news of April 2001

Is there something the C&C community should know? Mail it to MacMark@t-online.de and let's all read it here!


[2001-04-30]
Speed 1995

Many players complain about "slow speed", if they play versus me or other guys with a low bandwidth connection to the internet or an "older" computer. These guys own actual hardware and a cutting edge technology connection to the internet. Congratulations, seriously! This will help You with many newer games featuring awesome 3-d effects and overloaded web pages with useless animations. This won't help You on Command & Conquer, because C&C was designed for yesterday's hardware and yesterday's modem speed.

C&C DOS was created in 1995. What did we have then?

  • No WChat.
  • Windows 3.11, later in the year Windows95
  • Intel 80486@100MHz.
  • First Pentium chips below 120MHz.
  • PowerPC up to 120 MHz.

What happend later?

  • In late 1996 MacC&C was published featuring internet matches on WChat.
  • Again a half year later in summer 1997 C&Cgold was published allowing WChat matches for PeeCee users too.
  • In late 1997 Westwood introduced the C&C ladder system with a beta test over several months. The beta test ended in January 1998.

C&C was designed to run on computers of 1995 in normal speed, if You put the speed slider in the middle. I hope all of You bought their copy of C&C like I did and can follow me when I cite now the C&C manual regarding building speeds:

  • Barracks: 20 seconds to produce
  • Advanced Guard Tower: 66
  • Power Plant: 20
  • Advanced Power Plant: 47
  • Weapons Factory: 133
  • Minigun Infantry: 7
  • Rocket Soldier 17
  • Recon Bike: 33
  • NOD Buggy: 20
  • Hand Of NOD: 20
  • Airfield: 133
  • Medium Tank: 53
  • Mammoth Tank: 80
  • Communications Center: 66
  • Temple of NOD: 200
  • Sandbag Barrier: 3
  • Concrete Barrier: 7
  • Commando: 67

Now compare these amounts of time with Your real building speed on WChat and You will see, that Your computer is too fast for C&C and that Your connection it too fast too. But You can achieve normal C&C speed, when You put the speed slider down.

You see that the different units have very different building speeds. Beside the resources Tiberium and room to build, the most important resource in C&C is the time it takes to build certain things. If You build "faster" things like Barracks and Minigun Infantry, You can easily destroy Your opponent who builds an Airstrip and Recon Bikes. Before his Airstrip shipped 2 bikes, he would be dead.

C&C is a tactic game like Chess. You need the time to think and to control every single Minigunner. If You're bored, because it takes too long for You to build a Weapons Factory for 2 minutes, then You've no skills in this game. At first You have no other units to command while Your Factory is building or You have some, but You don't use them properly.

On today's hardware the building speed is 10 or more times faster than originally designed, if You put the speed slider to the maximum. The difference in building speed between a Hand Of NOD and an Airfield won't be 113 seconds (2 minutes!) but rather 10 seconds!! Think about what You can do with Your units with the right tactic in 2 minutes compared to 10 seconds only! I guess You imagine slowly what I mean. While the other guy waits full 2 minutes for his Airfield You kill him. In a game where You only would have 10 seconds to bring him down You cannot think about a good tactic to do that nor click the necessary 500 times with Your mouse to make Your units do the right things.

Every time I play a guy complaing about "slow game" and "lag" I know this:

  • He has no skills.
  • He has no good tactics.
  • He cannot adapt to unexpected surprises.
  • He probably knows only 1 single tactic.
  • He will lose.
  • He probably will dc.
  • He never played Chess.

For all the Chess players out there: You know that a good player has the most skills, if he gets enough time to think. If You limit the clock to 5 minutes for the game, he won't be as good as if he's allowed to play a game lasting an hour or longer. A Chess player with no skills will be bored of a long game, because he doesn't do that much thinking. C&C is much like Chess and in C&C You need additional time to control all Your units. Did You ever had a thrilling game that took 2 hours? Or are Your skills so low that You fall asleep while building a Power Plant for 20 seconds?

Medium Tanks aren't speed cars and Mingunners aren't hound dogs! If You want a speed game then buy Nascar Racing or Need For Speed.


[2001-04-29]
ACnDC homepage removed

As usual some secret activities took place behind the scenes. Now ACnDC's homepage is removed since some days. He harrassed there honest people like Westwood workers and me.

There're from time to time some "undercover actions" that won't be published here until the mission will be accomplished. So the message to the bad guys out there is: You're not alone, some secret eyes are watching You vey closely...

Related news on this topic:


[2001-04-26]
Ladder repaired by Greg

Many of You got no rank on the C&C ladder in April 2001 again. We had that problem since January 2001. Now Westwood fixed it. All missing names reappeared on the ladder and show the points and game records they got during this month. So Westwood was right, when they said, that the names aren't displayed but they accumulate points as usual. If Your name still doesn't show up on the ladder, tell it to me, I will contact Westwood then about it.

MacMark:

    Hi Ted, Gavin and "comments",

    there're still several names missing on the C&Cgold ladder. Some players still tell me they get not ranked just like me this month. You told me already, that Westwood is working to fix this, but there's no breakthrough in this problem until now to be seen, unfortunately.

    Please fix it :))

    Regards,
    MacMark

Gavin:

    Good news -- Greg has been working on this and believes he's fixed it.

    Please drop us a line if there's still a problem.

    Gavin

Thank You, Greg! Thanks to all the other Westwood people. Now, nobody can claim anymore Westwood wouldn't care about C&C: They hunt the cheaters, disable hackers and fix the ladder for us. I'm very happy with all that and I'm quite sure most of You out there will agree with me.


