Community Update
Written by: Rodo Abad
Posted on: Oct 03, 2009 01:31:58 AM

pgn-latest-news.jpgThere's been a couple of updates that have been rolled out today that fixed some of the issues that the community is having with regards to some or all of our game servers. So please take a look at all the changes down below and let us know if they are still occurring or the solution wasn't enough to actually address the problem. Thanks.

  • Fixed the issue of the HLstatsX:CE perl daemon crashing at random times. The error would be Can't call method "increment" on unblessed reference at .//HLstats_EventHandlers.plib line 1221. This was due to a problem in version 1.6.0 when a player tried entered a game server without a name. Basically the game server should not let you do it but again some players were able to get around it and crash the HLstatsX:CE perl daemon. This was a known bug and has already been fixed (hopefully) in version 1.6.1. Let me know if the stats don't work sometimes.
  • Gun Game - NY's teamplay has been disabled (for now) due to several complaints from regular and prominent players that it's becoming annoying since players don't actually read what it says when voting comes up. They just press a random number (in this case 1 which is for teamplay) just to get the damn HUD message out of the way.
  • If you're wondering why the Zombie Plague server has been empty for almost two weeks now, it was due to a metamod plug-in that basically banned all the players that tried to join the game server. I've updated the metamod plug-in and this has been fixed now as well. Please let the other players know that PGN Zombie Plague is back up and running properly.
  • Our website just rolled out JoinPGN.com version 15. Please let me know if you're having problems with the website.
  • In-game server SPAM from players should be almost non-existent now since I was able to make the spam_blocker.amxx plug-in to work. If new SPAM comes up, please post them in our forum.
  • PGN blacklist updated.
  • Servers list updated.
  • Most server-side plug-ins have been updated as well. I only update the plug-ins if it fixes something that was causing problems in the previous version (If it ain't broke don't fix it).
  • OpenArena server has been taken down since no one in PGN and the OpenArena community supports it. It was just a waste of bandwidth and resources. Editor's note: Seriously though, the only reason in hosting an OpenArena server was to let the majority of the OpenArena community have a working game server in the western part of the USA.
  • I'm also looking for content contributors. If you have a passion for writing, please let me know and I'll publish your work if it's worth publishing.
  • If you're a current PGN admin and you want to get involved some more within the community please talk to either Luis (SquarePants) or Luan (Pig_Benis). they should be able to train you how to be a good game server manager (back-end access).
Well that's all I can remember right now and if there's something that I forgot, I'll let you guys know at the next community update.