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I was thinking about making a major change to glowsticks to massively improve client performance and to increase the amount of realism within the Morbus gamemode. Holding a glowstick in your hand would no longer light up the area, unless you actually "use" the glowstick by throwing it.
 
With our inventory increases and a separate slot, players should have lots to throw and don't have to worry about other throwables. And this would greatly decrease the amount of dynamic lights on the map at even given time, thus boosting overall client frame rates.
 
Player with glowstick in their hand
http://fastdl.us.xenogamers.com/screenshots/glowstick_hand.jpg
 
The normal effect when they throw the glowstick.
http://fastdl.us.xenogamers.com/screenshots/glowstick_throw.jpg
 
Any feedback?
@DoctorGringo @APArtHistory @Makr6e6 @CharDraesia
 
p.s I've also made a performance improvement for throwing glowsticks. The dynamic light will only create once. (instead of 60 times/second)

I just banned a steam group of 109 cheaters who have found their way to Nuclear Dawn.
 
To keep these hackers off our servers, I have casted a steam group community ban.
Steam Community :: Group :: VAC CoIIector
 
Somebody was nice enough to create a thread letting myself know about this.
This game needs a VAC update! :: Nuclear Dawn General Discussions

I just banned a steam group of 109 cheaters who have found their way to Nuclear Dawn.
 
To keep these hackers off our servers, I have casted a steam group community ban.
Steam Community :: Group :: VAC CoIIector
 
Somebody was nice enough to create a thread letting myself know about this.
This game needs a VAC update! :: Nuclear Dawn General Discussions

Spaceship has a lot of unique aspects. The map shouldn't butchered into anther chemical labs or ptmc in the name of gamemode balance.

Taking the long way around isn't something I have a problem doing. It splits humans up, which is very good for aliens.

 
However, there's definitely some things that could be done to improve the map.

The shower secret tunnel above the map could be more accessible to aliens.
The lasers at food could be setup like the trap is with cooldowns and delays.
But with no damage caused as normal.

The IP address above is for Morbus NA. Morbus EU is 82.163.79.241:27015.
 
We should also ask @Rhododendron to get the steam connect urls working on the forums.
This handle will launch your game and connect to one of the servers.

> steam://connect/morbus.game.nfoservers.com
 
Edit: It's also better to use sub-domains in-case the IP addresses change. These will automatically update and send the client to the right server.

The IP address above is for Morbus NA. Morbus EU is 82.163.79.241:27015.
 
We should also ask @Rhododendron to get the steam connect urls working on the forums.
This handle will launch your game and connect to one of the servers.

> steam://connect/morbus.game.nfoservers.com
 
Edit: It's also better to use sub-domains in-case the IP addresses change. These will automatically update and send the client to the right server.

For the past quite some time now, we've been tripping over messy naming conventions within the Morbus weapon files. Every time we do balance changes, improve a weapon or looking through arms files; it's been a struggle digging through messy naming conventions to find what we're looking for. I have decided that enough is enough and all these naming conventions are getting improved immediately.
 
@Makr6e6 will be taking care of updating all the map arming files with these new changes before everything get merged into our servers. I will take care of fixing up the game-mode to run these new gaming conventions.
 
What's Coming Next?

Looking into the last few new me3 weapons and seeing if they are addable.
Fixing the current broken ones that are hidden and not spawning due to errors.
Improving battery weapons to rescale ammo amounts to more reasonable sizes.
 
A massive run of balancing all these new weapons, as-well as needed old ones.

 
Posted bellow is a list of the changes made to the morbus weapons.
 
Mass Effect 3 Weapon Names
 
 
 
Mass Effect 3 Weapons Changes
 
 
 
Morbus Weapon Names
 
 
 
Morbus Weapons Changes
 
 
 
Random/Ammo Changes
 
 
 
 
A special note to @Makr6e6. Only use items in the morbus placer, some of these are broke. And these two conventions are random cases which work differently.

