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Thanks and Stay Vigilant! Jensonson ^{About Me The Fortress Talk BOOM TFN TV Promo Join}

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Recruitment

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	Your ad has been removed from the Recruitment page because of rules violation, specifically an old timestamp. There is a guide here. Please re-add it if you are still active and recruiting.

For the record, this rule is about to change (thank goodness,) so me and the other people who do this will have a lot less work to do :).

Linkthewindow  Talk  12:47, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh thank goodness ... I added the ad and updated the date. :D Prep 00:20, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

The Great Suburb Group Massacre, 2009

	Group Confirmed.
	This group was confirmed active. Thank you for your reply.

This may seem like a stupid question, but it's for all groups, regardless of size. Cheers! --Janus ^talk 18:12, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm not a fancy official representative or anything but I've been around for a year and we're still going strong! --BobBoberton 18:57, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Bob!! How did you get out of your cage?! And you're talking?!?!?!?!?!?! Oh, you are so going to be beaten for this! :-D

But yeah, we're active, thanks for asking! Prep 23:13, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, but we just wanted to know if you were active... not what activities you may or may not be pursuing. That's none of my business! --Lois ^{talk 10MFH} 20:26, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I was just being silly, Bob doesn't have a cage. Clint, however ... O.O ~ Prep ^{Fortress - BS} 01:05, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

My "cages" are ruined buildings with 50+ AP repairs :D --Bob Boberton ^{TF / DW} 15:18, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Urgent Distress call!

the necro-tech biohazard containment service needs the help of the anaconda team i am in the mccullock building in miltown doors are open the neighborhood is very dangerous need your help please... send commander daniels--Sgt Gonnella 07:46, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

I've relayed your distress call to Commander Daniels; sit tight. --BobBoberton 19:50, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Message received, Sgt Gonnella. Help is on the way! I will send you an email with additional details. --Lucy Daniels 20:06, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes

No need to fret, Fortress. Although I have gone pk'er, no harm will come to fortress from me. I cannot speak for my fellow browncoaters as they seem to harbor some kind of profound hate for your members, but I know fortress is a good group and, if anything, I might even help you guys out here and there with a FAK or two. I can't do more or risk or the vengeance of my fellow members, but see you on the battelfield :). Keep doing your thing. Ioncannon11 12:59, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

You were an ambassador to one of our allies, right? Was it 82nd Airborn? Anyway, the PKer scene is an entirely different style of gameplay, have fun with it, be original in your kill speeches, and I'll keep an eye out for you on the RG! Who knows, maybe I'll even bounty you one day, if Calogero sees you in the NW. ;-) ~ Prep ^{Fortress - BS} 01:04, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Shore Hills

Guys, really. As much as we appreciate the help, your antics in Shore Hills are really making the natives restless. I don't know if you brought a fan club with you or what, but zed activity is WAY up and people are getting eaten because of it. Have you seen the revive queue? Can't even sleep over the border anymore...

We were fine. Really. Don't you have homes? A mall, somewhere, perhaps? Trenchcoats are on sale! --Thrownaway 02:11, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Shore Hills? Shore Hills? Hmmm... (checks current combat squad activities) Oh no! The Battleponies have been stationed there. *gasp* What have they done? lol. I'm sorry to hear that things have worsened in the quiet 'burb of Shore Hills but rest assured that it wasn't because of us, but despite of us. The ponies will go graze elsewhere at some point but that wont help your zombinfestation at all I'm afraid! Stay Vigilant ;) Jensonson 21:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually Thrownaway, if you read this, I wouldn't mind asking you some questions about what you know of goings on in the Shore Hills area. You seem to be clued up on events in that burb and I'd be keen to discuss some odd events that we've experienced if you have the time. My email is TheVigilantFortress@yahoo.co.uk, if you don't wish to chat here. Jensonson 18:06, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

For a gentleman of your regard, my door is always open. Happy to chat here. That said, at the moment, I'm playing for the other team due to the difficulty in getting revived around here. Fair warning! --Thrownaway 03:18, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

The Fortress has noted some suspicious zerg-like behaviour in Shore Hills since its arrival in early March and has drawn up reams of evidence of suspected zerging. It seems that one individual, or a small group of individuals, are controlling multiple UD zombies in the same area to achieve their own personal objective. Our results, drawn up in March, have corresponded with independent lists that were previously drawn up by two of our survivor allies, prior to our arrival.

The Fortress cannot stand cheating and we have exposed mass-zergers before in UD, resulting in Kevan taking action against a culprit on one occassion, but always we have at least spread awareness among our extensive Chain of Allies, which includes every major survivor group in Urban Dead. It is important to us that people know when and where people are cheating in Urban Dead on the odd occassion that we experience it. We feel it is important to always try to find a way to talk to the culprit, to ensure they are aware of the rules of UD and that it is nothing more than a game for people to play; that cheating is obviously wrong. (It's strange how many people don't think of multi-account zerging as cheating!)

