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I want to give you guys a preview on how the new "Town" system will work.
Basically, we're doing away with the previous format where you guys make a town and we come and set up warps and stuff to it. It cuts down on the amount of map space used up, but not as much as I had hoped. So, we're going to be using a new system.
Basically, once a week or so we are going to auction off a plot of land near the current map border. These will be the new towns, and whoever bids the highest will be in charge of the town. This player can then do whatever he/she wants with it... create building plots and sell/rent them to other players, invite players/friends in to build for free, make the town on their own, etc. The town owners may also purchase additional land near their original plot, and an area around the town will be blocked off so nobody can build too close.
This new system serves a few purposes;
a) It rewards long-term players, as the amount required to purchase a town would require some previous contribution or time investment to the server
b) It helps balance the economy by pulling money out of it
c) Towns will naturally expand the map area
With the new border system, any warps will act as an additional spawn area, and thus will generate a new border. Basically, each town will extend the map (approximately an addition 3 million square blocks per town).
Ideally, the more players, the more towns. The more towns, the more space the map has. It's a rather hands-free approach to maintaining the economy and map size.
As for non-sanctioned towns, you guys are more than welcome to create them as you did in the old world. I cannot assign warps at the moment (because they would extend the map), but I hope to add a system to do that soon (perhaps portals).
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The status on the thread says online yet when I try to join the server it says to check the TL status...
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towns sound cool, i just wasted a large chunk of my free time failing to make that TL logo ;p will finish it soon hopefully
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Just want everyone to know that I am looking for people to settle in Valugtown, I have flattened a ton of space so there's plenty of room for big projects and I have started making a partially underwater spleef arena. More pictures and directions in the spoiler tab.
+ Show Spoiler [Pictures] +Entrance to the arena. West side of town, I plan to flatten back this way more. Looking south, all flat basically as far as the fog of war. Looking north, from the south side of town. Behind the furnaces is the seawall I took the other screenshots from and the spleef arena. Map to get to Valugtown, straight west from spawnville! Hope to see you there!
^ Pictures ^
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will we have a 3d isometric map like last time?
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Yes, and it will include location markers.
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this server is down more than its up >< im just gonna give up and play singleplayer
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On November 04 2010 11:46 valug wrote:Looking south, all flat basically as far as the fog of war.
Aw yea lookin south
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On November 04 2010 13:52 inFeZa wrote:
this server is down more than its up >< im just gonna give up and play singleplayer
Were still recovering from the Halloween update. Uptime should increase dramatically in the near future.
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Save often guys, server has been whacky for me. Twice since late last night I lost some items after random java crashes that werent preceded by a server save warning. Thankfully, I only lost minor shit, but still.
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Seri now that groups are working, can you restore the tlta group permissions? that way after chests are fixed we can have tlta only chests etc
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Sorry guys, server's been up but I was asleep and couldn't change the thread OP. Again, I have to recommend IRC for server status at the moment :o
And yes, let me explain a little how multiplayer saves work at the moment. There are two separate saves; one for terrain and chest inventory, and a separate save for player inventory and location. The reason for this is because Notch hasn't actually added proper saving to multiplayer. Terrain saving must be handled with addons, and player saving is handled supposedly like single player (the part that Notch coded). World saving works perfect, because the addon works perfect. However Notch's half-assed inventory saving doesn't, which is why you guys will randomly lose your inventory and stuff.
Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about that, as that's part of the main game code that Notch handles, so he'll have to be the one to fix it. All I can do is recommend relogging every 15 minutes or so just in case.
The other option is to save your items in chest, but the addons that handle chest protection have not been updated yet to handle the Boo Update, so...
And yes, I'm fixing/adding groups.
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yeah, tried to get on and hung at login.
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Might be. I timed out during the last save, havn't been able to get back in.
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Aw sucks that it's down atm. But I'll be lookin forward to building with everyone once I get whitelisted. Looks like you've got some pretty cool things going on inside.
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Yeah I think the servers still up but its stuck in a loop or something. We cant find Bran either.
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Yes. Apparently the CPU went into a loop and locked up. The server is actually still online, just stuck basically. You guys can thank Notch for his wonderful coding skills, because he claimed to have fixed this issue a few days ago but apparently did not.
Adding this to the long list of broken things I have zero control over.
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Server is back up, and I'm gonna recommend you guys relog before map saves, even if you're not one of the few people that get timed out during them. That way, if the server hangs again, you won't lose any inventory.
Also, I would like you all to take five minutes each night before bed and pray to the deity of your choosing that Notch fixes these issues soon. All addons seem to be updated and working fine, so any remaining issues with the server are up to Notch to fix.
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I was just curious if there is a waiting period to be whitelisted? Not to rush or be a pain in the arse, just curious as to if I should be checking back from time to time or stick to sp for a few days. =D
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