While this may not seem like the most exciting news post ever, please stick with it, because it is genuinely exciting for us and opens up a lot of possibilities for further integration for our services and any third-party/community services.

DISCORD LINKING!!!

Yeah, it's in the title, but we are (I am) excited, ok. You can now link your Discord account to your ozfortress.com account. For now, this will display your Discord account ID and a clickable link on your profile/user page, but we will be working to bring more features in the future. Currently, the biggest feature for anyone who has used our Captains Discord in a seasonal league or off-season event, automatic role assignment.

Captains Discord & Automatic Role Assignment

When asked to join the Captains Discord (or if you've been a captain in recent seasons), you will now be able to go to the #setup channel for a clickable button to begin linking your Discord account to your ozfortress.com account, or you can follow our guide. Or, you can just wing it; it's in the User Settings page, under your username dropdown top-right. Once linked, anytime a new season or event is set up in the Discord, your roles will be applied. It's really that simple. If a season or event is already active, you can run the /sync command in any Discord channel in our Team Captains Discord to have your roles assigned.

Discord Linking & The Future

Our guide has a brief FAQ that will be expanded, but there are likely going to be questions regarding what we plan to do with this feature moving forward, if we plan on putting any restrictions or requirements in place, etc.

Future Possibilities

We won't ramble too much, but here's some of what we could do:
- Use this feature for Discord verification in our public Discords.
- Integration with our public and private Discord's (maybe role-related features).

I'm sure there are far more possibilities, just as I am sure you could find possible ways to integrate it into your own service if you're a pug group/website. If you don't already have an API key, please feel free to reach out to me on Discord to get one (@coreobs, just be aware we only hand them out to those with legitimate use cases.

Requirements?

Many of you may already know what we could do with this feature, so we'll come out and say it. Eventually, we'd like to make Discord linking required to access some of our services, mainly Discord services. To be clear, none of this is coming anytime soon, and we'll announce any major feature addition to Discord Linking well ahead of its deployment. We just wanted to ensure we float our ideas, so it's clear what we'd like to do in the future.

As for any possible restrictions or requirements in the future, all we can say is we are thinking about prevention and protection methods to combat the usage of alternate accounts, but we'll leave out the details for now until we know what, or more importantly, if it's something we'd like to do.

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Discord linking provides us with an immense amount of possibilities for future integrations, and we'd like to thank our development team for bringing this to fruition.

START LINKING YOUR DISCORD | Linking Guide

Regarding Experimental Cup IV & automatic role assignment, you should already have your roles, but if you don't, you can link your Discord and you'll receive your roles when everything kicks off later!