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Was just notified by Bulletford we have a fix for the afk kicker. It will be enabled by the end of the day! Hope this info helps. See you all on wc3.

I'll get in touch with the other engineers/moose/bulletford and  try to see if we can get it working on wc3. Updates to come when they are known. Stay tuned. 

I'll let you kids in on a little secret. There's these things called leaves of absence. I've been on one for two months while I handle real life shit like school and my internship. It's funny because 3 of the people who gave you rep have access to LOAs and thought your uninformed comment was rep-worthy anyways. @TotesMagoats @Iherdcows @MistaChang

when was the last time you have been on to help with the problem? @Swed   

Can you fucks not go 3 months without trying to cheat on war3? Holy fuck you guys should be penetration testers with all the bullshit things you do to circumvent actually playing the game.

ITT: shin complains about stuff lol

i mean it does need to be fixed xD but if you care that much you can move yourself to spectate or just leave? Don't get me wrong it does need to be fixed just not a big issue and if they are farming then what are they getting 50 xp when they kill one person? its not a big deal when there are bigger problems on the server like broken races and bugs with maps etc. 

So I joined war3 today just now actually and there were 2 afks T's and 3 active CT's and the CT's were farming the afks and it was like round 10. I came in killed them a few times and one complained I was fucking up their free afk farming and I called them out on their BS and left. 21g and pancakes were the two names I knew on CT. This is not in the complaint compartment because I am not filing a complaint per say but calling out people for their bs and how badly the afk kicker needs to be put back in place to stop the very thing it was made for. 

Sounds are no longer are controlled by music volume, You can now reduce your music volume without worrying about hearing silenced scouts Fixed death sounds not playing sprite error fixes and cleanup, I found out that the traitor buttons are the cause of sprite issues, I think I fixed it. Let me know if you experience it again. new c4 lcd hud(see below), Also made it oriented correctly(not upside down anymore) changed silenced scout sound fixed voice notification counting for staff on round end Sprint plugin added, Double tap W to sprint (see video below)

 
 
 

In the month of July, each vote you make for our Rust server here,  or by using the button on our website, is a raffle ticket.
 
I'll randomize those entries in excel and "roll" for a random winner using a random number generator. 
 
If your name falls on that line of the excel sheet, I'll pay you $10 Steam cash. (Doesn't matter if you play Rust or not)
 
If it goes well, I'll do this every month, possibly with varying prizes announced at the beginning of the month.  
 
**This is open to anyone. sG members, non sG members, random people who just want $10, idc. Just vote.**

Let me guess... those posters aren't using tape to stick to the wall

Did an obstacle race on Sunday, this was about the only good action shot of the entire thing.
 
Bit of barbwire above and a lovely crawl through sludge!

Let me guess, you are the girl in the middle.

Me at graduation. 

Yo I just realized Ive never posted in this new one, here's a quick selfie at work

A few updates from the last couple of weeks
Fixed mapskins not working, all players should have t models now fixed an issue with the forcetraitor and forcedetective commands where they could also be picked again through regular means fixed c4 displaying the wrong safe wires homerun bat launches people(old update) More sprite changes Temporarily disabled sprites on t buttons Voice drain no longer affects players during pre-round or after round, and doesn't affect players until 10 people are on a team

These players are banned from future tournaments due to no-shows or just general trolling:
 
Wall - STEAM_0:1:54336457 - Complete No-show with no notice
Buster - STEAM_0:0:32526894 - Complete No-show with no notice
DESOUSA - STEAM_0:0:142577262 - Complete No-show with no notice during group stage, and trolled during bracket stage with zeus and chat msgs
ventus - STEAM_0:1:54822065 - rage quit during 1st match and never came back
consider windex - STEAM_0:1:122490309 - Complete No-show with no notice
 
 

Alcyone defated Toxic Retards 2-1!
Here's a list of everyone that won a prize:
1st Place
Bite - $20 (Raffle Prize: Animated Spray)
Eeiu - $20
Jiffy - $20
Im not gay but $20 is $20 - $20
GSU - $20 (Raffle Prize: Nekopara Vol. 3)
Avery - $20
 
2nd Place
Fugner - $10
Splewis - $10
marzu  - $10  (Raffle Prize: AWP | Hyperbeast)
Sakata  - $10 (Raffle Prize: AWP | Pink DDPAT)
Tristan  - $10
Renegade  - $10

Raffle Prizes:
 
Travesty - AK-47 | Frontside Misty
Sportsteen583 - AWP | Fever Dream
SirCaptainGuTz - $10 Steam Game
Mr Kon - 1 month of Prem Admin
Rookie - $10 Steam Game
dash - AWP | Fever Dream
Zebra - $20
Rufus - $20
Overeem - $20
 
Total Prize pool including Raffle prizes: ~$330! 
 
I know there were a lot of hiccups and no-shows, also I want to assure you guys there's actually a Ban list now. It's real it exists. I'm committed to making the next tournament run a lot smoother and will try to come up with better ideas to make sure we have no more 4v4's and 3v3's and 1v1's. Thanks for participating everyone! Hope you guys at least had some fun :<

You don't like doing work? Have you submitted a staff application yet?

