Aczel

Would be a good idea ; Not sure how to apply it.
 
If we simply put it as a rule (like for example, no spawnkilling), there would need to be an admin/mod online on the server 24/7. I don't think it would be possible to do it that way, without applying a permanent ban on these weapons. On the other hand, on arena maps, people love to rocket jump and sticky jump to do deaths from above.
 
Plus, to reach the end of the maps, surfing is waaayyy faster than sticky-jumping/rocket jumping. So personally, I feel like it would be a bit useless.

As of lately there have been problems on the surf server lately, there are people abusing the sticky jumper/rocket jumper to complete the map and reach the end of the map without actually surfing, this is a problem because at end of these maps there are usually power-ups in which give you an advantage for your work in completing the map.
When you are not completing it legitimately and use sticky jumper they are getting to these power-ups easier than intended to. This results in people getting frustrated with this abuse of special abilities in combat and leaving the server.
I have noticed that there is nothing in the rules against this action, with this thread I propose that we add something to the rules to help prevent this from happening. This I believe would be the most simple and passive way to put an end to this, should the community agree on it.
[spoiler=Current Rules]TF2 Surf Rules
 

So, I kind of turned Jailbreak into a Roleplay server for a solid hour if not a little more...
We were In search for Bread's long lost family in Diner. This led to me finding out they had been 'borrowing' items from people of the human realm. These Items included:
Vega's soul
MerrySmissmas's Tree
Bread's money
Rice's authentic Teriyaki
This led to a whole chain of events that led to objectives being completed and getting imaginary keys and golden pineapples.
If anyone that was online wants to contribute in explain what exactly happened on this cancerous day I would be grateful but I simply will not force my brain to remember such cancerous events.
GG to DeathMan and Egossi for shutting us down. :llama::hail:
 
 

Since you asked, regardless of whether or not Steven acts out in such a manor anymore, it is simply a reminder that if he wants to be staff he should not act in such a way.

What do you think about this version?
 
Are you downloading it right away or wait for the common 0.1 patch?
Im letting the others in my house download it first, they can be the guinea pigs before i decide if im getting it yet

Can't wait to see the end product :p

The thread will stay open until the poll closes, or will stay open a little longer. And I actually dislike that you popped in long enough to slam your foot down over someone wanting to remove the map. While the map is generally loved by all, there are still good reasons for it to be potentially removed. (See Moosty's post along with Squid's post on the thread he made before hand, which he linked in this thread).
 
I'd want our players to be able to confidently post a request to remove a map. Not because they don't like the map, but because the map actually has issues with it. Edventures for example: was not game history related, had annoying music that people often spammed, and was only in rotation for so long because it literally was a meme that people "enjoyed". The map was removed because a player spoke up. We discussed it thoroughly and came to a decision. Squid bringing up the Echinda Shrine removal suggestion is silly. But he still voiced his opinion over something.
Don't scare people away from posting their thoughts over something. If we don't know, we won't grow.
 
I mean not to cause any beef with this post, @Scootaloo.

Not gonna lie, but I'm not liking the "Let's remove all of the TGH maps I dislike" tirade ever since edventures got the axe.
 
There's nothing wrong with cyberpunk. There's nothing wrong with echidna. They're both staples of our server. If you dislike either map, nominate something else when rotation happens or try playing on a different server while the map is active.
 
My two cents. Thread will stay open until tomorrow, but I doubt there's going to be an avalanche of support to remove cyberpunk. The early results already show something like 75% of people want to keep it.

Can confirm it was past his bedtime

how would one do that
also how come this 2 week old thread only gets attention now?

Not sure if my vote counts seeing as I am not a member nor play on CS:GO, But I have had the pleasure of getting to know this character a bit while helping with minecraft. I feel he is definitely mature enough to take this role.

Not sure if my vote counts seeing as I am not a member nor play on CS:GO, But I have had the pleasure of getting to know this character a bit while helping with minecraft. I feel he is definitely mature enough to take this role.

Division:

Counter-Strike In-Game Name:

xG Steven Steam ID:

STEAM_0:1:87027123 Position:

Moderator Time Active:

15 Days Age:

16 Experience:

I was a moderator (equivalent to admin on csgo) on a minecraft server that has roughly over 200 people on at all times, now it only has around 170 people on at all times. I resigned from the server in December of 2015. Donated:

No Information:

I want to become a staff member to help out the community. I'm active on teamspeak, Jailbreak, minigames, and the forums.

-1
I personally have no problems with the map. Your complaints are that people spawn camp, which is allowed on the TGH server, and music spam. The music spam can be easily solved by simply going into your options menu, going to the audio options and turning the "music" slider all the way down. There is literally nothing wrong with the map. Many people still love Cyberpunk, it's not that bad of a map if you simply just turn off your music. The map was removed a while ago and put back due to popular demand, removing it again would only waste everyones time.

