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  1. Posted

    20 hours ago, Mintlou said:

    As ever, open to suggestions and will implement anything people ask for

    ...

    I'll always be open to talking and listening to whatever the community wants to do.

    I feel like this point gets glossed over quite alot when it shouldn't.

    We're the staff team and we can make changes to the community, but we're not gods who can magically create a perfect idea that's guaranteed to work and will reViVE oB. If people want something to happen, make a post or message someone, or if you want to know about something ask us - repeating this same loop of not suggesting anything or asking us directly and then complaining that we're not making constant updates when there's very little to talk about* seems incredibly counter-productive and overly inflammatory

    *-Yes, I did say in previous posts that this would be a good idea but I've since changed my mind; it seems incredibly pointless to make a post saying "nothings happening atm lol"

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  2. Posted · Edited by Eagle

    @Skeff @w33zy @keemy

    LIST OF VOTERS (In alphabetical order):

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    Biggles
    Brake_d0wn
    CHeeKYiE
    Chus
    Danny
    Desig
    Drake
    Eagle
    Eraser
    Extinct ツ
    FlaSh
    Fluxy
    Frostie
    GingerPopper
    Hazed
    HeadHunter
    IrishChamp
    JME
    Jak
    JamesG
    Jamie
    JasperTheHamster
    Jaydog!
    Kai
    Kartoffel
    Lucy
    MiniColossus
    Mintlou
    Nuetraluk1
    Oldmike
    Pasickle
    Quake
    Quinn
    Rachel
    Scrobbesbyrig
    Scrune
    Sir_Conor
    Skeff
    SonyTwan
    Sovman
    TheCake
    TheSwiftWolf
    Toby.
    Twitzoh
    VENGA BUS
    Vemix
    Veng3nce
    Wist
    Yoshi
    bd0n
    gaffeR
    giant_cheesepuff
    keemy
    marsh
    mitch
    nick
    w33zy
    |JessE |
    ҉NuclearGamer
    ♥ SmokingKitty ♥

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  5. Posted

    1 hour ago, Jamie said:

     I don't blame Eagle for not putting threads up anymore because people can't be bothered. 

    Just wanna clarify that I didn't the make the threads last week because I was away, not because I've given up with weekly game nights.

     

    I will still continue to run the nights because for the people that do turn up, it does end up being fun and a way to play some games that you might not usually choose, but it is annoying for a sizeable portion of the community to agree on an idea and then when it's actually implemented for people to just suddenly not show up.

     

    I don't really believe that people don't know the details of how the nights work, but just in case:

    MONDAY: Thread is made for game suggestions

    WEDNESDAY: Vote is made for game choice

    FRIDAY: Games night at 7:30pm in the events channel on teamspeak

     

    Also, I've seen a few people say that they didn't know what the game was on a certain night, I do try to keep the calendar event up to date, but failing that you can just look at the vote thread or ask on the night.

     

    I don't actually have an issue with people not turning up if they don't enjoy it, but there is a huge discrepancy between the people who said it would be a good idea and the people who turn up so I just don't really understand why? Do people want to do it on a different night or later etc.? (A weekend maybe?)

     

    2 minutes ago, keemy said:

    >someone suggests a game to play

    >same person also doesn't show up to play that game 

    ??

    Big +1 to this as well.

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  6. Posted

    Vote here for the game to be played in this Friday's game night at 7:30

    I decided to include KF2 and Mordhau as although not everybody owns them, they still make for good group games (each KF2 lobby can hold 6 people which I think is enough and obviously Mordhau will be fine).

    Also note that GMOD could be any gamemode, people will just choose on the day.

  9. Posted

    Post below which games you would like to play in this Friday's game night (at 7:30pm)!
    Also feel free to give any suggestions to improve the way game nights are run or any other logistics/issues.

    I'll be running these threads every week as I figured that people's interests will probably change fairly often.

     

    Games that have already been played (and so will not appear on this weeks vote):

    -skribbl.io
    -bonk.io

  12. Posted

    Hey guys, game nights will now be consistently running every friday evening (sorry for the delay)

    If anybody has a game they want to play this friday, post your suggestions here and we'll have a poll in a couple of days to decide what it will be!

     

  13. Posted · Edited by Eagle

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    Servers
    We are currently hosting a 48 slot Mordhau server (thanks Mintlou!) which is already ranked among the top 200 community servers! At the moment it is running on Frontline, but this can be changed if people want a different gamemode. We encourage everybody to try populating the server as much as possible and of course give any ideas they have for its development.

    Weekly Game Nights
    Starting this week, we will be starting up a weekly game night on Friday nights at 7:30, with the idea being that people can just chill out together on a pre-determined game. Votes will be opened at the beginning of the week to decide on which game people would like, and a channel made on teamspeak on the night. Although these are not strict events, people will still be expected to be respectful and trolls will just be banned.

    Discord
    During the community meeting, many of you expressed a good amount of interest for a Discord trial, the idea being that we would have roughly a week where the TeamSpeak server would be closed to better evaluate whether Discord would be viable or not.

