[April Fools] Change has come!

(As I no longer have rights on the forum, can one of the new forum crew listed below sticky this?)

As you may have noticed we are planning to bring some change to the server now that Minecraft 1.4. has been released. Below is a small list of the changes that will be rolled out today. These changes have been discussed in private by me and Orcworm and are NOT up for debate. Deal with it.

Changes in crew
Server Owner: FillerB
Forum Admin: Aapl2
Forum Crew: GamerG77, Darkxephos, PetePorty, Demon_Cat
In-game Admin: Orcworm, OnlyMe, Lim_dul, gamemaster1494
In-game Mod: PatrickFeed, TangyLimeOrgasm, Vespasian, Jarvisd, Devan12321, PureCraft

Change of commands
/TP & Compassporting will be made available for all players
/Item will be made available to Donators

Change of map
There will a new map generated. This map will be almost 1.5 times as big as the current map and will contain a lot of different biomes and interesting sights pre-made. Notable sights are "Creeper Rock" and the "Meteor Crater".

Cities
There will be 5 new and 1 returning major cities named as followed: Spawn City, City 17, Trollville, New Haven, New Stockade and Vault City. Transportation between these cities will be done by fully functional airships. (Yes)

Changes in zoning policy
Every player will get 1 free zone and can buy new zones using Gil. Cost is determined by the following formula: (amount of blocks zoned x 25) x (10 - amount of players who will use zone) = Cost

Changes in PvP
PvP will be allowed everywhere except in Spawn City. Players may grief a total of 10 blocks to gain access to hidden/locked up players.

Don't know How to Sticky this. I'm a newb.
and I'm honored to be in this list. and I want to personally congratulate: Aapl, Jarvisd, Devan, Patrick, Dark, and Tangy!

+1 Internets to you Sir!

Welcome to the new (and old) crew!

-A

Thanks, Albuca!

thank you so much for putting me in the forum crew

and can i ask why orcworm is stepping down ... he will be missed

p.s and congrats filler for becomming the owner ... im sure you'll be great

Everything looks good to me, but I have a few questions.

For one, how big will our "one free zone" be? 50x50 blocks? Also, why are additional zones so expensive? If you have a single person who wants to zone their house, they have to pay exorbitant fees to do so. Take, for example, a 3x3 square. ((3*3)*25)*(10-1)=2025, so one person buying a 3x3 zone has to pay 2,025 Gil. For a 3x3 zone. That makes little sense to me, but I assume it's supposed to help the economy in some way. It just seems odd, but then again I only really gather Gil from playing time and not from selling anything so I didn't have crazy amounts before the temp server went up. AS a matter of fact, even with the decent amount of time I've been on the server, I think I only had about 2,500 Gil.

On to PvP, how are the '10 blocks' measured? Can you grief 10 blocks in one direction? a 10x10 area (seems rather large to me but I don't think it's what you're trying to say)? Secondly, assuming you mean 10 blocks broken, period (which seems most likely) then when does the counting reset? Every time you kill one person? What if the person teleports away and then hides somewhere else and you hunt them down? Or do you just mean that you can grief 10 blocks from the time you join the server on the new map, and once you've griefed your 11th block in your lifetime, then you get banned?

And finally, If Orc is stepping down as Server Owner, then do we have to change the name of the server? I congratulate you on buying/inheriting the property, as well.

So Tangy got unbanned and I'm not Forum Staff anymore? Talk about a slap in the face...I wonder what I did...

The prices reflect the coming changes in the economy. Expect Gil to become worth a LOT less in the future.

The pvp-grief-counter resets every hour and is handled by a plugin written by me. If you grief more then 10 blocks a group of 6 aggressive wolfs spawn nearby and kill you. Griefing more than 15 blocks in a hour autobans you.

The name of the server will not change for sentimentality reasons.

I have just PM'd you the reasons for you dishonorable discharge Rulyon. I'm sure you will understand our reasons.

"/lolforumstalking"? How is it power abuse to stalk the forums when I'm MODERATOR? :-/

That discussion is not meant for this forum. We will continue it in Steam or on the IRC-channel.

Fine then. I can't believe the kist includes "Nonchalantly choking the chicken on chat."

good one, filler, good one

i hope this is only for the temporary map.

