First of all, I’d like to show you some updates the site has received thanks to the latest forum software update. These are updates that are available to you to use on the site.
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Global Ranks
I’m afraid that this is not currently possible. As of last night, I made the decision of reverting the changes made for preparing global ranks. This is simply because we’re unable to handle something on that level just yet. Eventually down the line, we will look into it again but as of now we simply cannot do it. I understand that people have been anxious to get these ranks on the other servers but all I can say is sorry. There isn’t much I can do as of right now.
On that note, I am here to make another important announcement… I am stepping back for now in terms of running the network. I simply cannot put myself to continuing the network yet so I will be taking a step back from running it. Of course, if there are issues that need fixing, I will fix them. However, I won’t be around much for a while. I’ll be finishing off any updates and getting any servers released before I do take this move so please don’t think I’m just abandoning the network; I’m not. I just need some time to recoup some stuff… I will be back soon.
Well, they’re coming… Slowly. I've been speaking to @DenialMC about what needs doing and we've been running into some difficulties with the playtime rank up plugin. How I intended on setting it up was quite different to what you see on most other networks. If you play on Survival, Skyblock or Creative you’ll know that we have four ranks on them. I didn’t want to become like everyone else where there would only be one normal rank and about six donator ranks. I don’t find that interesting and quite frankly, it’s lazy. I want to still give the experience you all love about trying to rank up without it causing any issues. Instead of it being playtime based on one server and money based on another, I wanted to bring it all together where everyone has a global playtime on all of the servers. For example, you have 50 minutes played on Survival and you go to Skyblock, you also have 50 minutes. I find this better overall as you can play on your favourite server and still get a good rank on the others because of it. This is exactly what I also wanted from the purchasable ranks.
This next part is solely to do with purchasable ranks and what’s going to happen with them. If you’ve purchased a rank on one server, it will carry over to all of the others. However, the perks will be separate per server. If you’ve purchased ranks on multiple servers, you will receive a free coupon for the value of the rank and you’ll be able to use it for anything on the store! If you did purchase ranks on multiple servers, there will be a separate forum to post there on to receive your coupon.
Finally, I am going as fast as I can to get these global ranks out of the way and have them ready as soon as. I cannot deny that people will lose ranks and that there will be issues. I’ll do what I can to prevent this as much as possible. If you lose your rank, post in the forum stated when the global ranks are finally implemented into the rest of the network.
As a clarification, the prices of the ranks will not be changing. They will remain the same price that they have always been. Prices stay the same, your perk count quadruples.
Where’s Creative? Why are there only three servers in the selector?
Okay, this is a big one. I’ve come to the decision that I no longer want to run unnecessary servers that use up more resources than they provide. The first server that comes to mind on this...
