As many have you have probably noticed over the last few weeks that a lot has been going on at St0rm. Its about time I sat down and talked to you guys about what is going on and what has happened. This is going to be a rather long post and I do not want it to turn into a flame war. This is a simple post to put words on everything that is going on.
We will start off with the main thing on everyone's mind and that is what is going on with St0rm?
In the last few months we have not really had a direction and let things just flow as they are. There has been a break down in communication and an outbreak of so called power abuse. I will start with the direction I wish to see St0rm go in. We are going to fix our problems regarding our actual setup and how things work around here. Over the next few weeks you will notice changes in the website, irc, and ingame. I can't promise everything will be 100% fixed in this time but we will be working on it so that our services are better than they have ever been.
As there is a lot of unrest in the forums and around the entire renegade community because of talk and just how the renegade community is with drama, we have noticed a pickup in trolling and drama on our forums. Now, you may see that you are not causing drama but its different for everyone. There is a lot going behind the scenes with everyone, emotions are high and things are out of control. People are snapping at people, making comments, freaking out, and rage quitting. Everyone needs to take a step back and figure out what is going on first. I ask that my staff no longer close topics without giving fair warning to users before they take the action of closing a topic. Closing a topic should be the last thing that happens in any case. I will work with my staff to solve this problem on my side but I also ask you who are feeding into this to step back and think about what your gonna say and do.
If we all take the time to resolve our issues without destroying our environment things should work out for the best.
Another huge issue that is going on is the image of St0rm, my actions that I have done over the last few months. They have not been good as many of you have said. I have done things to other communities that I shouldn't have. Due to this more issues were created and I caused a handful of drama for not only my community but others.
I will address the main issue: Jelly
Back in late august a specific user from Jelly approached me and told me of an exploit that they had found on their servers. At this time I was not fully aware of what it was but they showed me how to crash their own server using command prompt and a bat file. They demonstrated multiple times how to do it and I then tried it on my server and theirs. As it did not effect 4.0 servers many of the renegade servers out their are immune to this bug. So after being shown how to do this with a group of people from multiple communities we all decided to attack Jelly. This was a stupid and immature thing to do as Jelly had done nothing to St0rm or myself. So for about 1 month I proceeded to in my free time to crash Jelly several times here and there. I was not the only one who know about this and I was not the only one doing it. Someone has shown not only me but many other people how to do it. I have been the main blame of it though because I was the only one who was caught. I do have to say this, there are multiple people inside Jelly who were also trying to destroy it and cause problems. There were multiple people outside of Jelly and St0rm who were also doing this, I will admit my part in the matter but I will not be blamed for everything as I was not the original person to do this nor was I the last. I ask Jelly to take the time to figure out who in your own staff was also doing this as I am not going to drop names about anyone involved, it is up to them to man up. I would also like people to know my staff was not involved with what was going on and should be left alone. They have been under a lot of stress and their actions may have not been reflective of st0rm.
Due to the hostility between Jelly and St0rm we have Delinked IRC servers and St0rm is now its own IRC Network by its self.
I ask that people over the next few weeks take the time to cool down and figure out what we can do to fix St0rm and make things better here. My actions will not be forgotten but I will do what I can to rectify the situation.
I will do what I can to fix my admin staff and get things in control around here. I just ask that you do the same of yourselves and work with us.
Regards,
Wilo S.
St0rm Network Administrator
http://www.st0rm.net/

