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Now it is official, the teams will be lead wither to glory or disaster (but that is now out of our control) by: America continent: Sphere and Constitution (gu admin) EU continent: snick and NTH (gu admin) get ready your engines and polish your tanks to shine.... From now on, latest news, updates, et...

Captains of both sides have been chosen and they have agreed to lead the cup. Watch this thread for news in the incoming hours....

Are the captains for this event already choosen? Not yet. Typically, admins will pick up two leaders for each side and they will be given full control of the organization of the event and selection of players, subs, etc. Also, as in previous editions, the captains would be preferably people who hav...

Yes, good point, time to evaluate the support for a new edition of the Riker Cup, please state your willingness to play, observe, cheer, ...

Do you want to see this happening any time around Xmas/new years?

Gabriel G wrote:NYCFinest is probably Drax. That guy ran off, came back, told me who he was and told me to not tell anyone. Then he pissed me off so I told everyone and he ran away again.

Just for the sake of clarification, NYCFinest is NOT the player formerly known as Drax.

didnt want to complain, just wanted to point out we can all behave badly certain conditions. and I certainly agree with you, just pointing that if you see a gu admin behaving badly, please let us know. We all can get "mad" at times, but admins should do it much less frequently than the av...

This kind of behaviour seems to happen also sometimes in matches involving gu admins, so i guess even they are not safe from frustration of loosing bad and suspicions. I should clarify that gu admins are mortal people like everyone else. You would expect they behave above average, and I think they ...

A word of warning about changing your callsign and then changing it back over short periods of time: If someone takes your usual name while you have it changed to something else, you have lost it... and it has happened to people before. I am no longer 'donny_baker', but I still have it registered s...

You have been removed by the league admins because we suspect you're hiding your real identity. We do not want cheaters, abusers, or trouble makers to get around bans and come back under a different identity. Removal from the spawn list is the only way we have to protect from unwanted people. You ar...

dexter wrote:Be cool if the forums just had a one change per month limit (or longer). A lot of social networking sites have that kind of restriction.

Actually, that is a good idea.

ok, your name "Mudsquisher" is not registered in gu.bzleague.com, the GU league site. Can you register your account there so I ca add you the the league list?

qdot

Mudsquisher wrote:Ok, so i have gone to bz.guleague.com and have registered. And i have heard that i need an admin who will add me to the group. How do i get added, or will someone add me. Please help me. Thanks

Be sure you register an identical callsign in guleague, otherwise you will not be added.

Thanx Alex, we had this problem - with some special players - some months ago. The lost score / not entered match doesnt bother me. Its the recless behavior of this people and the unnecessary amount of work for the admins (as you described above). Indeed, pretty much the case, this is the biggest p...

The Red Baron wrote:ATG plays? LIES!

the red baron plays? bigger lie!!

You are absolutely right, and GU has always been known for being tough in dealing with language, accusations, and bad behaviour in general. Could you please send to any admin the match details or hints to find it in the recordings?

thank you

red-der wrote:But the timelimit is usefull if you continue a match, zac.

Correct.The purpose of the time limit is to allow you to play any remaining time that you have left in a postponed match. Official matches are 30 min only.

A match can be anything from 2 Mb (for a 2vs2) to 6 Mb (for a 4vs4). Something above 7Mb is rare so I estimate 5Mb as a good average estimate. If you think of 2 matches per day on the NZ server on average you have 10 Mb per day, decide how much disk space you can spare and you got a rough estimate o...

Although I don't really see the immediate rush of making the server official - we've done without one for four years, a couple more weeks to test and make sure the server is stable shouldn't be a big deal. As I said, the server is up for testing only at the moment. I must admit that until two weeks...

Hello all, the server owner "Grans Remedy" has kindly offered a match server for GU located in NZ which we hope could solve the AUS/NZ lag problem. For some unknown reason the NZ/USA lag is not the same as USA/NZ :roll:, so American players lag less in this NZ server than NZ/AUS do in an A...

Congrats to the American team for their first cup !

I missed the games (will watch probably the replays) because it collided with my family time. Good job everyone involved in the day to day preparations and organization.

yes, I think saturos' explanation is most likely the case. It happens very often that matches are not entered in real time order. The team you tied had a (virtual) lower score at the time to play them, so once this was updated the system recalculates all the scores of teams who have matched them aft...

All the news about the incoming Riker Cup in http://rikercup.org/

QD, That is not the case at all. I am not calling someone who uses multiple fire buttons cheaters. ... There are config options that are not available in the GUI and that are available thru text editting that exploit the gaming system to give advantages. ... This puts players who don't know about t...

I have been calling these people out for sometime who use this pathetic hack to manipulate the physics of the game. They are not "cheaters" by the GU definitiion but it is dishonest and cheap. If the admins who make the rules knew what these dishonest players were doing, they would make i...

kierra wrote:Seems to me there was talk after the Riker's cup last January (?) for possibly holding a summer version...making it a semi-annual event. Any more thoughts on that, or did it die?

It will happen, stay tuned, more news to come soon.