Community Update - Updates & Community Revival

[Hachi 1895]

Hello everyone,

It’s been a while since a big post was made, but the staff team and I would like to address the elephant in the room among a few other things. To start things off, yes, we know the community isn’t thriving like it used to and that it has been this way for quite some time now. However, we are here today to try and not only push some changes out there, but also reach out to you all for feedback or serious suggestions no matter how big or small.

Communication:

A major issue that we have noticed was that staff (mainly the owners) has not been communicating enough amongst each other as well as the admin team as a whole. With the recent promotion of our previous advisor, @tie, we took it upon ourselves to promote another advisor as quickly as possible to increase communication not only between our servers/Operators, but between staff as well. With that, I would like to congratulate @HellHound for becoming our newest advisor. His activity in TeamSpeak, communication with higher staff members as well as operators, and help with populating our servers (namely Deathrun) made him a standout candidate when looking for someone to take up the role. Finally, I would also like to introduce operator-staff meetings that will be held every month 1 week before each council meeting (so the 3rd Thursday of every month).

Server Activity/Population

To address the concern of server activity, the staff team have collectively decided that it would be best to truly focus on the issues that are being brought to us so that the meetings don’t feel like a constant loop of information. We will be reducing the amount of active servers by archiving the following servers in hopes of increasing pop on our bigger servers:

• Deagle
• Course
• Zombie Escape
• KZ #2

To those that were active on these servers, whether now or in the past: I am sorry, but we felt that it was for the best given the amount of servers we have compared to the amount of population. However, for those wishing to play on the server from time to time, the event team will be hosting game nights where the server details/plugins for our archived servers will be ported onto the event server for all to enjoy for the night.

In hopes of increasing population within our servers, we thought that bringing quality leadership onto the server would help our servers thrive. With this, I would like to congratulate @M17 on becoming our newest Operator for TTT. His constant enthusiasm and care for the server has shown for months on end, and we felt that his promotion to this role was an obvious one. Lastly, I would like to announce that we will now be holding the staff team accountable for their time on the servers. We feel as though there is a disconnect between our staff team and the community, and this is not what we intended. From here on out, staff members ( @ Head Admin @Global Admin @Advisor ) are fully expected to spend more time on our servers, and @Server Admin @Super Admin @Operator are also in the same boat; we encourage you to follow in our footsteps and join whenever you can. You all are here for a reason, and we couldn’t do any of this without you all.

Reintroduction of Prospective Developer:

With the loss of a few of our staff members including developers, we felt as though it would be in all of our best interests to reintroduce a long-forgotten role: Prospective Developer. More on that can be read here. If anyone (whether you’re a novice or an expert) would like to try their hand at developing for our servers, I would recommend applying for this position. Our current developers are more than willing to help anyone on the prospective developer team, I promise you that this is a great learning experience. You can find the application for the role here.

Discord/Forum Changes

In order to branch out of our comfort zone, the staff team and I have decided to add sections to the forums where people can talk about miscellaneous things such as games, shows, and anything in between. Although this is not a huge update to where our forums are currently, we think this is a good way for us to transition further into expanding onto bigger things (such as the introduction of our Rust server, the details of which can be found here). With the introduction of a few forum changes, we felt as though @Box has gone above and beyond for us as an Operator and his potential was not something we could let go unnoticed. That being said, congratulations to @Box for becoming our newest Global Admin. We feel as though with the changes coming ahead of us, adding another forum moderator to the mix would help us keep things under control.

Closing Remarks

The state of SNG is not one that we were hoping for, but it is the hand that we have been dealt. Thank you to everyone that has stuck with us this far, and we hope you all will help us by continuing to support our community, and we'll do the same for you. From the bottom of our hearts, we appreciate each and every one of you.

Special thank you to @Jako and @ Character for helping write this post 

 

[bung 422]

pog!

[Noodlesssss 1372]

prg + Tango merge TBA 

pog!

[wooper 874]

Grats to the boys, they‘ve definitely earned it! 

[proobs 1920]

35 minutes ago, Hachi said:

With that, I would like to congratulate @HellHound for becoming our newest advisor.

[Chase88 424]

Excited to here this, however like you said I definitely have a few suggestions that I would love for y'all to consider. 

In regards to archiving servers:

I don't know if I like or not like this decision, because personally I feel like while more a hassle, having more servers allows players to find us faster. I mean course had a little bit of a community tbh with @bolty coming back, I saw quite a few players on every now and again. I get Zombie Escape, as it was never released and I also get Deagle. Personally I never was on KZ 2 so I can't really speak for that server. Not to mention course just became playable, I mean Diamondz just fixed the bug where if you died to many times it banned you for an hour. I feel like we should at least keep course and give the server a chance to grow.

A new suggestion:

Population teams. I suggest that operators put together teams of server admins and super admins to all collectively join their server all at once to increase the server population at that time.

This would boost the server to the top of the server browser allowing for new and old players to find our servers and start playing. Maybe every other day or so the population team for that server gets on and starts playing.

 

Other than that I love this thank y'all for what y'all do, glad to be apart of the revive of the community

[Jako 612]

well deserved boys, lets get it poppin

[EURFLY 277]

do more community events like the pop server night . not some randoms @ing in discord 

[KING KAZMA 269]

congrats dudes!!!! 

[.Fate 30]

I really hope things get better with this community the awp servers were my childhood

[Jensyl 2455]

Yes 

 

[Rain 1026]

Forum changes 

[tie 618]

It'll be sad to see the servers go for some, but good to see necessary changes happening. Excited to see what's in store, hang in there <3

[Lord Sesirith 114]

Hell yeah. As an older member in both age and join date, I fully support the revival of this community and will gladly help in any way I can.

[naK 1003]

Same here with @Lord Sesirith, I know that I've been a menace on this server for a little bit now, but as an old time member for the past 5 years, it'd be lovely to see this community be revived to what it was around 2-3 years ago. Although I'm not active on the servers anymore, I'd love to be of any assistance on the forums and teamspeak if there is anything to be done on here or there!