Adam Faulkner said:
Advertisements in the right place will surve a great purpose. Moderation is always good.
The seperation of irc servers doesn’t seem to be working very well. Besides 1/2 of us just are not going to change irc servers. I dont want to be connect to 2 servers. Shouldn’t bother you that much you. Either way you look at it. They know where you are “support” if they can get to it. They also know where to idle for community, where the rest of us are. If they need help, ill send them to the website. If they get frustrated, because they only know how to connect to gamesurge because their friend helped them like 80% of irc clients then ill send them to the forums. The gamesurge network is community for now unless you guys decide to come back.
Dont waste too much money in advertisements on one highschool. Your really looking for gamers, they will be online all night and sleep walking in school. They put the “One Of Ours” flyers of Ashley at Triton, but my brothers didn’t see it. I mean those are huge! I would attempt on spending time in gamesurge and spaming some chan’s. Or website advertisements. Talk to the people who make the schools website and work out something so that they will advertise your servers. Local NC highschools will work with you. They did it for the Nexus. Just advertise in the right place and where they are going to look is all I am suggesting.
The Rcon to my knowledge is known by, Raven, Gxti, Split, Tyler, David, and now yourself. It has never been hacked and .. you really dont have to have one. just use the consoles of the games. People who have rcon will have access to that anyway, other then the Council Leaders.
I dont mind some of the changes that you guys made in the past, like the front page change from the theme Raven and I created to the faster loading one. I think it is missing some things, but thats my opinion and i can live with it. But things like the IRC server, arguing about permissions on the forums(telling me i have no right to put them back bla bla bla) and taking down the COD2 server. Which was the second most popular server we have had. Even if our current students didn’t play on it (they are the ones who asked for it) I still think that it would be a great advertisement for the Gaming Club. I remember it was ranked 10 -18 or so .. the cs server only got to 300 or so, on the most popular played gaming server on the entire gaming network. I never dreamed of having 3 counter strike servers. Tyler went crazy when I told him we wanted to run CSS and CS1.6 on the same network. He just thought it was crazy being the same game and all. Now we have 4 counter strike servers. Jez…. (Not saying that it is bad)
All of this is just MY way of thinking of things.
i did not do spell check .. dont see the point
DANG! alright, alright, let me try to digest this.
From an advertisement standpoint I barely see any relevance for maintaining our spot on GameSurge. Wait! Hear me out. I logged into GameSurge regularly, but I love to do stuff by command so I always did /join #wcugaming. I know there is a way to query the channel list off of them, and for all 5 people that do that regularly, I can see the significance of having that the way it is. Now, I enjoy the idea of having two servers, it provides more of a localized environment for planning, executive activities, etc. on aphrodite and community on GameSurge. As you may notice, I have xchat set to log me into both at startup, so don’t worry I’ll be in both.
Also about IRC, here is a thought I have: if i can come across the knowledge of how to do this, then I may try to develop a repeater so that something said on one server is mirrored on the other server, even if I get a RepeaterBot to say who is talkin and what they are saying. If I come up with this it will be discussed at the next meeting, or if urgent enough at an emergency executive meeting.
High School advertisements: I hear what you are saying and I remember it well, I’m not even a year out of high school myself and I remember just how horridly boring the halls were and how I read nothing. However, I think we should at least put 3-4 fliers at high schools (and I will try to kick myself into doing this). Even if we just spam the CET rooms, I think fliers are still a good idea. Also word of mouth will do wonders, I will investigate how to seed such information in a high school social environment. And I will look into doing some sort of spot on the schools’ websites as you mention.
However, about spamming GameSurge channels. This is a personal issue of mine, if someone shows up in irc while I’m around and spams for jelly club meetings, they are likely to have certain computer malfunctions the next day… 
So I personally will not do the same across other channels, but you are more than welcome to do so at your pleasure.
And on the subject of server hosting: (allow me to start multiple paragraphs on this one)
One, at least some of the servers we dropped had absurdly minimal user counts, and as such are potentially just a burden on the network. UT2004 for one, I can say that as I monitored it, I never once (outside the LAN) saw more than 3 players on there. And that was while I was teaching Kuros how it runs and some other dude jumped in. Plus, that sonofagun was falling apart. CoD2, I know nothing about it, you would have to talk to that CL.
Need the servers be gone? Not in the least. The ones we list now are the ones we officially host on Tron and Aphrodite. Other servers are not only optional, they exist. Students are still more than welcome to ask us to host one themselves and we wouldn’t mind allowing the name of “WCU Gaming xxxxx Server”. We probably wouldn’t even mind if they did so without asking, but I’m not the one that makes said decisions. As soon as I stabilize the configuration and the batch file running it, expect to see me hosting a UT2004 server, unofficially.
And of course the issue I am burdened with: what effect do the server changes have on our advertisement?
That is a field of prediction as of yet. Yes, we shall make efforts to use popular servers as recruitment to WCU, however sometimes we even ask for input on our forums about such changes as we have made recently and recieve no input. I will see about establishing a prospective student discussion forum on the boards, and make it clear that if we get enough input I will personally do all I can to see to it that we establish said servers. There may be exceptions to that rule, such as a WoW server would be just plain dumb with the internet bandwidth issues we are currently experiencing.
That being said, if you know of people that are out there thinking about coming to WCU that would like to see something, you tell them to mention it on the forums, to e-mail me, to contact me however possible, and I will look into it.
I have tried to digest all that input and give back appropriate responses, if there are any questions or comments, keep posting.