[2001-04-24]
Beasty admits hacking WChat a second time

Beasty recently admitted his hacking again just like he did in earlier news Beasty admits hacking WChat. He is well aware of being hunted.

All known nicks of him are unusable for him. As usual he will make some new ones, try to act cool on WChat and deny every proof. It won't help him much. The sysops are taking care of the fake channels, which prevent sometimes certain players from hosting a game on their own. In the end this looks like a big win for the good guys on WChat. We don't need other players who annoy us on our favorite game service.


[2001-04-20]
Beasty admits hacking WChat

Westwood is watching this, system operators are watching this and several C&C fan sites and their many sources are watching this too: Hacking on WChat. Previous news about it:

Again and again we get more input about this from players out there on WChat confirming over and over again what's happening. As I guessed from the beginning Beasty (under a lot of nicks) is playing the main role in this story. A recent email gave us an interesting screenshot which speaks books and shows Beasty admitting the hack:

Other reports confirm he begins to be scared seing all the forces tracking him down. I wouldn't wonder to see an FBI investigation against Beasty too like we saw against ACnDC. It looks like Beasty has big time underestimated the answer of the good guys in this game. There's no chance for You boy to get out of this like You went into this. Looks like we will see more news about him any time soon.


[2001-04-18]
FBI investigated ACnDC

I got an email from someone claiming to be ACnDC. He sent me a scanned in letter which contains beside other things the following:

    From U.S . Department of Justice

    <...> As a result of an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it appears that you have violated Title 18, United States Code, Section 875 - Threatening and Harassing Interstate Communications. <...>

If this letter is not a fake, ACnDC seems to be in major trouble because of his behaviour on WChat.


[2001-04-18]
Beasty and LordSSB hack on WChat

As an addition to the news Terrorism on WChat I found some interesting informations, when I made my daily visit to the C&C GOLD H.Q.: He published a log file of WChat, that confirms my suspicion I had in Terrorism on WChat: Beasty and LordSSB are hacking like hell on WChat.

The good news is, that Westwood and a certain sysop got my emails about the Terrorism on WChat and some action had been taken. So many of Beasty's accounts were removed and they take care about what happens on WChat. I saw them removing several faked game channels, that prevent the original player from hosting or harass him. I saw them kicking certain users, when they try hacking on WChat respectively abusing some PeeCee-WChat bugs respectiveley using a WChat editor. All this is giving us fair players and honest WChat visitors back a lot of security. I'm very pleased about this. Thanks to everyone of that - let me call it so - special task force.

The chat log shows the following:

  • Beasty came back immediately to WChat although he was banned. For this he has to hack on his computer.
  • Many of Beasty's accounts have been removed because of his terrorism.
  • Beasty recognized, that his terrorism is punished.
  • Some of Beasty's names (at least this one) is still working. Let's see how long. The others are obviously removed.
  • Beasty admits his hacker life.
  • Beasty admits, he is familiar with all those ugly hacks since years. Years of hacking!
  • Beasty wants to hack the C&C God site. Another very bad and dirty idea.
  • Beasty admits having hacked on "Westwood".
  • LordSSB knows how to hack and how to make him look like a sysop with the brackets "[]" around his name.
  • LordSSB admits the hacking and that the sysops are hunting him for that.
  • LordSSB fears, Westwood would stop his hacking.

Let's dive into the chat log now, which I took from the well updated C&C GOLD H.Q. I added my comments below every interesting part, enjoy:

    BeastyCCL : ROFL
    BeastyCCL : ok server fawking up
    Frostdnut : MSEOP1=FAIRY
    BeastyCCL : lets try this again
    BeastyCCL : FUCK
    Helpbot : BeastyCCL is being removed from server for bad language. - Helpbot
    mattkorn7 : hello
    BeastyCCL : THERE WE GO
    BeastyCCL : now its working

    Here, Beasty came back immediately to WChat although he was banned. For this he has to hack on his computer.

    BeastyCCL : fawk
    BeastyCCL : stupid ww so ez
    Frostdnut : how u guys getting back in like that
    MSEOP1 : beasty
    BeastyCCL : NEWBIE!
    MSEOP1 : it always was werking
    BeastyCCL : hahaha
    BeastyCCL : doin what?
    MSEOP1 : fuck you frostnut
    Helpbot : MSEOP1 is being removed from server for bad language. - Helpbot
    kotn002 : its beasty
    BeastyCCL : FUCK WW FUCK [HELPBOT]
    Helpbot : BeastyCCL is being removed from server for bad language. - Helpbot
    Frostdnut : ,seop1=fairy
    Camper12 : anything interresting happen on "raw is war" tonight?
    kotn002 : yeah
    BeastyCCL : so anyways
    kotn002 : HHH beat up hardy
    kotn002 : beasty
    MSEOP1 : dumdedum
    mattkorn7 : hello
    BeastyCCL : BRB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    MSEOP1 : hehehe
    BeastyCCL : HAHAH
    BeastyCCL : KOTN YOU NEWBIE
    MSEOP1 : fawk you
    BeastyCCL : hold up ppl
    kotn002 : m not a newbie
    BeastyCCL : hope dis workes
    BeastyCCL : got lots of my nicks banned

    Many of Beasty's accounts have been removed because of his terrorism.

