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Why Players Smurf
Saturday, August 18 @ 03:30:07 NZST by Valdarez (2443 reads) |  People play video games online for various reasons. Some are looking to catch a game with a group of friends. Others are looking to glean additional play time out of a game they paid their hard earned money for. While others are looking to play competitively in order to garner respect, win tournaments, and climb ladders. Every one of these players who has spent more than an hour or two online has more than likely played against a Smurf.
In this article, Valdarez takes a look at the history of term Smurf, what motivates players to Smurf, and the morale implications of Smurfing.
You can read the full article by clicking 'Smurfing in Online Competitive Video Games'.
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Triple Threat Clan Website Anthology - Part Two
Sunday, July 01 @ 17:30:00 NZST by Valdarez (1633 reads) |  The Triple Threat Clan is a little over 2.5 years old now, and as such we thought it would be fun to reminisce over our old websites and our humble beginnings. The clan itself was founded on November 21st, 2004 and has been home to several versions of the website.
The first website was launched a couple of weeks after the clan was founded and the second version of the website followed several weeks later. The second version of the website received a few minor changes, but the big change was the introduction of the formal node design that still exists on the clan website as of the date of this news item. The node is located at the center of the image of the second website.
The second website lasted until January 7th, 2005. By that time the clan had grown to 15 members. Of that 15 players, 8 are still a part of the clan and 1 remains an honorary guest nearly 2.5 years later. Now that's commitment!
Over the next coming weeks we will highlight further evolutions of the clan website, and soon we will be revealing a significant overhaul to the site header! Yes, we have heard your voice regarding the lack of navigatability on our forums page, and it is going to be addressed. In fact, we have an extremely exciting announcement coming regarding the graphics and the professional artist who is creating them for us! The artist has been drawing comic books for over a decade and has his own comic book line complete with posters, sketches, and various toys (including comic book character figures). The best is yet to come!
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Triple Threat Clan Website Anthology - Part One
Tuesday, June 05 @ 07:16:03 NZST by Valdarez (2167 reads) |  The Triple Threat Clan is a little over 2.5 years old now, and as such we thought it would be fun to reminisce over our old website and our humble beginnings. The clan itself was founded on November 21st, 2004. The initial four members of the clan were BlackJ3sus, Babylac, Roxy, and Valdarez. By December the 10th, three weeks later, the clan had grown to 11 players and many more would be added over the coming months.
Our first website was less than impressive, but it served its purpose. It provided a means for the clan to communicate with one another. One of the best additions during this initial three week period was the addition of TeamSpeak. Early in the clan, we didnt even use TeamSpeak. Instead, all clan communication was via the website or via chat in the Axis & Allies RTS game. Needless to say, the addition of TeamSpeak made communication much easier both in games and as a clan.
While many of the initial members of the Triple Threat Clan have moved on over the last 2.5 years, most to other games, 3 of the 11 remain in the clan (Babylac, Ducati, and Valdarez), and one remains an honorable guest (Roxy).
Over the next coming weeks we will be providing further evolutions of the clan website, and soon we will be revealing a significant overhaul to the site header! Yes, we have heard your voice regarding the lack of navigatability on our forums page, and it is going to be addressed. In fact, we have an extremely exciting announcement coming regarding the graphics and the professional artist who is creating them for us!
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Practice Safe Surfing
Sunday, January 14 @ 03:43:50 NZDT by Valdarez (1510 reads) |  For a total 284 days in 2006 (or more than nine months out of the year), exploit code for known, unpatched critical flaws in pre-IE7 versions of the browser was publicly available on the Internet. Likewise, there were at least 98 days last year in which no software fixes from Microsoft were available to fix IE flaws that criminals were actively using to steal personal and financial data from users... In contrast, Internet Explorer's closest competitor in terms of market share - Mozilla's Firefox browser - experienced a single period lasting just nine days last year in which exploit code for a serious security hole was posted online before Mozilla shipped a patch to remedy the problem.
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One Million Page Views
Tuesday, December 12 @ 17:10:56 NZDT by Valdarez (1930 reads) |
The Triple Threat Clan was founded in November of 2004. The clan started with a static website that contained very little content. On April 8th of 2005, the Triple Threat Clan launched it's new PHP Nuke based website. Today, and a little over a year and a half later, the new website reached 1,000,000 page views. The number of visitors and site members has been amazing for a clan based website.
Only a couple of weeks ago, the clan celebrated it's 2nd anniversary. It's kind of inspiring to hit the 1,000,000 page views so closely after our clan's founding.