    It is likely that this will be happening in the upcoming weeks, so keep an eye on the forums!

    OB Merch
    There has been interest for Outbreak branded merch, although it has yet to be decided what items will be available, prices etc.

    We would greatly appreciate any ideas regarding what you would like to see from this, and especially any potential designs that could be used.

    Promotions & Member of Month
    Congratulations to Mintlou on receiving the Partner role and Marsh, Toby, Lucy and Hazed for passing trial!

    Well done also to Danny on achieving member of the month for his help in event hosting, as well as other members such as Gaffer for their contributions within the community.

    CLWO vs OB Event
    We are considering running a CS:GO event with CLWO in the near future, please express your interest on this thread if you want this to happen:

    Staff Overhaul
    For those of you that haven't seen, the staff hierarchy has been re-worked, for more details see this thread:

    Community Meeting
    We held another successful community meeting on 08/06, see the notes from it here:

     

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  14. Posted

    Thanks to everybody who came to the meeting, we really appreciate it! (Sorry the notes are a bit late)

    Moving to Discord
    -Teamspeak has noticably better voice quality compared to Discord - although Discord's is still useable, we would need the nitro upgrades to come close to matching TS.
    -Discord seems to use more processing power than Teamspeak, but the hardware demand is so minimal it's really not worth worrying about.
    -Would people talk over voice less given the more accessible nature of Discord alongside its extended chat functionality? - Probably not: group chats, chat boxes etc. already exist among most OB members so if this was going to have an effect, it likely already would have.

    It's unlikely that we would be able to trial Discord at all without fully disabling Teamspeak, but most people agreed that this would be a good thing to do at some point.

     

    Reputation
    Can we bring back 'negative' (neutral) rep?
    There was an idea mentioned on how to implement the reactions while minimising abuse (i.e. NT spam), but the consensus was that there would be no reasonable way to moderate the inevitable trolls.


    Events
    CLWO vs OB
    There seemed to be a good amount of interest for an event like this, with agreement that it should ideally be hosted on a single weekend.

     

    Merch
    There was some interest in OB merch within the channel, with a few main questions that still needed to be answered:

    -Where would we host/source the merch?
    -What designs would people want?
    -What would people be willing to pay?

    Feedback would be greatly appreciated for this - especially who would buy it and what designs people want: please reply!

     

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  16. Posted

    35 minutes ago, Mintlou said:

    This is a completely valid and fair point, it's also one that keeps popping up. 

    If you are don't have time to run a community, let people join the team who can. 

    I have already demonstrated that I will work to get servers up to match current trends (Mordhau 1v1 only now btw), I find it hard to continue to do drive myself to do this if we are met with this kind of response all the time. 

    I would like to be able to assist Outbreak do new things without it feeling like I'm working for some silent crew of people that haven't got time for it. I want to be a part of the leadership team and have a say on technical projects. That's my offer. Don't let us get to Christmas without a new server for the love of sweet Mary Jesus. There aren't many here crying out for technical strives, events, competitions or Outbreak as a whole to "progress". I'm one of the few options for it. Yeah alright you probably don't like me that much and I have moaned for about 5 years, but I can't sit here letting all this potential go to waste. It is something I am quite passionate about not letting go. 

    Edit: Also I forgot to mention that I have secured funding for server stuff, so hit me up if you want details about how it works. It won't come out of anyone's pockets that's for sure.

    I completely agree with everything in this post and I personally believe that you should be a mod tbh (but this decision will ultimately be down to the whole team), however, I do want to clarify that I think many of the irl cases in this month have been fairly unusual one-off scenarios (for example in my case I've had exams and family things going on) as opposed to consistent commitments. I do absolutely believe that people who can't sustain managing the community because of persisting irl engagements should give the role to people who can.

     

    35 minutes ago, Mintlou said:

    Yeah alright you probably don't like me that much and I have moaned for about 5 years, but I can't sit here letting all this potential go to waste. It is something I am quite passionate about not letting go.

    Honestly (I might be in the minority here idk), I do like you, and your constant drive and passion for the community is one of the reasons for this - people might perceive your (and any other similar) posts as 'moaning', but I would class them more as 'critique'; you always seem to provide good cases for the arguments you make and are open to discussion over the issues.

     

    Although there is a community meeting is at the weekend, if people feel they want to talk on TS/Steam/Whatever before then, I'm totally happy to - I do want to encourage consistent open discussion about the community as opposed to just during meetings or pop-up threads, just message or poke me when I'm on and we can chat.

  17. Posted

    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

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  22. Posted

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    A fair amount of change has taken place within the last few weeks, so it's time for an update on the state of affairs.

    Outbreak Community Representative

    Following the first community meeting, it was decided that a representative should be elected to improve communication between the staff team and members. We followed an instant-runoff vote format and I was elected as the rep (it should be noted that Akame was the actual winner of the poll, but he declined the offer so 2nd place was taken instead).