    mattkorn7 : anybody know the requirments to play command and conquer online
    BeastyCCL : ops are after me lol
    MeGood2 : beasty=newbie
    kotn002 : ?
    kotn002 : Why?
    MeGood2 : [helpbot]
    Helpbot : MeGood2 is being removed from server for bad language. - Helpbot
    SeanShawn : HOOT
    MeGood2 : back
    BeastyCCL : megood2 = ?
    BeastyCCL : lol
    BeastyCCL : ?
    BeastyCCL : name hider/
    MeGood2 is a newbie
    MSEOP1 : beasty
    BeastyCCL : haha
    MSEOP1 : fawk you
    BeastyCCL : MSEOP
    BeastyCCL : WHO DOES HE =?
    ELVIS : beasty
    BeastyCCL : ELVIS
    ELVIS : did you see what macmark accusing us of
    BeastyCCL : ROFL
    BeastyCCL : ROIFL
    BeastyCCL : ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    MeGood2 : lol
    BeastyCCL : yeah
    BeastyCCL : LOL
    MeGood2 : u r terrorists
    BeastyCCL : HE DIDNT EVEN GET THAT RIGHT ROFL
    BeastyCCL : ROFL
    BeastyCCL : NO
    BeastyCCL : not tah
    ELVIS : i know
    BeastyCCL : that*
    BeastyCCL : the time line
    ELVIS : all i said was "break the pipe" and macmark called me a technical hacker of westwood
    MeGood2 : wchat killer?
    SeanShawn : WTF?
    SeanShawn : STUPID BOT
    SeanShawn : bah
    SeanShawn : anyways
    SeanShawn : he has the time line FAWKED up
    SeanShawn : dude i was here in late 95
    SeanShawn : said i just got here in 2000
    SeanShawn : ROFL
    ELVIS : all i said was "break the pipe" and macmark called me a technical hacker of westwood

    They didn't read my news exactly or try to make me look bad.

    SeanShawn : macmark = newb
    SeanShawn : ROFL
    SeanShawn : DOES MAC EVEN KNOW WHAT A PIPE IS?
    ELVIS : LordSSB: (alias ELVIS) He talks about technical details how they "broke the pipes" for some players to interrupt their connection to WCh
    MeGood2 : beasty....were u making channel names so he couldnt' get on?
    SeanShawn : SO IF I TELL IHM IM GOING TO KILL YOU Z
    ELVIS : ALL I SAID WAS BROKE THE PIPE
    SeanShawn : he will think a Z is like hacking terms?
    SeanShawn : READ WHAT I SAID NEWBIE!
    ELVIS : AND NOW IM TALKING TECHNICAL DETAILS
    SeanShawn : ROFL
    SeanShawn : ELVIS IM GOING TO SHOOT YOUR LOAD
    SeanShawn : THATS HACKING TERMS
    SeanShawn : HAHAH
    SeanShawn : IM GOING TO X YOUR PORT
    <Private from MeGood2> hey
    SeanShawn : does he even know what PIPE is
    SeanShawn : or he just think its bad bc we said it?
    MeGood2 : were u kicking him off westwood????????????????
    CCLBeasty : there we go
    ELVIS : yeah use the uni protical to duplex my nature bot with the scuzzy port adapters and info-routers for the os2 dll file
    CCLBeasty : me
    <Private to MeGood2> hi just sitting back enjoying the conversation ;)
    CCLBeasty : no
    ELVIS : GUESS WHAT
    <Private from MeGood2> blink here
    ELVIS : THAT MAKES ME TECHNICAL MARVLE
    CCLBeasty : MEGOOD
    CCLBeasty : WTF
    <Private to MeGood2> o whats up
    CCLBeasty : I DONT KNOW HOW TO HACK
    CCLBeasty : THAT WASNT ME LOL
    CCLBeasty : HE THINKS WE HACK
    ELVIS : lol
    CCLBeasty : BC WE SAID A FEW THINGS
    CCLBeasty : THEN HE GOT ALL OF FAWKING WW AFTER ME
    CCLBeasty : WTF

    Beasty recognized, that his terrorism is punished.

    ELVIS : all we said were words
    MeGood2 : lol
    CCLBeasty : LOL
    ELVIS : and he thinks we hacked
    CCLBeasty : BROKEN PIPE
    MeGood2 : so u didnt really do anything?
    CCLBeasty : DUDE IN MY KITCHEN
    ELVIS : but all we did was say a few words like broke the pope
    CCLBeasty : AND HE GOES SCREEMING!
    ELVIS : pipe*
    CCLBeasty : i hope HE is in here
    CCLBeasty : on some newbie name hid nick
    asulei : hi
    MeGood2 : lol, i thought u were kicking him off or something
    CCLBeasty : so he can see i dont do that SHIET
    CCLBeasty : MeGood2 : lol, i thought u were kicking him off or something
    CCLBeasty : WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
    asulei : any of u tried firestorm
    CCLBeasty : WHERE DO PPL GET DSI SHIET
    CCLBeasty : !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    ELVIS : id like to learn how so i could do that
    MeGood2 : he made it seem like u did that
    ELVIS : but i dont think its possable through ww
    SeanShawn : omFG
    SeanShawn : WHERE DID IT SEAM LIKE THAT?
    SeanShawn : WHERE DOES IT SAY THIS?
    MeGood2 : on his site
    SeanShawn : WTF?
    CCLBeasty : brb
    Shroomyo0 For the Very latest appz, gamez, and mp3z, surf to ftp://24.41.46.36 for all your warez needz!
    MeGood2 : lol
    CCLBeasty : lol
    CCLBeasty : what a newbot warzer
    CCLBeasty : omfg i have a bad memory right now lol
    CCLBeasty : MSEOP = >?
    CCLBeasty : ZigZag=totoe i know that....
    CCLBeasty : he just left..
    CCLBeasty : so like megood2 =?
    CCLBeasty : wont say?
    CCLBeasty : ojomy?
    <Ojomym> i know
    MeGood2 : i already told u
    CCLBeasty : kotn?
    CCLBeasty : NO
    CCLBeasty : you didnt
    <Ojomym> not me
    CCLBeasty : shiet to many name hiders
    CCLBeasty : ba
    CCLBeasty : hey
    CCLBeasty : so i thougth sun banned me from ww forever?
    CCLBeasty : o wate she only 2nd to me
    CCLBeasty : ahahha
    CCLBeasty : HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

    Some of Beasty's names (at least this one) is still working. Let's see how long. The others are obviously removed.

