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 there-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.
We (the management of #cs.gather.de) just wanted to make a quick announcement. As you might have seen during the last couple of days we didn't make any games. You may wonder why it's like that and I will tell you. Our sponsor bouncer4you does not exist anymore at least not like a game-server company.
It's very sad because they have been with us for over 3 years and provided us great servers. Anyway our fellow leader rappi is already looking for a new sponsor and we expect that he will find one within the next couple of days. Meanwhile if you want to play some games at our channel you can do it at our premium servers which are quite empty recently:
Premium Server #1 85.14.227.24:27015
Premium Server #2 85.14.227.33:27015
Premium Server #3 85.14.227.35:27015
Premium Server #1 85.14.227.24:27015
Premium Server #2 85.14.227.33:27015
Premium Server #3 85.14.227.35:27015
Premium Server #4 85.14.227.36:27015
Well thats it i hope you will be soon able to play around our member games and one big SORRY for the inconvenience.
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.
Click the Read more button to find out the rest of the awesome features this new Xbox has