I hope you are well, and that you're pursuing something fulfilling in life. This is the first announcement in a while, so it's supposed to be something good to catch your attention. Please read below.

People have consistently reached out to me over the years since the game server changed hands a couple times, and there are even people now that I meet in-game that remember the server, group, or even the other 1000 thumbs-in-pies that we had. There's even comments on the group going back years trying to remember and reconnect with people they met on the server. That's amazing, really amazing, I am thankful to the good memories that a game server had for many.

NGS was a creative outlet for me, and a place to improve. I honed my skills and pursued a successful tech career through making and maintaining the servers. There was always a hundred projects planned that I never had time for, from a voting plugin that literally allowed people to change the rules of the server every month, to a way to play on one server with multiple maps at once, check people's inventories, and even free hosted trading bots for people so that you wouldn't have to pay someone who had some technical knowledge just so you could compete with other faceless robots. Everything and anything was free, as free as I could make it.

I recently gained back control of the Steam groups. I am also trying to regain access to the old daily backups I made of the server files and database. I haven't changed my stance or philosophy on giving back to the community. NGS was a server made by the community, for the community. Everything aside, and most importantly, I want to hear from you. If you would be so kind, please reach out to me, friend me on Steam, friend me on Discord, post in the comments, wherever, tell me how you are doing, what you are doing, anything.

https://discord.gg/gHZjXFEmB6

We here at NGS are working hard to bring you a new map (the night map), and you can help! Our current mapping project is going to cost $150, some of which NGS is supplying out of pocket ($150 is the price that is left over, we're doing some other stuff to reduce the cost, more info below). That harsh bastard nice person, Ryuke, has ruthlessly gone over our mapping budget with promises of sweet candy and a van ride. We want that sweet candy, we will have that sweet candy, and we'll yoink it and run him over with the very van he compiled the map in. Looted from his van-tracked trench coat will be improvements to the map like:

- Night and Day cycle versions.
- Waterfall shack roof access.
- Map credit area (includes high-tier donors to the map drive!) in the museum's now easily accessible second floor.
- Optimization of areaportals
- Merasmus boss fight fixes
- Gameplay fixes to a couple of easily exploited areas.
- Full lighting overhaul
- Secret areas

What you get:

$2: Map Boi tag in front of name + regular donor/VIP perks.
$10: All of $2 + special collectible unusual weapon. This time it will be a pan with Cloudy Moon. This tier also gives access to our test server where you can look at a preview of night map that Ryuke graced us with.
$20+: All of $10 + a special actually shiny plaque on the new map. Like, actually really shiny, "shiny" was all I could say when I saw an example on Ryuke's previous map.

For this donation drive, all items are accepted (except crates and cases). Regular weapons, stranges, anything you feel would be able to help us reach our goal is much appreciated and will be taken at 80% its Marketplace.tf price if it's not a key (we're selling on Marketplace.tf and they take that cut, we'll foot that bill if it's a key).

Thank you guys for allowing us to do things like this, it's such a wholesome experience for all of us to know that you trust us to pursue projects like this. Thank you :)

Hello! This is just a friendly reminder letting you know that we want you to become a bigger part of the NGS community. You can interact directly with staff members, and make a name for yourself in this awesome group.



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Hello all!

You may have noticed that some bans were happening due to SMAC's eyetest violations due to the latest bugfix update for TF2. SMAC is a public anticheat, and the recent update caused angles of players' eyes to trigger a module that resulted in an instant ban. This problem was introduced to CS:GO 2 weeks prior, and it was unexpected that it be introduced to TF2 as well.

We have patched this on our server and disabled the faulty module, so all should be well now.

Thank you!

Hello! The server has been down, as I'm sure you've noticed. So some good news and some bad news. The good news is that, over the weekend, we implemented an awesome cloud-based backup system that kicks butt. The bad news is that we now have to use it.

Our server files are completely obliterated from the machine for whatever reason, so we are now restoring from our kick-ass backups. Stay tuned, this will take maximum 40-60 minutes ;)