This guide breaks down how user accounts, authentication, and member permissions work across our website, community forums, and gaming services. We built our system to give you a safe, unified experience without any extra headaches.

Table of Contents​

• The Unified XenForo Platform
• Our Platform Journey: From IPS to XenForo
• FAQ: Why Don't We Offer Third-Party / Social Logins?
• Account Security & Best Practices
• Need Additional Assistance?

Our Current Platform​

At the New Team of Weapons and Tactics, we like keeping things simple, modern, and cohesive. Our entire web ecosystem— including the front-end portal, knowledge base, member resources, and discussion areas— runs natively on the robust XenForo framework. We also run a number of bespoke add-ons and web server technologies developed right here in-house by the New Team of Weapons and Tactics and DBMXPCA Technologies.

Instead of juggling fragmented logins for different parts of the site, everything operates on a single master account architecture. You register once, and your profile is instantly active across the whole network. This gives you seamless access to:

• Community Forums & Portal: Jump into squad discussions, check out member-created content, and read official announcements right on the unified front page.
• Resource & Downloads Center: Safely grab official community resources, game modifications, tools, and custom assets.
• Game Servers & Services: Check out real-time server telemetry and interface with specialized operations, like our regional police services.
• Knowledge Base & Documentation: Read through technical tutorials, operational doctrine, and member guides without hitting another login screen.
• Restricted Member Hubs: Access specific roster utilities, admin portals, and exclusive member-only operations using your standard forum permissions.

Our Platform History​

If you have been around the community space for a while, you know there are a lot of platform options out there. Over the years, we have tried quite a few of them. We spent time on YaBB, phpBB3, myBB, vBulletin, and even older versions of XenForo. But time and again, we found ourselves coming back to IP.Board and the IPS Community Suite.

Throughout its 2.x, 3.x and 4.x lifetime, IP.Board and its Invision Community Suite honestly just felt right. Our community loved the features, the layout, and the familiar, homey vibe it brought to the table. It served us incredibly well.

So, why the transition to XenForo now?

Unfortunately, the developers and staff behind IPS decided to take their newer 5.x lineup in a vastly different direction. It skewed far away from what we traditionally look for in a community platform. Many of the features we relied on heavily in the past were either removed entirely or significantly dumbed down, leaving us with watered-down versions that just do not suit our community's workflow anymore.

Making matters only worse, their licensing terms have also since became aggressively strict. Customers are now forced into more frequent, mandatory renewals. Miss a renewal for too long and your license is terminated: one would completely lose their customer status entirely and be forced to purchased a brand new license at full price— all for a product that has been recently giving us less an less functionality than before.

It was a tough pill to swallow, but these decisions in their software updates and customer service attitudes ultimately went against everything we believed and forced our hand. To protect our legacy and keep the community running smoothly without compromising on features that our members enjoyed, we went through a comprehensive audit and testing period of various modern software solutions available on the market today and ultimately made the call to transition to XenForo as our current solution moving forward.

Why We Don't Support Third-Party / Social Logins​

We get asked this a lot. After all, we see it everywhere these days: "Sign in with Google," "Log in with Steam," or "Sign in with Discord." We made a deliberate choice not to support external third-party sign-in options. Here's why.

Maximum Data Privacy & In-House Control​

We stick to a tried-and-true method: storing and protecting all member records on our own secure, self-hosted hardware. By keeping our user database completely isolated, external corporations cannot track your activity across our network or harvest data on your browsing and gameplay habits. Your privacy stays exactly where it belongs— between you and NTWT.

System Compatibility & Custom Integrations​

Our setup features proprietary systems, like live in-game regional police networks and specialized member tools. Running a dedicated internal database lets us format and link data directly to our game servers. We do not have to worry about sudden third-party API changes, restrictive rate limits, or getting locked into another vendor's ecosystem.

Reliability & Security​

Relying on external login providers introduces outside single points of failure that we cannot control. If an external platform goes down, alters its API rules, or terminates your external account, you could be completely locked out of the our network. Operating an independent, self-contained system guarantees your access stays consistent, resilient, and safe 24/7.

Account Security & Best Practices​

Keeping your account secure is a shared responsibility. We highly recommend making a habit of these basic security practices:

• Use a Strong, Unique Password. Always pick a complex passphrase for your NTWT profile that you do not share with any other website or online service.
• Keep Your Email Updated. Make sure the primary email address linked to your account is active and monitored. You need it to receive critical security notices, 2FA prompts, and password reset verifications.
• Protect Your Credentials. New Team of Weapons and Tactics staff and administrators will never ask for your password. Always double-check that you are actually browsing on the official ntwt.net domain before typing in your login details.

Account Recovery Assistance​

If you run into any issues logging in, resetting your password, or accessing restricted areas of the site, we have a few ways to get things sorted. Official NTWT members can always reach out directly to their precinct supervisors through the usual internal communication channels. Other than that, we recommend following these escalation steps in order:

Use the Lost Password Utility​

This is the fastest, safest, and most reliable way to restore access to your account yourself.

Submit a Ticket​

If the automated password recovery is unavailable or just isn't working, feel free to reach out by visiting our Support Center and submitting a ticket. Official NTWT members can contact their direct supervisor for help, but we generally recommend opening a support ticket.

Emergency Outreach Options​

If you submitted a report and haven't heard back within 72 hours, please try these options:

• Send us an email through our Email Contact Form.
• Connect with your supervisor or one of our staff members via third-party communications platforms (such as Discord, TeamSpeak, etc.) listed on our Contact page.
• Call our toll-free phone line on our Contact page.
• Send written correspondence to our official mailing address listed on our Contact page.