If you are a regular member of the site or have played against us in online competition, feel free to sound off in our One Million Page Views thread or our 2nd Anniversary thread in our forums.
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900 Site Members
Friday, July 28 @ 11:49:01 NZST by Valdarez (930 reads) |  The march continues on toward the coveted 1000 site user mark. As of yesterday, we offically crossed 900 users. It's great to see all of the guys coming to the site to participate in the Axis & Allies RTS gaming community and what will soon be a recognizable portion of the Company of Heroes community. The Triple Threat crew appreciates your patronage and looks forward to even more members over the coming months as we begin to engage in Company of Heroes.
July saw the addition of the Build Order Analyzer 2.0 to the Downloads section of the website as well as several Build Orders with more to come. The forums section received a small update with the addition of the Company Of Heroes game forums.
For those of you who might be visiting the site for the first time, be sure to create a new Account by clicking here. As a site member you will enjoy the following:
Ability to Download Maps, Films, Mod Tools, and Strategy files
Participate in Forum Discussions
Private Messaging with other Site Members
Shouts to everyone via the ShoutBox
Ability to rate / comment on news items, surveys, and downloads
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800 Site Members
Saturday, May 27 @ 11:56:56 NZST by Valdarez (955 reads) | It's amazing how many folks have visited and registered on the site. In little over a year, we have garnered over 800 site members. It's great to see all of the guys coming to the site to participate in the Axis & Allies RTS gaming community. The Triple Threat Crew appreciates your patronage and looks forward to even more members over the coming months.
Over the last month we have added the Strategy Central section to the website, and a couple of new Custom Maps. In addition, the Build Order Analyzer is currently being upgraded.
For those of you who might be visiting the site for the first time, be sure to create a new Account by clicking here. As a site member you will enjoy the following:
Ability to Download Maps, Films, Mod Tools, and Strategy files
Participate in Forum Discussions
Private Messaging with other Site Members
Shouts to everyone via the ShoutBox
Ability to rate / comment on news items, surveys, and downloads
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Strategy Central Launched
Monday, April 24 @ 05:43:38 NZST by Valdarez (1317 reads) |  A new section has been added to the website that is dedicated to strategy in Axis & Allies RTS. The new section is called 'Strategy Central'. This one stop show for A&A RTS Strategy contains all of the links to FAQs, game information, forums, and downloads that are currently available for the Axis & Allies RTS game. If you are just starting out in Axis & Allies RTS, then Strategy Central is the place to start building your knowledge of the game. Even if you are a veteran player, be sure to check it out, you never know, there might be something there you missed.
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Axis & Allies Union at GameSpot
Tuesday, April 04 @ 03:49:51 NZST by Valdarez (609 reads) |  Are you a fan of the Axis & Allies board games? Of the Axis & Allies PC games? Or of other World War II strategy based games such as Company of Heroes, Faces of War, Commandos, or Codename: Panzers? Well then, head on over to the newly formed Axis & Allies Union at GameSpot!
The Axis & Allies Union exists to serve the strategy enthusiast and is dedicated to the gamers who grew up playing the classic Axis & Allies board game. Members are encouraged to discuss every Axis & Allies based game, whether it's board or PC, and to share information on other World War II strategy based games as they emerge.
Join us to increase your knowledge of the various games, to discuss strategy, or for the simple pleasure of meeting other like minded invidviduals who enjoy strategy based gaming!
In addition, the Axis & Allies Unioin is looking for 4 more leaders to help manage the Union by moderating the forums, and posting news items and other related features. A representative from each of the major clans would be ideal, but anyone is welcome to join and request to become a leader.
Visit the Axis & Allies Union
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Half a Million Page Views!
Tuesday, February 28 @ 05:44:47 NZDT by Valdarez (667 reads) |  The Triple Threat Clan was founded in November of 2004. The clan started with a static website that contained very little content. On April 8th of 2005, the Triple Threat Clan launched it's new PHP Nuke based website. Today, and less than a year later, the new website reached it's 500,000 page view. The number of visitors and site members has been amazing for a clan based website.
To celebrate this huge milestone, we pulled together some of the website statistics for your viewing pleasure. Click on the image to the right to get a glimpse into the amount of traffic that flows through the site.
As always, the clan has enjoyed meeting many of the site members who have frequented the website, whether playing with them as a team, or against them in battle. There are many guys that we count as friends, even though they may not be in the clan itself.
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400,000 Page Views
Sunday, December 11 @ 08:30:52 NZDT by Valdarez (415 reads) | The Triple Threat Clan's website passed a huge milestone this week as we went over 400,000 page views. It was only a couple of months back that we we passed the 300,000 mark and the site seems to be gaining in popularity over time.
