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You cannot make a new account on this website anymore. I've set the strongest possible captcha (letters to type over from image), and required people to click a link in an e-mail. This should stop most bots, but they keep registering. I'm really afraid that some poor chinese are just typing captchas all day long actually
So to prevent this forum from getting spammed some day I've simply disabled registrations completely. You can register on this website by emailing me: lucb1e@hotmail.com
Sorry to anyone who wanted to register for whatever reason, but I don't want to have to ban 3 bots every 2 days (that's about the current rate at which they are registering).

Hello everyone.

I'm sorry to have to break your Christmas with such news as this, but we've finally made the decision. IO is going to close.

Damn that was a hard sentence to get over with. I'll miss this place a lot, everything we've build since little over a year ago... But it's the right thing, we aren't active enough to stay alive as a clan on our own.

Well as the people who know me are used to, I love colleting statistics. So here's a nice list lol:
2 715 - Unique visitors per month (average).
35 295 - Total number of unique people visiting our website.
89 777 - Total number of pages loaded by those visitors.
6 906 - Average number of pages loaded every month.
7 020 - Number of people visiting our website in August (busiest month).
13 629 - Number of pages viewed by our visitors in August.
1 210 - Number of posts in August (averaging nearly 40 posts every day).
6 514 - Number of posts we made in total (excluding this one).
4 140 - Number of posts by Tiny and me (omfg lol).
18.93 - Ammount of posts per day (averaged - and im surprised ).
12d15h - Time I spent on this forum.
12d02h - Time Tiny spent on this forum (owned =D).
367 - Total numer of topics (Me: 171 - Tiny: 61).
39% - Traffic from France (last 500 visits).
25% - Traffic from Mother Russia (last 500..).
14% - Traffic from Italy (WTF do italians do here )
6% - Traffic from me - aka traffic from the netherlands
55 - Posts by the most posting non-clanmember (and who has never been in). Gratz Peter Sillie, you just made it into the top-10 of most active posters!
838 - Number of posts we made in the Nr.100 topic, but we'll go to 1000!
Just over 1 year - Time IO lived.

Allright I guess that's enough for now lol. Here is our stats center if you want to see more: http://io.smfforfree3.com/index.php?action=stats
And the statcounter statistics are public too, though I didn't know untill i checked like a second ago http://statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=5399952&guest=1

Then let's move on to more serious business.

I would like to thank everyone who has been supporting the clan in any way for the past year. Especially I'll be naming our members and ex-members (not in order):
- Tiny for his friendship, even before we were in W.B= together (which was before we started IO, for the less informed). Also I'd like to thank him hugely for his sublime leadership the last months.
- Wh!pP3r for bringing in very good ideas often and cheering me up so often (no matter what was on my mind, I'd be sure to get rid of it within 3 minutes when he was on msn).
- Diho for the nice programming work, both for this website, OACon, and other projects we worked on and are working on.
- Oleg for always trying to bring in new ideas to improve things.
- BigDaddy for being so cheerfull (might sound silly, but it's something not everyone is )
- Titanium also for being cheerfull and nice to play with.

Then everyone who contributed to our clan by being a nice part of the family:
- strAnger
- VagabondBGC
- AssY
- SamSpeed
- drunken
- Oxyd
- Pain
- Cheers
- BlueSKY
- Bonchi Osamu

That you don't have a special description doesn't mean we don't like you Without you IO wouldn't be where it is right now (and I'm not referring to the fact that we're closing now lol... you get what I mean).


Then I'd like to announce that Tiny and I will move to our 'cousin-clan': *Revolution. Oleg, BigDaddy, Titanium: You are welcome as well (we've talked with Stoner already). More details on the internal forums soon (tomorrow ifnot tonight). I also want to appologise that we have to close IO, and maybe that we didn't discuss this with you but just made the decision. I believe it was the right thing though, we wouldn't have done it if we had any doubt. Sorry if I make you sad by this though.
For Bonchi and BlueSKY, I'm sorry but you did not show enough activity on the forums. Because of that, I can't offer the same invitation to you I'm afraid. You are free to apply on your own of course.
Btw to oleg/daddy/tita: You are, ofcourse, also free to do whatever you prefer, if you would rather stay clanless or join another clan we're completely fine with that. It's just that we didn't want to leave our members without an option to join us in a future family. I've experienced once when the rM leader closed the clan and just deleted the website, it was quite a sad day... Didn't want to do that to our loved members, it's sad enough IO isn't active enough to exist on it's own.

This website will remain for as long as possible, after that I hope the internet archive (archive.org) will have records of this website... It should already have but I can't find anything at the moment. Else I'll try to backup the website some day, just a view-only version (smfforfree doesn't let me download the database), so we can at least read it. Reply if you would want this.
The permissions will remain the same, our current members will be able to view the private forums in the future and everyone else won't. Old members could be concidered though (just reply or pm me).

So... well that's pretty much it I think... could be I forgot tons of stuff, but don't think so lol. If someone else has some impressive speech, I'll quote you on the bottom of this post so people don't have to read the entire topic to see it (not sure if we'll get many replies though.. but incase).

Hmm I did forget one thing: I should thank SMF For Free for the hosting with only now and then some minor problems. For someone who just needs a simple though quite customisable forum it's a very nice start I wouldn't start the forum here again now (because I can't edit the PHP and backup the database myself), but I'm not as newb anymore so for others who are less experienced with this stuff it's still recommendable ^^

Best wishes for the future to all, especially with the new year around the corner.

Sincerely,
RMF (aka Luc)
Proud to be :) ex-clanleader and website administrator of IO.


PS: I used nicknames rather than our real names incase someone prefers his name not to be known to the whole world.
PS2: I forgot to add: if anyone got any questions at all, please ask them (just reply)!!

