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December
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Below are
all of the news stories from December 2002. |
More Archived News
| .::Barracks
Getting Ready To Usher in New Year Posted
12-27-02 | 2:18
PM |
DontGivUp |
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With the new year coming it is going to mean some changes here
at the Barracks. Some will be routine house cleaning,
others will be a bit more drastic. The biggest change
will be that we are moving from Angelfire to GP Hosting and
will join the CNCNZ network. We will be the only site
fully devoted to Command and Conquer GOLD and its
revival. And there is plenty of reviving to do. At
last check, there were a total of three game channels open,
two for tournament games. I'm hoping that once the
C&C Revival gets into full swing, we will finally get the
tournament going, for which many have signed up for
already. Anyways, after the Barracks moves to its new
domain, we have no major plans for an overhaul of the site;
just an update to the main graphic and maybe a few other minor
changes, but nothing major...........unless Ojo feels that we
need to totally go hog-wild for the new year. You may
have already noticed that the main page has changed to accommodate
our moving of the site, and you may also notice the ads.
We promise not to pepper bomb you with ads and pop-ups the way
some sites do. That is our personal pledge to you from
us here at the Barracks. As a reminder to you viewers
out there, I would like to say that the poll for this month is
coming down soon and we would really like to have 600
respondents to it. Regardless of whether or not we get
that many votes in the poll it is still our most successful
poll ever and we hope that next month's poll will be even
better. Between now and the new year there will probably
be only a few updates on the Barracks as we are busy doing
behind the scenes work on the site and taking care of stuff in
that annoying reality we call "real-life". So
until next time, this DontGivUp saying.......well I'm not
exactly sure. I was hoping for a good a catch phrase but
I guess I'll have to think about. Email me if you have
good one.....lol........-DGU |
| .::FAQs
Answered Posted
Christmas Eve Day 2002 | 12:45
PM |
DontGivUp |
I received some FAQ questions over the past few days and
answered them and posted those answers on the site. I'm
still looking for more questions, so make sure that you head
on over to the FAQs and check it out.
In other news, with the holidays approaching I probably
won't be making any postings for the next few days,
as both me and Ojo will be celebrating the season with our
family and friends (and more than likely some C&C). Our updates may also be restricted to whether or not we have
power as there is a major snowstorm being forecasted for our
area of the world and we stand a good chance of loosing power
if the forecasts come through.
We are also patiently awaiting the creation of our new
domain where we will be moving the Barracks. We plan on
being hosted the CNCNZ Network. If all goes to plan, we
will be moving there on January 1, 2003 and we will be
starting a new chapter in the History of the Barracks. Also, with the close of the month approaching it is getting
time to change poll. There are only a few days left to
vote in the poll and we have over 590 votes, our most
ever. Let's get it up to 600!!!!! |
| .::FAQ
Error Posted 12-20-02 | 3:27
PM |
DontGivUp |
I have fixed the FAQ section and gotten the Email Tech Support
Area of the site up. It is rudimentary and likely to
undergo drastic changes. I also archived some
news. I'll be in the C&C GOLD channels tonight (all
times on this site are Eastern Standard Time) and I hope to
see you in their. I'll pry be a bit rusty but I'll see
you in there.
Congratulations to MacMark on moving his
site. We wish you the best at your new address. You can get to it by clicking on "The C&C God"
in the Links section. We still have to update our links
to take you directly there, but you can still get to there
from here. |
| .::FAQ
Error Posted 12-19-02 | 10:10
PM |
DontGivUp |
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Due to an error that I don't have time to correct right now,
the submission for the FAQ has malfunctioned and I'm not
receiving the questions. I'll fix it this weekend and
let you know then. In the meantime please email all
questions to me. Just click on my name at the top of the
article. I received two questions. To the people who
sent them to me: Please resend them via email and I will give
a personal response. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
GAME ON!- DGU |
| .::Site
FAQs Posted
12-15-02 | 8:57
PM |
DontGivUp |
I got the FAQ section up today. In it is a form asking
you to send us your questions. There are no questions or
answers because you haven't sent us any. Simple go to
the area by clicking on it at left and then type up a question
and hit "Submit". It doesn't get much simpler
than that folks. So give it a try.
In other news the site has picked up over 25,200
hits and is still growing. We also have had over 585
people vote in out pole this month. This is great.
Hopefully, I will have the Walkthrough and E-mail Tech Support
areas of the site up soon. Also, I tweaked the news
archives a bit as, due to some minor HTML errors, the links
leading to the Top Stories Archives were removed. I hope
to hear from you guys soon on the FAQs.
