So a large portion of the older threads in this forum got completely deleted. Up until Last Post: May 2006, apparently.
Anyway, since it was spamming up Thurbo's art thread too much, and since you can't get more T17Forum-related than talking about the forum itself, I thought I'd make this thread to discuss it.
Or, more likely, discuss certain threads, events, and just "fond" memories you have of here from Ye Sorta-Olden Days. While scammering to the Wayback Machine and Google Cache for the last remains of any particular links and such.



Fun activity: Do a Members search for Iguana or Mr.Cosmico.

Edit: the internet says yes you did. And the site you did has also gone kaput. Whoops!indeed. it was hosted by ThePope and maintained until spammers took it and ran rampant. I was no longer using it by that point except as a forum of discussion for some friends and T17 forumers, so he took it down.

Unfortunately it was a bit of a necessity to keep the forum working, due to many issues with the database corrupting itself (particularly the rather large attachments database...). I have asked volcadmin if it's possible to restore just the fanart forum, but don't hold your breath.

Fun activity: Do a Members search for Iguana or Mr.Cosmico.

Those two are banned and banned members don't appear on the Member's List and hence don't yield results when you search for them.
Their posts still exist though.


(particularly the rather large attachments database...)

Can't you run some sort of auto-cull that deletes attachments that haven't been downloaded for the last year or something?

Those two are banned and banned members don't appear on the Member's List and hence don't yield results when you search for them.
Ah, whoops! I thought it was something to do with that since they were banned before May 2006, their last-used accounts went too. Nevermind.

Although then again...
Their posts still exist though.
*checks*
Oh, so they are.
I could've sworn that they got banned around 2005/2006.





Also, while we're here, I really appreciate nobody bringing up Worms Fusion. Remember, that real-time game I was working on. Yeah...
That's not to say I regret it; it was a great learning experience, and a lot of equally-noobish people loved the whole thing anyway. But it's really something I want to keep behind me.

Those two are banned and banned members don't appear on the Member's List and hence don't yield results when you search for them.
Their posts still exist though.

Banned? For doing what?

Banned? For doing what?I was gone during the bannings of about 10 people, iguana and cosmico included, but I believe Iguana's was paranoid screechings about conspiracy theories.

I was gone during the bannings of about 10 people, iguana and cosmico included, but I believe Iguana's was paranoid screechings about conspiracy theories.

I think one of them was due to a pornography incident.

I think they got banned around when I joined
I remember reading about the bannings and then Cisken went to the ban list too

I was gone during the bannings of about 10 people, iguana and cosmico included, but I believe Iguana's was paranoid screechings about conspiracy theories.I think there was rampant spamming, multi-accounts and other crazy shenanigans.

Ah, the good old days... :p

I can't remember what specifically Iguana was doing, but he sorta intended on getting banned. Cosmico, however, pretty much went out and said "hi, ban me". I think he even made a thread asking to be so.

At least, that's how I remember it.

and then Cisken went to the ban list too
What? (http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=5616)

Cosmico, however, pretty much went out and said "hi, ban me". I think he even made a thread asking to be so.

:rolleyes:

I was gone during the bannings of about 10 people

I always seem to miss exciting events such as these :(
Iggy explained why he was banned to me over msn, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

Half of my threads have been lost as well. I would shed a tear for them, but thankfully they were during my noobier years and are probably best lost in cyberspace.

I always seem to miss exciting evens such as these :(
Iggy explained why he was banned to me over msn, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.I only left the forum ONCE. for like 6 months or so. and when I come back half the major posters had been banned. talk about a serious "WTFH" moment.

nothing on that scale has happened before or since to my knowledge...kinda lame....

nothing on that scale has happened before or since to my knowledge...kinda lame....

Things like that constantly happen to me, good to know I'm not the only one, however.

This stuff always makes me think life is nothing but a big joke :cool:

Oh right.. Cisken was washed not banned, but he dissapeared anyway

He never was a fan of soap.

