Gamegurus.net down? - Squaredot @ 11:48 AM
I think Gamegurus and all of its hosted sites are down at the moment, i haven't been able to connect to any of them so far today. If anyone has any specific information as to the reason for the down time, don't hesitate to email me. Let's hope they get the problem fixed as soon as possible.

PGL 2on2 Terminated - Squaredot @ 11:45 AM
Well, it looks as if the 2on2 competiton that the PGL was going to have is off now. Thats a REAL shame, i was looking forward to the season, even though i wasn't going to play. There is always next season i suppose :(. Everyone that has signed up for the 2on2 competition is now signed up as singles. They did away with 2on2 and replaced it with 1on1 competition. Here is a statement:

The league is sorry to announce that due to technical issues that the PGL could not resolve in time for the current (Spring '99) season, the planned offering of StarCraft 2-on-2 (Strategy Teamplay) has been postponed, and will be replaced with StarCraft 1-on-1 competition. We sincerely regret the inconvenience and/or confusion this may cause some players, and we do hope to feature Strategy Teamplay in the next (Fall '99) season. All players who have registered to compete as part of a StarCraft 2-on-2 team are now considered registered as individual competitors in the StarCraft 1-on-1 format.

Attention Cheaters: Can't connect to battle.net? - DarkShade @ 5:19 PM
A post made by Mick of Blizzard concerning b.net connection and cheaters:

This is for all of you who have always been able to connect to battle.net, but now mysteriously cannot. Or, if when you do connect, there are only a few people online. I only have one this to say...stop using the map hack you cheater! Some versions of the new 1.04 map hack tweak your server list and will force you to connect to a private, non-Blizzard server. So, now because of your lack of sportsmanship; your username, password, and cd-key has been compromised. Have a nice day.

Mick
Blizzard Entertainment

SpaceDominator Gets Out of BW - SpaceDominator @ 5:02 PM
I got BW, Sunday. It was a huge surprise. I have been playin, that and writing strategies. So, expect those up. Also NEXT MONDAY AND NEXT TUESDAY are beat the staff days, so be ready for em!LATER.
Thanks,
SpaceDominator

Duran Page! - DarkShade @ 11:10 PM
Blizzard made another profile page! This time it's Samir Duran, check it out here!

Blizzard Christmas card! - koreldar @ 8:46 PM
So my mom is sorting through our daily snail mail and she finds a letter in the bunch, that was addressed to me. I pick it up and and look at the return address and waddya know? It's from Cendant Corporation. So I rip it open hoping that maybe I won something. Oh well, it wasnt a free-bee but it was something definately cool. A christmas card with the picture of that Santa-Kerrigan giving a girl a Zerg larva drawn by Samwise on the cover and on the inside it said "You should see what we gave the naughty kids...". And the best part was that it was actually signed by Tony Gervase and Susan Wooley! I dunno, mebbe I'm just a little excited about that tidbit but I thought 'twas pimp!

Future SCMs of the week? - Squaredot @ 6:27 PM
Shlonglor just posted on the bnet forums that Blizzard will most likely switch between .scms and .scxs every other week. Thats a nice idea, people that have Brood War can still use scms. Check it out here.

Correct 1.04 changes txt - Squaredot @ 6:24 PM
Blizzard has the correct text now of all the changes that have taken place in the 1.04 patch. The post that Blizzard made on the bnet forums was missing a few changes. here they are.

StarCraft #1 again - Aiel @ 5:17 PM
Gamespot has voted StarCraft the #1 strategy game of the year. Like we didn't know that =) No, I am just kidding. It says it is a must get, but really people, if you don't have this game you are just crazy or damn lazy. I would have to go for the latter =). Here is the article if you want to check it out.

ISL - New SC League! - DarkShade @ 4:39 PM
A new League is born! The International Starcraft League is brouight to you by GameGurus. For more information and sign up go to http://isl.gamegurus.net ...I think I might join! Who wants to be on my team? :)

Starshack Strategy - Squaredot @ 11:56 AM
Chaplan has added another section to his 2on2 Bible. This one deals with a Zerg/Protoss team. Its a good article, check it out here.

Another sc.org departure !! - Mr. Insano @ 11:42 AM
Mercutio! has also left SC.org. Here is what he said.

I have barely done anything here in the past few months, mostly because the lust to play StarCraft has all but died in me. It's no fun at all to help maintain a webpage about a game you don't even play anymore, so I'm heading on out.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interest of America first. America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad.

To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great hout inflation at home.

Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.

As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term, I feel a great sadness that I will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next 2 1/2 years. But in turning over direction of the Government to Vice President Ford, I know, as I told the Nation when I nominated him for that office 10 months ago, that the leadership of America will be in good hands.

In passing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of responsibility that will fall on his shoulders tomorrow and, therefore, of the understanding, the patience, the cooperation he will need from all Americans.

Hehe, leave it to him to copy the president......

