Wist

I didn't have sex once

Chapter Three
Succeeding Gaz came Biggles and his small council: The era of the Republic.

Interior of the Council Chambers
The Republic had one goal in mind: Open a server as fast as possible, and they did to the tune of minigames. The server saw initial success but failed to maintain people's attention, and began to suffer DDOS attacks later on. But the server had done one thing: it gave the community a new lease of life, and what had been a scattered, ragtag band of gamers found a little purpose and marched on.
By September 28th, Outbreak returned to its roots: The Empire struck back, and Jailbreak was opened.

Members of Outbreak watch the source code of Jailbreak form inside of Conor's kidneys
At last the community found its roots, and the old passions that many of its members held came to fruition. The server went from strength to strength, acting as it did as a source of membership, revenue and community. The explosive growth of Jailbreak drove the community forward, but it did so turbulently: the server demanded more and more time from already weary administrators who had busy lives: by January, the man who had saved Outbreak, Biggles, found that his stewardship had to end.

Real image of Biggles
What left was the team made of up Conor, Venga and Gaffer. The team began introducing new changes: dividing mods in two, restarting events, expanding the community even further, upgrading the servers, finding new deals and holding the community: with its raft of new members, together. Sadly, by April Gaffer too felt his time with Outbreak had come to an end, and stepped away, leaving Conor and Venga.

Pictures of the final trio: From left to right, Conor, Gaffer and Venga
There was no rest for the wicked. Within seven days, the largest DDOS attack Outbreak had suffered struck, and the server was wiped off the map. Outbreak's hosts, Trueworldgaming, were hacked and destroyed days later, and the community had lost all of its files and success so far. The next month saw a limping Jailbreak server snuffed out of life multiple times, unable to poke its head above the water for more than a day at a time before the jailbreak server was annihilated by denial-of-service attacks and exploits.

The only image recovered from the initial DDOS strike: here, the three main DDOS vehicles are pictured launching their initial qconnect barrage.
As the dust settled, and April fell away like rain on the mountainside, Jailbreak pounded back. The DDOS attacks were lifted, new hosts were found, the source files were largely recovered, and Outbreak was rewarded with a full server constantly. This marks the most recent glory days of Outbreak's history: It was enormously powerful, and the server's rise to the forefront of UK jailbreak was largely unprecedented. Within weeks, it was the only viable choice for UK-based jailbreak, and it has been ever since.

Outbreak's Jailbreak fleet strikes back, image sometime early May
Two weeks into this glorious period, the council saw the loss of Venga, who, battle-weary as he was decided to step back and away from Jailbreak, to pursue a career in finance and suspicious amounts of memes.

Venga captured by OG forces, late May
The server and community required aid, and Conor enlisted the help of an old administrator - Wist - to help. Wist became Conor's padawan, and rose through the ranks quickly to become Co-Owner and began planning the future of Outbreak. The two joined forces to hire new moderators, build a wider community, drive events, and embezzle money: Their watch saw the community grow into its two facets - the era of the OGs and the Jailbreakers.

Conor carries Wist on his back, late August.
Under Wist and Conor's watch, the last stages of their schemes were realised: The community introduced Outbreak Veteran, made the last plans for the future, and began the climb to Outbreak as a multi-server community. Tragically, Wist's role in Outbreak was on a time limit: He had to leave in late September to go to University, leaving Conor alone. They were aided by SonyTwan, who's brief stint as an administrator drove the community from strength to strength. Sony's time at the helm was short-lived however, and he left within a few months.

Sony and his family, time unknown

Wist sometime after leaving, September
What follows now is the post-monoserver era: Conor, with his two padawans Kartoffel and Unseen, fly the trusty old HMS Outbreak into new waters, and on to ever stranger tides.

Unseen, late September

Kartoffel takes command, also September

it's a me





 
A few of uni generally

it's a me





 
A few of uni generally

it's a me





 
A few of uni generally

it's a me





 
A few of uni generally

SNIDE, SNARK, LIBERAL BOURGEOIS PARTY (SSLBP) - VENGA
For those who went to the right university, have the right accent, and the right opinions, look no further. If you don't fit the prior criteria, fear not, we are always eager to win the hearts and minds of aspirational hypocrites on the rise. If you have the right opinion, and can make snarky comments at people who are clearly less intelligent than you, and swiftly flee/deflect once you're confronted with facts, we're the party for you.

Strictly NO plebs/povos/idiots - we're there to help them, not represent them. 

Me and my partner (adie) are expecting another baby, was a huge shock but we are over the moon, bring on another little jimmy!

You will be missed UK.
Then again a referendum isnt binding sooo...

Apologies to the world.

Well, time to see what happens
 

Dave is lucky that he has a chance to stay in as PM, doing that would seal his doom. Time to move to Canada.

It's all over boys, abandon ship 
 
 


 

Sorry, I'm not not sure if you meant it this way but this has come across, at least for me, as really ignorant and arrogant. If you had been active recently you might recall a few weeks ago we were about to put up the surf server and everything was going well, a default server was even set up but before any custom work could be begun our stuff was hacked into and due to this everything was disabled by us to try limit the amount of damage and to find out how it had happened.
Also as a side note, just before the 'hack' happened, we had moved over to a new dedi as for the same price we got double ram, quadruple hard drive space and eventually more security. We had a week to move over the gameservers to a new dedi due to what happened, which would be fine by itself but as the new dedi is Linux I also would have had to learn all of the basics for Linux to set up gameservers in that time too.
However of course things in OB don't go so easily. When I had 5 days to finish moving our stuff across from the dedi to our new bigger and better dedi, we got anonymoosed and I had to  spend 1-2 days trying to find out how it was done to make sure it doesn't happen again. This ended up in me deciding to move everything to the new dedi to keep it more secure so it meant having to have to learn a hell of a lot more in a short time. These were things that I've never had any real previous experience with but after staying up quite a bit over those few days that I had I was able to get a basic JB up. I then had to get the forums sorted by setting up SQL databases and importing previous data (which is really fucking fun), following this I also had to fix, add extra things to and secure our sourcebans, CTbans, permissions and every other little thing while also fixing every problem that popped up along the way. All of this was done along with having a job and other commitments. I'm not trying to sound petty or like a bitch when I say this, I am more than willing to put time into this community but I work at my own pace.
So I have been doing a hell of a lot of stuff and working as fast as I can without completely just no life-ing 100% of my time to it. It is a hobby of mine but this an explanation of why surf is taking longer than we expected. Also Mintlou, I don't really know what your point is about as others have tried to explain it to me but I'll wait until you come to me directly rather than listen to their possibly wrong interpretations. Read above if you also didn't know why surf has been taking longer.

wist is cool

wist is cool

As I use it more, I enjoy it more. The pros are really really starting to outweigh the cons. While alot of stuff wouldnt have worked on the old forums, EG shout boxes. I think the new revamped style definantly feels like a step forward. Only thing is the web pages seem to be taking a crazy time to load, but i dunno if thats maybe just me