The FM archive is still down. We're working on a PERMANENT solution to make sure that our own bandwidth does not almost kill us ever again, and naturally this is taking longer then a quick fix would. Please bear with us, the FM archive -will- be back again. If you have send me new FMs or FM reviews, please be patient, these will go up as soon as I am able once the FM archive is back online. The solution I have planned involves several mirrors and bandwidth caps. Hopefully it will work out better for everyone involved. You can also count on the new ASP FM archive launching when the FM archive does go back online. What this means is that you will now be able to sort and browse the archive using several different options, rather then just a huge chunk of FMs all on one page listed by order of release date. Bronze/Silver hammer distinctions will also be a thing of the past (though the hammers themselves will still be bronze/silver in coloration).

Things are getting stretched pretty thin for me these days as I try to manage large staffs for two major projects (TTLG as a whole and CoSaS for Thief 2) as well as my personal life outside of it all. In case you are curious, CoSaS is currently in the "lets get these bloody maps ready to be scripted pronto" phase as well as the "lets get these bloody cinematics put together yesterday" phase. We're making great progress every day, but as they say, the last 10% of the project always takes 90% of the time. Egads, Gad Zooks, and Zoiks of all things!

I never really have made much of an official announcement about it, so this is as good a time as any. The TTLG Staff has grown by leaps and bounds. As many of you already know, Hanse and Gingerbread Man are now Admins of our forums. DeusEx-Machina.com is currently being mastered by James Webb and Eberon, and they've been doing a fantastic job. SShock2.com is being kicked back to life like a drunk horse by BigDave, Undert0w, and Fat-Burrick. The thriving but temporarily crippled Circle is in the capable hands of Oisin Rood as well as Jyre "Dashjianta" (we're glad to have you back, old friend!). Sneaking around in the shadows, much like his mentor Saam, is Cratus, who has done a handsome amount of work making the ASP FM archive I talked about a reality. A huge hand of thanks goes to MsLedd, our new server admin. She's done an insane amount of work helping us with server-related issues, and is certainly one of the most valuable members of the new team. It would be sinfull to forget Hanse and Gingerbread Man, our new Forum Admins. They have both served above and beyond their titles to do far more then we've asked of them.

And in case you have forgotten about our two planned new sites, Stygian Abyss and Citadel Station, we have not. These sites will not be opening until TTLG is back running full force (the bandwidth monster has not been killed completely yet... not by a longshot). When they do open, I hope that everyone will be as enthusiastic as I am about the newly expanded and ambitious TTLG.

Please continue to send you FanWorks to BigDave@sshock2.fsnet.co.uk and I will pass the information on to Fat-Burrick for posting to the site!

I have taken some time to put together a list of the schemas used in ShockEd with a description of each of them in an Excel file. I have zipped it up and am sending it to the three main shock sites I know of. Please accept is as a resource for other ShockEd editors out there.
Thanks you,
Tom Green

Its called Rage Against Divinity

I've setup a multiplayer master server, works similar to like Gamespy.
You can download a small "server announcement tool" at www.sshock2.com/files/shockserver.exe
- It's only 30k in size and comes with instructions.

The server list is visible at http://shock2.n3.net and updated every minute.

This tool is meant to be started and kept in background before hosting a SS2-game. It's by no means a perfect solution, but IMHO it is the easiest way to setup and promote multiplayer matches.

BTW, it won't work through firewalls unless you can set your firewall to allow UDP packets on port 1372 to be passed through.

Josef Jahn

The only solution I can see is for us to find someplace willing to host our server for a reasonable price, with unlimited bandwidth... or..

Cut the forums in half... cut the fan mission archive in half... close down some daughter sites... basically, amputation.