    MeGood2 : where is nogood
    CCLBeasty : ROFL YOU JUST NOW LEARNED HOW TO DO THAT!!!!!!!!!?
    CCLBeasty : he gone
    MeGood2 : no
    CCLBeasty : his "girl"
    CCLBeasty : or work i bet
    MeGood2 : how to get back on the same name
    CCLBeasty : hehe
    CCLBeasty : that iLL NEVER TELL!
    CCLBeasty : lord dont even know lol
    CCLBeasty : i had to TELL HIM

    Beasty admits his hacker life.

    MeGood2 : its easy
    ELVIS : ?
    ELVIS : tell me what
    CCLBeasty : rofl
    MeGood2 : i just deleted a bunch of stuff and it worked
    ELVIS : that men are suppost to like girls?
    MeGood2 : lol
    CCLBeasty : HOW TO SAY FUCK AND COME BACK SAME NICK, NOT OTHER NICK
    Helpbot : CCLBeasty is being removed from server for bad language. - Helpbot
    <Private to MeGood2> wait catch me up here what are they talking about?
    <Private to MeGood2> getting on a name thats banned?
    <Private to MeGood2> how u do that?
    <Private from MeGood2> regedit
    <Private from MeGood2> yea
    <Private from MeGood2> easy

    This guy knows how to hack too. Very sad. Any other interest? A honest WChat visitor doesn't need or use any hacks.

    CCLBeasty : yawn ez
    MeGood2 : fast
    MeGood2 : my turn
    CCLBeasty : lol
    MeGood2 : [helpbot]
    Notice: You no longer have any users selected for private messages.
    Helpbot : MeGood2 is being removed from server for bad language. - Helpbot
    CCLBeasty : heheh so ez
    CCLBeasty : lord dont even know ;)
    CCLBeasty : had to tell ya didnt i!
    CCLBeasty : News: Terrorism on WChat \
    CCLBeasty : rofl
    MeGood2 : back
    CCLBeasty : omfg get this
    CCLBeasty : what makes me mad about mac
    MeGood2 : oh, macmarks site
    CCLBeasty : not the fact that he posts everything
    CCLBeasty : is that he does it all WRONG
    CCLBeasty : like that WCHAT bot
    CCLBeasty : IS LIKE 3 FAWKING YEARS OLD
    CCLBeasty : FOCE GAME START WTF is sooooooooooo old
    MeGood2 : lol, its new for him
    CCLBeasty : he just a newbie
    CCLBeasty : LOL HE THOUGHT IT WAS WW THAT MADE GAME NAMES BLABLA=DCER
    CCLBeasty : HAHAHAHAH what a newbie........

    Beasty admits, he is familiar with all those ugly hacks since years. Years of hacking!

    MeGood2 : lol, he did???
    <Ojomym> lol
    CCLBeasty : ROFL
    <Ojomym> hahhah
    CCLBeasty : ITS ALL OVER HIS FAWKING PAGE
    CCLBeasty : ROFL
    MeGood2 : loQ, hes kind of dumb
    CCLBeasty : GO LOOK AT THE NEWS AND WCHATKILLER AND ALL THE POST NEWS FOR IT
    CCLBeasty : rofl
    CCLBeasty : GERMAN
    CCLBeasty : that says it all
    MeGood2 : lol
    MeGood2 : can u say nazi
    <Ojomym> man i played him
    <Ojomym> his comp is sloooooooooow
    CCLBeasty : New names for cheater channels
    CCLBeasty : see
    MeGood2 : oh, i got a power in about 2 mins last time
    CCLBeasty : he thought ppl that cheated got a channel named therename=dcer
    CCLBeasty : what a newbie
    CCLBeasty : lol
    CCLBeasty : GET THIS
    <Ojomym> yah same here, i took a nap while my hand was building
    CCLBeasty : i have a logged 2 HOUR GAME WITH MACMARK
    CCLBeasty : funnything
    MeGood2 : he likes the "slow" speeds
    CCLBeasty : after 1 1/2 hours of this game
    CCLBeasty : IT SPED UP SO FAST!

    I guess all Your units were killed by me, then the CPU has less work. Just a hint ;)

    CCLBeasty : guess took that long blew lagg out or somthing lol?
    CCLBeasty : i still didn get it......
    MeGood2 : lol
    MeGood2 : his 14.4 k modem or something
    CCLBeasty : true though i swear lol
    kotn002 : where can i get a ww bot?
    CCLBeasty : you cant
    CCLBeasty : dont ask
    MeGood2 : ask mac
    kotn002 : ?
    CCLBeasty : dont exist
    kotn002 : mac?
    MeGood2 : macmark
    CCLBeasty : yeh
    CCLBeasty : macmmark=pro hacker

    Beasty spreads lies about MacMark. Very bad move.

