SpikedRocker

I believe the reason we have not done this is due to CSGO having issue with some events that the traps would be running to work right. So a lot of the maps would not work like they used to or are really hard to port over.

See Sir, I have what you call class. So go put the dress on again and I'll teach you.

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Just to toss this out there, one of the good things with not using gray as usernames is that our text is also gray. We should make sure its not the same color and maybe do more of a silver-ish color, if we go that route that is. Just something that not a whole lot was talked about the forum default text, its something I thought of.

I have generously allowed people to poke up to AO's as CA's and AO's have the ability to set up people in TS and it is a good way for people who need setting up getting their attention. Do not abuse this, if you do, you may be banned from TS because of it.

I dunno how many times I got to tell you to quit stepping down lol. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk

I got broken donation plugins, broken CMS plugins, broken steam plugins. I kinda want to fix things before customizing things. So I won't be getting to this any time soon.

It typically takes a map change for the stuff to process through. If it isn't there later tonight let us know.

Thats where the PM would work. That is simply not possible.

Problem I have with having a more private section is that its now 2 places I'd have to look for information on the same topic. 1 its a bit of a pain in the ass, 2 it could get confusing going between the 2. One suggestion that I've been brought that I kind of like is that we can have said person post their application, but then all the reply's would be not visible by anyone who wasn't a moderator. This could reduce bandwagoning and people would feel a bit more comfortable posting their problems about said person. However, I do like having people having civil conversations about the applicant. Sometimes someone brings up a good point that some others forget and it can change their perspective. I can recall several times someone brings up a past problem that no one had thought of again to which the problem may not be resolved or fixed on the applicants part. That can be key information for anyone who has weighed in or is about to weigh in on it. I know I really do not want to make major changes to the system right now. We'd confuse a ton of people who do participate in the system. I think one of the best things we can all agree on that more people should be putting their input on these things. More opinions the better, it can be information overload for me but you know I feel better knowing more people have said something than the times where its a dozen or more. Honestly, if you are worried you may offend the applicant or his/her supporters with your opinions feel free to PM it to me and I can use it in my evaluation anonymously and if your point needs to be said to the applicant I won't say "so and so said you did this and I think you need to work on it".

Since I've been handling Admin Apps, I haven't really noticed this happen. I really do want everyone's honest opinions and as long as you articulate them in a professional manner, they will never be deleted. If you are an ass about how you put it, yeah I'll for 1, ignore your post, 2, it will be deleted, 3, if you do it constantly, I will block you from the section. I don't even look at this stuff, so it has no bearing on the process. Again, please do not be afraid to post your thoughts as long as you don't be an ass about it or try to start fights with other people. I do, however, think that its a good place for people to ask questions of the applicant and he applicant can respond to answer any specific questions people may have about him. And they should as long as they aren't dicks and vaginas about it. I've kinda kept the process I've been using mainly due to I don't want people to find a way to abuse my system. My system involves reading between the lines. I generally get a good idea of how people are from the posts but some people that I know really well and work with, they kinda weigh a bit more cause I trust their judgement. Is this a fair system? Maybe not, but I don't see how many yes or no votes one applicant gets. I like to see the kind of support they get and whom they get it from. This is a discussion we are continually having amungst the higher ups and we will take input. For now, if you aren't comfortable posting opinions in an application please send your input via PM and I will take it that way.

It will take some time for DNS servers to update, these things should fix themselves in the next 12 hours. It will be down for now, I have to see who is in control of it and see if they can fix it really quickly for us, otherwise I'll have to set up a new one, I'll hope to have it fixed by the weekend.

There is some discussions on some of the countries TLD suffix's you have to host the server in that country to use it. I do not know those particulars, however, there is a more concern expecially with the Steam community that .rs domains can be more risky for phishing and we may lose people just because of that. We've always owned our servers and content, he has always only had ownership over the domain and web hosting of the main forum. Again, this baffles me that people would buy domains with no assets behind them. Yes someone could buy it but they would be buying it the same way he has with nothing else than a domain name. In addition to that we also plan to send out steam group messages and stuff in advanced.

A lot of people have contacted myself and I'm sure Revenga and Caution over wanting to try to help. Honestly this was the last resort scenario that we wanted to use. It helps neither party and causes a lot of angst and stress to both sides. This whole process has been months in the making and once communications broke down we knew we needed to start making alternate plans. The price he threw at us was derived from what the auditing sale site imagined we made off ads per day, translated over the course of the length the domain has been registered, nearly 8 years. As you all know, we've never had ads on this site, so to use that as a reasonable value is not even possible. Basically if we were to run ads and stuff we would have a value, but we don't. Years ago when the initial sale of SteamGamers was being proposed and made, I tried to stop it. I knew it wasn't going to be good for the community and it wasn't going to be good for the buyer either. Here we are a few years later with this type of result. It isn't pretty for us and yes its not what we wanted. But for us to own everything associated with this community again will only make us stronger and better equipped to do more fantastic things in the future. Like the very eloquent title states, this is a dawn of a new era for us.

