The map is still generating out to the world border, but you can start playing now. Just type /vanilla from any server, or walk through the vanilla portal in the lobby.
Survival - Rent management for spawn Shops / Plots
Creative - Building Contests
Creative - OnTime updated from FirstLastSeen
Vanilla - Prelaunch/Launch of the new Vanilla+ server
Space Engineers - Community servers back online, more Mods!
General - Scheduled server downtime
EST - 8/24 12:00AM (Midnight) - 8/24 4:00 AM
PST - 8/23 9:00 PM - 8/24 1:00AM
Only one server at a time will be down. We will likely start with whichever server (Creative or Survival) which has the least players online at the time when the maintenance window begins. Vanilla+ should be online the entire time, it doesn't require any maintenance.
Max plans on being on to implement all the proposed changes to VIP
We're having our first Creative contests all day this Saturday! As long as enough players are online contests will be held. There will be group vs. group and player vs. player contests. The rules for now are as follows:
Follow all of the servers other rules
You will be put up against someone at the most two ranks from you
Build with the theme
Do not copy other's builds or recreate past builds block for block
Don't grief the other team's build (duh)
Don't help out with the build if you are not on the team or not the individual participating
Be sportsmanly
The theme for this first contest is going to be everyone's favorite: Medieval
There will be team builds and player vs. player builds. The team builds will be a minimum of an hour and the player vs. player builds will be a maximum of an hour. Yoyojoel will most likely be in charge of the most of the contesting.
The warp to the contests are /warp contests. More information can...
Something we haven't done much here on ShadeCrest is have periodic planned outage periods where the admins can do extended maintenance. I'd like to suggest that we start doing that. There are several things we can only do when the server is down completely. More details on what we plan on doing during this time but the purpose of this post is to ask:
When do you think it's ok to have an extended maintenance window?
Keep in mind we can't just say Tuesday at 2:00am to 8:00am (like MMOs for example) because let's be honest the majority of the staff is in the US and we have lives, jobs, and such and can't be doing hardcore maintenance in the middle of our sleeping hours.
One of these things is doing a database cleanup activity which I've been wanting to do for some time. This includes deleting old database no longer needed, renaming databases to match a server_plugin convention, and making sure each plugin only has access to it's own data. Doing all of this will make the...
Survival - Rent Management plugin ezeiger92 and I have been working on a rent management plugin that will allow you to purchase, list, get info on, pay, and in general manage the things you are renting from the Survival spawn (lots and chests). The feature set is about half done, focusing on the features players will need first and worried more about what happens when rent isn't paid later. We will be rolling it out as soon as people can claim initial items, pay, and maintain their payments. I plan on also building a web UI for this, showing a kind of map of spawn's plots, who has what lots / chests and how long they have till their lots expire.
Survival - Official Shadecrest Shops waterpower1 has taken the initiative and helped launched the initial shops. People moving in are to understand that the prices are not fixed and subject to change as we get community feedback on the whole situation. More details can be found here.
Creative - Moderator Promotions Navarog has been doing a great job promoting new staff. We've promoted three worthy players to moderator, I_am_dropbear, Yoyojoel, and cemeterry. Applications are still open and we're still looking for one more moderator, though. If you're guest or BI on Creative, you should make friends with these players ;D
