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  1. Hello everyone, I have gathered you all here to talk about someone in our community who has put in a boat load of work recently to push us farther. Not only has he been putting in time on TTT for as long as I can remember, and ever since he got TA he has been helping us make some of the biggest changes on the backend (CS2 related). We really thinks he deserves it and I'm sure he will become a necessary part of the team in no time. Please welcome Jazzy to the Board of Directors!!! Jazzy has been around SG since the dinosaurs roamed the earth so he knows his way around pretty well. We are looking forward to see what he will bring to the team and SG as a whole. This promotion should give us access to deep dive into CS2 a bit more so expect some things in the future. Welcome to the team Jazzy!!
  2. Damon is doing quite a bit for porting, could be something to do, but other then people hopping on now and then for nostalgia we don't have many staff/players that would hop on and seed the server. Will all depend on how much time I have to seed/if there is anyone else that will tbh.
  3. - No plan to really change the "forums" as they are fine right now. Only plan was to create a landing page to direct new/younger players who prefer discord to discord. Also a place to find and see our servers without hunting for them. - As of now we are doing really well with GMOD TTT and keep gaining regs to other places (discord, events, and even forums) and would like to keep that rolling. We plan on trying to get surf up before Christmas, though I believe we were having issues with the CS2 platform itself (everything in terms of server work seems done). I can't speak for them but I know Dominic and Caution wanted to get to work on a JB server so that will be in the works soon as well. Apart from that, with the current state of the community we are in a "build from the bottom up" mindset like we are a small or new community starting out. Build regs, run events, and just do little improvements where we can. One bonus is that we do have old regs that will jump into events and play the servers here and there. - The last two I will leave to your imagination
  4. I would like to make a post about the future of SG specifically. A lot of people are attached to the forums and I can see that. There was never a plan to get rid of the forums and the topic of that was only curiosity it what the community thought. The main idea was just to make our website more navigate-able for the younger audience who have less experience with forums. Adding a landing page would allow for a forums button and a discord, allowing people to choose the direction they would like to interact with the community. The discord would still link to the forums for longer posts or explanations of decisions/servers/anything else that needed long form posts that would just not be good for discord. With that said almost all community’s now days have pretty inactive forums in terms of the player base and not staff/rule/how to posts. It is a large change but gaming in general is just more discord oriented now. This is not my opinion but instead shown by all of the community’s with extremely popular discords, some of which don’t have a website at all. I would also like to touch on the future of servers for SG; we are currently trying to keep a lot of effort into Gmod TTT as it has been very successful and brought a lot of members into the community so far (I’m sure no one has disagreements there). Next we are working on getting a CS2 surf server up as a few of the AOs as well as other staff have shown interest in playing it. That will hopefully be out soon, just sorting out the last few things. After that there is not a specific plan but we are looking into avenues such as PB, MG, or ZE; the main thing we would like to have before we jump on those is a dedicated set of staff that is willing to put in the time that Elf, Jazzy, and Huwa are putting into Gmod TTT. These are large player base servers and without the effort of server populating and gathering people to play the servers (a few times a week) they will probably not go anywhere. Once we find the direction we would like to go we will run with it and open another server. One of the main things we would like to avoid is opening a bunch of servers with no one trying to initiate population causing those servers to just sit dead and not gather regulars from them. This has been brought up a few times recently, the staff does hear it, and we would like to fix it. I would like to touch on a few things brought up recently, mainly about community members being a part of population or community revival. There is a lot of truth to this, a few month ago I spent some time asking people what they would like to see (server and event wise) and Minecraft, rust, and CS2 comp was brought up by a few. I then decided to do a CS2 event in which I had 3 total people show up to (we still had a lot of fun either way); most of the people that frequent this community a lot, some of which kept asking me to make this an event, did not show up. Similar goes for Minecraft and rust in which I played each quite a bit and would @ people on discord asking if anyone wanted to join while sitting in VC as well so anyone could join. I am not saying this to call out anyone specific or saying that “it doesn’t work”; I am just trying to point out that if people do want to see this community prosper and grow to hopefully be what it was once before they need to join in. Hop in call and just chat even if you are playing another game, join events, join when people are doing server pop, just have fun as a community. SG is about more then just being a big community, so many fun memories are made by a few people just playing some games together and hanging out. This goes for staff and regulars by the way, I am by no means saying staff is not at fault. Either way I hope I will see some of you in the next event or server pop we do. Also thanks to everyone who joined up for the Lethal Company event we had, I could not join because I was out of town but I heard it was a lot of fun.
