The biggest piece still missing here is the lot reset. Good news is that I made some significant advances here. That means I have a system running where all the annyoing code changes seem to be done. What I have to do now is to test the different scenarios under which a lot can be reset and what happens if someone put a reservation on it.

As a first step, I will reset those lots that can be reset without acting on reservations, those are the most frequent anyhow and the safest to do.

The whole lot reset process can only run when the server is down. And I need to run tests carefully so I do not need to restore lots from backups and lot ownerships on top of that. So this whole process might take a couple of days. But at least we can see some progress now. Sorry again for the delays. I really had hopes to do this faster. The main issue I had was first of all that now since I am a father, most of my free time at home is spent with the baby. And then, most surplus time in the office was eaten up recently with some urgent project.

While I will be travelling most of march, I hope that I can get some stuff done and that we can see a step by step normalization of the lot reset process.

I have identified an issue in the system coming from the changed usernames: When you are on the website, your username is actually your old username (the one you originally whitelisted with). I wrote code that makes the website display your current minecraft username instead when you post a comment for example.

The issue is that so far every time the website displayed your information, it looked for your original username in the database, not the current one. I went now through the code and tried to fix all the places where it does that.

That’s the first step in fixing the whole issue with changed usernames. Next up (provided that the above worked) is the lot reset. I did already substantial work for a new process to reset the lots. Nothing will change for the users, just the way the code works. I will need to test that however, otherwise I will spend a couple of days reloading stuff from backups :)

I managed to fix User votes (those which give a higher rank to users, not the votes for the server) since they were broken for users that changed their username. If you have not voted yet for someone, please go and try so now.

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• library_witch713 (from Citizen to Architect)

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There seems to be some chunk issues that I could locate to a specific region of the server. I will try to reload that region from the backup. If that does not help, we might have to revert the whole server for almost a day.

Keep the fingers crossed.

Ok, so I centered the issue around HylandQuids lot. I reset the file around there and could login and teleport to the location, which previously crashed the server. Let’s hope it keeps up and I can go to bed…

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• epic_tacoslapp (from Citizen to Architect)

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You most likely have realized that right now a couple of things are broken with the lots: The lot resets do not work, adding people to your lots and some other smaller things.
The issue is that I have been involved in a very important and urgent project at work that is sucking away a lot of my time and attention right now. On top of that, the issues described above are all non-trivial and require to go through a lot of code to fix them properly. So I am not sure when those will be fixed, it won’t take weeks, but I cannot give a certain date at this point.

So sorry, and thanks for your understanding!

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• Manica77 (from Citizen to Architect)

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• TomWicked222 (from CitizenDonatorPlus to ArchitectDonatorPlus)

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Since you can change usernames now, please be aware that this will wipe your inventory, XP and enderchests. If you want to avoid issues, please empty your enderchests and personal inventory before changing the username. Everything else should work fine. If you have troubles in other issues, please submit a ticket.

Floored kindly provided an update:

- Elevator blocks (red wool) functioning.  Now 100% suffocation free, if you remember how MCM worked.
- Empty cart timeout.  Any carts left unattended for over 10 seconds will be towed... Into oblivion.
- Control blocks on curves are working properly.

Please test and give him a hug!

Today I found out that covering areas with slabs to prevent mob spawning causes lag. On a large scale, it can cause so much lag that it uses 50% of the CPU of the whole server. So if you use slabs on a few places to prevent mob spawning, it’s fine. Once you count the places where you use it in the hundreds, or if you cover whole chunks with slabs, you are creating an issue.

The problem comes from the fact that the mobs spawn and de-spawn again on the slabs, as opposed to properly lit areas, where the spawning is prevented before it happens. When the mobs de-spawn, the server has a lineup of mobs to populate the chunk, and it starts from scratch.

So please do not use the slabs as a broad method to prevent mob spawning.

Floored1585 has written a new minecart system from scratch for the server! Yay!

While this is still in beta, there are functions already working perfectly fine. It’s based also on colored wool, so there is no huge difference between what we already have. Also, the general functionality of the individual wool colors will not change too much, but possibly some of the details. So please wait a bit before reconstructing your minecart systems. We also won’t rewrite the documentation before we have something like a “final version”.

What works?

• Black wool: When powered, creates a minecart, picks you up and then waits for you to press a direction key on the keyboard. Will start driving in that direction
• Yellow wool: If you drive over it, it will destroy the minecart you are in and you stay where you are.
• Green wool: Stop where you are until you press a direction key on the keyboard.
• Orange wool: Slows you down while you are over it.

More stuff such as elevators etc will come, please be patient, plugin development is difficult and a lot of testing needs to be done!

What can you do?

• Test the stuff above and comment here if there is unintended behavior.
• Give floored1585 a hug.

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• Tyrious (from CitizenDonatorPlus to ArchitectDonatorPlus)

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The Headcount plugin that was originally written by Azkedar has been fixed by floored1585 and is live since 2 days. Thanks a lot for the help!

I have worked on the shop manager the last 2 days and made fixes as well as added missing features. For example, if you browse for items, you can now see an “Average per week” price history chart.

I would like everyone to take a good look at the shop manager and think how we could improve it.

Thanks!

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• tcorbin (from DesignerDonatorPlus to MasterDonatorPlus)
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I have made changes to the database structure and now the user list page is created in 2 instead of 60 seconds. Enjoy!

I made a quick add-on to the shop manager due to frequent requests: If you go on the sellers or buyers tab, you can click on any username and get the recent hsitory of all the items the user bought or sold. The layout is not perfect yet, but the data should be correct.