Anyone Remember Nano-gridlock?
Theiggsta
Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 6958Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 6958Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">A question to everyone...</div> For those of you who have been around since 1.0, you probably know or have heard of Nano-Gridlock which was a very popular server back in its hayday during 1.0's release.
As the former admin of the server I guess the reputation preceeds me, however I still get requests and comments from the former patrons and those who knew of the server to bring the server back. For now, I wanted to post here and see exactly how many really want the server back as I have 2 offers to me for server donations.
If the demand is high enough I guess bringing back Nano will be in order with the original configs and rules. Then again I have stood by my original promise to move on after the fall of Nano-Gridlock and only a compelling argument by the community would give me the reason to go ahead and bring it back for everyone to have fun on again.
Don't get me wrong, I actually admire many of the current popular servers (I have a slot on the hamptons server, HAM rocks!) and I am not trying to take away from them at all, just want to add to that list again with an old favorite.
For clan sponsorship I will probably leave it open to the community as a public server since Nano was a favorite spot of many clans and keeping that tradition would be better for the server. Originally the server was sponsoring the Evolutionarily Challenged clan (EC) and we had good times with them and I recorded almost every scrim they had on the server (Flayra attended too) along with the various late-night jetpack races and dogfights. Those I would love to try doing again sometime, the onos races were too funny! I think I still have screenshots of the various crazy things we did on Nano too, but i'd have to look around to find them.
The rules would be tightened up a little to makesure there arent any llamas on the server, then again we rarely had any on the server before, its just a precautionary measure. As for access i'd implement a reserve slot system (similar to that of the Hamptons) with the player count bumped up to 20 instead of the older 16 of course. Server admins would be chosen by people whom are reguler patrons and demonstrate good public relations skills. I still have the old admin list from the original server and if they still want their access i'd be happy to give it to them.
Well I guess thats it for the post, I wanted to see if everyone would want the server back and if so, i'd make arrangements (again) to make it happen. The server would be up when 3.0 comes out of course, both hosts are all Steam now. (blech!)
Try to keep the comments here to the topic and constructive ones, im not starting a flame post here... just a question <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Happy Thanksgiving folks, have a good one!
-Theiggsta
As the former admin of the server I guess the reputation preceeds me, however I still get requests and comments from the former patrons and those who knew of the server to bring the server back. For now, I wanted to post here and see exactly how many really want the server back as I have 2 offers to me for server donations.
If the demand is high enough I guess bringing back Nano will be in order with the original configs and rules. Then again I have stood by my original promise to move on after the fall of Nano-Gridlock and only a compelling argument by the community would give me the reason to go ahead and bring it back for everyone to have fun on again.
Don't get me wrong, I actually admire many of the current popular servers (I have a slot on the hamptons server, HAM rocks!) and I am not trying to take away from them at all, just want to add to that list again with an old favorite.
For clan sponsorship I will probably leave it open to the community as a public server since Nano was a favorite spot of many clans and keeping that tradition would be better for the server. Originally the server was sponsoring the Evolutionarily Challenged clan (EC) and we had good times with them and I recorded almost every scrim they had on the server (Flayra attended too) along with the various late-night jetpack races and dogfights. Those I would love to try doing again sometime, the onos races were too funny! I think I still have screenshots of the various crazy things we did on Nano too, but i'd have to look around to find them.
The rules would be tightened up a little to makesure there arent any llamas on the server, then again we rarely had any on the server before, its just a precautionary measure. As for access i'd implement a reserve slot system (similar to that of the Hamptons) with the player count bumped up to 20 instead of the older 16 of course. Server admins would be chosen by people whom are reguler patrons and demonstrate good public relations skills. I still have the old admin list from the original server and if they still want their access i'd be happy to give it to them.
Well I guess thats it for the post, I wanted to see if everyone would want the server back and if so, i'd make arrangements (again) to make it happen. The server would be up when 3.0 comes out of course, both hosts are all Steam now. (blech!)
Try to keep the comments here to the topic and constructive ones, im not starting a flame post here... just a question <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Happy Thanksgiving folks, have a good one!
-Theiggsta
Comments
I'd love to see it back.
<span style='color:orange'>Oh, come on, I'm not <i>that</i> trigger happy, am I? *twitch* :p </span>
Oh comon marik, its a server topic :p.
Took a break from NS while waiting for 2.0 and my school to fix their network (Welchia is hell on old switches) but now I am back and I was wondering where NG was.
Definately bring it back, the best server I have ever played on in all my days of FPS'.
I mean what other server could actually get me to remember my login for this place?
dates are kinda fuzzy, but I know I played NS since they day it came out, and I played at NG whenever I could. (unless it was locked) So I think it's safe to say I played there from the public release of NS until nano-gridlock's death. No clan sponsorship please, and keep the same admins, they owned.
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That's all I have to say on the topic ^^
it was loads of fun, it took skill to play there, and I would love to see it come back.
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Like Fam. hawt.
Wonder if it'll ever be the same though, a lot of the old regs stopped playing NS or were severely alienated away from the server.
Than it died and I just followed LB to where ever he went with the server and thats how I ended up on the LunixMonster.
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It would be nice to see it back though.
Edit: Okay Ven, for the love of God change your sig, that bandwidth error is **** me off, yeah.
I updated the original post to include a mention of EC which I left out due to personal reasons which ive just discussed with some EC members. I apologize for not including them, but again it was personal reasons they were'nt included in the original post (long story between me and them).
Thanks for the posts so far guys, happy with the respones.
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I miss Nano, but LunixMonster is very much like Nano was, not half as crazy, just its still home to me.
I can't wait till Nano comes back.
THE INSANITY SHALL FALL LIKE SNOW!
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We miss Nano \o/
There was at one point 3 Nano's, but Gridlock was always the most popular (largely I think due to it's playerbase being American) while the other two..... well, I've still got one (and I'd love to team up with Igg to make a EU/US approach if he was interested) and Wither had the other, but I dunno what happened there.
But I will definitely support Nano-Gridlock upon its return.