    kotn002 : yeh it does
    MeGood2 : there is no such thing
    kotn002 : mc-chat
    CCLBeasty : he does all this stuff to ww
    kotn002 : nod-chat
    CCLBeasty : and then says other ppl did it
    MeGood2 : lol
    kotn002 : ?
    ELVIS : beasty, guess what
    CCLBeasty : ever see that 007 movei, MAKE THE NEWS
    MeGood2 : he d/ced me once
    kotn002 : why u laugh?
    ELVIS : macmark said "Wchat killer" he must be a hacker huh?
    CCLBeasty : DID YOU EVER SEE THAT 007 MOVIE!!!!!!!!
    CCLBeasty : I KNOW!!!!!!!!
    CCLBeasty : HOW DID HE GET THAT NAME!!!!!!!!!!!
    CCLBeasty : its called Wcha....
    CCLBeasty : oops there i go again
    CCLBeasty : might get branded as a hacker if i say it
    MeGood2 : mac d/ced me, then blamed his isp connection, well duh, if u pull the plug your isp is going to go down

    We talked about it. Why do You try to make me look bad now? I said my ISP did hang up and I offered You a free win, but You refused to take it. Do You try to look cool to the MacMark-hating hackers?

    CCLBeasty : lol
    CCLBeasty : SO DID YOU EVER SEE THAT 007 MOVIE GUYES. TOMMARROW NEVER DIES?
    ELVIS : yep
    CCLBeasty : MAKE THE NEWS!
    CCLBeasty : HAH THATS MAC FOR YA
    CCLBeasty : HE MAKES SHIET UP OR DOES IT THEN BLAMES ;)
    CCLBeasty : he dont realy have an apple. so he can use .exe
    CCLBeasty : but he just says that so we dont hink he uses editors
    CCLBeasty : and hacks
    CCLBeasty : sad............
    CCLBeasty : i want the ppl that TORE down skulldudes page
    CCLBeasty : to ter up macmarks lol
    CCLBeasty : that would be GOOD!

    Beasty wants to hack the C&C God site. Another very bad and dirty idea.

    MeGood2 : he probably has like a computer lab with westwood stuff everywhere
    CCLBeasty : lol no way
    CCLBeasty : bc he cant even do html
    CCLBeasty : and he been doing forever
    CCLBeasty : and its half his job to
    CCLBeasty : me
    CCLBeasty : haha 3 years
    CCLBeasty : im elite, i can do any js
    CCLBeasty : perel
    CCLBeasty : css
    CCLBeasty : html
    Frostdnut : ihi
    MeGood2 : beasty still hasnt' loaded his site
    CCLBeasty : o man, i been woking on wwn
    CCLBeasty : LOL
    CCLBeasty : i just wroking on it befor i came in
    MeGood2 : yea right
    CCLBeasty : lol i cant help it i was almsot done then i learend how to ha....
    CCLBeasty : oops there i go gain lol
    MeGood2 : lol
    CCLBeasty : so then i forgot about wwn
    CCLBeasty : and started hac.
    CCLBeasty : damit!
    CCLBeasty : so anyways
    CCLBeasty : now im back to workign on WWN
    CCLBeasty : be up soon i hope
    CCLBeasty : NEW SECTION ADDED
    MeGood2 : ok
    CCLBeasty : DEDICATED TO MACMARK AND THE WW TEAM!!!!!!
    CCLBeasty : WESTWOOD HACKED!!!!!!!!!! ;)))))))))))))))))))
    MeGood2 : lol, that would be funny

    Beasty admits having hacked on "Westwood".

    MeGood2 has to go
    CCLBeasty : CYA BLINK!
    MeGood2 : bye y'll
    CCLBeasty : dam i talk to much lol!
    CCLBeasty : i need to get back to work
    CCLBeasty : lol
    fieldwals : is the Upgrade server working for anyone?
    fieldwals : or does anyone even know?
    CCLBeasty : what upgreade server?
    CCLBeasty : ooooooo
    CCLBeasty : dont need it
    CCLBeasty : ww didnt update
    CCLBeasty : or it would do on start up
    fieldwals : yeah that is what i figured
    CCLBeasty : but your hear arent you?
    CCLBeasty : so you dont need it
    fieldwals : to join a game i do
    CCLBeasty : ?
    CCLBeasty : dont know.....
    fieldwals : I havent played in a while, and my software is old
    CCLBeasty : sucks for u
    fieldwals : yeah
    CCLBeasty : yeah
    CCLBeasty : what does it say?
    ELVIS : i would like to admit something
    ELVIS : should I?
    CCLBeasty : YEAH
    CCLBeasty : I WILL WITH YA
    ELVIS : ok
    ELVIS : ILL DO IT
    CCLBeasty : LOL
    ELVIS : I WOULD LIKE TO ADMIT THAT.......
    ELVIS : I AM..........
    CCLBeasty : just dont say your gay
    SeanShawn is away: ? ?2auto-away ??6(rec: ?ON ? pager: ?OFF?)
    ELVIS : the king of rock and roll
    ELVIS : LOL
    CCLBeasty : LOL
    fieldwals : Are you guys watching Leno or somthing?
    CCLBeasty : WTF
    ELVIS : SOMEONE IS ON LITTLE STATR
    CCLBeasty : SEAN IS HACKING
    CCLBeasty : NOT ME
    CCLBeasty : IM RIGHT HERE LOL
    ELVIS : beasty
    CCLBeasty : SeanShawn is away:
    CCLBeasty : yeah?
    ELVIS : you are about as believeable as clinton
    ELVIS wins
    ELVIS : rofc
    fieldwals : The reason i ask if you are watching Leno is b/c they were just talking about....
    fieldwals : beting gay
    CCLBeasty : rofl
    CCLBeasty : i was afk
    CCLBeasty WINS
    CCLBeasty : hey elvis
    CCLBeasty : take off that auto message on JERK SERVE uYOU
    ELVIS : hehe
    ELVIS : why
    CCLBeasty : makes me mad
    CCLBeasty : i dont know how
    CCLBeasty : yet
    CCLBeasty : key word YET
    ELVIS : hehe
    ELVIS : its just a mirc script
    ELVIS : OH NO
    ELVIS : I SAID MIRC SCRIPT THAT MEANS IM A HACKER
    ELVIS : OH NOP
    CCLBeasty : DUDE
    CCLBeasty : STFU
    CCLBeasty : YOUR ON WW NOT IRC
    CCLBeasty : SO DONT SAY THAT STUFF!
    ELVIS : I KNOW
    ELVIS : I SLIPED
    ELVIS : WHOOPSE
    CCLBeasty : shhhhhhhh for all we know ojo or kot is macmarks secret syps or himself

