke's diaries), in order to transmit this secret information to their headquarters, via a nearby communication radio.

Axis Map Objectives:
- Primary Objective: Steal/defend the documents (Alan Brooke's secret diaries) and transmit at/protect the radio.
- Secondary Objective: Dynamite/defend the Water Wall.
- Secondary Objective: Dynamite/defend the Central Wall
- Secondary Objective: Dynamite/defend the Side Route in the centre
- Secondary Objective: Dynamite/defend the second Side Route to the Radio
- Secondary Objective: Get control over the important Command Post

Loffy has very kindly included his ".map" file in this download, with no copyright pertaining to his release. All mappers, new and experienced, are free to use it as they wish.
Botfiles for the new map are also included in this download.

Source: wolffiles.de | enemyterritory-stuff.net

	ALANBROOKE Version:1.0  Loffy  16.09.2018  12,285 MB  403