Therefore we would be keen to know, with your knowledge of the Shore Hills area in the past six weeks, whether you and your UD character, presumably Thrownaway, has also experienced suspicious behaviour and what you might be able to tell us to assist in our investigation. In particular, suspicious events you may have experienced or a list of ID's of any zeds you may suspect as zergers.

Thanks in advance for anything you can provide us. Jensonson 20:01, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

I haven't been doing screenshots or anything, but I think you're absolutely right in suspecting zerg activity in the Shore Hills area, on both the zombie and survivor sides. For the last couple months, ALL of the Necrotech buildings I've gone to in the area have had HUGE mobs of zombies in them (that don't seem to have any apparent group affiliation, so it seems unusual for so many zombies to be so religious about about staying in NTs all the time), and now that I've been Zed for awhile, I've seen more than one occasion where 3-4 zombies all ?rise within minutes of each other when I spend the night in an NT. On top of that, there are tons of level ones around, and the most obvious clue: I've seen a couple zombies named "ZergerXXX" (XXX=number). That's kind of hard to argue with.

On the survivor side, I've also seen a whole lot (10-20) of level one scouts/firemen with recent creation dates that all share the same "real player" name (and universally stupid character names), but primarily in Havercroft during the mall siege. Haven't been over on that side of the border in a while now, though.

As a solo player, it's been easy enough just to not overnight in those areas (unless I'm already dead). They way I see it, the best way to deal with them is the same way to deal with any other 13 y/o griefer: ignore them. They'll eventually get bored if and quit if they can't get a rise out of you. Good luck with the hunt, though. Would be interested to know if anything ever comes out of it. --Thrownaway 21:43, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey Thrownaway, since we've noticed the activity back in early March, we've been collecting profiles and evidence of their actions. There is a critical amount we need to collect, however, for us to bring the matter before the higher powers. Until that time, we could use all the help we can get in collecting profiles and actions in unison. I'll see if we can get some members to go in there and scan as many as possible. If your character is sleeping in an NT, he might end up on the same list as these cheaters, so you might want to move him out or let us know so we don't get you lumped in there with the others. (as it looks like you might have started playing about the same time as the zerg) Good luck out there! ~ Prep ^{Fortress - BS} 22:22, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I'll pop down to Brooksville for a little while and try to catch a revive. I'd offer to help, but being solo, I'd rather hang onto my AP for other things. Best of luck. And btw, my character is actually really old -- just came back to UD after a very long time and figured I'd finally start using the Wiki, which I'm new to, with my normal internet handle.  :] --Thrownaway 13:56, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for gatecrashing the conversation, but does there also appear to be a lot of poop based graffiti? Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 14:05, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

There sure is. Kevan thinks it's very charming. --Lucy Daniels 20:03, 3 April 2009 (BST)

Really? Well a lot of molebank residents didn't like it when the same guy zerged similar tags over their suburb in a day. Have a word with User:Lois Millard she should have a list of a lot of his alts.--Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 21:15, 4 April 2009 (BST)

Aye. All of my alts have seen it, throughout south and central Malton. Oswelybank and Grigg Heights (which are very close to Molebank) had some, as well as some suburbs in the far south (Buttonville was one, I think.) I've got a hunch that it was a zerg that started it, and now he's got copycats. Linkthewindow  Talk  22:30, 5 April 2009 (BST)

You guys certainly did a good job with the sentries, at least. I just swept through the area, and several NTs that had been held by zeds for over a month are now EHB and lit with no signs of the horde. Did Kevan ban them, or did they just relocate? --Thrownaway 21:45, 6 April 2009 (BST)

I don't believe Kevan banned them, as he tends to refuse to get involved per the game FAQ, unfortunately. However, it appears that they have either retreated to a different suburb or stopped playing. Thanks for helping us out! ~ Prep ^{Fortress - BS} 21:32, 24 April 2009 (BST)

an old friend here.

hello fortress how's it goin :) jus thought i'd drop by an leave a line gon borrow from the joker here a bit but hear me out :P lets wind the clocks back a year, em pk'ers wouldn't dare cross any of u...what happen your balls drop off lol. u see i've shown pk'ers your true colors, the browncoats are only the beginning ;) i'll even give you guys a heads up, in a month i'll make a fortress team disappear lol i know u all try an pretend not 2 notice us but i know we're what yoru talkin bout, i suggest u try an do what ava did b4 he was gunned down. an put 2gether a lil avenger group an try an stop us. i'll be waitin. peace. your lovable legend Blair Wells ;)

