Jubilee - 250 Members! New Multiplayer Map Packs!

[Shade]

Im glad to announce the 250 members jubilee!

The community is growing very fast. I THANK YOU ALL for your confidence, I hope UT99.org will be a big.... no, maybe THE biggest general community for Unreal Tournament someday! (Hopefully, of course not in the near future.)


As a present for you, I have uploaded many Map Packs.
You can find these Map Packs in our Download List in the Category "Maps".

Assault Bonuspack 418 | 22.25 MiB
A pack of 9 AS maps

Bounce Pack | 2.06 MiB
A pack of 3 DM (bounce) maps

CTC-UT-Mappack- Vol3.1.1 | 84.15 MiB
A mixed pack of 12 maps (CTF, DM, DOM)

CTC-UT-Mappack-Vol1 | 32.89 MiB
A mixed pack of 6 maps (CTF, DM, JB)

Flags of Time Map Pack | 70.03 MiB
A pack of 11 CTF maps

Forts of Time Volume 1 | 73.57 MiB
A mixed pack of AS, DM and DOM maps

Forts of Time Volume 2 | 35.15 MiB
A mixed pack of AS and DM maps

Fusion of Time Package v2.0 | 28.67 MiB
A pack of 7 DOM maps

Low Poly Map Pack 1 | 5.77 MiB
A pack of low poly maps

Low Poly Map Pack 2 | 19.06 MiB
A pack of low poly maps

Low Poly Map Pack 3 | 20.32 MiB
A pack of low poly maps

RA to DM Conversion Mappack | 13.35 MiB
A pack wich includes all the Original Rocket Arena maps

TDC Pack v2 | 33.20 MiB
A mixed pack of 11 maps from a theme design contest

Unreal DM Map Pack 1 | 15.75 MiB
A pack of 18 converted Unreal DM maps (+ 1 BT map)

Unreal DM Map Pack 2 | 31.92 MiB
A pack of 13 converted Unreal DM maps

Zora Unreal97 | 54.54 MiB
All converted maps from Unreal Beta for Unreal and UT

I hope you like the map packs, have fun with them!

[TheCorey]

Good stuff!

I think I've seen most of these already but maybe not everyone here is such an UT veteran as I am

Good job anyway!

[mojito]

You never heard about asking the authors whether you're allowed to upload their creations, or at least giving credits, have you?

Quoting from Forts Of Time (for example):

This Package may be electronically distributed only at NO CHARGE to the recipient in its current state, MUST include this .txt file, and may NOT be modified IN ANY WAY. YOU MUST NOTIFY ME (SWANKY, email: ----- ) IF YOU UPLOAD IT ONTO ANY OTHER WEBSITE.

[TheCorey]

How do you know he did not email Swanky?

[Rosco[CoF]]

Beautiful!
Now all I, or we, need is a server to play them on!

[Shade]

You never heard about asking the authors whether you're allowed to upload their creations, or at least giving credits, have you?

Quoting from Forts Of Time (for example):

This Package may be electronically distributed only at NO CHARGE to the recipient in its current state, MUST include this .txt file, and may NOT be modified IN ANY WAY. YOU MUST NOTIFY ME (SWANKY, email: ----- ) IF YOU UPLOAD IT ONTO ANY OTHER WEBSITE.

1. I dont must ask the authors... do you think i ask every author of every mod, mutators, maps and so on?
2. Credits are in the readme documents in the packages. If not, than its the problem of the author.
3. I have NOT modified the packs and I have notified swanky that i upload it here.

All right!

[LiQuidFire]

w00t, congrats!

You should add the new official ClanBase Cup map packs too, when they become available in the next week or so.
And any of the other map packs that are used in 'official' competitions.

[Shade]

Where can i download these packs?

[mojito]

1. I dont must ask the authors... do you think i ask every author of every mod, mutators, maps and so on?
2. Credits are in the readme documents in the packages. If not, than its the problem of the author.
3. I have NOT modified the packs and I have notified swanky that i upload it here.

Oh boy, this is not a way to start a community.
Of course nobody can coerce you to ask them, but with only a minimum of decency you'd do so anyhow. And to be honest, everyone who calls himself an admin should have that much decency.

[Dare]

What are the bounce maps about? Is there something special about them?

[RocketJedi]

You never heard about asking the authors whether you're allowed to upload their creations, or at least giving credits, have you?

Quoting from Forts Of Time (for example):

This Package may be electronically distributed only at NO CHARGE to the recipient in its current state, MUST include this .txt file, and may NOT be modified IN ANY WAY. YOU MUST NOTIFY ME (SWANKY, email: ----- ) IF YOU UPLOAD IT ONTO ANY OTHER WEBSITE.

actually anything created in UT is the property of the creators of UT. Credits to authors are cool though.
so people can claim that they own the rights to software that isn't theirs to begin with all they want. Still they created the mods, maps, etc using epics software. UED

This was taken from epics site.

For the sake of clarity you will not gain any ownership whatsoever in any Epic content or script nor can you use any Epic content outside the scope of the rights granted here. Any attempt to do so will bring about the wrath of our attorneys.

v. Your Mods must be distributed solely for free, period. Neither you, nor any other person or party, may sell them to anyone, commercially exploit them in any way, or charge anyone for receiving or using them without prior written consent from Epic Games Inc. You may, exchange them at no charge among other end-users and distribute them to others over the Internet, on magazine cover disks, or otherwise for free.

again a nice credit to the creators is a nice thing to do. Anyone claiming copyrights on their work/creations is completely prohibited. Since you are using UED to to make final compiles of maps mods mutators etc.. it still belongs to epic.

Sorry fro the long rant but for years people claim to OWN their work when they don't. You are using epics software. the only license a creator of mods maps etc has is the one granted to them by epic.. which just allows you to use their software and distribute freely thats it.

[Rosco[CoF]]

mojito,
Most, not all, but most of the people who did this stuff are long gone and have left for other things. I know I tried contacting the guy who made CTF-RedNeckNeighbors and never got an answer, all I got was kicked back email that was not deliverable. The Admin here is not taking these files and presenting them as his own, he is only reviving them in their original state.

In other words, "Lighten Up Francis"

[mojito]

You don't own the maps, but they are your intellectual property, and therefor the authors acknoledgement must be given in order to use them.
And telling something about "mappers being gone" might be true in some cases, but for nearly all of the packs Shade uploaded, the contributors are still active. Besides, you cannot know whether they are "gone", if you don't even try to contact them...

[Rosco[CoF]]

What are the bounce maps about? Is there something special about them?

I know w00t has/had a ton of them!

http://www.extremew00t.com/news.html

You want bounce? You need w00t!

[Myth]

Heh, my textures are my property. They weren't made in UT. For all of who want to use it shall pay me 5$ or I'll call my lawyer !!
And you can't contact every author that made some maps or two for UT. Most of them don't even include a description/email address.
Also if you guys would spread my UT maps I'd be even happier.