The Spino Prime Network is a hub of websites that I am/ have been working on or maintaing. The Spino Prime Network will be our parent site in the same way that the cnet network is the parent site of Gamespot, GameFAQS, and Metacritic.

There are currently 3 other sites on The Spino Prime Network (SPN) and I would recomend that you check out all of them. The Spino Prime Network will in the future be the hub for all these sites. At the moment it is at its first release. I plan on working at it to make it more of a hub for us and the other sites under the Spino Prime Network.

The site also contains some of the writen work, programs, videos, and art I have made.

Some changes to The Destroyrs Website will be made soon to reflect this connection to the SPN. The other websites under the SPN are: FIESAR Loyalists, The Blazin Shadow Group, and The Metroid Prime Trilogy Trading Hub.

The Spino Prime Network can be found at: http://sites.google.com/site/spinoprime/
I hope this all will make a bit more sense in the next couple months as I develop the Spino Prime Network more.

I am relooking into setting our Mag branch back up. I used to have it up but it was erased during the beta meaning that I have to recreate it. I will need to take some time playing to level up to the rank where I can create a clan however.

The member list update begins on Sunday. During this time new people will be added to the list, older entries will be updated with more recent information, and some entries that have left the clan will be removed. This will not be a quick process so forgive me if it takes a while.

I would also like to mention that Emerald has been ranked up to a private in our chain of command. His original title was recruit but because of his involvement and support I have decided to rank him up.

I recently found this in the clan’s chat room the other day. The messages I found in there made me feel great seeing that my work was appreciated in this way. I am including the message below.
guest820266: wow
guest820266: this website is really well made
guest820266: really well organized information too
guest820266: very cool!
guest820266: and all done with google sites!

It feels great sometimes to be complemented and appreciated for the work you have done. Thanks to guest820266 for totally making my day. I also recently got some positive reviews for the toolbar that I have posted up on our website. You can see them up on the Community Toolbar page at: http://sites.google.com/site/destroyrs/project-event-list/the-destroyrs-community-toolbar

That is pretty much it for our 1 year anniversary weekly report. I just hope our next year will feature the same kind of improvement, fun, and learning that this one had. I also hope that you will continue to stay with us over the next year to experience the ride with us. Another report will be posted up on Sunday with a recap of our major website announcement and our achievement updates. It will NOT feature the info on spray pack 4.0 that is on our podcast so in order to get all the info listen to our podcast and read our report. Until then keep on Destroying guys.

Enough random facts though lets get to the information this week.

The achievement update will occur tomorrow. Some of the updates are actually up already but I plan on getting all the updates finished and out tomorrow. Expect to see a news bit up when this happens. I also decided that yes. I would overhaul the achievement “Toolbar Colect0r”. I will now include a button in the toolbar that when clicked will show you the code that you will need to send using our code redemption page located at: http://sites.google.com/site/destroyrs/achievements/code-redemption

A couple websites updates were made. First of all a button to post the website to Google Buzz was added to the home page. Clicking on the button will make a new post in Google Buzz with a link to our website located with our logo image (avatar). This should help us get our name out there. Show your clan loyalty and buzz us. It may help us find some new members. Some changes were also made to prepare for the major website announcement tomorrow.

The 3rd edition of the podcast is right on schedule for this Sunday. It will be the 1 year anniversary podcast edition. I was originally planning for this to be a live podcast episode but I decided to push that back a bit and just release a normal podcast. This podcast will also focus on the highlights of this year, it will contain a summery of the last little bit of information including the achievement update, and the major website announcement. And it will be the first place to find a hint of what is the new feature in spray pack 4.0. So don’t miss out on that. It will be much easier to get a hold of the episode this time because the synchronisation bug that affected episodes 2 (and to a lesser extent the first episode). I still have not found the cause of the podcast device not showing up on our toolbar. I am still researching the issue and I will post if anything is eventually found out.

I updated the toolbar to fix a few of the broken links on it. Now everything should hopefully be working well and with no issues. I also made some other minor fixes and tweaks and prepared the toolbar for the updated achievement attached to it.

I found out why he Google calendar times have not been quite at the right times. The calendar was a few hours back because it displays times in PDT not EST (the clan’s official timezone btw). I have not found a work around to fix this so for now you will have to either use the steam announcement official times or you will need to go and translate the time into your timezone. This can be done at the website: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
I have also added this website to the group links page located at: http://sites.google.com/site/destroyrs/Home/links

The PS3 has recently gone through a major system update. This update will allow trophies to be sorted by different criteria that the user will specify. This update also resolves some security flaws and prepares the PS3 for 3d gaming. The update is needed in order to get online so I recommend that all of you update ASAP.

The new Steam beta will no longer be beta this Monday. In case you were not aware a steam interface beta was released a month or so ago. The new steam has a redesigned interface, a clock in the in game overlay, some community adjustments (such as the ability to choose from a selection of premade game specific avatars), new web browser engine (the Webkit engine is now used which is the backbone of the popular web browsers Safari and Google Chrome, this new engine replaces the internet explorer one previously used by steam for web page rendering), user wish lists, and more. I would recommend you get the beta now so that you are familiar with the new interface by Monday.

