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Syndicate Gamers Digest - 4/8/17

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Mimic
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Hi Everyone! It's been a while since we've created a Digest and with all the recent changes in the community we figured one was well deserved. It has been well over a year since our last Digest, so various changes throughout the year will be skimmed over as well as various Staff changes, Reformed Ranks and Recruitment, new members, and ranks and recruitment promotions. In addition, upcoming events will also be announced!

 

 

 

 

News:

  • Staff Changes
  • Server and Behind the Scenes Updates
  • Server Officers
  • Server Updates
  • Events
  • Ranks & Recruitment
  • Donations

 

 

 

 

Staff Changes:

Hey everyone, along with the other tons of information in this Digest we figured as though a Staff Update should also be included. As many of you are aware, recently one of our JCS stepped down to pursue his goal of becoming a doctor, and has decided to prioritize his education. While pursuing his goal, he will be available in a limited capacity to assist with the development of our servers and our site. Due to this, Fontaine / Fail Klark will be taking the role of Engineer for the foreseeable future. I would like to personally thank Klark for his continued support throughout the years in the community. He has been a huge asset, and we wouldn’t be where we are today without him. Please wish him the best of luck in the future!

 

Moving forward, we are glad to welcome Bulletford to the JCS team! He has been instrumental in the development of our servers, website, and community in general throughout his tenure on staff. We believe through his past experiences and actions that he will contribute significantly as a member of the JCS focusing on Operations. In addition, we are pleased to announce Moose will be joining the Manager team in Bulletford’s old position as Content Quality Manager.

 

To those who are interested in a position on Staff please visit our Staff Applications page located here. If you have already applied, feel free to apply ONCE FOR EACH POSITION YOU ARE INTERESTED IN after every announcement containing Staff Changes.

 

- Mimic, Chairman of the JCS

 

 

 

 

Server and Behind the Scenes Updates:

Engineering team updates:

  • Good Bye Driz
  • Welcome Nugget
  • Technically, Moose, Karma, and AntiTeal are all new since the last digest as well
  • Welcome back Fontaine! 

 

So, there have been LOTS of changes since the last digest, but here's what's happened recently, and some things that we're currently working on.

 

FastDL:  You may have noticed a few issues with FastDL and the servers in general, all this along with a few server outages too.  I am happy to say that those issues have been fixed, and the servers should be even more stable then they were before!

What actually happened?  For those interested, there was a series of hardware failures on the box that hosts the FastDL server; That took a few days to fix (originally thought to be only a motherboard issue, turned out to be more than that).  Along with that, we noticed the servers would lag when a CSGO update came out (noticeable the most on all the GMOD servers due to them not going down for the update. The host has adjusted the update priorities and reinstalled a potentially problematic operating system; we are happy to say that issue should now be resolved.

 

New Servers:  Since the last digest, as many know (maybe some of our newer members didn't), we moved back to Chicago. This move saved us money, while also allowing us to provide a more reasonable ping to a larger majority of our players. For those of you that don't remember, we had originally moved to LA for reasons such as better DDOS protection, but we were able to get the same moving back to Chicago.

 

Zombie Escape: Recently, there have been some major changes to help out the server! We're also happy to announce that the server has been upgraded to 60 slots, so happy hunting (running?) from more zombies! For those of you interested in what was done to improve performance (no, a new box was not the solution), our engineers were able to do two things: 1) Hitboxes were removed on Human models on everything but the feet, so they can still be hit by a knife. Essentially this reduces the calculations the server had to do with shooting thru teammates among other things. 2) Some server cvars were changed which greatly reduced the choke and other issues players were seeing. We're super excited about these, and this is what allowed us to up the player count. 

 

Sourcebans: Bulletford has been hard at work on another project. He has added to sourcebans a tab to look up CT restrictions in JB. Great job. 

 

TTTGO: Speaking of Bulletford, he also has done a great job revisiting TTTGO and fixing many of the game-breaking bugs that were killing the server. Hop on the server sometime and check it out!

 

Changelog Threads: All servers should be maintaining a changelog, to keep everyone better informed about changes that are happening. Any major changes will obviously still be a part of our digests, but keep an eye on the changelogs for your favorite server(s)!

