Minecraft - OWF server -

RoryF · #**2821** 07-31-2012, 10:38 AM

Well, when it was working, it was a great plugin, none of that auto-rollback bullshit.

Crashpunk · #**2822** 08-01-2012, 11:06 AM

1.3.1 is live! Obviously the server needs updating

Havoc · #**2823** 08-01-2012, 05:08 PM

Waiting for a Bukkit release. You should know that by now

RoryF · #**2824** 08-02-2012, 02:10 AM

I still need to make that 4-block tall gold tower on my roof, and a sign on it naming it the 'Tower of Pimps'. Just because it's possible. (I have too much gold).

Havoc · #**2825** 08-02-2012, 05:57 AM

Server has been updated to CraftBukkit 1.3.1-R0.1 Dev Build
Attention: This is an early untested and unstable build and may cause serious server side errors or glitches. If you encounter any please let me know!

Known Bugs:
- Multi world plugin doesn't work properly with this build yet and has been disabled for the time being. As a result Skyblock and The Walls are not available. Nether is still available.

Server Changes

New Donation System
Because server donations weren't coming in as much a I had hoped and I ended up paying for the majority (if not all) of the server bill every month, I've come up with a new system. I've spoken with Dripik and Dark about this and as a result we will run this feature as an experiment for the time being.

There are now several donation packages for sale (for real money, obviously) on the server. When you buy one of these packages you donate the price trough Paypal after which a plugin will automatically give you the items or abilities described below when you log in (give or take 5 minutes).

Buying a package can be done using the /buy command. When selecting a package you will receive a link to the payment page that you can click. Prices are in Euro's.

Currently we have three packages for sale:

Iron Tool Package - â‚¬2,00
- 1 x Iron Pickaxe
- 1 x Iron Axe
- 1 x Iron Shovel

Diamond Tool Package - â‚¬5,00
- 1 x Diamond Pickaxe
- 1 x Diamond Axe
- 1 x Diamond Shovel

VIP Package [30 days] - â‚¬1,50
- Gain the ability to fly using /fly. You can not do damage or use potions while flying.
- Gain the ability to teleport to other players using /tp and /back.
- Gain the ability to teleport back to the place you died using /back.
- Receive 3 Bottles o' Enchanting for your support!

I realize that buying items for real money may not seem like a good idea to everyone. However by only allowing tools to be bought I wanted to limit this feature to items that are a means to an end, not the end itself. A diamond sword, for example, would be an end. Armor is also an end. By only providing tools you can only get to your goal quicker, but not instantly. If you want a diamond sword you will still have to use your diamond pick to find enough diamonds to make one. I hope that makes sense.

The packages or the prices are not set in stone and if you have a suggestion to change something, by all means go ahead.

General Server Changes
- Creative mode has been taken out completely for everyone, including admins. We are now a 100% survival server.
- Flying has been taken out for everyone, including admins. Only way to gain fly ability it to buy the VIP package.
- Teleporting is still available to admins and moderators. Regular members who buy the VIP package can teleport themselves, but can not teleport other players.
- We have a new announcer plugin that will be announcing important information within the server more clearly and less annoying every 10 minutes.

Future Plans
- We are most likely going back to LogBlock afterall. It seems the major issues I had with it have since then been fixed.

So much for the changes. I will update the server as soon as more stable builds are released, but I know how you all hate waiting for the server to update, hence the dev build.

Enjoy!

RoryF · #**2826** 08-02-2012, 06:08 AM

I would donate if PayPal didn't block my card. Goddamn age restrictions.

Havoc · #**2827** 08-02-2012, 06:43 AM

If for some reason you can't use Paypal and still want to donate send me a PM and we can try to work out another way.

Crashpunk · #**2828** 08-02-2012, 06:53 AM

I'm glad the servers updated however I really think the paid packages are really stupid. For starters €2,00 for Iron Tools? Iron is pretty common and making the tools aren't very hard. Same applies for the €5,00 Diamond package.

Maybe the items could be different? because in my honest opinion it's not worth it.

Sorry :/

Havoc · #**2829** 08-02-2012, 07:02 AM

You're missing the point. First and foremost you're donating to keep the server alive. Unlike before though, you now get a reward for doing so. Like I said I don't want people to be able to pay to win by buying full suits of diamond armor and enchanted swords.

RoryF · #**2830** 08-02-2012, 07:02 AM

Tower of Pimps bitches!

Also, the server has some whacky item handling...
EDIT: It now has a sign declaring it's status as the one and only, Tower of Pimps.

Crashpunk · #**2831** 08-02-2012, 07:15 AM

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You're missing the point. First and foremost you're donating to keep the server alive. Unlike before though, you now get a reward for doing so. Like I said I don't want people to be able to pay to win by buying full suits of diamond armor and enchanted swords.

