Donations so far

Sorry to bother you all with this but the time has come to think about another year with Euroskillz. To put it straight, I have to ask for help running it one more year, if you want. Euroskillz costs around 912 Euro per year and thats to much for me to handle myself. I can contribute with a substantial part of it, but I am more or less depending on the community to keep this up to June 2009.

For you who have been around a year you know we had a fund raising going a while. This was succesful and we managed to gather funds enough to run the servers until June 2008. So why am I talking about this now, you might ask. Well, the servers have a 3 month cancel period and I have to decide before mid march to the beginning of April to continue or not. Personally I don't mind keeping it up, and see that it works and continue trying to make the best out of Euroskillz. But as I said, I'm afraid the total sum for a year is a bit to much for me to handle.

If you feel you can, and by that i mean you have a steady income, food to eat and a spare euro or 2, then maybe you could help out. I won't accept any donations if I feel you can't afford it. Ofc it is your responsibility, but I do not want people to do something stupid just because of this. If I believe this is the case I will say NO or refund you.

Euroskillz will only continue if there is a serious interest from serious people that want to keep it running and can afford to help.

The fund raising will also stop when I feel sure we can pay our rent.

Why does it cost so much?

Euroskillz runs on a so called root server. That means we have a hard drive, a linux operating system and a 100 mbit Internet connection. On this server we can run all we need and dont need any other service from any other place. It also means we decide how many servers we want to run, when to start them, when to stop them. It includes a web server, ftp server, sql server, php, mail so on so on. Today we run 6 TFC servers and 1 Fortress Forever server which are all included in this. If you would compare that to rent each game server separatelly you would see that this is much cheaper.

Euroskillz runs as a Root Expert server on

What do donators get for helping?

All donators gets

Donations from 20 € to < 100 €

Donations from 100 € and above

The purpose of a donation is to help Euroskillz survive mainly, and it is not a way to buy admin :) Anyone have chance to become admin, when the need is there.

How do I donate?

All donations should be done to Euroskillz PayPal account euroskillz@hotmail.com. You need a PayPal account and/or a credit card or a bank account. The PayPal button on the webby takes you to a login page where you can add the donation, or login to an existing PayPal account.

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Thats the whole story I think. I will update the progress ingame and on the webby and hopefully we can keep on being together on Euroskillz for another year. But even if thats not the case, then maybe it was time to move on? Well, lets see during february and march.

Thanks for reading

// Lt Llama //

Thanks to the guys over at FM and in particular Hughy who sent an almost complete rar file of his militia_beta. Hughy also helped out submitting latest changes. And thanks to Andreas.dC for the hint :). This is an escape map in 5 levels and it will be a true challenge to area49 which have been played a lot latelly. It is an amazing level which took Hughy a year to make.

As with all maps of this size comes sometimes issues so please let me know so they can be fixed. The map is also available in the download section. Its best to get it from there as it is Huge.

Militia - Part 1

Made by hughy in 2006-2007.

The year is 2022. You are British government scientists and
officials who have met to discuss the future of the environment.

Sea levels in Britain have risen dramatically due to the melting
ice caps as a result of global warming. The United States is
emitting an estimated 80% of the world's pollution and has
neglected countries at low sea levels. America refuses to adopt
the newly discovered fusion reactors as a source of energy since
it is twenty times more expensive than using conventional fuels.
America has left the United Nations under fear that the economy
will be crushed, however a global fusion civic will boost all
economies to compensate.

The United Nations is under stress and is falling apart, and
British MPs meet to plan forceful action to make America comply.

One day in March...

I think there is room for some worshipping here so be sure to give Hughy some well deserved feedback.

So why is the FF server up again?

There are many good reasons to play FF and to run an FF server, and a lot of sucky reasons not to do it. My reason to shut it down was the lack of support for the skills community. That means quad damage and fixing the sticky walls. I only had a skills server in mind, and hoped that a skills community could grow slowly in FF to. Everything looked good at start but after a couple of months FF lost so many players, that there where no reason to keep it up. And the concers left to, as you really couldnt do what you wanted with the FF conc, and it differed to much from TFC.

But promising things are ahead and I gained some faith in FF again. Some intelligent person also suggested to make our FF server a Fun and Skills server, and not just a skills server. So thats what I done. I mixed some fun maps and skills maps in the rotation. I also plan on scheduling some events again for FF.

I havent added many new maps, but if you know of any more fun maps then tell me, and I upload it. But with Fun I mean chill out maps, crazy maps, pointless button pressing maps or whatever :D or fun dm maps. By doing this the Euroskillz FF server will be a soup of our 4 tfc servers. Don't know if it will work and how people will hate each other for voting insane hard maps or crazy fun maps. Let's see.

New maps added:

ff_engbat by some-guy

Yup, a remake of the old eng batt maps for tfc. You regulars on Fun knows it. Two teams of engys build up there sg's. Small bases. Doors open. War starts. Spam garantee.

ff_civibash_g by GambiT

another fun 15-20 minute map. wasnt to good in TFC because they started shooting the ground and the walls hoping 
that the explosion would kill the civi. BUT now with lua the rockets ONLY explode if they hit the civi(or team on
opposite end).

3 teams
blue-solly's
red-solly's
yellow-civi's

only rockets....blue and red try to kill yellow in the center and yellow gets 1 point every couple of seconds they
are alive(once they've been alive for i think 10-15 seconds). i think blue and red get 5 points for killing civi and 10
for killing solly's on opposite end.

ff_nodconc1 by nodnarb

Should be a fairly easy concmap, and thats really needed.

ff_murderball_nyro by NyRoNiC

Anyway, I made a murderball style map. No its not a remake, just the same gameplay... 4 teams, a ball, lots of killing, etc.

