Welcome Comrades to the 94th edition of the Dispatch
Well we certainly made a rod for our back this time. A bit late with the last issue, a change of staff and bang - we are on time again! An impressive innings for your favourite group of dedicated volunteers by anyone's standards!!
If you think that CC has started to take off then you won't be alone. The #GCCM event has been enthralling all of us. We have Twitter kicking off, Facebook being relooked at and now even some ideas on the boil with Youtube. Oops I think I let the cat out of the bag there. An announcement on that hasn't been made yet! And all that on top of your usual Mafia Games, an Interview with Dako, all the happenings in Clans (Oh yeah ... it's CLAN WEEK!!), tournaments and the foundry. When does anyone have time to sleep? Some of us in the real world even balance all this with work or exams or natural disasters or what have you. It's enough to make your head spin! Wesley Snipes put it well when he said:
I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.
Enjoy the fruit of our labouring fingers!
[player]thehippo8[/player] Chief Executive
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Welcome back readers. koontz fills us in on current GCCM events, I have another Scum Insider, and Dako talks about Russia, girls, and his martial arts skills. You Stay Classy, CC.
[player]safariguy5[/player] Freestyle Executive
The Great Community Map Project.Live Chat Event Update
[spoiler=Interrogation of Dako]Q. Any thoughts you might care to share about CCup4 Dako? I wish I'd run it. But alas, they decided I was not worthy. The rest has already been said, CCup4 will be a good lesson to CDs.
Q. Ass or breast man? Looky - breast, touchy - ass.
Q. Favorite map? Most of them look almost the same nowadays, I wonder why they always make similar maps lol. But I really like Dawn of Ages and Battle for Iraq in terms of gameplay and balance. And my specialty, WWII Ardennes . And I can look at Japan and FNA for hours, they are really pretty.
Q. Care to share why you stepped down as head tech? Ummm, I can say that it was due to political reasoning. PM me if you want to know more.
Q. Which of the female TOFU members do you have the most dreams about? InsomniaRed of course. Why even ask?
Q. If you owned CC what would you change? Almost everything, ha. The list can be very long, but first of all I'd actually started to work on it.
Q. What did you like about being a mod? Different colors, paddle access, dice hacks . I also quite enjoyed TeamCC porn accounts but got bored on the third round.
Q. What did you dislike about being a mod? Let's not dig into that, all right? Otherwise this interview will look very anti-CC. Oh, yes, sitting-related issues! That I can say without fear from Red Team.
Q. Do Russians still like red-heads if they're bat-shit crazy? The more she's crazy the more she's hot, we say. And it's not like I am going to have kids with her, right?
Q. Would you rather live in a castle and rule a small kingdom or fly around the galaxy in an invisible spaceship? INVISIBLE SHI-I-IP!!!
Q. If your clan didn't exist, which one would you join and why? THOTA . And KORT of course. I still don't know how people can be in one clan and not like each other 100%.
Q. What has been your favorite clan war to date, and why? TOFU-KORT, 1st and 2nd edition. I just love to win vs cows with KABOOM and all the mud-slinging .
Q. What was your favorite part of being a mod? Do you actually listen to me? I already said, colors! And being special. I am an attention whore, one can say.
Q. What is the best and worst thing about living in Russia? Best - bears, vodka, matryoshkas and that you can easily be a mad scientist that can assemble bomb from cereal, detergent and ice cream in a microwave. And you can easily survive for $8000/month and look better than most here. Worst - living in Russia. Autocracy, corruption, no speed limits (wait, that is actually good!), bad medical care, declining education. List can go on and on.
Q. Have you ever had to use your skills in aikido in a fight or to impress a girl by pretending to fight with someone? No, but I have complete script written down for one, two and three attackers. Some of them involve bikes and deadly weapons.
Q. Favorite doctor? David Tennant. Definitely.
Q. Favorite companion? Donna Noble, no question about that. Catherine Tate is a genius!
Donna: If you ever see a little blue box, flying up there in the sky, you shout for me, Gramps. Oh you just shout. Granddad: You know, I don't understand half the things you say these days. Donna: Nor me.
Q. Favorite drink? Any. I'm Russian in the end. But if we go into preferences, gin, rum, red shiraz, weissbeer.
Q. Favorite map and settings? Dawn of Ages dubs NS A F; Battle for Iraq dubs E A F; Ardennes quads NS A F.
Q. Favorite car? f*ck cars, Honda and Kawa are my choices.
Q. What's the story behind your username? My sister used to call me like that when I was a kid. Got stuck with it from that day. Nothing really special other than it is derived from my name. I got many other cool nicknames, like Rambo, which is what my classmates used to call me because I was shortest in class but fought the most.
