Paul

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All the items + any future items we add will not affect the gameplay of any server.

http://www.steam-gamers.net/forum/showthread.php?t=45413&p=582621&viewfull=1#post582621 Its already being made right now. Pretty much you gain credits in game for play time wise, or if you dont want to wait around building up your credits you can just go ahead and donate for addition credits. Weve planned for a special in game 'credit skin' but it will be the most expensive item credits wise to attian. Not so sure about it being removed after 1 week though. I kind of like the idea that once you spend your credits you cant sell it back or you cant lose it.

I noticed on MG that I changed the rates for the worse on that server, but fixed them once I got on. Tell me if anymore are out of sync.

Huh? I did set some proper rates, but I can play around with them again if is required. Tick rates were never lowered. It was never removed. Apart from minigames AFAIK. Ill re add it today.

You can see directly where the money is going too; outlined bills will be listed, every donation will be listed for anyone to view. Any money we achieve over the goal will be seen in the "rolling balance" figure on the donations page (will be used for competitions, improved server plugins etc). Pretty much what im saying is, everything that is donated will be fully viewable. Everything spent will be fully viewable. Theres no hiding missing money... thus enstilling trust in people who donate that we are striving to bring imrpovements to steamgamers everytime they donate.

Yup as amit mentioned we have a !store plugin coming very soon to the servers. In short; you will gain credits in game which you will be able to purchase in game items. I will open up a thread about it script comes closer to completion. Im not going to start saying that garfield was bad when it came to payments, but I beleive transparency in donations is vital for a gaming community. Its your money that helps our servers, vent and SG improvements keep on going! And that only. A Running Total is always something I thought is cool too. Supporter will soon not be the only way you can gain stuff in return for donations, so stay tuned.

Backups done. CPU Usage = 1% but the servers are pretty empty at this time of day.

The servers have just gone through a massive maintenance. Here's what went down: Dedicated Server Removed 90gb+ of waste/unneeded files from the 1st dedicated server. Removed around 20,000-45,000!!!! spray download files from each server. Removed a few more 1000 log files scattered on each server. Removed all unneeded server plugins. Removed all unneeded server configs. Removed all unneeded files on the dedicated. Installed a pruning plugin that will auto delete the spray download files and server logs every 7 days. Example: once a file becomes 7 days old since last edited it will be deleted. This is only for sourcemod logging files, download spray files and general server map logs. Removed every map that is not on the maplist.txt on the server from each servers map folder. [Quite a lot of unneeded map files] Deleted all random files from every server that should not have been there (copied over from other servers) Edited most maplists into order now (new maps will now appear at the front of the nominate list so you can see which maps are new) Fast Downloads Server Deleted every map that is not on a servers mapcycle.txt list. There were a shit ton of maps that have grown over the past 3+ years on there. It was rather painful . I will be looking into finding or asking someone to create a plugin/script that auto deletes maps once they are removed from the servers mapcycle.txt. Deleted all the unneeded shit that somehow randomly appeared there. Removed some folders that had no need to be there/ Added all the MOTDs back to the download site instead of hosting them on my photobucket. (should have not as many loading issues in the servers now). Reduced the download site space by a good 25GB+. Fixed 90% of all the sourcemod errors in each server. I still have a few outstanding that I am hoping to fix later on. Why? Complaints of servers such as minigames and zombie escape having performance issues. I’ve noticed it myself as of late and hopefully this will have improved things a little. The dedicated server is running ALOT faster that it did a few hours ago, there is barley any delay time as there used to be. Having tidy server files / dedicated files = WIN Please let me know if you find a better in game performance FPS and Lag wise. You wont notice the difference on servers like surf, trikz or prison break. But I am hoping you will feel the difference on minigames and zombie escape. NOTE 1: Garrys Mod is the only server left to clean up, which I am going to leave to spartan as if I break that he will kill me. NOTE 2: As I have been removing a lot of maps from the download site, there is the chance that I may have removed a map that is on a server maplist.txt, thus will give you map missing from server. If you find any of these please fill out a server fix request HERE NOTE 3: If your in the servers for the next 2-3 hours you maybe getting some lag spikes as I am making server backups ATM. Thank you!

No. This will be a pain to get them off you, plus we cant even view them before you upload them. So just get them of gb.

Thats right, were getting a set of brand new skins on all the servers. They will be global skins, meaning that we wont have random skins on each server (maybe minigames still unsure yet). The skinner has requested 8 skins [4 T and 4 CT] and I want you guys(Supporter+) to post some suggestions: POST LINKS TO THE SKINS, NOT JUST TYPE A NAME ;] Im mainly looking just for normal T/CT reskins not like characters, anime stuff or ported skins from other games Skins can be found here: http://www.gamebanana.com/skins/games/2 Just ensure that you are posting sensible skins and actually are playermodels no weapon bollocks Take this a proforma example:

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Forget fist pump its all about the finger wagging

Hello Steamgamers! Forum Restructure Over the next few weeks there will be a few changes taking place. We will be hoping to restructure the forums to ensure that you no longer have to scroll down for 10 seconds to reach the bottom of the forums. We will be trying to accommodate every forum section but obviously if we want to cut down there will be some mergers/ some sections being removed. Server Admin Process We will also be looking to bring back a new system to how you guys can attain server admin on the forums and servers. It will not be the process as previously stated by Amit, this one will be formed by the higherup staff and taking into account your views. Homepage The homepage will hopefully be getting a new look also. New Servers With the introduction of a new dedicated server we are able to open up a few new servers. As we do not want to launch them all out at the same time there is no set date as to when we will open them up. Currently we have just launched Deathrun and Scrim server which seem to be popular within the community thus far. There will be a poll going up in the near future for you guys to decide what server you would like next! Supporter (Donator) If you did not notice we have changed back the Donator rank to Supporter. We will be keeping the supporter rank in place as we see it as a way in which members can donate and get something back in return. The Supporter package will be getting a fresh re-work to ensure that it has more benefits. There will also be a new plugin added to all the CSS servers hopefully in the next month also that will allow everyone to get special perks. The higherup team will be having a meeting very soon to pretty much hammer out a lot of details regarding most of these topics.

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