ABOUT EGI Gaming

Different From The Rest

EGI Gaming is different from other gaming groups. We don't have some kind of crazy manifesto stating our political objectives, nor do we discriminate based on any particular skill, no, we focus on the fun in gaming and what it used to be.

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Discord server, trello, and progress update

6 August, 2019 - John Helldiver | 0 Comments

It's been a little over a week since I announced that I was going to be reviving EGI and I figured it was time for a progress update on everything.

First, I have made a discord for EGI. There is a link to join the discord at the end of this announcment. Anyone joining the discord will receive a special role for being a loyal member of EGI. I will of course check usernames/join logs. After the server is ready for the general public, the role will no longer be given out.

Now that that is out of the way, onto the server progress. Freezebug had previously given some of the server files. However, thanks to Acruid, we got more up to date files to work with. On top of that, he also had the weapon assets! All the weapons have their original models and sounds and we don't have to start from scratch!

Cee has generously offered to host the server for us. Server specs are hefty and current server player limit is 128 players (most likely reduced later). He is also assisting with fixing some of the code.

Almost everything is some what working. All sweps work though some spam errors while others dont have models and still others don't have firing sounds. The game mode loads but not much else is different betwen it and sandbox at the moment. Cee is overhauling the old money system.

Finally, a Trello has been made for the server. Trello is sort of a to-do list that lets us organize the work load and see what needs to be done. You can see everything on the list, and comment on any of it to offer feedback on individual things.

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/Mq46pgH
Trello Link: https://trello.com/b/cOiHmOcM

EGI revival, What to expect in the future

29 July, 2019 - John Helldiver | 0 Comments

Hey everyone its Ragon. It's been a really long time hasn't it? Eric gave EGI to me at a time when I was not able to fully support it and it died due to that. I made a few sand box servers since then but they were never comparable to EGI. I'm in a rocky position but steadily I am getting my footing I have decided to make a dedicated effort to reviving EGI as it was before. There is a lot to do to make it happen and non of it will be easy.

There are a few main problems standing in the way of the revival.

Firstly, all the old addons (ie, armaments, the game mode, the money system) are broken. They need to be updated to gmod 13 syntax changes.
This leads us to the second big problem. I don't know any lua, and I cant afford to hire anyone to fix it for me.
Thirdly, some of the gamemode systems require MySql and I dont know that either.
Finally, I don't have any of the original forum's files and even if i had them I wouldnt know how to set them up

All that sounds pretty bad but I do have some good news too.

I have secured the egigaming.com url. It was previously parked by some company and being sold for $11,000
With that url I also have a dedicated web host, so once I learn how we can easily set up fastDL, MySql, and the forums

Below I am listing a very rough "road map" to the revival project. There is no set time line since, for now, I am the only person working on this.

Learn gLua
Get armaments working
Get the gamemode working
See if EGI Admin is worth repairing or if ULX is better
Get forums set up
Get website set up

And some more ambitious things that I probably wont be doing till everything else is done

Add something special for EGI vets
Set up donation page and rewards
Add new sweps to armaments
Set up automated event system (base wars, weekend map change, etc)

Its going to be a long journey to do all this, but we will get there eventually.

Currently there is a sandbox server set up with alot of tool addons, wire, and m9k sweps. It's nothing like EGI but if you want to come hang out while everything is being fixed you are more than welcome to.

server IP: 96.44.143.67