Damn Funny - Aiel @ 02:09 AM
Well the title pretty much explains it all. Due to the lack of news and that I am on vacation and have a lot of time on my hands, well at least till Wednesday, I have found some pretty good sites out there. One of the funniest is www.suicide.com. It has some pretty good sound files. I recommend the mad cow one, almost fell on my ass I was laughing so hard. I hope this holds you over till the morning.

P.S. If you have any good news just send it over to me or one of the other guys and we will be sure to put it up.

Brood War Stuff - DarkShade @ 12:59 AM
I'm back! I haven't made any updates lately, well here's one now! Anyways, I have been real busy with our Brood War page! This answers why I'm not doing any posts! Expect to see the BW page very soon! Maybe even before christmas? Nah, unless we have get the rest of the staff to work! :) Anyways, we have a cool layout especially for our bw page, and maybe we could get a subdomain, broodwar.scmillennium.com ...Some of you may have seen the preview of the page, well I took it down, cause there was a problem when trying to view in IE4. If you want to see it now, well too late, just wait till it opens! :P

About Agelmar's post, the computer is INSANE, They make things faster, they dont' have to struggle with micromanagement, they don't have to scroll or click the mouse. They don't have to worry anything cause they're not like us! We have to click our mouses and move them fast, the computer doesn't have to do that. They know where we are cause they suppose to know! They don't have to scout or anything!... We have to struggle with these extra little things and the computer doesn't, that's why it's so INSANE. However, that's the way it has to be, Blizzard can't program the computer to play like a human! YES, It's INSANE, but we have to face it......

GX-Starcraft page - Squaredot @ 10:29 PM
I have read somewhere that GX-Starcraft has gotten a new layout, i dunno, sure looks like the old one to me. At any rate, they have many new features! Daily Tips, Weekly Strats, etc. This week's strat comes from Maynard and deals with going hard marines. Worth the read, check it out here.

Stores **** me off!!! - Overlord @ 7:37 PM
Stores here where I live (canada) **** me off!!!! I got a cpu store to reserve me a copy of bw but of course they didn't!!! And they being as stupid as they are only order like 50 copies of BW when there are about 5000 or more peepz in my city that want it! So of course I have to wait another week and a half atleast to get it!!! Bastards!

Please take a minute... - Agelmar @ 5:03 PM
Please take a minute and go here. It is a post that I made about the imbalance of the strength of the computer in BW on the Battle Net BW forums. If we get a lot of replies to the post on the Blizz Forums, we might actually get something done about in v1.05. Thank you all.

Computer in BW - Agelmar @ 4:56 PM
The computer in BW is pratically stuck on Insane. I have played 6 3v1 computer games, and have lost five of them! Now make no mistake, I am a good player, with a SC win percentage of 82%, and the people I played with were just as good, but that computer... man! I tried attacking the computer once (it was protoss) with 20 Dark Templars with upgraded weapons and 2 observers, and all of my troops died! The computer was pretty far up the tech ladder, too. A minute later (literally) I had 5 Carriers up my but and Corsair Disruption Webs all around my base! And when we tried against a Zerg computer on the map (6)Cauldron.scx (which for those of you who don't have BW is a fresh BW map, Desert Tileset and a ton of expansions - 256x256) The computer had 12 expansions! We eventually died to control groups of Devourers and Lurkers, with a few Guardians on the side... Here is my opinion and that of 79% of the people in Brood War USA-3, "The computer is way too hard in BW. I hope Blizz knocks it down quite a bit in 1.05"

More on why Terrans are BAD - Agelmar @ 2:19 PM
I just lost my second straight game in a row playing terran. For the record, I have played 12 BW games, and the only ones I lost were my first two, when I was protoss and zerg. I was obsessed with building only Corsairs and Dark Templars for Protoss, and only Lurkers and Devourers for the Zerg. That's why I lost. But when I played Terran i got smarter. I played with a regular SC strategy and built only Medics as my BW unit of choice. I tried attacking with a group of Marines and a group of Meidcs. It failed utterly. I was up against Dark Templars one time, what a mess... then I was up against a group of Hydras/Lurkers... another failure. Hence i make my conclusion: The terrans have no good new units, and are made porrer by that. The valkyre just plain sucks: its air damage is only 5 per missile (there are 2), while a wraith, which is pretty much the same cost, does 20 some air damage. Go figure. The Medics really dont do that much for an attack, so all they can be used for is to suppliment defense, which works OK. Due to the lack of good units, the Terrans are now the weakest race. You can send in a control group of Battlecruisers, and they'll get "devoured" by devourers, or some Corsairs will come along with their Disruption web, keep the BC's from firing at air targets, and kill em one by one with ther little 5 damage blast (which fires extremely rapidly: another plus for the protoss: the Corsair's cooldown is practically nonexistant.) Due to the lack of new good units, the Terrans now are the least powerful, and worst, race in BW. Balance it Blizz.