    The full results can be found here:

    Spoiler 
    
Round #1:
 
4 candidates and 30 ballots.
 
Number of first votes per candidate:
Keemy: 8
Wist: 6
Jamie: 8
Eagle: 8
 
3 candidates have the highest number of votes with 8 votes (26.67%)
Wist has the lowest number of votes with 6 votes (20.00%)
 
Round #2:
 
3 candidates and 30 ballots.
 
Number of first votes per candidate:
Keemy: 11
Jamie: 9
Eagle: 10
 
Keemy has the highest number of votes with 11 votes (36.67%)
Jamie has the lowest number of votes with 9 votes (30.00%)
 
Round #3:
 
2 candidates and 30 ballots.
 
Number of first votes per candidate:
Keemy: 16
Eagle: 14
 
Keemy has the highest number of votes with 16 votes (53.33%)
Eagle has the lowest number of votes with 14 votes (46.67%)
 
Keemy won!

     

     

    There has also been some confusion over what this role entails, so for clarification, my main two responsibilities are (but not limited to):

    • Relaying information on the state of development within the community
               -This includes updates on admin meetings, future development plans etc.
    • Managing the monthly community meetings
     

    Remember that these are not set in stone, so if anybody feels I could change what I am doing, please do make suggestions.

    Role Changes

    Congratulations to MiniColossus on his successful promotion to member and Akame for obtaining moderator, as well as Marsh, Toby, Lucy and Vodo Hazed for getting trial.

    In addition, the veteran group on the forums has now been retired and replaced with 'Retired Member' - it is effectively the same, but slightly more lenient, available to 2 year old members or previous members who have been a longstanding part of the community. This allows for well known, previously active people to easily return to member once they have returned.

    Forum Updates

    There have been various small changes within the forums over the past few days:

    Member of the Month

    As many of you will have seen, there is now a 'member of the month' vote at the right of the home page.

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    This should be used to suggest a member that you think has contributed particularly well in the past month; the top votes will be considered by the staff and a member selected - keep in mind that obvious troll picks will just be discarded.

    As of now, the perks of winning are purely cosmetic, appearing as a forum medal which can be displayed under your avatar:

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    But if there are any ideas for more substantial benefits, please make a suggestion.

     

    Miscellaneous

    All previous warning points have been cleared (unless recent or still relevant) as to remove trivial sanctions.

    Calendar information now shows on the home page to notify you of upcoming events.

    Trophies and medals have now been fully implemented, with 'Veteran' and 'Years of Service' badges to showcase your time in the community (and reveal the filthy 2k16ers). Years of service badges require 20+ pieces of forum content per year to count towards the total.

    FiveM Server

    Development is still in progress for the server, but there have been some issues implementing certain plugins - a more detailed post will be made about this within the next couple of weeks.

    Events

    A new event schedule will now be tested to try and encourage more frequent events, following a simple alternating pattern of community choice events and staff hosted events.

    The community choice events will be based on a monthly poll to decide on a game, and we hope members will be willing to help with the hosting of these in the future. (Thanks to Danny for hosting the first Worms WMD event).

    Staff events will be run entirely by the admin team and game choice will be chosen on our perogative.

     

    Results for the first community choice can be found here:

    Spoiler 
    
Round #1:
 
5 candidates and 13 ballots.
 
Number of first votes per candidate:
Worm WMD: 3
GTA Cops and Runners: 3
Overwatch: 3
Geo Guesser: 1
Warlight: 3
 
4 candidates have the highest number of votes with 3 votes (23.08%)
Geo Guesser has the lowest number of votes with 1 votes (7.69%)
 
Round #2:
 
4 candidates and 13 ballots.
 
Number of first votes per candidate:
Worm WMD: 3
GTA Cops and Runners: 4
Overwatch: 3
Warlight: 3
 
GTA Cops and Runners has the highest number of votes with 4 votes (30.77%)
3 candidates have the lowest number of votes with 3 votes (23.08%)
 
Tiebreaker: Use 2. votes: 1 losers left.
 
Tiebreaker: Overwatch was selected as the loser of the round.
 
Round #3:
 
3 candidates and 13 ballots.
 
Number of first votes per candidate:
Worm WMD: 5
GTA Cops and Runners: 5
Warlight: 3
 
2 candidates have the highest number of votes with 5 votes (38.46%)
Warlight has the lowest number of votes with 3 votes (23.08%)
 
Round #4:
 
2 candidates and 13 ballots.
 
Number of first votes per candidate:
Worm WMD: 8
GTA Cops and Runners: 5
 
Worm WMD has the highest number of votes with 8 votes (61.54%)
GTA Cops and Runners has the lowest number of votes with 5 votes (38.46%)
 
Worm WMD won!

     

     

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  23. Posted

    I see this more as an event than a server tbh, most people would probably just play for the first day then get bored - unlikely to hold a sustainable playerbase (plus do that many people even own Overwatch in the community?)

     

    Looks like fun as a one-off though

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