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Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. Friends and Supporters...

I could never see myself having to make this announcement any time soon, but alas, here I am. And here you are, to read it.

In the last year, Garry's Mod has started to take a state of decline. Communities are shutting-down, either because they're losing players, or because they're being attacked time-after-time with no sign of stopping. You ban a player from your server for breaking the rules, and you, as a community, have just won yourself another 2 days of Denial of Service attacks and threats from snot-nosed 13 year-old kids who are so arrogant that if they're not allowed to play on your server, decide that nobody should be allowed to play on it at all.

Gone are the days where Garry's Mod represented collaborative game-play, where you would create forts, labyrinths, automata and other suggestive "whirly-gigs" with friends.
Gone are the days where everyone on Garry's Mod would know everyone, and would play with each other on a daily or weekly basis.
Gone are the days where your favourite game server would be on-line 24 hours a day for your uninterrupted enjoyment.
Gone are the days where moderators and admins would be available 24 hours a day to ensure your gaming experience remained a pleasant one.
Gone are the days where people just played fair and got along with each other.

I'm really sad to see that those days have now gone-by. I'm glad, however, that I was given a chance to enjoy those opportunities with friends when it was the norm, and I'm glad that so many of our supporters were able to enjoy Naval at its peak. After some careful thought and discussion, 50KALKILLER and myself have both agreed that Garry's Mod has nowhere to go now but downhill, and the recent closure of ExiledServers and other communities only strengthens that fact. So, we decided that it would be best for us to make a decision for the clan while we have the freedom to make a choice, rather than allow fate to make that decision for us. If you want to know more behind our decision, then go and read the closure announcements of ExiledServers and the other recently-closed communities, because our story is more or less identical!

If it hasn't been clear up to now, then this is where I make things as simple as possible. As of immediately, The SGC-Clan are ceasing all general and gaming operations. Our Naval Play server is being taken offline with immediate effect, and our forums will probably be archived and taken offline in the coming weeks. We will try to make arrangements for users to securely download their Advanced Dupe files from the server if they haven't yet done-so.

We've had a fantastic run - Circa. 2008, but now its time to "throw in the towel" and go out with a positive history and positive reputation, rather than allow the continual degradation of Garry's Mod and instead have the SGC name brought to shame.

We will not be releasing or distributing the Source Code to Naval Play, so please don't ask us for it! The lingering memories of Naval Play will serve as the memories of The SGC, and vice-versa.

So, without further ado, and on behalf of all the staff: So Long. And thanks for all the fish!

UPDATE: I thought I would just mention this - as a community, we're not dead completely. We are on "Hiatus" until further notice. This means that we're not entirely sure what's going to happen in the future.