As stated in the previous 300k news item, the clan has enjoyed meeting many of the site members who have frequented the website, whether playing with them as a team, or against them in battle. There are many guys that we count as friends, even though they may not be in the clan itself.
The community experience for the clan has been great, whether it's discussing game related strategies or working together with other site members to create new custom content such as Maps, Mods, or Strategy documents. The website has been instrumental in providing the melting pot for these exchange of ideas and discussions.
Strategy Based MultiGaming Clan
The clan is making the transition to a Strategy Based MultiGaming Clan. We have started playing AOE III, and plan on playing Star Wars Empires at Wars and the up and coming Company of Heroes from Relic.
Help Requested
With the growth of the website, the costs for maintaining the site, and adding new features are growing. The clan wants to purchase new modules (commercial), a custom skin, and at some point provide a public TeamSpeak Server so everyone can get on and chat with the =xXx= Clan members. To that extent, the clan has added a Pay Pal Donations node, and all donations regardless of size are appreciated.
Next Milestone: 500,000 Page Views (half a million hits!!!!)
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Results A&A RTS Developer/Publisher Support Survey
Thursday, October 06 @ 18:15:00 NZDT by Valdarez (444 reads) | After running the survey for over a month, the results for the poll asking "Will you continue to buy games from Atari and TimeGate, the makers of Axis & Allies RTS?" are finally complete. Lets take a look at what the community thinks about the game and it's developer/publisher.
11.65% Not sure who Atari or TimeGate are
Well, first off, some folks were a little confused, they didn't know who Atari or TimeGate were. To clarify for those stumbling in the dark, Atari is the publisher and TimeGate is the developer of the Axis & Allies RTS game.
18.45% Will buy both Atari/TimeGate games
08.74% Only buy TimeGate games
04.85% Only buy Atari games
Now if you combine the stats of who will by both with who will by from Atari only or TimeGate only, then you get the following:
27.19% Will buy TimeGate games
23.20% Will buy Atari games
While there's not much difference there, it does tend to indicate that the community blames Atari a bit more for the lack of support than they blame TimeGate.
And here is the stat that really matters, the biggest one of 'em all:
56.31% Never buy an Atari or TimeGate game again
The community has spoken and shown that they are unhappy with Atari and TimeGate both for the lack of support. To make matters worse, Triple Threat offered to lead a community effort to balance the game, so the community could at least have a more balanced game if not a patched game devoid of bugs. The offer was accepted by TimeGate, and we were told they would follow up on it in order to determine the feasibility, but no follow up ever occurred and no further contact or information was received from TimeGate.
Having the community balance the game is something that could have been both positive for the company and the community. The company would have earned the respect of the community for at least supporting a balancing patch, if not a bug fix patch, and the community would have benefited from a more balanced and thus funner gameplay. Why TimeGate chose to ignore the request remains a mystery. We hypthosize that they wanted Atari to foot the bill for the patch, and were hoping to get more $$$, and did not want to lose that opportunity, as remote as it mave have been, but then, that is only a hypothesis on our part.
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War Move Spotlight: The Desert Fox
Wednesday, October 05 @ 18:15:00 NZDT by Valdarez (443 reads) |  Every week or two we will attempt to spotlight a war based movie. This weeks movie to spotlight is 'The Desert Fox'.
Description: James Mason is utterly convincing as Nazi Field Marshall Rommel (a role that became something of a specialty: see The Desert Rats, 1953) who gained notoriety for his successful North African campaigns. The big-budget actioner portrays not only his victories and ultimate defeat, but also his personal doubts and conflicts with his superiors back in Berlin.
Running Time: 1 hr. 28 min.
Release Date: October 17, 1951
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300,000 Page Views
Saturday, October 01 @ 17:15:00 NZST by Valdarez (424 reads) | The Triple Threat Clan's website passed a huge milestone this week as we went over 300,000 page views. It was only five or six weeks ago that we passed the 200,000 mark and the site seems to be gaining in popularity over time.
As stated in the previous 200k news item, the clan has enjoyed meeting many of the site members who have frequented the website, whether playing with them as a team, or against them in battle. There are many guys that we count as friends, even though they may not be in the clan itself.
The community experience for the clan has been great, whether it's discussing game related strategies or working together with other site members to create new custom content such as Maps, Mods, or Strategy documents. The website has been instrumental in providing the melting pot for these exchange of ideas and discussions.
