Punkernfg

Correct, WestWood online was the original creator and supporter for TS and C&C games. It eventually sold to EA, and their was a lack of support. XWIS partnered with EA and created XWIS

The forum communities shifted over time on TS since 1999. It went from Champsite > Cncgamer > Striketeam > CNCnet. When WestWood Online managed the servers, Champsite was the community for everyone, other than a few modding forums and websites that some people used. As WOL shutdown, there was much of a division between Champite and CNCgamer as CNCgamer was working on a ranking system. They eventually created a ranking system; however, it was on a report wins-honour system, which eventually fell through the cracks as people wouldn't report honest wins and losses. As TRZ discussed above, there was a massive battle between d3stroyer, Revolt, and Stefor (amongst other hackers and admins). Eventually Champsite closed, and a lot of pro TS players quit or played a lot less. CNCgamer was a great site, full of many great players, but the lack of a ranking system and a supported server, as WOL sold to EA, became detrimental to the TS community. Shortly after XWIS and StrikeTeam came into focus, they created a server, forum, and a ranking system, and was quite satisfying for some time. However, the TS community dealt with a lot of problems trying to get such an old game to work on modern systems, a massive flaw of XWIS. On top of the hacking, cheating, and lag from XWIS, the majority of TS players either quit or moved to CNCnet, and here we are, 15 years later still playing this addicting game.

To ensure TS history isn't forgotten! http://www.champ-site.com/

punker always on top

Is there anyway to add a feature for chat in game to 'team chat'. Instead of hitting f8 to talk to everyone, f9 or w/e could be used for ALL your allies. Makes it easier if you want to tell a team mate something without the enemy seeing it, and not finding them through f1-f7

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any further plans to note?

looks great m8. I would love some tournament style ww maps for TS. Starcraft maps are incredibly balanced, boring but balanced. It would be great if TS had the same thing. Twisted insurrection has tournament maps

90% of the maps are unbalanced, it's just a flaw in the game that's 15 years old. I believe the community should build tournament maps like starcraft that are completely balanced and symmetrical with set credits and options. More glitches to be fixed: 1) sometimes when you build more than 1 jump jet infantry, the units do not come out of the barracks 2) glitching over the cliff in top left on terrace map to expand is widely ACCEPTED by the community, so being able to just build over the cliff without glitching would be convenient 3) fixing the names of some of the maps would be nice, there are some spelling errors such as "terraces" instead of "terrace", and putting recommended players on the map. eg (2-4) and distinguishing the maps as small to large would be helpful to new players 4) putting the host of the game at the top of the game channel. Not that important, but convenient 5) putting in a ranking ladder for players and clans 6) being able to click 'main channel' while in a 'game channel' and being able to see other game's in the lobby. Convenient to see how many games are up while in your game channel 7) Glitching an air unit (usually a carryall) with another air unit. If a carryall is about to land, you can click your air unit to move directly underneath the unit and the carryall will liftoff again. The glitch is used to stop carryalls from landing in a base, by continuing to do this, your sam sites can continue to hit the carryall and kill the unit before it's able to land (not sure if this glitch is fixable, but it would be nice. A lot of the time it's an accidental glitch. However, sometimes the one unit that is glitched, decides the outcome of the game) This is all I can think of as of now, I'm sure there's many more It's great to see how fast the TS community is coming together. There are many more pros returning to TS and switching servers. I think these little switches will help the next generation of players coming to TS

If you alt your pad into shroud and then build an air unit, the unit will fly right off of the pad to the spot that you alted to, regardless of shroud. It's a glitch used to scout opponent's bases.

removing alt scout for air units into shroud. It has been deemed unacceptable amongst the TS community since the beginning, and is considered a glitch cheat.

I've had a few ff games. Better chance of getting a good 2v2 tezz game though

I see that TS is brand new to cncnet5, and so am I. I played on westwood online, EA and xwis before coming here. I'd like to see more players playing TS as I think it is the most strategic cnc game there is. The red alert community seems decent here and is growing, which is what I'd like to see with TS. I'm sure when ladders and clans eventually make it here, it will grow exponentially. I've been playing TS off and on for 15 years and as of now, I'm finding it quite difficult to find anyone online who has much experience with TS to grant me a challenge. So this is YOUR chance to come challenge me and prove me wrong. My username is Punkernfg, i'll keep myself idle if anyone wants to send me a message to setup a game. Hope to play you soon .