Kurva Gaming

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Kurva Gaming is an online gaming community that primarily hosts public SCP: Secret Laboratory (or SCP:SL) servers. Northwood Studios granted Kurva Gaming the ability to host official servers[a] in the U.S East region.[1]

Kurva Gaming
KurvaGaming logo.png
General Information
Established2018
Owners
  • Alby (2018-2021)
  • Cookie (2021-Present)
Registered Members7,257 (as of July 13, 2023)
Joining ProcessParticipation
WebsiteWebsite
Social Media
DiscordDiscord server
PatreonPatreon

Governance

The community makes use of a non-linear rank structure where each service has a hierarchy of staff, with the head of each hierarchy reporting to the community's owner. The top of the hierarchy is referred to as the head of the service, and they presumably make all decisions relating to it's operation. Immediately below the head are supervisors who oversee groups of base staff members. Each service has multiple groups with the staff members in each group directly reporting to their assigned supervisor.[2]

Staff members also have ranks in the order of trial moderator, moderator, senior moderator, administrator, then senior administrator. These ranks appear to represent levels of access to a service and do not represent authority (e.g it is possible for a senior administrator to report to a senior administrator). Because of this, it is possible for the same staff member to have a different rank for each service.[2]

Separately from the hierarchies are 3 named positions: chief technical officer, community manager, and director of communications. These all appear to be positions that are lateral to the head of a service, and so all presumably directly report to the owner.[2]

Also separate from the hierarchy altogether are various committees that perform specific functions. The committees are player relations, staff processing, interviewing, training, and ban appeals. The player relations committee has 5 sub-committees which are events, rules, outreach, development, and media. Each committee has a similar hierarchical structure to services, but the supervisor position is instead called a vice head. Each sub-committee has a single titled position called lead.[2]

KurvedNetwork

Kurva runs a small network of other entities that are under different names and have their own dedicated ownership and staff. These entities are Chaos Theory and KurvedMC.

Chaos Theory is the successor community to UnlimitedSCP, an SCP: Secret Laboratory community which unexpectedly shutdown[3] in the 2nd quarter of 2022. To facilitate in Chaos Theory starting up, Kurva's leadership team worked with UnlimitedSCPs previous development team to obtain the plugins that UnlimitedSCP originally had, and after long discussion and bidding Kurva was given full ownership of the unlimited plugins and x3rt began attempting to update/maintain the plugins. Also, during Chaos Theory's original Discord launch, Kurva had their Discord staff team assist in server moderation temporarily.[4]

KurvedMC is a small community Discord jointly run jointly by Kurva and Chaos Theory for the purpose of maintaining Minecraft servers.

While Kurva and Chaos Theory both refer to the mutual assistance as Kurva having gained ownership over Chaos Theory, Chaos Theory has it's own owner and staff team. It was publicly declared during the initial announcement of ownership that Kurva would not have influence over community direction or governance.[4]

Finances

Historical Patreon Data (2023)
Amount Per Month Total Patrons Date Recorded Link
$424 57 April 16 Link
$534 61 July 10 Link
$364.83 79 August 31 Link
$388 87 December 31 Link

The primary method of income is Patreon, encompassing 11 tiers from US$1 to $100. The total number of patrons and received income is made public, being 87 patrons donating $388 per month as of December 31, 2023.[5]

History

Kurva Gaming does not have official documentation or statements from community leaders as to when it was established. As such, editors place the establishment of the community to be in 2018. This has been derived from an announcement by Alby regarding how long Kurva Gaming has existed in comparison to the announcement's date.[6] Kurva Gaming has had 2 owners. Alby was the first who then stepped down in 2021.[7] He was succeeded by Cookie, who is the current owner.[8]

As of July 13, 2023 the community has 7,257 members.[9]

