Alternatively, I can recommend a good server if we can't get the money for our current one. It's got a bit more non-vanilla stuff, but I've always found the people in it to be pretty nice. Their world is huge too, and more people to interact/trade with.
I've been convinced to play this game. someone add (sheepdog_mcfry) on skype that lives in a normal (america or european) timezone, and also has a normal timetable. I am sick of these australiasians or wannabe asians/nocturnal americans talking about minecraft whiel I am at work.
you have to post your minecraft name not your skype name
A frenzied cleric screams, "Like more than one halo!"
Ok, serious time guys. As it currently stands, the server will be ending in early June. We simply can't afford to pay for the rental fees, even if we decrease our ram usage. I'm willing to put together a better incentives package for donating, but it's all going to be for naught if we can't raise at least $30. I'm going to brainstorm with @Jhaeli and see what we can come up with, but the future is looking bleak at the moment. Also, are there any incentives that you guys would like to see added?
@Mishgul If you want to be whitelisted, I need your minecraft name. I sent you a pm about it, but you never replied.
Going to tag all the minecraft players here, just so they make sure to read this post.
@Ruth Assuming we downgrade our ram, we are looking at around $35 for the next 3 months. The current ram price is around $45. We currently have next to nothing in our donation box though.
No problem. With my job, training for a marathon and social life, I don't have much time for anything computer games wise. I'm sorry! >_> I do miss you guys.
I'll add that address to my signature. Done. Hopefully all the info everyone needs is there!
Please, don't feel pressured to donate if you can't play. It just wouldn't be fair to you! But we are trying to scrounge up some tasty incentives for those who do donate. (To whomever just donate $20 - thank you!)
And for those who say there's no one around - you can find me occasionally lurking around now these days too!
ETA: Kazu and I came up with these perks. We tried to make good ones affordable so that everyone can enjoy something. Note that these perks will only last for the three month period that you donated towards unless we get so many donations that we have enough for the next period as well. After that, you have to donate again to get a perk.
At $5, you'll get iron armour set and iron toolkit commands, with (I believe) a minimum of a three day cooling period. (This is for personal use, not to give away!)
At $10, you'll get the fly command, plus the above.
At $15, you'll get a diamond set of a pickaxe and sword. Cooling time TBD, but it'll be long. Again, for personal use only and including the above.
How does that sound to you guys?
"Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that [everlasting] life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man."
I'll be putting this stuff in later tonight. I'd like to ask the person who donated $20 to pm me with the name used, and I'll see about putting you at the correct tier.
Updates are now live, and you should have access to the proper commands based on rank. There's just a couple of other changes to note as well.
- I fiddled with the player health bars to try and make them more like mobs. Dunno how this went, as I've no player to test. - You will now need a bed to set your home. I meant to remove all the old homes not associated with a bed, but that will take a bit. - I bumped the usage of the Skychest sorting plugin up to iron ($5) level. - I bumped /kit kat up to iron level. - I removed Craftipedia, since it was pretty outdated and almost never used.
Based on the way the ram plays out, I'm going to look at adding another fun little plugin, but I'd like to see how the server ram looks at the moment. I'm considering removing the dynmap plugin to reduce the server ram usage given our possible downgrade.
@Ruth I already put you in the proper bracket, so enjoy your gliding.
Should have enough for June, no downgrade necessary!
Oh! I meant to add - as thanks for this past period, @Siena, let me know when you start playing again and you can have the incentives then.
"Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that [everlasting] life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man."
- I fixed the refill wave (again), and I think it should be working properly. If anyone makes it to wave 11, let me know. - I changed up a few things with the bosses to keep things fresh in the arena. - I reset the End, so go get an epic group together and take down that dragon!
Ok, serious time guys. As it currently stands, the server will be ending in early June. We simply can't afford to pay for the rental fees, even if we decrease our ram usage. I'm willing to put together a better incentives package for donating, but it's all going to be for naught if we can't raise at least $30. I'm going to brainstorm with @Jhaeli and see what we can come up with, but the future is looking bleak at the moment. Also, are there any incentives that you guys would like to see added?
@Mishgul If you want to be whitelisted, I need your minecraft name. I sent you a pm about it, but you never replied.
Going to tag all the minecraft players here, just so they make sure to read this post.
I haven't posted any server pics in a while, so here we go! Hope you guys don't mind me sharing images of your stuff.
Here's one of @Jhaeli 's property. She's working on building a mage tower. There's a lot more underneath the hill, but I didn't want to invade her privacy and post all of it.
