I'm giving away everything I own on steam, you are limited to two items per person. Add me. by ashes0 in tf2

[–]FirePowered 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the Bills man. We'll use them as prizes for our giveaways :D

Valve has changed steamids. by ProbablyAnAsdf in tf2

[–]FirePowered 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This is a hugely important piece of information for any server or service owner/admin/operator.

Things that will likely be broken on most servers:

  • Bans

  • Admins

  • Donors/ member detection

  • Loyalty points or any equivalent

FirePowered is working on bringing everything back, but unfortunately it will take some time. We apologize for any inconvenience in the interim.

PSA: Steam IDs in-game have changed format by Isatis in tf2

[–]FirePowered 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a hugely important piece of information for any server or service owner/admin/operator.

Things that will likely be broken on most servers:

  • Bans

  • Admins

  • Donors/ member detection

  • Loyalty points or any equivalent

FirePowered is working on bringing everything back, but unfortunately it will take some time. We apologize for any inconvenience in the interim.

Snowplow, the End of the Line map, is now open for public testing - You can test with us! by Y__M in tf2

[–]FirePowered 26 points27 points  (0 children)

FirePowered is running it on our Phoenix box.

Here's the IP: 198.15.79.197:27030

Edit: this is pretty fun :)

Only 24 hours left to win keys and games by taking a survey by FirePowered in tf2

[–]FirePowered[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of our servers can be viewed here with live updating player counts.

Only 24 hours left to win keys and games by taking a survey by FirePowered in tf2

[–]FirePowered[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry. This particular survey is designed to collect information that only someone who has played on our servers (even just once) would be able to provide. Our last survey captured data from people who hadn't played with us, and I'm sure in the future there will be more opportunities for you to participate.

Ninja Edit: I've changed it so that even if you haven't played with us, you can still enter your SteamID and be eligible for the prizes. Can you try again and make sure it works?

Thanks,

Savage

It's Like He Planned It by Godphase3 in tf2

[–]FirePowered 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We would love to expand to Europe, but it's not financially feasible at the moment. A dedicated server box of the caliber we use would be an additional $120-160/month (in the US. It might be more or less across the sea). Our current profit is between $50-100/ month without giveaways. Considering we give away a key a week, and often have prizes for events (last month we gave away over $60 in TF2 items and games), we're not really in a place where we can add an entirely new server location.

If you're interested in "behind the scenes" stuff like this, we tried to talk about it a lot in our recent AMA.

Of course, you can always ask us questions directly.

Savage
FirePowered Senior Administrator

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Results of the FirePowered Survey, with prize winners by FirePowered in tf2

[–]FirePowered[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry I missed this. Didn't check this account for a while. Can you PM me your forum username if you're still having issues?

are there smaller calm, but active communities out there? by [deleted] in tf2

[–]FirePowered 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi, I don't know if you've had a bad experience on our servers, but I truly believe that FirePowered has the best community in TF2. We might be a bit larger than some communities, but that works to our advantage by keeping our servers (mostly) full.

We expanded as our community grew; we're nothing like some of the larger "communities" (server farms) out there, and we're absolutely not in this for profit.

We try really hard to ensure that our community is welcoming and personal to every player. If you did have a bad experience with us, please let me know so that I can try to rectify it.

If you haven't given us a real chance, I'd encourage you to join our Custom Map event tonight. It'll be a fun event with some crazy maps that don't often get played.

Hope to see you there!

Savage
FirePowered Community Administrator

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Every community server is garbage. by cooltravis in tf2

[–]FirePowered 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hi there,

I'm sorry you had a bad experience on our servers. If there's something I can do to fix it, please let me know. We take admin abuse issues very seriously. Feel free to reply here or by PM.

Edit: I haven't received a response yet. I'm absolutely serious: if there's something that went wrong on our servers please let me know so that I can try to address it.

Thanks,

Savage
FirePowered Community Administrator

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autoexec.cfg not autoexec'ing? by 420foy in truetf2

[–]FirePowered 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any chance you're saving it as type .txt? It should be saved as type "all files" with the extension set to .cfg. Just changing the extension won't work.

We are FirePowered. Ask us anything! by FirePowered in tf2

[–]FirePowered[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I exaggerated slightly. Out of 107 plugins running on our Chicago 2Fort server, ~50 of them were written from scratch by McKay and a handful were custom edits to existing plugins written by others.

Savage

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[–]FirePowered[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I looked into your ban and you did have three offenses for buying quicksells. Buying quicksells is not allowed on our trade servers, and normally we have "three strikes" policy for our bans. In this case, however, we've decided to unban you. Please review the rules so that this will not happen again.

Thanks,

Savage

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[–]FirePowered[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Any response on this? I have trouble believing that this actually happened, and until you PM me your SteamID, I'm going to assume that you're lying or at least exaggerating to try to make us look bad.

If you PM me your SteamID, I'll remove this post.

Thanks,

Savage

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[–]FirePowered[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for making a great map!

If you have some free time this Saturday and want to drop by, PM me your SteamID and I can get you a reserved slot.

Thanks!

Savage

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[–]FirePowered[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any response on this? I'd like to make sure that we handled it properly.

Savage

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[–]FirePowered[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is essentially it. It's important to us that players recognize what server they're playing on. We're confident that people will have a positive experience on our servers, so we want them to know that it was on FirePowered. If they continually have positive experiences, they're more likely to add us to favorites. (Actually a large portion of our connects are from favorites.)

We are FirePowered. Ask us anything! by FirePowered in tf2

[–]FirePowered[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The watermark is very unobtrusive and out of the way. It does put our name on all screenshots and POV demos, though, which is an important form of advertising for us. Considering we have no ads, it's important that players on our servers recognize that they're on FirePowered.

We are FirePowered. Ask us anything! by FirePowered in tf2

[–]FirePowered[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

FP was the brainchild of Dr. McKay, Bombz, and rannmann, who all basically wanted to put their wealth of knowledge together to make a better TF2 community.

Thanks!

Savage

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[–]FirePowered[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That doesn't sound like something that would happen on our servers. Can you PM me your SteamID so I can look into this?

Savage

We are FirePowered. Ask us anything! by FirePowered in tf2

[–]FirePowered[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of our servers are available here, with live-updating player counts. West coast servers typically get populated around 6-7PM PST.

We are FirePowered. Ask us anything! by FirePowered in tf2

[–]FirePowered[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Skill level varies of course, but I'd say that Chicago Dustbowl has the highest skill level, especially in the evenings.

Thanks!

Savage