Duck

I could certainly get behind this. Seems such a waste to just having so many servers sitting there idle, so anything to at least try and entice players back is worth a shot. 
 
As a side note, there used to be periodic messages on the Hardcore server promoting the other game modes on offer. I don't know if there were ever very effective or not, but at least if players know the other servers exist they might be more inclined to try them out. 

I suggest showing a list of our servers after each completed game.

I could certainly get behind this. Seems such a waste to just having so many servers sitting there idle, so anything to at least try and entice players back is worth a shot. 
 
As a side note, there used to be periodic messages on the Hardcore server promoting the other game modes on offer. I don't know if there were ever very effective or not, but at least if players know the other servers exist they might be more inclined to try them out. 

Hey there! First of all, I'd like to say I'm finally back after being inactive for a couple of years, and it's nice to see everyone still hanging around. Really missed ya'll! 
 
Onto the point. I've been watching our servers' activity and it's needless to say they're pretty empty throughout the day (not including hardcore tdm). Of course, the game itself is very old and the player base isn't nearly as big as it was in its prime days, but that doesn't mean we can't get at least a few players to join our servers.
I believe that our mods aren't as attractive as they once were, and some of them are even unplayable without a larger amount of players (examples being CTF and Freeze tag). Because of that, I suggest we spice our servers up a bit by changing current gamemodes to new ones. For example, I'd love to see the Hide n Seek (HnS) mod back in action, the zom_db mod, or even the gun game mod. HnS mod currently isn't played on any of the active servers, and I believe there'd be some players interested in it. Gun game is very popular and I believe we'd succeed in running it, especially if we additionally edit it in 'IceOps style' (hardcore tdm is a good example).
 
I'm proposing to try and get our servers more active, and I believe this would be a good way to start since the current servers are just sitting empty. I already got the green light for this to happen, now I just need a good amount of players agreeing to this so we can actually implement this, so please leave a comment or like my post so I know you're standing by my suggestion! Thanks for reading through this.
 
TL;DR: Change the current empty servers' gamemodes to other ones such as Hide 'n' Seek, zom_db, gun game, etc. to try and get some players online.

Now, as far as I'm concerned - I can still go to work, we can buy groceries and we can go for a walk - but within a maximum of 15 km from our home address. We're basically locked up ... There are also night curfews. (The exception to this is if you can prove that you are on your way to work) Otherwise, all other shops, restaurants, bars, hairdressers, zoos, everything related to culture - such as cinemas, theaters, museums - virtually EVERYTHING are closed. ... and that since Christmas. It is particularly bad that the childcare facilities and schools have also closed. There is a kind of home schooling via the Internet, which should be supervised by the parents at home ... - but that really sucks ... First of all, the lockdown should be limited to February 15th, but rumor has it it will lastuntil Easter ... but this would be worst for all these closed shops, service providers and cultural institutions.  
You really have to be careful that you don't to get stir-crazy
The winner in this situation seems to be Amazon and all these other online dealers... but the small shops and also the pubs around the corner will die...
When it comes to vaccinating people, we are totally behind other countries - but what is worse is the situation, that vaccine developed in Germany is first used in other countries ... we really feel ripped off ...
btw - have you already been vaccinated? How do you think about it?
Will you get a vaccination or are you more skeptical about vaccinations?  What do you think ?

The vaccination thing, the UK is doing well, I think we have over 11 million of our eldest had their first dose. 
The problems in Europe were cause by the EU apparently.. not securing enough doses quickly enough and stopping individual countries buying for themselves. Some say that we got out of the EU just in time. 

We are extremely lucky here in Perth Australia.
We did however had a case of local community transmission and automatically went into 5 days of strict lockdown.
We have since have no more local case but have to continue to wear mask until 14th Feb.  After this, if we don't have anymore local cases, we will be able to completely open up again and live life normally.
The only restriction we will have is 2 sqm social distance, no international travel and our big concerts etc will only allow 50% capacity.
I really feel very lucky to be here safe and really feel for all those going through such hard time.
Please all take care.

been working away from home, just as normal, been working from home for the last few years, so not much of a change there.
being part of the UK, everything is literally closed, we have strict rules not to meet anyone not unless outside, our restrictions are due to be lifted on the 5th March. 
been keeping in close contact with a number of friends who are furlough and live alone, keeping their spirits up. 
haven't been vaccinated yet!
just cant wait to get the pubs open again  !!!!! 
 
hope everyone is keeping safe and well. 

