As you may or may not know, there was a time when we ran many more servers for different games. During this time, we experienced some major stability issues and were forced to downsize to maintain uptime. In the recent months, we believe that we have resolved those issues and after much discussion we are prepared to attempt once more what had failed prior. As of this writing, we now have three (3) Team Fortress 2 Idle servers running.

idle.negroserver.com:27015 Negroserver Idle - our long running and well known Idle server running our custom achievement_idle_negro19g map. If you are reading this thread then you probably need no further words.

idle.negroserver.com:27017 Negroserver Test(es) - our Area 51. Most of you have never had nor will ever again have access to this magical place where future negroserver content is playtested in a controlled enviroment amongst staff and VIPs. It is currently up and running achievement_idle. Our plugin selection from Negroserver Idle has been carried over as well.

Idle.negroserver.com:27018 Negroserver IDull - A fresh install of TF2 mated to the most recent version of sourcemod and metamod. It is running achievement_idle, and uses only one plugin, sm_observerpoint, because achievement_idle was made by gimps. No admins, no customization, just standing in a room dying. Also has NO ADMINZ OMGMGOBR HUEHUE

These extra servers are temporary however they will run until we determine our current capabilities and we encourage you to use all three- players do bring players. We would like to see these servers filled for a few days straight and get some solid bandwidth numbers, check for crashes in hardware or software, packet loss, nat issues, memory and cpu usage, etc. This will help us decide how many game servers we can run on what, what specs will be required for our load, and what kind of network can support our desired goal.

I'm not gonna explain shit, cause i don't roll like, that but you all should be aware of this censorship shit laws your govt is being paid to vote for. Douchebags with agendas are lining pockets to ensure lawmakers pass laws that line douchebags' pockets. Read about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combating_Online_Infringement_and_Counterfeits_Act

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

In honor of Christmas and 12 other religious holidays falling sometime between November and January, Apple iDerp and Embox have created a winter themed map for you all to idle on. Feel free to discuss it here. Happy holidays and good luck on your drops and crafts.

I've taken the time to put up a mumble server to better facilitate communication and organization.

It can be reached at idle.negroserver.com, default port 64738, password dicks



If you don't have mumble, it is small and takes about 3 minutes to set up. Acquire it from
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[quote=Gabe Newell]Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users:

Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums.

We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating.

We don't have evidence of credit card misuse at this time. Nonetheless you should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.

While we only know of a few forum accounts that have been compromised, all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they login. If you have used your Steam forum password on other accounts you should change those passwords as well.

We do not know of any compromised Steam accounts, so we are not planning to force a change of Steam account passwords (which are separate from forum passwords). However, it wouldn't be a bad idea to change that as well, especially if it is the same as your Steam forum account password.

We will reopen the forums as soon as we can.

I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience.

Gabe.[/quote]

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Be careful when buying shit, guys. Remember to reset your password if you go on SPUF, too.