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is there a way of setting up games for oc members that can stop non oc members from joining? or a way of finding players online?

i want to play this online as much as pos but will not play with mods and cheats in games, its just an unfair advantage, lord, u said you'd been playing recently. do you know how to successfully arrange a game where people can find each other and have no problems locating the game in question?

oh man... i guess that meet with
any OC member is almost impossible.
too many players not from OC.
mabe better make forum and first
talk about time and day of fragggsss

the reason you cant find any1 from the OC on Quake, ultrapro, is because almost no 1 from the OC plays Quake. i would LOVE to see some people from here playin on Quake, but man they dont. i can name every player who plays Quake on a regular basis. alot of people on here say they play, but hey im on every night (go ahead and check youll see me) and i never see them. i ran into vintendo a couple times a while back, ive played with andyspof once and ive played with that guy he has the 2nd most posts on the site (lol sorry dude i cant remember your name ) one time as well. all the Quake 3 regulars (except me) are not members of the OC it would be cool to see you on sometime ultrapro... my suggestion is to not even bother with people from this site cuz even if they say theyll play they wont. just go on quake and introduce yourself to the players on there, youll find some pretty cool people

well you can only tell when you join the game, your inventory will have black boxes with white outlines and when you use them they give you stuff like super speed or flight or wierd hacks i dont know the name of or how to use, its just stupid, and your health will be like 999 and you'll not be able to see your opponents and shit, its very pointless, and annoying.

i know who has the game, all you have to do is go to the pdb in the game list and you'll see who has it or not, im not bothered about bumping into oc members at random because i know that most of them probably dont play it anymore, i meant that when we arrange a game like we did the other day it would be nice to actually find the game in question and the people playing should give a list of their character names so we know who to look for. i know how to look at whos in each game but if i dont know what name im looking for then im screwed. i saw grubansau and recognised that name but he was playing with mods and shit and he was playing ctf which i dont get along to well with so i left after 10-15 mins, kizzy as it is was late anyway, he didnt get on there till after 10 or so. what im basically trying to say is that i want to know whos gonna show up for a game and what name to look for if im going to arrange a game myself, not that i know how to make a game on there anymore, i simply no how to join them. see my point now? i know no ones gonna be on there if i were to pop on at random its just if we schedule a game it should be made easy to actually meet and play.

sounds great, when i asked those questions i wasnt pointing the finger, i didnt know you were personally working on q3, i was going to go online with q3 last night but i got so caught up in re aranging my room that i spent most of the night doing it. i look forward to hearing more about the oc servers. i was under the impression that there was a list of servers for dc on this site somewhere but i cant find it for the life of me. how do i make my own game once i join a server or can i only join games? and if i can make my own game how do i password it??

u cant make ur own game,
u gotta make the server from the PC, and play from the DC

Adam.

I'd just like to tell people that I am activly working on solving most if not all of these issues. These are problems we have to all overcome. Things such as:

getting online easily
coordinating an event
running private games
and finding more people online at random

The average user just won't be able to solve any of these problems on their own. Which is why it takes the tireless efforts of myself and others like frokid, sgrande, clan got, and lately fallout, to help Quake 3 Arena to not only stay afloat but also grow and expand. It's a continual process. That involves a lot of work and man hours in order to fix inherant problems in playing the game online. I am planning on setting up a stack of dedicated servers for Quake 3 Arena with both public and PRIVATE servers. More information will be put up on how to query servers from your computer. Also I am planning on writing a script to view the master list of servers from OC itself. Also myself, frokid and others are working on getting a DEFINATIVE modem and OS working for PC > DC connection to route a Dreamcast modem over broadband. I am even planning on contacting major Quake websites to get some of the word out once we get all of this stuff figured out, and we have gotten Q3 fully back on it's feet.

Yes there are problems and reasons why people arn't playing Q3 online as much as they should. However its going to take time and the tireless efforts of many people in order to fix all of this.

Let me tell you, and read my words....

Quake 3 Arena will be built up stronger than it has ever been before. It is my goal and personal mission to build up DC Q3 to be better and bigger than it was when it first launched on Sega Net.