Thank you, chaos4499 for your donation of 20.00 USD!
Your donation will be put to good use, and helps keep this community running.
 
Thanks for the support,
Syndicate Gamers Staff and Community
 

Hiya guys, thought I'd share an idea that I was hyped about working on. I'm calling it the Legendary system, modeled similarly to World of Warcraft's legendary equipment system. Equipping a Legendary will alter a race in a way slightly, much like an expertise. Unlike expertise though, you can acquire and store a currency called Shards in order to unlock a Legendary and potentially have one unlocked for a race you have at level 0. Each race will have a handful of Legendaries; I'm thinking 3 each for starters. Players are limited to one Legendary item equipped at a time.
The main way of acquiring a Legendary would be simply playing the game: obtaining a kill (higher chance if headshot) or planting/defusing/hostaging/winning the round/healing as Trinity+Holy Paladin+Priest will each have a very small % to obtain a random Legendary. A smaller chance will give you a Shard instead, which will allow you to pick which Legendary you get. Shards could be given away freely every 500 total levels or so. Mabey a present could even drop at a low chance on kill similar to eggs/pumpkins, which yield either a legendary or a Shard. Crazy freeforall rush for the loot!
 
Here's some quick visuals. The Legendaries menu will be brought up by typing "legendary" into chat, similar to changerace.
 
Then, selecting a race will reveal you the Legendary available to it and what each does. Selecting the Artifact will then equip it if you have it and then close the menu (similar to picking a race). Here's an example screen of someone who owns two Undead Scourge Legendaries(notice the third is greyed out because he doesn't have it -- if he had a Shard then the text would be red and selecting it would consume the shard and unlock it for him).
 
I like the system for two reasons. One: It adds another layer of depth into the game, something else to strive for when killing people. Currently, the two things players can obtain by playing the game are server rank and levels -- this adds another reward system to constantly fuel that desire for dopamine.
Two: The system will certainly add a small level of powercreep but will be a great way to finetune older races into importance and we'll finally see some races being played again. Additionally, it adds a small level of customization into the game. Our diehard Trickster Assassin or Shadow Lurker fans can choose which route they want to specialize in to suit their playstyles.
 
The shard system also allows additional p a y 2 w i n options in addition to our current ones. Supporters can have an increased drop rate for legendaries. Players could also flatout buy Shards, similar to buying credits for other our pay2win servers like JB and ZE. We're gonna be rich.
 
Please share thoughts! I was excited to work on the system myself but wanted to create a race first in order to prove to myself that I could code. I'm busy & putting it off for now but if anyone wants to start refining/working on this (if greenlit by Engies), go right ahead. We could also have a War3 event to kickstart the system with increased drop rates for the duration of the event. Events are always fun.

So I got to thinking last night and today at work how the hero race idea could be implemented in a way that would be in the scope of fair and balanced and not rely on luck or player skill gaining access to the races but a actual built in plugin that will monitor the server and its players and keep track of the factors that allow a player the ability to use a hero race and a system to reward other players for killing a player on the race and the extra benefits a player would have for playing a hero race other than just trying to play a powerful race for a round so I hope you guys enjoy my idea's and concept for the "Hero" plugin.
 
    The plugin is a point reward system. At the start of every round a player is not flagged afk or in spectate the player receives 1 loyalty point. These points have a 100 point cap. So the base minimum requirement for the plugin to activate is for the server population to be at 6 players none of which can be flagged afk or in spectate. Players then will start to receive their loyalty points. The points being gained this way makes it fair for all players to gain points so every player good and bad has the chance at gaining the currency. This will stop players from throwing rounds or actively trying to lose to gain access to the Hero system Dakka mentioned. Each player has access to the !hero command. Players can spend 20 loyalty points and select from the pool of heroes and once selected they are locked into that race for the next round COLORED TEXT warning will go out to both teams letting them know that someone on their team/other team is going to spawn next round as a hero character. Once a player on a team has selected and locked in to being a hero !hero command becomes disabled for the rest of the round for that team. 
 
  REWARDS: For killing a player on a hero race the killer is rewarded a bonus 500 exp and assists are 150xp. Hero races by default are maxed level but still gain levels like a normal race and exp tracker keeps track of each players hero's exp. When a player on a hero race levels up that player is given 1 level in the exp bank. 
 
  HERO RACE: So what I wanted to do to start with the hero races was to use the original four races to start the Human Alliance, Orc, Undead, Elven. King Anduin , Grommash , Sylvanas ,  and Tyrande. What I wanted to do to simply create the heros and make them strong and still keep their roots was to give the four original races an extra skill line called ( Heroic ) This Hero is immune to magic damage , ultimates , fall damage , immobilization effects , burning , and has 50% damage mitigation. The heroic mod could be a copy paste skill that could be added onto any race to make it a Hero race in the future or as the ENG see fit can make it into their own. Anyways this is my idea of a rewarding and "balanced" hero system were every player gets a chance to be the hero from the good players to the bad ones. 
 
DONOR BONUS: I felt since we have a donor system why not add one more perk to being a donor. Donors get double points and double rewards from the hero system. EX: 2 points a 1k exp for killing a hero and 300 exp for assists. I feel the 1 level in the bank on a level up is fair across the board even for donors. 

Another 10 mil
thanks krony