The Clan & Community

The Forums

It is IoW's philosophy that a great gaming experience on the server is further enhanced with participation in the wider community of players. Its much more fun to frag your friends than just some random white namer on some over-populated, bubblegum frag server. That is why we encourage participation on our message boards. This is especially important for those people who wish to join IoW.

To participate in the forums, you can create an account by clicking here. Login to the forums here.

IoW uses the forums to update our clan and community on the health and happenings of our gaming server. Registered members on the forums can help to determine the maps that are played on the forums, make suggestions for improvement, report problems with other players or ask technical questions about the game (e.g. configs) or other ET stuff. In addition, non-ET related threads are common to discuss the latest movies, music, and other games. Its a great way to get to know the people that you play with night after night.

In addition to the forums, access to the Stats Module is only gained by becoming a registered forum user.

The Clan

So who is IoW? There is a long story of the history of this clan, but the highlights are that IoW was started in the summer of 2005 by Nort and Wolverine after their experiences with other clans failed, and the desire to find a server that fit their ideal for how the game should be played. Using their experience with failed clans, and the punitive rules and admin abuse they experienced at the hands of 14 year-old admins on some servers, Nort and Wolverine started IoW as place where "anything goes". The philosophy of "anything goes" means there aren't a bunch of silly rules about how far from a spawn you needed to be before you could dare fire a bullet - or whether or not it was okay to slash-kill in the middle of a battle - or whether or not it was okay to play panzer in a 2v2. It didn't matter; it was about fair games ("anything goes" did not mean HACKERS were welcome) and easy going admins who just let people have fun they way they wanted to. Of course objective and team-based play has always been encouraged from day one, IoW was started as a server that catered to the ETPro TWL player, just as it did to the fresh-out-the-box newbie.

With a good server, several great people started joining IoW and helped to mold the clan into one of the most successful early ETPub clans in the game. IoW fielded a TWL Beta team that won some impressive matches, and the clan size grew to around fifty active members in the 2006-2007 timeframe. But age and priorities always rears its head, and although our beloved ET has seen declines in players over the last few years, the IoW clan still manages to recruit new members every month. To date, there have been well over 100 people who have been part of IoW since its inception. All of this is due to a great set of leaders, a dedicated and proud group of members, and loyal regulars who help to keep the IoW server busy, almost ten years after the game debuted. The IoW clan has seen many clans rise and fall, and many servers fizzle and fade away, but the same great IoW Server still adheres to its founding principles. It is a successful model of how to run a clan, and how to maintain a popular server.

Clan Leadership

The IoW clan is presently lead by the following people:

<IoW> Nort

El Presidente

<IoW> BECK

General of the Army

<IoW> Sin

Admin

<IoW> Venom

Senior Admin

<IoW> allagor

Senior Admin

<IoW> Krocsyldiphithic

Jr. Admin

Become a Member in IoW

Think you have what it takes to be in IoW? We're always looking for active, easy-going, and outgoing new members. No hackers allowed, IoW is and always has been a HACKER FREE clan. Also, if you are just a rambo who thinks people are impressed with your k/d, probably not the clan for you. IoW periodically does scrimming, but IoW would be considered a "pub" clan. That doesn't mean we don't take the game seriously, we ABSOLUTELY take the game seriously. We just choose to do so in a fun, easy-going environment where people don't feel like they need to show off for everyone else. If you like the server, and you like our current members, click here to being your journey in IoW by applying to join. But we will never recruit a stranger! We are very proud of IoW and the IoW Code of Conduct. We are very selective of those who we allow to be in our clan. So if you're new to the game, and are looking for a good ET home, then play often on the server, don't be shy, introduce yourself on the forums and show some interest in being in the clan.