Group for people to learn Blade Symphony, everyone is welcome.

With the recent event of having a server made specifically for Symphonic Instructors, a lot of confusion and misunderstanding has occured from this. As such, I feel it would be best if the server for Symphonic Instructors be taken down or changed into a private server only meant for teaching. However the reasons why and what exactly happened I will explain.

First, Symphonic Instructors and Symphonic Avalon are two different groups, we do not share direct affiliation or association with eachother, aside from members. This does not mean that there are any issues between the groups, as might have been thought/said. Infact, Symphonic Avalon was to have a side server up just for Symphonic Instructors to be able to teach on.

What happened I feel was a series of misunderstandings and miscommunication, mostly on my part as I never really explained anything to anyone. And as such, I will do that now.

I had asked Antaxious for admin on the Avalon servers because I first wanted the ability to change the map as I wasn't sure if the current map was still being developed and I also wanted the ability to change the map for the private server just for teaching. Secondly I wanted admin to be able to handle anything and resolve anything that happened on the server. I believe Antaxious replied saying he would give me admin once sourcemod was implemented, but he was not going to give anyone root access, and that is perfectly fine by me.

Afterwards I was starting to try and stress test my own server to see how it could do, as Antaxious had told me all three servers on his side were running on the same box(I did not know this, so I was trying to come up with a solution) and that way he didn't need to worry about a 3rd server.

Cykadelic had then offered to set up a server for us, and I took it. From this I changed my original plan of having just a private server to having another community driven server that was a hangout where teaching could also be done there, it being Symphonic Instructor's Server where I know exactly what the rules are and I can take care of anything as I was not entirely sure what Antaxious' had planned for rules.

As with the server being brought up, I got into contact with Mr. Hali and asked for permission to use his map, and believing that the two groups were the same, he agreed. This ended up causing there to be two extremely identical servers and thus caused many misunderstandings.

As such, what was originally planned to be another community hangout, I realized very early on it was going to confuse people more than anything, so I am now going to ask Cyka to take down the server or to change it to a small passworded server for nothing but private lessons.

This way, there's only one server that is running the map so there is no confusion for future scenarios.

The last thing I feel is the most important, whether or not a joke, have been multiple comments made on Symphonic Instructors.
Symphonic Instructors is not intended to be in any way, shape or form, anything like School of War, they might seem to follow similar ideals on the outside, but at the core they are extremely different. School of War, as it's founder, Red, had put it, was his dojo. Symphonic Instructors, is a group not owned by me, it is owned by the community. However I am the founder, as such I will take full responsibility for the group's and my own actions. I do not plan on owning this group, I plan on guiding it, and if it comes down to it, enforcing rules. This is not a clan in any way, this is a group for new players to come and learn and for teachers to teach without fear of being trolled or insulted. And as such, there is the rule of no trolling, and I will enforce as such.

I apologize for any inconviences or misunderstands that has happened with the recent events(as ultimately, everything has arisen from decisions and actions I have taken), and I take full responsibility. I hope I did not offend or insult anyone, and I hope I can continue teaching and help others with what they need in the future. I only want what's best for the community and the game.

If you think I'm being rash or if you think I'm not thinking clearly, please let me know, and get others to tell me as well, as if I would have paid more attention and asked more lessons, maybe I could have prevented this scenario to begin with.

-Gun Wolf




Note: I'm having to re-type all of this as something happened on steam and it didn't post the announcement, please forgive me if I made any mistakes the second time around. Also, hopefully I was more clear and more concise as I believe I had 4 or so more paragraphs the first time.