This one belongs to @Hayte. It's a lovely island soon to be overrun with flames and soul sand in a supposedly accurate representation of Mhaldor.
This one belongs to @Azzad. It's the flying island base Columbia! It comes complete with a giant statue, lighthouse, and rail track that reaches down and over to Mhaldor.
This is my castle in the forest that I recently started working on. It's nowhere near being done, but I hope to show you guys more as I work on it.
This one is @Ruth 's place. The sandstone building is her watchtower and the wooden mansion is where she plans her world takeover.
For the last home picture, we have @Halos and his project of recreating Targossas. I believe this is overlooking Silver...Bright Square? Not sure, never been to Targ.
Last, here's a fun picture of Halos, Ruth and me in the arena waiting lobby after an epic showdown. Poor Ruth used to be an adventurer like us until...well, you'll see.
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@Mishgul If you want to be whitelisted, I need your minecraft name. I sent you a pm about it, but you never replied.
Going to tag all the minecraft players here, just so they make sure to read this post.
@Azzad, @Halos, @Hayte, @Ruth, @Zuko, @Nellaundra, @Jonathin, @May, @Siena, @Sohl, @Senoske, @Daslin, @Jhaeli, @Shista, @Kholm
Also, @Daslin should log in more.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
@Azzad http://writtenmagic.ca/achaean-mc-server/
Please, don't feel pressured to donate if you can't play. It just wouldn't be fair to you! But we are trying to scrounge up some tasty incentives for those who do donate. (To whomever just donate $20 - thank you!)
And for those who say there's no one around - you can find me occasionally lurking around now these days too!
ETA: Kazu and I came up with these perks. We tried to make good ones affordable so that everyone can enjoy something. Note that these perks will only last for the three month period that you donated towards unless we get so many donations that we have enough for the next period as well. After that, you have to donate again to get a perk.
At $5, you'll get iron armour set and iron toolkit commands, with (I believe) a minimum of a three day cooling period. (This is for personal use, not to give away!)
At $10, you'll get the fly command, plus the above.
At $15, you'll get a diamond set of a pickaxe and sword. Cooling time TBD, but it'll be long. Again, for personal use only and including the above.
How does that sound to you guys?
"Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that [everlasting] life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man."
- I fiddled with the player health bars to try and make them more like mobs. Dunno how this went, as I've no player to test.
- You will now need a bed to set your home. I meant to remove all the old homes not associated with a bed, but that will take a bit.
- I bumped the usage of the Skychest sorting plugin up to iron ($5) level.
- I bumped /kit kat up to iron level.
- I removed Craftipedia, since it was pretty outdated and almost never used.
Based on the way the ram plays out, I'm going to look at adding another fun little plugin, but I'd like to see how the server ram looks at the moment. I'm considering removing the dynmap plugin to reduce the server ram usage given our possible downgrade.
@Ruth I already put you in the proper bracket, so enjoy your gliding.
Oh! I meant to add - as thanks for this past period, @Siena, let me know when you start playing again and you can have the incentives then.
"Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that [everlasting] life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man."
Also, I believe I fixed the refill wave in the arena to include proper health potions for each class. Let me know if it's still on the fritz.
- I fixed the refill wave (again), and I think it should be working properly. If anyone makes it to wave 11, let me know.
- I changed up a few things with the bosses to keep things fresh in the arena.
- I reset the End, so go get an epic group together and take down that dragon!
Here's one of @Jhaeli 's property. She's working on building a mage tower. There's a lot more underneath the hill, but I didn't want to invade her privacy and post all of it.
This one belongs to @Hayte. It's a lovely island soon to be overrun with flames and soul sand in a supposedly accurate representation of Mhaldor.
This one belongs to @Azzad. It's the flying island base Columbia! It comes complete with a giant statue, lighthouse, and rail track that reaches down and over to Mhaldor.
This is my castle in the forest that I recently started working on. It's nowhere near being done, but I hope to show you guys more as I work on it.
This one is @Ruth 's place. The sandstone building is her watchtower and the wooden mansion is where she plans her world takeover.
For the last home picture, we have @Halos and his project of recreating Targossas. I believe this is overlooking Silver...Bright Square? Not sure, never been to Targ.
Last, here's a fun picture of Halos, Ruth and me in the arena waiting lobby after an epic showdown. Poor Ruth used to be an adventurer like us until...well, you'll see.