By your courteous Raz
General News
Forums were unreachable the last week somewhat because DDOS. Wasn't exactly aimed at us but a similar site. We've moved nodes so we shouldn't be DDOS'd. Should be accessible for everyone now.
All moderators on the forums (controller+), if you see someone post in a place where they shouldn't be (ban appeals/trusted apps), a warning system is in use so you can and should warn them if they fail to use common sense.
Do. NOT. pioneer to females on the internet, i.e, "show pictures on how to breed". Full stop. It will get you out of Blocktopia faster than you can say 'lolwut' or 'deadlock'.
Trusted are players that are trusted. You're not full staff. Hack = Banned. Full stop.
Asshat News
Dedicated have been running for roughly two weeks and have been running splendid, almost finished setting up.
Donations will be up for March tonight (thats the 4th March). Thanks to all the donators in advance, without you we couldnt keep running!
Zombie News
World of Minecraft 1.6.6 = 100% retarded. Banned because you can abuse an exploit to run faster. Use it. Get found. Get kicked (rule 6) then banned. OPs can use the WoM to start the round if the first zombie is unaware, but otherwise use the internet. We can see you if you constantly jump!
Matt_Allen, 12plm and Strankhl have been promoted to Operator.
Duffie, Garen10, Hayze have been demoted to normal players for inactivity.
Dragosh98, iLiL and Toastkitten have been warned for inactivity.
Lava News
A competition thread is probably made by the time you're reading this for the lava server.
The contest will last for three weeks and will start from today to March the 25th. The theme will be Apocalypse: Maps should speak out that theme, such as cities destruction, and volcanoes / mountains falling.
There are prizes. 7-10 judges will be selected by HC's but they're still being looked for.
Reminders for the staff to check trusted applications and ban appeals daily.
UltimateBudgie has compiled a list of new lava features:
http://forums.blocktopia.net/showthread.php?tid=6261
Brickwolf may be going heavily inactive soon, but he will inform you when and details as he sees fit. He'll still be as best a HC for lava as possible.
Enjoy the latest update
"Jayp94 is the most hurtful VetOP ever."
Promotions extend to sp3ct3r_2k11 and flyhater to trusted.
The_Walnut has been warned for inactivity.
Random_pie_27 has been demoted to normal due to his resignation
Build News
Been up and down. Direct rage to Notch, the destroyer of worlds.
Total staff spreadsheet will no longer be updated. More focus on our own CMP staff list.
Staff who are inactive at the moment, there are no activity warnings next week ; you will just be demoted on the spot.
CMP bugs are not frequent, just Notch.
Photo shoot was really successful; more of that and we'll be seeing monthly events soon!
More info is available at
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=...YBV86Fblgg
TNT News
Working smooth, Deadl0ck has been stress testing, aka, multiple nukes.
If you get banned, your terms for unban may include points, upgrades and / or inventory wipe.
Should someone be taking an exploit to gain masses of points via unintended feature or flaw, it is very likely all of your stuff will be removed. Try not to lose your zombie upgrade, as it has already happened.
Various bugfixes and improvements this week on top of that, including an anti-spawnkill feature.
Something big is coming around the corner.
Promotions extend to ODer and Toco_Toucan to Operator, and Matt_Allen has been promoted to Trusted.
Warnings extend to Valz and Scotty12345 for failing to read the voting form properly, X__x, Vatumok, JTTorso and Groudon1252 for inactivity, Groudon1252 for forum commitment (DOUBLE WARNING, NOT GOOD) and UltimateBudgie for not voting.
There are no demotions this week.
For banning Operators, use /banb unless you intend to do a nameban. /ban only gets the game and /banb gets the name and IP. Offline bans do not get the IP so you will have to /ip them and then /ipban the given IP.
You can be lenient to an extend but discipline is needed. The general structure is Warn, Kick, Kick, Ban, but will change depending on the situation and on the individual case.
Six warnings, four kicks and then still being reluctant to ban is a bit too lenient.
You have the ability to ban, use it. If the ban was incorrect, it will be appealed.
For trusted, the forum is an important place. Take part in it frequently, such as responding to threads, looking at apps through google docs and expanding ideas on appeals. Also, vote. And when you vote, read the voting system properly. It's got big red text to help you out.
SMP News
Mis-informed. My apologizes. --cow
SMP is still a little bit buggy, waiting for Bukkit mostly. Gates and elevators will be coming soon!
A fly hack has been made available to Beta, using it in SMP without Operator+, you will get warned for using it, then banned.
Wooffus has been promoted to VetOP, Congratulations!
roobarb_pie has been demoted following his resignation. We all loved you!
A shoutout extends to Jaekza, "There are live streaming's on Dragon Age 2 by me. I will be doing the full game. Show up and be awesome.
Also, Deadl0ck @
http://i53.tinypic.com/2n0opzn.jpg. PIMPIN' IT MAN.