Random Fact: I discovered Google Groups completely by accident. When I was expirementing with some stuff in my web browser I looked at RSS feeds and decided to try out the other button on the RSS Page entiled "add feed to Google Reader". After clicking on that I logged into my iGoogle acount and I expiremented with Reader. After deciding that I really liked it (which was after a few days of using it) I decided to look to see if Google offered any other cool services. At the top of the Google Reader page was some links to Google services I had never even heard of before like Google Docs, Gmail, Google Sites, and Google Groups. I checked all the services and then tried out Google Docs, after that I tried out Google Groups. The Destroyrs on Google Groups was really just a test of the service and I didn’t plan on doing too much with it.

Random Fact: I was originally not going to use Google sites to make us a website. After checking out Google Sites I thought it sounded a lot like the services Google Groups offered us. Man was I wrong. I decided one day to take the plunge anyway and created our website. In the short time we have had the site it has evolved considerably.

Random Fact: The group website has seen over 1000 page edits in its life time. That’s quite a few. The page with the most edits by far though is our home page with almost 250 edits.

Random Fact: This is the longest weekly report made so far followed by Weekly report 18th edition with 869 words, and then followed by weekly report 17th edition which was 857 words. In character count however this is the largest, followed by weekly report 17th edition with 4800 characters then followed by weekly report 18th edition with 4487 characters*.
*character figures are including spaces because steam counts spaces in its 4000 character limit.

Random Fact: The weekly report is posted on all 4 of our main websites almost simultaneously. The weekly report is first typed up on steam. Then after it is completed I then open up all 3 of our other weekly report posting locations (Website, xfire, Google groups) and paste the report in each of these areas. Once this is done I then open my steam window again and publish the report. After this is done I go to the tab that my website is on and publish the report, then the xfire tab, then the Google groups tab. This is ALWAYS done in this order. The average delay time in between posting it at one location and then posting it at the next location on this list is usually 5- 10 seconds long. Google groups is always the most frustrating to do because it looses most of the formatting I have done so I have to redo it before starting to publish my weekly report.

Random Fact: The weekly report is always posted in the steam announcement page. This has been the only exception to this rule so far as I have typed it up in Microsoft Word before pasting it to steam and all the other locations. I decided to use MS Word this time because the report would end up being so long.

Random Fact: Tomorrow will be the 7th announcement posted that is not official weekly report. The other 6 were: “Welcome to The Destroyrs”, “Scorch Reports” 1-3, and “Warning Leave Test Group 9” 1 and 2. Tomorrow is our major website announcement.

W00t. First year aniversery w00t. When I first created this clan I had no idea that I would still be here more then a year later. This is a special 4 part weekly report all about the clan's first glorius year. Included are plenty of history bits, random facts, and info. So on with the report.

Random fact: The clan was started on Resistance 2 before steam. I had actually created the clan when me and some friends were figuring out all the Resistance 2 community features so we could get into a game together. When searching around I found clans in the options so I expiremented and created a clan. I took about 2 minuites to come up with a name for the clan. Then I looked at my user name (VehicleDestroyr) and remembered a sports team I was once on named "The Destroyers". I quickly put those together to create "The Destroyrs" and thus the clan was born. Afterwards I decided to create the clan as a Steam group in order to claim the name (didn't want anyone else stealing it). I had no idea at the time what I was going to do with the clan at the time and I kind of decided what I was going to do later on.

Random Fact: The clan was without an avatar for a couple weeks. But on May 2nd I found that the question mark avatar bugged me so I decided to take some practise with photoshop to make an avatar. After some experimentation, thought, and about 3 other prototypes of the avatar I decided since this clan was originally made in Resistance 2 I would try and use the same design ideas that the game used. The game cover is made up of 2 kind of symetrical images. One side featured us soldiers, a clear sky, and the buildings are intact. On the other side were chimeran soldies in the same position as the us soldiers, the sky was red, and the buildings were destroyed. On our avatar, on one side you can see the combine soldier, a combine city, and a combine mechanical death machine. On the other side is the same thing in the same kind of positions except replace combine with chimera. The only part of the avatar that was done in photoshop however was removing the background on many of the images. The actual image arangement and cropping was done in Microsoft Powerpoint which is another win program.

Random fact: The weekly report which is one our most unique and longest running traditions was actualy created out of boredom. I was bored on May 3rd so I decided to write up a news report for what I had done recently in the clan. I had decided to name it "The Weekly Report" but I had no idea whether I would produce another one next week. I definatly had no idea I would still be writing them almost a year from then.

Random Fact: The original spray pack idea came to me one day when I was looking at some of the other clans I was in. Then I had realised why I don't care about those other groups I was in. They never did anything intresting with their groups. Ever. No announements or events. I wanted to release some content to keep the group a little more intresting then most. Plus I needed more to talk about in my weekly reports. The idea for the spray pack came up when I was playing some garrys mod and I was looking for a good spray to use. After not being satisfied with what I had found I said to myself "Why don't I just make my own sprays?". From there the rest is history.