Well, this one’s going to be fun. Don’t shoot the messenger!
Hi all,
Before we get onto the juicy part of this, let’s handle staff first. As you will most likely know from our meetings, FreakyCupcake has resigned and has been replaced by Hex, who will do good. Freaky was a fantastic admin, so thanks for all your work there. As well, I will be resigning from Community Admin, but I will stay on as Lava Admin. It’s been an honour people, so thanks. I haven’t been great, but it’s been fun, so hey. My long-awaited replacement is already a great admin, and was the real reason you got those 25 days of events. Yep, you guessed it, you've probably been on the hypetrain for ages, it’s Arelic! Please be nice to her. I trust she’ll do a mighty fine job as part of our leadership team.
Now, this is the part that gets really fun. I think we’ve seen we’re not doing fantastic right now. Server numbers are down, everything’s not great. Not fun. Therefore, we’re going to go a bit out there. Now, I’ll give credit to Vatumok for a lot of this, as he’s been working with us to help get things done, so thanks a lot. What we’re planning is to replace RoF and AoD. I’ll just give that a moment to settle in. Are you alright? Good. Let’s continue.
Before you get going in the comment section with “wtf you are killing the community against our will you are not listening reeeee”, I must stress this is not completely finalised. There is every possibility we can scrap this if it goes wrong, or if there is enough reason discussed now to reverse this. However, it’s worth doing something. There’s a good few proposals in our News forum that have never came to fruition, and it’s about time one of them did. The date for shutting off RoF and AoD, if this does happen, will be a long way off, giving us a good bit of time to backtrack if necessary, and will only happen once the new server is completely ready. I should also note that the Prestige Update for RoF, well overdue, is almost ready for release, and will still be going ahead regardless of this.
Our plan is to replace the servers with one of two options - a deception server, or a deathrun server. We did try to decide between one of these initially, but we couldn’t decide. Therefore, right now, we are developing both, and this is happening right now. One will most likely be dropped if it becomes apparent that one is better or one is not working, and it will be most likely that only one server will make it to release. Obviously, deathrun is a bit more in our comfort zone. Lava survival has been baked into the core of our community since the start. We’ve got ground to begin. Maps are really the thing we need here though, and that’s where our struggle lies. However, whilst the “deception server” still needs an idea (basing it off Deceit or Sheriff of Nottingham is currently being discussed), and we’ve never done something like this before, we believe that there is a unique concept we could easily tap into surrounding this, and if done well, this could be a very special server. Mafia has proven to be very popular within the community, so this is already something our community may enjoy. Things should become clear as time progresses, though.
As all of this is happening, we may discuss adding other features into Minecraft (although that does not mean we will!), such as global chat, a relook at voting rewards, maybe even donor rewards if we have chance, and this is even before we begin to consider the wealth of options we have with other games such as Garry’s Mod. Minecraft is our core game though, so we have to look at that. Again, this is just saying we might discuss these, not that we’ll do them.
We’ve had a good talk about RoF and AoD, so let’s slip a bit of Create in here. Hex is currently looking at options for Create, and he is very keen on giving the server a bit of a refresh, in an aim to make Create more appealing for players and just give it a bit of a polish. There are a few ideas being chucked around here, including transferring worlds (inc. plots etc) to a “new” server to get rid of old, outstanding bugs, and adding build minigames, such as a build battle. This isn’t something concrete, but getting ideas flowing would be ideal. He would appreciate any opinions and feedback you have.
It should also be noted that SMP is also very much still being developed, and is as active as ever, with its staff team growing and progress being made quicker than ever before. It is still a long way away, but stay tuned for info. We are adamant that it is going to be a great success within the community (touch wood!).
So where do you come in? We need your opinions and feedback. We’re not just a staff team, we’re a community. What do you think? Do you want to help? Any suggestions? We want to know. What you all want to see is the most important thing we need to know to make this plan succeed.
If you have any questions, we’ll be happy to respond.
So, let the comment wars begin, and for my last time as CA, thanks.