Reading my old posts makes me die a little on the inside.

Also, I'm pretty sure Iguana was banned in 07 or 08?

I miss writing these:

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=21087

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=25083

6 years ago and 5 years ago respectively. It's nuts. That time has gone so quickly!

I miss writing these:

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=21087

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=25083

6 years ago and 5 years ago respectively. It's nuts. That time has gone so quickly!ok, really. how often do you check this place without posting, cyc? every time we have a thread talking about anything more than a couple years old you pop up to discuss it and then promptly disappear.

do you have some sort of spy network? and even if you do, why not post more? now that you're officially accepted as special you just disappear. what the heck?

The only banning that warrants being mentioned at all is K^2. It was the dumbest thing ever, he was one of the few actually useful members on this forum.

I miss writing these:

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=21087

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=25083

6 years ago and 5 years ago respectively. It's nuts. That time has gone so quickly!

You're still alive!

The only banning that warrants being mentioned at all is K^2. It was the dumbest thing ever, he was one of the few actually useful members on this forum.

I remember that, but since the offending threads were actually deleted I can't comment.

ok, really. how often do you check this place without posting, cyc? every time we have a thread talking about anything more than a couple years old you pop up to discuss it and then promptly disappear.

do you have some sort of spy network? and even if you do, why not post more? now that you're officially accepted as special you just disappear. what the heck?

There's not really much going on around here these days, so I rarely have anything to post. I still visit occasionally, just not nearly as often as I used too.

The new Worms game on Steam has sort of brought me back (as did the iPhone release a few months ago).

The only banning that warrants being mentioned at all is K^2. It was the dumbest thing ever, he was one of the few actually useful members on this forum.
Do we seriously have to bring that up every time we have any sort of discussion about bannings?

Do we seriously have to bring that up every time we have any sort of discussion about bannings?

Well, it is the only interesting one.

Well, it is the only interesting one.this .

Do we seriously have to bring that up every time we have any sort of discussion about bannings?

As I said, it's the only banning that warrants being mentioned at all. Of course it's gotta come up whenever someone starts talking about bannings.

I wasn't around so... please, feel free to talk more about it

I wasn't around so... please, feel free to talk more about it

K^2 (clever guy) basically found a way to get the maps from the W4 demo into W3D and tried to publish them.
Then some other stuff happened. Then Team17 said he was taking the **** and banned him.

Man, I was the biggest n00b ever. I remember missing the point of Fan art entirely and thinking I just had to spam the forum with stuff. Almost all of the old stuff is gone from my machine too, but that's pretty good because I don't like it.

I don't "like" half the stuff I produce even today. I don't know how I can think something is terrible but keep producing it (actually wait, I stopped that too... I should probably put some closure on that, especially since the ending's sort of done and just kind of sitting around)

Me post

Okay, you can keep talking about K^2 now.

I wasn't around so... please, feel free to talk more about it

K^2 made a small program that let you convert maps from the Worms 4: Mayhem demo(and full game) into W3D maps, although it could only convert the poxel portion of the map, missing the heightmap portion which was a new thing in W4:M to allow maps to be larger*. This meant gimped maps, but still new maps for W3D users**. He posted this little program along with a few converted maps, again, taken from the demo. IIRC, this were maps that were hidden in a folder somewhere in the demo, but weren't playable in it. T17 then proceeded to delete the thread, saying distributing W4M maps online was illegal, which was crazy because those maps were in the freely available demo but whatever. K^2 didn't think much of that, and reposted the thread, except this time he only posted his program, which was 100% his own code, thus not quite illegal. T17 then proceeded to ban him.

Also bears mentioning that, from my perspective at least,T17 staff were never too fond of K^2. He had a knack of getting into discussions with them about their programming decision/skills. Other than that, K^2 was a great member on the community. Very useful, knowledgeable guy.

