Has anyone registerd at the SOC site yet?

Morriston burns · Post by **Morriston burns** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 1:55 am

15th of June it said. Am I the only one on the 15th of June yet? Knew I should have tested my time machine more thoroughly....

If anyone does register, post and tells us how.

Ragnarok · Post by **Ragnarok** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 1:56 am

its no;t yet midnight so until that time its the 15th .

Errdrigar · Post by **Errdrigar** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 1:59 am

They haven't updated the site yet. Sign up option is still unavailable.

You must be more patient. They should do that soon.

Morriston burns · Post by **Morriston burns** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:02 am

Maybe if I sit here and click refresh every 30 seconds I'll see when it opens up. Or get fired.

I was awful at Christmas as well.

Tacklbry · Post by **Tacklbry** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:22 am

Usually about noon EST (GMT -5 for those elsewhere) is when these things seem to get going. I guess tech support has a different workday than I do.

It could be up now though, I have not looked yet.

Enthardon · Post by **Enthardon** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:54 am

Its 8:45 am here where I live, and I'm on central time, an hour behind GW US. My guess would be noon as well, but I'm hoping a couple hours earlier because I have to work from 11-2

Mtucache · Post by **Mtucache** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:25 am

Registration is up... :shock:

And of course the forums are already being filled with typical GW forum quality posts... :roll:

I guess this isn't going to be worthwhile until July 1st afterall, because I'm definately not wasting my time reading a bunch of posts by five year olds about how they're going to kill everyone.

Morriston burns · Post by **Morriston burns** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:42 am

And the UK isn't. I suppose we'll have to wait until the Americans tell us we're allowed to.... !lol!

Nekroskop · Post by **Nekroskop** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:42 am

Will it make any sense to post there? I mean, we should have all the inf owe need here, GW forums have always been hell (well, the BL Forums are okay)

Enthardon · Post by **Enthardon** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:43 am

Well, I made sure the first post in the defenders forum was quality:

http://venus.walagata.com/w/timmymwd/thread.jpg

Mtucache · Post by **Mtucache** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:50 am

Heh... good luck keeping that up. Already the CoD forum has a couple of people telling everyone to follow them and to "bow down before their feet".... :roll:

I give it about five more minutes before people start pretending they know the game mechanics and telling us how wrong we've all got it....

I have this eery feeling that I'll just wait around here and do whatever Underway tells us to do.... I couldn't be bothered to read half the crap already in the new GW threads.

Sobek · Post by **Sobek** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:06 am

It will likely be fairly chaotic in the forums. We'll still be posting our Druchii plans in them for dissemination, mind you, however Druchii.net will still be the center for our planning and discussions. So, if you'd rather not try to keep track of everyone on th GW forums, never fear. :mrgreen:

Morriston burns · Post by **Morriston burns** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:10 am

I see the future and it goes something like:

MegaDeathBoz: I will end you!

Uberkillanasty: I will end u2!

Megauberkillanasty: I will endz tha 2 of u!

Ad infinitum....

Mtucache · Post by **Mtucache** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:13 am

It's going to de-grade to that rather quickly, but fortunately they have split it into the "Attackers" and "Defenders" forums, so mixing of users will be limited.

Currently it looks as if it will be advertising for SoC "command" sites for quite some time... hopefully most of the un-initiated Druchii find their way here eventually without falling into too many piddly little sites that waste their/our time.

/\\//\ · Post by **/\\//\** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:20 am

These are the only CoD forums I need to look at. I won't even be attacking Middenheim (Lustria instead in case anyone gets the wrong impression).

Still hasn't given us any more info as to whether Lustria has battle sites or not.

Morriston burns · Post by **Morriston burns** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:21 am

Hopefully we will see the whole thing snowballing after a couple of weeks - if we can put in a concentrated effort in key areas, win and make some real changes to the way the campaign is going maybe people will be inspired to sign up.

I wonder if we will be getting victories broken down by race as well as Defender/Attacker and where they were fought? I was looking through the Help page on the site and it goes on about the "fog of war" as a reason for the lack of stats. If we do I think that will certainly forge some solidarity between races, and also create a few scape-gosts!