Starcraft Times - SpaceDominator @ 12:41 PM
I just read the latest issue of the Starcraft Times, and I was impressed with the quality of the work there. You might want to take a look at this impressive newsletter.. It updates you every week about Starcraft. Take a look at the newsletter here
Also, if you want to subscribe, send email to this address.G-Apsect's Email
Thanks,
SpaceDominator

7 Pages of Ladder Resets - SpaceDominator @ 12:39 PM
On the 7th Day of Christmas, Blizzard said to me: 7 Pages of Ladder Resets. Well, Blizzard's doing their job... they have reset 7 pages of people. The most notible Reset is X'DS~Insane:(
Now, like one of my friends says, "Give em the thumbs down." Yeah, I think Ladder players need to understand that cheating never pays. To the ones that don't cheat.. keep up the friendly play. That's my opinion for Today...
Thanks,
SpaceDominator

SD's Opinions - SpaceDominator @ 01:26 AM
Before I begin, this speech is not to harm Agelmar in any way, this speech is just been created to help state my opinion. I do not have BW Yet, but I know what the hell i'm talkin about. Once I get BW, I'm gonna remain loyal to the Terrans..(Not 100% of the time however) A race that can win..(but agelmar... disagrees..) Read on:
Fellow Terrans, from this day on, we need to proove our right, and honor, for being alive. If you read Agelmar's review of the Terran Race, he was stating that they were a race of dispcible tactics and lack for a solid detector. Do I agree with this? Never. The Terrans can survive on their own, and can keep up with the other two races as quick as we can spell M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I.(Now was, that with 2 P's or Q's?). The Terrans are a race that was meant on defense to help them survive up the tech-tree to become one of the more powerful races up to the top. The medics and the Valyrite's help allow this to become a reality quicker. Medics are supposed to be used for healing Terran Infantry units to make their lives longer. Well, guess what? I feel that Terran players should begin to use Medics and Marines for more DEFENSIVE purposes and leave other units that the Terrans have to do the attacking. The cloaking ability of Wraiths and Ghosts can help make the game more interesting and exciting. Dark Templars? Bah. They do 40 damage; they can kill a Marine in 1 swipe. Well, try this.. Put them into a Bunker.. Build a Missle Turret nearby the Bunker. Actually build 3. 4. Get the Academy and get Comsat Station it will allow you to do things like this. I have nothing wrong with Agelmar's opinions and such, but this time the corkscrew came loose. I get BW, I'll find tactics that work.. Or maybe Blizzard will update their Compendium?? Wink. To conclude, Terran Players Remain Loyal to us! You can survive, and you'll be more successful than you can ever imagine.
Well.. What a way to come back to updating: write a long speech. I also will be posting a remake of Agelmar's speech, with my opinions along the way. Well, I thought I'd just write this cause I red Agelmar's article and It got me thinking. When I'm thinkin.. life is over.. Monday, I will start updating everything at full speed, cause I got all the time in the world. This weekend is busy, and well.. it's 12:30 now.. so.. That's all she wrote.
Thanks,
SpaceDominator

New Link!!! - Overlord @ 10:36 PM
I just added a link to my friends sc/bw page in our links section, so go check out his page here!!!

SCM of the week!!!-->below - Overlord @ 9:01 PM
Check it out it looks pretty good! If you click on the thumbnail you can see a close-up view!

BW IS OUT!!!!!!!! - Agelmar @ 6:49 PM
YEAH! BW IS OUT! It's about time! I've checked around, it seems the best place to get BW is Electronics Botique. They are selling BW for $29.95 and have plenty to go around. Best Buy does not have BW YET!!! It's a shame, seeing as how I have a $2 off anything in the store coupon.. but oh well. BW IS OUT! Im headin out tonight to get it. Our BW section will be up and running by christmas! For a preview, and this is only a preview, go to http://www.scmillennium.com/Broodwar/temp.shtml. We hope to have broodwar.scmillennium.com working by christmas! Hope you like it, and happy playing! And here's a thought for you... what will you play with first? Dark Templars or Lurkers? Happy BWing and Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays!

BW box scans - Squaredot @ 5:49 PM
Infoceptor and GameGurus both have box scans up on their page. Actually the links are the same i believe cause the same person from Infoceptor has posted it on GamGurus :Þ. You can check them out at the above links. I'm waiting till my box comes tonight to check it out :).

Another One Bites The Dust!!! - Overlord @ 5:45 PM
I just got a e-mail from Alex at Scii. He said that Scii has officially closed its doors for good because the webmaster left. Well good luck to you Alex and the other guys at Scii!

ohh man! - Squaredot @ 5:40 PM
It appears that Extreme Starcraft has closed down for good :((. gAMBIT, one of the web guys at ESC, has relocated to Starshack. Let's wish everyone that worked at Extreme Starcraft good luck for the future.

Blizzard's column on Gamegurus - Squaredot @ 5:09 PM
GameGurus has gotten everything ready to go for Blacklizard's column page. It already has one article, his thoughts on the 1.04 patch. This is his WHOLE article, not the one on the bnet forums. Go check it out here, he should have more articles up next week. (I thinks its a weekly thing).

