Dear Pickup Members,

as you will have noticed by now, many things have been going wrong lately. I will spare you long explanations and only provide you with the most important facts:

Admin Cip[1337] has left DotaPickup, he decided to take everything he created for Pickup with him (Bots, ZeTool, XP-Channel), since he never gave the sourcecodes to us, there's nothing we can do about that. As for reasons, you can read this thread, which has been moved (unmodified!) from an internal forum to a public forum. We decided it's best to let everyone form his and her own opinion based on what was going on.

We are sorry that YOU as dp-users have to suffer because of an admin-internal fight, but we can not do anything to change that right now. Read the following to find out what has changed as of now:

- #dotapickup.euro: Roshan is in charge of games now, he lacks some of the features Cips bot had (bold names for bothosts, !a2 for rd, !sena-add), those will be implemented as soon as possible.

- #dotapickup.xp is no longer an official pickup channel, Cip[1337] created that channel in the past and never gave channel ownership to anyone else, thus he now decided to remove operator status for all Pickup-Admins and brought back his bots while baning our bots. This means, should you decide to play there, you are out of Pickup jurisdiction, you might face permabanned Pickup members, and none of Pickups rules apply. Just mind that if you  play there, it won't be your usual Pickup-experience.

- We will not have an XP channel for  now, since we don't have the bots anymore. We will work hard to get a new XP channel up and running as soon as possible, and if YOU are experienced with creating IRC bots and want to help out creating our new bots for a new XP-channel, feel free to contact any admin via IRC or forum PM and offer us your help. Thanks in advance! Also check the XP Forums regularily, we will ask around for things to improve which will be implemented into the new bots.

- ZeTool is discontinued, you can still use it for validating accounts right now, but in the future we'll provide you with a simple to use standalone validation interface.


We are sorry for the inconvenience, but for us as DotaPickup Admin staff it was a necessary step to take.

your dp-team

on February 05, 2010, 08:15:00 pm

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