Blair - can you stop posting pointless messages on our pages please. This isn't the first time that you, or Blane, has added redundant postings to our Wiki pages. I'm sure you have your own Wiki group page - please use that. (Future (and previous) posts may be removed as a result.) Jensonson 21:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I gotta admit. These grammatical errors hurt my head. Please Jen, delete this. --Firetwig ^W! 04:46, 4 October 2009 (BST)

Request to join

Hello like a week i send a request to join your group with 1 of my alts? What can i do to enter? or dont are interested? My alt is doing nothing travel in malton and want to have fun....can you reply me ...thanks!--(x)Alvaromesa^{Talk | Bacardi |MPD | Malton Public Radio} 06:36, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Easy Peasy! Just follow the instructions on our Joining page! --Bob Boberton ^{TF / DW} 06:49, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

- I send that...i need to send it again?....your forum is really confidential? i want to enter but i dont want to do that letter again. ::--(x)Alvaromesa^{Talk | Bacardi |MPD | Malton Public Radio} 07:35, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

What is your character name Alvaromesa? Your application may have already been filed. Did you check your email? Let me know, and good luck out there! ~ Prep ^{Fortress - BS}01:04, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

You guys let zergers join now? --Blanemcc 02:41, 17 April 2009 (BST)

Not to my knowledge. Is he one? You have any proof? We're actually actively trying to oust zergers - see the Shore Hills thing above. --Bob Boberton ^{TF / DW} 05:20, 17 April 2009 (BST)

He zerged while working with Dawn Patrol/Anti-Zombie Squad, is on the zerge list, and I have a list of the name of some of his newer zerg alts. He has, to my knowledge, around 7 zergs. --Blanemcc 11:30, 17 April 2009 (BST)

He was on the Zerg Liste for having his characters LT Mesa and AlvaroMesa together in the same building. Both were with different groups at the time and I believe he was new to the game. Naturally, this is no excuse, but he made the effort to go Resens to get off the list, and since then I have seen no evidence of him multi-abusing. If you have any evidence suggesting recent multi-abuse, I suggest you take it to Resens. ~ Prep ^{Fortress - BS}14:22, 17 April 2009 (BST)

I emailed the list of suspected zergs to Anne Tardew. --Blanemcc 14:45, 17 April 2009 (BST)

Are you guys still recruiting becuse i sent in an Application... how long does it take you guys to answer a message? I mean, besides an extra body for your group I can offer other stuff... I can actually get a message board and possible a chat room up for your group. --Ltpotter 18:28, 6 June 2009 (BST)

We've received your application and are processing it. The whole process shouldn't take more than a week, tops. Thanks for the offer as well, but we already have a very large and well-established message board too. --Bob Boberton ^{TF / DW} 18:37, 6 June 2009 (BST)

I've sent a reply to your incory about the DHPD incident. --Ltpotter 15:18, 12 June 2009 (BST)

Thanks. As a precaution, we're now going to ask DHPD about their side of things. Thank you for your continued patience. --Bob Boberton ^{TF / DW} 21:23, 12 June 2009 (BST)

Well I can already tell you what they are gonna say, they think I'm lying and believe I'm a spy. Which considering the incidents I've been involved in they are free to think that. I have a questionable past and made deals with a lot of questionable people, this of course has resulted in a lot of people not trusting me. Truth be told the only thing i want to do is play this game without any of this crap going on around me, and the best thing to do is start on a clean slate. I mean, All i want to do is hunt zeds and help people. But everytime I try to do that something stupet happens and I get the raw end of the deal. But thankfully now I've got better security to prevent such things from happening again. But anyway... feel free to speak to the DHPD... but as I said they are going to call me a lire, a spy and more then likely a drama queen, which truth be told i hate drama. That's why i dropped of the wiki here for so long there was just way to much drama. Well anyway... --Ltpotter 23:57, 12 June 2009 (BST)

Hello again, I have not received any notice for your group on the status of me requestment to join. I know for a fact that more then likely the DHPD decided to continue with the Zed spy route and no doubt mentioned me as being generally annoying. But let me state again that precautions have been made so that the one responsible for leaked information will not be a problem again (At least on my computer.) As for any general annoyance I have worked really hard to try and prevent spelling errors and such when I type. So all O ask is that you update me on my joining request is going. That's all.--Ltpotter 16:05, 19 June 2009 (BST)

My apologies for the long wait. The DHPD has provided us with a lot to read and process. I'm afraid that as it stands things aren't looking good ... We're still talking it over, but what you told us cannot really be verified, which makes it difficult for us to discern what happened. We don't want to keep you from enjoying the game, so I think you throw your name out to other groups in case things don't work out. ~ Prep ^{Fortress - BS} 19:12, 19 June 2009 (BST)

Well i can verify what i am saying. I can get someone else in my dorm online to confirm what i am saying is true... or better yet I can even send you a picture of my dorm room if you want. Just state what you need and I will try to provide it.--Ltpotter 02:46, 20 June 2009 (BST)

Anti-Zombie Squad

Hi. I'm Dark Butters from the Anti-Zombie Squad. We are a pro-survivor group settled in the suburb of West Grayside. We've been looking to gain some allies with our growing numbers, so wondered if you would be interested in joining up with us. So let me or one of the leaders let us know. Either message the forum http://antizombiesquad.forumup.it/index.php?mforum=antizombiesquad or visit the wiki Anti-zombie_squad.

