You're admin will be PERMANENTLY removed if you do not report your bans. It is not that hard, and it takes a matter of seconds. If you have admin, it mean's you have read, and agreed to our admin guide, in which it states, "Report all bans longer than 1 day, no exceptions." Clearly people are having issues with this simple little thing, and we are putting our foot down now. It is difficult not to feel sympathetic towards someone who comes on asking to be unbanned, and we can't tell them who, why, or what for they were banned.

So it is simple as this: From now on, report all of your bans, longer than 1 day, no exceptions. Period. If you are going to have trouble doing that, let us know so we can remove you from the admin roster now, otherwise we suggest you start reporting your bans. We are not singeling anyone out here, this apply's to everyone. Report yer flipping bans mates!

Also, we've got a vent server for everybody's use, I'll throw the info up on the site tomorrow.

It is believed that R.I.P. DELTA either went insane or got his account stolen. He went on a spree of banning and kicking many people playing in the server. At this time he is banned from the server to prevent further incidents. Most everyone banned had been unbanned. If you know of anyone else who is still banned, plese let MouseR know. If you recieve a message from DELTA with a link, or asking for your password, email, whatever, DO NOT RESPOND.

The senior admins have created an admin guide. This is a set of guidelines we expect everyone to follow, especially admins. Please sign up on our website and read this. THIS IS A MUST FOR ALL MEMBERS, ADMIN OR NOT.

http://riphideout.freeforums.org/post1854.html#p1854

Here's a recap of our meeting on 3/4/2011 (skip to bottom for short version)

1) Server: Our second server (rip2) has been increased to 16 slots. This will become our new main server. As more players begin to play on this server, it will be increased to 24 slots. We are going to being having players merge onto our new server over the course of the next few months, and eventually shut down our current main server. The IP of our new server is: 8.3.5.240:27015

2) Admin Abuse: Over the past few months, ther have been a large influx of complaints against our server admins. This is not acceptable. Admin powers are a priveledge, and it is dissappointing that we have recieved even one complaint (see #3). Please think before you take action. If someone is camping or not doing their objective or something, give them a text warning first using 'say @ message'. Then, if it is neccessary, you may slap them once or twice (NOT 5 or 10). If they continue to not obey, then you may slay them. If some one is not following the rules (racism, tking, etc), and does not follow and of your commands, and shows blatant disregard, then you may ban them according to the crime (don't perm ban for racism, maybe a week at most). If someone is blatantly hacking, ban them permanently, immediatly, if you are nto sure, get some evidence, or other players to confirm, then ban them. If you have any questions, ask.

3) Admins: There will be changes to the admin roster. Some of you may loose powers, some of you may gain powers. We are not doing this because we don't like you or anything. We are doing this from what we have observed while playing, feedback from other members, and what we have seen in the logs. Yes, believe it or not, we actually do check the logs, so we can see everything you've done. So don't be supprised if we notify you that your abilities have changed, it's because of your actions that they have changed.

4) Donations: More details coming about this later, but in short, we are going to be asking for members to be more supportive of our servers.


tl;dr
1) Changing server host, new main server is up. IP is: 8.3.5.240:27015
2) Have gotten a lot of complaints about our admins. Pleae use your brain.
3) Admin roster will be changing. May be good or bad news.
4) Donating-pleae help support our servers, as of now, only a few members are playing for it all.

This is temporary, and the clan tag will not work, so don't try it, you'll look like an idiot with adafsdfadssa infront of their name. We'll be posting announcements and ♥♥♥♥ so you guys know what''s going on, and what's new.