Q. Who do you think you are? Sometimes I dream that I am Master Fenrir, but then I wake up in cold sweat realizing I am more of a freakns...
Q. On a scale of 1 to Josko how much do you love KoRT? Josko^(n-1) where n is the amount of attention I get from Foxy and fishy weekly.
Q. If you were given the whole of CC to chose from, and they couldn't say no, who would you press gang into being a TOFU player? Hm, let me think about it. I guess ahunda, laughingcavalier, betiko, Rodion, ballenus, Leehar, freakns, Lindax, BigBallinStalin. Those are one of the best players/teammates/posters I have seen on CC that are outside of TOFU. But I am sure I forgot like 10 people just because I was lazy to look into scoreboard.
Q. Would you rather be paid in vodka or roubles? Roubles, I don't drink vodka (shhhh!)
Q. Would you rather fly Aeroflot or jump off a building? Lol aeroflot is so crappy guys. Jump off the building with a chute, yes, that would be my choice.
Q. Russian beauties or Asian honeys? Former for wife, latter for evening adventures. Those Philippine girls, awww.
Q. You are a black belt in a martial art. Are your hands deadly weapons, or only when holding the steering wheel of a car? Yes, I know how to kill person in many ways, and I can severely injure anyone quite easy as well, muahaha. Don't mess with me! Thank god I have never had a need to use them that way. And I drive safely, almost like them - . It's awesome to live in Russia, hell yeah!
Q. What is the coldest you have ever been? -40 celsius. That was quite funny actually, throwing boiling water our of the window -
Q. Blonde, Brunette, or Redheads? All three at the same time please. But hair color is nothing, it all comes down to curves and lumps.
Q. If you switched clans, would you want another highly competitive clan (ie PACK) or a clan that likes to have a little more fun (ie TNC)? Competitive to the bone. I cannot do anything half-assed.
Q. What games did you play before CC? I was pro in Warcraft 3 DotA, my team took #4 in Russian Cup back in the days. And I was always into Diablo cause I liked to kill tons of monsters with limbs flying all over the place.
Q. Are there any hot Russian Brides left in Russia? Tons of them, one is coming to my place right now *wink* *wink*.
Q. What time did you go to bed last night? 4am if you ask for today. But I know what this woman asks about . THAT night I went to bed at 9am, and it was not my bed. Then I was waken at noon with the words "Go into your own bed, she is coming back!". Still digesting all the beer and vodka I obeyed and went into my bed. 4 hours later I was woken again and was told "Hush, go out through the back door, missus should not see you!". The night was wonderful, I was able to eat only when it was around 11pm .
Q. What was your favourite toy as a child . . .and now? I loved playing with cooking pots! My mom used to put me near the cupboard and I could be lost for many hours opening each of them, trying to fit one into another and so on. Adorable, eh? Right now it went all digital but there are few things that I can spend many hours with without noticing — my bō and my bokuto. I wonder what will happen when my katana arrives this summer . They said they will finish forging it by July.
Q. What do you think of Hong Kong? It is a lovely city. Very smelly, very friendly and reminded me of Ankh-Morpork instantly. Big colorful village with skyscrapers. You walk down the avenue, one wrong turn and 5 blocks later you can see people selling vegetables from the boxes, offering Rolex and other goodies from under the jacket… Ahh, I liked it.
Q. What surprised you about CoF when you met him? He has Russian soul. I mean this guy, he has a stove all rusty but clean, his house is a bit shabby but looks cozy and neat, he doesn't bother to feed his dogs with the same fork he uses and is completely open to people. It is rare to see uncomplicated people when they have huge income.
Q. When was the last time you cried? I always cry on movies during the happy ends and never do I cry when there are some misfortune there. Last time was when I was flying back from HK and was watching Wreck-It Ralph during the last scene.
Q. What are you really afraid of? Heights, losing my limbs or sight, other drivers on Russia. And sometimes I am really afraid of josko. When I type a message I always think twice what he can write in reply and oh my, sometimes that makes me shiver! After that I delete half of my post because overall impact on the universe would be negative.
Q. Is Ace Rimmer generally truthful? Yes, most of the time he tells the truth.
Q. Now that life is your own again will you look for other channels to flex your community muscles? God please no. I would like to spend this time in real life if you know what I mean. Russia is a country of opportunities.
Q. If you could make a map doing anything you want what special programming tricks would you add which don't already exist on CC? I'd add mutated territories. For example you hold 5 districts in a bonus and then they merge into one big terr that has all the borders. And if you conquer such merged bonus from an opponent you don't get the whole bonus yourself, it will rebel and break down into 5 original terrs but all neutral (except the one you just conquered, lets call it city centre). So if you cannot hold that big city you will have to unite it later again to conquer it. Now that would be something.
