Click the "Teamspeak" link above in the status bar.

Otherwise you can connect to 192.169.82.14

It's already implemented but the feature is VIP+

I did? Huh, don't remember.

Quote from: wakeboarderCWB on February 22, 2014, 08:13:41 PM

Quote from: Delta1116732 on February 22, 2014, 07:58:14 PM

Could toss a few servers that only take up space. IE Sandbox, and Cinema. Hardly ever see people on there. Save CG some dollars.

CG does not pay per server, we pay for a server box and run all of the servers off of it. We can host as many servers as the box will allow us to.

Cool, didn't know that. So then why did we take TTT, and other things like that down?

Alright, let me answer to these posts then I'm going to explain exactly how this works.

Sandbox and Cinema actually do have a purpose. They do get players, while not a lot, but that's not the reason they're there. They're there for testing new features and to troubleshoot problems with other servers. If they break, it's not a big deal. For reference, here's the past 1 month of players on Sandbox: Graph

As far as how we host servers, those above are correct. We pay for a single Windows dedicated server (From Limestone if you're curious) which is managed by Waffle and Myself. The devs have access to it and do their work on that dedicated server. Setting up a new server is as easy as copying the SRCDS base install from our common directory and setting it up with our management system. As far as putting up servers, it costs us nothing. SRCDS, without any players, takes up very little resources and generally doesn't effect the performance of others. The reason servers like OCRP2, TTT, Morbus, GMR, and more were taken offline is not because of cost or performance. The reason is that we need to maintain and administrate them.

If you play on HRP, you already know we have a hard time keeping the rules enforced during play, which is why we beg that you record the rule breaking and post a ban request. If we had more of these servers up it just means our admins need to spend more time on other servers, time we can't afford to spare. This is part of the idea behind the global /report system. The idea was that an admin could see a report from another server and quickly answer it or act from any server (or the forum, for that matter).

Lastly, as far as cleaning the forum boards goes, I would prefer not to delete anything. People that come by the forum from Google searches generally find answers to problems or pages that, would they be deleted, would go unanswered.

Spam was deleted because I think it's funny when you guys are mad.

I just said money as an excuse, the real reason is that I'm lazy. The amount of work to do this is crazy. SMF isn't written to handle permissions like that.

Pay me