Members of EGC,
Several of you have expressed concern to us that you were unable to add a ban appeal, a bug report or an addition to the threads set up in Human Resources. I've taken the time today to examine the permissions set to figure out what is wrong and found that the affected members were all part of an organization (The Mafia, Task Force 141, The Bikers, etc.) and that they were not assigned permission to the default Reply Only permission profile. To fix this, I have created a new permission profile for the administrators and assigned the necessary organization permissions to it and it has been confirmed to work.

Also please note: Reports are not created by posting a new topic as some of you are used to. We have forms specifically set up for this role. They are stickied topics made by Stevo127, but here are direct links to the forms as well:

Rule Breaker Reports
Bug Reports

If there are any further issues going on with the forum, please let me (RoboCop) or another EGC staff member know and we'll get this taken care of. Thank you for your patience and understanding, and I hope my efforts will help you continue to enjoy EGC.

RoboCop
Department Head of Security, Enigmatic Gaming Community

All members of EGC, please take note:
I, Max Payne, am the head of security here at EGC. This means that I advise Enigma and his staff on security matters, create security policy and enforce that policy across the network (IRC, game system and forums). If at any point you suspect that there is a threat present, I want you to bring it to my attention as soon as possible so that I can put countermeasures into place and alert Enigma. So without further ado, here is my contact information:

Home Phone: +1 (567) 201-2338 - Best way to reach me before 4 PM EST since I use this line for work after that point.
Cellular Phone: +1 (567) 225-7985 - I prefer that you text me if it's after 4 PM, if it's before, you can likely get me on my home phone.
E-Mail: cy-fox(AT)live(DOT)com - I check this regularly
Windows Live Messenger: cy-fox(AT)live(DOT)com - Always on this
AOL Messenger: MilesProwerCyFox - Usually always on this too
Skype: cy-fox - Also always on this
Steam: Amadeus2XM10
Raptr: MilesPrower2109
EGC IRC: RoboCop
Forum: RoboCop
Facebook: Link

Player Name:
Karagon

Description of what they done:
Joined IRC under the name Enigma and spammed IRC, also using s0beit in-game and posting defamtory comments:

[19:02] <%ECNR2>  Karagon (9) - not a hacker
[19:02] <%ECNR1>  Karagon (9) - I used to own this place
[19:02] <%ECNR2>  Karagon (9) - Byrner and Stevo stole it
[19:02] <%ECNR1>  Karagon (9) - Check the /credits
[19:02] <%ECNR2>  Karagon (9) - I'm former scripter
[19:04] <%ECNR1>  Karagon (9) - I'm so noob with sobeit
[19:05] <%ECNR1>  Karagon (9) - Tell Enigma (Byrner) to suck a dick
[19:05] <%ECNR2>  Karagon (9) - ok?!!
[19:05] <%ECNR1>  Karagon (9) - And that he left this happen to you
[19:05] <%ECNR2>  splosh (2) - ok if you stop shoot me
[19:05] <%ECNR1>  Karagon (9) - And say max_Payne is a dick sucker
[19:05] <%ECNR2>  splosh (2) - yaa we know
[19:05] <%ECNR1>  Karagon (9) - And that stevo127 is a cunt

[17:24] <%ECNR1> Underground(IRC) I AM ENIGMA AND YOU SUCK
[17:24] <%ECNR2> Underground(IRC) I AM ENIGMA AND YOU SUCK
[17:24] <%ECNR1> Underground(IRC) I AM ENIGMA AND YOU SUCK
[17:24] <+Underground> !say I AM ENIGMA AND YOU SUCK
[17:24] <+Underground> !say I AM ENIGMA AND YOU SUCK
[17:24] <+Underground> !say I AM ENIGMA AND YOU SUCK
[17:24] <+Underground> !say I AM ENIGMA AND YOU SUCK
[17:24] <%ECNR2> Underground(IRC) I AM ENIGMA AND YOU SUCK
[17:24] <%ECNR1> Underground(IRC) I AM ENIGMA AND YOU SUCK
[17:24] <%ECNR2> Underground(IRC) I AM ENIGMA AND YOU SUCK
[17:24] <%ECNR1> Underground(IRC) I AM ENIGMA AND YOU SUCK

[17:24] <+Underground> !say STEVE IS MY GAY SEX BUDDY
[17:24] <%ECNR2> Underground(IRC) STEVE IS MY GAY SEX BUDDY
[17:24] <%ECNR1> Underground(IRC) STEVE IS MY GAY SEX BUDDY
[17:24] <%ECNR2> Underground(IRC) STEVE IS MY GAY SEX BUDDY

[19:24] <%ECNR1>  Karagon (9) - if i'm removed, I'll ruin their server
[19:24] <%ECNR2>  Karagon (9) - Just sayin'
[19:24] <%ECNR2>  Karagon (9) - Wouldn't take long lol
[19:24] <%ECNR1>  Karagon (9) - Their security is SHIAT

IceChat7@95B0BEB9.E13C895E.C2452F26.IP

In addition to that, Karagon's tried to escalate himself to an admin level with SQL explots:

[21:10] <+Enigma> !igseen Karagon; UPDATE `CRRPG` SET `AdminLevel` = '1337' WHERE `username` = 'KaragonRules';
[21:10] <%ECNR1> Error. Player Karagon; UPDATE `CRRPG` SET ` has never been in game.

