peace through cyberviolence" and "Kill pixels not people." It featured a currency system where the player earned "degrees" through playing games, trivia contests (both game-related and general), viewing ads, or other actions. Degrees could be spent, but only by premium members, at Heat.net's online store, the Black Market, which had computer games and related merchandise. On May 6, 1999, SEGA announced it had partnered with Chips & Bits' online game superstore which allowed players a vast selection of games, hardware and even magazine subscriptions. The degree system was highly flawed and non-active players could leave their PCs logged into servers and earn degrees. Rooms were established for idle players to sit and earn degrees. Heat.net established "parking police" to discover these servers but players discovered other ways to falsely earn points. Other features included tracking of user rankings on individual profile pages. Heat.net had a loyalty program, in which members, known as "Foot Soldiers", received shirts and Heat.net dog tags. Heat.net was also the home a collegiate gaming league called HeatCIGL (College Internet Game League). Students from 1,100 registered schools would play Quake II or Unreal Tournament in teams representing their colleges, with play-offs at the end of the season. The championship team received $5,000. The league also gave away a $5,000 "Excellence in Gaming" College Scholarship. In September 2000, it was announced that Heat.net and HeatCIGL would be shutting down on October 31, 2000. In June 2008, CNET hailed Heat.net as one of the greatest defunct websites in history. Partial list of games supported on Heat.Net Sega-published titles 10SIX Fatal Abyss Flesh Feast Flying Heroes Net Fighter Plane Crazy Scud: Industrial Evolution Vigilance Third-Party Titles Age of Empires Age of Empires II Age of Wonders Army Men Army Men II Baldur's Gate Battlezone Blood (video game) Blood II: The Chosen Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty Darkstone DeathDrome Descent Diablo Duke Nukem 3D Get Medieval Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto II Heroes of Might and Magic III Hexen II Kingpin: Life of Crime MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat NAM Postal Quake Quake II Quake III: Arena Railroad Tycoon II Red Alert Redneck Rampage Redline Requiem: Avenging Angel Sin Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Take No Prisoners Total Annihilation Total Annihilation: Kingdoms Unreal Tournament Uprising: Join or Die Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy Warbreeds Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness Warlords III: Reign of Heroes WWII GI