[YOUTUBE]yHWt3FaxcPY[/YOUTUBE] After many crazy weeks and many, many rebuilds; We are proud to announce the offical re-opening of our Minecraft Feed The Beast Infinity server! Check out some features in the above video, shot directly from our server. The IP has not changed: 74.91.116.11 You will need to download the mod pack and use 1.7 version (its the latest one). For more information on how to do it check it out here: http://www.steam-gamers.net/forum/showthread.php?t=60981 If you haven't been on our server before, or if no admin is around, you'll need to set yourself to member at our Enjin site: http://minecraft.steam-gamers.net. Go to the store and buy Member, its free. You can also buy Subscriber and donor status's. Please note if you buy subscriber there, it will not transfer to the CS:GO servers. I'd like to give some shout outs to all the people who worked tirelessly over the past few weeks to get this upgrade and relaunch done. @BoM, @Pan32, @R3TROATTACK on all the coding and troubleshooting. @SilentGuns on creating the spawn island area and helping with our Enjin store. @Wooper on creating the Spawn platform, Admin and Subscriber shops and the promo video above. @Zsoki and @Mandeemoo007 for helping us test a few things early. So we'll see you on the server!

How about that, I out Ninja'd the ninja ;-)

Yes to get things started we have to build a special area for first time players to spawn in the world, this constitutes a seperate area where they can spawn in and set their character up with our Enjin site to get them all the perks they want directly. More on that when we launch. @SilentGuns has built most of the inital spawn area. It looks really awesome. We also built a special place for our member shop where you'll be able to use in-game currency to buy some hard to find or annoying to gather items. @Wooper built this. Pretty much did something I didn't even expect to be done and made it awesome. Its an underwater dome with a Egyptian-style Sphinx. Really cool idea. I'd also like to give shout outs to @Pan32 and @R3TROATTACK for helping with a lot of the back end stuff. We got a great team working hard on this server every night for the past few nights to get this all ready. My hat is off to them as I know we've had a lot of fun setting this up and can't wait for everyone to join us.

We are excited to tease you with a little bit of what we got going on with our big update to FTB Infinity 1.7. We had to reset the world to accomodate the upgrade from our old 1.4.2 server to the top of the line 1.7. So if you haven't played minecraft in a while or are looking to start playing, this is the time to get on board. We are almost done with all our pre-launch setups. We do not have a firm date of when we are officially done setting it up yet, but we know its close to being ready. So if you haven't yet make sure you've updated your Minecraft Mod to FTB Infinity 1.7 so you'll be ready at the dawn of our launch.

News came around today that Valve is wanting people to stop using plugins that give free weapon skins. If we did not disable this plugin, we run the risk of our IP becoming blacklisted. That is something we cannot afford to do as we would no longer be reachable by anyone who didn't know we existed. We are going to look at this situation carefully as it continues to develop and hope to have a solution for this perk for our servers soon. Thanks for understanding!

Scotch, straight

or 3.0 I dunno what it would be at this point. Looking for volunteers to help run a potential new event. I am also going to look for an advisory committee to help figure out the specifics in how its ran. Anyone looking to help run this, be warned its going to be several weeks of constant work so if you can't commit yourself, please don't put your name in the hat. So just put your name down and what you'd want to help with and in a week or 2 I'll set up a meeting and we'll see what we can do.

Locking this thread as it has gotten out of hand with everything. Again I will address retrying this in the future. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk

I have told the captains and now informing everyone that I have suspended the tournament. We are going to rebuild and try again, I will have more information on this later this week. The reasoning behind it are pretty much outlined in Spartan's post. I plan to address the scheduling and ranking issues. I am deeply worried about the racism that has been thrown on this server. While we may not have a "proper MOTD or rules" posted on the server, SG rules still apply, you guys know the fucking rules didn't think I had to actually spell them out for you. For future use, anyone who breaks SG rules will be punished like they are in any other server. Clean your act up or we will ban you.

You've seen me write several articles for the website, I've now made the process to allow any member to submit their articles to us for consideration. Here are a few rules: Must fit community standards, don't break community rules writing. It must be coherent, well worded and actually have substance/meaning. We need an image banner for the top part of the article of something related to the article itself. The size is 780 x 232 pixels. Do not do anything smaller or larger please. If you need help with this part you can contact myself or someone else to do the image for you. Videos can be submitted with it, but they must be YouTube videos. I am working on writing script for other providers but YouTube is good to go. We reserve the right to reject any submitted article at anytime, for any reason. If you abuse the system, you will be banned from it, so don't be a jerk. At this point we are only accepting articles for Game Reviews and Gaming News. I do have the newsletter setup but we have not finished the setup for that. We may add other sections in the future and will announce them when we come to them. To submit your article go here: http://www.steam-gamers.net/forum/misc.php?do=form&fid=52 If you have any questions hit me up here.