Thanks again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dark Butters (talk • contribs) at an unknown time.

Hey Dark Butters, I went and grabbed Janus Abernathy and I'm talking to her on our forum about an alliance. Thanks for getting in touch! ~ Prep ^{Fortress - BS}16:34, 9 April 2009 (BST)

cant log into the website

NEVCE here, i cant log into the website tonight. just wanted to know whats up. --JHORROR ^{Black Delta Mockridge Heights} 06:12, 7 April 2009 (BST)

Yup, the entire forum hosting site is down. I don't know where the zumie's coming from, though. I'm just getting the standard timeout error. It ought to be back up in a few hours, they're probably doing maintenance or something. --Bob Boberton ^{TF / DW} 06:37, 7 April 2009 (BST)

Recruitment Notice

Your advert: The Fortress/recruit currently has images totalling more than 56KiB in combined size. Please compress or shrink the image or the advert will be removed in two weeks. --  RoosterDragon  19:24, 29 June 2009 (BST)

I've replaced the image with a new version that is smaller - should all be set now. --Bob Boberton ^{TF / DW} 19:43, 29 June 2009 (BST)

Building Information Center

Hello, I am here representing the Building Information Center. As one of the largest groups in the game, you are able to update the building status reports in your suburb and any other suburbs you visit. In essence, that is why I am here- to request that your group helps update the BIC.--~ Red Hawk One ^{Talk | space for lease} 01:04, 22 July 2009 (BST)

Hi there Red Hawk One. The Fortress does have a large influence on UD and we do work to keep the Wiki updated where appropriate but due to secrecy of operations (and because TF can be seen by some as a large target) we are often unable to update the Wiki during live operations. We do, however, encourage all our members to take a strong interest in Urban Dead, and in particular keeping things up to date and lively. Jensonson ^{About Me The Fortress Talk BOOM TFN TV Promo Join} 00:04, 27 July 2009 (BST)

Still active in Gulsonside?

The Big Prick needs help clearing some rotters out of the mall. These bad boys have held the mall and the rest of the burb in thrall since May, and something needs to be done about it.

If you're interested, stock up with lots of ammo. Don't worry about finding a safehouse; shoot down to your last AP, and if you should die while dirt napping we will find and revive you. Asheets 23:50, 28 July 2009 (BST)

Thanks for the invitation! I'll look into our various teams availability, but one team just finished up working at Mitchem Mall and decided to head out to another read burb. With Gulsonside listed as gray, I'm not sure if I will be able to convince anyone to go in, but again, thanks for keeping us informed. Good luck out there and Stay Vigilant! ~ Prep ^{Fortress - BS} 19:33, 30 July 2009 (BST)

Gulsonside is yellow status now. We (TBP and some other allies) have cleared most of the 'burb, but the mall is still being held by rotters. Asheets 17:13, 6 August 2009 (BST)

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Orphaned Page

The following page(s) were orphaned, meaning they weren't linked from any other page on UDWiki. For house-keeping's sake, we are adding the link onto the relevant talk page. If you don't want the pages anymore just post them on the Deletions Page. You aren't required to do anything, but we'd appreciate if it you kept the link on any one of your pages. Please note that the link provided below will not remove the page from Orphaned Pages, so you'll still need to manually make a link for us. Thank you.

• The Fortress/Navbar

• The Fortress News

• The Fortress/News Archive 5

• The Fortress/News Archive 8

• The Fortress/Sandbox

• The Fortress/sandbox

• The Fortress/Anaconda/Past Operations

• The Fortress/News/Anaconda

• The Fortress/News/Battlehawk

• The Fortress/News/ColdCell

• The Fortress/News/DarkWatch

Thanks --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 11:40, 30 September 2009 (BST)

Shackleville Barricade Plan

Hi there.

You are listed on the suburb page as being active in Shackleville (and I'm pretty sure I've seen some of you hange out in the Petting Zoo at one time or another).

I'm currently working on a revised Shackleville Barricade Plan, since the current one isn't adhered to. I hereby invite you to join me on the Shackleville talk page, and work together to make a new one, based on the policies most of us undoubtly already have in barricading our proud suburb. --Itsacon ^{(Talk | Grungni | Ikhnaton)} 10:13, 20 October 2009 (BST)