New address for StarDome - Squaredot @ 4:44 PM
Quick bit of news. The StarDome that we have in our links page can now be found here, instead of the link that is back there. Unless of course, somone has changed it ;). StarDome is a good site, check out the scm reviews, those are the best!

Blacklizard's corner - Squaredot @ 4:39 PM
Blacklizard is now writing colums for GameGurus. He also made a post on the bnet forums with his thoughts of the 1.04 patch. This string is really worth the read! People like [9]Agent911 and Annihilator-X17 have posted follow-ups for it. Don't delay and check it out now. His post is right there.

Diablo 2 has 3dfx support - Squaredot @ 4:34 PM
I know this isn't starcraft news, but for all of you Diablo II fans this is a neat bit of info. Diabo 2 now has 3dfx support. Blizzard has posted some info about it in their Diablo 2 section, which i have provided a link for here.

Text corrections for the 1.04 patch! - DarkShade @ 11:40 PM
http://www.battle.net/forums/starcraft-broodwar/posts/mu/53260.htm

Debation Topic: Reaver - SpaceDominator @ 11:11 PM
The Reaver. A Unit, that has been used so cheaply to kill people, and I personally hate it. Now, it can't kill me anymore! Hahaha. Now anyways, there is a debate going on about whether the Reaver should of remained as powerful as it was. Well.. Here's the post that started it, by Zileas, and Annihilator's post as well. Zileas Begins
Annihilator X-17's Idea: Just change your strategy People..
I will be doing more stuff tomorrow, then just a post. Then for 2 Weeks, it's updating Frenzy! YEAH! In other personal news, I pre-ordered Brood War, so I will have that by Christmas. See y'all tomorrow!
Thanks,
SpaceDominator

Patch on Blizz's page - Squaredot @ 9:21 PM
Blizzard now has a link to the 1.04 patch on their homepage. You can download it right here.

Ladder map problems? - Squaredot @ 9:14 PM
It seems whenever I try and play a game on the new ladder maps, the game kicks me and the host out on the countdown. Wonder if this is caused by the authentication of the ladder maps... If anyone else is having similar problems, or my problem is indeed the ladder maps themselves, please drop me a line. You can email right here. Thanks. BTW, the new 1.04 patch is great! Looks like old zerg builds aren't as effective anymore, and neither are shuttles + reavers.

DarkShade interview - Squaredot @ 7:40 PM
Our very own DarkShade was interviewd today by Sarudo. He posted it on his page The Starcraft Times. You can read the interview here.

Zileas on unit drop cooldown - Squaredot @ 4:33 PM
Zileas has made a post on bnet complaining about unit drop cooldowns. Personally i think the only reason he has a problem with it is becuase he only makes reavers and dragoons. You can read his post here.

