Mario Kart Wii

I would like to announce that CC has also started a Mario Kart Wii subdivision, in painful anticipation of SSBB which will not be released in Europe till June (the MKwii division will, of course, not be removed when SSBB gets here).

Our current line-up is as follows:
Chiyu (GameLeader)
(If you want to play with me, add my Mario Kart friend code: 1719-3425-7189)
Falconator (DivisionLeader)
Freezy
Nimrod
Speeza

From our experiments so far we've concluded that lag is no real issue in MKwii, at least, not when playing with fellow European players. Whether it will go just as well when playing with American players is something we'll find out later. If this is the case, there won't be a distinction between European and American teams.

The division pledges to offer weekly sessions/trainings and a running competition for those members participating in the official sessions with scores posted at the CC site. Since Mario Kart has awesome teamplay possibilities (x vs x races and x vs x battles, with a blue team versus a red team), 2vs2s, 3vs3s, 4vs4s and clanwars are likely going to happen.



Interested? Let me know.

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Posted on 22 Apr 2008 by Chiyu
Cracco Clan

Tribal Wars

CoLeader Anakin and I have discussed the possibility of expanding to Tribal Wars. It's a browser game, very similar to Travian (a notable difference is that in TW, you can lose your capital, so be careful!). We've decided to expand to this game in half a year and make a fresh start at a new server where we have a fresh chance to win. Until then we want to give players the chance to learn the game and get experienced. Please register at www.tribalwars.net and experiment around a little. (Anakin and me are at the international server 17, but you're free to choose whatever you want.)
This means that if we launch the division in half a year from now, our players will be 'prepared' and we might actually have a chance to win :).



Posted on 16 Apr 2008 by Chiyu
Cracco Clan

CC Flag

A few weeks ago, the official CC flag was made (credits go to RoyalB!), but we had not yet created a news post about it. So hereby, I present you the official CC flag (which will be used as our banner on CC meetings and such).



On a side note, CC Meeting #57 aka CC LAN IV will take place the upcoming weekend. Five people (each with a working PC) have subscribed so far. If you have a laptop (or a PC in combination with a car), feel free to come. As usual, all games of CC's Strategy Division will be played.

Posted on 30 Mar 2008 by Chiyu
Cracco Clan

CC Newsletter #11

After a long wait of nearly one and a half year, I'm proud to present the next CC Newsletter! This edition has lots of goodies: three interviews (one with Anubis, one with FawFuL and one with RoyalB), three game reviews (one of Zelda: Twilight Princess, one of Dark Messiah and one of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team), one movie review (E.T.), an essay on AdBlockers by Nimrod and the usual Shaney crap.

View it here!

Some additional good news: Newsletter #12 is already under construction ^^.

Posted on 17 Mar 2008 by Chiyu
Cracco Clan

Travian map

I thought this might be pretty interesting for all Travian members and others who are concerned with the division. I believe it was Anakin who first pointed me to this, but I'm not sure.

You can see a map of our entire clan that shows exactly where everyone is at http://travianmap.nl/index.php. Search for alliantie -CC- at server s6.travian.com and you'll see it! It's pretty interesting to keep track of how our clan is growing. Notice how Shaney's "Pink Dildo Town XD" is seperated from the rest of us.

Posted on 14 Mar 2008 by Chiyu
Cracco Clan

LAN(s) to keep the Strategy Division going!

Let's be honest: the Strategy Division isn't all too active online. But I found the perfect remedy for this problem: occasional LAN parties! Playing together in real life is more fun anyway. During the past few weeks I've organized two and they were both successful.

Of course... the downside is that you need a laptop (or carry your own computer) in order to participate, and that there's some traveling that needs to be done. Currently the LAN parties are being held at Wijchen (the Netherlands), where I reside.

So.. I'm organizing yet another LAN party (this time an official CC Meeting) for the upcoming weekend (7, 8, 9, (10) March). All Strategy Division games (AoE2, AoE3 and Civ4) will be played. Interested? Let me know!

Posted on 04 Mar 2008 by Chiyu
Cracco Clan

Sitting your (Travian) account

"In case you didn't know there is an option in Travian where you can assign a sitter. A sitter is someone who can log into your account using their password to manage your account in your absence.

If you want to do so then go into: Profile, account and then assign who you want to sit for you. This should be an alliance member and friend of course, someone you trust very well.

What this will do is prevent your resources from piling up which can be instead spent on production, troop gathering rather than letting someone raid your village and take it instead.

