Hello everyone,

We've just launched a CS:GO Mini Games server! Some of the server features include:

• 128 tick rate. Your headshots will register!
• GameMe stats for all you rank whores.
• A pretty-sweet map rotation. Map nominations are available to all players.
• Store plugin. Tracers, hats, trails, pets and much more! You can purchase items, sell them later on when you no longer want them, trade items with players, and gift players items you've purchased in the store. You can also bet your credits on which team you think is going to win.

We're hoping the community will help shape this into a great server to play on. Please help us jumpstart it by joining and sharing any suggestions you have!


Store

We are looking for suggestions for trails, hats, pets, etc. that we should add. The current selection is subject to change whether they be removed or new things be added. What we ask is that if anyone has something that they think would make a good addition to the store, go ahead and suggest it. If it's a simple trail, it doesn't need to be in the correct format, you can just link to the image. However, suggestions for models should be compiled for CS:GO. I'm not a modeler nor is anyone else in Management. So unless you are or you know someone who is a modeler, please be sure the model is meant for CS:GO....

...well most aren't.

Earlier this year, we received a slew of unban requests from old, permanently banned players, all of which were forgiven. This got us thinking, 'maybe we should ban players for a year rather than permanently?', figuring one year is long enough for most players to change their ways. This would mean any offense that would normally earn someone a permanent ban - such as hacking - would now only earn them a one year ban, but permanent bans would still be possible for the bad eggs who manage to earn them (e.g., a child porn spray will still result in an immediate perm ban).

A few weeks ago we decided to move forward with this idea, and yesterday we finalized it. One year bans will now be given in place of permanent bans, and permanent bans will be given on a case-by-case basis.

With this change comes another mass unban (the last one we did was in July 2013). 1,260 permanent bans that were a year or older have been lifted, and 163 permanent bans given within the past year have been updated to one year bans. Not all bans were lifted however, 87 exceptions were kept intact.

@Server Admin's:
-- Now is a good time to review the server rules. Make sure you're logged into your forum account so you can see the updated punishment procedures.
-- If you believe someone deserves a permanent ban, create a thread in the perm ban request section of the forums.

Thanks to @Momo...

So, we stopped posting news for a while.

Earlier in the year we piloted out OVH for a little bit, to see if the performance metrics matched up against the current gear from LSN. The network was far superior in terms of PoP's in Europe compared to LSN. LimeStone Networks believe it or not experiences complete network outages daily, causing their Data-Center to drop off the face of the earth. Unfortunately though, the issue is since they're much smaller LSN can offer new gear much more easily. The Haswell upgrade caused us not to move as the @Luffaren Lag-o-vator would have returned, the best OVH had was Ivy Bridge. So there we sat, on Limestone Networks.

Towards the end of the summer, we had banned a kid who seemed to have a little bit of money. They bought 'booter' services or whatever they're being called now, and essentially caused the week long outage on individual servers. The attack seemed mostly targeted against Zombie Escape. However the attack varied between ZE, ZombieMod, MiniGames, Mumble, and ZombieLila.

We argued a bit back and forth, but we had the foresight to see it coming... At the time I was moving from place to place every couple days, didn't have the typical HSIA and I think I was on another persons WiFi. Brian bought the new server for a week, then we waited the night for OVH to set it up. I believe in the morning I sprinted a little and got the basics running, then...

Hi guys.

So you may have been wondering what the esoteric titles were about... I was whining to @Brian Friday night about how consistently bad our FastDL (hereon referred to as SlowDL) server is. There are times when it just really chugs *insert crude word here*. We previously talked about getting an SSD but couldn't justify the downtime, reorganization, and system update (Debian doesn't really support modern hardware; ssds included). So I frustratingly looked at the LSN server page yet again, and saw they had increased the base bandwidth packages from 6TB to 10TB. I also noticed they discounted a ton of base packages, RAM, and their gbit ports. I priced out our same web-server with much improved specs, it came out about $10 more expensive for a Haswell CPU (same price if we had gotten Ivy Bridge), with memory, and disks tripled (bandwidth doubled). Well, shit; it's the same price and this was the super discounted server. I priced out new game-servers, with improved disk capacity, because you know, Mappers ( ), this was an actual win in price. So we can upgrade our hardware, and save money. We went to bed, baffled, planning to wake up in the morning. We also made a ticket to request to have our networks transferred, which is almost always the nightmare. Presumably the $20 charge per network now (it was previously free; don't get me started on horrible tactics...) is to help prevent the confusion because there's a transaction. But I digress, onwards!

Brian rolled out of bed at about 11AM my time (10AM his; we finished at around 3AM). I...