Marvin

I realized today just how fast time can fly.

 

A little over five years ago I started playing on Undead Vengeance's Zombie Mod server. So many great times have been had with so many people. I am very pleased that a few of those people are still around, even if we don't talk very much any more.

 

In 2010 I was given the opportunity to help run this community and I dearly hope that during these past three years I have served well and to the best of my ability. Decisions I've made that have affected either one or many people have always been in the best interest of the community as a whole.

 

I want to thank all of the members and regulars of this community, past and present, for everything you have given me over the years.

 

Good times,

 

Good laughs,

 

Good friendship.

 

I hope there are another five years in this amazing community and that we keep the good times coming.

 

 

-Marvin

 

Introduction

Welcome! As promised we have decided to release digest more often to let the community (you guys) know what we as Staff have been up to. If you guys have any other areas you would like to know about in future digest that we have not talked about please let us know. As always if you guys have any request or suggestions please feel free to express your concerns in the Suggestion/idea forum. We need you guys as the community to voice your opinions for us to take action and shape sG according to those ideas and suggestions. Many things have been set in motion since the last digest, so please sit back and enjoy this monstrous digest.

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News

We have moved away from our old admin subscription system and into a new built-in IP.Nexus store system. When you purchase admin from the store, your admin will be added automatically! No more waiting on Marvin to add it. Be sure to follow the instructions in the package description with linking your steam account to your forum account. When your subscription expires, your admin will be automatically removed. Also, when purchasing a subscription through this store, you will receive an admin/supporter badge underneath your name in all your posts. For admins currently still subscribed using the previous method, it will be an easy switch. If your subscription is almost over for the month, simply cancel it and wait for it to expire. Then just start up another one through the store. If you don't want to wait, contact fontaine, Mimic, or Marvin and we can manually switch you over.

Also, we have added the ability to purchase credits for the in-game store on many of our servers.

If you experience any problems or have any questions, feel free to contact staff in the Private Messages to Staff forum.

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Finances

The community has spoken and made it known to Staff that you are curious about how sG is doing financially. We will try to include information about it consistently in this and future digest. We are doing good on the financial end of things. We are bringing in enough money each month to pay the bills. One thing we need to consider in the near future is server hardware upgrades. With the opening of several new servers, we will be pushing our box further than we have before. Hard drive space will be our first concern now that we have an active Minecraft server as well as the new WC3 server and WCS following soon after.
We will be introducing donation goals in the near future so that you will know exactly where your donations are going. Things like server hardware or custom code will be some of the goals you will see.

As always, our bread and butter has been our subscriptions. It's an excellent way to contribute to the community as our servers will always require admins to keep game play fun for everyone.

As mentioned before we are using "Nexus". This is tied into both the forums and Paypal, and will automatically activate admins for our CSS and CSGO servers. Please remember that you will need to tie your Steam account with the forums for this automated process to work.

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In-Game Store

Store was released for the past few months and has now made its way to Jailbreak! With the expansion the stores prices have been improved as well as the distribution of credits. Store is being improved very often and has many new categories and items within, so please check it out! This is now a more finalized version of Store with the possibility to purchase credit packages in the store section of the forum. The store will be released on the Surf server in the near future and work very similar to how it works on the other servers. If you have any suggestions or request for items for store please post them in the new Store Sticky!

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Poker

We had an amazing turnout for our June poker tournament with 39 people registered! Some quick stats were the poker tournament lasted 2 hours and 29 minutes, and the top knockouts were FifthBarrier (10), Spell (7), Ivanns (5), Drug (5). The bonus pocket aces winner was Drug who won Hydrophobia.

Place and Prize Selection:

• 1st Place: FifthBarrier-20$ Steam Game
• 2nd Place: Polloloco-25$ iTunes giftcard
• 3rd Place: Shadow- Assassins Creed 3 (donated to future tournaments)
• 4th Place: Titan- Borderlands 2
• 5th Place: Ivanns-Gmod (donated to future tournaments)
• 6th Place: Spell-Assassins Creed 2 deluxe edition (donated to future tournaments)

Congratulations to all the winners and please come to our next tournament on July 13, 2013 it will be at 7 PM CST. Please refer to this community announcement for more information on this tournament it will be posted later this week. We hope to see you all there!

Shadow and Chosen have been trying to decide if the community will be interested in doing a pay to enter tournament. We could do a 3$ or 5$ entry fee and give out cash prizes for first, second, and third place, while giving some of the money to sG. During the July 13th poker tournament we will be doing a survey, so please let us know what you think and if you would enter an entry fee tournament!