    Neither, but You're not alone nevertheless ;)

    ELVIS : yeah
    ELVIS : hey beasty
    CCLBeasty : dude this dl has like 10 more hours!
    ELVIS : you know what a .rar file is?
    CCLBeasty : hmm
    CCLBeasty : nerver in my life have i seen one
    CCLBeasty : no
    ELVIS : ok
    ELVIS : you know what a .zip file is right?
    CCLBeasty : no
    CCLBeasty : what is a zip
    ELVIS : WHAT?
    CCLBeasty : i dont know what a zip is
    CCLBeasty : WTF
    CCLBeasty : newbie lol
    ELVIS : dont play dumb
    CCLBeasty : i know iknow
    ELVIS : you know what a ZIP FILE
    ELVIS : ok
    CCLBeasty : O KOT YOUR THERE HOLD ON A SEC
    CCLBeasty : YEZ
    CCLBeasty : go on elvis
    ELVIS : well a .rar is exactly like a .zip, except they use different programs to decode them
    CCLBeasty : k........
    ELVIS : .rar lets you make one huge file into many compressed files
    CCLBeasty : thats ez in my mind.... k point...?
    CCLBeasty : k
    ELVIS : so after you unzip this file you are getting from me
    big333333 : How do you talk in the games??
    ELVIS : you have to decompress it with .rar
    <Ojomym> lol
    CCLBeasty : LOL
    ELVIS : ill send you WinRAR after this send
    CCLBeasty : where do i get a RAR?
    CCLBeasty : ok........
    <Private to big333333> hi F1 man
    CCLBeasty : dude
    CCLBeasty : ill need that
    CCLBeasty : bc im going to pirate like 600 mb games
    CCLBeasty : you know
    big333333 : thanks
    CCLBeasty : Rainbow six and stuff
    CCLBeasty : and this is only a 100 mb lol
    CCLBeasty : i dont think any1 ever finishes a 600
    CCLBeasty : HOLD ON
    CCLBeasty : BRB
    CCLBeasty : 5 MIN
    SeanShawn : LOL KOT
    SeanShawn : ITS ME BEAST
    SeanShawn : DONT PRIV ON DIS NICK OK
    SeanShawn : brb
    <Ojomym> wait beasty is seanshawn?
    ELVIS : i finished a 708 mb file today
    CCLBeasty : k back......
    CCLBeasty : KOT
    kotn002 : what?
    CCLBeasty : now tell me..... what is it you want lol?
    CCLBeasty : i keep missing your message talking to fast lol
    kotn002 : how to hexedit my name, so i could use it here without registering a new nickname
    ELVIS : beasty
    CCLBeasty : wtf?
    ELVIS : i finished a 708 mb file today
    kotn002 : ?
    ELVIS : wait
    ELVIS : kotn
    kotn002 : what?
    ELVIS : are you telling me that WW uses hexidecimals to encode their nickname server?
    SeanShawn : WTF?
    kotn002 : ccl was talking about hexing my name to put [] around it

    How many hackers do we have here?

    SeanShawn : elvis did you do that?
    SeanShawn : DUDE IM CCL
    SeanShawn : I JUST GOT DCED
    SeanShawn : I DIDNT HEAR ANYTHING YOU SAID
    SeanShawn : wtf?
    ELVIS : yeah, someone showed me how to do it
    SeanShawn : LOL
    ELVIS : but if sun is on she will K line me

    LordSSB knows how to hack and how to make him look like a sysop with the brackets "[]" around his name.

    kotn002 : really?
    SeanShawn : CAN THEY KNOW IF YOU DO IT?
    SeanShawn : how?
    ELVIS : sun knows
    SeanShawn : you say she will k line you........
    SeanShawn : how do they know
    SeanShawn : it shows up
    SeanShawn : i saw when you right click on ls status window
    SeanShawn : a list of shiet
    ELVIS : i dont know how she knows but she knows
    ELVIS : because we made a name called [BIGGER] and she could detect it
    ELVIS : she kept banning it
    SeanShawn : lol that sucks

    LordSSB admits the hacking and that the sysops are hunting him for that.

    SeanShawn : i should get like a name aslksassd then do it to here
    ELVIS : so then he would log onto WW with [TED] and she banned it to
    kotn002 : how do u do it?
    ELVIS : its a secret
    SeanShawn : lol
    SeanShawn : dam
    SeanShawn : took me dis long to get what i know
    SeanShawn : 5 years lol
    ELVIS : if too many people do it, then westwood will try to put a stop to it

    LordSSB fears, Westwood would stop his hacking.

