BlackIntel hereby announces another project that has been in development for quite a while now. BIRDS stands for BlackIntel Retard Detection System and what it basically does is sharing all bans, kicks and warnings between servers. Additionally it also shares the untrusted players coming from BIATCH.

This system will basically work like this. There will be one main server (hosted by us), and each server will have a client side DLL. Not everyone will have access. We will only give out accounts (and the dll, even though its useless without account) to servers we trust, and which we know have trustworthy mods.

Even though all servers should be trustworthy each client can determine how much weight to give to each server and even separate mods.

Currently we have nearly finished the server, but the client does still need some work.

BlackIntel's first anniversary! Several things have been planned for today, and there have been several deadlines ending today, so we've got some stuff to announce too!

BIATCH, I'm sure you have heard about it. Our server side anti cheat and cheat detection solution. We had hoped to get at least a beta out today, I've spent most of my time working on it over the past week, however the final touches needed way more time then we had expected. We do currently have a build which is near to completion and which has the bugs which had been reported (mostly by TK2) fixed. Expect a beta or release soon!

Also, our scripts.dll RG SSC we were working on should be finished today or at least pretty soon. It depends on a few things, but we might be able to detect rgh with it. I will not give any further details for now, we should first wait for the test results.

Then there is the interview planned for tonight. Renegadecommunity.com will be interviewing us. The result will be uploaded on their site and we will probably add another news post when the interview is finished. Stay tuned! ;)

Meanwhile our own scripts.dll running at a0000000a/b/c did not have many updates due to the various other projects. Some bugs have been fixed but nothing major. I hope to get a list of these and write a newspost about them soon as I do not have time to do it right now.

Good, that should be most of the important things we're currently into. I'm aware of the little updates on the site, I'm sorry for that.

And again:
Happy birthday BlackIntel!

Ghostshaw now is an official BI admin. He was already involved with quite a lot of BI decisions before and has been an very good moderator and coder, hence this promotion. Now he has some extra access and is an IRC operator.
Congrats Ghost!

First of all I want ot wish everyone the best for 2007 ;) May this become a good mod year for renegade!

Moderator changes.

We removed xocezert from the moderator list because we had serveral complaints about him and after we had a good look at them most where indeed true. We also heard that he might have been cheating, but we have not found proper evidence to support that so we didnt ban him from the servers. Not that that would be neccesary I think, because I heard he quited renegade anyway.

We where more or less also forced to take dead6re's mod access, this because he talked about things he shouldn't have been talking about, atleast not without our permission. He is punished for it and is now trying to regain our trust.

So not much good news eh? Well, I have some good news too, just read on ;)

We knew we needed some new mods so after we recruited Trace we recruited alanco9 and very recently we made HTT-Bird a mod too. Alanco9 will just become a "normal" mod and HTT-Bird will probably gonna do some coding for us. He will probably add some extra safegaurds against cheaters , which is ofcourse always a good thing :).

Site updates.

We've added playerlistings to the XWIS server page so it is possible to see who's in the server. Also we added a "Who's online?" section on the staff page so you can now directly see what admin and what moderators are online, and where.

Sorry for the lack of updates here btw, we will try to keep you guys informed ;)

That's it for now :).

I will be off to France for about 2 weeks, going to ski. :) I will be leaving tomorrow morning and will be back January 6.