What does sportsmanship mean in the realms of TFC? What would I consider to be sportsmanlike?
(Disclaimer: My main focus here - as usual - is on pubs games. Clan members will find many points mentioned below not fitting for clan matches. Yet I think sportsmanship has its place in clan matches as well, but requires a different focus).
To start with I’d say: Fairness and Fairplay.
Playing fair means not to use any tactics or actions, which are against the rules. But I would like to point (...)

Whelp, once again Tot’s cunning plan snares people. And the flamemail pours in. Let’s see, I’ve been compared to a "flunking highshooler" by someone who can’t spell, nor can they use complete words. I’ve been insulted, with the use of MANY profanities. And I’ve had my webmastering skills mocked, because I like to use colours to emphasize certain points. I feel sad now.
Folks, let me tell you something, that the long-term readers here on The Fort already know. We’re not a game reviewing page. (...)

Welp because of a bunch of annoying things going on in my personal life - that I won’t bore you folks with here - I decided to spend some money on myself, and upgrade my system to something more respectable, a 1Ghz Athlon with a GeForce2 card So, now seeing I’ve got a system that can run Unreal Tournament without bogging down, or excessive choppiness, due to it’s crappy OpenGL code, I decided to check out this Unreal Fortress thing. A few of the regulars in the PF forums were talking about it, (...)

Hey, better late than never
So what will this year bring us? As much as gaming is concerned I hope that Valve will finally release TF2 (yeah, I do believe it will happen after all). Personally I’m looking forward to TF2. I expect a game which will combine the more realistic approach towards weapons and physics like CS with a more forgiving damage system and the complexity of the class system of TFC. This could be an interesting and exciting kind of game, though I expect it to be (...)

Christmas. A time of year where many of us get the chance to spend some time with our friends, family and loved ones. A time for happiness and joy - but not for everyone. There are many people that, for one reason or another are seperated from those they hold dear. The following poem is - as is common here on The Fort - about a soldier, but as I’ve said before there are many "soldiers" and "heroes" you see in life everyday - and you just might not realize it. Police, Fireman, Paramedics, (...)

Yes, you can joke about Spirits of TF past and all that, but Tot is still actually here. I wish I could say I had interesting, GOOD news to report - but that’s not the case. Instead, you’ll have to deal with me going into Rant Mode ™.
First, a personal one. This one goes out to the arsehole who keeps sending virii attachments (that’s viruses to the less-educated) to my planetfortress email account, with the subject line of Snow White and the seven dwarfs - the REAL story. This fucknuckle (...)

After doing my rant on personal scores in TFC I was contacted by a reader (amazing to see people are actually reading this stuff who brought to my attention the scoring system used by Q3CTF (thanks a lot for doing so, Gav). And quite frankly I think it’s a very good system, which fits the more complex gameplay of CTF far better than the old-fashioned system TFC uses.
So the following is taken from the Q3A 1.25 readme:
New Medal Awards
Two new medals will be awarded to players during (...)

Okay, okay, we have done it again. No editorial since October 1st and the supposedly weekly rant didn’t happen either.
Well, at least the latter happened deliberately. As much as I love to make those small rants I realized that I would drown the site quickly with them, burying the more important content (excuse me for being such immodest) of the editorials. So right now we are considering a few changes on this site to adapt it to our overflowing creativity .
And who knows, maybe it will (...)

It has been brought to my attention by Barker of the Top 10 Tournament League that TTT has set up a "Code of Conduct" which participating clans can adhere on a voluntary basis to signal their willingness to follow this Code of Conduct in clan matches. This Code of Conduct is laid out as followed (quoted from the website):
My clan agrees to make a "best faith effort" to not do any of the below in matches against clans who also agree to not do the below:
1.Excessive spam at enemy respawns (...)

Normally, the focus at the Fort is on honour, sportsmanship, and fair play in public games. Teatime’s been gracious enough to offer me a guest spot here to express my opinions on such matters if I should ever come up with something that I thought was worth taking the time to write about. Well, I came up with something, but I first must stress that this has nothing to do with public games. What I want to discuss is honour, sportsmanship, and fair play in clan matches. I’ve been dragging a (...)