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Another question...; an original COTEC?
Topic Started: Apr 13 2007, 05:27 AM (1,125 Views)
Gorgoth The Mighty
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I thought i read somewhere that this was the 2nd rendition of COTEC, but if it was, it seems that there should be a ton more members?

Where can we find some history on this forum- just maybe a few facts/how old it is...

Just curious ;)
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Lightbringer
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Don't remember the dates from the top of my head. But yes, this is the second Cotec. Cotec 1 was created for the Storm of Chaos campaign that GW ran, it acted as the Chaos headquarters, and also as the general FoR lead even if there where of course other forums involved as well.

Unfortunatly that version of Cotec broke, don't quite remember why, and had to be replaced. This is the replacement. The reason we don't have more members is that alot of members dissapered when Cotec 1 broke down.
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snyggejygge
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Yup, back then we had well over 1000 members, almost every Chaos player participating in SoC was a member here, as well as several other "evil" players.
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Gorgoth The Mighty
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Well im glad it was transformed into such a cool mortals community as it is today!

Now all we need is, oh, say, 2000 more members? ;)
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I know COTEC1 broke down in November (as this forum began in November!), and I joined it in July of 200-and-whatever, when it was nearing the 600 mark (I was member 590 ^_^ ), so I would estimate its creation at late may/june, though Bearer probably knows the actual dates.

It broke because (I believe) it was on Invision Power Boards (the one with fees) and Nightbringer decided he didn't want to pay them (as he was busy with World of Chaos at the time).

Though, again, I could be wrong, it was some time ago.


As for the change, well Tzeentch willed it! :P


Regarding 2000 members, well who needs 2000 when we have a bunch of really good ones like we do now :D
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snyggejygge
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It broke because (I believe) it was on Invision Power Boards (the one with fees) and Nightbringer decided he didn't want to pay them


Sadly it was the same reason World of Chaos broke, atleast we got a few of the best members there to join our ranks (tammil, gustav, Potsmasher & Pete are a few of those guys if I remember correctly)
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acolite
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The undeniable truth: Free shit is the best shit :P


Some people may also remember the 'take-over' attempt by NB... another rocky period for COTEC.

Of course he couldn't delete Bearer (no one deletes Bearer, fool!), which sort of ended the affect, somewhat.


No hard feelings though :) .



Basically we all know that whatever happens, COTEC will always been around in some form or another :P
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The Bearer
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To summarise.

COTEC 1 was the union between two now dead forums ie. World of Chaos the Swords of Chaos to create a global Chaos site to use as HQ of the Forces of Darkness during the SOC. It was created during March to May 2004 I think. The name was decided by a vote, of which Im proud to say the winning name was the one I came up with B)

After SOC finished it was decided to keep COTEC going, Nightbringer was the owner who paid its monthly fees, I was its chief administrator. But along the way Nightbringer decided that I should now pay for all the late fees he had not been paying for and this kinda was a surprise to me as you could imagine. I refused to do such a thing and would not be blamed for this issue as there was no official agreement on shared ownership. NB did not like this and pulled the plug on www.chamberoftheeverchosen.co.uk almost immediatley destroying our first site and first forum, then disassociated himself from COTEC.

However, I was also chief web designer of COTEC and every file we had was also backed up on nice CD's.

So within a week I think it was, I found an invisionfree forum, set it up as COTEC and got some webspace under www.chamberoftheeverchosen.net. Then the gruelling task of getting our lost members back was undertaken and I posted to just about every chaos forum and warhammer forum I knew at the time sayinig that COTEC was back!

From then on its history and what you see before you is COTEC looking better then it ever has and reaching its second golden age ever so gracefully.
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Mistrea
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Ahhh memories!

Many of the most prolific mortal-chaos members are still here though, or maybe i'm just saying that because my memories of the time fade? :)

Pretty much all the legendary members from COTEC1 i remember have arrived here and been active at some point. Sirlord is the biggest name who has never truly been a frequent poster on COTEC2, he of course is an out and out legend.

Great forums, both of them. HOWEVER, Potsy's Ministry of Information was the best thing the internet ever experienced. It ruled eternally. Which reminds me of Saturos 'honey i'm home'. Is he still active at Blood Keep?




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Gorgoth The Mighty
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Whoa i never knew there was so much intrigue!

That nightbringer guy sounds pretty shifty to me... :P

Well you guys have done a very good job to answer my questions! Thanks!
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You should have seen LB when Nightbringer took his admin rights away :P I swear LB is never angry, but that was the closest I've ever seen him to it ;)




Its funny, because COTEC has really transformed from a vague mainstream mish-mash forum to quite a 'cult' close-knit community, and now we are beginning to become 'big' again.


And I don't mean 'mish-mash' or 'close-knit' in a bad way, I mere mean that the original COTEC was filled not only with beast mortal and deamon players, but also orcs, skaven, and Dark Elves (I actually joined COTEC as a DE player ^_^ ), and then it became very 'Chaos Mortals only' with a small but dedicated member base who all know each other (from their friendship in COTEC1).


Funny how things turn out.
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Gorgoth The Mighty
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Apr 14 2007, 04:28 AM
You should have seen LB when Nightbringer took his admin rights away :P I swear LB is never angry, but that was the closest I've ever seen him to it ;)

Nightbringer revoked his admin rights!?! What a jerk!

So is that when the bearer busted out the whoopin stick on NB?
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Nightbringer revoked his admin rights!?! What a jerk!

So is that when the bearer busted out the whoopin stick on NB?


Nope, he had locked Bearer out from the forum since he (Nightbringer that is) was planning to take Cotec down. However I and the others active at the time convinced him the whole thing was a bad idea and he eventually backed down and restored everything.


This would make a pretty fun story, I think I will have to write it someday :P
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Yeah we always had a kind of rivalry going on beetwen those two boards :P . Pity World of Chaos went down, it was a great forum and we had a nice comunnity. But by now, COTEC has replaced it well :). You guys have always been friendly to me. I actually remember how I asked NB on some other forum what was the problem with WoC and he said he forgot to pay the fees, and also said that he'll fix that soon. After that, nothing happened.
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NB has a pretty crap record with fees, huh? :rolleyes:


As I said before, he must learn that free shit is the best shit!
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