[21:25] <+Enigma> If enough are done
[21:26] <+Enigma> and the thing lags
[21:26] <+Enigma> (Assuming they're not threaded)
[21:26] <+Enigma> It will EVENTUALLY
[21:26] <%ECNR1> Player 'Karagon'; was last seen ingame on
[21:26] <%ECNR2> Player 'Karagon'; was last seen ingame on
[21:26] <%ECNR1> Player 'Karagon'; was last seen ingame on
[21:26] <+Enigma> crash
[21:26] <+Enigma> lol

He realized that won't cause a crash, now he's spamming !players and bot messages.
Picture Evidence

Player Name:
Splosh1337 and Thomas_Price

Description of what they done:
Deathmatching and this is of interest with Splosh1337:

[11:23] <%ECNR1> [Death]  Max(5) was killed by  splosh1337(2).  (AK47)
[11:23] <%ECNR2> [SPAWN] Max (5).
[11:23] <%ECNR2>  Max (5) - Splosh1337
[11:23] <%ECNR1>  splosh1337 (2) - japp
[11:23] <%ECNR2>  Max (5) - ECNR is not a DM server
[11:23] <%ECNR1> splosh1337(2) has started a robbery at Binco
[11:23] <%ECNR2>  Max (5) - By shooting at me while unwanted, you committed deathmatch
[11:24] <%ECNR2>  splosh1337 (2) - trolol im wanted now !!
[11:24] <%ECNR1>  splosh (3) - so you are saying we cant kill cops??
[11:24] <%ECNR2>  Max (5) - Not while your player color is white or yellow
[11:24] <%ECNR1>  splosh1337 (2) - so i dident break the rules
[11:24] <%ECNR2>  splosh1337 (2) - mine is red -_-w
[11:24] <%ECNR1>  Max (5) - You were white, Splosh and I have screenshots to prove it
[11:24] <%ECNR2>  Max (5) - Red after the kill
[11:25] <%ECNR2>  splosh1337 (2) - hahahahaha  screenshot ?? HAAHAHLOL

Picture Evidence

So for some reason or another after sending FRodriguez96 to Guantanimo (he ended up at LVPD somehow and was able to /escape, another thing to note), any subsequent /cuff attempts seem to be successful but then the handcuff effect seems to just disappear on my side. FRodriguez96 however stays frozen and can't take any damage, causing the necessity for a relog.

Proof of detainment:


Proof that he left the server while detained, denying me the dropoff at LVPD:

I've lately been playing a lot of games in the Command & Conquer RTS series. For those of you that weren't old enough to pick up a keyboard yet, Command & Conquer was a staple series back in the 1990s, created by Westwood Studios, which alongside Blizzard Entertainment pretty much set the bar for real-time strategy. At this current point Command & Conquer (colloquially known as just C&C) is split up into a few universes:

Tiberium: The first Command & Conquer was set in this universe, which revolves around a struggle between a United Nations special operations group known as the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and a terrorist militia known as the Brotherhood of Nod (NOD) over the span of several years, with the inclusion of a dangerous element (Tiberium) that you also collect as a resource. Command & Conquer was set around the "present" era of 1995 and then later on moved onto the years 2030 in the sequel Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, 2047 in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and finally 2062 in Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight.

Red Alert: An alternate reality universe revolving around an alternate World War II created by the actions of Professor Albert Einstein, travelling back in time from 1946 to 1924 to take Hitler out of history as he left Landsberg Prison. With Nazi Germany never rising, this allowed the USSR to grow and attempt to take over Europe in Hitler's stead. After the defeat of the Soviets by the Allies and a period of seeming peace, the Soviets would this time strike against America in Red Alert 2 in the 1970s, only to have their top psychic adviser Yuri stab them in the back to form his own faction. With the Soviets' second defeat and Yuri's own defeat, they had made a desperate gambit to travel back to 1927 to assassinate Einstein, who gave the Allies the technological edge in the last two wars. This however would end up creating a new timeline without nuclear weapons and also one with a third player in worldwide affairs: The Empire of the Rising Sun (Japan).

Generals: An offshoot that isn't linked to either Tiberium or Red Alert, Generals gives you control of either the U.S, China or a terrorist group known as the Global Liberation Army. The game follows more traditional RTS standards like what you'd find in Age of Empires.

Even though the official EA servers for some of the games are no longer in use (Red Alert, Red Alert 2/Yuri's Revenge, C&C, C&C Tiberian Sun), a community group known as Strike Team was given permission to re-raise the master servers for the older games, and there's also alternatives like CNC-Net. Also if it's to your interest, Electronic Arts released Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun and Command & Conquer Red Alert as freeware, downloadable at several sources on the web.

If you want to do a multiplayer game, or if you need help with setting one of these games up, please feel free to let me know and I'll see what I can do to help. One of my ambitions here is to see EGC expand to create a Command & Conquer group.