things that should have happened years ago:
#1. A site dedicated to a full install of T1 and a central place for the T1 community.
#2. On going Anti-Cheat updates.
#3. A main serverside config with the full options the community currently has.
#4. More map releases and even map updates to include skies on maps like SH/CCD
etc etc
Why did those things never happen?(I know hindsight is furfuhfurdur)
#1. No main authority figure in T1.(could have been Andrew & Nonreg, but the two don't get along)
#2. Potential Anti-Cheat creators were more worried about creating cheats than preventing them.
#3. Laziness.
#4. Laziness.
T2 is still "alive" because of the TribesNext project(Thyth) and competition still exists(Celios). T2 has a buttload of maps and a lot of server options came built into the game. So in a way it was easier to maintain T2, but it still required(requires) a lot of work and personal time.
In the end we are left in our current state. No anti-cheat, No competition, No easy way of putting up a server, No authoritative figures, No rules, No hope.
Any good done is stumped by somebody doing bad later on.
I'd like to thank the cheaters/trolls/egos/cheat spreaders for our current shithouse of a community. and it's not really the cheaters that bother me...its the cheat creators. Cheaters can't cheat without cheats. Anybody with an ego and enough stupidity will cheat when given the chance. Pride and ignorance are only heightened when there is suspicion of somebody holding an advantage over you. Thanks to our many cheat enablers, anybody with a strong urge to gain attention in a video game, can download hacks to make themselves feel as if they have leveled the playing field. Any time a legit player makes an aware play on them, they can just write that player down as a cheater in their head and continue feeling good about themselves.
So thank you T1 community. Some of you are good people...The rest of you deserve to play a dead game.