Dear members,

The summer cup has ended and our AC-Team is now reviewing every winners to garantee a cheat-free top 20. Thanks to the new AC-Tool which was monitoring all those players during the last week of the cup, the winners review will be much more effective.

As you probably noticed we try to continuously improve our services with GN 10.
Looking behind us, you will remember the re-introduction of the skill points in the member gather, the release of the 'levels' with free premium every 5 'level up',  the increase of the skill limit, the long awaited release of the GN AC-Tool, and many premium plugin updates including localisation.

We will continue in that direction, inaugurating 2 significant updates for this new season. First, I am happy to announce that starting tonight ALL GN members will be able to play on premium servers. It means that even non-premium members can join premium servers right now and enjoy the advanced gather system. Of course you will still need a premium account to get skill points and win prizes (channel leaders will also have the option to restrict some of their servers to premium only if their servers become to busy).

The second change is the increase of the member skill point limit. It is now set at 1300. I know that many mambers think that this limit is not good, that's why I will explain why I set that limit. The origin of the limit is that it's much more easy to "fake" a member gather, playing with a friendly as admin and 'select' your teamates, or even make one of your friend play in the opposite team and disabling skill count before the gather. I think I don't need to explain you all the way to "cheat" the system, but those are much more easy in member gathers.
That's why I originally disabled skill points in member gathers. Then came some feedback about players who wanted to play for fun, with their friends, and didn't care about prizes or top 10. Those players deserved to have some skill point too, and compete together without targeting the top of the ladder. This is the origin of the limit.
Recently I heard the community saying that the premium servers in their region are not filled with players easily, which made skill fight for the top 10 difficult for them. To avoid that problem and make the premium servers more attractive even in regions where there aren't too many premium players, I decided to open the premium servers to everybody.
This is the whole story and I hope that sceptical players will think about the counter-effect of totally removing the limit too.

So what's next ? The first target is too improve the AC-Tool. We want to find a new solution for the 'forced settings', allowing ranges for example (I think about rates...). We will also work on more effective cheat detecions, on both screnshots and process scanning sides. We will also look ahead to make premium plugin compatible with new games.

Wanna support us and motivate your coders ? Register to a premium account right now it starts at 0€/month !

That's all for now, but stay tuned !

Hi, players/admins of #CS.Gather.NL

As most of you knew, #cs.gather.nl channel had an August Competition last month.

Here are the winners:

#CS.Gather.NL players with most gathers played:
1. -  #Powerof1 with 135 gathers played. Razer Goliathus Mousepad (delivered to your door)
2. -  #WeedlorD with 120 gathers played.1 Month Premium (1.50 euros)
3. -  #DePenDenT with 108 gathers played.1 Month Premium (1.50 euros)
4. -  #coldcup with 107 gathers played. 1 Month Premium (1.50 euros)

#CS.Gather.NL Admins with most gathers made:
1. -  #mintik with 121 gathers. Razer Goliathus Mousepad (delivered to your door)
2. -  #BAYO85 with 86gathers.1 Month Premium (1.50 euros)
3. -  #Larrose with 64 gathers.1 Month Premium (1.50 euros)
4. -  #cokubiatch with 34 gathers.1 Month Premium (1.50 euros)

We want to thank everyone for all their support on the channel. Keep it alive! ;)

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Dear members,

A small update to let you know that the AC-Tool is NOW mandatory for all GN games. Please download it now using this page

 Stay tuned for the "coming soon / post-summercup" annoucement.

Cheers !

Edit: AC-Tool is now mandatory for all member and premium gathers on the Gather-Network (except gathers open to non-members)

As you all know we have this wonderful Summer cup up & running and we're almost at the end. For the past 2 months many Gather-Network players have fought for the first and grand prize the new Xbox 360®. However only one player will get it packed and send straight to his home.

... Please note that the Anti-Cheat team and the Helper team along with the Administrators will have a final deccission regarding the top20. *

Now, the new Xbox 360 has many many new features such as a built-in WiFi which allows you download or stream HD movies, TV episodes, games from Xbox LIVE Marketplace in 1080p and 5.1 surround sound from anywhere in the house. The 250GB Hard drive also allows you to save everything begining from games, movies, levels, demos and much more.

Another very cool feature is the Kinect. The Kinect is a small camera that uses an IR to track you in 3D space, meaning it makes YOU the controller :). It has an invisible infrared light which thanks to that can spotlight the whole room. One more cool things is that you can play along with one of your best buddys.