Community Community News - 14 October 2016 & AoD Competition Winners

[Vatumok]

Community News - 14 October 2016

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Create - Pumpkin Carving
Are you EscapeRestarts next best Pumpkin carver? - http://polr.me/sp000000ky

Donations
We still rely on donations to help run the forum and servers. If you wish to help us out then that would be awesome!
We're mulling over the idea of implementing non-pay-to-win micro transactions for cosmetics/perks to help fund donations throughout all of our servers, possibly even the forums.

Vote Here!
http://escaperestart.com/forum/pages/VoteHere/​

This weeks Crayola colour is: ((̲̅ ̲̅(̲̅C̲̅r̲̅a̲̅y̲̅o̲̅l̲̲̅̅a̲̅( ̲̅((>

Spk00000ky Competition
Remember to join this years Halloween contest by doing /mvtp halloween. Once you've done that do, /plot auto to claim your very own pumpkin!

You have until the 30th of October to crave the spookiest pumpkin you can!

Click here for more information on rules and rewards!

AdvFlat World
Yes, that's right! AdvBuilders now have their own brand new flatworld to build on! The World border is set to 4000x4000, so enjoy!

To get here, just do /mvtp advflat or /advflat!

New Commands and Features
A couple of new commands have been added! The worldedit compass is making its comeback - you can now left click with a compass to teleport or right click to go through a wall. Type /tptoggle to stop other users from teleporting to you, and type /liststaff to get a list of online staff on Discord that you can ping.

Also, the permissions for /tp has been extended to novices.

Buyable Plots
Bplots and Advplots are now buyable! As part of an initiative to encourage builders to build maps for RoF and AoD, topians will be rewarded for every successful submission, and these topians can be used to increase your plot claim limit. Type /shop to get started.

Staff:
Swift_Siren has resigned. Thank him for the work he has done!

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Last Man Standing & The Lavaversary
Last Man Standing and the Lavaversary is over, and yes you have been getting double tokens/cookies this week too because I forgot to turn them off. We're nice! Thank you for everyone who turned up to LMS - it was a bit of a mess, but a fun one at that! Congratulations to Iggish, Runemen4 and Unusual_dude for coming 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Coming Soon...
KotL Kits! I'm struggling for news this week.​

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The map competition is now closed!

Want to see some new game modes or have any ideas? Fill out our form here, we need your opinions!

Spooktober
Head on over to AoD on the 1st of October to see the new spooky lobby, be sure to search for a series of very-well hidden secrets, 2 brand new parkour zones, a maze by the god of darkness himself and a whole lot more! Completion of these activities may yield rewards, who knows?!​

• New Lobby! Thank Friendy for that
• New achievements:
  • 4 lobby secrets to find!
  • Join AoD during October for the "Spooky" achievement
  • Join AoD during Halloween for the rare "Fright Night" achievement
• Changed map rotation up a bit, I'm aware some of the old maps were getting a bit stale
• Mines now are the colour of your team, and are more expensive
• Several new maps added
• Fixed Airstrikes. Sorry about that

Staff
SalientGorilla has resigned, please thank him for devoting his time to our server!

Map Competition
The winners:​

1. 1st place goes to iggy234 with Hamster Cage
2. 2nd place goes to Canyon by Llamaman5000
3. 3rd place goes to Wild Dead by LeScary

Due to the limited number of map submissions, we are deciding what to do for prizes. Stay tuned for this.
Thank you also to Catcocomics who also submitted a map, and llamaman who submitted two.

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Contest
Results coming soon, good luck to all of the many, many entries!

Thanks to Psycho for the awesome banner!

Ask me anything!
Click here to view the LoP Ask me Anything thread! Ogarci will answer almost any questions you have that he can answer right now.

Development
The SMP team is making smooth and steady progress on various aspects of the server! Oak_Milk is working on configuring Heroes, Nottycat and LISTINGS are working on perfecting the Overworld map, and Major_Bryan, _aperson155_, Hexcial, and Mulbery are working on the Spawnworld!

Just a reminder, a release isn't likely until after Minecraft version 1.11 releases. Thank you everyone for your patience! :D​

 

[Notme]

Updated staff roster.
We have 28/29 staff - 20 of them are Minecraft staff. Do you remember good times, when 6x - 7x more people staffed minecraft servers?

Woo Primordia #MakeCommunityGreatAgain

There are 16 SMP testers:

Oak63 is configuring Heroes
Notty and Listings are purrfecting (Notty how you could miss that pun) overworld map
Major, Ape, Hexical and Mulbery are doing stuff in Spawnworld

What are remaining people: Friendy, IQDestructor, Biblius, Jolteon42, Dessern5, Amorix, SalientGorilla, rosekill, kuilin and Wimali doing on SMP?

 

[Ogarci]

What are remaining people: Friendy, IQDestructor, Biblius, Jolteon42, Dessern5, Amorix, SalientGorilla, rosekill, kuilin and Wimali doing on SMP?

Friendy was helping with building but has had some computer issues lately.

IQ, Dess, and Wimali have been busy with LMS but have helped out previously with testing and with building the spawnworld.

Biblius is the main lore dude.

Jolt and rosekill are Heroes testers

Amorix and Sal help out with building occasionally, but both are busy and have other obligations too.

Kuilin has volunteered to dev, but the server is not the best environment right now for dev work since theres still a lot of plugin changes and reconfiguring.

 

[Notme]

We are stuck at 600th place on Minecraft Servers. 41 000 servers registered here. Top 1.5%.

Here is playerbase dynamics in last 2 weeks (hours are for GMT+2):

During day playerbase oscillates between 0 - 5, and on evenings/nights it usually fluctuates between 5 - 10 players sometimes hitting 15 players.
During weekends its much different: playerbase usually oscillates between 5 - 10 players to peak above 20 players at evenings/night.

On original Primordia lows were at 10 - 15 players, and steadily climbing at to 40 - 60 players over day to peak at 70 - 75 players sometimes! (player limit was 75 - 80 players or something.)

During Christmas break I except weekend playerbase dynamics. Will it peak at 40 players? Or even higher?

We could be at 400th or even better place, if you weren't so lazy to vote on MinecraftServers!
Max amount of daily votes on 2nd October - 14 people voted, still could be better.
At least could be 10 - 25 players voting here everyday?
MinecraftServers voting site has this nice feature, that you don't have to remember, when you voted last time.
I vote religiously every day. I believe this community will be great again someday.
server on 400th place has 200 votes (we have 90)
300th place - 313 votes.
200th place - 618 votes.
100th place - 1708 votes. I don't think we would do this with our tiny playerbase.

On Minecraft Forums we are on 103rd place. and 90 votes. 9 150 registered servers. Top 2%.
Server on 75th place has 130 votes.
50th place - 206 votes. It would harder to get, as you have to remember, when you voted last time on this voting site.
24th place - 706 votes. We know where it is going.

On planet Minecraft we are 438th. 160 000 registered servers. Top o.3%.

To recap:
Minecraft Servers: 605th place and top 1.5%. Exactly 41 050 servers. Half of them are offline
Minecraft Forums: 103rd place and top 2%. Exactly 9 150 servers.
Planet Minecraft: 438th place and top 0.3%. Exactly 160 506 servers.
Global Minecraft stats. There are ~140 000 servers and ~367000 players now. So average is 3 players per server.
Minecraft isn't dead. Playerbase distribution is extremely unequal.