Perhaps something unique? I don't know what it could be but maybe something special? And i'm not against donating to the server, No way! Once I get a job, I will be donating

EDIT: How did you get so all those stacks of Diamond and Gold?

Havoc · #**2832** 08-02-2012, 07:18 AM

That was my first thought but there are no unique items in Minecraft. Everything can be obtained in one way or another. Except for sponge... but what use is that :/

Crashpunk · #**2833** 08-02-2012, 07:20 AM

How about the reward could something to make our lives a little easier? But it's useful then just tools? Maybe you could choose any block and get stacks of them? Obviously have rules for instance like no TNT.

RoryF · #**2834** 08-02-2012, 07:21 AM

I said get special name colours but then again mods wouldn't get anything then since they have their own colour.

I would sooo donate for an orange tag.

Although if the server has PermissionsEx it would be possible because you can set prefixes on it. Like <Mod - Wariopunk> and you could have like <Donator - User>.

That would be cool.

Havoc · #**2835** 08-02-2012, 07:37 AM

I'm not sure if that works on individual persons though, I'd have to look into that.

RoryF · #**2836** 08-02-2012, 07:41 AM

It does work on individuals, I've done it before, you just edit the config.yml thing I think. I had it on my friend's server where we each had unique tags.

EDIT:
Here is how you do it if you want to know, the example is crashpunk's since he is mod or whatever.

users:
wariopunk:
group:
- mod
prefix: '&9Server Moderator &f- '

You can use that if you wanted but you'd have to change the "- mod" part to the name of the class you want them to be in, because of course, I don't know what you've named the groups.

That one would make the server moderator bit the blue-ish colour crash's name is in right now and it would make his actual username white.
Exaple text:
<Server Moderator - Wariopunk>

Donators could be something like:
users:
exampledonator:
group:
- regulars
prefix: '&6Donator &f- '

That one would do this on chat:
<Donator - exampledonator> Hello!

Hope that helps.

By the way, it's the permissions.yml file not config.yml.

Crashpunk · #**2837** 08-02-2012, 08:33 AM

I like being used in the examples :3

RoryF · #**2838** 08-02-2012, 08:40 AM

I like to make people feel special.

Havoc · #**2839** 08-02-2012, 09:26 AM

I like paying the server bill on time. Which I forgot to do...

RoryF · #**2840** 08-02-2012, 09:33 AM

Oh is that what happened? Bah, I was just helping J_dude320 make a house.

DarkHoodness · #**2841** 08-02-2012, 09:46 AM

You ought to up the price of the VIP package to €3 or €5 maybe since it's the only thing you can "buy" which you can't get ordinarily, or keep it the same price but reduce it to a week or so. And I sort of agree with Crashpunk about the tools being not worth paying for, but it's a shame that there's nothing really else in Minecraft that you can buy to make your life easier that isn't cheating so much that it doesn't make the game worth playing properly...

Maybe we should start again and set up a Tekkit world or so once the dust settles on 1.3. I think people would be willing to pay for that since it seems to offer many more gameplay opportunities. Dunno what we'd do about the old world though unless we run it alongside the new world for people to look at, but make it unmodifiable somehow... Or offer it as a download for a limited time.

BTW J_dude320 has requested to join us.

EDIT: Oh okay he's on already it seems.

RoryF · #**2842** 08-02-2012, 12:22 PM

PIMP CITY IS COMPLETE!

City is run by:
J_Dude320 (GeneralMuffins) as THE KING OF THE BLING
OddMan360 as THE KING OF THE PIMPS
and Destro if he wants as THE KING OF THE CH-CHING.

I think it's awesome.

EDIT:
Sorry, Havoc, I only found out about that glitch today since it kept happening as I was making the original Tower of Pimps on my roof. I don't exactly know what triggers it but I used it to make the cool path and the street lights. Everything that makes my house was gathered legitly and I only used it to make the area look good, nothing of mine.

Havoc · #**2843** 08-02-2012, 02:42 PM

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You ought to up the price of the VIP package to â‚¬3 or â‚¬5 maybe since it's the only thing you can "buy" which you can't get ordinarily, or keep it the same price but reduce it to a week or so. And I sort of agree with Crashpunk about the tools being not worth paying for, but it's a shame that there's nothing really else in Minecraft that you can buy to make your life easier that isn't cheating so much that it doesn't make the game worth playing properly...

Maybe we should start again and set up a Tekkit world or so once the dust settles on 1.3. I think people would be willing to pay for that since it seems to offer many more gameplay opportunities. Dunno what we'd do about the old world though unless we run it alongside the new world for people to look at, but make it unmodifiable somehow... Or offer it as a download for a limited time.

BTW J_dude320 has requested to join us.

EDIT: Oh okay he's on already it seems.

I don't want to make the prices to steep though, I know a lot of you can spare a buck or two but not a whole lot more when it comes to donating. The server bill isn't high enough to warrant such prices anyway and I might even lower the prices off the tools a bit.

