For those who didn't get the info yet, and for those who hate that ****ty era-go crap:

Posted by Johnaudi

Our yearly GST is soon to come.

What is the GST?
It's an event hosted by the Era Staff team, quite exciting because it has a challenge between gangs, gets them warped in an arena and have X members from each gang to fight against the enemies' gang. But nobody does that for free or fun, the real fun in that are the prizes (change every year). You can ask any Era oldbie about it!

When is it going to be?
It's going to be headed around Mid-March.

When are the gangs going to be picked?
This is why this thread was made... (continue reading)

This year, we will be spicing it up at picking the gangs.

We will have a certain time (22nd of February till the 1st of March) where all the gang kills on Era will be logged, as well as hours, spars.
How it works:

We will pick:

The TOP 5 BASING GANGS that has based the most in the given week.
The TOP 5 SPARRING GANGS that has sparred the best in the given week.
The TOP 5 GANGS that has scored the most amount of kills in the given week.
The gang 'Magus' is auto-qualified for winning last year's GST.

*given week: 22nd of Feb -> 1st of Mar

The rules, terms and conditions as well as prizes will be announced when the logging will start.

Please state your opinion in this thread about the gang picking system, I'm really waiting for your feedback to check if we should implement it or not.
Better late than never.

Good luck!

This year there will be a revamped version of Bboy's ping checker (Wasn't used last year due to layerd being ******ed), it will be automated, will kick players lagging too much or eating bullets, more info to come soon.

Johnaudi (John) will be the hoster, and this year other staff members killing people or not doing their job won't be running accross the map to interfere.
John is the gst hoster, no other staff, or snk will interfere.

Disabled weapons (not finalized): every special items (gas,traps etc...), Ac, other launchers, flamethrower.

Original link: http://www.era-go.com/forum/showthre...T)-PRE-WARNING

PS; Any bugs that are server related and will happen in the arena such as Magus vs iFreeze where traps would be spawned, whitout anyone actually using them (as not being able to put them, because they were auto disabled, yes) will not count as a valid excuse anymore.  

So a sparring competition where the top 5 basing gangs get to compete after getting the most hours in a certain week. What?  

Posted by Mejico Jøsh

So a sparring competition where the top 5 basing gangs get to compete after getting the most hours in a certain week. What?

Well, I didn't want to call it 'GST' but 'GKT' or something, since it's a killing tournament and not a sparring tournament.

And killing comes in all forms.  

Posted by Johnaudi

Well, I didn't want to call it 'GST' but 'GKT' or something, since it's a killing tournament and not a sparring tournament.

And killing comes in all forms.

Well the change of name might help considering its always been known as a spar only thing  

Posted by Mejico Jøsh

Well the change of name might help considering its always been known as a spar only thing

Some staff preferred it if it stays 'GST', it's just a name.  

Posted by Ozzy_Magus

For those who didn't get the info yet, and for those who hate that ****ty era-go crap:




This year there will be a revamped version of Bboy's ping checker (Wasn't used last year due to layerd being ******ed), it will be automated, will kick players lagging too much or eating bullets, more info to come soon.

Johnaudi (John) will be the hoster, and this year other staff members killing people or not doing their job won't be running accross the map to interfere.
John is the gst hoster, no other staff, or snk will interfere.

Disabled weapons (not finalized): every special items (gas,traps etc...), Ac, other launchers, flamethrower.

Original link: http://www.era-go.com/forum/showthre...T)-PRE-WARNING

PS; Any bugs that are server related and will happen in the arena such as Magus vs iFreeze where traps would be spawned, whitout anyone actually using them (as not being able to put them, because they were auto disabled, yes) will not count as a valid excuse anymore.

K. Question:
I'm a one-man gang. If it's possible I make like 5k kills this week, is my gang qualified as a "winner"? And idk if you posted or not (not gonna bother looking, lol) what's the prize?  

