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Cpt. Cats — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:57:03 +0000

Good Morning, afternoon, and evening my dudes! I wanted to let everyone know that I set up a Discord server for myself and a few other old Unity members awhile back. If you're ever interested in coming and hanging out with us on Discord I'll set the link below.

I hope everyone is doing well! It's obviously been a long time since Unity was a thing, and we're all a bit older now. But we would love to see what you guys are up to! Drop in and say hello. (:

https://discord.gg/yeVFt8r

Captain Cats

The Cost of Unity

PogEgg — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:48:49 +0000

I know there's been a lot of negative feedback about the decision to shut down Unity, whether it be temporarily. Personally, I had nothing to do with making the decision. And if it were up to me, I would keep Unity up and running.

People don't realize the cost and time commitment of running a server. I know Cats has said this before, but I feel like it would be worthwhile to have someone other than the owner to validate the claims.

Server hosting is expensive. More expensive than you may realize. Unity isn't some shitty server run out of somebody's basement. The monthly cost of Teamspeak and TTT alone is ~60$. That isn't including the long term investment of buying scripts/plugins-- which many of you may not have realized even cost money. And don't forget about the website, DarkRP, and CS:GO servers. The monthly cost of all these is >100$. For those of you who say we get a lot of money through donations, each time we get a founder/platinum donator, it pays for one month. Only one. The rest is paid out of pocket by Cats.

I know it sounds odd to mention the last 3 servers, because I'm betting some of you probably believe there hasn't been a lot of progress on them. And I'm not saying you're wrong.

The fact is, Cats is the only one doing the coding of all these projects. By himself. Yes, people offer to help, but the fact of the matter is--

It's hard to trust someone enough to let them into the backend and mess with files, especially if we don't know if they are mature enough not to be vindictive if something goes sour (which has happened in the past) and
It's hard to know if the person even knows what they're doing. I'm a programming major, and even I'm not confident enough with my skills to not mess up the server.

I'm not belittling the moderators, admins, trusted, or anyone else who helps to manage the server, because your jobs are just as essential. So don't think I've forgotten about you.

So, not only is he coding/running TTT/CS:GO/DarkRP/website stuff by himself, he also has a job. He's an adult. I know a lot of you might be underage, and not understand the importance of being able to support yourself, and that's ok. Even I don't know what I'm doing.

Between his job, and Unity (which is essentially a second job), there's not a lot of time left. People have social lives, and need time to relax.

8hr workday + 8hr sleep + 1hr commuting + 2hr meals + 1hr hygiene + 1hr pooping = 21 hours.

This is a rough estimate, but you can see how this might be at least somewhat accurate. That leaves 3 hours for video games, dating, and social life. And I know a lot of users spend 3+ hours on the server per session.

We're a community based around video games, founded by a person who likes to play video games, for the purpose of having fun playing video games. Can you honestly expect the owner of such a community to not want to play video games in his spare time?

I love this community. I really do. It's gotten me through a lot of hard times, and I've had a great time with all the members I've met. And Cats does too. Whether you believe it or not, he's always expressed his vision and dreams for Unity, wanting it to become something great.

But right now, Unity is stagnating. There's not a lot of progress being made. And that's nobody's fault. Everyone gets busy. Everyone has lives outside Unity (I hope). Users are expecting new content and plugins and servers, and none of that is happening. And it can be frustrating.

But right now, Unity can't move forward being the way it is. It needs work. And when Cats says he's shutting it down temporarily until he gets stuff figured out, I know he means it. It's his dream.

TL;DR: Server is expensive. +100$month. Server is time consuming. People have jobs and lives, and no time. But Unity isn't going away forever.

*I hope this didn't seem condescending to anyone, for that wasn't my intention. And if it did, I'm sorry. I just wanted to try and give people a different point of view, a look behind the scenes.

