Sorry for the repost my last thread was locked for no reason.
Due to recent events, I have realized that we as sG community members have no protection from staff abusing us, or any actual outlet (that's not controlled by them) to report them, and have it dealt with properly. Any staff member can choose to go off the wild end, whether the damage they do is miniscule or tremendous (kai lol).
Any staff member can be unstable; just lacking logical sense for a day, or their entire life maybe? Whether it's temporary or not, they can make mistakes in judgement (we're all human after all), and depending on how much of a dick they are; actually go back and cover their tracking with fallacious rebuttals to belittle your point, making you look like a twat (even though you are in the right).
At this point, any thing you have to say is considered meaningless amongst the presence of the omnipotent Staff of this clan. No matter how little evidence they have and how much you may have, a staff members words are evidence enough to act.
What protects people in the clan from being Alvin Mitched? The answer is nothing, and this is a problem.
I for one, would like to be able to play games, without some Staff abusing me,and as a result thinking they are the savior of sG.
How can we protect ourselves from self righteous staff with admin? This answer is still unknown, but can be answered with the help of your suggestions!!
You may brush this off thinking it'd never happen to you, but let me remind you, so did I... Stop an abusive staff admin today.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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)
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!
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.
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
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.
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
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
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> 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
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!
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