Happy Halloween. I have just mailed $10 to Maud Dib for the new Clan Fotr/Clan HOPw server. Anyone wishing to donate money to help purchase parts for a server contact me or if you already have Maud's address go head and mail him money. This is strictly a donation. You do not get any additional rights over any other players playing at the server. It will be up in a few weeks and will run 24 hours a day in Mith and El's dorm room. It will probably be down at Christmas break and in the summer. If Quake2 takes off it will probably be running on two ports one for Quake and one for Quake 2.

I'm Baaaack! Met Hornet last night in Olathe and went to eat at Chilji's. Damn Hornet stung me in our first game of Darts at a bar. And with my great throwing we lost two team games against some other guys at the bar. But finally I warmed up and gave Hornet a run for his money and beat him. It was an interesting night. Wish ya the best of luck bud!

Welcome Nephilim.HOPw he just played me on e4m3 at his QuakeWorld server 206.31.50.25. He took the Worm beating very well losing 24 to 1. The server crashed with 4 minutes left in the match. I'm sure I would have had time to bore him to zero. HEHE it is a lot easier to do in QuakeWorld. But I offered HOPw to him on the 16min match or a rematch. He took the HOPw. I'm sure he will get revenge on me another day. Again Congratulations Nep!

Today I am off to Kansas City to meet Hornet. So no quaking today.

:( Not a good three days. Sunday and Monday my ISP was down almost 48 hours. Now today. Flame and Cj aren't up. And I get an email from Mith that Fotr will no longer be up. Well it will be up for special occasions which probably means we can hold our clan fights then.

Well it was an unpleasant fight for me. It started good. I had 9 frags and the other three HOPw's had 9, 8 and 6 frags to take the top four spots and then the server crashed for me. Zork got blown through the exit. And that was my fault for not setting NOEXIT. I doomed myself and the HOPw's. bummer. Well when we restarted again the settings on the server were slower. So I wasn't moving like normal it felt like slow motion. I never had my area which got Killjoy killed alot. My mouse wouldn't turn left and I actually took it apart in the match to clean it. I didn't get it cleaned right but it helped a bit. So with all this complaining it would sound like we lost eh. Well we didn't lose e4m3. BC.Pax had 25 frags, Zork.HOPw 24, CrazNDhead.HOPw 23, BC.Lithium 21, Wormburner.HOPw 17, BC.Corrupt 14, Killjoy.HOPw 12 and BC.Lord Magus 8. The total for the first level was HOPw 76 over BC 68.

The second level went much worse for HOPw. Suntzu, Thorny, Target and Jim played on BC server. This was Thorny, Jim and Suntzu's first clan Match as HOPw's well Thorny played one once but got disconnected after 5 minutes.. so this was his first full one. Well scores were lopsided with BC.Pax 22, BC.Ren 19, BC.Dragonballz 17 and BC.Nike 13 vs Thorny.HOPw 7, Jim.HOPw 6, Suntzu.HOPw 3, and Target.HOPw 2 for a total of 71 to 18.

The match goes to BC 139 over HOPw 94. Good Job BC you played well and thanks for the patience and cooperation when organizing.

Today's the big day! BC vs Clan HOPw. Well I don't think we will have a problem on our level E4M3 at 129.116.26.79 at 9pm Central time. Wormburner is playing area1, CrazeNDhead is playing an edited area2, Zork is playing area3 with a run for help route, and Killjoy is playing a new area4. Changes were made because BC probably knows our game plan as well as we do. The second level DM3 will be played at BC server 146.6.118.28. We might have more trouble here since the four players have not played together. Sunztu and Target are the only confirmed starters. The other two spots are supposedly to be filled by either Thorny, Packrat, Fluffbunnie or CrazeNDhead. So that level isn't looking to good yet.

Boogyman has a new email address and it is posted on his Clan HOPw page.

Finally!! I have got our Clan back on ClanRing. It took their password fix tool to do it. As you might notice there is a QuakeWorld link now. I will be adding a QuakeWorld section to Clan HOPw. I tried to take on Nephilim a buddy of Targets on his QuakeWorld server. I was leading 6 to 0 when some people showed up. We thought we had put the server at three max but it didn't work. If Nephilim makes it into Clan HOPw he will host the Clan HOPw QuakeWorld server at 206.31.50.25