Hi all,
I banned 10 bots again today, and send 3 messages to accounts which I don't trust (requesting a confirmation that they're human lol).
Because of this, the captcha is set to high (you know, the code you have to type in some box from an image), and  a couple of e-mail services aren't allowed anymore (actually hotmail and gmail are abused too a lot, but I don't want to ban them.. Might be needed in the future but hopefully not). Also I'll be notified now when someone registers on the site, but that's trivial to you.

If you got banned from the forum, you can PM me on another clan website (I'm registered on most, and probably have email notification on). Or e-mail me, my email is probably somewhere on the forum anyway.
...
Yeah, google for "site:io.smfforfree3.com lucb1e -comli" (without "") and I got my email address in the second result

If you have an @aol.com address, also tell me so I'll de-ban aol.com users.

Apologees for any trouble this may cause, but it might cause us a lot more trouble if the bots were active or when they would become active

@members: I've taken the mumble serverstatus viewer off the site as it wasn't working anymore :<

Sad news today, we've finally decided to kick Whipper and Cheers from the team due inactiveness.

Cheers (or Mihkel), you were always a very nice guy to play with on wrackdm 24/7 server. We have had a lot of nice matches and talks, and eventually decided to join the team. Unfortunately that was just before you became busy in real life, and we never got to know you a lot better
Pity, though I still hope to play with you some time! Just post here on the forum, tell us on msn, or play on FragHard server!

Whipper, better known as Charles to us, has been a very very very good friend. I'd like to thank him a LOT for everything he did for the clan. He always had great idea's, was nice to everyone, and we were just friends for a pretty long time.
I already miss the times where we would go online with you and Simon (Tiny), and just 3v3 insta whoever was online. No matter if we won or lost (mostly won =D), we always had great fun and were an awesome team together. Ofcourse also just playing online with whoever else (public or with simon or with someone else or just the two of us) was always very nice.
Also I miss the evenings long of talking about everything from the weather to life itself. I often have to do effort to keep conversations going, but we could always talk evenings long and still not finish. I still remember my parents getting mad because we just kept on talking, but I just wouldn't care much xD

About the future, I don't know if you'll play again. I really hope so, but you already said you'd get less work and be able to play. It didn't happen, twice
I'd really like it if you could make it to the supeR,Lan (I'm going to be there, even if I have to miss examn days or whatever ****.. im dead ill and everyone can drop dead ), or meet some other time. Simon will be there too (as you maybe know already actually), so it would finally be the big 3 together.
If not, then this is a goodbye I'm afraid. We'd love to be able to welcome you back some day (or 'we', I didn't ask the others but I'm 100% sure they'd like to too lol), but things don't seem to work out in real life. Not that you should give up real life for some game, really do what you think is best. But still, I wouldn't personally mind a comeback !!


Well then, guess that's it.

Hope to see you both around some time,
Luc.

- Update for the previous message: I'm back Actually for a few days already, but didn't officially announce it yet
  As said, I'm still working on Aerocide, but I'll spend time on OA a lot too!

- The IRC channel is pretty much inactive. Bit waste to try to be there all the time while nearly nothing really happens there. We'll remain owner of the channel, but don't expect us to be there. If you wish to speak to us in instant chat, tell us on the forum (guestbook here) or PM and we'll be on IRC. MSN is also possible, just look at our profile (Tiny, RMF)

- We played a nice match with Ganja today and we won!! *surprised* xD
            oaN - our map:      Ganja 5 - 2 IO
            ps37ctf - theirs:    Ganja 2 - 5 IO
   Tie, so third map pul1ctf: Ganja 0 - 1 IO (it was one flag capture, aka suddendeath capture)

- Banned @aol.com e-mail addresses. We have some auto-registering bots (or maybe people with weird names who never post and create 3 accounts without doing anything with it.. right), and they all use @aol.com email addresses. Googling their IP or mailaddress gives us 'stopforumspam' websites so I ban before they can even get to action.
If anyone with an @aol.com address wishes to register you will have to send an E-mail to lucb1e At hot mail .com (remove spaces and At=@ ofcourse), or post somewhere on the forum (guestbook or another topic.. doesn't really matter).

Hello friends, clanmates, and other forum readers,

As you might have noticed I'm less active lately. This is because I'm working on a project called Aerocide, it's an online multiplayer platform shooter. We (Lars, another guy I work together with, and I) also submitting it to a game competition. Unfortunately, it happens to have a deadline, and we're both working hard to get it on time.
So I'm working mostly all evening long on this, as during the day I just have to work ("internship" google translate says) from 9-5. Besides this, I also have homework to do.
And lastly, there's real life to attend to.

So basicly, I have no time for openarena or the clan at all. I'm still reading all forum posts, attending to trainings and matches (just make time for this, ignoring whatever I had to do then), but I've heard from people I'm acting a bit "distant". And it's true, I'm like a clanmember rather than a leader, or like a consumer rather than a contributor to the clan.
For this, I am very sorry. I feel sad about the way things go, but I don't really have a choise. I need to finish this project (the deadline is in 19 days, after that i'll work far less on it), and ofcourse I need to do things for work and school.

I will soon, in about 3 weeks, try to attend here a lot more, and start my life as a leader again. Untill then, I guess I'll be inactive and busy.
Again my apologees.

Regards,
Luc.

During backups - we all know how important that is now - the website will be unavailable. It will start around 21.30 CET (GMT+2), and lasts till 23.30 (or maximum 00:30). Please do not try to visit during the backup, as this will only slow things down and maybe even makes the system skip pages. My appologees for the inconvenience.

edit: I'm done All data is safe and you can use the website again!
Man that must have been the first time backups were ahead of schedule, 30 minutes early!