Either you couldn't afford $8 a month in hosting or my way of running a server was better than yours all along.

hey guys check out our new server that is strictly moderated , we are looking for some good natured and efficient players , hardcore checkpoint with good teammates the way it should be

list of incompetent and annoying players is logged and implemented , keeping the player pool full of good and well mannered players

https://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/groups/Trapdoor4

I see, awesome, I will certainly make use of the servers while their still up, completely understandable as all things have to come to an end at some point (obviously) haha. Anyhow thanks for leaving the plug intact for the time being :)

I have thought about dropping the servers at some point, though. I don't really play the game anymore and just let my control server manage it. Don't think I've even checked the servers myself since last year. Just don't really have the time/interest.

Servers are back up for now. This is what happens when I leave things automated and don't check them for months lol. Forgot to update my credit card on the VPS hosts.

Assuming the servers are shut down indefinitely as so is the website, It was fun :( pretty much the only server i played on for years, helped me improve immensely as an fps player, as i really enjoyed the way the server was setup. Probably time for me to move on to new games anybow, doesn't seem like a bad time to give sandstorm another try. Anyways just wanted to leave my appreciation here, many thanks :)

One more insanely stupid thing, if you guys haven't noticed yet... say for example you're soloing by yourself while your team is assualting the objective, using silencers and walking around etc, you manage to kill a dude in PVP, then sneak around and get into a building to reload. Oh but wait, your character doesn't have the brain capacity to realize that you're trying to be stealthy, and once you start reloading he yells out "OH ♥♥♥♥" or any other 9 stupid voice recordings. So yeah, besides actually a lot of things, the core game itself is pretty good.

Yeah if you're a fan of insurgency you might as well get the 20% off now for sandstorm. It's a great base game, still has some optimization issues that are being worked on as well as various AI performence issues but overall I'd say the game is a decent improvment from Insurgency. I will mention the one thing however that has been super annoying is that playing against AI as security, the player has the option to set their character "voice" to Spec Ops and just casual or something. The non-spec ops version sounds like a jihad. Completely unimersive considering that you are playing as s-e-c-u-r-i-t-y. In good ole reg insurgency its amazing having the ability to distinguish voices in game but in sandstorm when you're clearing buildings and you hear the exact same voice actor that is used to voice the insurgents say something as your security friend, it gets frusterating.

I would strongly advise u 2 wait untill first stable release (Jan 2019) a lot of seasoned players who have loads of hours on Insurgency told me that their expectations with sandstorm were a bit higher.There are many issues as for now but thats what Beta versions are designed for , to get as much feedback from players as possible so devs can work on issues/flaws.If u not short on "mony" buy it If u like Insurgency u still gonna have some fun and get a good bargain on the game since u wont be paying the full price.

Anyone playing the Beta? I've been on the fence on getting it now but reviews have been kinda mixed. Mostly optimization issues.

@HalfBurntToast ''accidentally'' yea sure...jk no worries it wasn't really that important anyways.

@VoVa, sorry I accidentally deleted your comment. It didn't even ask to confirm.

I’d like to, but I can’t really give a clear yes or no until the game is released and I can install the server programs. I still don’t know how it runs on the server side. I will at least make a good effort to test out Sandstorm and see where it goes from there.

Hey Toast, can you give us an idea if you going to hosting IS (Insurgency Sandstorm) in the future? We have a great group of regular players on BTD and some have been asking and I'm wondering myself.

The mod stopped working after one of the updates. I don't think it's been updated. The version the server was running isn't compatible anymore.

Hey toastie we used to have the Impossible Checkpoint server with Resuply turned off by default is there any particular reason it has been removed ?

No rush! thanks mate!

Well... So much for that. Apparently everything is breaking. Stat generation, error logging, heck even the servers are sometimes not spawning bots for some reason. I'll be looking into this. It might take a while to resolve.

That's probably a bug then. The report generator will be running soon and I'll look over the debug information to see what's going on. I'll get back to you on that.

Thanks for your prompt answer. I meant the "all time list". I recall being ranked somewhat around the 37K-39K region.

Thanks! I appreciate it. So, it depends on what list you mean.

The first list is capped to the top 50 players (based on kills) and the all-time based on a set minimum number of kills. I just reran the script to get the raw output: https://pastebin.com/Bcw56fRb . So, as of today, you placed around 71 out of the 1437 players in the last five days (71: 353 16 1 22.0625 AMM;). But, if you played a bunch today (or over the next few days), for example, your rank will likely shoot back up when the script is run again tomorrow.

If your name fell off of the all-time ranks page, than that's probably a bug. Once names go on that they shouldn’t ever come off (there are even some permabanned users still listed there). Right now, the minimum required kill count is 800 (otherwise the page would be, literally, over 50,000 lines long). If this is the list you mean, I'll look into what could have happened. No data has been lost, so, if that is the case, it's likely a bug in my code.

Hi admin. First of all, let me thank you for the work you're investing in keeping the servers alive and available for gaming. I've been playing on the btd servers for several months now, and I must say that these might be one of the best in terms of gameplay and player's behavior / respectful interaction (in general).

I have a quick question: how does the stats. ex. toastland ranking system work? I've noticed that for example my name just disappeared recently from the list. It's not that I'm just playing for a better ranking, but at least for me this has a motivational factor.

Thanks in advance for your response.

Keep on the good work.

AMM