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 200 Votes Club: k9katz [208], StephenP67 [202] 150 Votes Club: MsLoveBug [191], SkittlesQueen [188], Mega_Spud [175], CyberVic [155], TheTechGeek245 [150] 100 Votes Club: PieSquared761 [149], epic_poke8 [139], NMBr2d2 [139], Gatouli [138], thomasdd13 [132], GingerSwan [130], Xanna01 [130], oiShockWavesv [123], IAMWILDCAT556 [119], crackerbomb12 [110], Hmongusa [108], n2glox2 [101] 50 Votes Club: Tash_Twilight [97], Smallfryz [92], Soubix [88], gameonkonga [86], Hakalu [85], SpaceCadetKevin [84], ndvenckus1 [77], Nifix [73], dmdare1994 [67], Eliza_Bubblez [66], Sophiiiiiier [65], archenemy666 [61], ezeiger92 [56], Dynodamon [55], SoulAce2425 [54], MelinaHites [52], Lethalpandy [50] Money has been given out in-game, podiums have been updated on hub, and trophies have been placed into the winners' respective enderchests! As for our total votes, we went from 6,433 last month to 5,014 this month -- a 22.1% decrease. With so much of our player base back in school, it's not much of a surprise that our vote count has gone down. I just ask that all of you try hard to make a habit of voting everyday. Try to vote early in the day so you're not forced into staying up late to vote, and set a reminder or alarm if need be. If you're ever wondering what you can do to help the server, first ask yourself whether you're voting everyday. There are prizes! As for the voting plugin . . . I know I've been promising you all that I'd populate the shop with items for a long time now, and it's time for a much deserved update: Around a week ago, for a number of reasons (long-term performance improvement, new features, more maintainable code, the learning experience), I decided to redo the voting plugin from the ground up -- and I'm already pretty far into it. So you all know what's in the works, here's a list of what I've got planned (or completed) so far: Lottery items earned will persist through restarts, so you don't have to worry about getting online right after you vote to collect your prizes! Queries to the MySQL database that stores all the vote data are now asynchronous, so there's no risk of them holding up other activities on the server, no matter how big the database gets! Small but significant improvements are being made to the structure of the database. I plan on adding a graph section to http://shadecrest.com/vote that shows voting trends. Admins will have the ability to alter awards earned from the vote lottery through an inventory GUI. At the beginning of each month, pedestals will be set up and trophies will be distributed automatically, and a book containing all the info in this thread and more will be dynamically generated and given to every player on login. Last (but certainly not least ), the vote shop will be populated with items that you can all finally spend your VotePoints on! Planned so far is: - A number of mcMMO perks that will last a designated amount of time. These will affect xp gain rate, activation length, and activation cooldown time. - An increase in the rate of vanilla experience gain for a designated amount of time. - Unbreakable tools for a designated amount of time. - Instant bonemeal growth for a designated amount of time. Any of these are subject to change depending on the response from you all, and I'm always willing to take suggestions for new shop items! Creative shop items will go underway once survival is done. I'm confident that I can get the majority of these things done within the next 2 weeks, and at the very least, the survival vote shop will have items. Since I haven't been heard from in a while, I thought I'd let you all know that: no, I'm not dead, and yes, your precious vote shop will be filled Anyway, I'd like to thank all of you for your combined effort this September, and wish for an even better effort this October! Let's get off to a good start for this month, and see if we can get more people in that 200 votes club!
ITS A GOOD THING IM 200000 BLOCKS BELOW THE LOBBY SO I CAN SEE THESE SUPER COOL PODIUMS And how does Mega_Spud already have 8 votes...