ShadeCrest: A Gaming Community

Summary:

• General - MOTD change
  
• General - Bumping and Voting
• General - Forum Moderation & Warnings
• General - Wiki Updates
• Creative - More creative staff changes
• Survival - ezeiger92 promoted to admin
• Survival - LWC protection fix

General - MOTD change
If you haven't seen our new server MOTD by now, you should go check it out. "A Minecraft Communtiy" has been replaced with "A sandbox gaming community", more color has been added, our different servers are listed, and it just looks better. This is not the final version, changes may still occur as we are going through a minor rebranding process right now, but it is a good starting point. And no, we will not change it back to "MeowCrest"

General - Bumping and Voting
I think many have already noticed the fruits of our labor when it comes to voting. Ndv increasing the incentives for voting has more people voting than ever and we're seeing more players...

Summary:

• General - Voting Improvements
• General - New Hub under Construction

My apologies for such a late weekly update. There wasn't much going on this week besides the vote consolidation, and I wanted to wait on the other staff members for their input before posting.

General - Voting Improvements
The bulk of the voting improvements are complete. www.shadecrest.com/vote and the link in the site's navigation bar now forwards you to the new voting page thanks to imaxorz. More importantly, we've consolidated the survival and creative voting pages so you only have to vote on 1 page for each site, and so that all votes benefit both of our servers. Likewise, VotePoint balances are now shared between survival and creative. www.shadecrest.com/vote has been modified to include more features and accommodate for the consolidation....

Summary:

• General - Voting Page
• Creative - Staff Changes
• Survival - Plugin Cleanup
• SpaceEngineers - More admins for Public

General - Voting Page
http://mc.shadecrest.com/vote/
ndvenckus1 has worked on this new voting page. Please report any issues you find with it to Ndv or reply to this post or his voting ideas thread. The intention is to bring both creative and survival voting together and make it easier to vote (and therefore encourage people to do it more often). I personally find it way easier and probably will be voting more myself with how simple it with the new voting page. This is just one of the many changes Ndv is hoping to make in general to voting. Please visit this thread to see the rest of the ideas he has in the works: http://www.shadecrest.com/site/threads/6361/

Creative - Staff Changes
Navarog promoted some...

Summary:

• Survival/Creative - Voting Improvements Galore
• Survival/Creative - Update to 1.7.9
• Survival/Creative - FirstLastSeen -> OntimePlayers
• Creative - Staff Changes
• Survival - Miscellaneous
• Space Engineers - Advertising on Space-Engineers.com

Survival/Creative - Voting Improvements Galore
Lots of updates all-around this week! The majority of the voting improvements highlighted in this thread have been carried out, and those that haven't are on their way. On both creative and survival, one VotePoint is earned from each vote. In the future, you'll be able to spend these at the vote shop on cool in-game perks and items using the "/voteshop" command, and in the case of survival, you can already directly convert them to rupies. 1 VotePoint = 100 rupies. Items in the vote shop will only be...

Summary:

• General - Summer Promotions
• Survival/Creative - LastSeen / OnlineTime update
• Space Engineers - Public server is hopping

Summer Promotions
Really slow week this week, but hard work is being done behind the scenes to get the server ready for 1.8 and help reel in new members. The most important things going on right now are ensuring that our plugins are ready for 1.7.9, and working on the numerous changes to voting. What can you do in the meantime? Help bump our posts on the Minecraft Forums, tell your friends about the server, and most importantly, vote for the server! Summer is the best time to draw in new members.

LastSeen / OnlineTime update
ndvenckus1 and sharqman collaborated on writing an app which parses the FirstLastSeen text files and writes them to the ShadeCrest database....