what happened to the payload server? It's empty at a time when it should be filled

Its actually 1 person responsible for all those hours....don't know if that's impressive or worrisome ;P

This group puts an impressive number of hours into Plants vs Zombies.

Great servers, excellent job.

no worries man... GAME ON! :)

One quick note I'd like to make, is that I just want to avoid dealing with prolonged drama. Regretfully, today I had to deal with an issue of basic respect that ended in a permaban. I really don't understand why things went down the path they did, and am sorry that they did, but the one thing I ask is that people show eachother - and me - some basic level of respect.

Today that didn't seem to be likely, so rather than put a server full of people through an extended debate or argument, I felt forced to take the least disruptive option for the sake of other players.

It's my hope that the rest of the community will understand what I did, and that it doesn't cause any further problems. If anyone has questions, please feel free to message me privately.

I'll try to tone it down.

Apparently the Payloadgeddon server was overwhelmed by the awesomeness of our gaming on a couple of occasions. I've put in a request for more CPU power and suspect that it might be migrated to a new host within the next couple days, if not by tomorrow afternoon.

Happy birthday, Sam!

Annnd we're back.

Server's down for a short while. We replaced the menu system and it decided to ignore permissions or at least get very confused about them. Yay, Sourcemod. :P Hopefully back up tomorrow evening if not sooner.

We're currently working on a menu system for the server that will let supporters and admins manage the game much more effectively. Unfortunately this is a _huge_ pain in the ass unless you want to use the overly complex and crapped-up plugins that exist, in stock form. Corvidae is in the process of trying to find out if he needs to write a plugin to make the situation not suck, or if we can modify existing things to work. Sorry it's taking a few days, folks.

Oh. I'm working on forums.

The server is back and running. I'll be working on finalizing the setup tomorrow, and will see about scheduling another test night. Sorry for all the false alarms, guys and gals!

Sorry for the false alarm. Our server host has some great features, but they also have a terrible interface for adding new features to an existing server. I tried to add HLStatsX an hour and a half before start... and it decided to reformat the whole damn server and convert it from a virtual host into a plain game. We'll have to try this again, but feel free to spread the word so we can get more people ready for eventual launch!

And of course an hour and a half from the test run, the server gets completely hosed by an attempt to add HLStatsX. SHOULD have it back up in time for 9PM, since all the configs are backed up.

And you know, that is an awesome idea, RenegadeCEO. I can do that for the second server, perhaps. I will be running 2, maybe even 3 servers since I got a whole virtual system.

Sam, name the server after your Jungle Adventures arcade!

bronko.....................SERVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

If I invited you here, you're either going to be offered an admin or at least a donator's role on the servers I set up. Running a test tonight, and will hopefully have donation rights equivalent or comparable to a certain other TF2 server group, within the next few days if not tonight.

Why a server? Certain other places have gotten just too needy. Video commercials, spammy donation requests, lack of management, all these things simply make it less fun to play there. So I'm going to try and set up a little outpost of not-suck.

If you're interested in adminning and were invited here without being told you might get the offer, please go right on ahead and speak up.

The server name is weak and temporary, but I figure it's something that might help kickstart it into becoming something bigger than me.

One important note: I am not going to be actively soliciting donations for the first couple months. If you want to donate, sure. But I'm not in this for money.