there will never be another eth0 empires server, he's too busy playing shores of hazeron

Thanks to all the awesome feedback and play-time people have been putting in I'm now ready to finalise the 'Beta' stage of the server this weekend.

This means mostly evaluating the right mix of plugins (mostly administration, but maybe with a few fun ones ;)) and setting up the initial group of moderators for the server.

Hopefully this won't introduce any new major issues, and if not the server will go 'Gold' on Sunday evening.

Applications for Moderators: I'll be opening up applications for moderators soon, so look out for an annoucement next week.

The Empires server I've been toiling over the last couple of day has successfully passed it's 'Alpha' stage marking the vanilla server's basic performance and stability tests.

The next stage is 'Beta' which will see how the server reacts to the inclusion of SourceMod and the various plugins.

A great thanks to all thaty kindly provided much needed and good quality feedback!

-eth0

‡|JPL|‡ Caggers was made and honorary Officer today for this sterling working in population the server to an amazing peek of 48 players!

This has greatly helped in stress testing the server and as such is recognised for this achievement.

Cheers!
-eth0