 

 

 

 

Server Officers:

We would like to send out a big thank you to all the current and past Server Officers. Our servers wouldn't be as popular as they are, if it was not for all of you making our servers enjoyable.

 

Server Officer Roster:

Jailbreak

Dr.Pepper - Taz

 

Trouble Terrorist Town

Bluestreakid15 - Darren - DMODW - Wintergreen - Ian Kinsler -  Krony - Lotmoshr - Sith - Mnkeydude

 

Zombie Escape

Dashe - Zerosz - MistaChang

 

Surf

HELP WANTED, Please apply here.

 

Minigames

BabyNicol3 - Tyrone - Demon

 

Warcraft 3:GO

Bear-man-thing - Swed - Wall

 

KZ/Climb

ajsimeon

 

TTTGO

Jodas - Lindsay

 

 

 

 

Server Updates:

This section is going to be a bit different than past digests instead of giving you crucial updates about some of the servers, we'll be giving you little updates on what's been going on with every server and any plans for future if there are any.

 

Jailbreak:

Jailbreak is, without doubt, one of sG’s most iconic servers. However, it is no secret that Jailbreak's recent population has been struggling. Why this has happened is still not concrete. Luckily we have seen an influx of people expressing interest in wanting to help the Jailbreak server grow again; although unfortunately most of it has only been discussion.

Enough of that!

It is time to take these discussions from Discord, Teamspeak, or the forums and move them to where we need them: the Jailbreak server!

Anyone is able to help populate the server, it really doesn't take much. Simply grab a few friends, hop onto Jailbreak, and play around! There are already a few groups who have done this, and it has worked. I personally want to thank those groups for doing such a great job.

Here at sG we are doing what we can to help this cause too. Because the population has been what it is, we decided to temporarily remove the store. Doing so will reduce the download time, which if you've never connected to the server before can be quite lengthy. Faster download times should bring  about more players. Fear not though, as the store will be added back once population increases-- possibly with new skins!

Stay tuned!

 

Minigames:

It's been a great couple of years on minigames. We've seen a lot of people come and go, a big thanks to all those who have stayed with us. We're hoping to get a new timer system set up sometime in the near future. The new timer will have more functionality and reward players more for completing maps. Along with some general bug fixes and new minigames. There are some event ideas being thrown around with more updates to come over the Summer.

 

Surf: 

Surf recently was given an upgrade with the server moving from the old rpg system which was not supported, buggy, and outdated since the THC Plugin was made prior to Counter Strike: Global Offensive. To our current system which is extremely more manageable and is in the server's best interest. This wouldn't be possible without bulletfords help with setting up and implementing the plugin. With the new system we are able to add custom upgrades to the rpg menu, so if you have any please message @bulletford, or @iafunky with these suggestions. Also, the R8 has finally been added to the server.

 

TTTGO:

We are slowly arriving the two year marker for our TTTGO server. The server was released for sG in June of 2015 and has seen a major improvement from day one. We have had many ups and downs these past two years. TTTGO has seen some major improvements these past few months. The server has tons of new features we couldn’t even dream of having when it first released.

This is one example of those features:

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We owe it all to our manager bulletford for his hard work and effort on the server! The server’s advisor Jeff the Flying Shark has been coming up with event ideas with some of the ROs of sG. We currently have a spring event planned for the server this April. The event can be viewed at this link here: http://www.joinsg.net/forums/topic/75131-tttgo-spring-event-april-10th-17th/

We have more plans for the server and future events this upcoming summer, so keep an eye on the forums for those updates. We hope to see you all on the server soon!

Zombie Escape:

Thanks to the effort of Chewy, Crobat, Antiteal, Nugget, all of our ZE SO's, and most importantly all of you who play on our server, we have been able to increase our maximum slots to 60 players and have added tons of content to the store, and we've added benefits to those who purchase Supporter every month. Without you guys ZE would not be thriving as much as it and we hope to give back to the community in our upcoming ZE Challenge Event on May 1st with more updates to come over the summer. Hope to see you around!

 

Trouble in Terrorist Town:

As many of you already know, we decided to discontinue our custom TTT server after multiple attempts to revive the servers population.  However, it has been replaced with a 2nd 24/7 Minecraft vanilla server that has been thriving in recent months.  In other news, It's been almost 2 years since we've had an event, so I'm pleased to announce that we have one scheduled for late April/Early May, be sure to check the forums for more information in the following weeks!

