For the second time, the Ironworks Gaming Crew will be hosting a XBox Live Community Playdate. This time, it will be Friday March 11th 2011 from 8PM to 11PM Eastern Time. You’ll be able to meet and greet many of the Ironworks Gaming Crew members as well as take part in some great Black Ops action. We look forward to having a great time with the members of the XBox Live community.

Come and have fun! See our forum for full details and to take part in the playdate. If you haven’t registered for our forum, you will need to first. Hope to see you there!

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The Good Game Network is an affiliation of many of the major clans in the Halo nation (and represent strongly in Call of Duty, Gears, and other FPSs and games.) We’re dedicated to sharing fun, good times, and emphasize friendship as well as mature and respectful gaming.

We’re both happy and honored to be a part of this union and call them Comrades.

Be sure to check out our Comrades page for more details on the GGN and how you and your community can learn more.

Just walked off stage. Crowd was amazing, went insane chanting “pick it up!” when I stumbled over Dual-wield Deagles. lol – Akimbo confirmed

Will this be a huge change to the game?   Or will it simply be added candy to what promises to be a stellar experience?

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Lead Web Site Admin – wyoming SBG
Takes care of the behind the scenes work.
Pays the bills with “donated” money.
Delegates, manages, and coordinates website design continuity among the website designers. This may include creating standards for the designers to follow.
Gets to place priority requests for the website with the graphics crew.
Makes sure the site is updated.
Makes sure the site files and databases are backed up off-site in case of technical failure.
Works with comp team leaders to get write ups of challenges and post them in a timely manner on the site.

Lead Web Designer / GFX Coordinator – Kins Dearest
Responsible for the overall visual style and presentation of Ironworks.
Oversees the Swag Department. Responsible for outputting new merchandise designs. Works with the website coders if necessary to get swag up and available from the website or links.
Works with members of graphics team.
Works with the Representative of Competitive Teams to ensure all team graphics needs are met.
Works with the Lead Ambassador and Event Organizer to ensure all event and ambassador graphics needs are met.
Manages and delegates graphic requests from members.
Keeper of the Graphics Files. Upkeeps a hosting site / Gives out the psd’s etc. to members who would like to work with any graphic.

Representative of Competitive Teams – JEMICIDE 33
Communicate with with the other competitive teams, or at least with the other Team Leaders.
If a team leader isnt responding to a challenge the RCT needs to help get the ball rolling.
Coordinate with the Lead Website Admin and the Team Leaders to ensure all team rosters on the website are updated and accurate.
Record holder for all teams’ official matches. Team leaders will report this regularly to the RCT.
Responsible for official match write-ups, links, possible game pics from official matches. May delegate the work out on a match-by-match basis, but is still responsible that it gets done and turned over to the Lead Website Admin.

Lead Forum Ninja – StokedRock
Keeps the forums running smoothly.
Installs/maintains/upgrades the forums as needed
Backs up the forum regularly (and the forum DB) in case of issues.
Moderates the forums as needed
Creates/moves/removes forums/threads as needed
Enforces a readable level of spelling and grammar
Manages polls / ensures that they were run well / publishes results if no-one else did already. etc

Lead Ambassador and Event Coordinator – bluerabbit720
Leading the Ambassador Corps
Suggesting/gathering new ideas for things to do between clans (tourneys, ways to game together & build relationships)
Encouraging the ambassador team to play regularly with assigned clans and positively build the Ironworks reputation within the Halo nation
Build relationships with other major clans through gameplay and through interacting with other clan leaders
Choosing and/or screening new volunteers for the ambassador corps

Congrats to all staff members elected!

Come and have fun! See our forum for full details and to take part in the playdate. If you haven’t registered for our forum, you will need to first. Hope to see you there!

Update 5 – 7/17/2009 @ 7:20 PM EST:
Good news! I’ve received the database and associated files/instructions from freeforums.org. I’m going to go ahead and get started. Looks like I need to start with installing phpbb 3.04 first, then upgrade to 3.05 after doing a few other steps. I’ll post more as I go. Thanks!

Update 4 – 7/17/2009 @ 2:20 PM EST:
Sent an e-mail to the admins for freeforums.org to see if I could get a status update on when we will receive our database. Will provide updates here once I have more info.

Update 3 – 7/17/2009 @ 9:30 AM EST:
No updates to report at this time.

Update 2 – 7/16/2009 @ 7:30 PM EST:
Still waiting on freeforums.org to deliver the database backup. I’ve done about all the prep work I can on the back end so I can just grab the backup, slam it into place, and reactivate the forums. Cross your fingers for getting the backup file on Friday. Also – identified the “Random Tagline Generator” was giving us problems and causing some slowdowns. Looks like I had too many random taglines in there. After I disabled it, trimmed the number of taglines, and re-enabled it it seemed to run OK.

Update 1 – 7/16/2009 @ 11:00 AM EST:
Received an e-mail from freeforums.org customer support yesterday afternoon around 3PM  indicating they had received our request and they would get our database to us as soon as possible. As of this morning we still have not received it. They indicate it takes 1 to 3 days to work through their normal requests of this type, so this wait time should be considered normal.

We’ve also experienced some slow response times with the ironworks-gaming.com domain and inability to log into the wordpress dashboard. I narrowed down the problem to a janky plugin and disabled it. Things seem to be getting somewhat back to normal now.

Original Post:
We had communicated that our forums were going to be migrated starting tonight at midnight, but we had to start early due to freeforums.org getting hit with a Denial-of-Service attack. Effective immediately, we’ve taken our old forums offline and have started the process to upgrade to the new forums. We will be offline for the next 24 to 72 hours as we move our data to the new forums and enable them.

Watch this space for updates. Thanks for your patience!

If you think you’ve got the intestinal fortitude, check out our Apply to the Ironworks section and enlist today. See you on the battlefield, soldier.