1.04 Changes - Squaredot @ 12:30 AM
The 1.04 patch has been released and you can get it when you log onto battle.net. Here are all the offical changes, there are a lot!:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- patch 1.04
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------   - Starcraft compatibility with Brood War implemented.   - You can select all burrowed units of the same type or cloaked units of the
same type by using the Ctrl+select method or by double clicking.   - If you have multiple Carriers or Reavers selected you can build Interceptors
and Scarabs for all of them at the same time.   - Cooldown times of units being dropped out of transports corrected.   - Stim Pack causing Firebats to fire slowly corrected.   - Zergling adrenal gland upgrade effects corrected.   - Fixed a bug where the muzzle flash on a full fire bunker aiming south
displayed incorrectly.   - Air unit movement near the edge of the map corrected.   - The Ladder directory has been updated with the Season 4 ladder maps.
Retired ladder maps have been moved to the OldLadder directory.   ============================================
1.04 Changes to StarEdit (Map Editor)
============================================   - New save feature that identifies all 'enhanced' data in the scenario and
specifies which versions of Starcraft will be able to load the scenario.   - Addition of the comparing conditional 'exactly' for use in such triggers
as: ACCUMULATE, BRING, COMMAND, COUNTDOWN TIMER, DEATHS, ELAPSED TIME,
KILL, OPPONENTS, and SCORE.   - Increased number of Switches to 256.   - Increased number of usable locations to 254.   - Added the ability to specify 'Random' in the SET SWITCH trigger action.   - Added the ability to name switches.   - Added the ability to set Fog-of-War for multiple players simultaneously
by holding down Control or Shift.   - Added the ability to re-name any unit.   - New triggers: a) ORDER UNIT (Move to, Patrol to, Attack to)
b) The ability to specify a quantity for the following actions:
CREATE UNIT, CREATE UNIT W/PROPERITIES,
MOVE UNIT, KILL UNITS AT LOCATION, REMOVE UNITS AT LOCATION.
c) PAUSE/UNPAUSE TIMER
d) MODIFY UNIT ENERGY
e) MODIFY HANGER COUNT
f) MODIFY UNIT HIT POINTS
g) GIVE UNITS TO PLAYER
h) MODIFY UNIT RESOURCES
I) MODIFY UNIT SHIELD POINTS
j) SET ALLIANCE STATUS
k) COMMENT TRIGGER
l) END IN DRAW
m) SET UNIT DEATHS
  - You can now select locations obscured by other locations.   - Location operations are now undoable.   - You can now explicitly sort Conditions.   - You can remove all Map Revealers from a map (really!).   - The Unit and Hero Settings dialog has been enhanced.   A new StarEdit help file with info on these triggers and all the new
features in StarEdit can be downloaded from our web site (http://www.blizzard.com).   ============================
1.04 Balance Changes
============================
  TERRAN:
Wraith
- Decreased cost to 150 minerals, 100 gas.
- Increased cooldown rate of ground attack.
- Increased air to air damage to 20.
  Dropship:
- Increased speed slightly.
- Increased build time.
  Science Vessel:
- Decreased cost to 100 minerals, 225 gas.
- Increased acceleration.
- Increased overall damage of Irradiate.   Battlecruiser:
- Increased its starting armor to 3.
- Increased Yamato Cannon damage to 260.   Goliath:
- Increased ground damage to 12.
- Increased effectivness of weapon upgrade on ground to air weapon system.   Nuke:
- Nuclear Missiles build faster.   ComSat:
- Decreased energy cost to 50.   Starport:
- Decrease cost of Starport to 150 minerals, 100 gas.
- Decreased add-on cost of Control Tower to 50 minerals, 50 gas.
- Decreased build time.   ===============================
PROTOSS:
Dragoon:
- Decreased cost to 125 minerals, 50 gas.
- Decreased build time.
- Increased range upgrade (Singularity Charge) by 1.
  High Templar:
- Decreased energy cost of Hallucination to 100.
  Scout:
- Increased Air to Air damage to 28.
- Increased shields to 100 and hit points to 150.
  Carrier:
- Changed build cost to 350 minerals, and 250 gas.
- Increased hit points of Carrier to 300.
- Increased starting armor of Carrier to 4.
- Increased Interceptor shields and hitpoints to 40.
- Increased Interceptor damage to 6.   Arbiter:
- Decreased cost to 100 minerals, 350 gas.   Shuttle:
- Increased build time.   Reaver:
- Increased build time.   Templar Archives
- Increased cost to 150 minerals, 200 gas.   Citadel of Adun
- Decreased cost to 150 minerals, 100 gas.   Stargate:
- Decreased cost to 150 minerals, 150 gas.
- Decreased build time.   Robotics Facility:
- Increased build time.   Robotics Support Bay:
- Increased cost to 150 minerals, 100 gas.   Observatory:
- Decreased cost to 50 minerals, 100 gas.   Forge:
- Decreased cost to 150 minerals.   Photon Cannon:
- Decreased build time.   Fleet Beacon:
- Decreased cost of "Increased Carrier capacity" upgrade to 100 minerals, 100 gas.
- Decreased research time of "Increased Carrier capacity" upgrade.   ===============================
ZERG:
Overlord:
- Increased speed bonus for "Pneumatized Carapace" upgrade.
- Decreased research time of "Ventral Sacs" upgrade.
  Scourge:
- Increase hit points to 25.   Hydalisk
- Increased build time.   Mutalisk
- Increased build time.   Queen:
- Increased range of Broodling by 1.
- Increase energy cost of Parasite to 75
- Decreased Parasite casting range to 12.   Defiler:
- Increased cost to 50 minerals, 150 gas.   Hatchery:
- Decreased the speed at which the Hatchery/Lair/Hive spawn new larva.
- Decreased build cost to 300 minerals.
- Increased build time.   Sunken Colony:
- Decreased cost of Sunken Colony upgrade to 50 minerals.
- Decreased build time.
- Increased attack rate of Sunken Colony.
- Increased damage to 40.   Spore Colony:
- Decreased build time.
- Changed damage type to normal.   Greater Spire:
- Increased build time.

Honest’[sg] wins the tourney! - Squaredot @ 12:04 AM
Honest’[sg] has done it! He has beaten :+:jolly:+: in a 4-1 game series to win the first SC tournament. They played on Bone Canyon and both went zerg. They both went zerg pretty much every game in this series. Anyway, you can check out the battle summary here. Much congratulations goes out to Honest'[sg] and to :+:jolly:+: for playing their best in this long tourney.

1.04 after final match? - Squaredot @ 11:53 PM
TPark has posted a reply to someone's question about when the 1.04 patch is going to come out. He said the plan is to have it released after the final game in the SC tournament. You can check out this great post here. :)

Honest’[sg] wins game 4 - Squaredot @ 11:43 PM
looks like Honest’[sg] wins game 4 spreading this tournament another game. So far the standings are like this...
:+:jolly 1 game
Honest’[sg] 3 games

SC tourney update - Squaredot @ 11:21 PM
There have been 3 games so far in the SC tournament finals. Honest’[sg] leads 2-1 over :+:jolly:+: going into what may be the final game. Shlongor and Warblade have posted a summary of the battle reports on the bnet forums. You can check out the games below. I will also post the winner of the SC tournament when we get one :).

