GFL's Great Accomplishments

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

Hello everybody, this thread will list all past and future accomplishments for GFL. GFL has achieved many things in the past and I am absolutely amazed while looking back. That said, the accomplishments haven't stopped and I believe we will make more in the future!

 

Also, the order will not be by date. I am ordering these by the ones I find first.

 

April 5th, 2015

Had the top three servers in CS:GO according to GameTracker. We had Surf Timer (US), Zombie Escape (US), and Surf Timer (EU).

 

June 28th, 2015

Had three #1 servers in three different games. CS:GO (Zombie Escape), Chivalry Medieval Warfare, and CS:S (Zombie Escape).

 

January 4th, 2015

Had the top three most populated servers in CS:GO at the time (not that big).

 

August 28th, 2014

Had the #4 Garry's Mod server (Purge).

 

March 3rd, 2015

Just generally a lot of servers below the 100th rank (8).

 

March 24th, 2015

Had the #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 servers in different games.

 

March 27th, 2015

European domination!

 

April 1st, 2015

#1 BF:HL server.

 

August 7th, 2014

First Garry's Mod server to reach > 65 players (DayZ), possibly the first GFL server ever to reach above > 65 players. I honestly don't remember.

 

November 28th, 2014

Look at all those near-full servers!

 

December 24th, 2014

Our BattleField 3 TDM server reaching 11th on GameTracker (for the first time?).

 

May 18th, 2015

Our BattleFIeld 3 TDM server reaching 6th place on GameTracker.

 

September 28th, 2014

Our Red Orchestra 2 server at the top of NFO's server list.

 

April 26th, 2015

Again, European box being filled with players including our Killing Floor 2 server at 81/80!

 

February 15th, 2014

Our TF2 Balloon Race server at the top of the list for current players.

 

July 2nd, 2013

Our TF2 Orange X3 server getting to 8th in the world (as seen in the Server Rank graph). When the screenshot was taken, it was 10th.
 

July 7th, 2013

Our Killing Floor 1 servers back on July 7th, 2013. We had a good run with our first server afterwards that lasted for a couple months. 

 

I will continue to look for more accomplishments (we had other #1 servers in games such as Red Orchestra 2 in the past). 

 

The reason I am posting this is to show everybody GFL isn't just a normal gaming community. GFL has made many accomplishments and in my opinion, is one of the better gaming communities around. Yes, GFL has issues, but GFL's core is nowhere near corrupt like other popular communities are. That said, a few of you have also been asking me about GFL's past and although this doesn't explain specifically, this shows GFL is a strong community.

 

Thanks.

[SwegBuster 879 / 15,758]

I just want to mention GFL's CS:GO Zombie escape server has been in the #1 spot for at least 11 months if not more. That is a major accomplishment.

Edited August 3, 2016 by SwegBuster

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

Just now, SwegBuster said:

I just want to mention GFL's CS:GO Zombie escape server has been in the #1 spot for at least a 11 months if not more. That is a major accomplishment.

That is another big accomplishment. Sadly, there was no way to prove it since GameTracker images don't go over one month. That said, I honestly think we have been #1 for more than a year straight.

 

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[Bigtime 322 / 6,475]

These are quite the accomplishments, especially CS:GO ZE

[SwegBuster 879 / 15,758]

CS:GO EU ZM has reached under the 300th rank on gametracker more than once.

Trust me, it is a lot of work to do to even get to the 300th spot.

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

2 minutes ago, SwegBuster said:

CS:GO EU ZM has reached under the 300th rank on gametracker more than once.

Trust me, it is a lot of work to do to even get to the 300th spot.

I do consider that an accomplishment considering how difficult it is to populate a CS:GO server now-a-days. Especially when you have a majority of the servers with high traffic using banned plugins, server browser being broken, and generally low support by Valve (e.g. community servers doesn't receive XP, even servers running default maps).

 

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[Rcool64 1,007 / 16,299]

GMOD TTT has been the number 1 TTT server on gametracker for a little while as well

[Joshy 4,364 / 44,926]

I think it's a great idea to document accomplishments.  Nice!

 

What would make this thread even better and more effective is annotating them ie. who was the Server Manager/DL and any significant events that may have contributed to this success; this way - if we may ever need to - we can refer back and see what mechanisms led to our achievement and how we might be able to repeat or even beat yesterday's numbers.  It might be too late to do this now for past achievements, but we can at least begin this for future achievements.

