Gather-Network 2010 llega hoy

"Release of GN10"

Dear members,

I am happy to announce that we will release our brand new version of Gather-Network this weekend !

The migration will start on Saturday, probably during the afternoon. We expect some downtime of the whole GN system during the weekend due the numerous changes that the migration implies.

Because of those major changes, we decided to suspend the premium ladder during the month of may and take profit of that to give free premium to all our members during that month. This will also let all of you test the new premium system and help us to track the last remaining bugs.

We have a lot of work ahead so expect more details about GN 10 and the changelog later on.

Stay tuned !

GN 10 changelog:

BOT:

*New: Full ingame commands compatibility with TFC, TF2 AND CSPRO
*New: Basic ingame commands compatibility with DODS and L4D
*New: new rating system for all GN members in non premium games (compatible with CS/CSS/CZ/CSPRO/TFC/TF2)
*New: new ban system with much more possibilities, less bugs
*New: new "international gathers" for premium members (gathers between GN channels)
*New: GN supports different steamid for each game
*New: Automatic authentication of all users who are authed in "Q" or "Chanserv" after maximum 5 minutes on irc channel
*New: Authentication method on IRC does not allow to use the password anymore, a new web-based system will be used if user is not authed in Q/Chanserv
*New: ingame commands .cancelreplace and .help
*New: ingame commands .time and .timeleft for TF games
*New: command !med and !cap for games that support captains and medics.
*New: command !lastskill on gather channel
*New: command !infos on all channels (same as "whois" in PM, but the command has been totaly recoded)
*New: command !gatherinfos on all channel
*New: Medics or captains can be defined as "required" and gather won't start before someone applied (game based)
*New: command addgame has a new optional paramatre "#channel" for international gathers (free/open/#channel)
*New: total recode of the substitute search module, more informations displayed when looking for a sub (ie. side playing, scores,...)
*New: command !sub now has the "ip" parametre to choose which gather to sub
*New: count the total time played on game servers with GN plugin for all gn members
*New: bot message .admin channel when a server becomes busy
*New: support ticket system on #gather-network for helpers on .staff
*New: support ticket system for AC Team demos
*New: command !demo URL on #gather-network or /msg Gather-Network demo URL to submit a demo to the AC team
*New: commands !demoaccept, !demoreject, !demolist, !unbanrequest on #gather-network.acteam for AC Team to validate or reject demos and submit an unban request to the helpers automaticaly
*New: commands !unbanaccept, !unbanreject, !unbanlist on #gather-network.staff to validate or reject AC Team unban requests
*New: helper staff members (+administrator) automatically added to #gather-network.staff Q/Chanserv access
*New: acteam staff members (+administrator) automatically added to #gather-network.acteam Q/Chanserv access
*New: ALL staff members (helper,acteam,newsteam,administrator) + GN managers and leader (level 6 and 7) are automatically added to #gather-network.net Q/Chanserv access
*New: ALL staff members (helper,acteam,newsteam) automatically voiced on #gather-network Q/Chanserv access. Administrators + Helper leader + AC Team leader automaticly oped.
*New: Team name (in bot replies) is adapted to the game played. ie: CT, Blue, Allies...
*New: Password forwarding and message broadcast are now performed by the gather bot itself (no msger bots)
*New: Rank in the prmeium ladder is added to the end of the player name when renamed on game server
*New: Custom server names can be defined and used in commands addgame, !free, !block, !ip and server status (ie. #1 or #berlin1, etc)
*New: URL of the HLTV is published on channel when gather starts (if available)
*New: The admin BNC is now for top 5 admins every week. Those admins receive a BNC for 3 months.
*New: VIP level. Use with such level can keep a +v or +o flag on the gather channel (not reset by bot) but has no other admin right

