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    Introduction to Dead Men Walking 


    Dead Men Walking (dMw) is a well-established, highly social, international online gaming community with over 400 active members spanning most of the globe. We are known for fun, mature and professional gaming and our large and social community, with the highlight being the bi-annual LAN events held in the United Kingdom.

     dMw provides a home to gamers who enjoy both gaming as well as being part of a wider social online community. The key is in our highly active forum, which presently holds more than a quarter of a million posts. In addition to coordinating weekly gaming days, Christmas battles, bi-annual LAN-parties and summer BBQs, it helps members share information, provide help and support, discuss technology, cyber security and current affairs – or just about any other topic you can imagine.

    Can I join?
    You can be a hard-core gamer or completely new to gaming. It does not matter. What does, is a mature attitude at all times, that you put your team before yourself and that you play fair. Our members have a diverse range of abilities; some are highly experienced gaming veterans, others are relatively new to gaming – but we all work together, as a team, to complete the game objectives and to help each other enjoy the game to the fullest extent.

    What games do you play?
    There is no set list as to the games which we enjoy together. Any game which evolves around team work, has strategic and tactical elements, or has a serious simulation aspect, is within our scope. With a community of this size we play several games, with these being the most actively played:

     Tactical gaming: ARMA2, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Left4Dead, CoD 4.
    Simulation: Live for Speed, rFactor (with HistoriX mod), iRacing and NetKarPro.
    MMORPG: World of Warcraft (under the name of Dead Men Raiding)

     Where possible, the Community provides game servers for members to enjoy their game of choice. This includes Ventrilo and Teamspeak servers so that Members can strategise and socialise at the same time and we highly encourage members to join.

     As a member you are free to play all the listed games in the community.

    When do you play?
    We have weekly gaming days to coordinate gaming. You are free to play on the servers at anytime, but the best action is on specific days. At present, for example, Mondays are for COD4, Tuesdays for ArmA II, Wednesdays are for the L4D Zombie Chomp Hoedown, Thursdays hold the weekly 1 hour Live for Speed race challenge, and Fridays are BFBC2 with a 'dMw versus the World' night.

    We play games… some of the time!
    Besides gaming, dMw also supports a folding team, Dead Men Folding. The team was founded in 2004 and has since then handed in more than 100,000 work units to Stanford University and is currently ranked #188.

     We arrange LAN parties twice a year for community members and usually have a healthy contingent of members travelling from overseas to attend our UK-based LAN events. Our event takes place Friday-to-Sunday, with both day-travellers and all-weekend-attendees. Friday evening is usually an alcoholic highpoint. You can choose to enter the arranged competitions or just enjoy large steaks and larger pints. and for new guys to meet the people behind the screens. Both gaming and 'socialising' typically lasts into the early morning hours. For regulars it is also a chance to catch up with friendsWe keep the event exclusive so it's first come first served for around 50 attendees

    Is it free or what?
    Being part of dMw is completely free. By registering you have full access to the servers, the forum and the various events. The community including the servers and the forum, is maintained through donations, supporting members (voluntary subscription with some benefits), LAN-fees and through an affiliate program with several, large online retailers.

    Sounds cool – where do I sign up?
    In order to access our forums and in particular to obtain the password to our private dMw gaming servers you to register on our forums with a valid email address. You can register to join our community NOW by clicking here

    Community Standards 


    Our standards have been put in place to keep the atmosphere within our community at a mature and respectful level and to help maximise the enjoyment you gain from your gaming and socialising with us.

    Language & Behaviour
    We believe that we should maintain a mature level of conduct at all times. We should be helpful and respectful to others and keep our language and behaviour in the forums and to each other at that same level.

    Understand the Dead Men Walking Ethos
    dMw is a supporter and advocate of team-based and tactical gaming wherever the situation allows. We believe that where game designers permit cooperation between players with a view to better completing the game objective that full advantage of this feature should be taken. We work as a team wherever possible, complete your given game's objective! Wherever possible we use voice comms! The ability to communicate verbally in real time greatly enhances our gaming experience and adds a hugely enjoyable social element too!

    Community
    A big part of Dead Men Walking is the sense of community our members feel with each other. As part of this community, we work to resolve and help fix problems we see in-game or on our forums that are contrary to the our mature, team-based philosophy. If a member sees something that doesn't fit with this philosophy then we'll work together to improve things.

    Acceptable Use Policy
    We have an Acceptable Use Policy on our forums and servers.

    Our Game Servers
    We host both public and private servers and also support games where a hosted server is not an option (e.g. for an MMORPGs).. We password protect some of our gaming servers to maintain the integrity of our tactical and team-based style of play and so that Members can enjoy their gaming to the fullest extent with other members.

    Variety
    We encourage and support a range of different games within our community. We usually try them all! We believe a little bit of variety usually spices things up and when we find a new game we think is worth trying to post about it in our forums so that we can all give it a go!

    Fun
    We believe membership of our community should be fun. We want our Members to enjoy their gaming and socialising with other Members more than playing solo on a random online server. We want our Members to to enjoy not just the game, but the company of other Members. If it isn't more fun then you should probably try something different!

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