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Eagle reacted to Stiqqy in Proper Merry Christmas thread!
Have a good one gaff, Love seeing your family photos ?
Have a good christmas everyone
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Eagle reacted to w33zy in Proper Merry Christmas thread!
Merry Christmas everyone.
here a picture of my niece thinking she is a robot.
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Eagle reacted to gaffeR in Proper Merry Christmas thread!
I'd like to wish you all a proper Merry Christmas and i hope the fat man has brought you what you wanted.
Today we will being seeing friends and family starting at my Mrs parents for drinks and Christmas dinner to see Adies family and then on to my brothers later on to see all my family!
Tomorrow will be a day of nursing a hangover and in-between putting kids presents together and just letting them enjoy all their presents because they have been spoilt to fuck!
What are all your plans?
Hope you all have a good day and stay safe!
Merry Christmas from the Garforth family!
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Eagle reacted to Fluxy in OB vs OB - Ring of Elysium
6 of us paired off into 2 three man squads on ROE and tried to queue into the same game.
This is the result
Alpha WINNERS
FluxDOGGA
WeezDOGGA
WistDOGGA
Beta LOSERS
DantheGaff
Alex Pelligrino Pelican
CryinbucketLobster
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Eagle reacted to Wist in It's over.
tl;dr: a siloed community will derail any project in the long-term
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I'm flattered people thought I was a good owner. Hats off to Conor, who I really just supported.
One thing OB HAS to solve is how siloed it's become. OGs in one channel, and I don't even know how many others groups hang around in the other channels. Is that my fault? Probably slightly, but I am less active than I've ever been now. No, it's not black and white OGs vs. the world, but this community is circles within circles. Conor had a fair point when he said people don't talk to him on the day-to-day from these posts. They had a point when they said, conversely, Conor didn't talk to them.
Why did it work in the old days? Coherency, for one thing: people played with more or less everyone, and OB had (and I'll say it again, as I have for the last year) a brand. OB Members were consistent: consistently good CSS players, good wardens, good Ts, good community members. They were almost all friends, too: at least without the immediate trolling. I think people have rightfully pointed out that when the mods felt obliged to police the community, people did care more about being inclusive. It meant they actually played together, and the community was exactly that: a community. And because we had a coherent community, it meant OB could and did take jailbreak dramatically more seriously, and more creatively, then most any other rival jailbreak community in existence. For two years, whenever we ventured onto Hellsgaming or any of the other JB communities, we always stole the show with our commanding. Thus, a virtuous circle.
How do you fix it? I know I'm sounding like I'm reeling off corporate bullshit here, but OB needs to produce a product again. Two parts to this: it has to be
good marketable Yes, I know this is obvious to everyone. But if it is going to be (1), it has to be consistently good, which means getting the community - yes, the real, whole community - to play it together. Break down the barriers, meet the new upstarts, or the old fogeys upstairs, whichever one you are. And if it's going to be (2), it actually has to have a realistic chance of success. Minecraft servers do not achieve this because unless they're massively innovative and set-up like Hypixel (which is, as far as I can tell, a multi-million dollar company) because Minecraft is not, to my memory, particularly conducive to people stumbling across it. Without VoIP, it's also very hard to actually give an OB-brand or touch to. Jailbreak's genius was that it was a game that revolved around characters. Our best wardens were good characters. Outbreak has, and still does have, a wealth of characters. People here are funny as hell. And they're funnier now than they've ever been, no doubt. Unless OB is hoping to transition to a soulless corporate machine like Hypixel, then it has to solve all these problems simultaneously:
What will actually bring the whole community together? If the answer is genuinely nothing, then you've already got two+ communities. What gamemode is actually conducive to people stumbling across it? YouTube or Twitch help with this stuff, but there has to be some natural osmosis - e.g. a decent and reliable server browser that we can feasibly sit on top of, all day long. What game has sufficient controls and mechanics, as well as VoIP, such that OB can actually put some character into it?
If I'm sure of one thing, sustained contact builds community bridges. Gaffer and Mintlou hated each other. Five years on, and Mintlou will make an appearance at Gaffer's (send out the damn invites already) wedding.
