Kouji, one of the KAG Forum Administrators has passed away as a result of a stroke.
Kouji will be sorely missed by all of us and impossible to replace. You can learn more about what happened and pay your respects in this forum thread.
Max/Geti
My fellow Soldateers all around the world,
I am happy to announce that Soldat’s World Cup is about to return for it’s 2014 version.
The most important information comes first: Sign-ups will open today, 17th of June and the cup will start on 1st of August.
Mixed national teams
As we are pretty much aware of the activity loss in Soldat we decided to be a bit more lenient with “mixed national teams”. However, this does also depend on the level of activity and the amount of signed up countries. We will make a final decision regarding this once we reach the final stage of the sign-up time which probably is around the start of the final week of sign ups (starting friday, 25th of July). Yet the chances are good that we might allow people to merge, even if they’re not from the same country. We don’t know any details yet, but we will keep you updated.
Multiple teams
Of course we will allow multiple teams once again this year. The way we deal with multiple team will not change significantly compared to last year, which means:
– Pre-qualification matches will be played until the start of the cup, 1st of August. This deadline is final. We will not allow these matches to interfere with our schedule. Additionally, signing up multiple teams for a single country is limited to until friday, 25th of July to ensure that all matches are played in time
That means if you have multiple teams in your country they should all sign-up as soon as possible in order to allow as fluent as possible a run for the cup.
Example:
Poland A signs up in the first week of sign-ups.
Poland B signs up in the second week of sign-ups.
Poland B is too late, hence Poland A will be considered as Poland’s official representive. Poland A could then decide whether they would want to recruit members of Poland B.
Poland A signs up in the first week of sign-ups.
Poland B signs up in the first week of sign-ups.
In this case both teams will face each other before the end of the sign up phase. The winner is also allowed to take in players from the other team if they want to.
That’s it for now. Now get on IRC and search for all those country-mates of yours and gather them to participate in SWC. Let’s hope for an active and enjoyable world cup!
Good luck to everyone.
//Original post by ymmees can be found here.
Cheers,
Furai
Pretty big build – lots of small changes accumulating over time. We would have liked to have made this as several separate builds but each week the build server had something else wrong with it. However, the more troublesome nodes have been moved to more stable hardware and things have gone along smoothly this week.
[added] abstaining from votes [fixed] wierd downward-floating desync for static blobs with attachments [fixed] knight "quick-double-slash" bug [added] rayne chicken head (fear the chicken) [fixed] potential overflow issue with the minimap not showing [fixed] issue with wood vehicle damages getting passed on for projectiles [modified] coin income from building workshops (less) and hitting siege (more) [removed] getting into crates [fixed] using halls as tunnel as enemy [modified] removed tunnel travel team limitation [fixed] broken code in defaultbuilding relying on overlap functions that was breaking for quarters (now uses AABBs) [added] dinghies cost 100w and 25c (spam mitigation) [modified] mazey head (5th time now, hopefully last. looks less like a tumour) [modified] new german official server IP [fixed] sleeping head frames for people with unique heads [modified] community fix: spikes give the builder kills (thanks Skinney) [modified] community fix: ctf shop buttons are laid out horizontally (thanks Skinney) [fixed] community fix: ctf shops use appropriate damage frames (thanks Skinney) [modified] community fix: quarters allows free sleeping with a time-cost to heal (thanks Skinney) [modified] community fix: ctf flags collide with blob blocks where appropriate (thanks Skinney) [modified] builder cant put wood backwall on stone backwall [modified] updates to newtortuga - mid more resilient, less redundant base stuff, more room for tunneling under mid [modified] addressed a few concerns with EjMap (stalling, horizontal movement) [modified] feedback on JTG Aqueduct and BoulderLake taken into account (less gimmicks, more terrain polish, etc) [modified] moved flags out of terrain on fellere map [modified] dinghy and longboat faster [modified] can't get into carried dinghy [modified] longboat better at ramming tiles [modified] mine doesn't take fall dmg [modified] mine has knockback on hit [modified] mine has double hp for slightly longer "defuse" [fixed] sound scrollbars up button not working [added] new mod example M16 as extra class action for archer [modified] steps on the sound sliders [fixed] crash when trying to perform "reload" command on local server [added] new seclev "vote_cancel"
Have Fun!
Geti/Max
The time has come again for another community event – Admin vs All #6 on the Australian official servers, 2pm EAST this Sunday! Join for some hectic fun! Will the admins win AGAIN or will the plebs show them what’s what? It’s all up to you!
Thanks to the Australian KAG community for organising this great event again!
https://forum.kag2d.com/threads/admin-vs-all-6-return-of-the-pubs.20822/
Max/Geti
For anyone wondering about the current state-of-the-art in knighting, this is it, set to nice music courtesy of KAG Player Sangfroid! Sick keg drops, massive streaks, and an unbelievable capture denial make this a must watch.
Enjoy!
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