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Welcome to the new forums for Killing Floor. Feel free to make use of them.

Over the next two weeks we will be completling the website, and getting some beginner mapping tutorials up. After that...well I don't know yet. We will have to see what happens.

-Sandcrawler

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Ok so I don't know if many of you know this or not, but we do have an Xfire group. you can find us here. I keep it updated with alerts for new map packs and polls. Just send in an application and I'll accept it.

Next topic is Videos, some of you already know. I made videos for the DM Map Pack 1 and plan to do the same with the CTF Map Pack. They will soon be on this website, I have some changes comming on April 1st as well.

The Map Pack has also been changed, I will be updating that post soon. I had to drop District 118 and Hunting Grounds as the server didn't like them. We now have Arena D14 (Cub) and Crater(RC-1266). This map pack is tested alot better than the last one, and I can almost promise you we won't have to update it like the last one. O and one last thing, tomarrow the old server will be going down, and in its place will be a new one, I don't know the time for sure that they will be switched yet, but it should be early. At 6pm PST we WILL[/u] be doing a dodgeball even for however long you guys want to play. I'll be on for it the whole time. So if you don't have it yet grab the FunRun Map Pack. On a simular note this saturday's event is canceled Unless you guys want me to do a shortened one. I want people to have time to play the CTF maps.

The last thing that I am going to mention is Team Fortress 2, starting on April 1st we will also have two TF2 servers up in an expanding attempt. So if you have TF2 then look use up, we will be under Sandcrawler.net We will have several administration type mods installed, and stats on the website. So look for it soon.

-Sandcrawler

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These are the CTF maps that will be rotating on the new 12 person Sandcrawler.net server. These will go into effect May 1st, and be avalible for download starting on that day. Also all the maps in this map will be a Sandcrawler Network Version (_sv) So you'll need to download the map pack even if you download the maps or have them already.

Impass Isles by Sandcrawler
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  Mos Eisley by Arramus
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  Gravity Rails by Dagger
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Hunting Groundsby Sulfied Shrike
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  Plateform 21 by Sniperkitten
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  DS Beach by Darktrooper
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  Arena A51 by Sandcrawler
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  Grate by Arramus
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  District 118 by Dagger
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  War Zone by Sulfied Shrike
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  Swamp by Sniperkitten
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  Simple by Rebornjedildr
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This is the last week that the sever will be rotating the Deathmatch #1 and in fact the last week that this current server will be up. (Don't worry a new 12 person server is coming up instead) So this is your last chance to play these maps. If you don't have the map Pack yet you can get it Here.

I'm happy with the activity on the server, and thus plan to have a new server with 12 slots for next months CTF Map Pack. I will be announcing the Maps in the CTF Map Pack this monday. Here this the server activity report:
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Thats it, check back monday for the Map Pack announcement and the first for the download. Don't forget to play alot next week. =)

-Sandcrawler

Ok so after a little tiny bit of thought and planning I have decided to run two server events each week. Both of these events use the same Map Pack and that is the FunRun Map Pack

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So you can see Chumpflipping and Dodgeball. As well as Gladiator and FunRun. here's how its going to work.

Dodgeball Friday's - Friday at 6 to about 7:20 PST. We have eight maps, so ten minutes each. After this event the server will go back to its DM 1 Map Pack rotation.

Saturday FunRun - All day saturday. From midnight to midnight. We will be rotating FunRun, Gladiator, and SN Chumpflipping all day.

I'll be on for the Dodgeball event the whole time to help explain it, so even if you have never played come try it with us. For the Saturday FunRun i'll be on part of the day.The SN Chumpflipping is a bit different than normal chumpflipping maps, and completly new, I just finished it last night. But I'll leave you to explore it.

-Sandcrawler

Alright so as you have probably noticed if you are reading this...that the new website is up.

So the first order of business is...to warn you of any impending bugs, you may run into a  few while using the website, dead link, broken pages ect. I'd really like to know about them. I think I fixed a lot of them, but I don't doubt that there are more.

Second...We currently have two theme's in use. The Sandcrawler Network style that you are more than likely using right now. And the RCMod style that you can change to. The RCMod style is dedicated to the RC Mod Site, and you won't have the navigation for the Sandcrawler Network part of the website, although the pages still work fine and can be navigated to. Both are nice in my opinion. You can change your style by going into you User Control Panel > Board preferences > and selecting RCMod from the drop down list labeled "My board style:"

Third...The Republic Commando server is now up, and the Map pack is now out. So pick up the package and hop on the server. here. I recommend that you download the Map Pack even if you already have all the maps. A few of them received some setting changes.

The Last thing is...over the coming few weeks I will be making some more changes to the website, little tweaks and stuff. so don't be afraid when you come on and something is different.

O and this site will officially be announced on April First.

Have Fun
- Sandcrawler

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Here are the maps that will be ran on the Sandcrawler Network Server started on April 1st, the Map Pack will be release on that day.

The first lineup include the following maps.