-Grizz
Unity Director
Unity Admin
Unity Member

The Future of Unity Gaming

Cpt. Cats — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 04:17:15 +0000

I'm sure throughout the day some of you have been angry. And some of you have been confused. I've recieved messages from people telling me that they understand, and that they wish me good luck.

But that wasn't really the purpose of this. The purpose of me making an announcement describing how and why I'm shutting down Unity was to weed out the people whom really did not support me. And who stuck around to stick around. These people were toxic to the community. They created an elitest group on our server shunning people out constantly. They would pick and choose who to punish when it came to rule breaking.

These people have no notion of what Unity is, what Unity costs, and how myself and many others have put years of our time and work into this.

I announced to my Administrative staff team over a week ago that I wasn't shutting down this community. And that I was going to be re-vamping it. Because I had taken a break, and it was time to come back. And I wasn't lying. If you stuck around today you've probably been with Unity for awhile. And you probably know what I'm talking about.

I apologise for some of the people that I let onto this staff team. Some of them amazing. And some of them were a mistake who turned Unity into something that it isn't supposed to be.

And in regards to this...

Never tell your password to anyone.
11:07 PM - (L)zflames7: Today cats decided to make an announcement claiming that the ttt server would go bye bye, the full text can be seen in a rebuttal by the sexiest man alive, seth, here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TheFreezer/discussions/0/487870763297515316/

he then was spotted by one of our snipers saying " My announcement about closing down Unity wasn't true. This was my way of figuring out who I didn't want here anymore. Who didn't actually have my back. And who I couldn't trust. I told you that Unity was coming back, and I wasn't lying. But I can't do it with people like this around.

Basically cats felt it would be a really good idea to go ahead and alienate every active player on Unity in an attempt to get many responses begging and pleading for the server to stay up.

So, Congratulations are in order! Captain Cats is the winner of The Freezer official saltiest salty award. Have fun with your poisonous sodium concentration! The Freezer Server send their regards."

This message says it all. This message is the reason why I couldn't have these people in my community any more.

If you're internested in seeing what I have in store for Unity that's up to you. If not, I understand. We've had some good times. But if you're going to act like a 13 year old. Fuck you and have a nice day!

- Captain Cats

TeamSpeak is back Online

Cpt. Cats — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 04:36:46 +0000

Our TeamSpeak server is now back online. I apologise for the downtime.

Also, I realise that things have been slow here at Unity for this past month. There haven't been many Terrortown server updates. And there haven't been any announcements from me in awhile concerning Unity.

I'll be making an announcement within the next couple of days concerning the future of our community and the direction that we'll be taking.

Issues with Connectivity

Cpt. Cats — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 03:13:34 +0000

"Our Chicago router has crashed twice today, leading to several minutes of downtime on each occasion. We are relatively certain that this is a hardware problem with one of the CPUs in the router and we have asked our hardware vendor for a replacement.

Uptime is very important to us. For the time being, in order to make sure that services will not have further unscheduled interruptions, we will be reactivating our old router in Chicago and moving our Internap connections back over to it, taking the new one offline entirely until its faulty CPU has been replaced. This will cause another brief interruption for your services sometime this evening, but it should be shorter than the others.

Update @ 9:17pm CDT: We are still waiting for the facility to move us back to our old router. In the meantime, the new router has crashed again.

We are continuing to wait, so we can get back onto the stable router."

We shouldn't have any more issues after tonight.

Captain Cats

Trouble in Terrorist Town Server - Online!

Cpt. Cats — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 03:07:09 +0000

The server is back online folks.

Enjoy!

I'll also be having an update released this weekend. And double XP for this entire coming week. I apologise for the outage, and thanks for your patience guys.

Captain Cats

Terrortown Server Downtime

Cpt. Cats — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:05:45 +0000

Good Morning Unity,

Unfortunatly our Trouble in Terrorist Town server is experiencing some issues and is currently down. This shouldn't last too long. I would only say a day or two at most. I'm working with our host to get our server back up and running. Thank you for your patience, and if you have any questions please ask them int he comments section.