What would the tfc fun server be without nyroball? Not fun!!! Ofc this map has its obvious place on the FF server. Best time waster ever.

And the ip is 85.114.130.78:27015 if you happened to forget it.

Class restrictions

Rules

See forum

Sign up in the forum if you wanna be in this match. Be sure you got time.

multi_rocket by [STS]^crazy]qS[ added to Euroskillz - Hard

Watching [STS]^crazy]qS[ finish his new map multi_rocket makes you think, what an easy map, until you try yourself. If you know how rocketing is done in defrag youll catch on. But this is a kind of new way of rocket jumping for tfc. New and fun. The map also have a good mid air dm arena. It is 8 jumps and the difficulty is 100.

The race addon has been updated with Skillzman

Thanks to Galdur Superman is now unemployed and we have hired Skillzman instead. Of course we deserve our own super hero, so thats why Skillzman is here. The addon has also been changed so not just the winner gets quad concs but also the one that comes second and third. If you get Skillzman mode you now say /skillzman to toggle it on or off.

Thanks Galdur :) Skillzman rulez

Also thanks to Demon, Reno, Nirvana and Zen for helping testing it.

Skills race plugin added to Euroskillz Easy, Medium and Hard

A race addon has been added to the conc servers. With this you can challenge people ingame by saying /voterace. If at least 2 people answers Yes to race the race will be on. The race starts with a countdown. During the countdown you are froozen at the spawn and can only move a little bit. When the race starts you will see a green timer at the bottom of your screen showing the current race time. This is shown to everybody ingame.

The winner of the race is rewarded with SUPERMAN MODE. This means he/she will be transformed into Superman and get super powers. Euroskillz's Superman will become a super concer with the use of his quad concs. Quad concs is a great plugin made by -hi-. You can find the original plugin HERE.

If you become Superman you can toggle superman mode on and off by saying /superman. You will loose your superman powers if you disconnect or say Yes to do another race.

This is a fresh release and even though it has been tested a lot, there are a lot of things that can go wrong with it. If you find any bugs please let us know and post about it in the forum. If you think the race functions should be changed in any way, post it in the forum. It can be anything like additions to Superman's powers, other game play ideas ...

anti-conc by NL)Ramon(NL updated

The plugin which blocks the concuss effect from yourself and others have been updated. Now also normal grenades, rockets and pipes are blocked. This means concers will no more get shot or naded by demomens and soldiers. More peaceful for everyone ingame :). The plugin will block all nading, rocketing, piping and concing on the same team and teams that are set to allied. Some maps like concmap2 dont have allied teams, but we can fix that by changing the teams on that map.

You can as usual change the settings for dizzyness and blocking by saying conc_menu to turn dizzyness on and off and unblock other players.

ff_concmap_mc by Smallfluffybunnys

ff_concmap_mc

Welcome to ff_concmap_mc.  This is a concmap with 10 jumps in all and has a variety of jumps some hard and some easy.

A normal concmap for FF was released by Smallfluffybunnys recently. Only concing. If you are new to concing this is a good starter map until you get up to j5-6. Watch out for getting stuck in teles. To avoid that take turns, and try not to conc at the exact same time as someone else.

The release post can be found here

conc_adam2 by Adam-g1

Conc_adam2 , by Adam-g1
-------------------------
Finally got done with Adam2. It's much better quality and a bit harder
than 1. Hope you guys like it!

Come visit guild -g1 at gamesurge #-g1 on mirc, or
http://www.freewebs.com/gren1/

Thanks!

The release post can be found here

Metamod for source, sourcemod and admin tools added to the FF server

Hopefully the FF server will be a little less Wild West now. With the new additions to the FF server you will be able to rockthevote, vote to extend and the admins have a better way to handle the needs and situations that may occur in there ;).

Renegade strikes back against the resent blows against TFC from Fortress Forever and Team Fortress 2 with a classic concmap. And I must say that after all crashes and eye candy and odd concs in FF its a real pleasure to relax on a stylish grass and rock map for TFC. Renegade worked on a huge Euroskillz dedicated map before working on concmap_eze, and ofc he hit a sad map limit and decided to put it on ice. concmap_eze is an easy map with a very good balance in difficulty for all classes. Easy singles, doubles, strafes and juggling. A must play even if you done this for way to long.

concmap_EzE - the Euroskillz Easy server concmap
by Renegade

This is the first concmap in the Ez series that i will be making.
It has been made for the Euroskillz [Ez] Easy [E] server.
I have tried to make the jumps as easy as possible while still being fun.
2 secrets to be found, the secret jump and Renegade's bag of 1337ness ;).

Thanks to:
Lt.Llama for Euroskillz
Mule for teaching me to map
Simbian for putting up with my annoying questions and fixing stuff
Smok33z just for being

Beta Testers:
Lt.Llama
Sasuke
[ConC]Base_Jaxx[KuH]
eskimo_tim
Mule
Simbian-Mc-
Sackratte a.k.a Crusher 

Happy concing,
[Ez|mC]Renegade.[ConC]-u|c-|Ap|

Class restrictions

Rules

Everything is allowed except cheating of course!

Ukfootie match under some sort of organised forms will take form now on sunday. If it is successful and you think its fun we can create a couple of teams you have to chose and then run a small tournament.