Peace,

Denster"

Having one or two sitters can lower the risk of losing resources when you're raided at night time. Since I go to bed fairly late (3 AM on average), I volunteer to be a sitter for everyone who wants me to be. You can tell me what resources/buildings I should spend the resources on and I'll gladly take care of your matters. Let me know if you're interested.

Posted on 15 Feb 2008 by Chiyu
Cracco Clan

CC is recruiting for Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Wii)!

As some of you may already know, the Cracco Clan (from now on called CC) plays multiple games and has separate divisions for each genre. One of these is the Console Division. Until now we have only been playing Super Smash Brothers (N64) online using an emulator, but we would like to announce that we are expanding the division! As of today we add Super Smash Brothers Brawl (from now on called SSBB) for the Wii to our game line-up, and of course we are open for recruiting!

What is Super Smash Brothers Brawl?
Normally I would wonder under which rock you came crawling out from. But of course, not every game is known to everyone. Super Smash Brothers Brawl is an online fighting game for the Wii. However, it isn't comparable to fighting games like Tekken, Mortal Combat etc. The playable characters aren't the stereotype fighters. In this case you have to expect fighters like: Super Mario, Bowser, Link, Samus Aran, Pikachu, Ness, Falcon, Sonic, Solid Snake etc. Characters from high franchise games fighting each other in an all out battle! Each with their unique skills and fighting in unique levels (standard ones or created by yourself in a level editor).

The game started with the popular Super Smash Brothers for the N64 and was followed up by Super Smash Brothers Melee for the GameCube. Both had a
crushing success in the game world and the sequel SSBB is one of the most highly anticipated games in the past few years.

For more information check the following websites:
Official Super Smash Brothers Brawl site
Cracco Clan Information Page

When will the game be released?
SSBB has been released in Japan a couple of weeks ago and on the 9th of March it will be released in America. Hopefully, soon after the American release will be the European one, which we expect in Q2 2008.

Why are you recruiting already?
Considering that internet gaming is on the doorstep for the Wii, we want to start early and give people the opportunity to find a clan so they can find friends and opponents to play against. At the moment I am aware that there are more games with the ability to go online (Super Smash Football, Pokémon Battle Revolution etc.) but it is obvious that SSBB is going to be the first popular and thus highly anticipated game to go online. In the future more online games will be added to the Console Division, so that when you buy a new game it is possible to go online with your clan and friends immediately.

Why should I join CC?
With the release of SSBB the Console Division will be turned in one of the main divisions of CC. Meaning, it is going to get full attention of the leaders. Also we have already started talking about trainings and diverse contests. See the overview below for the main activities in CC.
- At least two official trainings a week so you can learn from more experienced players
- Participation in online clan wars
- Intern competitions between members of CC (both 1 on 1 and 2 on 2)
- Level building contest
- Enough members online to play with for fun

These are the main activities in CC. Of course in due time, more will be added when we get near the release of the game.

I want to fight against other clans!
Whoa wait a minute! You can’t just run off into battle against other clans! We don’t even know if you are up for the challenge. You may have the guts, but do you have the skills? We are counting on a lot of members for SSBB in CC, and we can’t put them all on the frontline. Therefore we are using the rank system where you have to earn your position. This is done by showing your skills during trainings or special trial requests with the leaders. There are multiple playing ranks, as shown below.
- Elite
- Warteam (may be divided between Alpha and Beta)
- Normal
- Trainee

Everyone starts with the normal rank and has to earn the next one. We are trainee friendly and have no problems with training them (with enough interest, there will be separate trainings).

I would like to sign up!
That's great news! There are three people you can approach to sign up. Send one of these persons a mail and they will respond as quickly as possible to help you. When you add us on MSN, please inform us about in which region you will be playing. The reason for this is the time difference and the possibility that the internet connection between America and Europe isn't strong enough to play online with. If this is the case, the division will be split up. This will all become clearer when the game is released worldwide.

Chiyu - Leader: chiyu@craccoclan.com
Falconator - Console DivisionLeader: darthfalconator@hotmail.com
Mjam - SSBB Game leader: mjam41@hotmail.com

Thank you for your attention and we of CC hope to receive your sign-up mail!

Posted on 07 Feb 2008 by Falconator
Cracco Clan

Travian is now official

Our experiment on the web browser game Travian (www.travian.com -> Server 6 -> Region South-West) proved to be quite succesful. We got 10 members in a week! This means the "Browser" division with it's subdivision "Travian" is now a fact. Travian will be lead by Anubis (as GameLeader), Anakin (as CoLeader) and me (as Leader).

