Attn: All Tribes Players

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old.DoMiNuS

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Greetings. For those of you who know me, "Hey!" For those who do not, let me quickly give a brief introduction and then get to the point of this post.

I am Dominus, member of the tribes community since March of 1999. I also run my own tribe known as Knights of Invictus.

More importantly, I am the Technical Manager of UTAI Gaming Development. UTAI - Universal Technologies Associates, Inc. is a new information/internet corporation based out of Fort Dodge, Iowa. I moved here 4 months ago after being offered this position by CEO, Dr. Kevin Friesth. For the last few months we've been working feverishly with a team of designers and engineers to develop a system that will enhance the overall interaction of all gaming communities. Such interaction includes leagues, forums, chat and many other features on fully clustered fail-over redundant servers for reliability and dependability 24/7.

Knowing the pain that many of you have been dealing with in recent weeks (I too deal with them as a tribes player and member of the community myself), we have decided now is the time to show face. We've been in the process of developing the UGN Tribes League. One that will consist of different ladders. We even have a larger surprise come T2, but I'll save that for a later date.

At the moment we are awaiting additional digital lines, which should be operational in a weeks time. However, do know that we're working nearly around the clock on this project and we hope to have things up and running VERY very soon.

A brief overview of some of the ladders that will be available in our league -

CTF Ladder - For all of you diehard CTF teams out there, we will be hosting a ladder specifically to your tastes. HO till your hearts content. More info on this ladder coming very soon.

C&H/D&D/F&R ladder consisting of CHALLENGING maps. For those of you tired of silly 3 minute HO conquering fiascoes. If you wanna win, you gotta earn the win. We will provide downloads for those who do not have the maps we'll be using for matches.

DeathMatch ladder - Self explanatory, but nonetheless will be a challenging ladder.

Now there are many Mod's out there. You know what they are. If you like them and think they should be included as a ladder, I want to hear from you. So those of you who played any modified versions of Tribes, please post your suggestion of a particular ladder and we will certainly take it under serious consideration.

As far as servers go we are looking for folks who will be willing to donate their server to be used as a match server. We WILL be hosting our own gaming servers soon, but for now we're asking any server admins who'd like to donate their server as usable for a match server to contact us with their server information.

I would also like to comment on a recent issue, by letting you know that all shoutcasters will be welcomed at our league. And it will be completely voluntary to have them around.

On our site, we'll be happy to host any newly designed maps (or map packs), scripts, HUDs, skins, etc. We would be very interested in seeing any newly designed maps for league play consideration. We will also offer site hosting for teams along with your own forum to use. We have designed these forums, they are not WebX or UBB. Fear not! Also, some of the features of the new forums will include the ability to send instant messages through chat programs such as ICQ, AIM and others. There will also be a private messaging box available for those who wish to receive messages from other forum members but do not wish to disclose their personal email addresses.

We'll be hosting forums for virtually every game ever created on any system/console. But important to you is, we will have a Tribes & Tribes 2 forum available for your use. We look forward to seeing all of you over there. We will be hosting our own IRC Server specifically for all the leagues that UGN will bring to the public. Information regarding connecting to our IRC server will be posted on our website in the near future. We are also in the process of developing our own gaming client. More information on that will be made public in the near future.

Finally, I'd also like to point out that when you sign up for the league, your screen name will be saved and entered for not only the league but also for your own UTAI email account and for forum uses. No one else can steal your name. We hope that you will enjoy this feature in our system.

There's much more I'd like to say, but alas, I must leave it at that for the moment. For now, if you could please post your comments, opinions & recommendations, we will listen to you and take everything under consideration.

Thank You,

Dom
ICQ# 27168823
Email: Dominus@utai.com
http://www.utaigaming.com/
 
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Milkshake

Guest
Woah!
Could this be a replacement for Barrysworld?

I'm really looking forward to the D&D ladder, I love that game and there's really no servers that host it.

Apart from that, good luck, and I hope you are as sucessful as BW.

