Today the hoster finally answered my e-mail and have cancelled the server with immediate effect. It seems it took them a few days (over a week!) to realise they didn't cancel the account when they were supposed to. Although they took a month's money for it, i should imagine they'll refund it soon.

Hope you all enjoyed the ride and enjoyed all the special moments as a community. Will never forget you all. Take care.

Signing off
Evil-Dragon

This is embrassing... ok well. In a nutshell, i've checked my bank and another payment for the server has come out from a reoccuring payment plan on Paypal. This means that i've paid for another month for the server. The plan on paypal is cancelled now so.. there you go. Server will probably end about the 26th July now. Oh well, enjoy for now.

"And in the final moments we have left, I'd like to talk right down to Earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand."

I haven't been listening to too much Cult of Personality recently. So anyway, down to business. I'd just like to remind everyone that it is officially the 26th over in Britain, where the server is hosted. Today is officially the final day of the server. I have no idea at what time it will end, all I know is that I will miss every moment of it.

Well, seeing as it's still up as of June 30th, the server shows no signs of slowing down.

It is my sad duty to inform all patrons that the server will be closing with immediate effect. I've not come to this decision lightly, in fact it's due to my life changing dramatically and me and my partner are due to have a child together. This ultimately means that money and time are a luxuary that i no longer have at my disposal. I've also taken into consideration the change to the idling/drop system rules and feel that idle servers no longer have a place in the TF2 world.

The donation system was supposed to be a step in the right direction to take money out of the equation but also has failed to produce good enough results. Largely this is due to Valve breaking the parenting system for many of the donator features that made donating worth while. With Valve's stance on their protected content unlikely to change, this leaves a broken donation system with no future.

As with my word for the donators who donated money for features on my server, i will not cut and run away with your money. Please contact me via the e-mail address at the bottom of this annoucement for a refund of your donation. All monies will be sent back to the original e-mail address used intially and will be paid via Paypal.

I'd like to thank all the patrons who visited my server and made an excellent community during it's peak. Without you, none of this would have ever been possible. I'm proud to say i thought of you all equal (apart from the bastards who i needed to ban for ignoring the rules and blasting me)

Finally i'd like to give a big big big thank you to all my admins from start to finish. Noodleneck for being a really good friend, always spending time beyond the call of duty day and night. Roflwaffles for being a crazy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and also being a great friend to me on the server, you made the server a great place. Finally Sapphire Dragon, thank you my dear for spending time with us and making a great community, although you only joined us recently you helped bring all the community and admins together to make it truly great.

As for myself, i'm sorry i wasn't here all that much and had to make this dreadful decision. As an adult with a partner, mortgage, work, friends and bills to pay it left me with little time or money to spend online. It is the way it needs to be and one day you will all know what i'm talking about.

Signing off but never truely gone
Evil-Dragon
Matthew Hill

E-mail Address: matthewhill@blueyonder.co.uk

In the 1.0.8.6 TF2 update, Valve put in a new policy that prevents server modifications from attaching entities to players and having the attached entity be visible.

This greatly limits creativity with server-side mods, a list of what this new policy breaks:

1. Custom, unofficial hats. Valve can't possibly add every single hat to TF2 and some servers have special unique hats. Essentially, all servers are barred from using anything as a hat.

2. Custom, unofficial and on-the-fly generated weapons that server modifications may issue to players. Custom weapons simply are not going to be drawn to other players (and possibly the owner itself)

3. Any future game play modification that may want to attach an entity to a player for a variety of reasons. PropHunt used this feature, valve explicitly added two new inputs to prevent PropHunt from being quite difficult to fix. My question to Valve is, would PropHunt ever came into existence if this policy on no attached entities been in effect the whole time?

Valve games have always been very mod friendly and this is one of the reasons for the longevity of their games, Valve has been one of the few game companies that are quite open with their games that allows these kinds of things to thrive. This new policy is an arbitrary limit on mod creativity.

This currently breaks:

TF2Items
TF2 Equipment Manager

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION BELOW TO HAVE PARENTING REINSTATED BY VALVE AND BRING BACK THE FUN TO OUR SERVER: https://secure.voogru.com/petition/index.php