We have posted a survey in the NC Private Forums titled "NC Survey for Internal and External League"

It's "NC" Internal League Time Again!

All NC members are invited to sign up for our internal league.

The game type will be COD4, S&D.

Sign ups will be open for two weeks, starting from the date of this post.

Start date for the league will be decided once the the sign ups have closed.

Team sizes will be between 4 and 6 players.

Team captains will be chosen from a list of people that volunteer to be captains.

People that sign up to be alternates will not be assigned to a team, but instead placed in a pool, for all of the teams to draw from.

Sign up by clicking on the "Write comment" line at the bottom of this story.

Remember when you sign up, please state whether you would like to be a reg or an alt player; also tell us if you would like to volunteer to be a team captain.

If you have any quetions, just ask MM,Spod, Ultracamper or me.

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All right every one, lets get this rolling by signing up!

I hate to bump the league story down so don't forget  about signing up.

For those of you that have been with us for a while know we have a tradition of having Cost Sharing Holidays for the Holidays.  For the new folks, this means that our community is in a good finacial position and we will not be collecting the monthly cost sharing payments for the month of December.  If you are on a subscription I will be refunding the payment at some point this week.   I will not be sending out invoices either this month.  So to all the members that make this community great...Thanks!

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There have been a lot of questions regarding what is happening with MW2 and how it effects NC.   We as an officers group wanted to take this time to express our thoughts about the actions of Infinity Ward.

If you're not familiar with what Infinity Ward decided to do to the PC community and what it means to on-line gaming, you can watch the youtube post that Cheney posted in the forums.  It does a great job of laying out what IW said and what it means to us.  You can see it here: http://www.new-centurions.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=81&func=view&catid=21&id=4789#4793   As long as IW ward stands by this decision NC will not be able to support MW2. 

As some have noticed we have added "Boycott MW2" to the names of our four servers to show that we are supporting others in NOT buying MW2.  We as leadership of this community cannot tell you as members and guests how to spend your money but many of us and many PC gamers have canceled their pre-orders of MW2.  

The next thing that we have decided to do is to support the Global Stand Down.  This means that at midnight on Tuesday November 10th we will shut down all the COD servers for 24 hours.  I apologize in advance if this causes anyone distress but to put it perspective here is a quote from Angry Employee.com, "The Stand-Down has the potential to be the biggest joint effort and remarkable statement of solidarity ever seen in the International Gaming Community.

This moreover will of course halt Infinity wards master servers and bring them to a standstill: They can then instantly view which ip's they have temporarily lost the world over.

IW will immediately understand how wide spread and deep routed our feelings are.

A true testement of our commitment and buying power.

We are not ready to give up this fight and simply accept that this is a done deal, there is fuel for our already raging fires yet."

If you haven't signed the petition and would like to do so, you can go here: http://www.petitiononline.com/dedis4mw/petition.html  There are over 151,000 signatures already and I encourage everyone to sign it also.

The last thing I would like to address is what this means for NC.  The bottom line is that it does not effect our community at all.  Even though COD was the primary means by which everyone originally found NC, the reason folks have joined or stuck around is because of the people in this community.  Right now we are planning to continue to support COD 4 and COD 5.  If things change with MW2 we will take another look at the possibility of supporting the game but right now that doesn't seem possible.  In the future there will be other non-COD games that we will take a look at and determine if it will meet the needs of our community. 

If anyone has any questions about this, you can send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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