Adding a second server would only double the server bill so if we were to do that I want to cover 100% of the cost and that would probably mean charging a fee for it. It would probably be 2 or 3 euro a month to fully cover it with out current player base. I'm not sure if everyone is willing to do that every month?

Havoc · #**2844** 08-02-2012, 02:47 PM

Server Notice

Oddman360 has been banned from the server on suspicion of hacking and cheating. In his house were at least 40 diamond blocks, over a hundred gold blocks and loads of iron and glowstone blocks. He has been on the server for far too short to gather such amounts of resources.

His defense is that the server glitches his inventory and duplicates items randomly. I've talked to Dark about this and he agreed that it's a kind of weak excuse and even if it is true, common sense would dictate to not use those blocks and destroy them.

All gold and diamond has been rolled back or destroyed and Oddman's house and other possessions are off limits until further notice.

Edit: I forgot to mention that he has also been seen flying on several occasions while being a Trial member. Strong indicator of a hacked client.

Destro · #**2845** 08-02-2012, 07:26 PM

For oddman's flying problems, he told me that he uses this high jump program that was installed I believe. Idk exactly what it is to be honest (he told me but i forgot). He said it sometimes glitches and makes him stay in the air for a bit.

I forgot what day it was, but if you still have the chat log for that certain day, it might help you indicate a hacked client or not.

Also I want to thank him for making me king of Ch-Ching, but i was confused where he got the riches myself. I know i went mining gold with him b4, but to get alot of diamonds and gold seemed to confuse me too much.

Hope this griefing doesn't happen again. Someone decided to fuck my generator earlier b4 oddman360 was banned. They took some repeaters.

Oh, apparently, Idk how but oddman's house was burned to the ground. Still remains left but, wow.

RoryF · #**2846** 08-02-2012, 11:22 PM

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His defense is that the server glitches his inventory and duplicates items randomly. I've talked to Dark about this and he agreed that it's a kind of weak excuse and even if it is true, common sense would dictate to not use those blocks and destroy them.

It's not really weak, there's no other way to get free items. You can't cheat in stuff on servers, mods only work locally. I explained that it only started happening since you updated the server, everything I got in the month before that was proper mining.

Edit: I haven't done any griefing Destro, and to get all the stuff I had before this, I mined in that big cave and explored nearly all the parts of it we hadn't and there was a dungeon. I also found a mineshaft, not your one though I went really far out to find it, it was inside some ravine when I was looking for roses to make my carpet.

DarkHoodness · #**2847** 08-02-2012, 11:56 PM

Uhm... So I tried using the rollback plugin around Oddman's house for 5 hours ago as Havoc left it after getting rid of the diamond and gold blocks (yeah I know it seems like Oddman cheated and all but that's no reason to burn down his house) and it constantly wanted to spontaneously combust for some reason. :S It's fixed now though.

RoryF · #**2848** 08-03-2012, 12:05 AM

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Uhm... So I tried using the rollback plugin around Oddman's house for 5 hours ago as Havoc left it after getting rid of the diamond and gold blocks (yeah I know it seems like Oddman cheated and all but that's no reason to burn down his house) and it constantly wanted to spontaneously combust for some reason. :S It's fixed now though.

Why did you get rid of my gold blocks?! I got them before the glitch. The only items glitched in my house was the second floor carpet and the diamond borders. The first floor is completely fine, you'll notice under stuff like bookshelves I haven't placed gold blocks, that's because I didn't want to waste my inventory for stuff you couldn't see. If I'd glitched the gold blocks, I wouldn't have minded, and I would've completely filled the border with them.

Crashpunk · #**2849** 08-03-2012, 01:48 AM

Are you saying you got all that stuff legitimate? Come on we aren't stupid. And yeah I've also seen you fly around.

RoryF · #**2850** 08-03-2012, 02:17 AM

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Are you saying you got all that stuff legitimate? Come on we aren't stupid.

Obviously you are stupid then, I told you, I only found out about the glitch yesterday afternoon. I had my house and all the shit in it before yesterday except the Diamond Blocks and the second floor carpet. You're too busy ranting at me when there is a serious flaw I've told you but you're ignoring it.
EDIT:Flying around has NOTHING to do with getting items, it's not important.
EDIT2: I'll give you a list of items I managed to glitch in the timeframe that I had when it happened and a semi-estimate amount:

Gold Blocks x67~ (Used for the "PIMPS" sign, I had spare gold after)
Red Wool x21~ (Used on second floor)
Diamond Blocks x52~ (Used only on 2nd and 3rd floor borders)
Glowstone x117~ (Used on path and street lights)
Roses x196 (Didn't get around to using)

Nothing else was glitched, no iron, no coal, no lapis, absolutely nothing else. I did however, have around 13 gold blocks legit that I used a ton of my gold for the bottom floor.