Changes to eventhosting

[Enigma]

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Hello all,

There are a lot of events currently being hosted on the seperate TWC servers. Some of these are activity events to boost the servers activity, which is a really good thing for the server itself. However,the events being hosted is a good thing, but it also has some risks added into play since they are hosted by different people seperately from each other.

Some of these possible risks include:
- Visitors who join a server at a time an event is running are not able to play at that moment
- Some people might not be able to host anything because hosting two events at the same time is nothing anyone would want to do.
- The clan is not as connected as it could be because people value their own serverbase above others. Normally the people connecting the servers are the MST's, but they have a life as well and aren't able to show up as much anymore.

These risks of course don't weigh up by any possible activity boost, but since those events are mainly hosted by the server leader itself it doesn't always work out completely. That's why I thought of 3 steps to help this out, while we are now starting with step 1:

As a way to bring people together and reduce these possible risks the following 2 changes are planned out:

1) The Event Council

Each of the servers with enough members will pick one Event Organiser (By the supreme). These Event Organisers form the Event Council. Each of these EO's (Yes i'm a lazy writer so I will just shorten it to EO from here on) think of possible events to host on the event server (more about that soon). Once they thought of possible events they will discuss these internally and each of them votes on an event that is not their own (So no picking own ideas only). Once an event has been decided they will announce the event in the public Event Server forum.
(https://board.twcclan.org/forum-184.html ).
PS: If someone has a suggestion for events a thread will be made in the public forum for all event suggestions/requests, and if the idea is liked the event organisers will take it into their vote.

2) The Event server

Either replacing the Sniper server or being set up as a whole new server will be the Event Server. The events hosted by the EO's will be hosted on the Event Server. This server will only be used for events, and will be created in a way it can run any possible mod/map/config needed for an event. The server will be tweaked for events and the Event Council and Supremes will have the referee password in case they need to mute/kick someone to ensure events can run smoothly.In short this server will not be used for anything but events, which also means the server will not have an active memberbase.

Now without further ado, the event organisers who have been decided (all have been asked for the job and accepted it);

The Event Organisers are:

- NoDownload: Kenny
- Beginners: Impact
- Trickjump: Irene
- Panzerwar: Lo89LMan.
- Headshot: Vicky

Have lots of fun and get together for these events! Enjoy!

PS: This also means for the time being there won't be any specific boost activity events on the servers, expect more information on this soon!

TL;DR: heya people we want to add an event server, we want people from different servers to know each other and have fun together, This will allow a greater clan reunion as a whole, that why we pick some ppl you can call them event organiser (EO). These will work together in hosting events for the clan. This TLDR was sponsored by $4m4el™

PS: Posted this on behalf of the Supremes.

[Snowman]

Sounds cool!

[The Master]

hi i think it is great to try to make the clan connect more, but i dont think it is so bad atm, everything is running pretty smooth as far as i can see.
if you host it on another server it is impossible to create a serverboost on your own, infact you take away activaty from the servers.
to have eo,s is also pretty wierd, i think everyone who has the time and inspiration to make an event happend should be allowed to do so, why would you want to restrict those people? why does it has to be more complicated while everything is going rather smooth?

- Visitors who join a server at a time an event is running are not able to play at that moment

i never ever heard any1 complaining about it as you can take that person intro the event or atleast talk to him etc.

- Some people might not be able to host anything because hosting two events at the same time is nothing anyone would want to do.

i think people can actually talk together about when and what they want and i havent seen problems with it aswell.

- The clan is not as connected as it could be because people value their own serverbase above others. Normally the people connecting the servers are the MST's, but they have a life as well and aren't able to show up as much anymore.

every1 is free to host events no matter what serverbase. like i sayd it they put the time in it they gain people yes i dont get whats unfair with that and everyone from every server is welcome to enjoy together as always so i dont really get it.

Disclaimer: This post reflects my personal opinion. If anyone feels offended by it, please tell me, as it is not my intention to hurt anyone's feelings.


ps is this just an idea of yours or is this plan decided by msts/supremes?

[Enigma]

hi i think it is great to try to make the clan connect more, but i dont think it is so bad atm, everything is running pretty smooth as far as i can see.
if you host it on another server it is impossible to create a serverboost on your own, infact you take away activaty from the servers.
to have eo,s is also pretty wierd, i think everyone who has the time and inspiration to make an event happend should be allowed to do so, why would you want to restrict those people? why does it has to be more complicated while everything is going rather smooth?

- Visitors who join a server at a time an event is running are not able to play at that moment

i never ever heard any1 complaining about it as you can take that person intro the event or atleast talk to him etc.

- Some people might not be able to host anything because hosting two events at the same time is nothing anyone would want to do.

i think people can actually talk together about when and what they want and i havent seen problems with it aswell.

- The clan is not as connected as it could be because people value their own serverbase above others. Normally the people connecting the servers are the MST's, but they have a life as well and aren't able to show up as much anymore.

every1 is free to host events no matter what serverbase. like i sayd it they put the time in it they gain people yes i dont get whats unfair with that and everyone from every server is welcome to enjoy together as always so i dont really get it.

Disclaimer: This post reflects my personal opinion. If anyone feels offended by it, please tell me, as it is not my intention to hurt anyone's feelings.

I won't bother going into the 3 things summed up consdiring they are clarified as risks and are indeed happening, you just might not notice it during events.

Connecting the clan together is a great thing, no matter if you think its a bad or a good situation. As for the server activity boost, I made clear in my post more news about this will follow. There is stuff planned to help this in a better way than we currently have as well.It isnt necessary more complicated, its just more organized this way.

[The Master]

if those you called (risks) are indeed happening how manny time,s did it happen over the last ... events?
and wish you called (risks ) are we talking about?
ofc connecting the clan together is a good thing, i just dont see any point wish will do so?

[Enigma]

if those you called (risks) are indeed happening how manny time,s did it happen over the last ... events?
and wish you called (risks ) are we talking about?
ofc connecting the clan together is a good thing, i just dont see any point wish will do so?

I haven't bothered counting how many times those things happen, I did notice them on a few occasions. Which is enough for me.

This will connect the clan together because the events are hosted from a viewpoint of 5 different servers, with a guaranteed weekly event.

[Cross]

I love when Enigma is getting serious over something. Enigma, my hero! :')

[HamsteR!]

Sounds cool!

Because it is cool ^^

[Mimus]

I think before any further steps are being taken with the EOs and the Event Server, the people should be informed about what are the plans for an own servers activity boost if the servers do not have any "normale events" anymore, since those are being switched to the Event Server.

This seems to be the main concern atm and its difficult to fully stand behind an idea like that if there is no information about how to prevent the negative impacts (no events on main server = no activity boosts there either) that are expected to follow up.

Also, side note: We do have an Event Server atm which can be used for that kind of idea, its the old Allstars Server which we atm use for stuff like Christmas Events, Halloween themes and whatnot.

[The Master]

yes that is my main concern but also that people with the time and energy to make an event might not be able more to do so,
because only 1 person from a serverbase is able to. so i dont see the point of restricting people.

but it seems like everyone else is fine with it, and if i am the only one who dislikes this so far, i will drop it.
gl and hf