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Warcraft 3 - CSGO

We would like to officially announce our Warcraft 3 server for CSGO. We have been developing it for the last few months, and have decided to have a live beta on Friday, July 5th at 4 PM CST (5PM Eastern, 2PM Pacific) for a few hours to test everything. We had a live staff beta test recently and identified a few issues and some areas that needed some polishing. We will being working hard to improve the server before the live public beta. During the live beta we ask you to report all bugs and issues using the war3bug tool. All you have to do is type in chat "war3bug" then the issue, be as specific as you can, so we can correctly identify the issue and fix it. After the live public beta we will decide when to officially launch the server. Please thank Thorgot, MrCoolness, Mimic, and Shadow for working on the server and making it a possibility to bring back Warcraft to the community.

Some information about the War3 CSGO server:

• We have 32 races ready with more already in the works. Some you will recognize, and some are brand new.
• We've already gotten de_dolls ported (thanks, Hurfinator), expect more of the community's favorite CS:S maps to return as well.
• A lot of work has gone into it so that it's a completely unique server with features we're confident aren't on other CS:GO servers of any sort.
• Expect many classic favorites from WCS to reappear on this completely new CSGO server.

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Warcraft: Source - CSS

We would like to announce a relaunch of Warcraft Source on Counter Strike: Source. Mini Dude has been hard at work with a few others to bring back our beloved WCS. The server is going to be one server combining Warcraft Source 1 and 2, with races from both the old servers, as well as plenty of new races. The server will be continued to be developed throughout the following weeks, but stay tuned because a live beta is coming very soon! Furthermore, the server has been rebuilt from scratch, so all the old problems with lagging are gone!

Here is a sneak-peak of how the Zergling looks standing next to an normal height player!

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Jailbreak

Jailbreak has had the addition of several exciting plugins:

• Store, with nade trails, nade skins, chat titles, (expensive) CT skins and weapon colors for sale. (Thanks to Shadow)
• The observe plugin: Type /observe playername into chat to observe someone and not have to click through every person.
• The addition of invisibility and ghost commands for admins to use on last requests. (Thanks to thorgot)
• The addition of speed commands for admins to use on last requests. (Thanks to thorgot)
• The addition of multi-grenade spawns for admins to use on last requests (Thanks to thorgot)

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Minecraft

After a long hiatus the Minecraft server returned last week! So far the server has had a steady population of around 5 players! Thanks to everyone for their patience as some small problems with the server configuration are resolved.

There are a few Minecraft server events planned, watch for an announcement!

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Cinema

Throughout its short history, cinema has been a server that has fluctuated up and down in server population. It started off very strong, but a Garry's Mod update that broke FastDL along with certain areas of the gamemode breaking have dramatically dropped the server population. All of these issues have been fixed and cinema currently has a couple of people on at any given time.

I know we have promised these before, but we should have working slots and an updated map with a vip room in the near future with pool tables hopefully coming at a later date. Until then feel free to relax on cinema and watch some videos.

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Ranks and Recruitment Reform

TBA

 

Donator 1:

• You have donated between $3.00-$49.99 to the community, THANKS!
• Access to the Donor Only forum

Donator 2:

• You have donated at least $50-$99.99
• Access to the Donor Only forum
• Access to the Syndicate_Transit Skin
• You get access to special post count pips. (work in progress)

Donator 3:

• You have donated at least $100+
• Access to the Donor Only forum
• Access to the Syndicate_Transit Skin
• You get access to special post count pips (work in progress)
• Ability to change your user title on forums

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ZE Event

In celebration of the rise in popularity of the Zombie Escape server, sG Staff have decided to host an event in order to give back to a player base that has stepped up to the challenge of getting their server repopulated. In order to do this, we shall be hosting a raffle awarding playtime, points earned and even mini-achievements. For further info regarding the event, please check here.

If you have further questions or concerns regarding the event, please feel free post in the main event thread.

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Management

We are sad to announce that Lindseth has stepped down. Please thank Lindseth for all the time and work he has put into the community during his time as Staff. We would like to announce we have promoted MIni Dude to Engineer! He will be developing and up-keeping the new Warcraft: Source server! We have also updated the General Advisors to give them more specific assignments to play on their strengths.

Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mimic, Chairman of the JCS

Marvin, Finances and Customer Service JCS

Klark, Server Operations JCS

Managers
Dastan, Clan Help Desk Manager
Sketch, Server Officer Manager
ZachPL, Garry's Mod Manager
ChosenOne2000, Ranks/Recruitment Manager

Centran, Technical Manager

Advisors

Will, TTT Advisor

Someguy, Minecraft Advisor

Shadow, CSGO/Public Relation/Event Advisor
diabeticdaniel, Jailbreak Advisor

Dark Predator, Ranks and Recruitment Advisor

iAlwaysfail, Server Officer Advisor

Iherdcows, Events Advisor
Spell, Events Advisor

ICop, Events Advisor

fatboy, Risk Management Advisor

Engineers

ElectronicDrug, Server Management & System Development

ctark, Server Management & System Development
drunkula, Server Development/Management & Bunny Hop Engineer

thorgot, Warcraft 3 Engineer & System Development/Management

MrCoolness, Warcraft 3 Engineer

Minidude, WCS Engineer

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Server Officer Application

Hello everyone, with the recent staff changes, the new head of the Server Officer department is Sketch, with iAlwaysFail being the new Server Officer Advisor that will be working alongside Sketch. With this change, the Syndicate Gamers staff would like to say thank you to all of our SO's have who have recently left the team, your service was appreciated. We would also like to congratulate our new Officers - MasterChief, Turtlefrenzy, Puff, Tobi, Agrippa and Hotsauce! Welcome aboard.

 

Server Officer Roster:

Jailbreak

Wind.exe - Eddy - Puff - Doctor Zed - Avery - JFK - Xlite - X-men - Turtlefrenzy

TTT

bulletford - NomNoms - Dailey - Oreo - Sexy Batman - Special Brownies - Deadpool - Hotsauce

Zombie Escape

Skotti - Trucka - Masterchief

Surf

None

Mini Games

Joscal

Minecraft

None

BHop

Tobi - Agrippa

Now, as many of you fine individuals may have noticed, a couple of Server Officer positions have opened up. Due to this, SO applications are open for all sG members, whether you are a veteran member or fresh out of recruitment. However, even though all applications will be accepted, not all servers may receive new SOs. The requirements for the application are not strict, so even if you have not been an admin before does not mean that you will be auto-disqualified for SO, it just means you may be a step ahead of the paid admin or rank admin abusers. If you want to be considered, send your application to iAlwaysFail and don't forget to include Sketch in the PM, or else you have zero chance of becoming an SO. The template for the application can be found below, and PLEASE don't write in massive paragraphs. This isn't a paper for your English class.

Make sure the PM subject to be: [sO APPLICATION] <YOUR USERNAME>

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/> First name:
In-game name:
Region (NA/EU/ASIA):
Link to your GameMe profile: ( http://sg.gameme.com/search)

What servers are you interested in being an SO for?

What time zones do you normally play?
What is your average playtime for a week?

Why do you want to be an SO?

If you were not chosen to be SO, who is another Community member you think that should be considered for the position?

Lastly, the staff would like to encourage all players to PM Sketch and/or iAlwaysFail when you think an SO is not performing up to par with the standards an SO should be. All input shall be taken serious, as the normal player is what keeps our servers alive.

Thank you - Sketch, iAlwaysFail

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Ranks and Recruitment

ChosenOne2000 and the rest of the staff would like to formally introduce DarkPredator as the new Ranks and Recruitment ADV. For years C12K has ran Ranks and Recruitment by himself. Finally, he is receiving the much needed help he deserves. DarkPredator will be instrumental in converting to the new R&R format. DarkPredator has produced valuable metrics, which will make tracking members and promotions as painless as possible for the staff and community. Please continue to support ChosenOne2000 and DarkPredator in their management of Ranks and Recruitment.

Congratulations to our new members from May and June recruitment!

sG | TurtleFrenzy
sG | IntoxicatedDog
sG | Hurffinater010
sG | DogsGoMeow

sG | Agrippa
sG | Knox
sG | Name
sG | thinkTWICE
sG | UltimateOreo
sG | Velo
sG | Evilhunter32 (Formerly water.exe)

Also, congratulations to our promoted members!

sG | Dyscivist [sE]
sG | Falco [sE]
sG | Goldentongue [sE]
sG | Ivanns [sE]
sG | LOPEZ [sE]
sG | Tortoise [sE]
sG | Tristan [sE]

sG | Illogical [E]
sG | Prosak [E]

sG | Tobi [L3]

sG | BLiNDBoi [L2]

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Donations

Thank you all for the donations! Everything helps!

Flaky $3.00
fontaine $5.00
Ichalvl $5.00
Goingpostal2000 $10.00
Mr. Big Shot $10.00
Skotti $10.00
ROFL $10.50
kevinbotz $20.00
Mr. Big Shot $20.00
itsPiero $30.00
JWB10 $30.00
Mimic $30.01
BeauutifulChaos $50.00
ctark $77.78
Matty $150.00