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

Der |bTc| Clan läd alle herzlichst ein, zur Enemy Territory Halloween Fightnight.

Das Event Ticket to Hell - The |bTc| Halloween Nights startet am Halloweentag den 31.10. um 0.00 Uhr und Endet am 1.11 um 0.00 Uhr.

Es erwarten euch gespenstische Maps, Skins & Sounds. Lasst euch überraschen und seid dabei!

Server IP: 78.47.105.65:27960

Quelle: ClawFire via PM | |bTc|Clan

Start: Saturday, October 1st 2011, 8:00 pm
Sunday, October 2nd 2011, 8:00 pm
Monday, October 3rd 2011, 08:00 pm

Attendance:
This event is for everybody. Enjoy! To register yourself, contact somebody at the NT Teamspeak 3Adresse: voice1.ts3hosting.de:7015 or at the DSK Public Forum

Playing ET Pro 3.2.6 / Server : 62.75.235.69:28960 *NT* War Server
To watch the show, we will provide an ET TV Server / 62.75.235.69:28970 *NT* ET TV Server

Enjoy Everybody!

Beginn: Samstag der 01.10.2011 ab 20.00 Uhr
Zweiter Spieltag: Sonntag der 02.10.2011 ab 20.00 Uhr
Letzter Spieltag: Montag der 03.10.2011 ab 20.00 Uhr

Teilnahme:
Es kann jeder Teilnehmen der Lust und Zeit hat. Hier spielen nicht die Clans gegeneinander sondern Teams die erst noch zusammengestellt bzw. Ausgelost werden
Ameldung erfolgt entweder mündlich im NT-Teamspeak 3 Adresse: voice1.ts3hosting.de:7015 oder im DSK Public Forum

Gespielt wird ET Pro 3.2.6 / Server: 62.75.235.69:28960 *NT* War Server
Und für alle die gerne zuschauen wollen wird ein ET TV Server bereitgestellt/ 62.75.235.69:28970 *NT* ET TV Server

Wir wünschen allen Teilnehmern Zuschauern und Gästen viel Spaß!

Quelle: dsk-eg | nt-gaming

Following on from the Spring edition of the Crossfire ET-Tournament series, I am pleased to announce the Crossfire.nu Winter Tournament. This edition will be a 6on6, single division, 16 team tournament.

Just like last time, the cup is open to all OC and EC Fall sign ups. 16 teams will be shortlisted from the signups to compete in the Double Elimination playoff tournament. When signups open, teams will be required to provide a link to their CB Team account which they’ve signed up to OC/EC with as well as their lineup. More details will come on Sunday when sign ups open on how to sign up.
One thing that I can tell you is that the tournament has a bit more of a relaxed schedule than spring where teams found it difficult to organise games within the allotted time. With this relaxed schedule however, there will be NO allowances for rescheduling outside of the times for each round. Upper Bracket games will have a 2 week scheduling period throughout the tournament. We will be using UAC for the cup as well.

Here is a guide on the schedule we hope to stick to throughout the tournament:

17/09/2013 - Cup Announcement
22/09/2013 - Signups Open
01/10/2013 - Signups Closed
02/10/2013 - Playoffs Published & Full Schedule Published
06/10/2013 - Cup Starts
08/12/2013 - Grand Final Played by this date

Crossfire Winter-Turnier Ankündigung

Im Anschluss an die Frühjahrsausgabe der Crossfire ET-Turnierserie, freue ich mich, das Winter-Crossfire-Turnier anzukündigen. Diese Ausgabe wird ein 6on6 / 16 Team-Turnier sein.
Genau wie beim letzten Mal, ist die Cup-Anmeldung für OC und EC offen. 16 Teams kommen in die engere Auswahl. Weitere Details erscheinen am Sonntag, wenn die Registrierung möglich ist. Wir benutzen UAC (Universal Anticheat) für den Cup.

Hier ist eine Auflistung vom Ablauf des Turniers:

17/09/2013 - Cup Ankündigung
22/09/2013 - Anmeldung Eröffnung
01/10/2013 - Anmeldung Ende
02/10/2013 - Ausspielungen Veröffentlichung & Spielplan
06/10/2013 - Cup Start 12/08/2013
08/12/2013 - Grand Final bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt

Source: crossfire.nu

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

Time: 12:00 (noon) to at least 07:00 (12PM-7AM) London time zone (GMT +0) which means 19 hours of gaming !

Server Name: Jaymod 2 XPSAVE FOREVER 
Server IP: jay2.clan-fa.com:27960

 
Come and enjoy a fun and crazy day with us, playing crazygravity, panzerwar, sniperwar. It will be a memorable day! Do not forget invite your friends.

Teamspeak: Server Name: =F|A= Clan TeamSpeak - Server IP: ts.clan-fa.com:4666

Source: wolffiles.de | fearless-assassins.com

Panzers, riflenades, shotguns and headshots. Just some ingredients for a nice map-cocktail.

We promise you a "blast" of an evening. And you also need to keep your "head" clear.

Come and show us your skills with all weapons available.

See you the 29th (Sunday) of june at the server to be: Dark Alchemy #2

More info > here <

Source: wolffiles.de | dark-alchemy.com

Friday Night Frag Event on 16th of January 2015. Fraggin' starts at 7:30pm GMT, ServerIP: 148.251.46.49:27962

Silent Mod Anti-cheat will be running for this event

Cool Squad Clan server details can be found HERE
Cool Squad website HERE

Source: wolffiles.de

Dark Alchemy 2005 ~ 2017 - 12 Years of Gaming

Dear Regulars, Members and Followers, unfortunately we have to announce that on 31 March 2017 Dark Alchemy will be closed permanently.

This difficult decision was taken after a long period of observation, which led us to the conclusion that nowadays the Enemy Territory community is increasingly shrinking, and that for a community like ours, this reduction generates an activity equal or less than 20 % compared to a few years ago, when to enter the server you had to wait a few free slot.

Since 2005 we have been pioneers and have set an excellent base that allowed us to have fun and entertain many players for over 10 years.

Today we are able to decide to close with pride, avoiding to let the time and the lack of players to force us to do so.

For all the work done over the years, and all the players, the members, the former members and donors, who have honoured us with their presence, I express best thanks, hoping that all these years alongside Dark Alchemy, have left in you something pleasant and positive.

Quote: Old-Owl

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DA-Website: dark-alchemy.com

DA-Forum: dark-alchemy.com/forum