Another reason why I think this was idiotic is because when the W3D german demo was leaked, someone found that you could get all the weapons and do all sorts of stuff by hex editing the demo, and T17 even made a subforum for all discussions about tweaking the demo. I even remember some program that allowed you to customize which weapons you wanted to start with, posted in said subforum. This was, in my opinion, much more harmful to W3D than the map converter was to W4M.

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*W3D maps were made of Poxels, basically sort of 3d Pixels, which allowed them to be completely destroyed, but also made them considerably small due to hardware limitations. W4M introduced heighmaps for the main ground of the map, giving less detailed destruction, but was less processor intensive and thus allowed larger maps. At least that's how I remember it, I may be using incorrect terms or I might be completely wrong, feel free to correct me. :p

**I should probably mention that when hyping W3D, T17 promised a map editor. It also bears mentioning that around this time, K^2 was working on a map editor himself.

I remember some thread called ''Good Bye'' or something by Cosmico, saying there is a secret part of the forum, or something like that :confused:

I remember some thread called ''Good Bye'' or something by Cosmico, saying there is a secret part of the forum, or something like that :confused:yeah. there was a lot of that sort of crap from Iguana as well. that was what I was referring to when I said "conspiracy theories" earlier.

Oh. So I guess that old Emerald Jalapeno thread is gone now. Thank goodness, I was NOT proud of my early posts there. But still, nostalgia and such. Pity.
Oh wait .Jet we need to save our Console Calamity comics THOSE WERE GOOD AND HAD NICE ART

And... was about three comics long, wasn't it?

I can't even bear to read some of my old threads.

The worst thing is that my most embarrassing posts are more recent. My earlier posts were, at worst, unbearably ernest, but that's better than being obnoxious/ranty. Oh, me.

Also, if fanart's culled again I'm going to lose my first art thread and that would make me sad. :(

Save all images and maybe posts somewhere to repost them :p

Obnoxiously bump the thread.

Dang! my old posts survived the demolition wave :p

Tried using the wayback machine. Somehow it didn't work :p

I lost my first art thread as well. This makes me sad as it twas a good read every time I decided to stroll down memory lane.

Eye on Legs.

Heck, I was only lurking the forums back then, not even posting. But I spent a whole night reading the whole thing, never laughed so hard.

Also, the good old times when there was an art contest every month, and everyone was posting drawings, hell, that was motivating.

:O

No more wormy homicidal seasamy street!

:(

:O

No more wormy homicidal seasamy street!

:(OH GOD NO!!!! :eek::eek::eek:

Hahaha search for Agent_Luke art :D

Hahaha search for Agent_Luke art :Dawwww, we lost luke?! damn. it's always good to have an example of what NOT to do :p

awwww, we lost luke?! damn. it's always good to have an example of what NOT to do :p


''What is a winner without losers?'' :p

Whoa! Whoa! This thread (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=10741) still alive for some reason

''What is a winner without losers?'' :p

Whoa! Whoa! This thread (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=10741) still alive for some reasonwow. that IS strange.

Seems old threads that still active didn't got deleted :-/

Also seems that i saved Angelus thread hehe

Search for mcktwist this guy posts are still alive too, same to the Wormnet 4 pre-registration thread

Seems old threads that still active didn't got deleted :-/

Also seems that i saved Angelus thread hehe*headdesk* this is what I get for not clicking the "last" page....

of COURSE threads with new posts didnt' get deleted. those threads don't count. it was only threads that no one's touched in 6 years or better that got deleted.

we discussed this earlier. even suggested that we resurrect threads we'd rather not see go.

Dot art is no more :(

Dot art is no more :(oh hey. finally a thread that was removed that no one cares about! :p

I can't remember what specifically Iguana was doing, but he sorta intended on getting banned. Cosmico, however, pretty much went out and said "hi, ban me". I think he even made a thread asking to be so.

At least, that's how I remember it.


What? (http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=5616)

I believe Iguana created a secondary troll account intent on posting pornography having to do with that white and green pokemon. He later confessed to doing it, (I'm pretty sure he and Cosmico thought of it together, but I can't remember correctly.) and was banned.

