You may have noticed the problems for some people to log in since the last update of the system. This is due to a server internal change of the command parser which doesn't allow the characters
:, *, ?, ", <, >, ; within a namestring (filename issues on windows).

To fix this we change the name policy. Now only the following characters are allowed within a account name:
letters (a to z and A to Z)
numbers (0-9)
. (period), _, -

This means about 20 users have invalid usernames. These users may just use their old accountname without the forbidden characters.

example:
#m00! becomes m00
w.T-$n@ck? becomes w.T-nck or
<hk> becomes hk

There are some users who only have forbidden chars in their names. These users should email me. Notice that the accountname is not visible to anyone. It's only your accountname, so you can log in. So you shouldn't put any colors in the accountname, since you can't type them into the quake3 console on windows anyway.

[userid=370], [userid=592], [userid=618], [userid=645] and [userid=970]
should write a email to us, because they have to pick a completely new accountname.

I am sorry for the complications.

Since the new server binary is so stable, it is now running on all mDd servers.
Next up:
-> New start page ([userid=11])
-> Demo upload ([userid=11])
-> ELO Ranking ([userid=3])

We rebuilt the entire command system. It is now way more flexible. Type !help !<commandname> for a usage description.
parameters marked in [] brackets are optional (not needed).
parameters marked in <> brackets are essential (needed).

The !oldtop command is implemented again.

!oldtop [map] [physic.mode] [show]
examples:
If you type !oldtop without any parametes, it will print the top10 of the current map at the current physic.
!oldtop vq3 will display the top10 of this map in vq3 to you.
!oldtop cpm.2 show will display the top10 of the current map in cpm mode 2 for everyone on the server.

!top [map] [physic.mode] [show]
the same as !oldtop

!time [nick] [map] [physic.mode]

!rank <number>
You have to put the number of a rank here.
It will display the player on the given rank to everyone on the server.
!random [count]
displays some random mapnames. You can specify the number of maps shown by adding a number up to 10.

!mytime [map] [physic.mode]
displays the best time you scored on this map .

please note that you now can login via !login <username> <password> too from

-> In all commands you don't have to care about the order of the commands. They will work anyway.
!top show pplasma3 cpm.2 will work too.
-> These changes are only on the 2337 testserver. If it is stable we will move it to all the other servers as well.

-> You may have noticed the servers got pretty unstable a few weeks ago. That was due to a mass test of a new way of coding (we can load code dynamically at runtime). Now everything is stable again. :)

-> We could also fix some long unknown bugs thanks to [userid=775] and [userid=160]
Thanks, both for you to be so kind informing us about these issues.

-> We both can't look at all these servers all the time. That's why we are thinking about nominating a few server admins. If you think you can handle this task write us an email. You can find the address in the Contact Section.

Since people keep asking us about it we made up some rules for all servers connected to the record database.

http://www.q3df.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=44

-- Update --

I deleted all times of
[userid=2], CaNaBiS, [userid=23], [userid=68], Garu and [userid=313]
due to triggerlagging.