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I've finally rented a server which is based in London and should hopefully complement the other servers set up in Australia and the US. I've initially only rented for 3 months to see if it's worth increasing the number of Slots. As yet I've not seen more than 5 players at any one time, so think renting anything larger than a 12 at this time would be a waste of money. I do have a spare computer and my broadband is okay (100MB), so at weekends I will still be running an extra server directly from in game, so we can sometimes have two different maps up as well as the other two from the US and Australia. I want to try out some of the other modes besides deathmatch and team deathmatch as I used to enjoy playing those.

I paid for the server today, but it seems we won't be able to access the server until next week, 7th April (at least thats the date quoted on my invoice) and it will be open 24/7 till 7th of July, when I will make the decision as to whether to increase the number of slots, and whether to go for a years subscription or a 3 year subscription. The 3 year sub' comes with a 30% discount, so effectively you get almost a year free. If there are enough interested I may be tempted to go for the 3 year option.

I've been extremely busy of late, so haven't added everything I wanted to to this group. I'm hoping we can work together with other Men of Valor groups over the coming months and years to make sure there is an active community supporting this game. Despite its age it's still one of my favorite shooters

I don't have the time or the energy to devote to belonging to a clan (at least for now - the last time I was involved in a clan (America's Army), I spent virtually all of my spare time devoted to it, spending hours every day posting comments and arranging matches etc), so this group will just be a place to vist, post comments and see what news there is on the Men of Valor front as well as to post news of upcoming events. I'm hoping that we can have a weekly meet at least. Personally i'd like to see a couple or more sessions a week so as to cover the ground for everyone as I don't think all interested can make the same times each week. I personally am open to play most of the time as I can do my other stuff anytime as I'm now housebound due to a serious accident and no longer work for financial gain. That said, I am busy with other personal projects and my family, but I will always try to make myself available when I can.

I will be posting lots of screen captures sometime soon, and will post details of the server and any dates we can arrange where we can all gather to play the game together. This game definitely lends itself to a minimum of 6 players or more depending on the map you are playing, but you can still have fun even with just two playing cat and mouse, or even 2 v 1 etc


I've contacted the new owners of the game to see if they are going to fix the map rotation problem, but so far have had no response from them. At this time as most of you will know, if you set a server to rotate maps everyone apart from the host will more often than not freeze out when the map changes and usually results in a total freeze of the game, so you have to reboot. To this end we will be running one map a day once the server is up and running. Sometimes the same map may rotate for days, depending on whether I remember to change the map, or any admins that I employ. I will be looking for help in that department, so anyone interested let me know. If you have any preferences with respect to maps, please post details so that we can make sure your favorite maps are included.

Even though I played this game for a couple of years way back (can't believe it was 10-11 years ago), there are a few of the maps I can't remember playing such asTwilight Valley, but I think that was because they were never included in the servers that ran at the time, or maybe I wasn't playing at the right time or paying attention.