General Update Thread
 

Deathrun was fixed a while ago and gets a small amount of population on weekends.
I never see people on slender. :Old Man:

Well, if we are talking about "special occasions" of getting a server populated, then why are we just up and forgetting about jb2? We had a full server just 2-3 days ago for a good hour or two until we got bored. I know I'm defending jb2, but what can you really expect from me ;). If a server is getting replaced, then ya know what I say? Call a community vote and see what server they want to be changed and what to change it into, I feel that would be the best way to populate the server and keep it populated.
 
That's all I have to say here so have this:llama:

:Old Man:
Really.

I have to agree with that part. Apart from @Egossi I know no one who likes slender anymore.
Replacing it with something popular seems great.

I would recommend getting a plugin that auto bhops for the average who can't do it manually so they don't feel left out of the fun when the map is switched to said bhop map. That is, if this idea is used.

maybe we can test it out for a couple of days and give our final thoughts on the map

Deadlines are great, but don't make it a set day out of a month. Make it a set month out of the year (Ex: August 2016). It will cause you guys less stress, and still allow people to be hyped for what you're releasing.
Not having deadlines shows that you guys are too busy with real life stuff, too lazy to accomplish anything, or have too high expectations for things on the server.
 

 
Don't think of last night's "release" as a finished product. Think of it more as a test run. You had people on, you saw what was alright and what wasn't. Now you guys can fix the issues now that you have a better idea of what's wrong.
 
Everything was pretty cool when I was on the server last evening though. Hope to see the server finished soon.

Alright, so there is a lot of topics I want to discuss so I will be leaving this in general for more feedback and information from the community (specifically people that played today).
 
Prior to release
Prior to Saturday, we only had one builder(Rukibah) working on the Faction world spawn. The task at hand was rather daunting and large scale so it was taking some time while our deadline was coming up on Saturday. We had Klure (our creative spawn builder) come on and assist with building the spawn. There was simply too much to be done and spawn was not finished by Saturday. Owl and I had the simple solution to call any xG member willing to work on building.
 
This basically assembled a team of roughly 8 builders. At this point on Saturday, it was very apparent we would not meet our deadline so we decided to release the server today(Sunday). Although all of the intended building was finished, spawn's quality was severely lowered due to the time frame that was given and everything straying away from the original builder's design. It was rushed and we should not have released the server.
 
Deadlines
After discussion between staff, deadlines were set for the server release. This is a bad idea, and I apologize for not speaking up on this matter. We will not give any release date or ETA for anything minecraft related in the future. It sets unrealistic expectations on people that have other things to do and also that do not have a drive to work on minecraft 24/7. In the future we will only provide a release date when we know the server is tested and ready for people to actively play on it.

The release
The release of the actual server today was fairly mediocre for several reasons.

I had not been able to fully test permissions in an environment where players are actively trying to play the game normally. I resolved most, if not all, issues with permissions at the expense of causing the server to lag for almost a minute at a time per reload of the configuration.
Some plugins were not configured properly, mainly factions. I did brief testing to see if the plugin worked and did not actually do a gameplay test. This resulted in people having to use faction ranks in order to allow other people to build in their faction (sorry).
Spawn, well, did not look to good. I am no builder but the general concensus was that spawn did not look good. The actual town that spawn was hosting was rushed and it was very obvious (it was not your fault either). Do not take this as an insult to anyone that has helped work on building, I appreciate your hard work.
The store of the server was not up, however this is somewhat irrelevant. Some people were asking for this though. I was going to throw up a buycraft page but realized we would not need it.

There are more reasons but these were the ones that stuck out the most to me. Every other issue ties in with these.

The future
Releasing the server actually provided me with lessons in which will help me improve the server. With that being said, the server will be shutdown and return when it is finished. A short list of things that will be done before the next release:

A new spawn will be built that will take the form of a hub. This will provide us with a re-usable spawn that can support server expansion in the future if minecraft takes off. Faction spawn will also be remade.
I will work on the game content. This will include things people requested today upon release and anything people recommend in this thread. Specifically Mcmmo being the biggest thing people requested will be added.
We will do actual live play testing. Today actually turned out to be really good for me and owl because we got a good understanding where the server stood and what we need to do to improve it. Play testing will also allow me to fix anything permission or plugin related.
This will give us more time to come up with more EULA compliant donator benefits.


Please post CONSTRUCTIVE criticism and feedback. Feel free to recommend ideas or themes for the new hub/spawn. I also apologize to anyone who wanted to play on the server, even though it is at a functional state we will be closing the server. Anyways, thanks for reading.

so this is a small map with tiny spawns what can be easily spawn camped but thats not why im making this thread the reason is people camp in the disco area and Spam buttons this soon becomes extremly annoying and people start leaving (i dont blame them) but the reason people vote for this map is to camp the disco and go around killing people but other then that this map serves no purpose and if the buttons were disabled i bet people will just leave and not play till map change.

So I might be gone for like a week, again. I know its dumb.

+1 Only purpose of this map is to kill the server population

Ambassador is good. Being close range just gives you a better chance to land a couple headshots. Unless you're trying to headshot a pyro or a heavy, then you're screwed.
 
Just learn to aim.