    SeanShawn : yeah.......
    SeanShawn : same with this, i dont tell any1
    SeanShawn : im like, i dont know
    SeanShawn : lol kot realy i dont even know how to do that
    SeanShawn : put [] on name like sysops do
    kotn002 : what proggy are u using?
    SeanShawn : me?
    kotn002 : you lied to me then?
    SeanShawn : none lol
    kotn002 : liar
    SeanShawn : no
    SeanShawn : WTF
    SeanShawn : I CANT DO []
    SeanShawn : rofl lord just told you
    SeanShawn : secret lol
    SeanShawn : thats why i asked dumb shiet
    SeanShawn : brb
    ELVIS : now just because i know how to do it doesnt mean that i do it
    CCLBeasty : /clear
    kotn002 : what proggy was he using!?!?!
    kotn002 : ccl
    kotn002 : what prog was that?
    ELVIS : /clear is a mirc term
    ELVIS : YOU MUST BE HCKIGN
    CCLBeasty : lol i forgot
    CCLBeasty : lol i keep switchen shiet i get lost lol
    kotn002 : can i have WHack.exe?
    kotn002 : ples?
    kotn002 : on mine it says its corrupt
    kotn002 : can u email it to me?
    CCLBeasty : WHack.exe?
    CCLBeasty : wtf is this shiet lol!!!!!!
    CCLBeasty : dont tell me
    CCLBeasty : macmark told you its called that?
    CCLBeasty : lo
    CCLBeasty : l
    ELVIS : download stop?
    CCLBeasty : where does macmark get his terms
    CCLBeasty : lol i disconnected
    CCLBeasty : see i dl form you
    ELVIS : nope
    CCLBeasty : then get back on ww
    ELVIS : i canceled your download
    ELVIS : heh
    CCLBeasty : but i did it too sone watch
    CCLBeasty : ?
    ELVIS : i must be a hacker
    CCLBeasty : lol nm then
    ELVIS : if i can do tha
    kotn002 : ccl
    CCLBeasty : lol
    CCLBeasty : lol hit cancel real hard
    CCLBeasty : dude lord STOP
    CCLBeasty : lol
    CCLBeasty : HOOT ONLY 9 MORE HOURS TO DL
    CCLBeasty : OMFG KOT
    CCLBeasty : STFU, FIRST YOU DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT IM USING
    CCLBeasty : 2ND YOU CANT HAVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
    CCLBeasty : AND 3RD
    CCLBeasty : WTF IS WHACK.EXE?
    CCLBeasty : OR THIS WCHAT HACK BOT? MACMARK TALKES ABOUT LOL!!!!!!!!

    Again Beasty spreads lies about MacMark.

    CCLBeasty : WHERE DO THESE PPL GET THESE TERMS!?
    ELVIS : noone is getting Whack
    ELVIS : unles i get to Whack you
    ELVIS : whack you in the head
    ELVIS : beasty
    ELVIS : i gotta restart
    ELVIS : my MAX crashed
    ELVIS : gotta reboot
    seanshawn : Lame-o-Meter [--------{10}] 10/10 ELVIS is the master! I bow to ELVIS' lameness...
    ELVIS : k?
    seanshawn : k
    ELVIS : just for that
    seanshawn : lol!
    CCLBeasty : <Private from kotn002> WHack is for mirc
    CCLBeasty : UM NOT EVEN CLOSE LOL! WTC? WHACK HAHAHAH
    CCLBeasty : ok ok give up the term WHACk
    CCLBeasty : and WCHATBOTHACK
    CCLBeasty : bc thats not even what this is
    CCLBeasty : lol
    kotn002 : Westwood hack.exe
    CCLBeasty : DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    CCLBeasty : ok im done talking to you
    CCLBeasty : you dont get it
    CCLBeasty : irc yes
    CCLBeasty : wwhack? no
    seanshawn : A shut-up ban has been placed on kotn002. If he speaks, he will be kicked.
    kotn002 : riight
    CCLBeasty : lol hehehe
    kotn002 : ok
    seanshawn says "1. New-bie (noun): a person who is new. 2. a person who pretends NOT to be new by being a moron 3. see Lamer for more details. example of a Newbie: kotn002 :)
    seanshawn sings.... It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood a beautiful day to be neighbors, would you be mine, could you be mine: Hello everyone, todays speial word is 'lamer', can you say l-a-m-e-r? "kotn002" good.... I am so proud of you... "won't you be, my lamer...."
    kotn002 : are you done making crappy insults?
    CCLBeasty : no
    CCLBeasty : i didnt make those lol
    CCLBeasty : watch this

Very interesting log file, isn't it?


[2001-04-15]
Terrorism on WChat

In addition to yesterday's news WChat killer I've some more informations: Now they disconnect players who host a game. When the player logs in again he sees a game with his name, that isn't hosted by himself. No one can join this faked game channels. As a result of this the player cannot host a game on his own, because such a channel already exists. This seems to be the same illegal program, a Westwood sysop told me about: They can name their game channel to what they like. To state it again: This is illegal hacking on WChat.

Related news:

This happened yesterday when CnCBeasty was back in the CnC channel. I don't think it's a coincidence.

I got a confirmation from Sundown46 regarding that sabotage:

    "hey mac I can confirm this report of the "wchat killer." i recently had a game with the guy "caulkman" on straight and narrow. the game went bad for him and i was winning, so he out of synced me. later when i went in to chat he accused ME of cheating!! Of course I denied this because i wasn't the one who had cheated, but someone caulkman got beazty on his side (cncbeast, beazty420) and beasty continually disconnected me from chat. not only can he disconnect you in chat, but he can disconnect you when you are in a channel with him. i'm not sure if he can disconnect you when your not in a channel..but i usually don't hang around to try. theres also a bug that he has that he can kick people out of their game and the game will stay there, but no one can join. this is really bad...i suggest prompt action be taken on this.

