Summary: General - Voting Survival - PvP Making a Comeback Creative - Moderator Rank FTB - It's Back! General - Voting The July voting contest has come to an end, and winners have been awarded as promised. More info is available in this thread. Expect a few improvements to both the voting site and the voting plugin to happen over the next couple of days. Thanks again to all of you for your efforts last month! Lets hope for an even better turnout this month. Start voting now so we can maintain a good rank (we're ranked 65 on Minestatus at the time of this post, which is the best we've been in a while)! If you have any ideas for the vote shop, please mention them in the vote shop ideas thread. Survival - PvP Making a Comeback With the recent population spike, we've had a couple new towns make their way into the PvP world: Noobs (run by plasmafirezarin) and Magentaville (run by Jeffie0). Once their grace periods are up, they'll be free game for raiding. If you've ever considered joining a PvP town, now is the time to do so. Grab a few buddies and have fun! A couple months ago, the PvP council discussed numerous ideas regarding Towny outposts, the use of homes/warps in PvP, and the implementation of a system that forces people to commit to either PvP or Peaceful, so we don't have people spending the majority of their time in the Peaceful world, and then going to raid others in PvP when it's convenient for them. Now that we've gotten some other major changes out of the way, it's time to start improving our PvP system to make it more fun for everyone interested. You'll be seeing more info on all of this soon enough. Creative - Moderator Rank A much-needed moderator rank has been added to the creative server, and public applications were opened earlier this week. Three qualified individuals have been promoted already: Yoyojoel, cemeterry, and I_am_dropbear, but we'll potentially promote one more person, so if you're qualified please apply. The further your timezone from EST the better. Now that we've got some moderators outside of EST, we shouldn't have nearly as many dead zones where there are no staff on. FTB - It's Back! FTB is making its return with a map reset along with a set of mods carefully selected by ezeiger92 to keep things fun for everyone. The server will be running Monster 1.1.2 with the addition of Gregtech and the subtraction of a few overpowered mods that can be found here, and it should hopefully be up later today. For more info, bother your local Dynodamon.