ToT_Oddjob interview

Hello Oddjob!
For those unfamiliar with who you are, perhaps you can tell us a little bit of yourself?

Hi @ you.

I’m a former true quake nerd who played all day long for quite some time and I’ve been playing with tot since 1998.
Now neither me or my teammates play as much and we’re not that good either but its still alot of fun!

ToT is back with a full force once again crowding the nordic qw servers, how and why did the comeback occur?

Me and Error have played almost every nqr/eql except for a few but we’ve been forced to recruite random players which whom nobody heard of, which makes it less fun than playing with your old members which you have met in real life and so on. They have also been known to put their sharpend knifes in our backs quite often ( parasite, sassa, fx and white) etc..

But old members came back like lethal who havent played for 4-5 years or something and now it’s only SlabbY we’re missing.

ToT is put in gold division this nqr-season, what are your expectations?

Yeah its weird isnt it.. don’t forget that we didnt won a single game last fall in eql div2! It was the worst time in ToT-history what so ever.
But this year making it to playofs is what we’re hoping for and not meeting slackers right away which could couse problems for our humble players.

We’ve also gotten a progamer back.. slime. He gives us some needed stability but his best act so far is convincing error that quake is more than comparing shotgun stats with other players.
Then its also a matter of internal affairs, how much we hate eachother and so on, we’ve always been known to whine quite alot on eachother and this is still a big issue and a reason we can never use mm3 for example.

Coming back from a break, how do you “see” the community today? What has changed?

Well, the clients for one, new weird features like fakeshaft makes you wonder what happend to this game but other then that it’s pretty much the same, people seem to whine less about pings those days btw.

A reason may be that people are older and don’t care as much (except for paradoks).

The community has, say the last seven years, been forced to take serious actions to get new players into the scene.
What actions do you think is most important to keep the scene alive? Some revolutionary thoughts maybe?

Im not sure, perhaps the fancy ez-quake graphics helped a bit and that the game is easier to setup etc, but starting with quake is VERY hard, i have two irl-friends who tried for a while and the difference is so huge that its hardly any point trying. I dont think we’re gonna get that many new (young) players, instead just hoping some of the older ones make comebacks, just like many of us.

Having more servers wouldnt hurt either.

Will we see another ToT-brott on next QH-lan?

Heh, probably not since we’re all 25+ and white is 32 I believe not but you’ll never know.

Thanks for all the answers, I wish you the best of luck! Finally, where does the nick slajjer originate?

rolf, the word slaj is what we call cigarettes here and I’ve been known to take a few instead of type’ing ready but for your info only I haven’t smoked for two weeks! More quake to the people!