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Wook By Arramus
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Mustafar By Cub
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Deck17 By Dethmetal
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Oasis By DooFi
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Chapel of Pain By Sandcrawler
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Lockout By Sniperkitten
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BC Schwarzwald By Sulifried Shrike
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Blood Base By Trash
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Pumping Station By Explode
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Close Contact By Ferraridude990
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Coreship By Sharpshooter
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Ok so I've been thinking of renting a server to run our RC Mod Maps on...I do want one, but I don't have the money to keep one up for a long period of time. The whole site is being reworked right now, but more on that some other time. For the server I was thinking of doing a map pack each month with twelve different maps, and packing them with the textures, map lists, and loading lists. The information page would be right on the main sandcrawler.net page.

So for our first poll concerning the RC mod server. Would you be willing to donate, and around how much. You can vote here. This is just to get a general idea on what we could rent, donations would be done via PayPal. Also for donating you would get access to a donating member group, with a green name, and their own forums. Donating members will be able to vote on what maps get put into the map pack. Donation amount would be unrelated to access time, just for donating once you will get access to the forums for three month. That's the quick version anyways, more on this later.

The next issue is how many slots should it have? I was thinking for the first month I would start it at 6 slots. Then depending on how many players we get, and donations we can upgrade after that. I decided to make a poll for this too, including the price for renting that size of a server. You can vote for server size here.

-Sandcrawler

So today I updated the registration page to use Recaptcha. This will only affect you if you are not yet register. You can learn more by going to thier website.
https://recaptcha.net

Also I have some new changes to the website that I will be sharing sometime soon I hope.

-Sandcrawler

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you all have fun.

- Sandcrawler

I've notices that pretty much all the old accounts lost all their permissions so when you log in you can't see any forums, I'm go back on the sql database and see what I missed.

Ok it should be fixed now. I didn't move the group data over so thats what was missing...to avoid anything messing up I manualy added everyone to the right group.

I think I got everyone but if there is somebody who can't see any forums when loged in let me know via email.

Ok so the forums are back up.

I moved all the data over to a new database that uses a intergrated user database/forums, this is so everyone can use almost all forums on sandcrawler.net

Other then that there should be no difference, other then alot of images are missing because the first way I tried didn't work out.

No skins yet because thats another problum I have to hit, but a new one should be up pretty soon.

Ok so I made a post, well here is the poll for it. =)

Basicly you would have to enter you Name, Email, and a confirmation Code. Then it would report your question to somjebody somehow =)

Possiblitys are:
1 Email to me/Suport people.
2 Make a text file with your question that gets updates.
3 Make a Post on the forums.

Now my thoughs behind this is I'm wanting to get away from these forums. Some people have a hard time registering on them, or just don't care to sign up on forums to get help. So I'm not to keen on number 3.

Number 1 isn't my preferance either, because the problum would be if multiple people replied to them.

My preference would be 1 and 2 combined. So it would email just me, then you go to the site, and repost to the text file, that would then email them your reply, and add your reply to the bottom. This would also mean anybody could help.

This would be a pretty simple thing to do, as I have most of the code written for other projects.

http://sandcrawler.net/main/?p=7

Let me know if that link does work for some reason, but it should be easy to find there if it doesn't.

I'm doing Mini-Tutorial to help make full tutorials easy to do. cause IMO thats not really a full tutorial. Let me know if there are some unawnsered questions or anything.

So I've been making progress on the new site, and though I would share a bit, right now it looks the same, but the final look will depend on what banners I get from people.

Anyways here is a link that will let you onto all the new pages, and mostly how they load right now.
http://sandcrawler.net/rcmod/test.php

I haven't had a chance to play with the random map thing on the home page, but I will. and there isn't much of anything in the download part yet.

But pretty much look around on it if you dont mind and post any bugs you see or find on it here. Also on the downloads page if I missed your name or somebody name let me know and I'll add it.

I would like to request that anyone who is interested makes a banner for the RC Mod Website.

I will be designing a new website around the banner we go with, we will vote on it in a few weeks. So feel free to use  whatever colors images ect.

I ask that it be 800pxl wide, and no more then 400pxl high.

Other then that have fun, feel free to spread the word about this, I would like as many to choose from as possible.

As you can tell it worked, and we lost nothing...well your signitures might be messed up a bit, but no posts were lost.

If you think we need a new forum anyplace let me know.

This is a small map that I started along time ago, and had mostly done, I need to add some more decoration into it then it will be ready.

I think you are all in for a bit of a suprise with this one.

I'll get some screen shots up soon.

So dodgeball was a minigame that we developed back in DS...dunno if they ever still know of it themself, but before Cub left, we made eight maps just for this.

A warning to the anti AA people: Don't read on =)

So here how you play:
You all spawn in a outer room, they all look the same and have the rules up on the back, and teleporters in the front. You use one of the 4 teleporters to enter the main arena, and stay where you spawned, when you server host, or the big man say's go you run to the center and grab a AA, then either shoot you oponents or run for cover. =)


So of the eight maps here is who made what:
Arena - Cub
Bunker - Cub
Canyon - Cub
Container - Cub
Space - Cub
Storage Bay - Sandcrawler
Temple - Cub
Triple Threat - Sandcrawler

I have also included a map named dodgeball_spawnrooms You can use this as a base for your map, and build the arena, all eight of ours include a zoning line.

I'm not going to post screen shots, because to be quite honest they are not much to look at... They look nice, they are just small.

Even if you are a AA hater I recommend you try this, its quite fun when played right.

I'm going to post these up tomarrow, I want to let is circulate a little.

Who made these maps? so I cna set up your catagory. Somebody let me know.