  5. New Build FCU (Fire Control Unit) is out of a Sig P365X, Frame is an Icarus Precision Evo XL, Barrel and comp are PMM (Parker Mountain Machine), Slide is a Norsso custom P365X, and Red Dot is a Trijicon RMRcc (does have lower 1/3 co witness tritium iron sights as well). Very happy with how it came out and at the size of a regular Sig P365XL it shoots about as flat as a Glock 17. Next build will be a MK18 suppressed, will be a while but I'll post it when it's done.
  6. So... I'm going to start this with responses to the actual point of this thread so if you want info on the clusterfuck then skip to the second part. There has been multiple points back and fourth about where to go with the forums. I can say right now that the forums will probably not go anywhere. Even if we add a landing page for servers and discord there will still be a way to access them and most likely they will be up as normal. The current goal from mine and most of the AO+ eyes' is to make the navigation as simple as possible for newer players. Most kids and even adults now days are not as familiar with forums/websites as most of us are. There is a big portion of people who use discord as their primary or only source of information, the idea is not really to get rid of anything but instead just tone things down as if we are a new community with a small playerbase. Now for this thread turned into. I will start this by saying something we have said before but people seem to keep forgetting. We will always consider harassment and bullying as a serious offence and just have no tolerance for it. This seemed to be started by someone on an alt and vpn that didn't like Dominic and Caution and decided it would be a good idea to bring up random useless info (to this thread) and just generally complain. Do with that as you will, Dominic who knows who this person is and had a history with him went back and forth a few times, arguably driven by emotion each side spoke with that instead of looking at it as a broad spectrum and troll response (from each side) as they should have. Skipping over some of the details this is genuinely okay and no issue was seen. We have no problem with people voicing their own opinion whether that be factual, emotional, or outright blasphemes. It truly does not matter, Dominic actually message the BD chat asking what our opinions were with him, and even Caution stepping down as they were/have been busy and inactive with life shit. After this happened we were still okay with more people responding and voicing their own opinions, like I said we don't care and you may speak your own free will given it doesn't break the rules (for obvious reasons). Now the issue began when Lynx, an AO tried to tell the people typing +1 to stop, the point of this was that this thread was already off course but the people typing this were not giving any actual input and just posting useless shit. The reaction button does exist and can be used to get your point across. Either way after posting this the people that were banned started to harass and post hurtful shit directed at Lynx. People also decided to take this to discord where people were pasting similar stuff and continuing their hurtful comments directly at Lynx, not the staff as a whole, or the community as a whole, but directly harassing a 19 y/o as each person being an adult that should genuinely know better. Here comes my perspective; I was at work when most of this happened, only getting a message from Dominic before most of this started asking about my opinion on him stepping down, which he did entertain. Shortly after this I saw the rest of the posts on the forums and responded to a few people on discord during the whole ordeal. The team had a meeting while I was still at work in which I backed almost all of you saying not to make a decision and came outright saying that I didn't agree with people being banned. This was until I got home and filled myself in my checking chat logs and seeing full grown adults harassing a 19 y/o on repeat about doing his job at his rank (mind you most of the people doing it wrote the damn rules and took place in the banning of GG, a similar situation). I really didn't understand how much drama came out of this for no reason and how a group of people piggybacked on Lynx for no reason, what everyone did was actual harassment and is just unacceptable. I backed almost every single one of you individually without knowing the situation because I felt like there was no way you could act like this to someone who is almost a child, yet I was proven wrong. If anyone would like to talk feel free to DM me privately, but this shit was childish and just inhumane. To inform everyone Kable was the only one permanently banned, the rest were given a 3 day ban.