 

Warcraft 3:

With the departure of Face, war3 development has slowed down a bit and we have suffered a bit of downtime recently due to FastDL. However, with the addition of @ATG_AGENT and with the help of events the server is consistently popped almost all day. Thank you to everyone who continues to play and support the server with donations/war3 supporter. We wouldn't be where we are without you. We have a few plans for the server, one of which will be announced soon - make sure to keep checking for updates! See you on the server.

 

Quality of Life Changes since April of 2016

 

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  •  Most damage prints to chat, console, or hints, have been updated to display more accurately the damage that was dealt. A lot of damage was printing before   accounting for damage reduction, resistance, etc.  A lot of them have been adjusted to account for all of this and will display the actual damage the player takes. Almost every skill where it is possible has also been updated to print to BOTH PLAYERS console what damage was dealt. If an amount was already printed to chat, I typically did not make it also print to console. If a hint was printed, I still made them print to console. I tried to make it always print for both players. Some things I can't *easily/quickly* do this because the damage is delayed (e.g, thorns) for various reasons.
  • When you level up, if you unlock new races you will get a text print that looks something like this:         
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[Level: 50] New Races Unlocked: Blood Mage, Shadow Hunter, Warden, Flame Predator

 

New races:

 

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  • Phyrexian Sieger
  • Bounty Hunter
  • Bunnicula
  • Nothhogr, Fire Dragon
  • Dwarven Mage
  • Musician
  • Jukebox Hero
  • Magatha Grimtotem
  • Angel of Darkness
  • Widowmaker
  • Mrs. S
  • Second Wave Agent
  • T-Hardy

 

 

 

 

Events:

Here are some events you can look forward to in the next few months:

 

Heroes Never Die Overwatch Tourney (April 8-9): 

After many trials, tribulations, and mostly delays, sG is semi-proud to host it's first Overwatch event! Organized by @Mark from Facebook and ran by @Reaper0470 this Overwatch event pits teams of 3 against each other to see who the best of the best is! If you think you've got it takes then you better sign up quick, registration ends on the 7th of April. Sign up here.

 

TTTGO Spring Event (April 10-17): 

Now that some of the more annoying bugs have been fixed thanks to @bulletford we're proud to host another TTTGO Event! This is a more casual event meant to have fun and populate the server.

Spring Poker Tournament (April 15):

  • ZE Challenge Event Vol. 2 (May 1-8)
  • Jailbreak Event (May 12-18)

 

Here's a look back at all past events and winners too: 

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Golf With Friends Tour Candyland Cup:

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Winners:

1st: Pike 314fb77535.png

2nd: Reaper 314fb77535.png

3rd: Swed 314fb77535.png

4th: Trav

5th: Eeiu

6th: Destin

7th: Sean

8th: Water.exe

9th: Rootbeer

10th: Krony

11th: Rayne

12th: Jiffy

 

Warcraft 3 Dust Event:

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Winners:

Hamburglar

Xiplitz

Leeroy

Toast the Fabulous

Hawk

lemonjames

Bulletsponge

ESDaman

Snapple(Cookie)

Gemma

Tibbar

TheHax1337

 

2017 New Years Poker Tournament:

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sG Fantasy Football 2016:

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Winner:

ZachPL

 

sG 10th Anniversary Event:

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=(UV)= Raffle winner: Chaulklet.Shake (Elmo)

Winners:

Tazmanianxdude

Tyrone

Leeroy

Start

Hawk

Tacky

Frosty_voodoo

Chilly

nErd_

Eeiu

Sponsored

zinc

Swed

Totes

krony

Killer

DerpyPwny

 

War3 Mini Event:

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Winners:

Xiplitz

Waylon

 

sG Rust - Deathmatch/Gun Game Event:

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Winners:

Rufus

Jiffy

Zed

Yunki

 

sG 10th Anniversary Poker Tournament:

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Winners:

Grayson Levi

Sweetrock

Quayle

krony

Ace

Ollie

 

ZE Teamwars Event:

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Winners:

Team Cumshots (bukky, Hooka_SmooKa, Play[e]rS, C'e and DW)

