This will be a long post, but bear with me. If you're curious as to what the current state of the server is, and what it'll take to keep it running, please read on.
As anyone who's been in-game in the past month can attest to, we've started to push voting much harder recently. For those of you who don't know about voting for the server, have never bothered, or just aren't sure why we do it, here's how it works. There are two main ways that people find new servers to play on, either by word-of-mouth(Hey buddy, come play this awesome server I found!), or via a website with a giant list of servers. The way the majority of the server lists work is server administrators are able to list their server on the list, and then players can vote once a day for one server on that website. The websites then sort the servers, with the servers with the highest votes first, followed by the servers with less votes. That means that the more votes TimGaming has, the higher on the list it will be, and...
The goblins are hosting a week long building competition, during which 5 armature Timcrafters will be chosen to provide the Goblin Navy with ships. Our sincerest hope is that this challenge will provide our newest members with Donor Rewards, Tims, Fame & Glory. (Not to mention a cheap navy for the goblin hordes)
Location:
The competition will be held at the Goblin Naval Port due south of subway -3,0. DynMap Link
Chosen contestants will be provided with a slip at the naval port. Slips are 14 blocks wide, and extend from 53 to 93 in the Y axis; approximately 30 blocks above sea leave and 10 blocks below.
Contestants will also have access to the first bock of the dock on either side for stairs / gang planks. A dirt square at the top of each slip’s protection provides a visual depiction of...
I have just installed CombatTag. It's a plugin designed to prevent players from logging out in the middle of a PvP fight to avoid dieing. If you deal damage to another player, or are damaged by another player, it will tag you for 10 seconds. If you log off within those 10 seconds, you will instantly die. You may check /ct to see how much time is remaining before it is safe to log out. This is effective for all worlds that contain PVP(including skirmishes).
Also, as many of you have noticed, the dynamic map never really rendered all of the map. The initial 1.7 versions had an issue where it would stop a fullrender when the server restarted, which meant that we never actually got a complete render of the map. It updated recently, and a few days ago, finished the "flat" render of the server, and as of last night, finished the "surface" render. The "cave" render should be done sometime tonight, at which point we can...
As many of you are aware, modball was a mini-game that was hosted last map, on Saturday February 22nd around 6 PM west coast time time, I will be hosting modball 2.0.
For those of you that don't know what modball is, it was a mini-game hosted last map where 4 teams of 4 attempted to hit 1 or sometimes 2 mods into their goal, first team to 5 goals wins and gets a prize (see below). If you want to play modball, post below YOUR name and your 3 teammates names, the first 4 teams to post below will go first, followed by the next four and so forth. If it is the 22nd and you or one of your teammates can't show up, or didn't show up in time, your whole team will not go and the next team will take your spot.
For spectators:
If you want to spectate modball, pm me around 5:45ish on the 22nd, read the rules below if you are going to be a spectator.
Rules:
No going on the field. (If you are playing modball after the game you ran on the field of, your team will be disqualified.)
No spamming...
As I'm sure some of you are aware, for a long while, our old voting plugin wasn't functioning quite right, so when 1.7 hit, we switched over to VoteRoulette, which is totally awesome. Some of the features it adds are a built in /vote command, to list all the sites that you can vote for TimCraft on, the ability to select a random reward from a list to give you to every time you vote, and the ability to set random or specific milestones, which are rewards that you get every specified number of votes. With that in mind, I've recently majorly updated the voting system! Here are the details.