> weapon_glowstick -> mor_glowstick_random weapon_mor_zx9 -> mor_heavymg
 
 
p.s. Anyone who asks for weapon names is now officially retarded :p@DoctorGringo

I have found a faster main menu for gmod which includes all servers, decreases startup times and reduces the overhead of running the game. It looks a lot like the legacy browser, but is well worth the benefits drawn from it; specially, for people who mainly play Morbus on Garry's Mod.
 
GitHub - robotboy655/gmod-lua-menu: A Lua powered ( No HTML ) main menu for Garry's Mod.
 
@DoctorGringo @Makr6e6

There's still a heavy falsifier happening on those statistics with bad broods. Aliens win a lot of games they end up playing.
 
With the exception of the shotgun; which, I think is perfect... humans aren't as strong as they should be for late game.
 

Meh, keep it laying around an option for brood aliens to use. Vitimans are on the same boat for being only useful to humans.
 

I've already nerfed the vitamins to a random value of eight to eighteen seconds. It takes forever for humans to chomp, it's slower than healing decay.
 

I've made a few judgments when testing and making these things work on the test server. Nothing should be extremely weak or overpowered.

We should force passwords to be changed on bans.xenogamers.com to a new standard which cannot be brute forced in one million years; specially, for clients who have moderator or higher access and can impact clan services by their insecurity. Fourteen digits with at-least one capital, lowercase, special character and number.
 
I await to hear complaints from people not using pass-phrases. For instance...
This is much easier to remember: MySourceBansPasswordIs110%Secure!
Than this: asdklalsd@#11234
 
Your brain only has to remember eight phrases instead of sixteen characters. The contrast is eight vs sixteen the way memory works.

@DoctorGringo I've seen a slightly noticeable decrease in server population lately in Chicago. This is why, and it won't be resolved for a few weeks.

 
What this is saying is, a core transit provider for establishing a lag-less connection between the client and server has been removed. Many clients who never had networking issues before, have started to experience them. Other Morbus servers such as techtonic are impacted by this far more than we are. As there's very few good providers for long distances like GTT for good UDP game traffic.

@Rhododendron I have moved all my old threads out of the rules section. You can delete it anytime now.

There's Morbus on GMOD, which is getting loads of nightly population. Just because it's not triple A-A-A like TTT, Darkrp, Prop Hunt etc. doesn't mean it's not a good gamemode.
 

Pretty much every GMOD server requires constant staff to deal with various things. The massive amount of servers means endless jumping for trolls. (which by definition is someone who's goal is achieve a negative reaction, in-order to feed personal enjoyment) Moderation in particular is a pretty complicated concept; especially, if you're using pro-resolution strategies instead of just banning and slaying everyone. In my opinion, very few people are good Moderators to start with.

Google Translator:

 
I have reduced the duration on the silence to six months as this is much more reasonable. You already had your sever ban removed, the silence will not be reduced any further. Link: Xeno Gamers
 
My top priority is that games do not get ruined by others on the server. This is not a punishment, it's a preventive measure. You still have access to the server, just in a restricted manor to prevent games from getting ruined.

A few things need to happen to get the gmod division organized.
 
Phase One

I require full access to the "Garry's Mod" Main channel on teamspeak. Contact myself over steam if required.
This includes being able to create sub channels as required.




"TTT" and "Morbus" tags need to be added to the Garry's Mod forums @Rhododendron
Afterwards, @eyesofdeath983 if you could sort out these forums that would be great.
Organize things to their appropriate tags
Remove old threads (don't touch motd threads)
Pin/unpin threads by importance
Update the admin handbook
pro-resolution techniques etc








A "TTT" division manager is required BEFORE progressing to phase two
If you're interested, you should post your qualifications bellow
This is what will be expected of that division manager. And as a note to @eyesofdeath983 this is what you *can* do for morbus.
Oversee the policing and populating of TTT
With the assistance of stickz.