 

sG 1st Rust Event:

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Winners:

Spawneh

The Lorax

Pixel

Machinegun Kate

Tyrone

Harminy

Gadreel

 

CSGO Summer Tournament:

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Winners:

Team #7: Splewis, Tristan, docjay, Ricky, Atari, n3ro

 

Summer Poker Tournament:

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Winners:

TurtleFrenzy

Ivanns

PolloLoco

Yunki

Ethan

 

Schools Out Surf Event:

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Iafunky

Mnkeydude

BananaPeelz

Marvin

Sweetrock

 

ZE Challenge Event:

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Winners:

Antiteal

ShadowPunisher

 

sG Rocket League 3v3 Tournament:

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Winners:

Travesty

Swed

ZachPL

 

sG Bracketology:

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Winner:

Junzou

 

sG JBingo Event:

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Random Raffle Winners:

Hotshot

Ironic

Ruffles

Totes

Eclipsethewolf

Hawk

thorgot

Travesty

Jiffy

Sean

 

Event Winners:

Shiro

Pepper

ex0

Icon24

Lowki

Zhopia

Vege

RootyCat

SLP

Kordless

BC:xz

Scrub

Groot

Nerd

 

CSGO Minigames Event:

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Winners:

Nerd

Marine

Eeiu

Paul

Uxee

Poseidon

Scrub

Jiffy

Rufus

Duex

Fearless

Ordinarygamer

 

CSGO Winter Tournament:

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Winners:

(Team Eddy)

Eddy

Sack

Matty

Knox

Rootycat

Nau

 

New Years Poker Tournament:

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Winners:

Nau

Ivanns

Permx

Centran

Pike

 

ZE Turkey Day Event:

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Winners:

Hotshot

Crobat

Zippy

Chowder

 

TTTGO Halloween Event:

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Winners:

Bite

Fearless

Mnkeydude

Walrus

Sweetrock

7

 

Jailbreak Event (Nov 6 - Nov 13)

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Winners:

(Not available)

 

Halloween Poker Tournament:

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Winners:

Rayne

ZachPL

Dyscivist

Sean

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ranks & Recruitment:

 

Ranks and Recruitment Changes (April 1st, 2017): 

On April 1st we announced some pretty big changes to our Recruitment and our Rank structure, this changes can be found HERE!

We are aware some of these changes are controversial and we have been discussing possible additions to these changes, nothing is set in stone yet but when we have something ready for the community we will make a thread in members only asking your your input.

Keep an eye out for the thread!

 

- Eddy

 

Member Updates: 

 

We would like to congratulate all of our new members:

 

Cat-o
nothing_but_fail
Yunki
Zip
Scrub
Vegemitekiller
Dr Pepper
MistaChang
Towelie
TotesMagoats
Groot
Renegade
Dreamhack
Cubix
Rufus
The Doctor Zed
Dakka
Rootycat
LemonSqueezy
Sixheadkyle
Eeiu
PeeWee
Jiffy
Banana Joe
Bloodhound
Chowder
Kid Fearless
Darren
nErd_
Ex0
Kordless
Papyrus
Drew Brees
Shiro
Tyrone
Cman
AntiTeal
Lindsay
Leeroy
IncendiaryH
Chilly
Spiderpigrider
Mnkeydude
Tazmanianxdude
The Lowki
Doc jay
Fuzzyyywuzzyyy
Krony
Slyfox
Thunderbolt
Grayson Levi
DMODW
Apache
The Impenetrable Wall
Zerosz
A Horny Moose
Smash
October
Ajsimeon
BabyNicol3
Gemma
Ghoul
Terumi
Dashe
Bear-Man-Thing
Koriko
ESDaman
Badbie
Elliott
Imperium420
Buster

dash

RoseAmherst

Mini Moose

Sponsored

DR3Y

DarkFalcon

LVL4ROCK

-Sharp-

Booch


 

Also congratulations to all of our members who received promotions since the last digest:

 

Level 2:

 

Popsicle_Ninja
Marine Putin
Poseidon
DerpyPwny
Iafunky
Revöker
Don Juan
Sith
TrinityCrush
ThatOllieWhoDies
Bluestreakid15
Lux
Karma
Nothing_but_fail
Scrub
Travesty
Dr Pepper
VEGEMITEKILLER
Rufus
Dakka
Banana Joe
Jiffy
Chowder
Eek
Chet