Chronology of events

May 20, 2019
Alby announces that the servers are offline, citing issues with PayPal.[10] The servers returned 3 days later.[11]
August 3
A bot attack was launched against SCP: Secret Laboratory[12] which interrupted a community event scheduled for the same day.[13] A workaround was attempted by using a direct connection IP address[14] which was unsuccessful[15] The event would later go on due to a reprieve in the attack.[16]
March 8, 2020
Cherry announces that community servers are down due to insufficient funds, that a temporary server had been established, and asks members to consider pledging on Patreon.[17] 4 hours later, Alby would clarify that community funds were sufficient, and that the servers went down due to a personal mishap.[18]
March 26
Alby announces that their 2nd and 3rd SCP: Secret Laboratory servers were being turned off to make space for the Rust server which had accumulated 119 concurrent players.[19]
May 16
Cherry announces that the Patreon is raising $200 monthly and thanks the community for putting Kurva in a financially stable position.[20]
May 19
Alby calls for artists to create a new logo for the community. Compensation offerred was a $20 STEAM Gift Card.[21] The result of the call, taking place on May 27, is the now current logo.[22]
May 28
Cherry announces the hosting of an SCP: Secret Laboratory tournament.[23] It would later be cancelled due to a key organizer, TechStar123, being unable to attend.[24]
July 19
TubbyMuffin announces that a staff member's account had been hacked and to not join server invite links they may send.[25]
April 13, 2022
Cookie[b] announces that they now own the SCP: Secret Laboratory community Chaos Theory.[3]
October 13
Cookie makes an announcement that Alby has stepped down as the owner and that they are taking over the position.[26]
September 27
Cookie announces that a rouge staff member performed a myriad of unjustified bans and that the issue was resolved.[27]
August 14, 2023
Cookie announces that a migration to a new server was required due to community services being accessed maliciously by a personal close to them in real life.[28]
September 30
Red Wolf 2524 announces that all uses of suicidal phraseology, along with common variants (e.g "kill yourself", "kill myself", "keep yourself safe"), are prohibited regardless of context and regardless of participant comfort level. Stated purpose being to address "rising concerns of community members surrounding overall toxicity in the community".[29] Kelpy G sends a follow up announcement shortly after to "cast some light".[30]
December 9
Kelpy G announces that the rule prohibiting use of suicidal phraseology enacted on September 30 is effectively overturned. It comes with 2 caveats: the intent is for jokes to remain between friends, and descriptions of how someone may kill themselves is prohibited.[31]

Controversy

On January 14, 2019, Alby made an announcement calling attention to Wendy Williams who allegedly made fun of a "facial deformity" that Alby had. Alby asked members to "investigate" an attached tweet and that they were "outraged by the fact that someone could do this".[32] Alby would later clarify that they do not endorse attacking Wendy.[33]

On June 7, 2020, Alby announced that there was a situation where there were numerous "bans, mutes, and general fuckery" on June 4 and apologized for the behavior. They state that all future major events in the community will be ran and monitored by themselves.[34]

On August 24, 2020, Kurva announced the termination of TechStar123 due to their failure to maintain confidentiality and "[trying] to recruit spies for other members and used promotions to essentially bribe them".[35] TechStar123 made a ping in the official announcements channel on September 18[36], and then made a server-wide ping on October 16.[37]

2023 attempted services takeover

On August 14, 2023, Cookie announced that a Discord server migration was required due to "someone close to [them]" taking over services maliciously. They went on to apologize that the prior management and leadership team underneath them, in general, "didn't manage things properly". Members x3rt and Supra were mentioned by name, the former made "CTO" and the latter made the community manager.[2] Cookie said they would work with the 2 moving forward.[28]

At the same time, a website called https://kurva.info was launched. The front page, written by x3rt, went on to detail that the breach was due to a "relationship going bad". It further stated that Cookie was pursuing legal action against "the user in question" as they allegedly took control of the Patreon account. x3rt stated they were working on migrating the SCP:SL servers to a new machine. They also wrote a bot that would automatically re-assign appropriate roles to users.[38]

An announcement from x3rt was made 1 and a half hours after the original stating that access to Patreon was restored.[39]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ A server endorsed publicly on the SCP: Secret Laboratory Discord server. They are placed on the top of the in-game server list.

