Black-Cell.net

Network Sites
Renegade Servers | WoW Guild

What is Black-Cell.net?
The Black-Cell Network, Black-Cell.net or BC for short, is a gaming network that formed around the game C&C: Renegade. Currently our main involvement is still with Renegade, with us hosting two servers and developing modifications for the game. However, we are looking to expand into other games and we will sometimes be testing the waters, per se, by hosting servers for various games. We will also sometimes setup temporary servers for us to enjoy. So if you're here because you saw the URL in the title of a server for some game other than Renegade (or some other place) and are wondering why there isn't much information about the game on our website/forums yet, that's why.

Feel free to join us in our forums or on our IRC network.

News

Happy New Year and a Thank You!
Posted by Santa Claus on December 31, 2007, 07:05:19 pm

Happy New Year to you all, whenever this might be for you with your funny timezones!

Also a huge thanks for being part of Black-Cell to everyone old and new, it's not Black-Cell without you! That means everyone!

Have a great night tonight and day tomorrow and see you in the servers soon!

BC

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Donations and Renegade Server Status
Posted by ccfan4326 on May 25, 2007, 05:55:36 am

First off, we are currently running short on donations and would be grateful to anyone who can donate. Secondly, we will be moving to a cheaper server later this month, possibly one that will not be able to handle BC4. We can spend a bit more for one that will be able to handle BC4, and it would still be cheaper than our current setup, but with donations in the state they're in I would prefer the cheaper server. We're still running short even with either of the cheaper servers though, so don't let this deter you from donating. Unless enough donations come in, we will be getting rid of BC4. Even then we may still be getting rid of it, since as you probably know it's been mostly empty and I don't see much point in paying for an empty server; but of course it's also up to you guys as you pay for most of the cost through donations. We can try to acquire an a0 server name in order to bring more players in, but it's not guaranteed that we'll be able to get one.

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Forum Overhaul
Posted by Whitedragon on March 28, 2007, 10:46:08 am

As I'm sure most of you have noticed by now, we've made some drastic changes to the layout of the forum. Frankly, we got tired of the mess it had become. Off topic spam in many posts, topics going in the wrong boards, topics about different games mixing in the same board.

So we decided to make the following changes to better organize it:

The News, IRC, and TeamSpeak boards have been moved to the Network category because, well, thats where they belong.
Sub category dividers have been added to the Network category to divide it into Game Divisions and Services(TS and IRC).
The Off Topic board has been renamed to General Discussion, it will now be more heavily moderated and spam will not be allowed. A new Off Topic board has been added which will serve as a place for lighter topics.
Each game now has its own screenshots child board.
All games that support it now have a child board for downloads, modding, mapping, that kind of stuff.

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Website changes
Posted by ccfan4326 on March 23, 2007, 03:50:08 am

We've made some changes to our website that will hopefully make it more functional and easier to navigate while allowing us to easily expand to other games. The biggest change is that we now have subsites. At the moment we two subsites, a Renegade Servers subsite at http://ren.black-cell.net and a WoW Guild subsite at http://wow.black-cell.net. The basic function of subsites is:

Only news pertaining to what the site focuses on will be displayed (e.g. Renegade Server news on the Renegade Servers subsite). There will now be a seperate news board for each subsite to accommodate this.
The left sidebar navigation will change depending on which site you're at. For example, links to Dragonade will only be on the Renegade Servers site and no longer on the main site. However, there will always be "Network" and "Sites" links on every page which will provide links to things like the forums and the various sites.
Various site specific things such as live stats for BC4/BC5 on the Renegade Servers site.

The main site will now act as a portal to the rest of the network, displaying headlines from and links to all other network sites.

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Looking for Staff: Graphics Artist
Posted by Whitedragon on March 18, 2007, 09:13:41 am

Were looking for a talented graphics artist who would be interested in making site layouts, banners, buttons, that kind of stuff, for us. If you're interested in the position then please PM me with samples of your work. A knowledge of HTML is required.

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OMG ADS
Posted by ccfan4326 on March 10, 2007, 09:53:13 am

Yes, we now have ads. We know they're not everyone's most favorite thing, but currently we are just testing them. Depending on the amount of money they generate, we may or may not keep them. Black-Cell is almost four years old now and the other day I did some calculations on how much money has been spent keeping the servers up and such. It turns out over $10,000 has been spent over the last few years. So yeah. We wouldn't have been to do it if it weren't for generous donations and I thank all of those that have donated, but if this can lessen our need to rely solely on donations that'd be great. Don't let that discourage you from donating though as we still need donations. Recently we've been running a little low on donations (which is one of the reason's we're trying these ads), so if you can, please donate.

Those who have donated and are registered will not see ads on the forums. We do not have a way to do the same with the website yet, but hopefully we will at some point if this becomes permanent.

Also, if you can, please email (ads@black-cell.net) any URLs of crappy ads selling WoW gold and stuff like that so that I can blacklist them.

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C&C3 Demo Released
Posted by Whitedragon on February 28, 2007, 02:02:44 am

The official C&C3 demo has been released! Official description from EA:

THE DEMO INCLUDES:

One tutorial mission
Two single player missions featuring live action video sequences
One skirmish map with varying difficulty settings
One live action trailer montage featuring Tricia Helfer, Josh Holloway, Joe Kucan, Michael Ironside, Jennifer Morrison, Billy Dee Williams, and Grace Park

Download links:

EA, FileShack, FilePlanet

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New forums
Posted by ccfan4326 on July 23, 2006, 08:42:17 am

We have new forums! We've moved from Invision Power Board 1.x to Simple Machines Forums, which offers new features and is actively supported/updated, unlike IPB 1.x. We're currently using the default skin and playing around with some other premade skins, but plan to have a new one that will resemble the old forum skin. You may notice some strange and/or broken things as we're still working on getting everything set up properly, sorry for the inconvenience.

Oh, and we finally have a proper URL now (forums.black-cell.net)!

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