In a way, i really do feel sorry for people and you who are in the exact same situation @Duck. Having gone through the education that you have, to now have nothing and being stuck at home with these restrictions. It is rather harsh on the time you have spent. I mean don't get me wrong, it was well spent, but at the same time it does seem like a effort that has put you at a rather crappy stand still....
Glad you are doing good though mate. 

Yeah i can understand the frustration with that because i work in a school. I'm a Senior IT Tech in a Secondary school so i know how frustrating this can be with working from home and trying to educate from home. Its not easy but it is what it is...
 

Unfortunately not no. I did get the chance to but then my local council made a mistake in who they sent the Vaccination emails out to so that went down really really well as you can imagine.... 
 
 
Very glad you are safe @{AD}RedRose as its not easy in these times but it does seem like Australia did the right thing with their lockdown.
 
 
Holy hell you can say that again........

Hopefully the end to the toughest part of this all is now on the horizon with vaccines starting to arrive at the places they're needed. Each day that passes is 1 more day closer to normalcy. 
As for me, I'm just in a holding pattern of life right now. I've graduated university and I'm looking for work, but it's probably going to be a while still until I can get to where I want to work due to strict border restrictions which will last for... well, I have no idea how long. So I just keep doing what I can for now, both for my sanity and to prevent myself from spiralling into inaction.  

So as we are all aware, there has been this lovely virus going round called COVID or "rona" as people are calling it near me
 
And i won't lie, times right now are hard for key workers, and even for people who are not able to work at all and are fully stuck at home. Fortunately for me, I am a key worker so i have to keep working no matter what, but i work at a high risk. 
 
I thought I'd create a thread to get others opinions on how they feel and how think its going. And even if you just want to vent and ask for advice. We're a family here at IceOps and yeah may as well have a nice place to talk. 
 
So come on then, how we all feeling/doing? You working/not working? Lets get a convo going
And you know what, i may even share how i feel  
 

Welcome Ninja-Gaming in IceOps!
The 7 years old Ninja-Gaming clan will join our IceOps-Gaming clan. That means new members will join us and we will get a HighJump server from them. I hope Ninja-Gaming can enjoy a good future within IceOps. Everyone of Ninja-Gaming is welcome here.
 
 

Rotation was not changed because few people complained and it will keep changing moving forward. Frequency of the change is yet to be determined but in general you can expect only a few most common maps to be permanently in rotation.

Every opinion must be heard!
We must understand that only together we become stronger.
If any of us need help we must provide it! But there are also time-tested moments.
Let's try to take everything into account and make the right decision!

Hey guys,
It's been a while :) 
Just popped in to say congratulations on the 10 year anniversary. It was fun being a part of the clan.
Wish I could post some of my screenshots but they're on a hard drive in a different city 
 
Good job on keeping one of the best games ever alive, and keep it going for another 10 years :P

Don't get me wrong I have no problems with any other part of the mod, it's a complete step up from the original formula. However I just feel the killstreak requirements need tweaking. 
 
I have had plenty of games already where I get 10 and 12 kills and destroy the enemy team, die and then do it all again and I see a small group of players who can also often do this. It may make it possible for regular players to also get them from time to time, but in the meantime they spend the game either getting bombed out or with little to shoot because better players are already using the killstreaks. All I'm suggesting is a requirement increase that increases the challenge a little and increases the number of gunfights before killstreaks dominate the game. 
 
Also I know a lot of these comments can be taken as criticism, but they come from people who genuinely care about both keeping the server alive and improving it and are perhaps just a bit emotional in their comments. 
 
-Duck

The names, the memories, oh it's all rushing back!

It's amazing that IceOps is still chugging along when so many other CoD4 clans and communities have disappeared, but I'm glad to see it's still going after all this time. 

