Hi Everyone..
It saddens me to make this announcement but I feel the time has come to completely remove all of the Sandbox Servers for Garry's Mod. The traffic has decreased far below our marks from last year and the staff is becoming rare. We have set up a specific team of people to help manage the servers, and the communication with them has fallen to absolutely nothing.
We have been running since 2013 and have been mainly funded by myself, which I don't really mind. When it comes down to having the time to maintain/repair/staff and other things on the server I simply just do not have the time. TBB has consumed most of my social life, and now that summer is here I am planning on getting out and having fun with friends and taking trips.
I will be keeping TeamSpeak up because there is a large amount of people that collaborate there and play games other than Garry's Mod. The website may be reset or changed to something more simplistic to accommodate our downsize.
Garry's Mod has slowly been decreasing in popularity, especially now that GTA 5 is released for the PC. I myself have been spending most of my free time playing with groups of people on our TeamSpeak and having fun. I forgot how good it feels to actually kick back and play games without having to constantly deal with issues and concerns across 5+ game servers.
To the staff on the remaining servers, I will advise the cancellation date to which they will be suspended or taken down completely. Take this time to finish any unfinished business or notifying people of the closure. I'm fairly certain that none of my staff really check the website, so it'll come as a shock when the server is offline without knowing of this.
#1 - Everyone else appears to be playing on other build servers, leaving this one empty.. our most expensive server.
#2 - Our most popular server, NONE of the staff participates on TeamSpeak nor uses the website to address concerns.
#3 - The headache. This server has been kid friendly for 2 years, and the level of drama and problems has risen to an uncontrollable amount.
#4 - Two active staff members whom I don't communicate with, nor hear about server status or issues.
#5 - Tried alternatives, server ended up a ghost town with no staff participation.
Deathrun, Prophunt, Muder - Fairly popular, but considering that none of my staff really play Garry's Mod anymore.. these servers will most likely be retired as well.
You can feel free to keep the |TBB| tag in your name if you wish, perhaps in the future we can come back and try this all again. It has been a pleasure serving everyone and giving you a great place to play, but I do believe this is the best option considering how much stress has been caused and how much of my personal time has been invested into the community.
Teamspeak: ts3.tehbuildbox.com (First time joiners will be unable to move until addressed by an Administrator on our TeamSpeak.)
[size=14pt]CANCELLATION DATES
Server #1 - 5/6/2015 [GONE]
Server #2 - 5/22/2015
Server #3 - 6/5/2015
Server #4 - 6/8/2015
Server #5 - 5/30/2015
Prophunt, Deathrun, Murder, Minecraft - 5/17/14 ** To be determined yet, requires admin input.
Thanks Everyone for being awesome and devoting your time to keeping our community running, but as a break to everyone I do believe this is the best option for us. We will still be a community on TeamSpeak hanging out and having fun, just no longer providing game servers for Garry's Mod. I may take down the group entirely (Steam Group) to officially release us from all ties. It's up to you whether to keep the |TBB| in your name or not, maybe most of you will actually stop playing Garry's Mod and focusing on games that are actually worth the time.
In closing, I may be wiping my Steam Friends list as well.. starting fresh. I have not determined if or when I will do this, and I will keep my close friends that I actually talk to and remove those whom I haven't spoken to or know.
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It saddens me to make this announcement but I feel the time has come to completely remove all of the Sandbox Servers for Garry's Mod. The traffic has decreased far below our marks from last year and the staff is becoming rare. We have set up a specific team of people to help manage the servers, and the communication with them has fallen to absolutely nothing.
We have been running since 2013 and have been mainly funded by myself, which I don't really mind. When it comes down to having the time to maintain/repair/staff and other things on the server I simply just do not have the time. TBB has consumed most of my social life, and now that summer is here I am planning on getting out and having fun with friends and taking trips.
I will be keeping TeamSpeak up because there is a large amount of people that collaborate there and play games other than Garry's Mod. The website may be reset or changed to something more simplistic to accommodate our downsize.
Garry's Mod has slowly been decreasing in popularity, especially now that GTA 5 is released for the PC. I myself have been spending most of my free time playing with groups of people on our TeamSpeak and having fun. I forgot how good it feels to actually kick back and play games without having to constantly deal with issues and concerns across 5+ game servers.
To the staff on the remaining servers, I will advise the cancellation date to which they will be suspended or taken down completely. Take this time to finish any unfinished business or notifying people of the closure. I'm fairly certain that none of my staff really check the website, so it'll come as a shock when the server is offline without knowing of this.
#1 - Everyone else appears to be playing on other build servers, leaving this one empty.. our most expensive server.
#2 - Our most popular server, NONE of the staff participates on TeamSpeak nor uses the website to address concerns.
#3 - The headache. This server has been kid friendly for 2 years, and the level of drama and problems has risen to an uncontrollable amount.
#4 - Two active staff members whom I don't communicate with, nor hear about server status or issues.
#5 - Tried alternatives, server ended up a ghost town with no staff participation.
Deathrun, Prophunt, Muder - Fairly popular, but considering that none of my staff really play Garry's Mod anymore.. these servers will most likely be retired as well.
You can feel free to keep the |TBB| tag in your name if you wish, perhaps in the future we can come back and try this all again. It has been a pleasure serving everyone and giving you a great place to play, but I do believe this is the best option considering how much stress has been caused and how much of my personal time has been invested into the community.
Teamspeak: ts3.tehbuildbox.com (First time joiners will be unable to move until addressed by an Administrator on our TeamSpeak.)
[size=14pt]CANCELLATION DATES
Server #1 - 5/6/2015 [GONE]
Server #2 - 5/22/2015
Server #3 - 6/5/2015
Server #4 - 6/8/2015
Server #5 - 5/30/2015
Prophunt, Deathrun, Murder, Minecraft - 5/17/14 ** To be determined yet, requires admin input.
Thanks Everyone for being awesome and devoting your time to keeping our community running, but as a break to everyone I do believe this is the best option for us. We will still be a community on TeamSpeak hanging out and having fun, just no longer providing game servers for Garry's Mod. I may take down the group entirely (Steam Group) to officially release us from all ties. It's up to you whether to keep the |TBB| in your name or not, maybe most of you will actually stop playing Garry's Mod and focusing on games that are actually worth the time.
In closing, I may be wiping my Steam Friends list as well.. starting fresh. I have not determined if or when I will do this, and I will keep my close friends that I actually talk to and remove those whom I haven't spoken to or know.
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