 

I also feel it would give current and future leaders something to strive for should they be lagging a little... getting your name on that Hall of Fame or understanding your own performance relative to others.

[Otter 880 / 10,435]

"GFL's Worst Accomplishments" 

 

1. Otter getting admin

 

kappa

 

I didn't even know we had a Battlefield Hardline server.. I thought we only had Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4.

[Ben 2,378 / 31,856]

If FFA DM end up getting at great start, there's a big possibly that it may reach to more ranks. 

 

Yeah, these stuff have big achievements and I hope we get more on the way in future. 

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

43 minutes ago, Joshy said:

I think it's a great idea to document accomplishments.  Nice!

 

What would make this thread even better and more effective is annotating them ie. who was the Server Manager/DL and any significant events that may have contributed to this success; this way - if we may ever need to - we can refer back and see what mechanisms led to our achievement and how we might be able to repeat or even beat yesterday's numbers.  It might be too late to do this now for past achievements, but we can at least begin this for future achievements.

 

I also feel it would give current and future leaders something to strive for should they be lagging a little... getting your name on that Hall of Fame or understanding your own performance relative to others.

I would love to credit players, but sadly, I don't remember how some of the servers populated. Servers like BF3, RO2, Chivalry: MW, etc are due to luck and hosting a high-performance server.

 

I really like the HoF idea. However, this would be dedicated to true Hall of Fame players .

 

P.S. I added more images of accomplishments!

 

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[denros 776 / 0]

 

That an accomplishment for a new server.

[HackingPotato 1,297 / 14,301]

58 minutes ago, denros said:

 

That an accomplishment for a new server.

 

Denros has done an amazing job on jb and im having a lot of fun managing it. Its a great accomplishment! lets make it full all the time

[Coolest Cat 1,266 / 14,449]

Speaking of accomplishments.

 

ZS has been getting a lot more people these last 2 days. If it keeps it up then we might see a large increase in its base population. It's currently rank 229. Let's see if it increases. 

[Snoopy 1,480 / 15,610]

Are you sure those images with Orange X3 and their dates are correct? I've been here since last February and not once since then has Orange X3 been at that many players. Are you sure you don't mean 2014?

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

So after looking at this thread again, I realized I didn't have any TF2 accomplishments listed. For those that don't know, we had a very successful TF2 division in the past back in 2011 - 2013. In fact, my second set of servers that I got in GFL included TF2 Orange X3, Mario Kart, and TF2Ware. These servers were all very populated. We also had a very successful Dustbowl and Balloon Race server later on. Our Dustbowl server reached 10th on GameTracker before Valve destroyed the game for community servers.

 

I believe I have a screenshot of Dustbowl reaching 10th on GameTracker somewhere on my computer, but I haven't been able to find it yet. I will dig deeper soon. Anyways, I found two screenshots. One of Balloon Race being on the top of the GameTracker list when sorted by players and the other showing Orange X3 reaching 8th in the world! Like I said, we had other servers such as Dustbowl, Mario Kart, and TF2Ware that got into the <50 GameTracker rank range and filled up for most of the day.

 

I do miss this division and I even put another Dustbowl server up behind-the-scenes and tried idling on it to see if it would get anyone. Unfortunately, Valve ruined this game for community servers back in 2013 which resulted in most of our servers slowly dying (though, our Dustbowl server immediately suffered since we relied on QuickPlay).

 

P.S. I also found a screenshot of our Killing Floor 1 server that was very successful for a few months back in the Summer of 2013.

 

EDIT

Not a GameTracker screenshot, but here's a screenshot showing our TF2 Orange X3, Dustbowl, Mario Kart, and TF2Ware servers doing well in HLSW:

 

Thanks!

[Joshy 4,364 / 44,926]

It's nice to reminisce on old accomplishments; it's more nice to make some new ones.

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

9 minutes ago, Joshy said:

It's nice to reminisce on old accomplishments; it's more nice to make some new ones.

Agreed. Though, I'm only listing the older accomplishments in this thread.

 

We have made some more recent accomplishments including expansions into Call of Duty 4 and Battlefield 4 + servers in some other games (e.g. Garry's Mod Breach).

 

Thanks.

[TheJitFace 699 / 18,162]

Yes

[MrNoobyNoob 90 / 2,254]

Great Accomplishments you say? GFL Breach Server prank calling the same pizza place. That's a great accomplishment right there. I don't got proof, but I watched it unfold.