We're (the US and Britain) attacking Iraq! - Agelmar @ 6:56 PM
URGENT BREAKING NEWS: WERE BOMBING IRAQ
We, the US and Britain, are attacking Iraq. The US is leading the attack. We (the US) have sent over 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles, some of which have already hit their target, some minutes away. The president is making a statement in two minutes. It is all part of a 3 day attack, at the least. Tomorrow, bombers will most likely fly in and bomb the underground bunkers of Saddam with special 500 ton bombs. Ground troops may also come in. I generally don't pray, but let us all say a prayer tonight for the troops stationed in the Gulf and for the innocent people in Iraq, and anyone else whose life may be at stake. Amen.
Agelmar, lead webmaster.

Boy what a packed filled post =) - Mr. Insano @ 5:59 PM
Boy where to start. Theres are all kind of stuff going on.

First off, Shlonglor just posted all the new Brood War unit information. It also includes some of the changes to the Starcraft units. Go check out the post here.

Second, I went on Heat.net today to discover that Starcraft is now supported !!!!! I tried to play a game but i couldn't get in. Im sure it will work soon.

Third, I recieved an email from Ryan Thompson which states the following.

Dear StarCraft Community,
To prepare for the coming of BroodWar, we are closing down StarCraft Center soon, to make some changes and additions. Nothing to fear though, we will return with much more content and a few new faces. We promise 2 new Frontline chapters, a fully operation Brood War section, and forums for your feedback! We shall open our doors again to celebrate the new year, January 1st. So in case we forget, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Sincerely, StarCraft Center Staff
P.S.: Any comments or ideas can still be sent to: thomps23@techline.com

Fourth, Some of the top players from Battle.net and Kali are facing off to prove which community has the better players. I have high hopes for this, AND MAY BATTLE.NET WIN.
BNet Players
[9]eVERLAST
:+:Jolly:+:
[0]Zileas
Kain-The-Feared
+Lokus+
Kali Players
[9]Agent911
[9]Tillerman
GX-Gadianton
Maynard
INcinerate
{PH}Dim-Mack
In the end both teams will have 8 players. You can see all the details here.

Finally, I recieved this message from Hexer.

Dear Half-Life/Starcraft Community:
On behalf of Shadow Skill Software, the developers of the new and upcoming Half-Life --> Starcraft Total Conversion, I would like to announce a preview/signup page for the TC. We are in dire need of several jobs listed on the page, if you visit it, you can find out more information on the TC, and hopefully apply for a position. We are an exclusive project of the upcoming HL Site, Half-Life Center, on the MGO Network (http://www.mgon.com). We will soon have an official site for the TC there. So, if any of you talented graphic artists, or sound artists, level desginers or ANYTHING, are interested in some work. Please visit the preview page for the Half-Life SC Total Conversion at http://pages.cthome.net/JKKN/hlsc.html.

Brood War ladder maps - Squaredot @ 11:42 PM
Here is a list of the Brood War ladder maps. The Brood War ladder starts on January 1st I believe. I think it runs till march, but that im really not sure about. Anyway, here they are:

"The maps for Season 1 of the Brood War ladder will be   (2)Fading Realm.scx
(2)showdown.scx
(4)forsaken Valley.scx
(4)snowbound.scx
(6)Medusa.scx
(6)Winter Conquest.scx
  You can find pictures of them in the battle reports in
the compendium or in the enlarged ladder map page.
  GFraizer(Shlonglor)
Web Designer   Has this been the biggest day for info or what? =)"

StarCraft for Mac - Aiel @ 10:46 PM
Do not read this if you are a Mac user!! I am just kidding but you are sure going to be disappointed. Blizzard has announced today that StarCraft will not be released until January of 1999 for Mac users. Here is the quote for all interested parties:

"Blizzard Entertainment announced today that the Macintosh version of StarCraft will not be available before the end of the year. Although the single and multiplayer components are fully balanced and complete, Blizzard continues to work on the conversion of the campaign editor. Blizzard remains dedicated to the Macintosh community and is truly disappointed that the product's release date has been pushed into January 1999. The Macintosh StarCraft team will continue to work diligently through the holidays and is committed to finalizing the game as quickly as possible. "

StarCraft takes in more awards - Aiel @ 10:40 PM
PC Fan has announced the winners for the multiple awards they give out yearly, today. StarCraft took home three awards including: Best Game of the Year, Best Multiplayer game, and Best Real Time Strategy game. But hey, we all knew this already, right?

Thanks to StarShack for the information.

News, News, News!!! - Overlord @ 9:39 PM
Well I was looking around and I have come to a conclusion. I believe that scm is one of the best sources for sc news. We here at scm on average get more news posts then other sc sites. (look at sundays news!!!) So if you want news scm is the place to go!!!

- Overlord

(*note to news guys, keep up the GREAT work!!!)