Also, I will be installing a new update on the server this weekend introducing some new maps and some more female skins!

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Also, please welcome Kanjam as the new Team Administrator for our Community Management Team! She will be working on improving the dialogue between development and the community. And also other important programs such as the Trusted initiative.

We are looking for more people to join the Trusted team so please apply! The directions are in our forums! :) If you need some help, advice, or just want to talk about Trusted. Ask any of the staff!!

Thanks for your patience guys, look forward to another announcement when the server is back up and stable!

[] Captain Cats

Unity Gaming & Privacy

Cpt. Cats — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:48:34 +0000

Good Afternoon Unity,

This announcement is a letter from myself directly to all of the members of the Unity community. And it concerns a topic that's extremely important to me, and I'm sure most of you. And that topic is privacy. I can assume that most of you haven't read through Unity's privacy policy. Just as I can assume you haven't read through Steams. Most people don't read through things like "Privacy Policies" or "Terms of Service." So I am going to outline a few of our policies here at Unity Gaming.

Garry's Mod Servers & Spying on Players

Currently there are scripts and programs out there that give servers and server owners the ability to do some pretty shady things. These things include viewing the screen of players in the server, forcing web pages to load in a player's Steam overlay, crashing a player's Gmod, freezing a player's Gmod, and some other nasty things that many people don't really know about. There are Garry's Mod servers out there that are known within Dev. communities that actively use these scripts. I can assure you that Unity Gaming does not condone the use of any scripts that allow the invasion of a user's privacy. And we do not and have never used them ourselves.

Also, you should understand that any person with access to the back end of a server that you play on has the ability to read private messages you send on the server. At Unity Gaming the ONLY person with access to this is me. And I do not read people's private messages.

TeamSpeak Server & Logging of Private Messages

Also, any TeamSpeak server you join logs all private messages, pokes, and basically anything you do. This isn't an option that you can disable or enable. It's just part of owning a server. Your messages are traffic in the server, and are logged just like anything else. I can assure you that only I have access to server logs and your messages remain private.

Logging of Player IP Addresses

You should also know that when you join any server on earth you reveal your IP address. Whether that's a website, game server, or a TeamSpeak. This may seem innocent but some malicious servers take IPs of people they dislike and DoS them with booters. A DoS will lag your internet, and it can possibly take it offline. We recomend using a VPN to mask your IP address.

Check out this article for a side by side of some VPNs!

VPNs[www.pcmag.com]

More on DoS Attacks[en.wikipedia.org]

Captain Cats
Owner of Unity Gaming Network

Server Update for [TTT]

Cpt. Cats — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:43:28 +0000

Afternoon Unity,

Today was the server's security and patch release. But unfortunatly I had some issues with the server. And long story short I had to revert to a server back up from the 12th.

If you are missing ANY points, skins, or anything else from the server please comment below and we would be glad to restore them to your account.

Thanks for being so patient with us, and have a great day!

Captain Cats

Trouble in Terrorist Town - Trusted

Cpt. Cats — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:50:27 +0000

Good Morning Unity!

How is everyone on this fine Tuesday? I would like to take a moment here to introduce our first members who we've accepted on our Trusted team.

Little Mouse
Little Mouse applied for a position on the trusted team, and due to being apart of our community for awhile now. And being fun to play with. We believe he would be a great addition to the team!
Brucethematt
Brucethematt has also been accepted on our trusted team due to a strong friendship with Unity and his great familiarity with our rules and regulations!
Gdizzy
Gdizzy is a great guy with a sense of humor. And with his knowlage of our rules we've decided to accept him on to the trusted team!

Please remember the trusted project is new for us here at Unity. So we may hit some bumps along the road! If you were accepted on to the team please check your email for the accepted letter. It contains some important information pertaining to your new rank.

Interested in joining Unity Gaming's Trusted team? Apply today! Click the hyper-link below for more information.

Unity Gaming Trusted

Unity Gaming Executive Department