Stoned Potatoes is a gaming community based on a variety of different games such as: dawn of war, company of heroes, unreal tournament, battlefield; although the most common being the garrysmod gamemodes that we host.
A zombie survival game, there are 2 teams; Humans who must survive the zombie onslaught and Zombies who must eat the brains of the humans in order to grow the zombie population.
A mix of different gamemodes, fretta by itself is a gamemode base which allows for the changing of gamemodes on map changes; this allows people to vote for different gamemodes to be played on a single server to add variety to gameplay.
A kind of zombie based role playing server.
Stonedpotatoes was founded around two years ago (April 08) by Flyberius, Priest, Flabwaan, Chilli and Jeven after they had been playing games with the clan alias for a while. Flyberius purchased a basic dedicated server (2.2ghz amd opteron, 2gb ram, 10Mb full duplex internet line) and used it to host a teamspeak 2 server and a zombie survival server.The community became known as one of the only european ZS hosts (others being Mr.Green and Killas).
As some of you have noticed our ZS server as the title of "Killas ZS", this is the result of a series of community mergers.(KillaZS merging with Winsaucestudios, which merged with stonedpotatoes). Killas was founded in 2007 where they hosted a very popular ZS server that was usually more popular than the SP server. In early 2009 Killas had hosting problems as Killa could no longer maintain the dedicated server payments and also started university so he had no time to manage the community, because of this members of Killas that began looking for ways to keep the server online (looking for donations to rent a new dedi, looking for communities to merge with). At this time Marc from SP offered a merger between Killas and Stoned Potatoes but by the time Marc had made this offer Killas had already began to merge with Winsauce Studios.
Winsauce was founded by Fizzadar in early 2009 and was host to Fizzadars Zombified World and Killas ZS, in late 2009 Winsauce suffered dedicated server problems leading to major dataloss which took winsauce weeks to recover from; at this point Fizzadar wanted to go to Canada and therefore could no longer pay for and manage the dedicated server that ran Winsauce; which led members of Winsauce and Killas to look for new hosts, at this time Marc sent another offer to merge with Stoned Potatoes and a few days later all 3 communities merged to make the stoned potatoes you see today.
As a result of these mergers stoned potatoes is now a reasonably large gaming community which is the host to a SP/Killas merged Zombie Survival, a very popular Fretta server and Zombified World from winsauce
At the time of the new merging Stoned Potatoes was still using the original Dedicated server used to host SP:ZS, this server wasnt powerful enough to host the new SP-Killas:ZS and Zombified world so Flyberius and Marc looked for new dedcated server host that could meet our needs and would not be too expensive. They came across the magical kimsufi which had a server at the same price as the current server but which much higher specs:
•1Gbps switchport on OVH •i7 @ 2.6Ghz •8GB DDR3 •2x1TB Hdds
With this new dedicated server came new possibilities as we were no longer limited by a dedi not being powerful enough and not having a fast internet connection. Firstly a 56 slot SP-Killas ZS was setup and at the time of setup managed to get an average player count of 50, shortly afterwards a 20-slot Zombified World server was setup and was always full so we just made another 20 slot Zombified world server (which was also always full xD) These new servers were only using a fraction of the dedicated servers resources so Marc created a 32 slot fretta server and spent months hunting down unreleased gamemodes to add to it in order to make it popular.
Gameservers were also setup on when members of the community wanted them; these servers included left4dead, alien swarm, killing floor....and the list goes on.