User blog comment:Deathstalker666/QuakeWikia Server/@comment-36040288-20190101045918/@comment-3547390-20190213194551

Fair enough and nice to meet you Minion, I will check out that message later as I am away from that computer at the moment.

No worries at all, the chat is pretty casual here, and I am pretty much known for going off-topic. I am a massive fan of Quake 1 (and a couple other old-school FPS, I tend to be more focused on a couple titles as opposed to stretching myself to a larger collection), as you might have assumed, and so have been here nearly a decade (I have had some long breaks, plus covering new content can be very dependent on my situation; last few weeks haven't been the best for doing much around here sadly) documenting various things. I tend to especially enjoy delving into the more obscure content. I also have a lot of weird quirks, such as a rather bad case of OCD in regards to gaming, which is one reason I have my own little server (another reason being that the stuff on it is just stuff nobody else does or would even bother with).

The server isn't much special, it is just a small listen server (dedicated means little with something like Hamachi, where we are limited to 5 at a time anyway) where we have occasionally played from time to time, mainly as others just have been too busy to be involved. The other admin here gets on once in a blue moon (I want to say he last was on in November), but I don't think he has even been able to play since the switch to Hamachi (it used to be on Evolve before that service went down, sadly there just aren't many VPN options, I tried some out with him including GameRanger which was sort of a dead end due to bad support). In fact, telling how little it has been active, only one other person is in the Hamachi server and they didn't want to play the game, just test the server with me enough to make sure it worked. So, needless to say, it has been sitting around but just hasn't had anyone wanting to be on it.

The list was posted primarily for me to keep track of the changes, plus to inform those who had been busy for the previous few months as to what changes they could expect. I enjoy exploring old artifacts and shovelware, so it gave a lot more purpose to use it to build up a server that offered some more fun action for Cooperative (since vanilla is a bit too overpowered for my and several others who have been involved likings). From the times it has been played on, it has been rather well received, which is good as a big importance of managing the server is ensuring balance and practicality exists.

Hey, I detailed out the secrets for each level, so it is definitely great to hear when others are telling me that it is effective in its purpose, aiding people and being an information resource. One difficulty of the editor of anything is that you never really get the "end-user" perspective, you are so used to everything that it makes sense to you, while someone unacquainted with the material would find it confusing. It was always a goal of mine to make things as clear as possible.

I definitely look forward to checking this out. Know weekends are also the time I tend to have the ability to add some stuff to the Wikia, so don't worry if I don't respond right away in such a case, since I might be recording a video walkthrough or something. But if I can respond, and definitely after I get whatever I am getting done, I would be glad to swap to the server (aka I am easy to work around time-wise when on my computer).