And in case you were wondering about the
advertisements on the front page, that is the only place they
are, as they are needed because we are joining the CNCNZ
network (but not quite yet, more to come).
In an effort to keep the Barracks as the top
place for tactics info, we are requesting that anyone who has
a tactic to email it to us. Even if it is a variation of
one already posted that's fine. Even if you are a
retired player, I hope that you will send us your tricks of
the trade to help remaining players. -DGU |
| .::All
Sorts of News Posted 12-14-02 | 7:06
PM |
DontGivUp |
Today I went back and added the Tech Support section to all
areas of the Nav Bar. Though it is hardly noticed, it
took me about an hour tedious work. And yes, every time
I update it you are gonna hear me say how tedious it is.
Anyways, the site is pretty much done, but because Westwood
has dropped all useful tech support for the game we here at
the Barracks are working on the most comprehensive Tech
Support for GOLD and plan to have all three areas of the
section up and operational soon.
In other news, I received this email from Pieman1
a few days ago:
Hi there.
This site was recently brought to my attention by an old
friend who played with me back in the days when this was
Wchat'smain game. He said I was on a poll list on the main
page but didnt tell me any results. To my amazement that
there was even a CnC Gold page running other than Macmarks
site,I decided to venture here and check it out. I was
somewhat surprised to see I lead the voting in your poll and
am also humbled. I spent about 4 1/2 years playing CnC
online starting with Kali then moving onto Wchat before I
quit in 2000. Its good to see the game still has a following
because it is still the most balanced game I have played to
this day. And my travels have taken me to RA 1 and 2,all the
dunes,Tib sun,SC,DR 1 and 2. Iam currently beta testing
Generals to try and help them balance it like CnC was. Funny
thing is that in CnC you had to cue units one at a time and
that was hard for alot of people. Subsequent games let you
queue units and made players lazy. But I am reminded of good
old CnC by Generals because in a sense it forces you to do
that again somewhat. I just want to say that you guys must
love the game and I wish you nothing but success in this web
site. BTW,where do you play online at? Thanks for your time
and best wishes!
Pieman1
Thought you guys might wanna know.
REMINDER: We are still waiting to receive questions about
the game from all of you faithful viewers out there for our
new FAQs area of the site. Send 'em in.
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| .::Site
completed, more sections to come... Posted 12-14-02
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2:01 AM
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Ojomym |
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I finished the nod units section, again, as well as decided to
add a few new sections to the site. Because Westwood has
pretty much abandoned this game, we will now offer FAQ's,
Walkthroughs, and additional tech support for the game. The links aren't up yet but they will be soon.
I also went
though and more or less cleaned up most of the older pages.
Made some design changes I though were necessary. Enjoy. Have a good
one. -Ojo |
| .::
Game FAQs Posted 12-12-02 at 3:30 PM by DontGivUp |
Because of the vast amounts of people visiting the site now,
there are sure to be some newbies out there who have no clue
what is going on. Therefore to help you out we have
decided to put up and FAQ section on the site. All we
need now are questions to answer. So here is how you can
help. Anyone who has a question (even if you know the
answer) can email it to either myself or Ojo and we will
compile a list and put up the answers. No matter how
basic they seem, make sure you ask them, because you never
know which newbie may need an answer to a question. We
providing this service to help expand the Barracks' tech
support for the game as Westwood doesn't do a very good
job. So get out there and start emailing us some
questions.
In other news, I updated the entire Nav Bar again
to refelect the constantly changing face of the
Barracks. I also archived some older news that was
clogging the site.
REMINDER: We are still looking for the HTML for
the Nod Units section. If you have it, please email it
to us. |
| .::A
few updates
Posted 12-8-02 at 1:16 AM by
Ojomym |
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Due to some slight design problems, I re-did the media and
essentials pages and put them on their own separate pages.
The new files we have posted, the C&C Demo, and the demo media
files, are up and running. Earlier in the week I fixed the
colors on the forum, now they seem to follow the site design
better. Were still on the lookout for anyone who may have
our old Nod Units section in their cookies and would be willing
to send us the html. If you could that would be great.
Once that is done, the site will be completed and well be making
some changes. |
| .::Westwood
Supports Tournament at The Barracks
Posted 12-7-02 at 9:06 PM by DontGivUp |
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A few days ago I received this e-mail from Virtual Ted over at
Westwood:
Hi
DontGivUp,
Sounds
great. I'm glad to hear C&C Gold is alive and
kicking.
As
for how we can help, I'm glad to hear of any cheating issues
which will help remove players that are competing unfairly.
However, I don't have anyone that I can dedicate to looking
through each record and researching games played.