The initial roster (sorted alphabetically) is:
Ana
Anakin
Anubis
Chiyu
datorStol
MasterSven
RiCCardo
RoyalB
Scare
Shaney (AKA Legend_CC)
Zeta


Posted on 06 Feb 2008 by Chiyu
Cracco Clan

Travian!

We've just started a kinda Mini-division on a webbrowser game (www.travian.com).

It's a web based RTS game, quite simple, easy to learn if you follow the tutorial on the official site.

If you are already at it, do pay attention that you do register on
SERVER 6, again, register on server 6!
Choose to play in the SOUTH-WEST region,
I repeat, choose to play in the SOUTH-WEST region.

You have to control resources and armies, and there are also guilds (alliances) And we are having a CC Alliance there. Its not really a game that needs much attention, since you can only build 1 building at a time and especially in the advanced stage it takes long for them to build them. I personally do the following:
in the morning log on, make a building or upgrade it, and then make as much units/army as i can till my resources deplete and at the end of the school day, my resources will be refilled again, i can then spend them over again for another mass army creation and/or more upgrades or buildings and of course I do this once more before i go to bed. All these actions require no more than 5 minutes, try it for yourself!

For the first days the game will seem to be boring as you won't be able to do/build a lot, its important that you construct a good base, that means, many resource income, at least 1 cranny on level 10, a storage of both buildings and the embassy. That should all be done within the first week. After that come the barracks and the fun will begin. A good site to refer to would be help.travian.com it explains a lot, pretty short and easy and doesn't involve huge texts.

Posted on 28 Jan 2008 by Anakin
Cracco Clan

Administration up-to-date

Right, I spent the entire afternoon cleaning up the CC site. All broken links have been fixed, and the Roleplaying and Shooter divisions have been updated with RO and CSS. Both the CS1.6 and CSS subdivisions have working clanwar results pages now, with screenshots included (check them out if you like).

Most importantly, I updated the annals with the history with 2007 in a nutshell. 2007 wasn't exactly great for CC, but it wouldn't be fair to say that it was no good whatsoever. Apart from the CC-8D clanwar conflict in January and the regression and stagnation in the second half of the year, we also witnessed a fantastic 22-4 victory against DM, a flourishing IRC channel and FlyFF division and we welcomed many new, nice members. Click on "History" to read it.

Posted on 27 Jan 2008 by Chiyu
Cracco Clan

My return and more

I would like to announce that I, Chiyu, have returned. I know I've never been completely gone, but the truth is that I haven't been very active since August/September 2007 due to personal circumstances. I'm happy to say that since about a week and a half ago, I'm completely active again, giving my everything for CC! This also means I'll clean up the site and write the history of 2007 as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience.
To prove my renewed activity, I've spent a lot of time finishing two of my semi-abandoned projects, a JJ2 tileset and a Civ4 mod.
Check a picture of the new tileset "Cracco Castle" here.
Download the Civilization 4 mod "Extra" here.

Also, I'd like to let you know that our fine JJ2 GameLeader Quickz has organized a CTF 2vs2 tournament for JJ2. 20 teams (40 players) will be participating. The tournament is especially interesting to keep an eye on because several CC teams will participate ( Anubis and RiCCardo, Grytolle and Maverick, Ana and Sweet, Chiyu and Shaney) as well Snooze (teaming up with Vivando from 8D), Turkawka (teaming up with R3ptile from DM) and Quickz himself (teaming up with DarkSonic from 8D). Note that these teams are likely to change after the first round.
For more information, go here.

Finally.. datorStol has rejoined CC and has created a Swedish CSS team (to replace the CS 1.6 team) and brought back new life to the dormant Shooter Division. He changed to Source because the graphics are better, most maps are better gameplay wise and a more restricted community.

Posted on 24 Jan 2008 by Chiyu
Cracco Clan

Kombucha The Movie - Part I

Even though it's already included in the zip file found in the previous post, I thought that this movie deserves special attention.

Behold!
It's the first part of the highly anticipated "Kombucha The Movie" - introducing the Kombucha Tower and starring our favourite CC member Rocko! Synopsis: Rocko talks about his love for the mysterious beverage known as Kombucha (in Dutch).

Download the movie here! (right click to save as).

Posted on 05 Jan 2008 by Chiyu