Milkeh
 
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Mongrol

Guest
um... it`s based in Iowa. So like much in life, what seems to be Jesus Christ handing you a pint and blonde tart, is just really more spam.
 
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old.SPAM SemiGod

Guest
Originally posted by Mongrol
...what seems to be Jesus Christ handing you a pint and blonde tart, is just really more spam.

LOL

Still you can't fault the guy for trying :/

SG

[Edited by SPAM SemiGod on 25-01-01 at 00:10]
 
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old.Zenith

Guest
errrrr

... yes you can fault him.

No offence meant to Dominus as I don't know him from Adam, but from a UK perspective this news is not as good as what you think it is. A lot of UK Internet games players are still using modems. Broadband is being taken up, but very slowly.
We're talking about bad pings for a lot of UK players.

On the plus side, I applaud Dominus for getting these leagues and ladders started off at a time when apathy has taken hold of the Tribes community around the world.

Seems that everyone is "holding on for Tribes2" and "getting f***ed off with Tribes". A bad combination.
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Zenith
Tribes playing bloke
(desperately waiting for Tribes2)
 
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old.DoMiNuS

Guest
Hey thanks for the replies,

For the comment concerning UK players and other players outside the US, it's not as bad as people are assuming. We are going to be having servers overseas in Europe and I'm sure other places as well.

So let us see what we can do first, then you can make whatever judgement :) Thanks guys!

Dom
 
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old.[SS-02]EMG

Guest
*Cheer*

Howdy Dominus/other forum type people,

Well if it's true that UTAI will be running European servers (UK servers? Pretty please? ;)) then I echo Milkshake's post word for word: The D+D gametype has been absent from european servers for a long while now, and I'm sure many gamers will welcome the opportunity to play it at a competitive level. I wish you the best of luck.

However, I also realise that if you intend to act as a replacement for Barrysworld, you've got some big shoes to fill ;) Nevertheless you've picked a great time to start - the loss of BW leaves a power vaccuum ideal for a company like UTAI.

Good luck, and I hope to be playing on your servers as soon as they open :D

Slayer|EMG - still not bothering to change his forum nick ;)
 
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old.DoMiNuS

Guest
Slayer|EMG,

Hi there, and thanks for the reply! We will have co-located servers on Level 3 over in Europe, so fear not. We're going to do everything in our power to make this as global as we can.

Please help pass the word around and let them know. There was some questions concerning the diversity of the Tribes league since the game is played around the world, and it is important for people to understand we have no intentions to make this a US thing only...not by a long shot. We'd like gamers from all points of the globe to enjoy our league.

We plan to host our own servers as well as have admins submit their own servers for use within the league system. This allows people (wherever they may be), a variety of servers to choose from.

Thanks,

Dom
 
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old.[=W=]N^G

Guest
just a thought for you. Here we have Barrysworld going out of business. At the present juncture it looks as though they will not be saved and will be out of businessby the start of next month. One thing that the company you work for might wish to consider is buying parts of Barrysworld up and using them for your new gaming network.

This could easily be replied to by exclaiming "but BW lost money, its too big a risk". However from what I gather certain parts of Barrysworld could be purchased individually and it would provide you with a good european basis. Particularly the servers imho as they have some of the best connections in Europe. Similarly, your company/corporation would no doubt become more popular with the european, and in particular, UK gaming communities as you would be seen as at least trying to save some of Barrysworld and I doubt that too many people would complain about that. Anyhow I sincerely hope that you pass this idea on to the appropriate people etc. or if it is your responsibility that you take it into consideration.
 
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old.DoMiNuS

Guest
I'll keep you posted on that suggestion. Thanks.
 
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old.Zenith

Guest
Now I didn't know that you were going to run European (UK?) servers. That changes things. :)

Level3, the same folk that provide BW's connectivity? From the sound of it, you'd either be taking up the space vacated by the BW servers, or sat next to them. You wouldn't by any chance be buying some of those same servers from BW would you? :)

I've added your ICQ # to my list Dominus. Hope to catch up with you about this at some time.
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Zenith
Tribes playing bloke
(desperately waiting for Tribes2)
 

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