Grayson Levi

spiderpigrider

Apache

tazmanianxdude

 

Level 3:

 

Name
Azzkicker
Count
Duex
Agrippa
Piplup
King1Arthur
Crobat
HurFFiNatEr010
Ordinarygamer96
Hay0ger.Tonee
Frosty_VooDoo
Paul_Waffle
vEntus
DerpyPwny
Sleek
Vexer
Noah
Avenger

Jodas

Yunki

MistaChang

Dr. NarwhalsNumbNuts IV

Tyrone

Cman

Eeiu

Zip

Ironic

Bite

KiLLeR

Shiro

The Doctor Zed

 

Level 4:

 

Coldfuse
Demon
ROFL
Velo
MisterTurkes
Knox
DogsGoMeow
driz
Piero
Jeff The Flying Shark
Destin
Sweetrock
Stabbitty
B-cock #1
Clamps
nuggetthenoble
Rune

Hawk

Face

Lv. 100 Crobat

Timeassassin103

 

Level 5:

 

 

Sean
Water.exe
TurtleFrenzy

Swed
Garchomp
Shikaku
 

 

 

Veteran:

 

Reaper0470
EL_PATRON
JFK
Bonghit.Bulletsponge
Wintergreen
Gerald
ChosenOne2000
Daileyyy
York

 

 

 

 

Donations:

October - $900

Krony - $260

Paul_Waffle - $209

Destin - $177

Yunki - $130.02

Dr. Vojislav Seselj - $95

TrinityCrush - $85

DMODW - $63.14

Arctic Freeze - $60

Sean - $55

Ctark - $50

Cthulu’s Penis - $50

Lindsay - $50

Noah - $47.66

Agrippa - $40

Mimic - $40

Sweetrock - $35.55

Ironic - $35.30

Grayson Levi - $34.00

Iafunky - $32.32

Tacky - $31.55

Anonymous - $30.00

Kordless - $29.20

Baked Potato - $25.00

Bbhblackout - $25.00

Elliott - $25.00

King1Arthur - $25.00

Moose - $25.00

Smash - $25.00

Tazmanianxdude - $23.40

Nagito Kimaeda - $20.99

A Horny Moose - $20.00

Piero - $20.00

RoseAmherst - $20.00

Sixheadkyle - $20.00

TheWaffler - $20.00

Bulldog - $19.91

Gemma - $18.00

Natsu - $15.00

Remi - $15.00

XbFTB - $15.00

Branden - $13.01

MistaChange - $12.10

Ajsimeon - $10.00

Apple Juice - $10.00

Avenger - $10.00

Booch - $10.00

Chet - $10.00

Cody - $10.00

Daft2thePunk - $10.00

DarkFalcon - $10.00

Don Juan - $10.00

FreeLancer - $10.00

Frosty_VooDoo - $10.00

Ian Kinsler - $10.00

Jodas - $10.00

Koriko - $10.00

Polky - $10.00

RandomDudeNumber005 - $10.00

Scaurs - $10.00

Skully-xs - $10.00

Tyrone - $10.00

Zip - $10.00

Albert Einstein - $8.45

Velo - $8.00

Nau - $6.69

Vexer - $6.66

David - $6.48

Birthday Senpai - $5.00

=Buring Legion= BoomJenny - $5.00

DiscoFiasco - $5.00

Owl - $5.00

DR3Y - $3.00


...for a total of $3201.43! Because of all of the wonderful people that donated, we have been able to improve our services and increase our number of events as well as the quality of the prizes. We greatly appreciate all those that have helped financially support us!

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Moose    4890

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Just now, Destin said:

uhh that's my bad actually hang on

 

The beauty of management. Get credit for things you didn't do, and when things aren't right you blame the person who actually did it :) 

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trav    6834

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Just now, Moose said:

The beauty of management. Get credit for things you didn't do, and when things aren't right you blame the person who actually did it :) 

 

You'll do well... haha :D 

 

 

Grats Bullet!

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Booch    257

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Actually really excited no more lag since servers are closer to me. 

 

Especially somce Gmod is having an event.

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