    -sundown"

It happens sometimes, that some guys, that are invisible are talking to You. We're not talking about some kind of ghosts here, but rather of some more hackers on WChat. Usually only Westwood (or maybe sysops) are able to talk to You without being visible. Those hiding guys like to annoy You with silly statements and You cannot ban them or squelch them, because You cannot see them.

According to the informations I got my best guess is that the following players are involved in this terrorism on WChat:

  • LordSSB: (alias ELVIS) He talks about technical details how they "broke the pipes" for some players to interrupt their connection to WChat.
  • Caulkman: This seems to be a name hider, probably one of the other guys in this list. He attacked Sundown46.
  • DragoNOD: Beasty asks him again and again for cheats and hacks. He made a virus (DragoNod spreads a virus) and many players bet their head he are one of the major hackers on WChat.
  • Beasty420: He uses names containing "beasty", "beazty" or "420" or a combination of it. Since he came back to WChat last week, the terrorism came to today's level. He plays innocent, but he lies. I was watching him undercover and saw how he annoyed players on the chat channel and those players were disconnected by the "broken pipe" hack. This guy is familiar to Westwood since he tried in 2000 to outperform ACnDC as the No1 bad guy.

I request my readers to look for those guys and report any strange things happening out there on WChat to me (to publish it and keep You all up to date with informations) and to Westwood (to take action against it). On my links You find the necessary email addresses of Westwood. Some of them are:

We have to take action and (like Oompah would say) bench-press them right out of the (C&C-) universe! We don't want those hackers, cheaters and terrorists on WChat!

I informed Westwood in the recent days and I think they and their sysops can track those guys and get rid of them again and again. One question remains: Why was no sysop on the chat channels? If there always would be at least one of them, we won't be in such trouble.


[2001-04-14]
WChat killer

Some players are hacking on WChat. They're able to interrupt the connection of other players to the Westwood server in the chat channel. This is against Westwood rules and is generally no nice behavior. One of them is Beazty420, whom we all remember as a bad guy surfacing in 2000 on WChat. Involved into this mess seems to be LordSSB too, who talked about "broken pipes, which removes chatters from the talk channel". He talked about that while they broke the connections of players.

Westwood is informed and I expect appropriate action to be taken.


[2001-04-14]
Winners of our tourney

I looked at all players of our private tourney and how many games they played, how many opponets they beat, versus whom they played, if they took their loss like a man and so on. I made two groups of winners. One for skills and the other for honesty. Although 2 players had reports dated in the year 2000, they proved to be good guys now. Congratulations to all of You. The tourney was an idea of my readers, who asked me to hold it. My thanks go to all who participiated in it.

  • The winners:
    • 1st place: McCreadie (Red Alert 2)
    • 2nd place: blak (Command & Conquer mousepad)
    • 3rd place: XTheManX (Command & Conquer mousepad)
  • Honest players:
    • Sportsmanship: DMXdaDawg (Tiberian Sun sound track CD)
    • Sportsmanship: TONKAJOE (Tiberian Sun sound track CD)
    • Fair play: thetechy ( Red Alert 2 poster)
    • Fair play: oRciOnm ( Red Alert 2 poster)

I need now from You the following data:

  • real name
  • mailing address (including country and postal code)
  • telephone number

I will forward that with the prizes You won to Sam (Westwood Studios) and he will send You Your prize.


[2001-04-07]
Tourney terminated

As announced earlier on this site, I terminated our private tourney on the 1st of April 2001. In the next days I will look at all players, who participiated and I will award some of the prizes if I see fit.


[2001-04-07]
No ranks problem - again

The regular visitor of this site had read often about this issue in my news since January 2001. This adds to the now quite long thread:

To my surprise I get no rank in April 2001 like I did in January. Westwood's techhelp and I exchanged some mails during the past few days about it:

MacMark:

  • Hello TechHelp and AccountHelp at Westwood,

    I play as "MacMark" on the MacC&C/C&Cgold ladder: (http://westwood.ea.com/westwoodonline/tournaments/ccgold/combined.html).

    I cannot get a rank in April 2001. The ladder doesn't list my name, although I play tournament games.

    Some other C&C players get no rank too.

    You have those problems since January 2001: Every month some players aren't ranked although playing. Then they get a rank in the next month and maybe the following month no rank again. It's quite crazy, because the affected names differ every month.

    Regards,
    MacMark (http://kbserver.homeip.net/macmark)

techhelp:

  • We are aware that some people are not appearing on the ladder. We are working on it and hope to have it fixed soon.

    Let me know if you have anymore questions by replying back to this email.

    Thanks.

    Kim Talbot
    Customer Service
    Westwood Studios

MacMark:

  • Hi Kim,

    does this mean that I will appear on the ladder during April with all points I got until then? Or will I start from scratch?

    Regards,
    MacMark

techhelp:

  • You are still accumulating points. We know how many points you win/lose. When it is fixed it will post that record.


    Let me know if you have anymore questions by replying back to this email.

    Thanks.
    Kim Talbot
    Customer Service
    Westwood Studios

This means, someday our names and our points will appear again on the ladder and all our games are counted even if not shown. Well, let's hope for a soon fix :)

If You want to read more news about this issue, I suggest to visit the C&C GOLD H.Q. It's my favorite C&C site currently and updated often. He has additional informations waiting for You.


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