[FUBAR-BDHR]

Didn't squadwar go down because they moved the servers to a new building and no one knew how to reconfigure it?   I don't think they took it down on purpose.  Same with PXO but it came back up for a little while.

Can you post a direct link to the root of all the posts that were saved.  I'd like to find out if some of the FRED support area was saved. 

Ok back on topic here:

You could almost always find a Drunk passed out somewhere in the lobby.
To get away from noobs you would just go to the tech support forum and play
Waiting for hours for a cable or DSL server to open up.
People racing through the lobby to get back to the server first after a crash.
Todd Millers vane attempts to disquise himself in the lobby from time to time trying to catch spammers.
Can't remember who but he would get banned for cheating then be back in a day or 2 with 20000000 points and 1 kill.


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[BlackDove]

The Squad War website was closed when they moved servers and couldn't get it back up.

We're talking about the Squad War forum.

[CP5670]

Yeah, Squadwar itself was up much longer than its forum. The SW website has been archived too and you can actually see the squad listings from the three original leagues, although the nodemaps don't work.

You can check the VBB snapshots here and some more can be accessed from the VBB link on the main site. The place closed down in mid 2002, so the links after that are useless. If you go to a thread link that works and then click on the topic listing again, you will often get a different selection of topics.

Some things in the FRED forum work, but the old Trick of the Week thread is broken.

[BlackDove]

Hahaha, listing through it again I just saw some of my posts there.

I had a different nickname (well I had two, BlackDove came later) then though which I totally forgot all about.

[CP5670]

Check this out:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001210142400/www.squadwar.com/league.cfm?leagueid=2

Even Volition is in there, and with a 2-1 record. Not bad. I don't know why Drak has no power listed though.

[BlackDove]

Heh.

http://web.archive.org/web/20021012111947/www.squadwar.com/league.cfm?leagueid=5

That was just before we relinquished control of all of them to people who still wanted to play. By taking the league as an active squad, we prompted the last response from Volition (I think Todd did it) to unlock all of the locked nodes that have been jammed for a long time.

[karajorma]

Some things in the FRED forum work, but the old Trick of the Week thread is broken.

Lucky someone saved, fixed and uploaded it then isn't it?

I have a few other threads from the FRED forum backed up. I can't remember what exactly now though.

[Roanoke]

that trick about hiding a cruiser in a cargo pod is pretty cool.

[CP5670]

Some things in the FRED forum work, but the old Trick of the Week thread is broken.

Lucky someone saved, fixed and uploaded it then isn't it?

I have a few other threads from the FRED forum backed up. I can't remember what exactly now though.

Cool, I had forgotten that you had archived the whole thing. There is still plenty of useful stuff in there, although some things (like having the support ships repair hull) are now much easier to do in FSO.

[Killfrenzy]

Good grief........I remember most of those!!

I'm still amazed that the OSFC, despite being a complete flop, still lives on in popular conscience.....

[Ulala]

Ah, the good old TWNBAFS3 thread...

[Bob-san]

I had this game since 2001-2002 or so... I really wish I had not missed all that i did; it would have been great to have gotten hooked on Freespace then; too bad I'm 16 now and 5 years late.

[IceFire]

I had this game since 2001-2002 or so... I really wish I had not missed all that i did; it would have been great to have gotten hooked on Freespace then; too bad I'm 16 now and 5 years late.

That seems to be pretty common.  Interplay did an aweful job of marketing the game and nobody knew about it when it came out.  Sales were low and that was it.  But years later its still going because its a really good game that nobody payed attention to.  I have high hopes that 9 years later, someone will finally give Volition the go ahead to make the third game that is so deserved.

[Bob-san]

Yah. The community back in '99-'01 sounded like of fun. I would probably have upward of 3000 posts now if I knew about the great communities.

Back in '04 or somethin, after interplay went under I think, i tried to find a copy of the game (perhaps the second or third search?) but it never quite worked. I found HOTU but I didn't want to get it--too slow of a download.

Anyways, when I was in 8th grade, i was going to give some people I knew a copy of FS2C... didn't quite happen... lol.
In the beginning of this school year (iirc), I was talking to an interesting guy who used to go to a similar school; a friend of Bro. Carl (the computer guy ) and we talked a bit. I ended up bringing in my OEM disc and telling him how to get SCP and whatnot. I gave him a disc copy, though I kept the disc in my binder for too long-it was a zipper-binder and somehow the disc was broken when I found it a few days later. i'm still sad that I broke that disc.

Anyways, after breaking it I downloaded all the disc images from freespacezone. I have silent threat already, though I'm lacking the original 2 discs of FS1.

I've been here for a while; i was a lurker for a short bit before joining... usually when Freespace sparked my interest I'd look for stuff on FS3 until I found here. I remember hearing about D***k (Not-So-)S***t and I was tempted to join them... I stumbled on it shortly after it happened.

Anyways I was an on-and-off visitor to this site for the past few years. I finally registered, though.

[Roanoke]

I had this game since 2001-2002 or so... I really wish I had not missed all that i did; it would have been great to have gotten hooked on Freespace then; too bad I'm 16 now and 5 years late.

That seems to be pretty common.  Interplay did an aweful job of marketing the game and nobody knew about it when it came out.  Sales were low and that was it.  But years later its still going because its a really good game that nobody payed attention to.  I have high hopes that 9 years later, someone will finally give Volition the go ahead to make the third game that is so deserved.

but would it be the same guys, or have most of them left V by now ?

[Bob-san]

most of em are still at THQ... basically everyone good stayed onboard--a job is a job, especially when you have so much free time and good pay.