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....
Voting is the single most important thing any of us can do to help our servers grow, and the fact of the matter is, almost no one does it anymore. That includes the staff, and it includes me.
We don't blame you. Going to 8 external sites to complete an image captcha, watch an ad, fill in your username, and click submit all for a measly 800 rupies isn't the most fun. And even for those who don't mind putting in some effort to vote, sometimes you just can't remember. We have many changes planned for the way our voting system works so that you want to vote, but before any of them are implemented, we'd like to get some community input. Here is what we have planned so far:
Implementing iFrames so you don't have to leave the site to vote - An iFrame, to put it simply, is a viewing window to another webpage. So instead of clicking 8 links, you can vote on the first site,...
Survival - Spawn updates
The secret admin shop now has a warp which will automatically invite players that find it. The chests have also had a few updates:
All signs that aren't being used are marked "Sold Out" in place of the price
All item frames contain renamed items, so hovering over them will display the item's name
Sponge has been removed for the time being
Added squid spawn eggs!
We have also added a few new commands to the server!
/wlist will list all players on the server, separated by world (like /glist for our servers)
/coordinates [/coords, /cd] displays your coordinates as clickable text. When clicked, the coordinates are copied into your chat box so you can easily send them to someone...
Vanilla - Community Projects and other forum changes
Space Engineers - Server Status, Forums, Dedicated Servers, Whitelisting
General - Website problems
It's amazing when we have a fabulous weekly update but there's a possibility people won't see it the day it gets posted. As I'm sure most of you have noticed, our website is having issues. The machine that Max is hosting our website on is having some hardware issues and will be replaced. Until then the website will continue to be up and down. Good news is that this has no effect on the game servers or Teamspeak as those are on different machines.
Survival - Spawn updates
Been working throught the week with ezeiger92 and...
Survival - MelinaHites retirement as Mod
Mel has stepping down as staff. At the moment between work and life she doesn't really have the time to be active, as a contributing member of the team. She's going to try to focus her efforts on being a happy semi-active member of ShadeCrest.
Survival - Next Arcadian war on Saturday 6/21
The next Arcadian War will be on Saturday, June 21st in Erathia! Gather your gear, go forth, and fight as a team to overpower the defenders of the treasure and retrieve the loots of a lifetime! As always, sign up in this thread if you're sure that you'll be attending. As always if you were in the previous wars, feel free to post comments and ideas in the thread or contact...
It seems that most of us have forgotten the rule of harassment which falls under the category of "Don't be a dick" these past few weeks. I really don't understand why you guys do it in the first place. Do you honestly think it'll go unnoticed? Let me break this down for you.
This is the rule coming straight from Cyber's revision of the rules from the master document.
1. Don't be a dick
a. No unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, hateful, radically, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable language or actions toward other players or staff
b. Simply put, if you are ruining someone's day through a means other than legal gameplay, then stop. This rule extends to the forums and teamspeak.
<will not include the Will Weaton Law(look it up yourself)>
To the people who feel that they are being attacked in some way, we have STAFF to take care of it. Do not try to get "even" with them as it does not solve anything rather be...