Also, it seems all of my threads where I typed like an idiotic 7 year old seem to have been removed. Hooray!

I was inactive when Iguana was murdered :confused:

Man, I love wormy history. Wasn't there some sort of amazing troll done a while back where someone impersonated an admin or something?

Someone, tell the tale for Pete's sake! :confused:

Man, I love wormy history. Wasn't there some sort of amazing troll done a while back where someone impersonated an admin or something?I think someone used an avatar to give themselves a Team17 status at some point, but I could just be imagining things.

I think it was Plutonic, not entirely sure. I do remember the story tho. He put the text "Mod" on his avatar, so it showed as his status. Then T17 have him the custom status "Not a", so it showed "Not a mod". He then changed his avatar to display "Newbie", so it showed "Not a Newbie". He then got slapped the custom status "Permanent Newbie", and had his ability to change avatars revoked. :p

Well, that's what I remember, I may be paraphrasing some of the words tho, and I may also be missing some steps.

I think it was Plutonic, not entirely sure. I do remember the story tho. He put the text "Mod" on his avatar, so it showed as his status. Then T17 have him the custom status "Not a", so it showed "Not a mod". He then changed his avatar to display "Newbie", so it showed "Not a Newbie". He then got slapped the custom status "Permanent Newbie", and had his ability to change avatars revoked. :p

Well, that's what I remember, I may be paraphrasing some of the words tho, and I may also be missing some steps.
That is the most brilliant thing I've ever heard. It kind of makes me miss custom statuses in an odd little way. Even though I always felt somewhat inferior for not having one.

I think the Plutonic saga was before my time, but it's just fantastic.

Also, it seems like sticky topics are untouched. Which is unfortunate for Aku, seeing as the Unofficial Forum FAQ is filled with posts he made back in 2004. It's like a completely different person.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=11694

Enjoy! :p

There were a couple fanart threads left behind I believe.

I think it was Plutonic, not entirely sure. I do remember the story tho. He put the text "Mod" on his avatar, so it showed as his status. Then T17 have him the custom status "Not a", so it showed "Not a mod". He then changed his avatar to display "Newbie", so it showed "Not a Newbie". He then got slapped the custom status "Permanent Newbie", and had his ability to change avatars revoked. :p

That's awesome xD




Aku, you sure were...Lively, back in 2004!

I think it was Plutonic, not entirely sure. I do remember the story tho. He put the text "Mod" on his avatar, so it showed as his status. Then T17 have him the custom status "Not a", so it showed "Not a mod". He then changed his avatar to display "Newbie", so it showed "Not a Newbie". He then got slapped the custom status "Permanent Newbie", and had his ability to change avatars revoked. :p

Well, that's what I remember, I may be paraphrasing some of the words tho, and I may also be missing some steps.

That's still as awesome now as it was when I first heard that story yonks ago.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=11694

That thread has loads of nostalgia inducing names like lost, Sn!perWorm, Swed Simon and Glenn.

Aku, you sure were...Lively, back in 2004!.....don't ever speak of my behavior in 04 again.

I was wrong, it wasn't Plutonic, it was ThePaladin. 100% sure this time.

I was wrong, it wasn't Plutonic, it was ThePaladin. 100% sure this time.

Yes! That name definitely fits.

Old PMs are still around too.

Old PMs are still around too.why do you still have PMs from 04?!

why do you still have PMs from 04?!

More specifically; how does he have PMs from 04 - he only joined in 05.

I thought the cutoff was '06.
I didn't say I had anything from 2004.

EDIT
Yea, I was definitely talking about PMs before 2006. I sent one in '05 to Apocalypse and he never opened it. Ha!
Also my word I was an idiot then.

When i joinded here there were no ''Join date'' stuff, and i thought that Aku was a n00b and Pyramid was old. Hahahahahaha

As soon as I joined the forum database starting asploding.