Q. Would it be better if CC were redone in Cyrillic? Hell no. I never used Cyrillic when I write code, even my comments are in English.
Q. Who is cooler, St. Cyril or St. Methodius? Last time when I visited their grave in Rome, Methodius was a bit cooler to the touch.
Q. How many languages do you: - Read/Write - Speak - Program in Fluent Russian and English. Can speak a little bit of Japanese. And I know a lot of dev languages, more than 5 but less than 10.
Q. Favorite language to: - Type in - Read - Speak - Program in - Debug English is way easier to type, but I prefer to speak Russian because I know more words there and can construct better sentences. If I knew 5000-10000 more words in English I'm sure that would not be a an issue anymore. As for programming, most of the time I do PHP so I am used to it. But Python and Scala really attract me nowadays, though I know none of them.
Q. How long would it take you to learn how to do the Oppa Gangnam Style dance? Or do you already know how to do it? I think 2 to 4 hours. Never tried to dance it before.
Q. Who would you rather play a dubs game with, Denise or catnipdreams? Well, you need at least 4 players for dubs, so I'd take both and invite fishy over as well.
Q. Who would you rather "play" with, Denise or catnipdreams? Cat is more kinky (in a good way), Denise has more experience. Not sure, not sure. Can I do a pre-play wth both and then decide?[/spoiler]
Hello loyal Platoon Report readers! I want to kick off this edition by first thanking and applauding Leehar for his years served as Clan Executive here at the Dispatch! It's no small feat to run an ever-changing team of writers and get all the news from the clan world together twice a month, but he sure had a great way of getting it done. It's always been a pleasure to work with him, and I sincerely wish him the best in his new role as Head Clan Director. From all of us, Leehar, we thank you!!
I'm proud to say we have a great bunch of articles for your reading pleasure this week, including multiple contributions from two of our newest writers, IcePack and betiko, as well as updates to many of our regular features, and more news about how clans are getting involved in GCCM.
To kick things off, we've got the exclusive scoop on the updated F400 rankings thanks to IcePack. Check it out to find out all the latest results and movement. IcePack also brings us a report on Conquer Cup 4, including the results of the play-in draw, and great background on the clans involved, as well as a few predictions. Speaking of predictions, betiko has an update on Conquer Cup 3. His report includes the latest on all the action in the finals of the event, and also a look at the implications for the CC3 prediction contest. Completing our reviews of the major ongoing clan events, qwert has another update for us Clan League 5, featuring all the updated scores and tables, as well as the first clan to qualify for the Premier League in the second phase.
As we have for the last couple of months, we have an updated edition of our reader requested Clan Movers and Shakers column, bringing you all the roster shakeups in the clan world from the last month, and the introduction of yet another clan to the realm. To wrap up this edition of the Platoon Report, we have an update from koontz regarding GCCM and Clan Week - don't miss this chance to get in on the fun and win your clan some medals!
Hello again my friends, and welcome to your favorite part of the Newsletter, "War Games", where you can find information about CC Tournaments! Here we are five days away from another anniversary of V-E Day. Will anyone put together a cool tournament on CC's WWII maps to celebrate? I sure hope so!
Here in the Dispatch, we have the 38th installment in Dave's Tournament Tips. After spending some months with more advanced formulae, he is now back into terrain that many of us will recognise, and dealing with formatting and presentation elements.
In the TPA Wrap, you will find a notice that [player]IanG7[/player] has won the Assassinations by Fours tournament. An interview with IanG7 will be presented in our next issue!
Anamainiacks continues his mastery of Join This? Or Not! If you haven't read JTON recently, check it out. Among other things, Anamainiacks launched the innovation of identifying Premium Only. and Freemium Friendly! tourneys.
Last but (I hope) not least, I've cobbled together a quick discussion about tournament etiquette.
[player]Dukasaur[/player] Tournament Executive
Tournament Tipsby DaveH [spoiler=Creating Tables - Revisited]in the last issue I complained that there was not a good way of formatting tables in Conquer Club code (phpBB apparently) and I proposed a macro to give some readability to tables.
Well I was wrong and many thanks to agentcom for showing me the light
There are tags similar to HTML that allow row and column separators and these can be put directly into an Excel table as agentcom showed me:
[table] First column (filled all the way down)[tr][td] Second column: <Data> Third:[/td][td] Fourth: <Data> Fifth:[/td][td]<Continue alternating between data and the above code until the last column> Last column:[/td][/tr][/table]
"td" and "/td" are the column separators and "tr" and "/tr" the row separators. To put the table into a thread, simply copy the whole table and paste into the thread.
