Hey ZDaemon.&nbsp; It&#039;s me, Ladna.&nbsp; I&#039;m gonna start by saying that this is a personal post, and the opinions expressed are mine and mine alone.<br /><br />TotalTrash Servers has been active since early 2008.&nbsp; We&#039;ve hosted innumerable tournaments and ZDaemon Sessions, to say nothing of the ZDaemon Duel League and the International Doom League.&nbsp; We stepped in when Red Nexus and Doomed Earth were sadly forced to close their doors, and although everyone&#039;s been frustrated at one time or another on our servers (like all servers), I&#039;m proud to say we&#039;re currently the most popular server set in North America, and have been for quite some time.<br /><br />We&#039;ve worked hard to create a quality gaming experience on TT and to contribute to the ZDaemon community.&nbsp; Nostar and I developed ZDStack, which is a management and stats engine for ZDaemon servers.&nbsp; JKist3 has been a steadfast financial supporter of TT, which has motivated us to provide an even better experience.&nbsp; It&#039;s extremely gratifying to be able to show our love for ZDaemon by giving back to the community, to cultivate and share that enthusiasm with fellow players.&nbsp; I hope you&#039;ve all enjoyed it as much as I have.<br /><br />We&#039;re all upstanding members of the ZDaemon community who think this game is great.&nbsp; No one who knows us would ever say that we have secret agendas or ulterior motives.&nbsp; Our opinions are well-known, because we&#039;re all extremely smart people who aren&#039;t at all ashamed of what we think.&nbsp; Each of us is the type of guy who, when they want something to happen, they do it.&nbsp; Nostar and I wanted to raise the quality level of public servers, and we did so.&nbsp; JKist3 wanted to run a highly-competitive, fair duel league, and he did so.&nbsp; I wanted to improve the infrastructure and administration of the International Doom League, and I worked with Ralphis and eventually the IDL Board to do so.&nbsp; There&#039;s no reason for us to give everything that we have given to ZDaemon and its players if we harbored any ill-will towards ZDaemon or its administration.<br /><br />This is all to say that Nostar, JKist3 and I are not &quot;random people&quot;.&nbsp; To reiterate, together we&#039;ve spent thousands of dollars and thousands of hours creating, maintaining, administrating, and bettering what we hope is the best ZDaemon experience in North America.&nbsp; Personally, I&#039;m still unsatisfied with what we offer.&nbsp; There&#039;s so much we can add, things like video and a stats archive, that would further enhance and advertise ZDaemon.&nbsp; But like Morpheus says in The Matrix, time is always against us.<br /><br />However, as of today I&#039;ve decided that I&#039;m no longer willing to support ZDaemon.&nbsp; ZDaemon&#039;s administration has nothing but contempt for me and my efforts to contribute to the community.&nbsp; It regards me as subversive, annoying, and stupid - and I&#039;m using the administration&#039;s words here.&nbsp; After over 2 years of devoting huge amounts of my time and money attempting to contribute to ZDaemon, I&#039;m finally taking the hint and taking down nearly all of TotalTrash&#039;s servers.&nbsp; The ones that will remain are Private CTF, and the league servers (IDL and ZDDL).&nbsp; Along with the public servers, we will no longer host mapping development servers, ZDaemon Tournament servers, or ZDSession servers.&nbsp; This is a personal decision, a decision that I, Ladna, made by myself.&nbsp; It&#039;s fully possible that either Nostar or JKist3 will restart them after I turn them off.&nbsp; Regardless of what they choose to do, I am personally finished attempting to contribute to ZDaemon in any way.&nbsp; This is not a political decision or action, it&#039;s a personal one.&nbsp; In no way am I trying to make a political statement.&nbsp; I fully expect that Rampage, Dallas|TX, and DUI Connecticut will pick up where we are leaving off, and that our absence will hardly be felt.<br /><br />Finally, I&#039;ll say a few words about IDL, because that&#039;s where I&#039;ll be after this.&nbsp; We have forums [url=http://forums.intldoomleague.org]here[/url], our main site is [url=http://www.intldoomleague.org]here[/url], and you are always free to join our IRC channel, server quakenet.org, channel #idl.&nbsp; If any of you want to talk to Ralphis about his side of the story he&#039;s got a post on our forums.&nbsp; It&#039;s worth saying we never lock threads, even when people insult us, so feel free to say whatever you want (you too Kilgore!).&nbsp; If you spend any time on the boards, you&#039;ll see that we get into some pretty heated discussions, but we never shy away from arguments and debate.&nbsp; From time to time, however, we do edit posts hilariously.&nbsp; Nostar is particularly good at this.&nbsp; I also encourage you all to check out [url=http://www.cdevastation.com/zddl]ZDDL[/url].&nbsp; GGs.