New steam group!

Alright guys tons of things are happening and I want your input on the changes, so a lot of you will be linked here. If you have the time I would appreciate comments on all of this.

First of all, we are getting a new server. Wolve is being very generous and providing us space on his server. We will have a normal public server with 24 slots and the ability to actually have plugins, a dramatic step up from the way things were before. Along with this is an opportunity to make a lot of changes at once, so I am doing that.

First off, I am separating this group from Paradise Lost, the forum. The reason for this is I feel like I was forcing an artificial association. I believe that I wanted PL to play TF2 and they didn't necessarily want to, and now that most of our active members are ironically "guests" not associated with the forum, separating them just seems like the natural progression. I am ok with them continuing to be affiliated, with PLers joining the TF2 games and vice versa, but we are losing the confusing and unnecessary link between the two.

What this means is a change in name is in order. I've had a few ideas. The first idea was to name the tf2 community Reluctant, which is the name of the Highlander team formed largely from members of the same community. So there would be Reluctant the tf2 community and public server and Reluctant the competitive team. I also had the random idea to name the group Fast Company. Fast Company is an expression which roughly means a group of people too "in the know" to be fooled with.

I first read the term in a sleight of hand book with a specific focus on card sharping (cheating). The author described a technique that was relatively easy to perform but advised against using it in "fast company", or at a table with players who were too clever and observant to fall for such a ruse.

If we went with Fast Company it could either be the name of the community only, with Reluctant remaining the HL name, or it could be the name for both the community and the team. I even toyed with the idea of going our first season as Reluctant to maintain the joke, and then switching to Fast Company after that as a sign of us not being Reluctant anymore.

So I wanted your opinions on the names. The tag for Fast Company would be FastCo. and the tag for Reluctant is -Rel-. Which do you prefer? And should the tag go in front of or behind our names?

Along with this new server we will be changing things up a bit. I am considering doing something similar to what the ToJ server does, which is a group I've always emulated with this community. They have their server unpassworded but also not hooked up to quickplay. What this means is strays happen upon their server but it doesn't just have a steady inflow of new players like it would with quickplay. This would give us more opportunities to play with a larger amount of people, while maintaining our regulars. We may also start adding custom maps, specifically some of those used in competitive. What do you guys think?

In other news we have another team forming, this time for the 6s format, by the name of Clockwork Rangers. This team is comprised of mostly members of Reluctant but there are a few new faces as well. Give them a warm welcome to the community :D

Tomorrow at normal time (8:30 central) will be the grand opening of the new server. It will be mostly stock TF2 stuff to start with until we've tested it. We are going to fill the server using the help of the Stooge community, but all of you are invited and you will be guranteed access if you show up within the first hour.

So yes. Things to comment on:

Aren't you glad we're getting a new server?

How do you feel about separating PL the Bioshock Forum and PL the soon to be renamed tf2 community?

Do you prefer Reluctant (-Rel-) or Fast Company (FastCo.) as a title? Do you think the HL team should be different or the same? Do you prefer tags before or after names?

Do you agree with removing the server password? And custom maps?

Will you be at the grand opening tomorrow?