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Eagle reacted to Pasickle in Brawlhalla
i recommend this game to everyone here it is basically a b tech smash bros but a lot of fun. if you already have the game share your clips on this thread. also its FREE
here's a clip of my destroying @FlaSh as soon as he respawned.
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Eagle reacted to gaffeR in McGregor vs Khabib
McGregor tried to attack Aldo
McGregor threw bottles at Diaz
McGregor attacked Khabibs bus and injured a person
McGregor made continuous derogatory remarks about Khabibs beliefs, wife and father
But McGregor fans: kHaBib wAs aBsOlUTeLy dIscRacEful. bElt sHould bE sTriPpEd
McGregor is just a massive bellend.
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Eagle reacted to Skeff in CSGO Server Survey
Survey End
It's been almost a week since I put this survey up and the number of responses have slowed down. Thank you to everyone that has submitted a response and are interested in a CSGO server. I shall be closing the survey at the end of the week so if anyone has yet to respond to this please make sure you respond to the CSGO server survey.
CSGO Server
There has been a brilliant repsonse to this survey. 20/22 (90%) of the responses are interested in a CSGO server. This has the potential to be a great starting player base and I am hopeful everyone has old OB friends they can invite to increase this base player population.
CSGO Events
Out of the players interested in a CSGO server 17 (85%) are interested in CSGO events. Since events don't have to maintain a population I am hopeful that events could gain popularity such as the old 20 player events we used to host. This should help boost the population on the server, especially if there is a reward system for playing the events.
I asked how often these players would like to see events. 30% want the old fortnightly schedule back, 40% want monthly events and 20% want them to be less frequent. Whilst I would personally enjoy fortnightly events to be back it would seem monthly CSGO events would be preferable in the community. Some players may want these to be more frequent but I think official events for other games could fill in the void left by CSGO events.
Server Gamemodes
I asked each player to rate their interest in each of the following gamemodes. These are how I expect the gamemodes to fair if used on a server.
Gamemodes that won't survive
Arms race, Battle royale, Deathmatch, Demolition, Hostage
Gamemodes that would struggle to survive
Aim, Capture the flag, Control points, King of the hill, Zombie escape
Gamemodes that could survive
Bunny hop, Retake, Surf (Combat)
Gamemodes that could thrive
Climb, Jailbreak, Minigames, Surf (Skill)
Event Gamemodes
I also asked each player to rate their interest in each of the following gamemodes when used for an event. These is how popular I expect an event with the gamemode to be.
Gamemodes that won't attract (m)any players
Deathmatch, Demolition, Hostage, Retake
Gamemodes that may attact a small group of players
Arms Race, King of the hill, Surf (Combat)
Gamemodes that may attract a medium group of players
Battle royale, Bunny hop, Capture the flag, Control points, Climb, Jailbreak, Surf (Skill)
Gamemodes that may attract a large group of players
Aim, Minigames, Zombie Escape
What next?
I think this survey shows there is support for a CSGO server in the community. There is a good selection of game modes which could work out well for the server however each has it's own issues. A gamemode rotation or multigames plugin could solve these however these solutions also come with their own issues that will need to be addressed for the server to have a long lifespan.
This survey also shows there is support for CSGO events. There is a much greater selection of gamemodes that may bring together groups of the community but there won't be as many players are we have had in the past. Additionally there has been discussion about official events in other games which could also prove to work out well but unless someone takes a survey or tries to host one we don't know how popular it will be. I am hopeful that we can host successful events and make the community excited for them once again.
At the start of next week I will open a discussion for the specific details for the game server and it's gamemodes. There may be a survey to gather data and an open forum thread for players to post their suggestions. After a week or two, if the issues have been addressed and there is sufficient interest in the server I will open it. Once open the server will start with a basic gamemode. Over the first month I will test multiple gamemodes to see how each one works. After this the server will focus on what is the most popular. If the server is doing well then I will expand the servers gamemodes, plugins, maps and introduce events.
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Eagle reacted to Kai in HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAI
@everyone rep me as birthday present
rep4rep if u post hb
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Eagle reacted to Quinn in Who is your oldest living blood relative?
did you attack them with golf clubs as well?