Sparring isn't just 1v1, basing, pking is sparring.
Fighting=Spar.
The name's fine.  

oh man this already looks like a train wreck just waiting to happen  

Posted by Loading...ERROR

K. Question:
I'm a one-man gang. If it's possible I make like 5k kills this week, is my gang qualified as a "winner"? And idk if you posted or not (not gonna bother looking, lol) what's the prize?

These are the pre-tryouts to get qualified for the gst. Say you alone, qualify your gang. If you do not have 11 members (11v11=Gst) you will 1)Be removed 2)Or they'll ask you to get members.
But believe me, you ain't qualifying yourself alone.

Posted by Ghettoicedtea

oh man this already looks like a train wreck just waiting to happen

How? John has been hosting this since 2 years, if it was snk you can't even imagine how much worse it could have been. And I'm also making sure john doesn't forget something.

Just mentioning that this year there won't be anyone interfering or any excuses.  

especially with the basing being that its always the big basing gangs that rec and kick a lot and their subs. Then once the 5 gangs are chosen its going to be all the ranked members who will play then everyone will bitch about how they didn't get to play and they did all the work

Posted by Ozzy_Magus

How? John has been hosting this since 2 years, if it was snk you can't even imagine how much worse it could have been. And I'm also making sure john doesn't forget something.

Just mentioning that this year there won't be anyone interfering or any excuses.

John has hosted two completely terrible GSTs that were just terrible. I would rather have someone else host.  

Posted by Ghettoicedtea

especially with the basing being that its always the big basing gangs that rec and kick a lot and their subs. Then once the 5 gangs are chosen its going to be all the ranked members who will play then everyone will bitch about how they didn't get to play and they did all the work



John has hosted two completely terrible GSTs that were just terrible. I would rather have someone else host.

John did his job.
Layerd didn't kick laggers when he had to, and snk didn't do anything about duke's member being killed by a staff, snk gave freeze hats for crying.
What did john do? Create the map,script it, script the gangsummoning logs and ***.

It surely ain't john to be blamed.  

Posted by Ozzy_Magus

John did his job.
Layerd didn't kick laggers when he had to, and snk didn't do anything about duke's member being killed by a staff, snk gave freeze hats for crying.
What did john do? Create the map,script it, script the gangsummoning logs and ***.

It surely ain't john to be blamed.

he was the host though, he was the head of the GST and he allowed this to happen and did nothing about it.  

Posted by Ghettoicedtea

especially with the basing being that its always the big basing gangs that rec and kick a lot and their subs. Then once the 5 gangs are chosen its going to be all the ranked members who will play then everyone will bitch about how they didn't get to play and they did all the work

The picking system is automatic, but I'm the one who arranges who goes vs who. So technically, basing gangs wouldn't be a problem unless they can spar like a boss.

BTW, every player is allowed to choose one gang to participate with in the GST, he cannot change gang tags after it's done, so if basing gangs can get hands on good sparrers, they might have a chance on making it.  

Posted by Johnaudi

The picking system is automatic, but I'm the one who arranges who goes vs who. So technically, basing gangs wouldn't be a problem unless they can spar like a boss.

BTW, every player is allowed to choose one gang to participate with in the GST, he cannot change gang tags after it's done, so if basing gangs can get hands on good sparrers, they might have a chance on making it.

what im saying is in theory, the system is great. But in reality its going to be a trainwreck. For starters big basing gangs must have multiple leaders. If one of the leaders does not get picked and is mad about that. It could easily kick all the GST particapents and then they can't compete. Then you're going to have to fix the issue taking up a ton of time.  

Posted by Ghettoicedtea

what im saying is in theory, the system is great. But in reality its going to be a trainwreck. For starters big basing gangs must have multiple leaders. If one of the leaders does not get picked and is mad about that. It could easily kick all the GST particapents and then they can't compete. Then you're going to have to fix the issue taking up a ton of time.

Well, conflicts between gangs is not my problem.

About the time, I'll try to find a fix for that, the most time is being used up by hiding through large obstacles.

That's why I'm planning on removing corridors, and tight places.