Meanwhile, I click refresh and - the UK site now has a US flag! Marvellous.

Bleys · Post by **Bleys** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:28 am

Well, in looking over the Subcampaigns page it certainly seems to imply that there will be battle sites in the subcampaign areas (the section at the very bottom says this).

What I will be interested to know is whether you'd have to have both armies involved in the fight to be able to report it on the subcampaign sites (instead of the main battle sites) or if it will suffice to just have one of the armies involved in the game you play.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see what else they put out in the next couple of weeks. Based on the wording and the map you can pull up, I'd say that there are probably going to be battle sites just like the main campaign, and depending on how it goes new paths will open up both over time as well as based on how the fights go.

Enthardon · Post by **Enthardon** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:29 am

MTUCache wrote:Heh... good luck keeping that up. Already the CoD forum has a couple of people telling everyone to follow them and to "bow down before their feet"....

I give it about five more minutes before people start pretending they know the game mechanics and telling us how wrong we've all got it....

I have this eery feeling that I'll just wait around here and do whatever Underway tells us to do.... I couldn't be bothered to read half the crap already in the new GW threads.

I'm pleasently suprised, as our post has quadrupple the posts of any other thread in the defenders forum.

Nekroskop · Post by **Nekroskop** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:31 am

I'm trying hard to register right now, but their servers seem to be overloaded - my registration doesn't get through...
Besides, some bastich already registered my username and used my email adress on top!

Mtucache · Post by **Mtucache** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:37 am

Sobek, I certainly don't envy you (and the rest of the SoC staff).... you've got a lot of work ahead of you. Corralling that mindless herd of wide-eyed campaign rookies is going to take more than just a gentle reminder to keep in line. That mob will likely cause more trouble than it's worth.... hopefully your message(s) get to the right people and we can keep our momentum going strong.

Right now it appears there will be strong resistance to any pre-arranged or pre-existing command structure... which is unfortunate, because you guys have already put in a lot of effort already into organizing this.... hopefully none of your work is wasted in trying to gently lead these morons.

Lord tareq · Post by **Lord tareq** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:40 am

@ Nekroskop; lol, I had the same...It seems that if you registered at the EOT campaign previous year or the GW website you are also registered for this campaign...

Dekhalan · Post by **Dekhalan** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:00 am

Yes, that is true Lord Tareq...for this campaign I will again be known as DarkAngelGrandMaster.

Damn.

Arquinsiel · Post by **Arquinsiel** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:05 am

I have this eery feeling that I'll just wait around here and do whatever Underway tells us to do.... I couldn't be bothered to read half the crap already in the new GW threads.

That's what I was going to do. I'm unfortunately lacking regular internet access these days so I'm going to be very much out of the loop. Dang.

Post by **Underway** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:36 am

Post your wins in Lustria anywhere the whole time Arquinsiel and you can't go far wrong.

Sobek, I certainly don't envy you (and the rest of the SoC staff).... you've got a lot of work ahead of you. Corralling that mindless herd of wide-eyed campaign rookies is going to take more than just a gentle reminder to keep in line. That mob will likely cause more trouble than it's worth.... hopefully your message(s) get to the right people and we can keep our momentum going strong.

Right now it appears there will be strong resistance to any pre-arranged or pre-existing command structure... which is unfortunate, because you guys have already put in a lot of effort already into organizing this.... hopefully none of your work is wasted in trying to gently lead these morons.

This is where our secret weapon comes in. The Druchii.net SoC Newsletter with art and fun stories etc... the rest of the groups don't have anything similar. And the 5 year old spam doesn't have even anything else to compare. I think we will be fine.

Sobek · Post by **Sobek** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:51 am

Underway wrote:I think we will be fine.

Agreed. I posted a greeting to all the Druchii in the US forum already, and response already appears good, thanks in no small part to other Druchii.net members' posts. We've just got the one thread, which is good for making sure that we're all together. Already there are about a dozen different 'unification' threads from different Chaos players. We're already off to a good start.