THE UNOFFICIAL PAGE

Welcome to Marz's VW page. I have done a few cosmetic changes to the site. All previous news items have been removed. This will be a generic page until further notice.





Infrequent Site Updates

3/21/05 - Wow, 4 1/2 years late;) OK, so I won't promise another update here anytime soon. Just acknowledging that I've moved everything to my .mac account. As far as me and the VW Universe. Well, I pretty much retired. I did play in a Gunslingers last night and got to the 2nd round. Also, I no longer work for D&B. So I might play more since I won't be playing where I work. I'll let others keep the flame going as far as info for BT. And I join all those others who miss not being able to double-double in a Quark scraping the paint in RP.

10/21/00 - FINALLY!!!! I've put up the results of the Cincy Invitational! A note about the results. Many pilots tied for places in solo. I just went with how the computer sorted on tournament points then however it sorted after that. It may have been by the original order entered into the spread sheet. For teams I only have 1st and 2nd places. I've lost the ladders for BT and RP where I kept track of who won. My memory wouldn't be able to recreate the results. Plus, the nightmare of trying to come up with placements beyond 3rd would probably drive me crazy!!

We had a total of 63 pilots!!!!! 1 less than last year! I was pleased to see Cincy come out of the woodwork at the last minute to give us 16 pilots. Cincy had a much better showing overall this year. The event ran much more smoothly than last year. Much of that is due to the tremendous help giving by Isis of VWE!!!! I also had lots of help from other site's techs in running events, the console, judging, gathering data, etc. I thank all of you again!!

Things I wish I could have done.....Partied more with the Chicago group. You guys are a lot of fun. Also to have partied with MaddMaxx and company. Unfortunately Saturday night was the roughest night of the Invitational and I was in no condition to drink. I hadn't eaten all day and was physically ill from that :/ I also wished I had been able to get that duel in with Shadow Raven. He kept reminding me, but we never had the chance. I also wish I had been able to just play more with everyone. My duties as SEC prevented me from playing more than a few games other than the ones in an event. So it all comes down to not having enough time. If I could have added about 8 hours to each day, then everything would have been better :)

What next? Well there are currently no plans to repeat this in Cincy for a while. New York is having their Invitational in February 2001. Seattle is in April/May. Chicago is talking about doing one next Summer. So us having one next year is out of the question. My BT/RP teams are very likely going to New York next year. Just about all of us are committed to going.

Local site stuff - All events for the remainder of the year have been suspended. This is my decision as a manager at D&B due to party season coming up. We are currently revamping the department in a business sense that should improve sales and guest service. The next event will be Master Trials after the first of next year (BattleTech). After that we'll see.

That's it for now!

8/29/00 - I've finally put up a tips page for RP. I hopefully will have some more for it soon. Also we are up to 24 players officially for the Invitational. SOOOOO if you haven't signed up via the web page, do it NOW!!!!! I know that there are at least 12-16 more players out there that SAY they will be here, but haven't signed up!!!!

8/8/00 - We are 2 months awway from the Invitational. Only about 12 people are officially signed up. So get signed up! I also made a couple HTML corrections to the 'Mech info pages. I got an Alpha version of one of the browsers I use and it showed that I didn't use a closing tag in a few places. Those pages have already been uploaded.

We also did a test run of the BT Solo event for the Invitational and it looked like a it pretty well. From the player's suggestions, I have made a slight change of conditions. See the Template for the new conditions. I've also made some changes to conditions to BT Leagues. This will help the inherent lag when using Badlands and Savannah in an 8 pod system.

The general rules page has had an addition made to it. And there has been a change in event fees. Gunslingers and Master Trials have been included in the pricing. So now if someone wanted to play in all 7 events and go to the banquet, it will cost $100 rather than $120. This will make it easier to keep track.

7/18/00 Part 1 - Remember the Invitational is coming up! Also, RP Mondays. There should be at least 6 pods, if not 8, on RP all night Monday. However people need to come in so that we can continue to have it on Mondays as this is a test.

