Cains Lair UT2004 final moments - Were you there ?

[*THOR*]

Just found this in the depths of my pictures folder, it's a screenshot Cain took of the final player count just before he threw the switch and turned the ONS server off leaving many of us homeless, was a sad day but this screenshot always makes me smile

http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?i...aughtfixv9.jpg

Where you there at the end, and are you here now ??

[Cain]

That really was a very sad day for me, I hated pulling that server down more than any other before it, or since.

The good news is we moved on to some really cool, fun new games, and have made some fantastic new friends along the way, the bad news is some of our folks didn't want to move to a new game (which I certainly understand), so many drifted away from us.

These days (so far at least) LogicSouth has more bandwidth than they had in those days, so I don't see UT3 going anywhere, for a very, very, very long time !!

-- Cain

Everybody who was in that Final Round when the Server went down, speak up !!!

[Bliss]

I was / am...



The old days :P

[BigTwinky]

I wasn?t able to make it for the final goodbye of the ONS server. But it was the server that really made Cain?s a home for me. I played many many many (and too many) hours of ONS and would have been there if I could of, but something else came up.

I was there in spirit though.

Where have I been? Right here, haven?t gone anywhere. Played BF2 and DOD at Cains. While I played other games on other servers, I still stuck with the community.

Now, looking forward to TF2 and UT3. Not looking forward to having to chose one of them. Need to deal with a system upgrade first though

[Duke{CLR}]

I got there moments before it was shut down.

[Rand{CLR}]

I was there. Here's some pictures from the last day, from the archives:


Thx Cain writ in spider mines:





Morons on parade--us trying to get people to do a manta bowling shot. Didn't work:



Final match score:



JUGGLING!


Ooops. My bad:


-Rand

[Slaughter]

A couple other oldies:

[Cain]

[Nomadicus]

Wow! This brings back memories!

If I am correct, the shutdown was 2 years ago on October 10th, 2005 around 8PM.

I have over 30 fullrez 1600x1200 screenshots in this zip file: http://www.unrealmediaservices.com/j...LairONSEnd.zip

Me and MajorDeath were tearing it up in the last days:


My favorite a day or two before shutdown:


This is the last screenshot I have of us together:

[*THOR*]

Bliss such a show off always falling through the core :P

[Devilguns]

That was a sad day but probably the best time I ever had too. It felt like the last day of school when there is no real work to be done but you had to be there. I told my wife to go out shopping that day and take the spawn with her. I still had the server in my favorites up until about two weeks ago. UT on the lair was like religion. I was in denial a for a while after that final disconnect.


I never stopped playing but I'm really glad it's back at the lair.

[juneau]

I missed out on the final events by about 2 hours as i had to leave early.

Who is miniSirex?

[Rand{CLR}]

Who's got the one of like 9 of us linked up to heal the core?

-Rand

[Cain]

UT on the lair was like religion.

And thus when UT3 came to pass, there was much rejoicing as UT had returned to Cain's...... and all those who followed Cain but had wandered in the desert for 40 months had finally found their Promised Land and had their faith rewarded....

Book of Cain, Chapter 3 Verse 9

[Rand{CLR}]

So say we all.

-Rand