Our user Portal is written in Rails and has been ported to use the 3.1 stack. You may have noticed a couple of ours downtime today while we ran the update. Things are looking good now but please do be sure to let us know if we missed something. This shouldn’t really affect you, but you may notice some speed improvements specifically around the loading of assets (images, stylesheets and javascripts).

I have also added a link to the lost password screen from the login page (about time ) and fixed a bug on the profile edit screen where some conditions could land you up in a situation where it wasn’t possible to validate your email address.

The following amendments have been made:

Operator Removals:
Cheeezy
Shoprite_Packet

Operators Additions:
Lostears

Trial Operator Additions:
Electrosphere, tkn-Geostigma, Thunderfoxx, Supy, corgon & stimmed_n00b.

Inquisitor Removals:
Snake2804 (Still Senior Operator)
Slobber
Gabrielus

Inquisitor Additions:
BedLamp
Nitrate

*Current Community Activists: Xenophyl, Crox, Matrox, Lostears, Nevada, Teh_lols & Richard-xxx-.
*Trial Community Activists: Mal_Dwergie & Epoch.

Dream Team additions/removals are still being decided, we’ll update you shortly.
*Storm has retired from running the Dream Team.

We would like to thank all of those who are leaving, for their time and effort put into Twilight Gaming.
We would also like to welcome everyone who was accepted to the team, congratulations.

The inquisitors are NOT taking applications for the positions above, see the forum and/or announcements for further details for when we are.

Twilight Contacts:

Inquisitors: inq @ tga.za.net
Operators: op @ tga.za.net
Senior Operators: sen @ tga.za.net
Community Activists: ca @ tga.za.net
Dream Team: dt @ tga.za.net
Support: support @ twilightgaming.co.za

MWEB and Telkom are peering locally once again. What does this mean for you?

MWEB players should now be able to play in Telkom games, and vice versa.

This has been confirmed for the Cape Town and Johannesburg exchanges. You may still wish to keep your ISP name in the game title until this has been confirmed nationally.

The following Operator changes have been made:

Operators:

Good_Force removed due to inactivity.
Misteor removed due to inactivity.

Moderators:
Blou_aap has been removed due to inactivity.

We would like to congratulate Sylko on his appointment as an Operator, he has completed his trial.

The inquisitors are currently taking applications for the positions above as well as moderators and CAs, see forum or announcement for further details.

http://forum.twilightgaming.co.za/index.php?/topic/12178-staff-applications-open/

Reminder: Learner’s League in channel Tourney, 18:30 Tuesday

This week’s tournament winners

Monday  1v1 dota: 1st – darkprophet, 2nd – tsu-shiuan

Wednesday 3v3 dota: 1st – tetherax, AreDeeKay & -plague_pulse-

Thursday 2v2 dota: 1st – Kinetic-Pulse & tsu-shiuan

Tournaments take place 18:30 Monday – Thursday

Twilight Cup for Pandariaaaa!

The Twilight cup is a clan tournament that takes place this Weekend. More information on forums. Under Games – Warcraft III – Dota.

Reminder: Learner’s League in channel Tourney, 18:30 Tuesday

This week’s tournament winners

Monday  1v1 dota: 1st – Sepultura, 2nd – ma_se_mielie

Wednesday 3v3 dota: 1st – michiko, corrupted & ferbi

Thursday 2v2 dota: 1st – Sepultura & Covenant

Tournaments take place 18:30 Monday – Thursday

daNNy Cup

The daNNy cup is a clan tournament that takes place every Sunday. Feel free to sign up on forums under the daNNy cup subforum. Episode 3.5 starts this Sunday!

This week’s tournament winners

Monday  1v1 dota: 1st – Revoker, 2nd – sneeuleeu

Tuesday Uthers: 1st – frozenwolf, 2nd – suggestions

Wednesday 3v3 dota: 1st – Metagross Typhlosion  & Venusaur

Thursday 2v2 dota: 1st – infernape & IRwasted, 2nd – augustana & dariyal

Tournaments take place 18:30 Monday – Thursday

daNNy Cup

The daNNy cup is a clan tournament that takes place every Sunday. Feel free to sign up on forums under the daNNy cup subforum. Episode 3.4 starts this Sunday!

Administration

To receive announcements about tournaments, type /group dota join – on battle.net

/group diablo2 join for announcements on the LLD, HLD tournaments as well as other Diablo 2 news.

For any queries or suggestions email: Xenophyl@tga.za.net

Have a good weekend!

- The CA team

So, in the turmoil of the recent network problems we have been experiencing, saidin decided to update the underlying software for the ticket system website, which of course broke everything. You may have noticed that the website has been changing, for better or worse, quite a lot over the last 3 days or so. Once things were broken, we decided not to take the shortest path to fixing it, but rather to improve upon things instead. Lemonade from lemons and whatnot. I just thought I would keep you updated on what’s changed.

The first thing you may notice is that upon logging in, the recent activity is in fact, recent activity! Many thanks to Supy for sorting that out. He has also been working on a lost password form, so that you no longer have to email us to get a password reset. We will let you know as soon as it is finished and tested. The only other real change that you will probably notice is attachments now open in a new window, and images actually show in that window! No longer do you have to download images and open them on your pc!

There were many things that broke and had to be fixed along the way, and they seem to have been sorted out, maybe, but those are the only changes you are likely to notice. For the rest, you just need to know that our underlying software is up to date and working happily, and the network issues seem to have sorted themselves out as well.

In other news, DotA v6.72c is out and the WAGE bot has been updated accordingly, hooray!

After implementing the 1.26a update, somewhat smoothly, we’re happy to announce that the changes are relatively positive. We try to keep updating down to a minimum because some players struggle to double-click in quick enough to actually open a folder and this means that when it comes to updating: there are so many problems, we actually want to cry.

And while tears are refreshing, we’d rather not waste them.

The changes between version 1.24e and 1.26a include the following two main enhancements:

• The new Warcraft 3 TFT 1.25b patch update brings numerous balancing changes to the races and items. It adds support for widescreen resolutions and fixes vulnerabilities to various exploits and hacks. By releasing this patch Blizzard proved that they still care for Warcraft 3 even after 7 years.
• The banner works again

Note: these updates are both included in the recent patch. Don’t stress. You have everything to need to have to benefit. Because we’re on 1.26a we have all this and more.

Basically the above means the following: instead of having to juke your Warcraft 3 resolution in the registry, or through a third-party program, the game now offers support for widescreen resolutions. Some of you might have noticed, especially those on laptops, that the game is a little clearer and more crisp.

Then, the banner. We’ve been without a banner for a while. We decided to update and add a custom banner for all of you to click on.

Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like, in case you cannot see it for some strange reason.

Yesterday we miraculously were updated to 1.26A. Actually what happened is I had slipped the updates in but hadn’t turned them on. Then the server went for a nosedive and got restarted with the updates activated. So, it jumped the gun by a few hours, but things seem to be peachy! This is what you’ll need to do:

1. If you’re having problems with autoupdates in the past (usually because your game wasn’t installed properly), you’ll need to run WC3Setup. This basically adds an InstallPath to your registry so that the updater knows where your game is installed.
2. Connect to Twilight has per usual. You’ll get the 1.24E to 1.25B update, followed by the 1.25B to 1.26A update. Your Warcraft 3 will automatically restart after each update but you must quit and relaunch it using the loader before you’ll be able to connect to Twilight again (this is because the updater launches war3.exe instead of w3l.exe after updating).
3. From 1.25B onwards, there is a new loader.

There is also a forum post for this which may help more.