7/18/00 Part 2 - Updated some of the 'Mech config pages to reflect the rebalance of 4.9 :) Took long enough. I honestly forgot to do it. I also updated the prices for those 'Mechs. Put the correct price list under the BT section (was only in the Invitational section before). The same for the BT Master Trials rules. Added the Denkou and Kotori 'Mech pages. Got a config (the only one so far) for the Denkou. No configs for the Kotori. Also updated the big config page. The Satyr configs are now all considered 4.9 with the change in the LRM5 and SRM2. Some of these changes happened ealier than today, but most of them are today.

6/21/00 - The Cincinnati Invitational will be held from October 5th - 8th 2000 at Dave & Buster's Cincinnati! Follow the above link to the information page.

3/13/00 - Added Red Planet VTV Weapon data to the RP page. Madea couple corrections to the VTV data.

2/22/00 - In the works:



All of this will be done over the next month or so. I am also working with pilots from other sites to revamp the BT Master Trials rules. I also plan on doing some additional updating on the rest of the Special Events Bible. Just a few tweeks, no major changes.

The VGL Mailing list was revived recently. See above for the new address and how to subscribe. Remember that VWE has 3 forii (Latin plural for forum;) ) to post on. One General, one for BT, and one for RP. Check it out sometime www.virtualworld.com. Also the VWE channel is ressurected on DALnet. Log into DALnet and "/join #VWE" to get there. One of us old timers or not so old timers might be lurking around.

Last thing. Denkou data now updated to reflect 4.9 patch that moved the Left Torso PPC from Loop 4 to Loop 1.

2/10/00 - Greetings all! I have finally updated the site with the Tesla 4.9 Data. New things in 4.9: I think that's all the changes from 4.9:) I have updated all information, and made a few corrections to my data. Since Tesla BT 4.9 involved a few weapons changes, separate pages for 4.9 have been created to reflect this. I expect to add some more BT Tips, and I am hoping to begin a Red Planet tips page soon. That's it for now! Enjoy!

1/4/00 - Well, yet another infrequent update. Some time after January 30th Tesla 4.9 will be released. As soon as I have all the vitals on it, I will update the site. I've tried to get the info ahead of time, but have come up short :( It's good to see that development has resumed at VWE. I hope that they continue to have success and develop more updates. Other things that have been happening at the site. We now have a ranking system in place. Currently I am #2 behind Centurion. On Monday, January 10th, we will have our next Master Trials. Also on that day there will be a mini tournament for the top ranked pilots. I really can't remember how this works other than that it will determine a new ranking for us. Also all of our win/loss records will be reset. I believe that the winner from each quarter will compete at the end of the year or something like that. No more tips to add right now, and I'm waiting for the next BT novel to come out. That's about it.

9/29/99 - Hmmm, well not much new here. This message is mostly to say that yes, I'm still around, and playing. Albeit infrequently. I've finished all the in-print novels so far. I still haven't come up with a novel by novel guide yet. I think that the task may be too daunting in my mind to do. At least the idea I have for it. I've got another tip to add to the Tips page, but I am waiting on confirmation of certain information. And what about events? Well, there are events happening at the site. A new crop of regulars has formed. I just do not post anything about them right now. I am thinking about getting permission to do this as no one has really taken up the baton on it on a regular basis. Just an FYI, though, there will be a BattleTech Master's Trial Oct 5th at 7PM. All info is at the site. There are also plans for a ranking system using elements from New York and Denver in the works. Most likely another web site will be used to post these. That's really it.

6/25/99 - I've put up the preliminary BT Novels page. It can be found on the BT section of the site. This page will be expanded later.

5/26/99 - OK, so the site came back before today, but I figure if I do any kind of updates, it mught be a good idea to put something on the main page about it;) Anyway, I've done two things today. #1 is I have uploaded my Tesla Armor Data that I've had for a long time. Just one of those things I really never got around to doing. It can be found on the BattleTech page. #2 is that I've made the BT Tips & Tricks page easier to wade through with a sort of Table of Contents. That's really it for now. I'm currently trying to read the last few reamining BT novels (I still need to get the most recent one). At some point I am going to have a page devoted to them.



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