As soon as I joined the forum database starting asploding.KICK HIM OUT! :mad::mad:

KICK HIM OUT! :mad::mad:

Why? :confused:

Why? :confused:

THIS ONE TO. IT'S ASKING TOO MANY QUESTIONS. :mad::mad:

THIS ONE TO. IT'S ASKING TOO MANY QUESTIONS. :mad::mad:

Why? :confused:

Why? :confused:IT DOES IT AGAIN! REMOVE IT QUICKLY! :mad:

COMMENCE ONLINE ORGY FUMIGATION! :mad:

IT DOES IT AGAIN! REMOVE IT QUICKLY! :mad:

Why? :confused:

why? :confused:
DAMNIT JOE U RUINING MY SECKS!!1!:mad:

Anyone know if there's any Aku posts from 2003 kicking around?




=D

Anyone know if there's any Aku posts from 2003 kicking around?
The FAQ thread.

I'm really not sure what you meant.

double post edit

Wow, when I was first here, I was incredibly... normal!
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?p=353654#post353654
I feel so left out. :(

Anyone know if there's any Aku posts from 2003 kicking around? well. I've just checked for my name in the Worms 3D forum to see if any of my original posts were around and they're not, apparently. the earliest I've been able to find is 05.


The FAQ thread.

I'm really not sure what you meant.

double post edit

Wow, when I was first here, I was incredibly... normal!
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?p=353654#post353654
I feel so left out. :(yeah. the rest of us got better.

DAMNIT JOE U RUINING MY SECKS!!1!:mad:

Why? :confused:


Who's Joe?

Who's Joe?
The new T17 admin who's going to disable your account.

The new T17 admin who's going to disable your account.

Ah Ok


http://dasdsad.com

I missed the older Fan Art threads. Mostly.

Who's Joe?
The new T17 admin who's going to disable your account.
Ah Ok
FYI, he's the cousin of Boggy B.

*bump*

Sooo.... anyone want to say what Hackerman was like here? what happened in the deleted posts that won't be seen again by any of us? i've read back through his history, including the flamewar that happened on a certain forum... and I agree that he did act like a big moron in the flamewar, and here, he didn't exactly act like a 24 year old, and did get mocked for some of his opinions... but what i'm asking is that as well as piracy, did he do any flaming. If so, how serious was it, and did he flame often.

Or, was he just banned for flaming and trolling.

*bump*

Sooo.... anyone want to say what Hackerman was like here? what happened in the deleted posts that won't be seen again by any of us? i've read back through his history, including the flamewar that happened on a certain forum... and I agree that he did act like a big moron in the flamewar, and here, he didn't exactly act like a 24 year old, and did get mocked for some of his opinions... but what i'm asking is that as well as piracy, did he do any flaming. If so, how serious was it, and did he flame often.

Or, was he just banned for flaming and trolling.
The thing about that guy is that he was(is?) a HUGE retard, constantly blabbing about things he had little to no knowledge of, often claiming it was others who were ignorant when it was painfully obvious he was bluffing his ass off. I mean, it's common for people on the internet to invent themselves a new persona, but this guy was absolutely delusional.
He was probably banned for continuosly posting idiotic crap.

Oh and he didn't get mocked for his opinions, he was mocked because he was an absolutely ridiculous fool.

*bump*

Sooo.... anyone want to say what Hackerman was like here? what happened in the deleted posts that won't be seen again by any of us? i've read back through his history, including the flamewar that happened on a certain forum... and I agree that he did act like a big moron in the flamewar, and here, he didn't exactly act like a 24 year old, and did get mocked for some of his opinions... but what i'm asking is that as well as piracy, did he do any flaming. If so, how serious was it, and did he flame often.

Or, was he just banned for flaming and trolling.

Nope, he was banned for posting stuff about game piracy.

I guess he wasn't the super hacker he made himself out to be, as he never managed to hack the database and unban himself.