With the recent influx of webafrica users and subsequently wage users, some rules and guidelines need to be implemented.

Clannies
Make sure all the relevant players are ready and willing to play before wage hosting your clanny.
Your game will be unhosted if you are seen to be hogging a bot. Clan games do not take preference above any other games.
The same applies for IHL games.

Hogging the bot
If you feel someone is abusing the bot, by either not starting the game, not .unhost(ing) a slow filling game or just general abuse of the bot.
You can report this to Xenophyl@tga.za.net

You need to take screenies of the following information and send it to me:
/whois wage
this returns something like:  WAGE is using Warcraft III Frozen Throne and is currently in  game “[23]sdso” (#202705)
then /gameinfo thegamenumber , in this case /gameinfo 202705
and lastly, /time
This will give us an idea of how the user has abused the bot.

The bot does not belong to a single person on the server, it is there to be shared amongst the webafrica subscribers.
This being said, TwilightGaming reserves the right to prevent users from using the bot if their actions are detrimental to other webafrica subscribers.

New WebAfrica Subscribers
To get access to the wage bot, all you have to do is logon to your webafrica ISP account.
When in Battle.net, /whois wage
If it is free, type: /hostgame level mode
e.g. /hostgame 20 apso
If it is not free, type /watch wage and wait for it to be free

Sometimes wage will be free but will fail to create a game for you, this is because the maximum number of simultaneously hosted games has been reached.
You will have to keep trying.

Once the game is hosted and you have entered it, type /w wage spoof , this command gives you control of wage.
The following commands can be used in the lobby, each followed by the number of the slot:
.open
.close
.comp     (Adds a computer slot)
e.g. .open 2

Other commands available:
.hold username (Use after closing a slot, useful for holding a spot for a friend)
.ping
.hcl (Used to set the game mode while in the game lobby, e.g. .hcl -apso)
.start
.start force
.unhost (Used for closing the game)

FUN TIMES FOR ALL.

-Xenophyl

The following staff changes have been made:

Community Activists have been removed:

• Nobodynoddy
• Creed

Crox has been added to the Community Activist team prior to the end of his trial due to good work.

We would like to congratulate Xenophyl on his appointment as an Operator, he will still perform moderator and CA duties.

The inquisitors are not taking applications for the positions above, please do not send applications until you are notified of openings.

Happy Gaming!

The following staff changes have been made:

• Storm has retired from her position as Operator. The Twilight Administration Team thanks her on behalf of the community for all the effort and long nights she put in.
• Pwn-Movie has been removed from his position as Operator, effective immediately. This was due to discrepancies and dishonesty in his communications with staff and users.

The following Community Activist have been removed:

• _-lion-_
• 1ns4n17y
• Meybru (Fired)

The inquisitors are not taking applications for the positions above, please do not send applications until you are notified of openings.

Happy Gaming!

I updated WAGE this morning (early afternoon). I’m sorry to those people whose games I killed. I meant to let them finish, but stop new games being hosted.

Firstly, the .owner command is no longer available to normal users. People were creating games for their friends, who did not have Web Africa accounts, giving them ownership and then leaving. This is clearly not a use-case the bot was intended for.

The other change was something that was just bugging me for a while. Previously users just ran the command and checked the games list and hoped, which wasn’t great. Users should now receive a whisper from the bot if their game is being hosted.

As a result of the server upgrade, we came across a bug in the new version of PHP which broke registrations on the forum. We have found a workaround while the bug is addressed. Registrations should now be working.

Thank you for your patience and for those who contacted us via the support email address.

Today I performed an OS upgrade on the server. The server was down for around 2 hours while the upgrade took place. Everything appears to be running smoothly. Other than the network outage on Friday night, this was the first time the server has been offline in over a year – and hopefully these new upgrades keep things running smoothly for many more.

Happy gaming!

As I’m sure all of you know, eGamer has recently been running free EXP promotions on Twilight Gaming.

Now everyone got excited and headed over to the FaceBook page to place there usernames on the discussion board.

Unfortunately for some, they were a bit greedy and decided that free EXP for one account was not enough.

As with everything on Twilight Gaming, we are a streamlined and well oiled machine, and with the EXP promotion, there is no difference.

The program I created to grab the usernames from the FaceBook page used a few basic rules that excluded quite a number of users.

• Rules that would have excluded your username/s from receiving the free EXP:
• Posting the same username more than once.
• Posting from the same FaceBook account more than once.
• Posting any additional text alongside the username (EG: Smiley faces, comments or questions).
• Posting more than one username in a single post.
• Posting an invalid nickname (Duh?)

A whole bunch of you lost out on A LOT of free exp merely based on the fact that you did not follow simple instructions or were greedy. Around 200 people / usernames were excluded. Mostly for double/triple posting.

With the screen shots that follow, I would usually blur out the name, but for the mere fact that this user posted 13 times (Few posts on different pages) means that I would like him to know who he is:

• Greed is not good!

Also, this user would have been given his EXP, if he didn’t get greedy. Two posts, one page (And a dozen elsewhere):

• Luck_Works-Well (Not?)

With that said, there were around 900 users who did receive experience, we hope you enjoy it!

Happy Gaming!

Whitewolf2

The following staff changes have been made:

• Ratthing has retired from his position as Community Activist, effective immediately.

• Spekko has been removed from Moderator due to inactivity.

The following have been added as Community Activists:

• _-lion-_ — email here
• Whitussi — email here
• Harlequin — email here
• IronSoul — email here
• Creed — email here

Email all the CA’s here.

We’ve added a StarCraft II section to our forum. Visit it here.

Email the Inquisitors if you feel that you should be a moderator on this forum. Motivate why and how you can help out.

As from today, shinobi187 and Haeten will start to update the blog more often.

Following this there are staff changes for Twilight:

WhiteWolf2 has passed his Trial for Operator reinstatement.
PwN-MoViE and shinobi187 have been added a Operators.
The DreamTeam has lost TheFallen – however Faan_Boom and Distort have joined.

For community news, the Community Activists are working on a new set of tournaments. More on this later.

Visit this link to vote or be heard.

That’s right. He’s gone. Things have come up and he had to say Good Bye.

We’ll sure miss him!