An alternative is to put the above coding into a macro so that you can specify the rows and columns that you want to make into a table:
Sub FormLines() ' ' ' FormLines recorded 22/04/2013 by DaveH ' Dim iRowStart As Integer 'Table start row Dim iRowFinish As Integer 'Table finish row Dim iColStart As Integer 'Table start column Dim iColFinish As Integer 'Table finish column
'Enter the table parameters iRowStart = InputBox("Enter the Starting Row Number:") iRowFinish = InputBox("Enter the Finishing Row Number:") iColStart = InputBox("Enter the Starting Column Number:") iColFinish = InputBox("Enter the Finishing Column Number:")
For i = iRowStart To iRowFinish If i = iRowStart Then Cells(i, iColFinish + 2).Value = "[table][tr][td]" 'note that the data is written into the column 2 positions to the right of the data table Else Cells(i, iColFinish + 2).Value = "[tr][td]" End If For k = iColStart To iColFinish - 1 Cells(i, iColFinish + 2).Value = Cells(i, iColFinish + 2).Value & Cells(i, k).Value & "[/td][td]" Next k Cells(i, iColFinish + 2).Value = Cells(i, iColFinish + 2).Value & Cells(i, k).Value & "[/td][/tr]" Next i Cells(i, iColFinish + 2).Value = Cells(i, iColFinish + 2).Value & "[/table]" End Sub
This puts the code into one column:[bigimg]http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/7170/table1k.jpg[/bigimg]Either of these methods puts an orderly table into your thread:
Winners:
Total inc R26:
R27 Wins:
Total
Asbks
19
19
Bruceswar
17
1
18
Wendt100
17
1
18
Clacie
16
1
17
Wizz00
16
1
17
Blindman30
15
15
Marshallbobby
15
15
Aussie02
14
14
Frank_tank
13
1
14
However there are blank lines above your table due to the separate lines used. An alternative macro that puts all the code into a single cell to get rid of these blank lines is as follows.
Sub FormLines() ' ' ' FormLines recorded 22/04/2013 by DaveH ' Dim iRowStart As Integer 'Table start row Dim iRowFinish As Integer 'Table finish row Dim iColStart As Integer 'Table start column Dim iColFinish As Integer 'Table finish column Dim A As String
'Enter the table parameters iRowStart = InputBox("Enter the Starting Row Number:") iRowFinish = InputBox("Enter the Finishing Row Number:") iColStart = InputBox("Enter the Starting Column Number:") iColFinish = InputBox("Enter the Finishing Column Number:")
For i = iRowStart To iRowFinish If i = iRowStart Then A = "[table][tr][td]" 'note that the data is written into the column 2 positions to the right of the data table Else A = A & "[tr][td]" End If For k = iColStart To iColFinish - 1 A = A & Cells(i, k).Value & "[/td][td]" Next k A = A & Cells(i, k).Value & "[/td][/tr]" Next i Cells(iRowStart, iColFinish + 2).Value = A & "[/table]" End Sub
This then gets rid of the leading spaces.
Winners:
Total inc R26:
R27 Wins:
Total
Asbks
19
19
Bruceswar
17
1
18
Wendt100
17
1
18
Clacie
16
1
17
Wizz00
16
1
17
Blindman30
15
15
Marshallbobby
15
15
Aussie02
14
14
Frank_tank
13
1
14
GreenBaize
13
1
14
Herus
13
1
14
So perhaps there are additional phpBB codes that we could also put to use - perhaps someone out there can feedback more information? And thanks again agentcom!
(These "tips" started off as ones that I used to make it a bit easier in managing my own tournaments. Now, I am looking at other types of tournaments and scoring systems by all you innovative TO's out there. So, if you have a unique scoring system that you would like me to have a go at automating, please let me know and I'll be pleased to try and assist. Any queries on the above I'll be glad to respond to of course. Please note that I use Excel 2003, so there may be variation in the menu instructions if you have other versions of Excel)[/spoiler] TPA3 Wrapby DaveH
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote:Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!
Welcome to the foundry section. Where Fantasy can and often does become reality.
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I think I let the cat out of the bag there. An announcement on that hasn't been made yet! And all that on top of your usual Mafia Games, an Interview with Dako, all the happenings in Clans (Oh yeah ... it's CLAN WEEK!!), tournaments and the foundry. When does anyone have time to sleep? Some of us in the real world even balance all this with work or exams or natural disasters or what have you. It's enough to make your head spin! Wesley Snipes put it well when he said:
. I also quite enjoyed TeamCC porn accounts but got bored on the third round.
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