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Server Outage, New Servers, and Other Great Updates…

Posted on: August 17th, 2010 by Newbs Staff

My GSP has informed me that while attempting to fix a ‘minor’ problem they managed to lock them and myself out of the machine that is hosting 4 of our servers (#3, #5, #6, #8).  They’ve stated that they plan on completely reinstalling the machine.  This is all well and good, but will be a pretty significant outage for us, since we have 4 game servers on that one machine.  In the meantime, we have an update coming out in 20 minutes which I’m unable to apply since we’re locked out of the box, so the servers will be up but probably wont be usable :(  Also when the servers crash I can’t restart them.

I’m not sure the time table on them fixing this, I’m at the point where I want to send them emails every 5 minutes, but I dont think that will help them get anything done…

On to the good news -

98.158.146.158:27015 NewbsTF2.com #01 24/7 2Fort (Los Angeles)  NO CLASS LIMITS

I’ve added a new West Coast 24/7 2fort server..  I am thinking about adding a Chicago based 24/7 2fort server also (thats in another post)
while our servers are down, we still have some other fun servers we can hang out on

208.43.15.128:27015 NewbsTF2.com #09 STOCK-MAPS RTD [SMACKworld]  – this servers a little +lols but not so much that you need to be suffering from major head trama to enjoy.  The flavor and format of this server may change around a little bit, but we have a _GREAT_ person donating this server to us, and he can do all the customization and cool modifications we could ever want – so check out Psychonics server and give it a go round.  I think his round times are too short, but what do I know, I’m a 24/7 2fort player.. :)   This server is in DALLAS

tf.packhead.com:27015 NewbsTF2.com #11 — Chicago’s Payload  Server | HLXCE – I don’t think many people know, but we do have something real special here.  We have The Pack[head].  The Pack offers great VPS hosting to people at a reasonable rate, and even offers discounts to TF2Newbs Members.  Besides being one of the most on the ball hosting providers I’ve ever talked to he runs a great Payload rotation server in a datacenter in Chicago.  He needs a bit more love from us, since I’ve been slacking and not working to help get this server populated.  If all goes well the Pack can do waht the Pack can, which is a lot – which means more servers and more fun.
If you’re sick of all the normal payload and 2fort crap our community seems to want to serve up, we also have 2 crazy funhouse servers bringing such hits as cyberpunk, and cyberpunk…

74.53.203.12:27015 NewbsTF2.com #10 Crazy CmptrWz’s Insanity [Dallas]
216.6.231.134:27015 NewbsTF2.com #10.1 BAN’s Ice Cream Party (AllTalk|RTD|FastDL)

Sorry about servers being the bust, but at least we have some options

The 192 mark has been met. Server Updates, Peak User Levels, Fun Times

Posted on: October 21st, 2008 by Newbs Staff

Today the newbs servers accomplished something that it has not accomplished ever before.  We had all 8 of our servers 100% full.  This is a total of 192 players on at the same time.  Sure some of the larger server groups are full all the time, but this is a pretty big deal to me, especially since we just got done migrating to new addresses across most of our servers (and one of the servers was JUST added this week).

A large part of this success can be attributed to the die hard newbs, who try each day to start up the servers.  Today after the server updates came out (which I happened to be pretty quick on upgrading our servers for) I saw regulars joining the servers when they came back up, some of these servers filled almost instantly, a couple others took the usual 10-20 minutes of 1v1 to get going ;)

As for the server updates, here is the list, and my take on it…

Added rate limit for several client commands to prevent server spamming

^– I hope this addresses the bugs when poeple change class a billion times in a minute (I’m getting sick of banning people for it)

Added consistency checking for particle systems

^– yay, hopefully this fixes some of the see stuff you shouldn’t be able to cheats

Updated r_particle_timescale ConVar so it can only be changed if the server has sv_cheats set to 1

^– I’m guessing this was being abused in the clients?  (See teleport/cloak forever?)

Updated loading/disconnect dialogs so they’re easier to read

^– New font it seems, is easier to read

Updated Dustbowl, Granary, and Badwater Basin with several exploit fixes

^– anyone have any ideas what these were?

Updated Granary to remove the setup time and gates

^– yay.

 

-octo

screenies.. and whats h0t.

Posted on: August 10th, 2008 by Newbs Staff

ITs REAL.

The Holy Octo

Whats HOT?

  • MAN VS WILD
  • Should Autobalance be enforced?
  • Next honorz. Nominates.
  • thats whats hot. so check it.

    -TheJibr0ni…

    Blown Away. Hot stuff. qu0teage.

    Posted on: August 9th, 2008 by Newbs Staff

    I feel like switching things up a bit today. How about some screenshots.. then the daily news.

    Blown Away.

    H4X.. is that the govenator.

    Quoted For TruthStupidity


    THATS RIGHT.. i mean.. congrats to dewar on Jr Admin Status.

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    HOT STUFF.

  • Newbs artwork
  • Internets. See how you match up
  • Close race. DO IT
  • Gggly does hollywood.. you tube
  • The forums are hot. So get in there.

    Fun times playing bball last night with the ice and nes guys on the rotation server : )
    Feel free to leave comments.. suggestions.. hate mail.. on the bl0g.

    TheJib…

    Honorz Vote – Screenshots – Updates

    Posted on: August 6th, 2008 by Newbs Staff

    Ahh yes.. Time for another hon0rz. Best Spy?

    Spy’s Sappin muh Happiness..

    You’re walkin out of your base, got your medic.. uber ready.. Just waiting to unleash some wicked crits on some noobs and BAM. BAM BAM. (err.. slash) Your medics dead, the guy next to you is dead, you turn just in time to get face stabbed. @#%$^.. Who gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling?

    Nominees:

  • Jaxass
  • Bob Dole’s Woodlen Critters
  • [BS] Afro D
  • -Rush-
  • [HN]Carribian [nes]
  • Go Vote! Give these guys a nice crit to the face next time you see them. We owe them a couple : )
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    A trip to the Balet

    screeenshoott timmme.. Seems fitting with the honorz vote and all..

    Another balet sh0t.

    keep them coming. Upload em

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    Although the server and website are constatly updating I thought I’d take a moment to give Octo some props on porting the blog to match the rest of the site. Looks pretty. Wasn’t easy.

    TheJib…