FZ celebrates their 10th year anniversary by having some nostalgic features and stuff. Besides reviewing games back from -96 (hey, at last we'll get to see the first game that has 6/5 as a rating!) they're also having something of a Quake special where they encourage players to try out Quakeworld. You can check out the site here. They are also hosting two new servers:

FZ gibfest FFA on quake.fragzone.se:27500
KTX mod with 26 player limit and dm2-dm6, e1m3, e1m5, e1m6, e2m2, e4m3 map pool.

FZ Rocket Arena - quake.fragzone.se:27501
Final Arena 1.2 and arenarg4, mayan1, arenazap, arenarg2, arenax, terrain2, rgarden map pool.

Link to FZ QW forum.

Regarding the servers they said that they'll be up for at least the anniversary week (this week) and then "we'll see". I guess if they're popular enough they might consider keeping them. Get on there, have some fun and help newbies out. There actually seems to be quite alot of new (old) players trying out the game just because of this.

(Atm it's DMM1 on that FFA server but i've told them to fix it. Hopefully that will happen tonight :S)

Is there a English Translation anywhere ? Would be interessting

They should make fquake available there, and give links to tips and sites with useful info

Well, although fQuake is "legal" it wouldn't be legal to use fQuake to play on the DM maps due to license stuff. As FZ is a very serious site i don't think they would want to encourage the use of fQuake to play on their servers which has DM maps in the rotation. :I

make the servers 100% legal ? in other words, put e1 rolling and then you can advertise fquake (finally)

ehg :/
well at least give links on where to get help!

I've written a post with a bunch of resources (qw.nu, ezquake, EQL etc) in their forum. Hopefully the interested players checks it out.

ps. fQuake is legal if u didnt know ake_vader!!!

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Eh, since when fQuake contains dm maps?

good question .:> i would have notice.. i think..

the servers run them, and I don't think fz want's to share warez on their servers
(which might seem pretty lame)

they can just disallow downloading maps!

I think they have. I cant download the arena maps ((

well, the arena can you get on http://equake.quakeworld.nu and look for arena...
but yes sassa, they can since they are not free. Making dm2 warez :/

Almost can't believe how many players tried QW only because of this :S

3-4 ?

More like 300-400 at least. Dunno if you have played on the server though.

I have, enough to see this http://www.fz.se/forum/thread.fz?id=10070&page=2
XD
(for you non-swedes, this thread is about people accusing others for cheating with wallhacks and aimbots)

Yeah, so what? Just proves that the players really are new. The sad thing (i admit) is that most people probably won't keep on playing after this "10 year anniversary week". I just hope they keep the FFA server as i think many players will come from FZ -> FZ server -> FZ forum -> rest of servers/rest of the QW world.

I don't care how bad the new players are, as long as they play Quakeworld they're welcome. I just can't grasp how some of you just don't seem to realize that we need new players in the scene, no matter their level you know.

amen

yeah.. and i suggest good players stay away from that server for a while.. not to overwhelm the newbies with their skill and discourage them

let's send Gamer in there, just for one night. that would make for a fun mvd

really sucks that fquake can't be advertised, which was the main reason it was created

didn't the release of the .map files change anything?

gahahaahhahaah..

True Empezar, since when is shareware stuff illegal to host :S

Aquashark, more fun is that some think brightskins are cheats, and must be put in with a lot of hacked files etc
red.pcx and white.pcx xD

Didn't you read my post? To be honest i haven't even asked them to host/promote fQuake "for real". You're free to do that but if you give them all the facts (that it would be illegal to use the package to play on maps that are not in the first episode) then _my_ bet is that it would be a no-go.

oh I did, and I agree, but still they need the server to allow map downloads aswell, which can be set failry easy

but all the maps are freeware now ? since they released it?

No, textures haven't been released free yet -> dm6.bsp is still "you have to buy it". But you can make alternative maps with different textures and upgrade (hack) servers to support players with both versions. That could make playing on those maps legal. Idea (c) Tonik