Council_of_Sparta Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Spartans In the spirit of openess that we here have embraced, we present to you the Legion of Sparta newsletter. This open letter will be posted as and when newsworthy material is available. It will be written by a member of the Gerousia and will keep you informed of decisions that have been made and ideas that are being discussed. To start with you might like to know how are we organised. The council is made up of Gerousia and Ecclesia (Admins), there are 15 admins that form the council. There is a council meeting every Sunday and the 15 members discuss then vote on all matters related to the Legion of Sparta. There is no over riding vote, the majority decides on every major step that we take. So far this has not proved to be a problem and there have been some lively discussions. Every meeting is chaired by one of the council members, that person makes sure that the meeting proceeds in an orderly fashion and that none of us rambles on. This ensures that nothing major happens without a discussion and that we have come to an accord. We are a well funded group, so we dont need to ask for donations, with that said voluntary contributions will be gladly accepted, those who donate more than $100 will have access to a section of the forum with a detailed account of debits and credits to the legion of sparta paypal account. The council members are chosen by the council not by the amount of money donated. Because we are well funded we dont need to go on a recruiting binge. Here at the Legion of Sparta we are a group of friends, we will grow one friend at a time. This, like the democratic process embraced by the council, is difficult sometimes. At times some of us may choose size as a measure of success. But as we have already seen size is a poor measure. We cannot predict the future but the friendships formed here will be our measure of success. Having said that obviously there will be times when TS will look a bit thin in your time zone, as the group grows that phenomonen will fade, but we will not compromise our recruiting principles to inflate our numbers. As for the council meetings, the topics discussed so far have been varied, from age limits to financial disclosure. We will be discussing new games and we always vote on new members. If anyone has thoughts that they would like the council to consider please dont hesitate to share them with a council member on ts or via a private message. We may not embrace all your ideas but you will be heard. For now GRAW2 is the game around which this group is based, it is flawed and quirky but at this time it is our core game. We also play Rainbow6 Vegas (well done Inimigo for reigniting our interest in this game), IL2 1946 and GTR2. On the horizon is the much anticipated Crysis and Call of Duty 4. If they live up to their betas and demos these will become new core games here at the Legion of Sparta. You should know that our gaming server is capable of running multiple instances of all the games we want to play. The web page will change shortly. The interim page developed by Maj3stic has served us well. Given that he is new to this and that he is studying hard, we think he did a great job. The biggest news though is about Seargent Postal has been assigned to 101st. The 101st have a rich combat history so congratulations on your posting Seargent, we are proud of you. That's all for now folks The council of Sparta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Council_of_Sparta Posted December 3, 2007 Author Share Posted December 3, 2007 Spartans Welcome to the second edition of the Legion of Sparta newsletter. As a gaming group the biggest news is the arrival of Call of Duty 4 where we ran six servers on launch, we are new to this game but it has been embraced with enthusiasm and has won the admiration of our staunchest GRAW players. This game has beautiful graphics is not demanding on a PC and the server is easy to administer, all in all very satisfactory. The visual feast that is Crysis was launched a couple of days later, we will run 2 instances (there is only one game type but there will be a DX9 and DX10 version running) of this on our server. It too has been popular, but the preemptive strike of COD4 stolen its thunder, as gamers we are lucky to be spoilt for choice. We will run the following on our server: GRAW2 Coop IL2 Rainbow Six vegas Coop Call of Duty 4 (x4) Crysis (x2) GTR2 rFActor Our lodgers, the British Parachute Regiment (BPR), have managed to resolve their server issues and have departed our teamspeak. It was a pleasure to help out this friendly group and also to have at them on our COD4 server, a lot of fun was had by all and we hope to see them in some scrims shortly. Since the last newsletter we have added 7 friends to our group, Adder360, Billy, CoBoL, Direwolf5, Punisher, Spoon and X-wind, on behalf of the Legion of Sparta, welcome. We have held true to our recruiting doctrine and will continue to do so. Of course if you have friends over 23 you think would enjoy being amongst us feel free to invite them to teamspeak to get a taste of what tactical game play with a group of like minded friends is like. There is no pressure to join, and they won't be hassled for money if they do. Also if you see players in game behaving in a manner becoming our group do not hesitate to invite them onto Teamspeak (remember the 18+ rule) Whilst on this subject the council reaffirmed its commitment to the strategy we have so far pursued and are happy with the progress of the group. As always any ideas to enhance our fun or smooth out any rough edges please don?t hesitate to post here: Forum Suggestion Box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Council_of_Sparta Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 Friends, Spartans, Gamers Firstly and most importantly Seargent Postal has been deployed, he and all men and women posted into unpleasant and dangerous places are in our thoughts. Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Legion of Sparta newsletter. We have been around for seven months now. We continue our philosophy of being a dynamic, varied and laid back gaming group. The games we host and play are: COD4 (7 servers 24/7) EVE Online GRAW 2 (Coop 24/7) GTR2 (Incorporating Custom skins 24/7) FPS Games COD4 is evolving nicely. Our Map makers have released their first map, a recreation the last stand of the Uday brothers in Iraq. It has been well received by the community. This is pretty much Durkas first map (ever) which makes it all the more impressive. Read more about it here. Also the game developers are set to release four more maps. Since the last newsletter, Rocky and Floyd have organised the very successful ghostrecon.net crouch only nights. This runs on Server 7 on Friday and Saturday, created especially for this event, it is a modded server that eliminates the Last Stand, Martyrdom, Airstrike and Chopper and UAV. This is a new server and yet it is rising in the rankings very quickly. Thanks to all our guests for making it so popular Elvis has organised our first one on one tournament which is currently in round 2. This is a lot of fun and we look forward to more of these in the future. Server 1 is our tournament server. Krambo came up with the idea for a sniper only server, which we run on server 6. There are a limited number of Sniper rifles and no side arms. This is very challenging and good fun. We are looking for good sniper maps for this server, if you have any ideas please feel free to give us a shout. The Mods&Rockers server is proving popular. As a modded hard core custom map server it allows us to not only run custom maps such as village, Uday and now Sparta but also allows us to disable unwanted features of the game. Suggestions for new maps or mods are welcome from anyone member or not. Server 4 is a modded, ranked custom server. It allows you to rank up locally but once you have rank on this server you will have access to all the weapons and the ability to have the 5 custom kits. The downside is that players start with very limited selections. But since it is a modded server unwanted perks have been removed Server 3 is the main server. It is a ranked hardcore server. We run this completely stock and allow all the perks. We have the ability to disable the chopper but for now the chopper retains it's lethality. Server 5 is the rankup server, go there to complete challenges. GRAW2 As a hommage to the game on which this group was initially founded we have maintained our GRAW2 COOP server and due to the declining popularity of the game it remains one of the few places people can go to play it. We run a variety of custom maps and will continue to add to it. Ghost Recon The original and for many still the best FPS, it is in our project list for server creation. MMORPG We have a growing number of members who are interested in this type of gameplay. Currently the most popular here is EVE online, but our members also play other games in this genre. The knowledge base for this game although young is growing rapidly. Simulations GTR2 Sunday is raceday at the Legion of Sparta. We run regular races and have incorporated F1, World Touring Cars, Saleen Mustang Challenge, DBR9 Cup, Mini Challenge, on top of which custom skins developed by our own members have also been incorporated into the game. The emphasis in these races is fun. All are welcome regardless of skill. The races are run in novice mode you can use whatever aids you want. For those interested in skinning we have a number of members who are more than willing to help. Some of our members are evaluating Race07 which we may run seperately. Forum and Web page. Viiiper is steadily working on the forum and web page (Obviously the latter will only be visible when completed). For now it is best to come straight to the forum using this link As you can see Viiiper has added some useful buttons such as the TS connect button, the TS viewer button, the exchange rate button (very handy considering the multinational nature of the group) the most important is the general downloads button. Here you will find a veritable cornucopia of downloads for all the games that we play. As a matter of course all of the Legion of Spartas download needs will be made available here. The forums are very open and can be largely read without logging in, most of the forum is open to non members for posting. A few closing thoughts This is an open group, we welcome helpful suggestions from everyone, member or not. Friends are friends whether they wear Sparta tags or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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