I have found that certain few people massively circumvent the the depositbox limits by depositing items for people who have not been on the server since more than a year. Due to that I have now coded a check that blocks users from depositing items for inactive users.
I would encourage everyone to not overstretch the deposit boxes and empty those items deposited for inactive users before they are hit harder measures…
So I finally got around doing the floating city contest. Here are the winners:
On top of that, all users can chose from the following list of items that have been pledged by myself and other users. The preference goes from top to bottom, so aerox can chose first, wubwubthatshit can chose last:
Since the call for donations for contests was done during the last contest in March, I would understand if some users do not have the items anymore that they pledged. If so, please let me know ASAP and I take them from the list here. Winners, send me an email with what you would like to have (one item each) by email (minecraft at uncovery.me).
I have selected lot AET_N1 as the future PVP Arena lot. What I need now is:
I have found that whenever someone is north-west of spawn, the server lags significantly.It seems to be around the lots R15-Q16. I have no idea what is causing it. If someone could help finding the source, it would be highly appreciated.
As usual, before upgrades, here is an announcement about what will happen:
Leading the server into new year, I would like to start a new contest format. Why?
As you know, I have been notoriously late in closing contests and announcing new ones. This has caused a lot of contest entries to be erased since users expired before the contest was closed. Further, upgrades of great people have been delayed of this and have been existing only far-and-between. I think we fixed the upgrade issue with the new voting system, the question is now how we can continue to run the contests so we do not lose it as a great thing on the server.
So the issue why it took me so long is the following: I needed to go on the server and rate 20+ entries. Since I want to take this seriously and give everyone a fair chance (my rating power is higher than normal users), I wanted to take time for this, which I usually do not have. I cannot not do it from work, since my internet connection is not fast enough there. So I stated to procrastinate it, with the outcome well known. Further, moving the contest entries back to the city took quite some time always because I had to find a location for each single building and copy-paste the items over. Only that would take me 3-4 hours.
So the proposal is to change as follows:
So my question is what you guys think about that. Please comment.
Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:
Congratz and thanks to all voters!
With 1.7, there will be one massive change in the system: IDs will become names.That means, a stone block, now called “1”, will become “stone”. Since we are running a lot of custom stuff like the shop & deposit relying on numbers, I will have to not only change the code where numbers are used in the code, but also change all the deposits, shops etc.
For example, when you check out items from your deposit, the code checks how much space you have. That depends on which blocks can stack, and how much. So I made a table that lists all the IDs that stack less than 64 items. This will have to be changed to list the new names instead.
So to fix this, I will have to make a translation table that is readable by PHP. The first step in this is that I have an excel sheet that lists all the ID’s, new names and how high they stack.
I have created a shared Excel document where I need this to be done. I would be very happy if you guys help me there and take a look at the Block IDs and the Item IDs and transfer the DEC value to the ID field, Name (without the “minecraft:”) and how high they stack into the sheet.
Having this, I can update the code to be able to accept the new names before the release of 1.7 so that we will be as ready as possible when the new version comes out.
Thanks!
I have now programmed the following command:
/mod banrequest <user> [reason]
If some user is massively violating rules, you can request a ban with this command. An email with the latest logfile will be sent to an admin for action. Do not abuse this! This command can be used by users level Settler and upwards.
I have now changed the system so that Settlers can become Citizens after 90 days instead of 120. Why?
Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:
Congratz and thanks to all voters!
Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:
Congratz and thanks to all voters!
[Notes:] As you can see from this post, which looks pretty much like the other 2 before, this is automated now. When I look at the voting list, I can see which ones are “done” since they have enough +/- votes, and I can then either “succeed” or “fail” them. I do this for all the proposals in the list, and the program I wrote automatically upgrades the users and posts the text you can see above to the blog.
Since this is the first Elder to be promoted, I can see how all unfinished proposals need more vote points since the vote-requirement has gone up with the number of Elders available. So everyone who was waiting for a proposal can thank lilroc17 for being set back a bit until their proposal can be closed :). However, all the votes that the upgraded users have cast previously now count more, so there is some balance in the system :)
I have now made a setup that shows you all the users you did not vote on yet when you login to the server and on the server status section of the frontpage.
Please make sure you vote on as many as possible proposals, thanks!
I am getting increasing reports about permission glitches. I am afraid I do not know where theses are coming from. I can only assume that it is caused by a bug in the permissions software. I will install a dev build and see if that fixes it. If you are submitting tickets (please continue to do so) please submit the exact time (with time in the format “-4” etc) AND a screenshot so I can track down the logfile and see if there are any clues there.
The websend plugin author now reacted to my support request and sent me an updated version of the plugin so now Enchanted books can be traded through our systems!
I have realized that we never gave additional deposit slots to designers, and now amended it. So Designers get 1 slot more now and subsequently all levels above also get one slot more. Please see the table at the end of this page for more information. Thanks kidcodiwise to point this one out.
Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:
Congratz and thanks to all voters!
Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:
Congratz and thanks to all voters!
I overlooked something in the system when I fixed the databases (see post further down) which broke depositing items. This has now been fixed. Please immediately report anything else that does not seem to be working.