Help Requested
With the growth of the website, the costs for maintaining the site, and adding new features are growing. The clan wants to purchase new modules (commercial), a custom skin, and at some point provide a public TeamSpeak Server so everyone can get on and chat with the =xXx= Clan members. To that extent, the clan has added a Pay Pal Donations node, and all donations regardless of size are appreciated.
Next Milestone: 400,000 Page Views!
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400 Site Members Registered
Tuesday, September 06 @ 17:15:00 NZST by Valdarez (347 reads) | It was only a little over a month ago that we passed the 300 site member milestone, and as of a couple of days ago, the Triple Threat Clan Website passed a another significant milestone with the registration of the 400th site member. It's great to see all of the guys coming to the site to participate in the Axis & Allies RTS gaming community. The Triple Threat Crew appreciates your patronage and looks forward to even more members over the coming months.
Over the last month or so we have added new strategy downloads, added a couple of extra maps, hosted a 2v2 tournament (still in progress), and released updates to the Build Order Analyzer (allows players create multiple builds, compare them to other builds, and share their builds with their friends.)
For those of you who might be visiting the site for the first time, be sure to create a new Account by clicking here. As a site member you will enjoy the following:
Ability to Download Maps, Films, Mod Tools, and Strategy files
Participate in Forum Discussions
Private Messaging with other Site Members
Shouts to everyone via the ShoutBox
Ability to rate / comment on news items, surveys, and downloads
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RSS News/Forum Feeds Added to Site
Saturday, September 03 @ 17:15:00 NZST by Valdarez (345 reads) | Are you a user of the FireFox browser? Do you enjoy the news items that are listed on our website? Well then we have added a new feature just for you! When viewing any page on the website, users of FireFox will see a little orange icon located on the lower right side of the browser. That little icon is the
'Live Bookmark' feature enabled via something called RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Click on it, and you can add two 'Live Bookmarks'. One bookmark will show the last 10 news items on the site and the other bookmark will show the last 10 posts in the forums section of the website.
Enjoy the RSS feeds!
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Lord of the Ring Avatars Added
Friday, September 02 @ 17:15:00 NZST by Valdarez (380 reads) | For those of you who enjoy participating in the forums section of our website, some new custom Avatars created from images from the Lord of the Rings have been added for the forums section of the website.
  
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Use FireFox instead of Internet Explorer
Saturday, August 27 @ 17:15:00 NZST by Valdarez (373 reads) |  Our traffic numbers show that around 40% of people visiting the site are using FireFox instead of Internet Explorer, the only question now is why aren't the other 60% using it? If you are not familiar with the FireFox browser it offers features that Internet Explorer does not have including:
Popup Blocking
Stop annoying popup ads in their tracks with Firefox's built in popup blocker.
Tabbed Browsing
View more than one web page in a single window with this time saving feature. Open links in the background so that they're ready for viewing when you're ready to read them. Find out more...
Privacy and Security
Built with your security in mind, Firefox keeps your computer safe from malicious spyware by not loading harmful ActiveX controls. A comprehensive set of privacy tools keep your online activity your business.
Smarter Search
Google Search is built right into the toolbar, and there is a plethora of other search tools including Smart Keywords (type "dict " in the Location bar), and the new Find bar (which finds text as you type without covering up anything).
Live Bookmarks
RSS integration lets you read the latest news headlines and read updates to your favorite sites that are syndicated. Find out more...
Click here if you want to learn more about the FireFox browser or if you want to download and install it in order to start enjoying the web even more than you do now!
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Division Badges Added to Downloads
Wednesday, August 24 @ 17:15:00 NZST by Valdarez (358 reads) | The Division Badges have been added to the Axis & Allies Game Content page. This file contains all 108 Division Badges for every country in the game. The Division Badge is the unique icon that is displayed over the HQs. There are at least 20 unique for each country as every country can have 20 buildings, except for America, which for some strange reason has 28 icons.
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| Sunday, August 21 | | · | 200,000 Page Views |
| Saturday, August 20 | | · | Triple Threat Mentioned at Spotter's Guide |
| Sunday, August 14 | | · | Axis & Allies RTS Building Hotkeys Added |
| Tuesday, August 09 | | · | Version .65 of the Build Order Analyzer Released |
| Monday, August 08 | | · | New Forum Smiles Added |
| Saturday, July 30 | | · | Over 2500 Posts in the Forums |
| Tuesday, July 26 | | · | 300 Site Members Registered |
| Friday, July 15 | | · | Maps of World War II Link Added |
| Friday, July 08 | | · | Site Restructure & Strategy Section Addition |
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