ABOUT The Espionage

Call It A Contingency!

Gentlemen, welcome to the private group known as The Espionage. We are a group of Elite Gaming Agents with one common mission: To form a close-knit team of individuals with exceptional skills in coordination, cooperation, and overall teamwork. By being recruited into this group, you have expressed these traits impressively within the extended presence of an Officer of the Espionage or I, BrantRecon. We aim to travel across the many realms of gaming, bringing our combined strengths and skills to form an unbreakable resolve for enjoying our experience, along with working off of our combined skill. You will be expected to uphold your desire for impressive teamwork and coordination, along with maintaining a healthy relationship with our fellow agents.

This is our Headquarters, agents. Use this hub as a gateway access to the resources within The Espionage. Call upon fellow agents from the general comments wall, discuss and coordinate strategies using our dedicated Steam chat channel, and much more. As the leader of the group, I aim to provide important information, such as games we plan to play, servers we cultivate in, projects we intend to take on, and times for specific gatherings.

Do not fret though, agents, for recruitment into The Espionage does not warrant a constant connection and does not force a constant obligation to play with others. Taking on the gaming realm alone is still very much allowed, and encouraged occasionally to help maintain the appreciation of working with a close-knit team and remembering the benefits of cooperative gaming. The Espionage is here for when there is strength in numbers, and even greater strength in teamwork. When working with other Agents of The Espionage, we are a team, so leave that Lone Wolf stuff behind.

Lets get to work!

Have you stumbled upon this group, but you are not a part of The Espionage? Then know this:

- You cannot ask to join The Espionage. You can only be asked
- Do not ask members of The Espionage to recruit you, for only I, BrantRecon, can do that
- Only those that express the traits explained above, while in the extended presence of either I or an Officer, can be considered for recruitment
- There are no physical or digital perks to being on The Espionage, other than having a team of dependable Agents to work with during your gaming endeavors...and private servers.

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Garry's Mod: New Dedicated Server Available!

March 7, 2014 - Condor | 0 Comments

HOLY CRUD

It's true! There's now a fully dedicated server on Garry's Mod available to the Espionage! This means it's always up (or at least not dependent on my machine), custom loaded with the Espionage Workshop collection, and ready to be joined at any time, any place, and at your free will!

How do I shot join? Simple! The server is a sandbox server (Though I can change that at any time), so go to the Garry's Mod server browser, click on "Sandbox" then in the search box in the top right corner, search "The Espionage Prime" and you'll find it! There's a password, but you should know it, and if you don't, you should know where to find it!

Like I said, this server is always up and running, unless somebody breaks it, then it'll either come back on its own or when I tell it too.

Also, the Workshop collection tied to this server should automatically mount to your game, regardless if you have all the included addons, in theory. That said, you can reduce join times by subscribing to the collection beforehand. Since the collection now no longer has to represent my Garry's Mod build, I will probably reduce it to cut down on it's staggering size.

Have fun!

The Espionage Network

October 6, 2013 - Condor | 0 Comments

This is a big one. The Big One.

So there's this idea I've had, something that's been forming as a little inkling of a thought but I've been contemplating long enought to pass along to you guys and get an opinion.

So for the past several months now, anything that happens on the PC that's Espionage related has been hosted on one of our machines—mainly mine—to host all of our games, moreso on a private level.

Something I learned though is that we don't really like working just on privately run games, unless for a specific reason. We enjoy going out and taking our affairs out into the public and enjoying us take on the world, sometimes in a passive sense, sometimes in a competitive sense. Either way, we like public affairs.

This makes me think of starting a public server, maybe even more than a public server, but a network.

It's not going to be big, at first, but what the concept of the Espionage Network is, is to be a hub sort of like what Steam does with their game hubs, but specifically for servers for different games. The goal in mind is to have a server connected to the Espionage Network for as many popular games a we're comfortable with.

Will the Espionage host of all these servers? No, not all of them. It's too expensive to do that (or at least right now). Servers hosted by the Espionage will only be ones that can be funded, or if able be hosted on a local server of mine (if I get a hold of one). All other ones will be servers hand picked by us. Ones that we scout out and designate. This is similar to what we do now; going out to servers that we want to try, seeing if they are good, then stick around if we like what we see. What will change from before is after we choose a server, I reach out to the owner of this server and extend an offering for them to join the network. If they deny, it's cool, we just go about our business playing on their server anyways.

If they choose to join, then they are added to our server list, in which everyone from other servers/communities hosted by the Espionage Network will see what's added. The intention is that servers/communities added to the network are ones we've deemed trustworthy for fun and lead by a staff that's dependable enough to provide what drew us in. With this in mind, any community we have hosted on the network will know servers for other games they can travel to should they feel the desire to. The end goal is to build up a large community of communities that are networked together in such a way that anyone linked to the Espionage Network can have a hub of servers across many games to go to in which they know they can have a good time.

There is a lot more in detail I could go, but this is the basic gist of it. What do you guys think? A good idea or no? It'd be quite an undertaking, and know that I am not directly asking anything of you for this, just what efforts you are wanting to volunteer. Give me your input, if you so wish.

Regardless, I'm planning on getting a dedicated server regardless. What it's for is up for discussion, but it will be public rather than private. You can suggest what game you want for this as well.