  7. So some of this stuff will be pulled from a recent BD section thread but I would like to put it here to get more opinions/see what people think. I will start with the forums b/c I have less to talk about and it seems we all agree. Forums: So I think everyone is under the same agreement that forums are a little outdated and most communities, even ones with a large server and player base just use discord as a primary; to give examples: HJune (rust), Blooprint (rust), Hypixel (minecraft), GFL (cs), ext. At this point I don't think the forums should become read only or wiped as they are still used for large form conversations (like this one) or even information about a specific topic (how to play a certain difficult gamemode), they can also be used as a hyperlink from discord if people want full details about an event or other thing we announce; with that said I think that's all they should really be used for. I love @jazzy's idea with the landing page having the few servers we have at the top with a bar at the very top to get to certain locations as needed. Only thing I would add is a big discord button or link of some sort to get people directly there without jumping threw hoops. Discord: This is the one I have put the most thought into recently (and work), I also think it should be done ASAP as it will soon (if not already) become the backbone of our community. Firstly I think we need to get rid of a lot of channels like people mentioned before. I actually brought this up to @Dominicabout a week ago privately as I think it hinders us quite a bit. We are a small enough community where I think having 1-3 basic text channels would be ideal. For discussion channels I would bring it down to: #general, #food, and #bots (bots for the obvious reason, food because it is actually used quite a bit), as for game related channels I would get rid of CS2 as it is not ever used and honestly just keep #gmod-ttt for now. The other channels are unnecessary and as @Revengasaid, we can just add game channels as needed if the specific talk becomes too much for #general. Now for voice channels I think we have too many as well. In my opinion we would be perfectly fine and probably better with 2-3 general voice channels and keep the abilities for "join to create" private voice channels. They are not really used all that often in the first place. The last major thing I would bring up is info/announcement channels; in my opinion we have too many of these for no reason. Rules-and-info and roles-menu can be merged into one channel just for bot issues (they are necessary), announcements and server-notifications can also be merged into one (we use server specific roles tags when calling for sever notifications anyway), mind you this also could just be done in the #gmod-ttt channel. @Iotamentioned this but the #bd-discussion channel is not used so we can remove that, as well as combining community-input, suggestions, map suggestions, and anything else that falls into that category in one suggestion "thread" channel. We can keep admin applications separate but appeal bans, admin complaints, and player complaints can all be done with help tickets for the time being as we really don't get any. There are some other things that also need to be done on the backend of discord as they were added when we were a much larger community and needed more bots, moderators, and also needed to log certain chat things. I will probably go threw this on my own time but just for the sake of transparency, we have 50 or so roles and random bots in the discord that need cleaned up; this causes random permission issues with channel categories and more that we just don't need at our current community size.
  8. If you guys couldn't tell its coming to a close on the FOTM/MC server, I will keep the server up for a few more days b/c we have it. Thanks for everyone that played and enjoyed, it went well so will probably be doing it again soon. Feel free to check out our new FOTM RUST!!
  9. Post Your Car!

    Yo thats sick, had a 92 Miata when I was in highschool, still the most fun car I have had. Keep me updated, I'm curious for how it goes.
  10. This was a short for movie I saw recently which I think is a good watch. I promise you will relate
  11. Hey everyone, Just here too announce a new promotion to Administrative Officer, a few days late. Joining the team will be Lynxie, he has worked with me and the rest of the staff a lot recently and we think he will make a great addition to the team. He will be helping us with Prison Break and maybe some Minecraft if I need it. Anyways we are looking forward to him on the team. Congrats Lynx
  12. Sorry was unaware of this, Dominic has the skins on his account so I will message him again.
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