Alzir

There’s not enough interest within our own ranks to maintain the servers, despite attempts to encourage it with the server situation highlighted. XDC has to drag itself out of inactivity to be able to recruit, and only once we’ve started recruiting again can we consider supporting any servers, otherwise it’s a waste of resources. We were making progress on the TF2 front up until the end of August when unfortunately I had to stop organising things due to moving house, job, and everything that goes with that. I’ll be back on it very soon though, but perhaps the state of the servers has been my own focus for too long now and I should switch that attention to the needs of xdc itself. We’ve just turned nine years old as a clan, but we’re in a trough in terms of activity and I think it’s about time we had a look into how we’re organised. We don’t need to compromise xdc’s ethos to actually get a bit of structure about the place, and I’ve a few ideas as to how this could be done assuming we have a couple of people willing to help out with it. The idea of leaving things to whoever could be arsed to do something has only ever been effective on rare occasions over the years, and if we want to be around to make even our 10 year anniversary, a bit of effort’s going to have to made over the next few months.

I don’t mean to say here that XDC member’s participation will become an issue, but we should be looking at who our active membership is (in terms of the games being played), and keeping things fresh amongst them, and recruiting according to their needs.

So yea, dump the servers altogether is my opinion, as much as it pains me to say it, but be sure to praise the likes of Gonzo for all the help he gave us as he really pulled out a lot of stops for us, me in particular! I’d also suggest holding some resources in reserve should we reach a level of particpation again that would warrant having a server, but this is something people considerably richer than me can decide on as my own contribution to the server problem has only been time, as I’ve been able to afford little else 🙁

As for XDC, it’s back to the drawing board for us I think.

Been busy for once. Moved over to Scotland and even if I did get some time for games, my pc’s power supply’s blown 🙁

On the plus side, when I finally get fixed up my ping should be sorted 🙂

Cool, downloading it now 🙂

Just mentioned it because that happened me recently after a reformat and I’d copied the files over. Is it still happening even after restarting steam?

I may not be able to make it tonight, computer got a virus and it’s looking atm like a reformat is the only option 🙁

Welcome back to the Lightside mate 🙂

If I get a moment tomorrow I’ll figure out how to sticky a thread in here for that how to play tf2 one, though obviously you’ve found it already. Might be worth a few of us adding to it a bit with some of our own tips, but we’ll see who can be arsed 😉

If you’re up for a game I was thinking of carrying on what we’ve done that last few Sundays and getting a game going some time in the afternoon/evening. I’d say it’ll be 7 or 8 this week since Chelski are taking on the scum, but whatever time it’s at, we’re normally in TS for it so feel free dropping by 🙂

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