I can truthfully and without any form of sarcasm confirm that this is not for the temporary map.

but why is orc stepping down

He wants to focus more on the backend than on in-game shenanigans since those are starting to piss him off.

oh ... ok , will he still be classed as an owner ,i think it would be good too have him and you fillerb in the owner section because when new people join all were gonna hear is "why is the server called orcworm when fillerb owns it" ...

but why you make this oO ??

Change of commands
/TP & Compassporting will be made available for all players
/Item will be made available to Donators

you make the server to a 0815 cheater server -.- no server with iconomy or economy need /item -.- and all player can get inside locked rooms with compassporting

i kinda agree with link ... although its only about the /tp and compassport ,i think that should go to either member+ or donator+ ,because all we'll get is a bunch of noobs teleporting people everywhere and going insane

The changes will be implemented later today and we'll first have a trial period of a week (so until april 8th) to see how it goes. After this trial period we'll reflect on whether or not it improved the server and make changes accordingly.

ok ... it should be good to see how people cope with these abilitys ... but just incase i'll be making my house far away from spawn

now im crying, filler, really

I know this whole situation must seem like some demented joke, but I assure you: it will all be okay.

well that wasnt expected

I see you donated, aapl2...thank you. :-)

yeah thats the least of it.

I believe my name has a lowercase m, thank you.

~Onlyme

Anyways, I'll do my best to provide the best support for you guys!

so what time are these changes comeing today

your changes are good but only this is bad

Change of commands
/TP & Compassporting will be made available for all players
/Item will be made available to Donators

i thing its better

/TP & Compassporting Donator+
and
/Item Admin+

Mindfuck
TLO is unbanned and then promoted? Awesome
Thanks for the mod position

darkxephos wrote:so what time are these changes comeing today

Before 23:59 01/04/2011 GMT+1. Can't really make a good estimate when we are finished since there is a lot to do.

MiniLink wrote:i thing its better

/TP & Compassporting Donator+
and
/Item Admin+

No

patrickfreed wrote:Mindfuck
TLO is unbanned and then promoted? Awesome
Thanks for the mod position

You're welcome.

before 23:59

aapl2 wrote:yeah thats the least of it.

What do you mean, Aapl?

As some of our more observant members have already noticed... It is April 1 (aka April Fools Day). So "April Fools!" you gullible bastards.

I originally intended to let this continue on for at least a few more hours but looking at the direction this topic has taken the BLATANT signs that this is an April Fools joke are apparently not BLATANT enough.

Dear Rana how gullible can some people be, did you really expect us to change the server in such radical and nonsensical ways?

FillerB wrote:In-game Mod: TangyLimeOrgasm

FillerB wrote:Transportation between these cities will be done by fully functional airships.

FillerB wrote:The changes will be implemented later today

i mean, seriously guys, he even posted the calendar date several times^^ *whiping away a tear* you guys are just great^^

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh ... i knew there was a reason that ren was saying that ... god damn ... but when is the actual server gonna be updated

wait does this mean im not in the forum staff

Happy April 1st guys!

I can't wait to see the changes.

@Dark
STUPID STUPID STUPID
-Scout

what do you meen stupid stupid stupid ,im just so confused about whats going on ... this allways happes on april fools day ... i never did like april fools cos i cant really trust anyone ... filler please seriosly tell me if i am in the forum crew or not

*facepalm*

Surely you jest.

I'm assuming this is an April Fool's joke to counter an April Fool's joke, as NO ONE can be that simple.

i confused myself because somewhere down the line i was going allong with it the i forgot it was april fools and now i have completely forgot what im talking about

oh sweet jesus, xephos! do you really, i mean really really really, believe he would make TANGYLIMEORGASM an ingame-mod? The one who got banned and afterwards insulted filler in his farewell thread?

Only words I can conjure up:

What is this I don't even

so im not a forum crew member ... im a bit upset now ... (these be real tears cos i dont care about letting people know when i cry ... yeah deal with it) ...

Cool story, bro.

Cool doublepost, bro.

>_< And this is why I cut this April Fools joke short.

I can't believe anyone would STILL fall for it, even after saying it was a joke. The logic is beyond me.

FillerB wrote:>_< And this is why I cut this April Fools joke short.

Should've left it for a little while longer, imo.

Haha nice joke fillerb, I saw that from the beginning, wanted to keep quiet to see how many people would fallfor it, te giveaways were /item for donators, and ORCWORM stepping down? I lol'd so hard