The names, the memories, oh it's all rushing back!

It's amazing that IceOps is still chugging along when so many other CoD4 clans and communities have disappeared, but I'm glad to see it's still going after all this time. 

On the 20th may 2020, it was IceOps Gaming's 10 Year anniversary of being open. 
It was 10 years ago I (IJzzo) started IceOps in the beginning under the name Blue-Clan [Blu]. We started with multiple servers but two became very popular, Softcore mixed and Hardcore TDM.
 
After few month we did a merge our clan with few other players who had a clan called iPower. However we ended this relationship already after 1 week because there were (maybe unjustified) doubts they are clean players. From here we had to rename again and used IceOps as our name for the past 9 and a half years.
 
We added the mods Obscurity and Deathrun on our servers which became very popular and rose the interest in the IceOps community significantly. With the shutdown of the back then most popular Obscurity server "Retox Squad", our clan became the most interesting one for the Obscurity community and we got our second oldest member @Kenai who is still around today with us. I can not remember all the members we had before, over the years they were a lot, so I won't name any here.
When you have played on IceOps before 2015 then you are maybe interested in something we have prepared. The Xfire screenshots token by our players on our servers can be viewed now in the gallery under these links:

Obscurity + Zom DB
Deathrun
Deathrun#2 + Openwarfare custom maps
Hardcore TDM
Softcore Mixed
Openwarfare custom maps + (early)Deathrun
Sniperserver + Openwarfare2
Sniperserver + Deathrun#2
Promod
Zombies ZomDB
 
 
Time had been sometimes very hard with major internal conflicts, from today's point of few I had done some things different, but today we are still here and alive.
Over the time there has surely been some ups and downs. This could be from people leaving that were truly cherished at IceOps, to server updates and even brand new systems put in place for the better of the community like Sourcebans for example. 
Speaking now on behalf of the IceOps staff and myself, we would all like to say a huge thank you for continuing to be here. 
Running a community for so long has had its toll on the member count, but for the ones that are still here, you are not forgotten at all. We will surely be staying here running as long as you are here with us. 
 
Much Love
 
IceOps Staff
 
 
[Credits: Mighty Jayster + IJzzo]

// CHOICE_HP( id, bg, streak, txt ) // CHOICE_HP( 0, "radar_mp", 3, "UAV" ) CHOICE_HP( 1, "cuav_mp", 3, "CUAV" ) CHOICE_HP( 3, "asf_mp", 4, "ASF" ) CHOICE_HP( 4, "carepackage_mp", 4, "CP" ) CHOICE_HP( 6, "artillery_mp", 5, "ARTY" ) CHOICE_HP( 8, "airstrike_mp", 7, "AIRSTRIKE" ) CHOICE_HP( 9, "agm_mp", 7, "AGM" ) CHOICE_HP( 11, "predator_mp", 12, "PREDATOR" ) CHOICE_HP( 12, "mannedheli_mp", 12, "CHOPPER_GUNNER" ) CHOICE_HP( 14, "helicopter_mp", 16, "HELI" ) CHOICE_HP( 15, "ac130_mp", 16, "AC130" ) Thinking about this as a final number of kills for hardpoints (streak column). Opinions?

So much let everyone else I've been engrossed with Overwatch and while playing i grew to love Zenyatta design and lore behind him. So over the last week when I've had to time i have been busy drawing this and people would have seen this on my story and the steps that it's taken me to the final outcome. But for those who didn't well I normally don't do this but here is some of pictures of the progress.

~been playing deathrun for over 4 years
~pretty terrible at it                                                                                                                                                            
~never bothered to even try and get better                                                                                                                                                    
~stress free and still enjoy playing 
 
Literally no reason to get worked up over it

~been playing deathrun for over 4 years
~pretty terrible at it                                                                                                                                                            
~never bothered to even try and get better                                                                                                                                                    
~stress free and still enjoy playing 
 
Literally no reason to get worked up over it

For real, STOP bullying faharen.
 
For now on, whenever i see someone picking up on faharen will be banned for 1-3 days, this have gone too far because even our " server moderator " keeps it going.