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Mintlou wants to see this community thrive like it once was, hes more than happy to help and his tech knowledge is what you guys need, let him have some power to make things happen, he will keep up with trends, have servers up in days rather than weeks, he just needs conor to give him access and he will be all over it.

And as much as i hate to admit it, we kicked up a fuss about it, but for us to advance in the future we need to move to discord.

Mintlou wants to see this community thrive like it once was, hes more than happy to help and his tech knowledge is what you guys need, let him have some power to make things happen, he will keep up with trends, have servers up in days rather than weeks, he just needs conor to give him access and he will be all over it.

And as much as i hate to admit it, we kicked up a fuss about it, but for us to advance in the future we need to move to discord.

There's a few main reasons for the lack of communication in the past month:
-The staff team have been fairly busy with irl events (exams, family etc.) meaning it's been difficult to actually be productive - This is my fault that I didn't communicate this and I'm not trying to justify the lack of updates etc., but I'm more trying to point out that communication hasn't been less active out of apathy/laziness, its just been difficult to actually any posts of substance
-I haven't been involved with server development so I haven't had the information to give. I was under the impression that someone actively working on the server would be making the post, but perhaps there was miscommunication there - my understanding as of now is that development is slow due to plugin updates.
-Update posts used to be run monthly: its been exactly a month since the last one, so one will be coming out this month (keep in mind that monthly doesn't necessarily mean on the exact same day every month). I thought this would be a good system to start with as people seemed to be happy with it before, but if people feel they need it more frequently, I'm happy to do more
-I was planning to run another community meeting last month but as previously mentioned, staff have been unavailable for any reasonable dates. I was actually going to make a post tonight about running one on the 8th
 
I have still tried to answer questions in threads/chatbox that people raise, and I will always reply to any questions people have. If you're wondering why there's been no update post/community meeting etc. just make a thread or post in the chatbox and I'll respond
 
I feel like people are going to interpret this as a disingenuous "I've made mistakes but I promise I'm going to change guys" post - please understand that I do genuinely listen to feedback and I'm not trying to just make people think change is happening without acting on it. This month has been fairly awkward mainly due to irl situations so things should return to a more regular circumstance soon

So i feel we are back to literally back to square one, nothing happening, no updates.... nothing.

Why do we bother? 

We ask for things and we try to help for the good of the community, but what happens we go back to "Square one" same shit different day, this is why this community gets so pissed with the people that are running it, like we said over and over, GIVE US AN UPDATE. We kick up a fuss because we feel nothing is happening, we don't know whats going on behind the scenes, but we are left in the dark as per usual.

This was the last update we had, from ouR appointed community rep, the whole thing was put together to give us updates, so we are not so frustrated with being left in the dark.


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ANY PROGRESSION?????? 

So i feel we are back to literally back to square one, nothing happening, no updates.... nothing.

Why do we bother? 

We ask for things and we try to help for the good of the community, but what happens we go back to "Square one" same shit different day, this is why this community gets so pissed with the people that are running it, like we said over and over, GIVE US AN UPDATE. We kick up a fuss because we feel nothing is happening, we don't know whats going on behind the scenes, but we are left in the dark as per usual.

This was the last update we had, from ouR appointed community rep, the whole thing was put together to give us updates, so we are not so frustrated with being left in the dark.


In this thread



ANY PROGRESSION?????? 

So i feel we are back to literally back to square one, nothing happening, no updates.... nothing.

Why do we bother? 

We ask for things and we try to help for the good of the community, but what happens we go back to "Square one" same shit different day, this is why this community gets so pissed with the people that are running it, like we said over and over, GIVE US AN UPDATE. We kick up a fuss because we feel nothing is happening, we don't know whats going on behind the scenes, but we are left in the dark as per usual.

This was the last update we had, from ouR appointed community rep, the whole thing was put together to give us updates, so we are not so frustrated with being left in the dark.


In this thread



ANY PROGRESSION?????? 

Happy birthday conor, for your birthday ill share your favourite warning point picture x

Happy birthday conor, for your birthday ill share your favourite warning point picture x

Happy birthday conor, for your birthday ill share your favourite warning point picture x

Happy birthday conor, for your birthday ill share your favourite warning point picture x

thx for taking the time out of your day to give me warning points on ur bday
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Happy birthday conor, for your birthday ill share your favourite warning point picture x

Happy birthday conor, for your birthday ill share your favourite warning point picture x

Fluxy: your retarded unfourtauntly

Me, Rob and mestan has some good times on this, but it's very short lived, shame the expantions are too expensive. 

Happy birthday, think I'm a bit later but hope you had a good day! 

They days of wow that where the best for me was sneaking round Stormwind as a horde character and just wiping cunts out with a few friends which eventually turned into an all out brawl, ahhh how i miss them days.

As much as i would like to play classic, the game it just too time consuming.

As most of you already know I'm going to be a dad within the next couple off weeks (due Saturday 16th) so I would like to hand in my moderator, this is not a good bye and I will still be popping on TS When possible, but obviously my whole life is about to change, so just drop me back to member and thanks too all xxxx

I present... Outbreak's most populated server in the history of this community:
 

 

Done.

Converted to a 32 slot skirmish as it's more popular!!!

 
Edit: higher res pic

Had a little trip down memory lane today, and had a look at my introduction from 2012. I thought I'd make a new one in the interest of actually meeting some more corners of the community, but for reference you can see below:
Peep that completely unnecessary A Level English brag - what the fuck was I hoping for?
Anyway, I am (still) Wist, but my real name is Harry. I am now 23, and live in London. I work in Technology Resilience at Deloitte Cyber, specialising in Business Continuity and Catastrophic Recovery in Financial Market Infrastructures. In plainer English, I effectively help banks, clearing houses, brokers, securities dealers, repo dealers, payments infrastructure (and a whole host more) recover from IT failure of all stripes - minor outages to total disasters. If anyone is interested, read this story about the world's largest shipping company, Maersk, being hit by a cyber attack. It's about the kind of scale I'm aiming to combat.
 
Prior to working in Cyber, I studied Political Philosophy at a place called Trinity Hall. I grew up in Somerset, where my parents still live. I think I've probably served in more roles than anyone else in Outbreak: from memory, Member, Mod, Admin, Head Admin, Community Admin, Co-Owner, Owner, Veteran and now back to Member again. I will always have a special place in my heart for this community - we really are a (dysfunctional) family. I think I probably know the OGs better than most of my real friends. Between my life's ups and downs, they're usually the first to know. I definitely hope the younger generation get the same bond - it's a special thing (and probably why the OGs are such an insufferable clique if you're not 'in').
 
Don't have nearly enough time to game as I'd like anymore, but I seem to be playing CS:GO, Rocket League, and FTL as my 'go-tos'. I'm still running around as a fairly headless chicken trying to work out how to vaguely adult - no luck yet.
 
I'm conscious that some of the younger folks are getting to that near-university application stage - If you ever need a hand, just yell. I'm happy to help with personal statements or revision advice etc. etc.
 
Anyway, that's me. Hope to see more of you around!
 

It always looks like i have notifications, then i realize i aint that cool, please get rid of this shit!