References

  1. ↑ Northwood_USeast.png. #official-servers [SCP: Secret Laboratory]. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Kurva Staff Roster". Google Sheets. Archived from the original on 8 September 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cookie (13 April 2022). Kurva_chaostheory.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. As many of you may have heard, a very popular modded SCP:SL community, Unlimited SCP, recently disappeared
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pepticdiamond93 (13 April 2023). Chaostheory_ownedbykurva.png. #announcements [Chaos Theory]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. Chaos Theory is now owned by Kurva Gaming
  5. ↑ "Kurva Gaming". Patreon. Archived from the original on 31 December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ↑ Alby (1 January 2021). Kurva_3year_operation.png. [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-07-16. Over the almost 3 years Kurva has been operational...
  7. ↑ Cookie (13 October 2021). Kurva_Gaming29.png. [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. Alby has decided to step down from KGC Owner after 4 years
  8. ↑ Cookie (13 July 2023). Kurva_network_owner.png. [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  9. ↑ Kurva_usercount.png. [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  10. ↑ Alby (20 May 2019). Kurva_paypal1.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. PayPal decided that I need to send a check to get the money.
  11. ↑ Alby (23 May 2019). Kurva_paypal2.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. Servers should be back up within the hour. I apologize for the downage.
  12. ↑ Alby (3 August 2019). Kurva_Gaming8.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. Server down Bc of mass ddos attacks against all sl servers
  13. ↑ Alby (29 July 2019). Kurva_Gaming9.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. This Saturday we will be having a massive event!
  14. ↑ Alby (3 August 2019). Kurva_Gaming10.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. ... we will be hosting the 100 player server privately... when the time comes we will ping ya with the IP
  15. ↑ Alby (3 August 2019). Kurva_Gaming11.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. It seems the botnet bois are watching and have caused havoc once again...
  16. ↑ Alby (3 August 2019). Kurva_Gaming12.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. SERVER IS FIXED... ITS ON THE PUBLIC LIST
  17. ↑ Cherry (8 March 2020). Kurva_Gaming16.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. the servers are currently down due to us not having enough money to pay for them on the patreon
  18. ↑ Alby (8 March 2020). Kurva_Gaming17.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. ... to correct cherry... due to corona virus being present... my family has been on a sort of lockdown at home... can't get to my bank to get money
  19. ↑ Alby (26 March 2020). Kurva_Gaming18.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. Kurva 1 is staying up for now as the rest are brought down to open space on the rust server which currently has 119 players on it.
  20. ↑ Cherry (16 May 2020). Kurva_Gaming19.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. We just hit 200 dollars on the patreon!
  21. ↑ Alby (19 May 2020). Kurva_Gaming20.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. Hey guys, we need a new logo and as you know we're lazy. So we're letting YOU try to redesign it!
  22. ↑ TechStar123 (27 May 2020). Kurva_Gaming21.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. @everyone The logo contest has Concluded... @Cagleous Our Logo winner! Who's design you all helped choose!
  23. ↑ Cherry (28 May 2020). Kurva_Gaming22.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. On June 5 Kurva Gaming will be hosting our first ever SCP Tournament!
  24. ↑ Cherry (6 June 2020). Kurva_Gaming23.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. I regret to inform you that the small tournament will not be happening tonight as @TechStar123 cannot make it
  25. ↑ TubbyMuffin (19 July 2020). Kurva_Gaming25.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. Hey @everyone, a staff member has been hacked so if you get a DM from @joker cards of 0 to join a server do not join it.
  26. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named :29
  27. ↑ Cookie (27 September 2022). Kurva_Gaming25.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. If you have received a ban from our servers it was due to a rogue staff member of our staff team
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Cookie (14 August 2023). Kurva_Gaming31.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-08-31. Due to unexpected circumstances, the original KurvaGamingDiscord was taken over by someone close to me.
  29. ↑ Red Wolf 2524 (30 September 2023). Kurva_Gaming32.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  30. ↑ Kelpy G (30 September 2023). Kurva_Gaming34.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  31. ↑ Kelpy G (9 December 2023). Kurva_Gaming35.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  32. ↑ Alby (14 January 2019). Kurva_Gaming14.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  33. ↑ Alby (15 January 2019). Kurva_Gaming15.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  34. ↑ Alby (7 June 2020). Kurva_Gaming24.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  35. ↑ Alby (24 August 2020). Kurva_Gaming26.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  36. ↑ TechStar123 (18 September 2020). Kurva_Gaming27.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. All servers have been updated and 049 may now speak!
  37. ↑ TechStar123 (16 October 2020). Kurva_Gaming28.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-04-07. ... has been updated with many new roles, so please go check it out!
  38. ↑ x3rt (14 August 2023). "Kurva Information". Archived from the original on 1 September 2023. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  39. ↑ x3rt (14 August 2023). Kurva_Gaming33.png. #announcements [Kurva Gaming]. Retrieved 2023-08-31. WE GOT PATREON BACK
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