-SirC
Hi all,
Before we get onto the juicy part of this, let’s handle staff first. As you will most likely know from our meetings, FreakyCupcake has resigned and has been replaced by Hex, who will do good. Freaky was a fantastic admin, so thanks for all your work there. As well, I will be resigning from Community Admin, but I will stay on as Lava Admin. It’s been an honour people, so thanks. I haven’t been great, but it’s been fun, so hey. My long-awaited replacement is already a great admin, and was the real reason you got those 25 days of events. Yep, you guessed it, you've probably been on the hypetrain for ages, it’s Arelic! Please be nice to her. I trust she’ll do a mighty fine job as part of our leadership team.
Now, this is the part that gets really fun. I think we’ve seen we’re not doing fantastic right now. Server numbers are down, everything’s not great. Not fun. Therefore, we’re going to go a bit out there. Now, I’ll give credit to Vatumok for a lot of this, as he’s been working with us to help get things done, so thanks a lot. What we’re planning is to replace RoF and AoD. I’ll just give that a moment to settle in. Are you alright? Good. Let’s continue.
Before you get going in the comment section with “wtf you are killing the community against our will you are not listening reeeee”, I must stress this is not completely finalised. There is every possibility we can scrap this if it goes wrong, or if there is enough reason discussed now to reverse this. However, it’s worth doing something. There’s a good few proposals in our News forum that have never came to fruition, and it’s about time one of them did. The date for shutting off RoF and AoD, if this does happen, will be a long way off, giving us a good bit of time to backtrack if necessary, and will only happen once the new server is completely ready. I should also note that the Prestige Update for RoF, well overdue, is almost ready for release, and will still be going ahead regardless of this.
Our plan is to replace the servers with one of two options - a deception server, or a deathrun server. We did try to decide between one of these initially, but we couldn’t decide. Therefore, right now, we are developing both, and this is happening right now. One will most likely be dropped if it becomes apparent that one is better or one is not working, and it will be most likely that only one server will make it to release. Obviously, deathrun is a bit more in our comfort zone. Lava survival has been baked into the core of our community since the start. We’ve got ground to begin. Maps are really the thing we need here though, and that’s where our struggle lies. However, whilst the “deception server” still needs an idea (basing it off Deceit or Sheriff of Nottingham is currently being discussed), and we’ve never done something like this before, we believe that there is a unique concept we could easily tap into surrounding this, and if done well, this could be a very special server. Mafia has proven to be very popular within the community, so this is already something our community may enjoy. Things should become clear as time progresses, though.
As all of this is happening, we may discuss adding other features into Minecraft (although that does not mean we will!), such as global chat, a relook at voting rewards, maybe even donor rewards if we have chance, and this is even before we begin to consider the wealth of options we have with other games such as Garry’s Mod. Minecraft is our core game though, so we have to look at that. Again, this is just saying we might discuss these, not that we’ll do them.
We’ve had a good talk about RoF and AoD, so let’s slip a bit of Create in here. Hex is currently looking at options for Create, and he is very keen on giving the server a bit of a refresh, in an aim to make Create more appealing for players and just give it a bit of a polish. There are a few ideas being chucked around here, including transferring worlds (inc. plots etc) to a “new” server to get rid of old, outstanding bugs, and adding build minigames, such as a build battle. This isn’t something concrete, but getting ideas flowing would be ideal. He would appreciate any opinions and feedback you have.
It should also be noted that SMP is also very much still being developed, and is as active as ever, with its staff team growing and progress being made quicker than ever before. It is still a long way away, but stay tuned for info. We are adamant that it is going to be a great success within the community (touch wood!).
So where do you come in? We need your opinions and feedback. We’re not just a staff team, we’re a community. What do you think? Do you want to help? Any suggestions? We want to know. What you all want to see is the most important thing we need to know to make this plan succeed.
If you have any questions, we’ll be happy to respond.
So, let the comment wars begin, and for my last time as CA, thanks.
-SirC
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