A history of online gaming in Australia & NZ

[SoulThief]

Hi all,

Stage 1 in the history of Australian online gaming is underway. This project seeks to treat the history of online gaming with the same respect with which the history of any other technological/social phenomenon is treated (eg. TV). Stage 1 involves collecting brief histories of significant clans from the different local game scenes. These histories will be held in an encyclopedia format and form the framework around which other, more detailed stages of the project will be undertaken.

I have only just started to gather this information and expect it to take about a year. Based on your web site I have written an entry to my history site at http://www.soulthief.biz/modules.php...content&tid=18

If you are unhappy with the entry and want to expand it/change it, then please email me at [email protected]


regards

SoulThief

[Mudhoney]

famous at last!!

[THAUmaTURgic]

Yeh mud but they haven't seen our win to loss ratio yet


Nah good job SoulThief.

Don't forget clan Zero on these boards though - they're nearly as old as us (many of them are/have been members of ours too) and share an equal history.

[DirtyHarry]

fuk zero , put us up in lights , I say!!!!

[[zero]Remorse]

yay wd WHC!!!! nice history summary too! wd SoulThief!

we recently had a chat in ZERO (http://forum.ozclans.com/showthread....&threadid=9478) about how old ZERO is, and we recalled it was started prolly late 1999 but we're not sure..... anyone remember when ZERO started???

WHC is a legendary clan for sure

[Mudhoney]

I would guess somtime after WHC. We were initially purely TFC, then branched into CS later. Respect was in T_C or something like that when TFC was in vogue, then AFAIK he started zero when CS was overtaking TFC in popularity.

[oreo]

T_C

THE COLLECTIVE!


We ruled TFC for the whole of the clans existance (about 5 minutes )

[Mudhoney]

the funny thing is, we had a tfc war and t_c beat us, then at some later date we had a CS war, and WHC beat zero

[Slaide]

Talk about getting mileage out of 1 war win..



Slaide

[Shady]

Soulthief, that's an awesome idea you've got there man, look forward to it thanks Soulthief.

[oreo]

Originally posted by Mudhoney
the funny thing is, we had a tfc war and t_c beat us, then at some later date we had a CS war, and WHC beat zero

We has heaps of wars with WHC mud.
lol, you won a few, we won a few.

[Mudhoney]

yer you're probably right... I only remember those 2 for some reason.

[SoulThief]

I made a clan Zero entry based upon some info on their forum and webby. Probably needs some changing as I had to draw a bit of a conclusion there

http://www.soulthief.biz/modules.php...content&tid=23

Glad most of you like what I'm doing

WAR (my clan) has CS, DoD, Urban Terror and Halflife divisions. If you ever want a "get to know you" war just let us know

My clan's forum is at http://cs-tact.ausgamers.com/forum/

regards

ST

[THAUmaTURgic]

Yeh the zero listing will need a bit of changing because we've played more than 15 wars alone with zero - and of course we've beat them the majority!

They started in late 1999 simply because Counter-strike came into existance in june/july 1999 and a clan formed for CS can't predate that.

[THAUmaTURgic]

Counter-strike history follows (direct from readme.txt in your counter-strike directory!).

Also - You have RoK listed as starting in July to November 1998 as a TFC clan. This doesn't sound right unless they were a Teamfortress (for quake1) clan - as:

Half life came out in November 1998 and Team Fortress was an add-on not released until April of 1999. I remember vividly as Clicks (from WHC) showed me after school one day this cool Classes based mod with snipers and pyros and big dudes with autocannons Ah those were the days.



Counter-Strike Early Betas
===========================

BETA 2.0
--------
[8.13.99]

NEW Features :
- Three new guns added : {Sig SG-552 Commando , AK-47 , Desert Eagle}
- Added silencers to the USP .45 Tactical and the Colt M4A1
- Added a round timer which shows how much time is left in the round
- Added team scores which shows how many rounds a team has won
- Added Night Vision Goggles
- Added new entity for mappers to use (info_hostage_rescue)
- Optimized all the models for lower r_speeds!
- Ability to assign keys to all of the commands from the controls menu
(courtesy of cannelbrae of Gunman project)



BETA 1.2
--------
[7.20.99]

- 5 second "molasses period" at the start of all rounds to dissuade rushing tactics
- kick option added
- Refined the prices for some of the gunS
- made the kevlar MUCH more effective (it now covers people's arms)
- made jumping and shooting MUCH more inaccurate for all the guns
- added a $16,000 salary cap
- tweaked the bonus money awards.
- tweaked the flashbangs effectiveness



BETA 1.1
--------
[6.27.99]

- greatly improved server stability, crashes should be eliminated
- primary servers will now work with CS
- fixed the ammo and armour reset bugs
- balanced the economic system a bit
- added new firing mode for the glock18
- enabled 'mp_friendlyfire' command for server admins
- fixed map rotation
- adds two new maps: cs_assault & cs_desert
- cs_siege fixes
- cs_wpndepot fixes



BETA 1.0
--------
[6.19.99]
Features :

- weapons: usp, glock, shotgun, m4a1, mp5 navy, TMP, awp, G3/SG-1 & FN M249 PARA
- hostage rescue scenario
- custom maps: cs_siege, cs_mansion, cs_wpndepot, cs_prison

[DirtyHarry]

we kicked zero ass and if you dont like zero we'll do it again if you like

so when is the next fun war ?

[SoulThief]

I must admit in respect to RoK having been forced to make some assuptions from their web page. Basically they talk about RoK being founded in 1998 by members of a clan called DFA. However they don't mention what game they played. The first wars they mention are at the end of 1999. These wars are in 2 games: AoW2 and TFC. But by 2000 they are primarily fighting TFC wars. So you are probably right about that and I will make a correction. (good pick up - that's why I need people like you guys to check my work)

ta

ST

[Fritzs Fleas]

umm Thau? Thats the CS log, what you want is the HL log

Nice project SoulThief, good luck with it.

[SoulThief]

ta

Just got an email with more info about RoK. Interesting stuff. They have regular, democratically elected leaders and are very active in organising community competitions.

ST

[THAUmaTURgic]

Fritz I was using the CS log to prove when Zero started

For Half Life check out IGN - http://pc.ign.com/objects/003/003107...=49&submit.y=4

Release Date was: November 25th 1998


Yeah we have warred RoK a few times soulthief. Good clan with a fun attitude.

[[zero]Remorse]

thanks guys, i think we'll go with ZERO starting in December 1999 - but hey, i'll see if Respect remembers

SoulThief - wd on extracting that bit of history for your ZERO page I'll start a thread in the ZERO forum and see if we can get some more accurate historical info. I have no idea how many war's we've had over the years, but it's prolly in the vicinity of 100+. I'll try and get some more info and send you an update.... wd soulthief - what a fascinating exercise