Creative is going to have a more regular building day schedule from now on. It will be weekly on Thursday nights from 5 to 7 PM EST, because that is one of our peak times on the server right now. If enough people absolutely hate the time it can be changed, but that is what it will remain if no one complains.
The first building day will be held tomorrow (October 16th), and the theme will be Victorian.
General - /Seen
For those not living under a rock, we have transitioned from /seen to /ontime. People were used to the /seen command so ndvenckus1 wrote a small plugin which when replicates the old /seen plugin but looks up the data from the ontime database. I am not 100% sure if he applied this to all servers, but something we can easily throw on creative and vanilla if it isn't already there.
General - Vote Shop and other Voting updates http://shadecrest.com/site/threads/6653/ ndvenckus1 has been hard at working making some overhauls again to his voting plugin, the vote shop, and as always has posted the monthly rewards. Thanks to all those who stay diligent about voting, it helps with...
October has begun! Before announcing the winners for September, I'll give a quick recap on the prize distribution system:
The top 3 monthly voters get in-game trophies (on both survival and creative) that they can cherish for years to come, along with a podium display at the hub for the next month.
Those with at least 200 votes will receive 7,500 rupies on survival.
Those with at least 150 votes will receive 5,000 rupies on survival.
Those with at least 100 votes will receive 2,500 rupies on survival.
Those with at least 50 votes will receive 1,500 rupies on survival.
Our podium finishers:
#1 - k9katz with 208 votes
#2 - StephenP67 with 202 votes
#3 - MsLoveBug with 191 votes
General - Admins relax this week as activity is up on ShadeCrest
General - Help us Advertise to get more players!
General - Admins relax this week as activity is up on ShadeCrest
Ok so I'm kinda cheating with this being the only real update this week, but the let's be honest. The last 5-6 months there have been a lot of updates and especially in the last 2-3 weeks we've been on a really grueling sprint to release a lot of new things on Survival. With the school year ramping up for a lot of folks, amazingly the amount of player's we're seeing online has actually increased substantially recently. We've seen new towns re-emerge, old faces return, and in general both of our core servers (and vanilla) have seen an increase in the average nightly playerbase.
General - Help us Advertise to get more players!
As I mentioned last week, we finished re-vamping some of the...
General - Removal of FirstLastSeen, Replaced with OnTime
Survival - PVE Spawn Cleanup
Survival - 1.8 Features
Survival - Updates to the quiz
Survival - McMMO wiki article
Survival - Exile is back
Survival - Update to ShadeCrest Top Players
Creative - Survival Guildhalls Needed
Creative - Bobbylou4 came back and was given admin
General - New rules now in the wiki http://wiki.shadecrest.com/index.php/General:_Rules
As previously mentioned, we have rolled out the new general rules on the Wiki. These general rules are linked to from the server specific rules and players are expected to take these new general conduct guidelines into considerations on every server on ShadeCrest. Some of the server specific rules were removed that were just duplicates of the general rules.
Summary:
General - Dynmap change / performance improvement for the rest of the server
Survival - AFK kick to lobby
Survival - Nerf to xp & drops from grinders
Survival - McMMO update overview
Survival - Sewers Level 4
Survival - McStats player profile update
Survival - McStats top players
Survival - Break-in at the Cash4Ingots kiosk
Creative - Building contest IRL prizes!
General - Dynmap change / performance improvement for the rest of the server http://www.shadecrest.com/map
First off, would like to mention that for those who didn't notice there's been imaxorz sightings in game! Secondly, Max was gracious to step in and help recover the server the other night from a direly needed maintenance. We have moved the Dynmap's files to a specific harddrive so they aren't writing to the same harddrive as the rest of the server's files. This resolved not only the direly needed issue, but should actually...
