Server Changes and Stats

As I'm sure most of you know, but for those that do not, the guy who used to configure our servers has left recently.
And again, most of you know by now, but I have volunteered to be his replacement. I was accepted too, which is kinda cool because I said from day 1 that I would do this job. So yeah, I'm glad to be doing everything that I can to help out this community.

Over the last week I have made many changes to the pub servers.
Server Changelog:
- New map rotation. Currently just stock maps, customs to come very very soon. No ctf_well and no tc_hydro (sorry hydro fans )
- Hydro is voteable by an admin or it may come up randomly in an RTV
- Map timelimit down to 25 minutes from 30
- All maps in rotation have other maplimits. Some have a roundlimit, some have a winlimit. A round limit is how many games of the map you get to play. A winlimit is how many times a single team can win before the map changes.
- Sourcemod upgraded to 1.1 to resolve some outstanding issues like nextmap not announcing properly and a broken RTV
- Class limit of 1 engie and 1 sniper per team on 2fort to hopefully eliminate turtling. We will see things like this on mach4.
- RTV requires 67% of the online players to say RTV. It is purposely set high as IMO RTV should be a last resort escape for bad map situations.
- Grace period of 5 min from start of map before RTV can be triggered.
- On server 1 crits can be enabled/disabled by means of an RTV style "votecrits"
- An admin can start a vote at any time on any of the pubs to enable/disable crits and scramble the teams
- 4 announcements per map, advertising the fact that we have stats, clutchkill is our host, to visit tf2f, and what the nextmap is and how long until it
- Chat triggers for websites. they are: !tf2f, !clutchkill, !stats and theres a secret easteregg one in there.
- Arena is 8v8 with no wait team.
- Maximum 3 win streak on arena before a scramble occurs
- Graphical MOTD added. Its not great now, it will get better.
- Stats are now active on the server. The webspace for this was donated by yours truely.
- Stats update once a day at 4am EST.

I know I can't make servers that will please 100% of the players at TF2F, but I can try to please most of you. I am very happy to entertain ideas via STEAM. Please not via the forums. If anyone notices any issues with the servers, please bring it to my attention immediately. In addition, chuckles and gman should be able to help you as well.

I doubt I will ever be done making modifications to the servers, but after this week it will happen at a much slower pace.
My main focus for this week will be the addition of custom maps to the rotations. Also more people will be given access to the sourcemod admin commands.
Your current sourcemod admins are: Gman, TeamChuckles!, Lancer, Wendy, ChiefSpecialK, Razor, and myself.

Everyone has been very supportive of me and for that I would like to thank everyone.

"As for the admin, I wouldn't count on it. So far it's been handed out to less then a handful of trusted individuals, and I don't think their going to change that anytime soon. Though Voss, Redbull, or Baran would be better able to answer that question."  -The Lancer

Go get em tiga!
 

^^ TY for this. the other stuff is cool to i guess. Also rest assured that there will be Hydro games on a semi regular basis. I'll be damned if we ever see CTF_Well again though.

Album wins.

Thanks alot for all the hard work. It's running great!

I'm truly exited to see the servers updated in this manner.

Thanks especially for allowing Hydro to be played, instead of cutting it out entirely.

Lets go play some Arena!

Who wants to play some 2Fort without a million Engys/Snipers?

Quote:

Easteregg hunt begins NOW.

Did you use the secret easter egg that's in my DuelMod? Because if you didn't, you should. That would make two Easter Eggs.

Album is Win.

/smiley chain.