Everyone probably knows Quake 2 Demo is out today. It is a three level playable single player game. I thought that the sounds sucked. I didn't care that the sky didn't move. The default laser pistol was lame. I loved the machine gun pistol. On the third level there was a cool monster. Too bad I didn't get along look at it, hehe it killed me, but I was impressed. The ducking reminds me of Duke Nukem, or maybe it could be just playing single player which I don't care for. There was too many ramps, barrels boxes in the maps. Exploding barrels and blowing holes int the wall also gave it a feel like Duke Nukem. I don't think I cared for that. I would rather have a trusty axe then the laser gun. The arm movement and breathing was ok but I could easily do without it. The simple weapon view in regular Quake is fine with me. The monsters duck and run a bit. But that isn't important to me since I won't play single player. I felt the game ran rather slow. I have a Pent Pro 200 and ran the video at 640x480 in GlQuake. It wasn't the settings. I first ran it in regular Quake 2 with the smallest vid mode but it seemed sluggish. Changing from one weapon to another was or seemed slow. Shooting with the shotgun per shot was very slow. I hope the damage of the machine gun pistol is good, Man I love that gun!! Overall Quake 2 gets an ok. I just hope someone comes up with maps with less crap in them. Too much of a Duke Nukem feel. Plus too many ledges, tunnels and small hallways.

Don't forget to install the newest glide 2.4 drivers before playing. You can get them off my gl quake page. They are 1.5mb I just installed that and Direct X5.0 today and it went smoothly.

Well my page got a facelift today. If your using Internet Explorer it should look ok. If your using Netscape for now you won't see the counter, title and only see part of the music box. Oh well what can I say.. Use IE!

Congratulations to Jim, He is the latest and possibly the last HOPw! Jim took me on on E4M3 of course. It was a 30 to 6 win for me. But he played well for just changing to GL quake. It took me several weeks before, heck weeks, I guess it was months before I changed to GL Quake. It takes some getting used to.

Clan BC has set a date for a clan fight. October 25th at 9pm Central time will be our match. We will meet at Fotr 129.116.26.79. There level is either DM3 or DM4. We need to meet for practice. So any HOPw's making a practice session has first priority in playing. Lets set Practice sessions at 9pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

No word yet on Clan PMS match for tonight.

Well I challenged Clan AFZ. They will get with me later to check on upcoming battle. Also Clan Sinister is rebuilding and recruting. So possibly a rematch there coming soon. So hopefully some battles coming up. Hey HOPw's set up some fights. You all can organize and set dates.

Bad Company challenged us to a match for next weekend around 9 pm. I'll keep you posted.

A new Clan was born tonight. Clan FNF which is FlameNFiegn from the old school of Fly boys. This is the old Flamers from back in Dec 96, Jan and Feb 97 when Fly Boys were born. Col, DK, Weezer, Big Jeff, Punisher, Killjoy, Wormburner, Hornet all learned together how to fly, DanQ and a few others yet to be named also are part of Clan FnF. This is a clan by name not into fighting matches. Colors are 12 0 with Big White F's and little orange n. that is the colors of the Clan FnF.

Woohoo, played quake for the first long period in 3 weeks!! Killjoy, Danq and some dude named Shortdog played. DanQ and I are having really bad pings 420 to 450 today but just short choppy lag. Shortdog wanted to know what my real ping was, seems he couldn't believe I was beating him 40 to 4 on DM6. DanQ had 10 but he also was away from keyboard for a bit.

Woohoo, Don't want to get your hopes up! But I talked to Jade.PMS and she is going to check with Anna, Phoenix and Tonka? and possibly put together a Clan HOPw vs Clan PMS match for Friday Oct 17th at 8:00pm Central time. Let's hope it works out.

Wow CrazeNDhead has really made a nice page! Go check it out and you can see pic's of Col "NOT pronounced Colonel" hehe like I say it, and Nut, Xenon, Chronic and Mud. They are all on Craz's page.. Get to the link on Clan HOPw page.

Bad News for Killjoy.... He crashed his hard drive... He asks you all email him your email addresses and UIN addresses so he can add you back onto his system. Not to mention he blew up Krayzie's cpu, hehe what a wonderful week.

Well finally a bit of news.... We were challenged by The Unholy Clan. Their might be a problem. I just went to there page and noticed it is mostly QuakeWorld. We will have to wait and see if they come through with the challenge in normal quake. I guess if enough HOPw's wanted to play there level on QuakeWorld it would be ok with me. I know Ledfoot prefers QuakeWorld. There based out of Ohio so Hornet and Target might have good pings at there server.

Wow long time since I updated. Sorry been very busy and there hasn't been a lot of news.

I have updated the files and Vikings pages. I'm trying to cut some of my pages..... and I have.... The Flame page has been cut :( it was my favorite page with pics and sounds of HOPw and Fotr members playing Quake. Well it just goes to show that all things must come to an end at one time or another. It is even possible today is the last day of FlameNFeign server...lets hope not.. but it may have moved to a new ip.. I'll keep you posted.

 Links checked: 02/21/05