Hi guys,

I have made some command maps where you can see my ideas where to put the spawn, siege and warzone points for the *DAMN BL Map pack 1 maps.

You can view them here!

Please have a look at them and leave your opinions or post your own ideas. In the end you have to play with them, so it is in your all interest to make the maps as fair and fun as possible.

Bye,

Mauti

The small bug has been fixed.

Further please read the *DAMN BL Map pack 1 spawn discussion thread if you want to submit your spawn, warzone, siege point suggestions. So the new maps layout can be fully enjoyed Deadline for you submition is 4th december.

Also if you submit your ideas don't forget that a map can have more than only one Siege point, you could add view random siege points.

If you already participated last season and wonder why your clan doesn't appear on the ladders. Your clan leader has to choose the ladders you play in season 6 in the clanmanagement options.

Click at our BL Staff link to see who of our admins is currently online in GameRanger.

Btw admins if you haven't noted you have now complete access. Scroll down the forum page to discover the private admin forum part.

Have a nice day and once again have a great season 6,

*DAMN Mauti

If you read through the BL rules you will notice that they state that if in a cb one clan is unranked you can only earn 50points for the GhR ladders and 15 for the AA ladder.

I just checked the matchlist and noticed that this isn't true yet due a bug. It will be fixed soon so don't wonder if you suddenly have less points.

Greetings,

Mauti

Hi guys,

welcome to a new exciting season 6.

Season 6 will have few new features and surprises, a short summary:

- First it features now an America's Army ladder. So spread the word about it.

- The Ghost Recon Ladders feature Multiple Clanbattles now!

- We have added a new required *DAMN BL Map Pack 1 for all Ghost Recon ladders for new exciting and fun games. The map pack includes 10 new maps(have already been released in other mod projects this is only a compilation of them), the map pack further fixes the 4 screwed kit files and adds some new gametypes and kit resistrictions for fun or later use in the ladder.

Before you start crying that most maps have unfair inserts, warzones or siege points let me come to the second step of my master plan: yes indeed the inserts and zones are far away from being perfect but the map layout of the maps is excellent and so it is up to you to submit me suggestions(photoshopped command maps) where you think we should make the spawn points and wz/siege points. After the first two weeks we gonna decide which of your suggestions gonna make it and then we will update the zones. But I gonna be more detailed in the next days as long have fun exploring great new maps. You always should have this map pack on so as many people as possible download the map pack and it will soon become a standard map pack in the Mac GhR community.

- Season 6 introduces a warning point system so issues are always punished the same and more clear. More about this in the rules

- The BL command structure has received a major change: we have now few new admins to provide almost 24/7 support and furhter the admins gonna decide about any issues. No more "let's see what Mauti decides" from our admins. More about the chain of command in the BL rules.

BL admins for season 6 are(random order):

BfG, Flies, Civic, Voodoo, Hazard, Typhy, Rebel, Dr. No, Buccaneer, Noto, Gen Harvey, Eight and last but not least Gambit.

13admins in total: 3 european GhR admins, 8 US GhR admins, 2(3) US AA admins, 2 US RS admins.

- The BL rules have completly been reworded to make it easier for you to follow them. Big thanks to Noto here.

- Few rules concerning how glitching will be judged have been modified.

- The new rules can already be viewed and downloaded. I know that they are extremly long(17 A4 pages) but nevertheless please read through them careful to avoid unnecessary issues. Further there are lot of other changes that are waiting to be discovered.

I think many of you are surprised by the amount of changes we have done in such a short timeframe(only one week pause between season 5 and 6) so sit down take a deep breath and be ready for the ultimate and last fun season in the year 2003 and please always remind: IT IS ONLY A GAME SO TAKE IT EASY AND ENJOY THE SHOW, thanks in advance.

Addendum season 5:

Core has been awarded with the official GhR competition winner icon and BTs has received twice the fun ladder winner icon.

Enjoy and please post your first reactions here or in the BL forum.

Have a nice day,

*DAMN Mauti
ps: because I haven't done anything for the university the last 5 days to get season 6 running I need now few hours to do some homework and I hope I get them done as fast as I have done over 100forum posts(over 89 written A4 pages) within the last week.

After some furious discussions in the BL forum season 5 ended with [ ! ],Core, being the winner of the Ghost Recon Competition ladder followed by runner up SL as a consequence of c| withdrawing in the final final round. Congratulations to the Core guys, who put all their efforts into the competition ladder, for showing a great team performance throughout the season.

The Ghost Recon Competition ladder was the only ladder with Finals being played. The RS ladder suffered again less activity and so Finals weren't played. Time goes on but Raven Shield is near release. ACE won the RS ladder by combat points, followed by runner up RnT, and DaF finished as 3rd. (Attention I just had to remove the last Ace - DaF cb because both already played each other 4times.)

About the fun GR-Siege and GR CQB ladders: 3 clans totally owned these ladders, by name BTs, c| and SL.

BTs won both ladders. c| ranked 2nd in the Siege and 3rd in the CQB ladder and SL vice versa.

Over 500cbs were played in season 5 that are 100+ more than in season 4 in only half the time(the season length was reduced from 90days to 50days this season). Again over 30 clans participated actively on the different ladders. BTs sets a new Most-cbs-played per season record to incredible 145cbs played. The former record was 63cbs/season achieved by DEA in season 3.

Congratulations to all clans that participated in the BL and I hope you all had fun beside the few issues we experienced throughout the season. I think all in all season 5 was a success. One reason for the success being the change to the Combat Point System. Although most still doesn't understand it completly it allowed the clans to concentrate full on cbs instead of thinking how to gather an tactical advantage by using flaws in the algorithm. There are still some minor bugs in the script left but nothing you have to worry about.

The *DAMN winner icon will be sent to Core soon. About the fun ladders: the admins and I are currently discussing if it would be useful to also have icons for the winners of the fun ladders or if it would take too much away from the "non-serious-gaming-fun" aspect.


Season 6: start is this sunday the 23rd November. The end of the main season is 2nd january 2004 with the finals being played on 2 weekends(3.1.2004/4.1.2004 and 10.1.2004/11.1.2004).

The bad news first: I told you that season 6 will feature 1vs1 and FFA ladders unfortunaly due university and work Elandrion and I are unable to add those yet. During christmas vacations we should be able to add them but not earlier so you have to wait still few weeks.

The good news: season 6 will feature an America's Army ladder administrated mainly by Rebel and Typhy. As soon as AA version 2.0 is out you will also find AA at our Mac Downloads and more. The rules are currently discussed at the BL forum. So you may want to throw in your 2cent. Now is the time.

The CombatPoints will also be slightly modified so if you battle an unranked clan(a clan that never played a game in the running season) both sides can only earn 50points.

Finals will be only for the top4 clans in the main season.

Beside that, a complete reworded and updated version of the BL rules will be uploaded on saturday.

Few additions and rules will be discussed in the BL forums until saturday so may you want to post your suggestions if you aren't satisfied with some points. One thing that will definitive come is a complete new rule about forfeit wins and about how glitches will be counted but more soon at the BL forum where I gonna open some threads.

Last but not least will the RS ladder changed to a fun ladder due the small active crowd and for all GR ladders I gonna have a small surprise that will add some new challenges.

About Warzone 2.0 with integrated timer: WZ 2.0 is currently at beta stage and it will be added once it reaches final status.

That's it.

Congratulations and thanks again to all active clans for participating. See ya next season,

*DAMN Mauti
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