Mighty Jayster

Things have been great here until very recent.  We had no cases for ages (because we had everyone locked out, including the rest of Australia lol).
However we now have 114 active cases (which is still very low)
Our state of Western Australia had been restriction free for nearly 2 years till recently (restriction now are mask indoor)
My family and I are doing well.  Have a great year this year guys and shall talk to you all soon.
 
Cheers

Funny thing is mate. Same
 
I have just recovered from it as well. Hope you're doing okay.

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........

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........

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........

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.

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. 

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 ?

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  
 

Right. I am going to stop you there.
 
@Kenai has given you enough reasoning as to why you should be banned as realistically, you have admitted you hacked. And also, you also said you torrented it.
 
From this, this appeal will be closed and you will not be unbanned.
 
Thank you for your time.

Is this a promod tournament ????? 
 
Need to get practicing. 

Right. I am going to stop you there.
 
@Kenai has given you enough reasoning as to why you should be banned as realistically, you have admitted you hacked. And also, you also said you torrented it.
 
From this, this appeal will be closed and you will not be unbanned.
 
Thank you for your time.

Right. I am going to stop you there.
 
@Kenai has given you enough reasoning as to why you should be banned as realistically, you have admitted you hacked. And also, you also said you torrented it.
 
From this, this appeal will be closed and you will not be unbanned.
 
Thank you for your time.

as a member here i'd like to say that you both need to mature xD 
come on guys IceOps isn't like that give me a break xD (we dont call our self IceOps family for no reason) 
 
@$t0rM [= come on m8 you could've pm him and ask him whats wrong ! not abusing him on the open 
@610 *.* banning people with the reason of storm is that a valid reason m8  
if i'll see them i'll apologize too on the behalf of IceOps  
 
if you have some personal problems we can have a pm the 3 of us and who ever wanna come join to settle things among you  
 

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]

So instantly there from a IT Technicians point of view, i can see two things that are worth upgrading.
 
Your storage, you should be using a SSD as your main boot device and a Hard drive as your seccondary storage. This really does help performance on any computer from simply just starting the computer up, to even running programs that are stored on it.
 
RAM should really now adays be ran in Duel Channel (Have two sticks). This just takes a bit of slack off the CPU as that that one Ram Stick will be getting battered with data.

However, the GPU is really low quality as well and you could do a upgrade to a GTX 960 or something. I recommend using this site to see whats compattable and wont bottleneck: https://pc-builds.com/calculator/
 

So with this it is a really grey area as to what you should do.
 
You go onto any call of duty game, even the latest ones taht come out like for example Warzone, you have tones of campers that camp on roofs etc. So i can understand the fustration from that point.

However with the M21 being rather overpowered if that is the case, then this will have to be investiaged. I must admit, i have not played on the Hardcore server for a while due to irl commitments. But if it is being abused with camping, @RedRose suggested something really simple which i don't see as bad thing at all personally:
 
Simple things can change actions of people. I would most certainly hesitate from jumping streight to a warning, as fustrating as it can be, as it happens in all games with camping. But if the M21 is at a unfair advantage, then fair enough, investigations can happen.
 
As said though, i have not played for a long while so please do advise.
 
Hope we can come to a understanding as, im sure you will agree, IceOps has a lovely Family and Communtiy.
 
Disagreements are not a regular for us

So with this it is a really grey area as to what you should do.
 
You go onto any call of duty game, even the latest ones taht come out like for example Warzone, you have tones of campers that camp on roofs etc. So i can understand the fustration from that point.

However with the M21 being rather overpowered if that is the case, then this will have to be investiaged. I must admit, i have not played on the Hardcore server for a while due to irl commitments. But if it is being abused with camping, @RedRose suggested something really simple which i don't see as bad thing at all personally:
 
Simple things can change actions of people. I would most certainly hesitate from jumping streight to a warning, as fustrating as it can be, as it happens in all games with camping. But if the M21 is at a unfair advantage, then fair enough, investigations can happen.
 
As said though, i have not played for a long while so please do advise.
 
Hope we can come to a understanding as, im sure you will agree, IceOps has a lovely Family and Communtiy.
 
Disagreements are not a regular for us

So with this it is a really grey area as to what you should do.
 
You go onto any call of duty game, even the latest ones taht come out like for example Warzone, you have tones of campers that camp on roofs etc. So i can understand the fustration from that point.

However with the M21 being rather overpowered if that is the case, then this will have to be investiaged. I must admit, i have not played on the Hardcore server for a while due to irl commitments. But if it is being abused with camping, @RedRose suggested something really simple which i don't see as bad thing at all personally:
 
Simple things can change actions of people. I would most certainly hesitate from jumping streight to a warning, as fustrating as it can be, as it happens in all games with camping. But if the M21 is at a unfair advantage, then fair enough, investigations can happen.
 
As said though, i have not played for a long while so please do advise.
 
Hope we can come to a understanding as, im sure you will agree, IceOps has a lovely Family and Communtiy.
 
Disagreements are not a regular for us

Interesting conversation and topic.
 
Some of you know that I am a player with pings in the 300+ range and that I don't sit still for long lol.
I know camping is allowed but I too do find that it is frustrating when you do get some that are able to camp in the same spot for the entire game and not be killed.
I have tried so many times to get to some of these campers without success and a large amount of death (I don't care about my KD)

It also frustrating when there are only certain ways to approach these players and you continues to get killed no matter what you do or how hard you try.
During some of these times, I just completely gave up and left, feeling that it destroyed my sense of fun playing.

IF only I was able to jump or fly above them to kill them lol (it would be a shock to the core)
Hmmm thinking along that line, maybe it could be earned when you get so many kills (instead of getting uav for VIP, we get to fly haha)
 
Okay, it not a good sight to see the admins here arguing about something that is affecting some of your regular players.
Honestly, I think the really hard core campers that has large amount of kills and no death should be warned to move to another camp spot if they still want to camp.
That way they are not camping in the one spot the whole map, move between camp spots instead.

Verbal warnings (ask them to move nicely  ) in game to begin with, if no action after asking 2-3 times(when you ask the 3rd time let them know that the next time will be a kick)(this gives them a chance to move) then I think the kick would work better than an admin warning.
 
I suggest all the admins needs to discuss this in private and come up with a solution that is fair on the campers and non campers. (Hence my suggestion above)
Cheers
 
Ohh and this is a really lovely, friendly family clan

i am not good at long paragraphs m8 but i'll keep it short and simple what ever your facing about camping or any problems remember that iceops is more like a family and if your not considered one at the first place they havnt accepted you in the beginning man i am here as your brother we all here!!!
i also made a son here not even brothers @CROdator my lovely son    
IceOps is all about having fun and enjoy your time and i am certain that you shall change your mind for your brother here asking not to leave just feel free to tell me every thing i will always be here you  can ask other fella members just tell me all your passing threw 
Plus your our bounty hunter man the most guy who keeps the server clean imagine those hackers without you in the server they will be annoying more than campers trust me 
Hope you take my words into consideration my friend 

Player Banned
 
@Tyrannos if you have no power we can look into this for you.
 
Ty for the report
 
Closed
 

Thanks for the report @KMB!
 
Closed
 
IceOps Staff

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