Amymaniac

sounds good, I do love community events and minigames for prizes. I have hosted lots of different types of events too ranging from fashion contests to soldier/demo katana duels.
 
and yes only ever do these events when there are staff present and they have given their authority to middleman and/or judge the event.
 

 
I would say no, mainly because if someone does not play fairly or does not give prizes it can only lead to drama and shouts of scamming on the server which not only makes the server look bad but if there are new people playing it could put them off returning if they see xG as a place full of scammers. I highly recommend these events and gambles take place only under staff supervision at all times.

sounds good, I do love community events and minigames for prizes. I have hosted lots of different types of events too ranging from fashion contests to soldier/demo katana duels.
 
and yes only ever do these events when there are staff present and they have given their authority to middleman and/or judge the event.
 

 
I would say no, mainly because if someone does not play fairly or does not give prizes it can only lead to drama and shouts of scamming on the server which not only makes the server look bad but if there are new people playing it could put them off returning if they see xG as a place full of scammers. I highly recommend these events and gambles take place only under staff supervision at all times.

sounds good, I do love community events and minigames for prizes. I have hosted lots of different types of events too ranging from fashion contests to soldier/demo katana duels.
 
and yes only ever do these events when there are staff present and they have given their authority to middleman and/or judge the event.
 

 
I would say no, mainly because if someone does not play fairly or does not give prizes it can only lead to drama and shouts of scamming on the server which not only makes the server look bad but if there are new people playing it could put them off returning if they see xG as a place full of scammers. I highly recommend these events and gambles take place only under staff supervision at all times.

What I used to do is keep a file on all users I issue warnings/kicks to so I can follow up on the correct punishment if needed as well as have something to hand I can pass onto other staff so they can see past incidents and handle them accordingly It also helps in any ban appeals to have a record of rules broken with time and date stamps.
 
It's more work but since there is only a record of bans listed on xenogamers, having a personal file containing warnings/kicks is always a plus.
 
and yes a lot of people for various reasons do not have sound enabled so a warning in the chat is mandatory at all times followed by a verbal warning and that should be the correct protocol for dealing with all situations.

What I used to do is keep a file on all users I issue warnings/kicks to so I can follow up on the correct punishment if needed as well as have something to hand I can pass onto other staff so they can see past incidents and handle them accordingly It also helps in any ban appeals to have a record of rules broken with time and date stamps.
 
It's more work but since there is only a record of bans listed on xenogamers, having a personal file containing warnings/kicks is always a plus.
 
and yes a lot of people for various reasons do not have sound enabled so a warning in the chat is mandatory at all times followed by a verbal warning and that should be the correct protocol for dealing with all situations.

What I used to do is keep a file on all users I issue warnings/kicks to so I can follow up on the correct punishment if needed as well as have something to hand I can pass onto other staff so they can see past incidents and handle them accordingly It also helps in any ban appeals to have a record of rules broken with time and date stamps.
 
It's more work but since there is only a record of bans listed on xenogamers, having a personal file containing warnings/kicks is always a plus.
 
and yes a lot of people for various reasons do not have sound enabled so a warning in the chat is mandatory at all times followed by a verbal warning and that should be the correct protocol for dealing with all situations.

chuck_norris - Yes
crash - Yes
sonic_exe - Yes
nightmare_medic - Unsure
sanic - Yes
shrek - Yes
sandmen - Unsure
sarg - Yes
heavydile - Yes
fourchan_sniper - No
bread_spy - Unsure
bloodrider - Unsure
Bowser - Yes (for Kypari)
danmedic - Unsure.
fazbear - No
chica - No
kirby - Yes
goofy - Yes
 
Since I've hardly played FF2 I vaguely know the bosses and some I don't know at all which I put "Unsure" next to.
 
Heard Kirby is really broken but since I've not played I can't attest to that.