*Fix: command !type is now callled !rules
*Fix: command !addtype is now callled !setrules
*Fix: command !addmap is now callled !setmap
*Fix: command !randomplayers is now callled !randomteams
*Fix: command !setmap without parametres removes the map lock (by admin)
*Fix: command !votemap from the admin after a maplock (!setmap) removes the lock
*Fix: command !gather will list Premium servers and premium sub search
*Fix: total count of gathers every week (avoid bugs when an admin is removed or switch his channel)
*Fix: bugs in !votemap (map selected was not always the one with the more votes)
*Fix: command "abuse" is transfered from master bot to normal channel bot
*Fix: possibility to share game servers between channels (ie. cs.nl and cs.de could share 2 servers each as a mutual agreement because of the good pings on both)
*Fix: added compatibility with channel=none in user profile (users without main channel, for internal use only)
*Fix: ban listing and unbans in guardian bot (for helpers)
*Fix: adapated all necessary commands to support the new staff status (helper,acteam,newsteam,administrator)
*Fix: Better support of HLTV records

• many other bug fixes or small changes

WEBSITE:

• Play-Area added (premium gather & webgather)
• Aimer of the day added on the left side (the top-player who did the most damage of the day so far!)
• Ingame stats: much more detailed stats on user profiles
• Ingame stats: much more detailed stats on every gather, including a description of the skillpoint calculation
• Ladder-Area redesigned
• Buddylist: new buddys have to be accepted now, if once accepted, it will add users on both buddylists
• Ignore a user function has been added
• "Enable PM from buddylist users only" has been added
• Buddy status message has been added
• PM Center completetly redesigned
• PM Center: history function added
• PM Center: mark muliple messages added
• Member profiles redesigned
• Controlpanel: activities added (friend activity, account activity, etc. etc.)
• Controlpanel: completely redesigned, including new tabs
• Security function added: you can now see the last activity (date & ip) for your account at "activity"
• Security function: you can now limit the access to your account by a IP adress (with wildards if requried!)
• Realtime notifications: you will now get a realtime notification when you receive a PM, your buddy plays a pingame gather or other interesting actions
• About 1000 other little tweaks I forgot to mention

CREW PAGE:

*New/staffpage: Delete events in user history (administrators)
*New/staffpage: Delete banpoints removed log from banpoint history (adminitrators)
*New/staffpage: Add banpoints directly from user edition (Helpers)
*New/staffapge: De-auth users from IRC (Helpers)
*New/staffpage: Support of multiple steamid per account (Helpers)
*New/staffpage: Any email change to an user has to be confirmed by a link sent to the new email
*New/staffpage: Option to select the game played on the channel
*New/staffpage: completly recoded game server display/edition/addition
*New/staffpage: block or free a game server from staff page
*New/staffpage: support of multiple channel per game server
*New/staffpage: support of custom game server name
*New/staffpage: Plugin access section for GN Plugin and Premium plugin access
*New/staffpage: Automatically redirect to user edition when only 1 result after search
*New/staffpage: Detailed match points display and editions for user skill
*New/staffpage: Add/remove server sponsors from server edition
*New/staffpage: update the log display with summary of gather infos + hidding rcons
*New/staffpage: direct links to gather logs for ac reports, abuse reports
*New/staffpage: The crew leaders (helper leader, acteam leader, etc) can now use the mailing list to channel leaders and their own staff
*New/staffpage: the bnc pages shows the level of the user
*New/staffpage: display the previous "abuse reports" about an user whne reviewing a new one
*New/staffpage: acteam can remove bans for no-demo, cheater, silentrun,...
*New/Staffpage: rewriting of most of the BNC page to eliminate bugs
*New/Staffpage: All automatic PMs sent to users on different sections can now be translated in translation interface
*New/Staffpage: User folder automatically set to active when acteam add new report to folder
*New/Staffpage: Display user level in ip search results
*New/Staffpage: News team can now post news in all categories
*New/Staffpage: Command to compare 2 member accounts (Helpers)
*New/Staffpage: recoded some part of AC team menus for better display
*New/Staffpage: fixed flickering screenshots for ac team
*New/Staffpage: crew leaders (h&s,acteam,newsteam) can now edit all staff news/staff comments of their category
*New/Staffpage: reset user password
*New/Staffpage: view the last ip used by an user