Portugal

QuakeWorld summary for Portugal Once very active, the portuguese community has always been turned to itself. Players rarely played outside local servers until 1999, when ISDN/Cable arrived. In the post-Smackdown era, there was much less players than before, but they all played in Europe, especially on UK/NL/GER servers, with pings between 50ms and 90ms. The main issue about the portuguese community was that was often 'split'. There were many players from Madeira Island. They had their servers and continental Portugal as well. Pings between them were not so good, minimum 40ms. Madeira players had good 13ms ping on their servers (all players had cable connections after 1999) but bad to continental Portugal (~60ms). There was rivality between these two communities, that almost vanished in 2007. Portuguese Players Portuguese Clans

Famous players

• Trouble
• Seablade
• Boggs
• DarkMaster
• Yurgen
• Giggs
• Hectic
• Mooseman
• Commander_ZOD
• Apulax aka Zip
• Dread
• Ztranger
• Mushi
• Nitemare
• hammer

Famous clans

• Brotherhood of Blood - |B|
• Rest In Pieces - RIP
• ]Z[
• Quinas
• Rebellion of Thunder - ROT
• DEFS

History

It started in 1996. 14.4kbs and 28.8 modems were the only internet connections available. Pings > 200 and plenty of players.
Every night the Telepac servers were full. 10-20 players in ffa server and 20-30 in the 3 TF servers. Dozens of clans.
Many activity in the main IRC server in portugal, PTNET. #quake was ruled by a bot named Frag. He decided when to kick a user. Frag had good memory also: he saved the funniest quotes ever.
To get a clanwar going, it was needed a admin (thx DarthVader) with rcon (no Kombat Teams back then) to restart the map when everyone was ready.
Some ppl with slow computers tooked alot longer than others to join. ahh.. :) Playing 4on4 with ping 250 on dm6 dmm3 was fun.
Regarding duels, some played dmm1 20min, some dmm3 20min... We had our own rules.
There was no easy way to change server settings.
CTF was quite common also, especialy on LANs (see below).
When Quake 2 was released few moved... the scene was still quite large with a dozen clans playing in our Leagues. It was usual these leagues never ending: the better, rival clans were 'afraid' to play each other, oh the pride...

1999

In 1999, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament did a severe cut into QuakeWorld.
Many players left to play newer games. Some came back, some didnt.
ISDN arrived. Cable soon followed. Much better pings (30-100ms)

2002

From 2002 on, all those clans resumed to 2/4 active clans, and more players leaving the game and resume their lives.
Broadband is common. 13-50ms in local servers. ADSL.

2007

In 2007, some are still here, playing, with wifes, kids, etc.
It's different, no local servers, best ping is 50ms on UK servers. Much less activity but the spirit remains.

2018

With many Portuguese players abandoning Quake World, from around 2007-2009 forward, the community slowly died.
In 2018  Hammer and  mushi brought the community back together on discord.
On the same discord server as Rebellion of Thunder Clan, the "Ronaldo" Quake World community is together once again.

2020

With new Portuguese servers, created by  ved, and pings within the 12ms to 25ms, the Portuguese community get together almost every late evening for some fun and games.

LANS

Continental Portugal

There were several LANs.
One of the biggest was in Lisbon (organized by Ripper), with many players especcially from the TF community.
Last LAN was in the year 2001. The best LAN was at Hectic's place (200 km north of Lisbon).
In these LANs we played mostly CTF and a bit of DM.
What was amazing about this was the spirit between the players.
The bounds created between these persons are Quake itself.
That's what makes Quake unique. Besides playing all night until Sunday's noon, we often went out for drinks, dinners and fun.

I'm sure everyone who attended these LANs today have a feeling of nostalgia.
About the LAN itself, well, it was CTF all the way as i said.
There were 2 rooms (20-30 ppl in a garage), one for red team, the other for blue.
Ppl shouting at each other was a const, the flag was the most important :) "VAI BUSCAR!!" was yelled when he/she captured.
The ones who didn't played CTF before became addicted.

QW CTF is the best mod/game of alltime (c) Trouble

Madeira Island

Many LANS happened in Madeira between 1997 and 2002.
 ztranger organized quite a few at his school, Liceu Jaime Moniz.
We cannot forget that every day people used to get together at "Minha empresa" at "Oudinot Shopping" playing hours and hours at that Cyber place beeing charged by the hour.
 hammer hosted one at his place but mostly were at  nitemare home garage.
Between Quake World, smoking and drinking , bonds were being reinforced and nowadays some members always get together at least once a year for a dinner, good times and more smoking and drinking :D
Last gathering was in December 2019 when  mushi flew over for a unforgettable Christmas dinner.
More to come soon :)

Servers

http://www.quakeservers.net/quakeworld/servers/c=17/

IRC-channels

• #qw.pt at QuakeNet

Discord-server

• Portuguese Quake World Community, Rebellion Of Thunder (ROT) , Brotherhood of Blood - |B| and Quinas

External links

• Dopefish, mushi's old website