About RAW Recruits, a brief history of the community. |
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The RAW community first came into being in January 2008 when, because of the increasing amount of cheating that goes on in FEAR Combat, the server that some of us used to play on closed down. We all went our own ways for some time after, each of us looking for that elusive “special” server where we could hang our hats and call it home. Alas, as we all too soon discovered, they are very few and far between. So, fed up with lagging servers or poorly run rooms, a few of the other former members were contacted with the idea of investing in a small server to be shared with other like-minded players and so a star was born…
Since then we have gone from strength-to-strength, moving from first a 10 to a 12 and then a 16-slot game server, soon we added a second 16-slot server and a TeamSpeak voice server and then in July 2008, we registered and set up this domain name server. In November 2008 we decided to get our own dedicated server, which today runs all of our games. We put this success down to us only having 3 basic rules and all of those only revolving around a sense of fair play and decency, but most of all it’s down to the dedication, hard work and loyalty (and the money) put in by our members. We have now expanded even further by opening a new division, RawR.Design, offering clans a ready-made web solution for starting up. With these websites you will not need any knowledge of HTML or programming. They come with a lot of features already installed such as: Forums, Event Calendar, Photo Gallery, Web Links, Articles, News, Downloads& Contact Sections and all for just £49.99. There is even an optional MP3 Player, the link to RawR.Design can be found in our Resource Section.
We like to play FEAR with friendly fire off, no super weapons and no unarmed only. We don’t care if you like a drink, smoke, swear or even if you’re screwing your best m8’s girlfriend behind his back, while he is busy playing COD4 on-line! As long as you don’t cheat in the game, you’re not swearing AT people, and can conduct yourself in a way that might be expected when someone invites you in to their home, then you will fit right in, although a sense of humour will certainly come in handy too as some of our members do like to rib other people on occasions... In 2009 we expanded into new games and set up game servers and forums for both UT3 and COD4, this resulted in further growth in our membership.
All our servers are located in the U.K. but we have over 40 members from all over the world, the only restriction would be dependent on your ping. The benefits of signing up to our forum and joining the community are that you can give your views on how the servers are run, which games and maps you would like to see in place and a host of other topics via our forum. Plus you will have access to all the utilities and downloads in our resource section.
Membership into the clan itself will only come from those signing up to our forum, taking an active part on there and playing regularly on our game servers. If invited to join you will then be able to wear the RAW tag and insignia and at the end of a trial period you will be given admins on all of the game servers, helping to keep them free from hacks and cheats.
We currently have a staff of 10 paying members and may be looking to recruit more staff members at some point in the future, these all have full admins on the game servers, the Mumble voice server, the forums and websites.
That covers us for now but as promised, we have added lots more to our history and hope to continue to do so as we progress further in 2010.