A new age!

By Ovidiu Dumitru·
Hello community,

It gives me great pleasure to be back and continue taking care of this community, with the help of you guys, the ones who keep it alive.

For those who don't know me, my real name is Ovidiu and go by the alias of CyclopP. I've been with XJ since 2006 (even earlier but I didn't have an account until 2006). In 2008 I applied for a cup and map admin position. Later I was promoted to the leader of the mapchecking crew and after some time to COO of XJ. In 2011 I decided to retire due to my inability to continue working here and because I didn't quite like the way this community was evolving, or better said devolving.

A few weeks ago I decided to offer my help again, because I knew it was needed and because I felt like it wasn't fair the way I left back then, leaving faker alone to handle everything. The timing was perfect, since faker was already planning to retire and also he already thought of me as being his replacement.
He promoted PsYxOpAt to the rank of COO, leaving me in his position, as CEO.

Before I continue any further, I would like to show my respect and gratitude towards faker, who is probably the most hard working admin XJ ever had and because he was, and still is, a true CEO. Hat off for you, faker!

Now, these management changes were deeply discussed and I assure you that no one accepted anything blindly. We do have a plan, which I will talk about in a moment, but everyone needs to understand that these kind of things take time and won't happen over night.

Short story, our plan is as following:

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23/11/2013 18:35:00

A new age of disasters indeed.

23/11/2013 18:39:00

Nice man, hope everything gonna go like you said here) wish you all best to keep this community as good as it was with faker.Stop hating them people just give them a try, if not them then I guess nobody will try to get XJ in a top. Now im waiting for a big map release, hope it will happen soon!

23/11/2013 18:45:00

^ On it's way.

23/11/2013 18:50:00

First of all get the pu9maker back to admin position, then we can discus about future!

23/11/2013 18:57:00

No.

23/11/2013 19:21:00

<3

24/11/2013 05:09:00

it's all love bruv <3 haha

23/11/2013 18:52:00

Hello Ovidiu! [img]http://www.wpclipart.com/sign_language/thumbs_up_large.png[/img]

23/11/2013 19:26:00

Try HNS Section!

ivansky
23/11/2013 20:00:00

you still thinking hns will get through xj right? well it wont HA HA HA!

23/11/2013 20:14:00

New Era Beginin

23/11/2013 20:31:00

gl, waiting for the map release :)

23/11/2013 20:51:00

I wish the new admins best of luck and let's hope for these awesome positive things to happen in the near future!

23/11/2013 20:52:00

hope things keep going in a good way

23/11/2013 20:56:00

big plans, I hope it works out, though I doubt it, since 1.6 is dying (sad truth). a dark time to become a CEO indeed. just hope these "regular results of all departments" won't lead to quantity over quality effect.

23/11/2013 20:59:00

A reason more for us to keep it alive ;-)

23/11/2013 21:56:00

The most important part of this website for the usual visitor is to see news! It's very annoying when I hear about some wr relase or a map relase and I check the site more than 3-4 times a day to see those news, but nothing new... Any kind of news are great, feed the visitor with something! Because many people don't have records, they are not mappers, they just care about what's new, like anything new... I hope you guys will make an improvement in this crucial part of the community. :)

23/11/2013 22:24:00

The best advice that I can give you is that you should keep it as simple as possible.What I mean is that you should focus on the most important things... 1.Make at least 1 demo release on every week 2.Rotws are great but what would be even better is that you should make another youtube account where you would upload every run recorded with fraps.For the users that can't watch them in cs.I think that this will bring more users(or bring back old ones who are lazy and don't want to install cs again but still want to watch runs :) ) 3.Interviews 4.Map releases on every 3-6 months 5.From time to time news about someting else would be good You don't need to invent hot water again,just don't make a long delays and everything will be perfect...

23/11/2013 22:37:00

I forgot to say as a sign of good faith from new administration you should unban some members who have been banned for far too long(kafds,Bibo,Napz,Kunqui,Woof,Lolz...) and make this site again interesting

24/11/2013 09:00:00

Everything you have said is in discussion. And yes, that's our plan.

23/11/2013 22:45:00

No cookies this time?

23/11/2013 22:48:00

Sounds great, i would like to see some scedule to see goals or what so ever.no offense, but those goals are still clueless at this time.

23/11/2013 22:49:00

make an all-map with axn records section already.

23/11/2013 23:44:00

Good to hear XJ is still trying to be active : )

24/11/2013 00:49:00

It's refreshing that XJ has not only one, but two new leaders running the community, and I hope they will achieve their goals and make the community better than ever. I am hopeful to see the community burst into life again, and I hope this will be the reason why. Good luck :-)

24/11/2013 01:44:00

thats okay

24/11/2013 02:03:00

I like the way you write, cyclopp. Not just this newspost, overally all of them. Very entertaining sentences. :)

24/11/2013 02:16:00

Change sounds good! I hope there will be some nice improvements in the times to come. One annoying issue has been the lack of proofreading in newsposts since forever. I'm hoping there's something happening in that department. Judging by this newspost, things are heading the right direction!

24/11/2013 02:30:00

well written !

24/11/2013 05:38:00

add surf maps! better than kz and dont shoot me plz

24/11/2013 14:35:00

*shoots fallenz0r*

24/11/2013 15:21:00

We dont shoot you....we sedate you,wrapping in plastic,wake up,we take a blood sample,cuting you in pieces,packed you in plastic bags and throw you into the water. :D

24/11/2013 16:13:00

hi dexter. im ur fan

24/11/2013 09:21:00

+1 fallenz0r

24/11/2013 10:43:00

Welcome, CyclopP. Really glad to see you back again. I hope that you guys are as determined as presented above. Good lawk :)

24/11/2013 14:47:00

bibo did it!

24/11/2013 19:02:00

why don't we learn from dota???????

25/11/2013 01:02:00

What is that mean?

25/11/2013 01:45:00

perd0 ,how are you man?come on-make more maps :D didnt saw a map from you in a long time,im waiting :P

25/11/2013 02:07:00

both of dota and kz are mods dota declare independence from war3 and become a compeletely independent game: dota2 kz can also do this,

25/11/2013 04:44:00

won't work

25/11/2013 11:10:00

why?

25/11/2013 18:19:00

Am I having a déjà vu? Isn't this exactly what kzmod tried to do?

26/11/2013 16:32:00

not made by valve not being acknowledge

25/11/2013 00:52:00

As already mentioned by others, if there are no strong communities in other movement-based disciplines of CS (such as HNS), you should probably try to consolidate them to one.

25/11/2013 12:09:00

Nice to see you guys still active (cyclop and psyxo). Wish you the best of luck with this project. Sadly cs 1.6 is dying indeed so this will be harder than ever.

26/11/2013 20:03:00

gl !

26/11/2013 20:46:00

I'm really glad this is happening thanks cycloP we love XJ =)

30/11/2013 12:53:00

Good luck guys, hope you find some dedicated admins with enough spare time! Oh and Cyclop, try not to sound so hitler-like when you speak, I'm pretty sure XJ took a big hit due to inactive admins rather than the disappearance of your smug dictator persona, cheerio