Well i got all the way to jagdtiger...and stopped...dont care bout the jp100...my favorite is the stug III, i play that everyday, its squishy, but fast when you ride and on reload...lotsa fun!
Just an update on Minealot... they're doing some strange things. They were putting a mod on the server recently and it deleted all tamed horse entities. I had about a dozen horses and they're now gone. The discussion is still open about what they want to do when 1.7 rolls out, but it's looking like it will be a total reset one way or another. The two options for a total wipe are to leave the current world up for a time and be able to transfer your items from the current world to the 1.7 world, or to start completely fresh.
Because of the uncertainty of what's going on on Minealot, a buddy of mine (and neighbor) are considering rolling our own server. He's a Microsoftie, and has some connections through which we can probably have some ridonkulous bandwidth and some real horsepower. I'll let you know if we decide we're going to do it, and if we do, of course all FWH will be welcome there.
that would be awesome 🙂
So, we got together last night to discuss this, and were talking about server plugins we like and such, and really weren't sure how we wanted to implement this. Then it hit us almost at the same time... why not just make it a whitelisted server, and only invite people we know and trust? So he's going to see what sort of Microsoft Azure resources he is allowed for free, and then probably set something up in the Azure cloud. We _may_ run a couple plugins that will help with transportation or something, but otherwise it will be a completely vanilla server.
I'm not sure if we'll wait until the 1.7 update to start this up for everyone, since no one knows when the 1.7 update will actually be released, or if we'll just start it with the current 1.6.4 version. However, when we do it, I'll make a post with information on how to apply to be added to the whitelist, and connection information. For anyone who doesn't know what a whitelisted Minecraft server is, it just means that only players who've been invited to play on the server can play on the server.
What really prompted us to move forward with the idea of running our own server was the most recent thing that happened on the Mine-A-Lot server. The claims plugin (or anti-grief plugin, if you will) broke. The developer hasn't updated it in a long time, and shows no sign of doing so anytime soon. There is a lot more to the story, but suffice to say it was very unprofessionally handled and the fix is a very poor and limited substitute.
So stay tuned!
the thing about a vanilla server is that if there is no pk allowed, once you create all the stuff that you want, set up your rescource gathering and building and stuff, the fun part is the invasion and wars between clans or factions. So will there be anything like factions allowed on there so we can have a war of some sort later?
It's possible. Once we figure out just what we want to do, it's possible that we might set up a couple servers, one for regular SMP, one for Factions, or something like that... maybe one for Creative only. Nothing definite either way at the moment. We're just getting our feet wet at this point.
