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ZDaemon

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THEY GOT TIRED OF PLAYING SOLO


Your average ZDaemon tough guy.
Your average ZDaemon tough guy.

ZDaemon is a source port of Doom with support for online play. The community is almost terminally stupid and very easily offended by the tiniest things, even by CS and WoW standards.

It's a bomb! Were you expecting one? A BOMB! AAAAAAA! Wait a minute, this isn't right? What isn't? Oh my god JC a bomb! A BOMB!
It's a bomb! Were you expecting one? A BOMB! AAAAAAA! Wait a minute, this isn't right? What isn't? Oh my god JC a bomb! A BOMB!

The IRC channel is a cesspool of random retarded spewings and creepy innuendo which is repeated verbatim and frequently spouted forth by their automated bot. Their forums aren't much better, with all of the normal fixin's of social posturing, clan posturing and administration favoritism.

So basically, it's like /b/.

Contents

Holy Shit Effort

Due to the administration being extremely paranoid after past dissent, trolls and miscellaneous butthurt, trying to gain access to the community itself, for lulz or otherwise, is a bit of an ordeal. IRC access requires a special IRC client that is built in to the game launcher itself (though efforts to modify and recompile a normal IRC client have been met with success in the past) and a valid ZDaemon account (which are automated). To gain forum access, you need to register a forum account and then join IRC and PM one of the admins until they sanity check your IP and activate your account manually. Being 'found out' means being banned from IRC, the forums and the game metaserver itself. Effort.


Clans and the huge E-Dick

ZDaemon, like any other gaming community, has many clans that like any other community, are so retarded that upon actually getting a Wicked Sick (30 frags without getting killed), will make countless moviesto show off their immense virtual penis size and then post it on the Forums, usually done by recent immigrants in the United States. Despite this, they will quickly attack a player who takes this game seriously. Sure, there are decent clans in the Doom world such as DUI that were around long before ZDaemon was. These are not to be confused with the crappy clans on ZDaemon that sometimes start and finish within a week. Furthermore, very few ZD clans actually play the game, they either spend all their time chatting in IRC or playing pointless games of co-op.

The DDoS

When people become sick of Raider's shit, they go out in style. One of the more notorious (and funny) flame-out's in ZDaemon history was CodeImp's exit stage left. CodeImp happened to be the lead coder behind Skulltag Online, a server browser for Skulltag, ZDaemon's "rival". He created an 'update' to Skulltag Online, which was specifically designed to DDoS ZDaemon's master servers when the program was next used. It worked beautifully, and no one could figure out why ZDaemon was offline for a few hours. Unfortunately, he made the mistake of labeling his work, and was finally found out by someone with Computer Science III who took a look inside the program itself with a hex editor.

Update: the lulz unexpectedly continues when someone adds Codeimp's heroic exploits to his profile on the Doom Wiki. His Doom Wiki profile currently contains no mention of the exploit and the discussion page has been blanked while the argument continues in a less conspicuous place, with retarded ZDaemon players screaming about "cyber terrorism" on one side and CodeImp denying everything and making thinly veiled threats on the other.

Your servers aren't your own

 
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They can do what they want as long as they don't violate (or intentionally allow others to violate) our TOS. Servers that repeatedly allow cheating, unfair gameplay or abuse players have been banned from the master. It's true that you can do anything you want with your server. That's your right because you paid for it. However, I also have the right to exclude it from the master server list if I want to. So, you better run a respectable server if you want anyone to see it in the list.
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—Raider

 
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Any server which does not use the master ban list will be removed from the server list in the launcher. The global ban list is intended to eliminate cheaters and other banned users from public servers.

We have recently observed several servers which either intentionally or unintentionally ignore the master ban list. We will not allow anyone to circumvent the ban list for any server that advertises to the ZDaemon master.

If your server has been banned for this reason, you can correct the problem and contact the ZDaemon staff and request to have your server un-banned.
 

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—Raider, ZDaemon Main Page

Considering the fact that maybe a quarter of the total bans on the banlist are community drama related and not cheating, you, as a server admin, are now forcibly 'involved' with the latest retarded community drama if you like it or not.

The Community

  • ZDaemon Main Site (just like the Game, straight out of the 1990's)
  • Forums (complete with ringamarole signup process)
  • Banlist (tl;dr)
  • Skulltag Another online doom port that is so shitty that it makes ZDaemon look good in comparison.

Drama

If you have drama that has yet to be categorized in the main article, link it here



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