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I've been hard at work on this project for the last month or so and now I'm finally at a point where I can open this place up to the public! So here's hoping at least some of you guys will like this.

I've had the idea of setting up my own (gaming) community for a few years now. Had a few iterations of the idea worked out over the years, built a couple of websites, administrated a couple of forums. Same with game servers. Had some for a while, they came and went. The Minecraft server I managed for OWF was the longest running game administration 'job' I've had over the years and taught be a lot of valuable lessons.

So a few weeks ago I decided to take all that experience with websites, games and servers and mash it into one big project. A gaming community. Hardly a new idea or concept, but something I wanted to pursue non the less. And so after a lot of planning and learning how Linux works I bought my very own dedicated server, configured it and placed it in a data center.

I wanted to start up in easy and familiar territory, so the first two games Tiger-gaming.net is hosting are Team Fortress 2 and Minecraft. The TF2 server has been up and running for about 2 weeks now. I had hoped to have the Minecraft server up a lot sooner, but building the spawn area took more time than I had anticipated. Luckily I had some help from Darkhoodness and Crashpunk.

Today I'm opening the place up to the public. And since a lot of my gaming roots lie with OWF I'm offering all members of OWF a special opening deal.


Just sign up on the website, introduce yourself and let me know what your username is in this thread. I will then make sure to apply your premium account. You'll get all kinds of neat little perks on the servers and the website.

Let me know what you think about this. I appreciate any feedback you can give me, I'm sure there's areas to improve still. If you want to visit the servers, the IP addresses for TF2 and Minecraft are on the website as well. Just check the 'servers' tab.

Also, I'm looking for some staff members. Anyone above the age of 18 who is willing to be a website or game server moderator, please let me know. I can use the couple of extra hands.

Do we have to "like" tigers to play?

Also, I hope those "perks" aren't pay-to-win. Cosmetic only, right?

I hate pay-to-win, so no. For Team Fortress 2 it's perks like being protected from auto-balance (everyone hates auto balance) and having a reserved slot. Same for Minecraft really, just some perks that make life a little easier without automatically making you win at everything.

Okay then, I'm in. "FlamingCarrot".

What's the deal with the big purple permission area on the MC map?

That's a very large PVP zone with special rules. Kinda like the Hunger Games but with building rights and stuff.

Maybe you should build a wall to mark that out.

You get a warning as soon as you enter into that area. Would be an amazingly big wall to go all the way around it. You get plenty of warnings about the area before you can manage to randomly wander in there anyway.

Courtesy of my friend Sam, we have a non-OWF member.

I'll be a Mod if you need one, but I have little/no Minecraft experience and don't play much anyway so

EDIT: I can't see the server list while logged in.

Don't play MVM again. I fucking hate that mode. :(

Also anyone who wants to know more about TF2, come to me. I've played far too many hours on it and I pretty much know how every weapon and mechanic works.

It's like that - kinda like a safety switch so that you don't get into it too much. :P

Nice to see that the Forums have a place again for gaming. I'll definitely visit the TF2 server every now and then. MC, not so sure - maybe if there's some community event or adventure happening, or if I feel like playing the game again.

Registered, I'm Old_Nile.

Welcome on board :)

Havoc, I'm going to explain this very clearly. I NEED those towers. I don't care if they're ugly. I may know where the caves are, but I'm still quite capable of walking straight past them. I know they're ugly. Maybe, if you left them up long enough for me to actually mine something, I'd have some prettier sign materials by now.

You could at least WARN me before you tear down a half-hour's work. I mean, they're in the middle of nowhere. Nobody cares.

Building a dirt tower is half an hour of work now? Placing 1 block towers to mark stuff isn't allowed on like 90% of all public servers. It wouldn't have been allowed on the OWF server either.

Anyway, thank you for pointing out a much needed rule that I overlooked.

Building two towers twice, including resource gathering, yes.

@Havoc - Registered on Tiger Gaming with "Darkhoodness". I wish you the best of luck with this after the work you put in. :)

@MM - As I was saying, you can press F3 to view your coordinates and manually write down your x, y, and z to mark stuff, though I dunno what the problem with dirt towers are if they're only temporary. Shame Rei's minimap mod with markers isn't part of normal MC.

The minimap mod is easy enough to install on regular MC. I use it all the time.

Jaooooo~

Chattin' with Joe

Today was eventful.

I like how it's almost song lyrics like that.

♪ Proceed ♫

Yay public server :D

Also I liberated your tree farm box thing by deleting their claim there.

Cheers. I call it "The Great Wall of Spite".

I've got a question for our few players: http://tiger-gaming.net/threads/26-V...s-your-opinion

Also having server discussion split on two forums is getting a bit of a pain. In the future if there's an issue concerning the game servers please post it on the Tiger Gaming forums instead of here. Thanks!

My PC kerploded 5 weeks ago, just got back online today; The claim on my paddock appears to have been replaced. I've still got permissions, but the other guy's claim doesn't actually cover the entire paddock, and obviously I can't extend someone else's claim. It's a bit of a pickle.

To start with, can I just find out why the claim was overwritten in the first place? There seems to be a railway overhead.

I think your friend built that railway there and we had to claim it to prevent griefing. Not sure how your house got involved in that though. I'll have a look.

I helped White_Lancer claim his railway but your paddock wasn't claimed when I did that. Since he has his own animal farm I doubt he'd greif you, though... Mind sharing a claim with a section of his railway?

Sure, I'd just rather be able to control the claim and give him permissions than vice versa, since I'm more likely to expand it.

The main issue is that half my animals are getting blown up by Creepers because they're not in claimed space.

That's fixed now - Though the land immediately to the north and south of your paddock are claimed for the railway. If you want to change that and move the claims around in future, gimme a poke.

Server was pretty unstable today.

What was unstable about it?