Season 4 Maps - Squaredot @ 9:27 PM
To all who have been wondering, season 4 for Starcraft is having some new maps. Here they are, in a post by Shlonglor:

"The maps for ladder season 4 will be   (4)Ashrigo
(4)Dire Straits
(4)Lost Temple
(4)Proving Grounds
(4)Rivalry
(6)Acropolis
(6)Polaris Prime
  I imagine that will be for regular SC and not the BW season
but I'm not sure at this point. I'll post again when
I know."

Strategy, SCM's, Links.. - SpaceDominator @ 8:38 PM
Well, those three pages are #1: Mine, and #2: have been decerated with a tiny bit of Christmas. Check them out.. They will be going through a new layout change(Well, Organization), and by NEW Year's DAY we should have the new ones up. Thanks, and be excited about BW!
Thanks,
SpaceDominator

SC 1.04 info - Squaredot @ 5:02 PM
Shlonglor has posted some info about 1.04. He said the patch won't come out until after the Finals in the Starcraft Tournament. BTW, that is tomorrow :). Lots of things have changed and you can check out Shlonglor's post about it here. Some things that I saw surprised me, like the increased build time of hydras and the greater spire. GP's already take a long time to build, sheesh :). Anway, this is not a final copy of the changes, some things have been left out.

SpaceDominator Updates Excited! - SpaceDominator @ 4:55 PM
My Copy of Brood Wars will probably be given to me, on December 25th, 1998, Maybe if Lucky the day before. Now, what will this mean.. I will probably test the game out, Give opinions, write some New Strategies and then play some more. I can't wait to see, what all of the different units do for myself. The SCM Section will also add support for the New SCM's. The SC Puzzles will now, begin to start including Brood War Units in them, to make it interesting. In Other Words, sections that I create will support Brood War from now on. Now, I have to get the Zerg Inbalance Article Up soon! Also, thanks for the positive response from the Puzzles. This will also mean that the Beat the Staff thing will probably be done through "BROOD WARS." Maybe not? Maybe Yes. We'll see. I'm just a little excited... In summary, the SCM and Strategy Page will go through some revamping in the next couple of days. To prepare for Brood War and ......... Well? You'll see! My Christmas Surprises will be coming up soon, so be on the look out! , NOPE not yet! Well. See ya guys later.
Thanks,
SpaceDominator

Put the kiddies to bed cause this one is OVER! - Squaredot @ 10:18 AM
Brood War has finally gone gold. You can expect it in stores any day now. I have heard rumors on battle.net that some stores have already gotten their copies in. Im going to check out babages and buy mine tonight. They said they were getting a shipment in today, but im not sure if thats true or not heh. We'll see i guess. If anyone tries to get my copy of BW, im going to beat em down :).

UH HUM !!! - Mr. Insano @ 10:45 PM
Rumor on the street is that BW is going gold tomorrow! Let's hope its true!

Movie review - Star Trek: Insurrection - Agelmar @ 10:33 PM
If you haven't already seen Star Trek: Insurrection, you have to see it. It is a must see for all Star Trek fans. Even if you are not the biggest Star Trek fan, it is still definitely worth seeing. Insurrection has the BEST special effects, the best plot, which is native to Star Trek, great believibility, if you haven't seen it, get off your computer and go now! Even if you have to pay $5000000000 it's still worth it. Go see it! Now! Why are you reading this? GO SEE IT!
Why are you still reading this? You should be in your car/on your bike headed over to the movie theater to see Insurrection!!! What's that? You've already seen it? Didn't you just love it? Now you want to go see it again... yes... you do! It was sooo good you know you cannot live unless you see it 3 times in a row. What? you don't have time? Sure you do! Take a vacation... and watch Star Trek: Insurrection!
Why are you still reading this????? You should be watching Star Trek: Insurrection!!!! Go!!! Now!!!
I'm going to kill you if you dont go now! GO! You know you want to see it...
Still reading? You're pathetic. Get off your but and go watch the movie!!! Gawd...
If you are still reading this, i have given up all hope for you. You are a pathetic creature who is not watching Star Trek: Insurrection right now. All hope for you is lost. Go to bed!

Blizz Gfx problems - Get it together! - Agelmar @ 10:24 PM
Come on Blizzard! What's the problem? Whenever people visit your page, over 70% of your graphics do not show! Why is this? Is it because of low network capacity? If so, why don't you add additional bandwidth to your web server? Its quite annoying to try and use your pages without the graphical menu, much less all the pictures that we come to see! For example: on the BW page, i went to see the screenshots on the bottom of the page. Only two showed up! Get it together guys!
Agelmar, lead webmaster SCMillennium.