The most valuable way you can help is to help the community
regulate itself. Maybe you can organize your own
tournament system and kick anyone playing unfairly as you deem
necessary. I believe I have a few items around here that
I could loan out to such a contest.
-VT
I would have posted this earlier had I not had FrontPage crash
just before my main posting. While on the topic of
tournaments I want to remind you that the Tournament is
filling up quickly and there are only 9 slots left open.
It is now a best of three format. I urge you to check
the rules on battle settings for each battle. Of course,
cheating will not be tolerated and you will be reported to
Westwood in the event that you are caught cheating.
In other news, The Barracks has
joined the Command and Conquer 200. Just click on the
link at left to go and vote. The picture is on every
page, however the link only works on this page and the
archived news page. I hope to get around to updating the
links to the site, but it is tedious and may come during
another Nav Bar fix up which won't be for a while.
I would also like to mention that the
Barracks has received some fan mail. Check it out:
Hey I seen your site and I just wanted to say its the best
c&c site I;ve
seen ever.. Awesum! I had sum problems with a gdi
mission.. it kept kicking
me back to windows.. weird.. lol but its the 2nd to last
mission!! i dont
wanna start over.. so I downloaded ur gdi mission pack! lol
you should def
update!! if u need any help.. lemme kno.. I am great with html
and site
stuff.. great work!! LaTaaa
Jim'E
I did not edit it for grammar or spelling. :)
On another note, I would like to
unveil the new Media and Essentials
area of the website. It is the combination of both the
Media and Essentials area of the site into one area. The
files that are located in the area are the original C&C
GOLD demo put out by Westwood. In fact, it's a direct
link to the Westwood FTP server. I got the links from
the Free CnC site. The first file is the actual demo,
while the second is the movies and the music that correspond
with the stuff from the demo.
The news keeps coming in. I
received this email from the folks over at the DEN network
after I emailed them a few days ago:
I'm going
to give your site a plug on the DEN Games Network this
weekend. Should help ya get some hits and get ya noticed. I
get thousand of visitors to my websites daily. Of course, I
don't believe there's a huge market anymore for the original
CNC Dawn...but I suppose there's a few around that still
play the game, and the service you provide is good for them.
This is great for the site. We have already gotten a
whole bunch of hits and the record number of hits continues to
grow. I'll try to get into WChat tonight and strike up a
conversation with some you visitors tonight. If I don't
show up, treat yourself to a battle tonight. After I
post this article, I'm going to Archive some news so the site
isn't overloaded. I think I'll be able to go to WChat
right after that. |
| .::HELP!!!
Posted 12-05-02 at 3:47PM by Ojomym |
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Hey guys, we've got a problem. Somehow, as a result of
an error on our part, the Nod Units page was lost due to to an
HTML overwrite problem, in which we completely replaced the
page with that of out Nod Units/Structures Tree. Rather
than do the whole thing over, it would be a great help to us
if someone who has viewed the Nod Units page prior to the
error, was able to find the HTML for that page in their
cookies and e-mail it to me here.
If you think you may have viewed the page before the error
occurred (last Sunday), and don't know how to find it in your
cookies, then you can e-mail
me and I'll walk you though it. In any case, if you
may be able to help, don't load the webpage now as it will
overwrite the original page that was in your cookies.
Blah, that was a mouthful. If anyone could help out that
would be great. Thanks. |
| .::Site
Within Spitting Distance of Completion
Posted 12-1-02 at 3:47PM by DontGivUp |
Great news for the Barracks!!! I have updated the Text area of
the Files section. This leaves us only needing to post
the Nod Unit/Structure Tree. There are dead links to the
Media and Essentials areas of the Files section and I am
waiting to hear from Ojo on whether or not to put something up
there. The only other dead link is to Westwood's Gold
Headquarters and will be removed shortly. To help avoid
unneeded tedious work of the navbar, it won't be removed until
a decision has been reached on what to do with the Media and
Essentials areas.
On another note, the program FreeCnC
is beginning to appear as the next major development of
C&C. FreeCnc is a free program that is supposed to mimic
C&C GOLD. It will also work on many different OSes
and will not likely work with WChat. You can check out
MacMark's site (The C&C God) to get a more complete
description. This program is quickly becoming the main
option for C&C GOLD players as Westwood has not done
anything to help the original game. The C&C Revival
may very well take place not with C&C GOLD, but with
FreeCnc.
In another area of news, the Web Site
has picked up over 23,200 hits and growing!!! Keep on
coming to the Barracks for the latest on the C&C Revival.
REMEMBER: We are accepting sign-ups
for the tournament. Also, please vote in our poll and
talk in forums and sign our guest book. Thanks for
coming to The Barracks. |
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