CG's birthday

[alaskan thunderfuck]

Today(nov second, posted this a little early) marks the one year anniversary of CG. I registered the domain exactly a year ago and never had intended for it to become a big community. We originally hosted DarkRP on harbor2ocean(we had been using a friends box for the first few months actually, Derks to be specific) and called it harbor roleplay, never having expected it to turn in to something. Tomasas came along around Decemeber, and worked on HRP for a few weeks(helishop, intro, etc came around this time) before our first HL2RP went up.

Our first HL2RP was running blueprint(or so I remember, might have been nexus but regardless they're all pretty much the same) and admittedly was a huge failure, mainly owing to the attacks we got within the first few days. We actually managed to fill it up on the first day which suprised me quite a bit considering the community was maybe 20-30 registered people(not all of them active). After a week or so of being attacked we gave up, and took half life two roleplay down for good. CG went in to a relatively dormant state and I and a few others went back to orange cosmos, up until Febuary when we relaunched harbor roleplay.

The harbor roleplay relaunch included a lot of the features which make it what it is today - the inventory, smuggling, actual buyable boats, our own map(which was really terrible(link for nogstalgia) and we eventually went to a edit of harbor2ocean which we're on now), our own GUI(which has changed multiple times since then), and probably a lot more which I don't recall at the moment. Harbor roleplay was sucessful, mainly owing to OC dying and most members from OC coming to CG. We had been pulling in sufficent donations by this time to get our own box(which we did, was around 150$ a month at the time) and all spare money was saved for whatever the future brought.

HL2RP was revived around april or may, and was much better off this time. We had better organization, better administration, and a much, much stronger playerbase. We did get attacked quite often still - but it wasn't as much a problem as players always came back regardless of how much downtime we had.

People missed OCRP after the death of OC. Being pressured in to it, I asked jake/darth if they would give me OCRP for 500$, and sure enough they did. I actually didn't expect to get it, and as you could imagine, was quite happy as well as many others when I did. As soon as I had the gamemode I put it on a server expecting things to be broken, and suprisingly we didn't run in to too many issues. We announced we had the gamemode the next day(as we kept it private until we had it all running) and put it up the next weekend if I recall. All 50 slots filled up in under a  minute and throughout the weekend we didn't run in to  many issues, minus the lag which we solved for the most part by reducing the slots to 40.

Come the next week, we had been getting attacked daily. Most of the attacks had been relatively weak - however, our host had been nullrouting us to prevent us from using up bandwith. Nullroutes caused problems as the host at the time would keep us down for days over a minute or two long attack, when we really would have been up a lot more if they hadn't done it. Regardless, we went on and eventually switched to a different host which brought even more issues, however, not with attacks.

Raiden (now known as Prox) had been causing a lot of drama, which seems to be the case with anyone having a lot of power in the community. Even though he really didn't do anything wrong, I was pressured in to demoting him. I do regret it to this day and learned from that mistake. People tend to hate people in power regardless if they do good or bad, and Raiden wasn't a exception.

Come the next day, OCRP was being sold on a undisclosed forum. As far as I was told raiden gave it to kazuo and kazuo tried selling it, however, I never really was clear on that part and don't really care as anyone in the position raiden was in would have done the same exact thing. As a result, the gamemode was released mainly to stop anyone from profiting off it.

Weeks later, exploits started popping up. I was aware of these since OC but never made a big deal out of it as I didn't think people would find them. We had just been banning anyone who exploited for quite some time(was easy to catch considering the people who did it apparently didn't think having 30 million dollars would be suspicous) but they did all eventually get patched.

GMR went up around this time as well, we had been using a version I got from kazuo before the whole OCRP incident. GMR went well for a few weeks before everyone maxed out their cars and it eventually died out.

More happened which I don't care to explain and I'm sure no one is going to bother reading this entire post anyway.

I'd like to thank each and every one of you for staying here, and I'd like to thank a few people individually who without, CG wouldn't be here(or at least wouldn't be nearly as successful.)
- Tomasas(deserves the most credit out of anyone here, without him CG literally would have never gone anywhere)
- Raiden(always been a great friend, always helped with CG and ran HL2RP for the most part)
- Somone77(he does a lot of work which people don't seem to notice, the status bar, server management page, and upcoming credits system for example.)
- RTLK(always been a great help and without him I'm sure CG wouldn't be here or at least would be a lot more of a clusterfuck as he manages things when I don't have time(i don't have much time to be on anymore))
- Craphead(constant updating of OCRP and it probably would be dead by now if it wasn't for him)
- Vizion(did most of the forum work in the beginning and all of the logos)
I've probably forgot a lot of people and I do apologize if I did, if you think you should be on here message me over steam and I'll get it done.

OCRP 1.5 and multiple other things will be released later today/tommorow. Once again, thank you for being here.
Oh, and as for a celebration, VIP will be a 6$ donation instead of 15$ for today.

[ghostface killah]

Happy birthday Catalyst-Gaming

[LeoMarr]

[raiden]

We have sure had our bumps in the road but we've stayed strong and here we are today. We do deserve to be here for all the hardship that everyone who started this community and built it went through.

Happy birthday Catalyst-gaming.

[Adam S]

Lets try for another year!

Lets also not forget that faggot Adam S who done the MC Server and a bunch of small things.  Who also caused drama. <--- Whos this faggot

[Uubucks]

Only been here since march but happy birthday CG.

[Darko]

Woot CG happy birthday, though I haven't know it for long I've had fun and shouldn't that be all that matters?

[Penguin]

I remember when orange cosmos released, I was all like wtf is this? And then I joined and realized to stick to HL2RP and HRP.

[Pirate Robot]

And probably the coolest community around.
Well done CG.

[TOMASAS]

Happy birthday Catalyst-Gaming. Hope we can keep on rockin' for years to come.

[SoapANator]

Happy b-day CG the best community ever :3 like skeptik.lol

Anyway, I read the whole post Rofll :p

[Sniping Hazard]

Happy birthday CG!

[Uubucks]

Don't remember much.

I remember coming to CG during HRP, average population barely peaked 10 players.

Problems with Coast guards RDMing with chopper, change coast guard chopper to the boat.

Getting OCRP and HL2RP

I played HL2RP for about 2 weeks, got pked due to an infection event >.>

Returned to OCRP

*minor minging*

*minor minging*

OCRP switches to v33x

Got serious

OCRP switches back to v2d

Population returns, minging/trolls return.

Post 130+ Ban requests between July and October.

Made friends, made enemies, and had a hell of a time.  I hope for many more months here at CG.

[Tyler]

Happy Birthday CG! I expect more years of fun!

[Lord Bravery]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww that's neat!

Happy b-day CG

I'll have to draw something or something