Situational Strategies, New Story Up! - SpaceDominator @ 6:50 PM
Hello, Again. The Situational Strategy page is NOW up. Currently there is 1 strategy in the Situational Strategy area, and expect more. Possibly 1 a day for a little while. It all depends on how much time I get. Just thought I'd tell you about that. Also.. there is a New Story Up! written by me, about a game of Starcraft that I feel demonstrates the purpose of working as a team. That's All..... for now....
Thanks,
SpaceDominator

Three days of headlines on the main page - Agelmar @ 4:16 PM
As you may have noticed, a while ago we decided to put only the current headlines on the main page, but still keep three days of news on the news page. Due to huge demand, we have restored the main page to include three days of headlines. Hope ya like it!
Agelmar

BW not gold yet! - Overlord @ 12:16 AM
I just saw a post over at sc legacy where Shlonglor talks about bw NOT being gold yet. Here it is:

For those of you that have missed my many posts on the subject, BW does *not* go gold at midnight. The beta is ending at midnight. It's easy to assume that after the beta ends that the game is close to going gold but it has not yet gone gold. When It does go gold i'll let you know. Until then all dates/guesses as to when the game goes gold is pure specualtion on other people's parts.

When it does go gold, I'll post on all the forums (please make sure it's a blue blizzard name by it), the fan sites will be alerted, and the main page will be updated. Believe me when it does go gold you will know.

Thanks.

Gfraizer(Shlonglor) Web Designer

News MUCH!! - Overlord @ 12:07 AM
I'd say we cleaned up in the sc news department yesterday!!! Good work news guys keep it up!

Brood War Strategy Guide For Sale - Mr. Insano @ 11:35 PM
Dan-the-snow-man (what a cool name) has just informed me that the Brood War Official Strategy Guide is now available from barnesandnoble.com. Check it out here.

RTS2000 interview - Mr. Insano @ 11:29 PM
RTS2000 interviewed X'DS~Insane one of the top finishers in this season. You can read the interview here. I dont personally like all the interviews going around right now, but i was surprised to find this to be a good read. Be sure and check it out =)

Interesting Zerg Imbalance Post! - DarkShade @ 11:27 PM
An interesting post about zerg imbalance was made by some guy named Visage. It's long but it's interesting! I suggest you read it now! click here

Brood War Beta Is Over!!! - Overlord @ 9:34 PM
I just got a e-mail from blizzard. Here's what it said:

Final Beta Squadron Alert:

Sunday, December 13th at 12:00 midnight PST will be the official closing of the Starcraft: Brood War Battle.net beta. We cannot express our thanks enough for the stalwart and heroic efforts of our Beta Squadron of testers. Your feedback on the balance and feel of the game has been invaluable and greatly helped make Brood War the game that it has become.

We have some real surprises in store within the single-player Campaigns that we anticipate are going to knock your socks off. This, together with some incredible cinematic sequences and an even more solid multi-player balance, is destined to dominate your Christmas and take you well into the New Year.

See you on Battle.net!

The Brood War Development Team

StarDraft SE beta - Squaredot @ 6:31 PM
King Aurthur has sent me an email about StarDraft beta he just released. He said he fixed a lot of bugs from the alpha. It also says in the email that his will be the last version of Stardraft, unless some major bugs are found. Here is a list of the changes:

- Marine stats now show up normally in Arsenal II
- The StarEdit Availability listbox now works with older versions of units.dat
- The Plugins.ini file no longer assumes files are stored on the G drive.
- Arsenal II's Upgrades Editor has gotten a face-lift to match the rest of Arsenal II
- The Upgrades Editor also now has a "Repeat" variable which was removed from earlier versions. This enables you to make certain upgrades repeat more than 3 times.
- The Installation process registers CWAD Archives to open with CWAD Manager when you double click on them in Windows.
- The Shortcuts placed in the Start Menu now work properly.

Brood War Information - SpaceDominator @ 5:45 PM
A quite a bit late, but more pretty. The Starcraft Brood War information, that Blizzard released to the Beta Testers awhile back is now up. It's good information, and I'd take a look at it, if i were you BW Preview
Thanks,
SpaceDominator

Beat The SC Millennium Staff! - SpaceDominator @ 5:23 PM
O.K. The Official Beat the Staff event page is now up. The date is still sketchy, that could change to December 30th, and 31st. However, the point of it, is up. Take a look at it here. It's being run by me, and I'd like to know from the Community times you guys like, and or/dates starting the week of Christmas.. Maps might be The SCM's of the Week, from the start(March) to the end of the year..(December). Maybe Brood Wars will be out, and we can enjoy it through that instead! Well, we'll figure it out. I also want to say, that I will be writing some Situational Strategies, because they fit my Puzzles. If you have any Strategies that should be done in certain strategies, send them into me atspacedominator@scmillennium.com
Thanks,
SpaceDominator

SpaceDominator: More Updates - SpaceDominator @ 4:23 PM
All Right, everyone. More Updates. I have updated the Strategies page, by adding the Terran Unit Strategies, and a couple of beginning strategies. I also added the well-awaited, second Inbalance article. Not much, there. Just some possiblities of inbalance, take a look at that here. If you want to argue over those issues email me at spacedominator@scmillennium.com, like it says on the page. I also added some more Proposed Terran Changes, for inbalance. Thanks! Keep sendin things like that in!
Thanks,
SpaceDominator

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