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Except again, if you read my post, you'd know what cancels them out. Though, keep thinking and wasting time on listing people who'd make good ops. To reiterate for the less literate: Billing Ops handle names, and are typically highly trusted council members, zone hosts, or ssc zone owners/head sysops. BanG Ops handle bans, and as before, are trusted council members or ssc zone owners/head sysops. They are not a tw smod, or a non-ssc server host. Not that I wouldn't trust either of them, but just the reality of the way they've always been chosen, and no doubt always will be chosen.

http://www.invisionpower.com/ also redesigned. Will update to IPB 3.0 and update IP.Downloads shortly. This means in ~2 weeks IPB's new CMS software that will build into the ACP/SSF DB will be released. Which means I may just save SSO for a release on SSForum's 7th B-Day (Sept 1st). I have quite a bit of content started on my local server, so will hopefully be a pretty quick transition and will get everything up and running without much issue. But I think having SSO start on SSF's B-day would be pretty cool. And if you haven't seen the design: http://www.subspaceonline.com/index.php - And also, any ideas for content, feel free to suggest them. I won't promise they will be used, but eh. The Support Section will be VERY extensive. I plan to spend a few weeks even after the release on it. Though I will be 50-50 on availability during some of October (or so I hope to find a house by then). So this will be a big thing for me to complete, but is something I have been wanting to finish for a while. I am already planning some dedicated time to SSO in late july and throughout august, so anyone wanting to help, this will be the key time to get me. The G/f should have her schedule for the rest of the summer soon, and weekends she's working, I'll try to dedicate some time to SSO atleast 1 of those days. Anyways. Will update to IPB 3.0 tomorrow night after I get home from work (~17:00 PST). So if you notice the forum offline, that is why. Though the last update went pretty smoothly (RC1-RC2), I'd rather we be prepared for hiccups.

mine was serious, cause all they had said was he was found not breathing.

His new nose was too small for him to breathe properly.

This topic continues to intrigue me. How little the public seems to know of the rules, how someone gets netop, etc. Lets clarify all of this. The only Network Operators are Ghost Ship and PriitK. There are BanG Operators and there are Billing Operators. Billing / BanG Ops = Zone Head SysOps or Council Members (Except in rare occasions, an ex-head sysop whos still active in the game). So better to start fixing your lists there. The BanG Operators are in charge of nothing more than cleaning up Network Bans, and in rare cases, placing network bans for zones who have no Level 1 ops on. The case of zones having no bang/staff on, is the zone's own fault. If it continues, imho it is a threat to network security, and should be treated as such. BanG Operators do have level 1 Network wide, and can ban in any zone. The Billing Operators have various levels of powers to retrieve names and squads players have lost. There is more data than just your IP or MacID higher level ops can see. So if you are smart, put in the right information when registering your name. VERY few players do this, so this is why you get screwed in the long run. A correct e-mail, and correct personal informaiton can save you a lot of issues. There has been the idea of adding a head sysop or 2 as lvl4 or lvl3 network wide, but it was only discussed and nothing more went beyond that (as far as I know). Quite a few ops aliases are known by zone sysops. It is your zones sysop's job to handle this, not the players job. If you have an issue, goto your zones staff/upper staff. It is the failure of zones and their staffing that is a large problem SS wide right now. I thought it was only in Metal Gear, but I have found this issue all over lately. We had to deal with shit 10x worse back in the days of twister, so don't overreact here. We are honestly dealing with a small problem in comparison to some of the past issues we had with other cheats/security issues. Most of you weren't around for those days, so I understand. But those who were should remember the billing being crashed, zones being crashed, twister, *super cheats, name stealing zones, etc. etc. The problem we have here is zones who created large dbs of info, not coding secure scripting, and leaving security holes open. Now many players have to suffer with this, and for the time being we need to possibly add a few extra Billing Ops (not BanG ops, again, the main part of this is an issue at zone level & zones need to begin solving it), and have them with low level powers just enough to help players with issues. Once things seem to be cleaning up, and all, we should be good. I also think there should be more NOTICES given to players on this. As quite a few we're confused when I posted on ssforum almost 2.5weeks after the event. So I think again, these 2 zones who had the security holes, should have been more focused on alerting their players and cleaning up the mess, than trying to blame people, or trying to chase the person down. Had players been notified to change their passwords (Mass forum pms, news posts, zone ads, etc.), there would be A LOT less players with names compromised right now. Hell, I didn't know anything happened to the TW or Chaos dbs until my name was stolen and I was told what happened. I think that is complete Bullshit, and a failure on the part of these zones to notify the council, their players, and other players. I'm not pointing the finger at anyone person, but the whole zone staffs themselves. Well, I think I typed enough for now.

