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Attention All Pod Racers -solitude- Aug 22 06:04pm -0 comments- |
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There will be a standard one-on-one racing tournament, much like previous academy tournaments, but with racing rather than fighting.
For various reasons it is clear that this tournament will be very difficult to work without referees, so please contact me if you wish to qualify as one regardless of whether you are participating or not. For further details, please consult this thread and feel free to post questions, comments, times you are available for a server gathering and/or your interest in the racing tournament. |
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JA Prom 2008 - RIGHT NOW!! -Virtue- Jul 19 08:05pm -13 comments- |
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Hello there Lads and Ladies!
Yes tonight is the night... right now in fact, it's time for the JA Prom 2008. So download the Prom '08 map made by our very own Rin_Mintaka from here and join us on the JA Prom 2008 Server hosted by Solitude! Server details are as follows: IP: 131.111.193.112:29200 Pass: l3wb4cc4 Official event starts now and ends at midnight GMT! See you all on the Server!  |
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The Jedi Academy Presents: Prom 2008! -solitude- Jul 12 08:35pm -20 comments- |
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Yes, you read it right. We will have a prom this year.
The prom will be held on Saturday, 19th of July, beginning at 2000 GMT and will go until about midnight. As is now customary, we will all gather in the main #jedi-academy channel in IRC, where the link to download the map will be broadcasted before being announced on the website. Like last year, the map will not include any music. The music will all be done via JA Radio to provide you with a large variety of music to party with. We will announce the mystery DJ along with the map download link just before the prom starts. A big thank you to Rin Mintaka who built this years prom map.
Please try to make the effort to be there, it'd be great to keep up the recent activity we've been seeing. PS. A little teaser to whet your appetite, the prom skinpack. 
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More Good News! The US servers strike back! -solitude- Jul 10 02:50am -4 comments- |
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Thanks to Huxley, both US Home and our Public TFFA servers are back up.
The servers page has been updated appropriately. |
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Server Passwords Changed -Virtue- Jul 03 06:00pm -7 comments- |
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Due to a recent security issue, passwords for all game servers have been changed.
I would also like to take this opportunity to remind people that we have rules in place for good reason. We let people get away with minor infractions every now and then because we're human, but it's become common that when we give some people an inch, they take a mile. A few things that I can mention here: Server NPC Spawn - Dark Jedi NPCs are there for training purposes in the v1 and v2 maps, not for you to spawn armies to keep you amused. Over-use is a strain on our servers and sucks up all our bandwidth, don't do it. You know who you are, and so do we! Also - just because you haven't technically broken any rules, doesn't mean we can't decide to show you the door if we think you're an ass, no matter how long you've been here or what rights you think you may have. In fact, the only rights you have within the JA are the rights given to you by the admins. Lastly - When you joined the JA, you ticked a box that confirmed that you had read and agreed to the rules and that you would follow them. If you ticked the box anyways and decided not to read, that's your problem, we're not going to be responsible for your ignorance, when dealing with an incident, we assume that EVERYONE knows the rules, so if you haven't, you're about to have a bad day. 
On a happier note: I've got new socks on. |
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Server update - Good News Everyone! -solitude- Jun 30 06:26pm -8 comments- |
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The server page is now fully up to date.
All 5 servers are in the United Kingdom - but East Coast USA pings are reasonable too. We now have working home and classes servers. 
We also have CTF and Instagib servers. We also have a new fun server - running older maps and other things that are not done on the other servers.
There are 12 people on the fun server right now and activity is increasing daily. Come and join us. |
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We have a new n00bstick! ... err, I mean Staff member! -Virtue- Jun 27 06:36pm -13 comments- |
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Okay so, in one of our by-monthly attempts to wrench ourselves out of the proverbial swamp of quicksand which is the JA's seemingly dwindling activity without trying to do too much kicking and screaming - we've decided to give Solitude a Staff position. This is pretty much purely based on his recent efforts of providing us with FIVE new Euro servers (with room on his box for more, if we should need them) combined with the fact that he is a metaphorical shining light by way of being "a nice guy", as well as the fact that he just knows what he's doing when it comes to running servers.
Right, so Sol is now the official Euro Server manager of the JA, his Euro Home server is the official Euro Home server etc. His Staff rank enables him to add/edit servers to the Servers page (which does need an audit, which he's already said he'd be happy to do, yay!) as well as being able to view and post on forums as high-ranking as JAT. At this point, I would usually say "Congratulations!" and then encourage all of you guys to do the same. But the fact is, HE is the one doing US a favour, so we should be congratulating OURSELVES for being smart enough (if not a little slow, admittedly) to get him in to take care of this stuff for us. Lol. So, let us express our appreciation! Thank you Sol! You are t3h ub4r pwnz!
(I've been watching too much Zero Punctuation) |
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What a piece of junk! -Virtue- Jun 06 10:16am -31 comments- |
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Okay, so this news post is long overdue for two reasons: #1, There hasn't been a news post since April. #2, The content of this news post should have been covered ages ago (although a Forums post has been made about it).
So apologies for that. 
Basically, servers. Here's the deal... Kaelis and Myself provide our official EU Servers, but due to a loophole in the contract that we had with our company on their part concerning the amount of bandwidth used, they decided to shut our box down. This meant that JA Euro Home went down, as did Jaktorow (Aurochs Server) and our two MovieBattles Servers. We are currently in the process of getting a new (and better) box with a different company and getting all of our servers back online again the reason we've been held up is because one of us had an unforseen RL issue that had to be addressed, so we need to wait for payday again before we can finalise the Server purchases, so please bare with us, they'll be back soon! (Huge apologies to the Aurochs as well)
As for the US Servers... I personally am not sure why they're down and I wasn't actually aware of it until recently. I did speak with Huxley a few weeks ago though - he was unaware of the "slowmo lag" troubles that we were having on them and felt really bad about it, he told me that he'd get them working properly again - so maybe the US Server downtime is due to Hux giving them a bit of an audit.
There are a couple of (really awesome) people who have been good enough to donate servers to us recently, Johauna and Solitude. Johauna is having a few problems with her hosting company right now but is confident her server will be back online any time now, so her server information will be updated as soon as that happens Solitude has only just recently donated his server. So thank you very much to both members, we really appreciate it!
I hope the rest of you are all well and hope to see you soon! |
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Out with the old and in with the new -DJ Sith- Apr 02 04:03am -18 comments- |
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We've been mulling this over for a while. After meeting with the Council and the leaders of the Jedi Academy Aurochs, our awesome competitive team we've decided to dissolve the Aurochs. Everyone agrees that the Academy's needs are best served by the Chewbax0rz clan. They've got the good looks and grace that fit right in with our philosophies. This change takes effect immediately, and we'll close the Aurochs site down within a week after we wrap everything up. Please see a council member if you have questions. Current Aurochs are more than welcome into Chewbax0rz clan. Have fun, everyone! |
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A JAK From Afar! -Kaelis- Feb 10 01:45pm -13 comments- |
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Well its finally the time for a new Knight, the first of 2008 at that.
He's a pro CTF'r and passed his trial with flying colours, so without further ado i'd like everyone to go and congratulate FullMetal as our new Knight coming in from the big U.S.A. Expect to see some CTF classes coming your way very shortly. |
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