PVP Village Now Open!

Some of you wondered why I placed an npc village at spawn and put it in a glass box, well now you know...

I've modified the village and set PVP to allow, giving players a more open space to fight rather than just being restricted to the PVP Arena, and unlike the PVP Arena there are no rules, anything goes!

Enjoy!

Whitelist In Place

A whitelist is in place whilst I fix some problems deliberately caused last night, the players responsible have been banned and it shouldn't take me much more than an hour to undo the damage and put precautions in place to prevent it from happening again.

UPDATE: 11:00 - Backup is running now, whitelist will be removed in a few minutes :)

UPDATE: 11:05 - The whitelist is now removed!

To anyone that saw the changes made to the screens at spawn last night I apologise, it appears the two players responsible where using hacked clients and judging by their spelling quite young kids. 

I have added security measures to the screens which should prevent this from happening again, information on the screens can now only be refreshed by restarting the server. All actions / block modifications by them have also now been rolled back.

Both the players have been banned along with their IP addresses in case they have additional accounts. Thanks to blad2003 for jailing & muting them last night to prevent further damage and chat spamming until I could get on to ban them. 

May The 4th Be With You!

In celebration of Star Wars day a maximum size screen has been placed near the market that will be showing the ComputerCraft version of Star Wars on loop all day!

Enjoy!

Change To Protection Stones

As of today I've increased the area covered by protection stones from 61x61 to 71x71, which is a 27% increase in the size of the area covered!

I thought it was only fair that as the area for VIPs was recently increased other player players should also get an increase, if you already have stones placed then just remove them and place again to update you protected region to the new size.

Enjoy!

Rotary Macerators & Wireless Redstone

Rotary Macerators

As some of you already know we had several hours of downtime last night, this was traced back to a glitching Rotary Macerator setup which I had to remove this morning. 

This is not the first time a Rotary Macerator has caused this kind of problem on our server, though it is the worst case we've seen and is one of the reasons many server owners ban it. Having done some investigation I found that Rotary Macerators were only in use by 5 out of over 200 regular players so I have taken the decision to ban them to prevent further problems such as this.

I have personally visited each of the 5 players homes and replaced the Rotary Macerators with standard ones, each fitted with 14 overclockers and 2 energy storage upgrades by way of compensation.

Wireless Redstone

Like many Tekkit servers we've been plagued by problems with this mod since our early days and around the half the items in this mod were banned very early on, today a wireless redstone setup brought the server down multiple times and I have also linked two other recent crashes to the mod as well. Again hardly any players use this mod, just 2 players had items placed in world, so I have decided to block the entire mod for the sake of server stability.

I don't like having to ban more items and I realise that a few players will not like these decisions but I hope that most you will understand that it is necessary to maximise stability of the server and minimise downtime.

I am confident we have now got an optimal banned item list and will not have to ban any further items in the future!

Scheduled Job Mystery Solved

We have solved the mystery of the scheduled job issues!

The server hardware's time is set incorrectly, so the hosting company will be correcting this later when their is not so much load on the server. This does mean that they will have to take the server down for a few minutes to prevent issues and a white-list will automatically activate when it comes back up, I will try and turn it off as soon as possible!

Scheduled backups etc should then run without problems and at the correct times!