there has been some changes to ops/not so well known ops/ops I'm not sure are suppose to yet be listed. Ones I can list: BanG - MikeTheNose and Hoch Names/Squads - BlueGoku A few other sysops do have access to billing for names and such, but are not considered regular ops. And a lot of those sysops use aliases, IE: Pointman. Heck, if you checked me, sometimes PoLiX isn't on for a few days, though I get on atleast once a day. And I know Ghost was on more recently than 3 days, but again we're dealing with aliases here. Edit: I also have MTN's and one name/squad op I didn't list's phone numbers. So can text them in case of "emergency" now.

Zones need to fix this also. This isn't just an network upper level issue, it is a network wide issue.

All I'll say in seriousness in this thread (as most of it to me is off the wall, no offense), Ghost will finally be somewhat active again here soon, and wants to chat saturday. So I'll see what I can't do to help discuss/remedy the problems at hand. And no word from priit yet on what we could do about Russ... if I'll ever get a reply, even ghost has been having trouble with replies from him.

Just like your "Coming Back" thread was needed.

I deleted the old pips or I'd show ya. But they we're colored and styled like IP 2.0. These are styled like 2.3.6 with different colors/style. Old ones we're boxier looking, not as smooth looking.

Got bored and made new versions of them. Also changed some group colors a shade or 2. Just follows more with the new IPB skin style. Enjoy

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I've discussed the issue with a couple ops and ghost ship a few times. Something may come of it, though I know Ghost has been busy lately. I banned him from Chaos as no staff was on to silence him, so felt it might force him to a zone where some staff was on. I warned quite a few people to warn their fellow staff members, so most of SSC knew, but when they went into SWZ, we we're powerless. And as for why people ask for my opinion (as it seems to be a common thing lately, and a lot of people coming to me with issues), I have a track record of actually accomplishing solving or fixing issues. I already passed most of what is happening to Ghost, and even e-mailed Priit to see if there is ANYTHING we can do to solve/remedy this issue.

What a good day for Purge. Promoted here, and now owner of halo. GJ man.

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Actually the fact that so many peoples posts could easily be turned into trash talk or spammed by people and split, or moved as a whole to trash talk chased them away. Most the time I just delete the 5 or 10 posts, and keep the thread on track as the posts normally have no use on this forum. More than enough times I link someone to a thread on SSForum, and they say "I don't go there anymore. Got tired of my threads getting trashed.", and I show them they don't anymore, and quite a few now visit regularly again. Or I atleast see their names in the "Who visited today". This same thread has been posted probably 6 or 7x, with the same reasons. I'm almost beginning to think you guys just copy and paste it with a few minor changes, as word for word, it almost always sounds the same. Anyways, if you want a forum to trash talk on, use your zones forum. That is what they're mostly there for anyways.

Or check this thread out: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=23055

I think I might ban Rootbear today for all our sakes.

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Old, though he is working on new stuff again. I love this guy, cause he gave me the idea to fuck with this one indian telemarketer who kept calling my parents house. Funny enough they never called "Big Bob's Slaughter House" where the slogan is "if they're still mooin, we're still killin" again. Though he did atleast reply "Sorry, wrong number sir". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKmpbJuMT40 Edit: Found the funeral home one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9nJ0rpAcqk http://www.tommabe.com/

People print this stuff? Almost got the php ready to test on SSF's db once I download a back up and test it on it 1st. If all goes good, should fix the media tags. On upgrade, it cleared all the custom bbcode (IE: ) and just put in the literal html code into the post. It is causing an issue for some reason, dunno why. I still have yet to figure out the post your pictures thread. Though there is a bug on unclosed image tags killing the page (though this makes sense, dunno why that worked before without doing so). But should hopefully have it all figured out before Final is released here in a few weeks.

Another one courtesy of Mom: http://from.simontsmall.com/2008/12/15/david-thorne-strikes-again/

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2479342/Spider-email-joker-is-back-David-Thorne-spider-email-prankster-returns-David-Thorne-winds-up-gym-boss-and-landlord.html Had me and the girl laughin pretty hard.