[*]Handle all future ban protests related to TTT.
[*]Organize and forward feedback to stickz.
[*]Keep the forums relating to TTT organized.
[*]Gather & Manage Server Moderators for TTT.
[*]Sort out server rules (ts meeting with the division)
[*]Help test and point out any issues before server launch
[*]Boost activity and player involvement on the forums.




Phase Two

A four core managed linux vds needs launched in Chicago
Open ticket with provider and ensure it's on a e5-2697v3.
All gmod servers need moved expect xenogm001
Morbus needs more testing before getting moved.






A 'TTT' launch date needs planned when stickz, @eyesofdeath983 and others can make it.

@Rhododendron Could you make a feature for Ban Protests where the appropriate staff of a given division are instantly notified when someone creates a ban protest? The process of manually tagging people is highly inefficient. I feel as if response times could be much faster this way.

I always crop off everything but the last set of numbers and search for a partial. It works every time regardless of funkiness with steamids. In the past, I've seen 1's and 0's change in both places before the colons.
 
So a partial search of 57445687 turns up this result.
Xeno Gamers

If anything gets brought back next it will be TTT. It's sitting ready with only a couple tweaks required. But two things need to happen for TTT to be launched.

Moderation and Population: It needs people to populate and moderate it. Current gmod staff is busy with Morbus. (about to shoot an 85th percentile)
New Hosting: The load on the main hosting is too high. A separate VDS needs activated.

If anything gets brought back next it will be TTT. It's sitting ready with only a couple tweaks required. But two things need to happen for TTT to be launched.

Moderation and Population: It needs people to populate and moderate it. Current gmod staff is busy with Morbus. (about to shoot an 85th percentile)
New Hosting: The load on the main hosting is too high. A separate VDS needs activated.

@Rhododendron @Nomulous @Bleed @Snackbar
 
A gameserver(s) on the main hosting is most likely i/o trashing. Large proportions of the disk-rate are being hogged which is raising the time it takes other servers to change level. Given the fact this is a solid state drive, something really stupid has to be happening for fluctuations this large. I am seeing change level speeds vary across the board from 5s to 15s depending on the time of week and day.
 
A few things I can think of which could be potential issues are...

Dumping all server console message to a text file.
Abusing keyvalues on sourcemod instead of using alternate methods.

Sorry @flyingcanada2 for the late response, my name just got tagged on the forums today.
 
The reason for the confusion here is because @Rhododendron still hasn't setup the "GMOD Section" on our forums yet. The Morbus server (which nobody knows about) has been populated on a frequent basis for the last month. I am the Garry's Mod division leader and the staff list is outdated.
 
This is an active guy on our Morbus server which is mature and knows how to play the game.

Sorry @flyingcanada2 for the late response, my name just got tagged on the forums today.
 
The reason for the confusion here is because @Rhododendron still hasn't setup the "GMOD Section" on our forums yet. The Morbus server (which nobody knows about) has been populated on a frequent basis for the last month. I am the Garry's Mod division leader and the staff list is outdated.
 
This is an active guy on our Morbus server which is mature and knows how to play the game.

Windows 10 is better in every way than Windows 7. I've been using it for quite a few months now on my personal computer and laptop with no issues.
 
If your games ran like a potato, you likely forgot to run Windows Updates and to update your video card drivers. Both AMD and Nvidia have video drivers on their websites. Usually when you first install/upgrade Windows, it comes with a generic video driver and very few pre-installed updates.

It looks like this protester doesn't care about this ban very much. I set it to automatically expire April 7th, 2016 at 9:22am. This is a one-time thing which won't happen again for cheating. I'll keep this thread open for awhile longer in-case @clamdragon3 want's to reply back for an earlier removal.

Reference Link: Xeno Gamers
 
Using things which give you an advantage over other players is not allowed. Please post back when you've disabled this speed click software.