I agree with having a forum section where we can just talk about anything unrelated to gaming. Although we do already have a lot of sections covering different aspects such as artwork and music and these sections get little to no attention so an off topic section could also be a ghost town.

good work :) thanks for the update.

good work :) thanks for the update.

good work :) thanks for the update.

if the current staff are having trouble with finding the time to maintain the server, it would probably be wise to appoint new staff to help out.
 
wyverness has had experience as staff on a minecraft server and so have I several years ago when an old friend owned a server and had me adding and configuring plugins server side.
 
The main population of the Minecraft server atm is primarily myself, vector, wyverness, bonfire, kypari and a few others and we have been playing regularly and we all agree new staff are needed to keep the server in an acceptable condition for ourselves and newcomers.

Yeah everything is fixed now!

hey guys, we have an urgent issue on the Minecraft server.
 
The server suffered a crash and when myself and the others playing got back on we noticed several plugins no longer exist within the game.
 
Towny is gone, and our town we spent so long on is now under threat from creepers, fire spread, griefers, you name it. All rights to the town are none existent.
 
We also do not have our tags visible in the chat, so we can only assume how many plugins are actually broken. I can confirm teleporting still works but thats as far as we have tested thus far.
 
We desperately need someone to head on over to the server side of things and fix everything ASAP.
 
@Aegean @SuperMaddud @Rhododendron

hey guys, we have an urgent issue on the Minecraft server.
 
The server suffered a crash and when myself and the others playing got back on we noticed several plugins no longer exist within the game.
 
Towny is gone, and our town we spent so long on is now under threat from creepers, fire spread, griefers, you name it. All rights to the town are none existent.
 
We also do not have our tags visible in the chat, so we can only assume how many plugins are actually broken. I can confirm teleporting still works but thats as far as we have tested thus far.
 
We desperately need someone to head on over to the server side of things and fix everything ASAP.
 
@Aegean @SuperMaddud @Rhododendron

yeah Discord channels are fine for small inter-clan groups of friends but when it comes to a large scale Discord for the entire clan I agree completely with virr in that having everything hosted on teamspeak servers owned by the clan is much more safer and easier to maintain.

pity I suck so bad at surf I can't even do the easiest maps. :LOL:

pity I suck so bad at surf I can't even do the easiest maps. :LOL:

RIP Gaming Rotation.

+1 he'll actually become the best moderator in xG, so yeah

I'm mixed on it tbh.
 
its hard work for any staff to have to keep monitoring the spawn points to stop camping on it and with no rules whatsoever the team with the upper hand could just set up engie nests, sticky spamming demos, pocketed soldiers, etc and would just kill the server population pretty much and if there are any new people visiting the server it would pretty much put them off returning to the server therefore losing potential new users.
 
on the other hand if the rule remained it could be altered slightly to allow it so a staff member should only intervene if the spawn camping is a true problem, such as an engie setting up a sentry, or a demo planting stickies on the spawn location. A single player spawn camping will have little effect with spawn protection so it shouldn't be an issue.
 
either way I'm going to vote to remove it but I will only support it if it only applies to slight spawn camping and not allowing engie nests, etc to be set up.

in other news, during the testing and set up process for these wonderful new titles, I lost my box and became a master of something.

i found the box
its under your fourm name

all the custom servers are hosted internally on Blizzards servers, so we wouldn't need to host one. Also its currently only possible for a single player to create and set up a sever for server browser and no way to have one up 24/7.
 
Now I got a few games lying around in my library that have servers like Rust.
 
But I would like to see xG maybe make an attempt at populating a game I find is fun but is awfully underplayed called "The Ship".
Basically the core gamemode is every player gets given a random passenger on the ship and a random target to kill, to win you have to be the last surviving and kill your target without being caught by either guards or cctv, there are weapons all over to find and use and if you get caught you are sent to jail and have to break out again without being caught to continue searching for your target. On top of that you need to satisfy your needs such as eating, showering and even using the toilet lol.
Had so much fun playing with friends over a none dedicated server, nothing beats kicking down the toilet door and slaughtering your target with a crowbar while they are taking a poop :ROFLMAO:
 
Just something to consider since having a bunch of people playing at once would be total mayhem, in a good way.
 
wiki page about the game: The Ship (video game) - Wikipedia

I have no words.