Hollandcraft Network

Dear players,

This was just an April Fools.

I have been thinking about this for a few months now to set the server to Premium.
This will bring pros and cons, some pros are that you are now able to change your name in the Mojang name changing system, en there are far less double accounts and you don't have to login. There is one big con, cracked players are not able to join the server.

I started thinking about this since there are lots of people using double accounts.
The server will be set to premium in the weekend of 4-5 April, since this moment you are not able to join with cracked again.

Since Mojang announced there name changing system, it just went quicker and it was the last thing I needed to set the server to Premium.

Since the moment the server will be premium, you are able to create partys and you can switch from servers without signing in once.

But I have cracked, and I donated?
We're sorry. The only thing you can do is purchase Minecraft premium with the same name as you already have, if the name is already taken, I am willing to change this in the weekend of 4-5 April.

Where can I buy Minecraft?
You can buy Minecraft at their site: http://www.minecraft.net/
You can purchase Minecraft with PayPal, CreditCard, iDeal and Paysafecard.

DUTCH TOPIC: http://www.hollandcraft.nl/threads/hollandcraft-schaft-cracked-af.4696/

If you have a few questions about this you can ask them, and I will respond.

Best...

Dear Players,

The last few days there were some disagreements about a faction reset, whether not. My opinion about this view is to just update the Factions server to 1.8, including a border magnification and a warzone upgrade. Optionally a new one on a new location.

I really want to know your opinion about this subject, and how we should implement it into the server. There are a few options; Reset the whole server (including money, enderchests), Update to 1.8 and enlarge the warzone or completely reset the warzone.

All inactive factions will be removed, large factions who all do not join the server for a few days for example.

If you have a base at the warzone it is recommended to just take the most important stuff from there, before Saturday. The mid-zones will be enlarged, in the following shape. It is not that accurate, but just for the idea.

Thanks to johannus, for creating the image!

I would like to know your opinion about it, and a bit argument-ed...
The following Saturday the most voted plan will be carried out.

Dutch topic: http://www.hollandcraft.nl/threads/factions-update.4674/

Best Regards,
Michel

Dear players,

I am updating survival to 1.8, once this process is done you can use all 1.8 items and mobs. The converting of GriefPrevention is taking a while, so please be patient.

Server runs on 1.8
Permissions are updated to 1.8
Chestplugin is updated to 1.8
GriefPrevention is updating and converting.

The converting of GriefPrevention data is taking a while, I don't know exactly how long it will take, but it is converting for a few hours right now, so I just wait till it's done. If it is not done within 5 days i'll remove the new version and downgrade again to an older GriefPrevention. It's still 1.8, but a bit more laggy griefprevention.

Sorry for the inconvenience

Best Regards,
Michel

Well, as you might already know, the servers aren't running smoothly at the moment. Massive lags/tps drops and even more crashes. In this topic I will let you know how this all happened, and after that how we want to tackle this problem.

1. Update
Before the current system was online. We had 2 servers, 2 massive servers with 128GB of ram combined. In Juli 2014 we decided to upgrade this to a 5 x 32 GB ram server and creating a total of 160GB ram. At this point, ovhs sister company, So you Start (SYS) was just a new company. I thought, just like a lot of other people that it would be a massive improvement to get the new servers. But the SYS servers weren't ready yet, so I had to wait.

August 2014, the servers were finally delivered, so I installed them as it should be and everything worked. Before this upgrade, everything was lagging so we decided to do a reset. But, in August there was school vacation I went on a holiday within a few days. I had to recreate the whole Hollandcraft network within a few days. This was the big Hollandcraft V3.0 update. But it turned out to be an enormous flaw.

After this upgrade we haven't thought about how to handle the data, we couldn't handle it the old way anymore, because we installed Buycraft to use it as our Store. Before this we had a custom made Dutch version but it wasn't really that good. We experienced problems with ranks. And around this point, the Arcade ranks were born, or as we called them at that time, Lobby...

I am pleased to announce we have finally reached the One Million players, it was for us a challenge to get this number of players before the end of 2014, and we did it!

The next few days we will do some giveaways and stuff like that.

- Michel

Wow! A new lobby!
The new lobby is, as usual, accessible for everyone by executing the command /lobby or /hub. Also, the rank system has been changed, you now have to buy Arcade Ranks. This will give you a rank in the lobbies and all other servers who are connected to Arcade. People who bought VIP rank in Skywars, HungerGames or Lobby, have gotten their rank transferred to an Arcade rank. People who bought a package, got the MVP rank.

So what's next? Prison!
We promised to release prison for a quite long time now. So we have decided to set a Deadline at December 1st. We can't give any more details right now, the only things is that it's becoming OP Prison. (The builders were not informed how prison worked, so they haven't built anything usable, so it is deferred with a few weeks!)

After Prison, where's KitPvP?
Well, as we prefer to do projects one by one, KitPvP will be released a week after Prison. This will just be a server where you can choose kits and other nice stuff. This game will be written by our developers, and we are trying to make it as awesome as possible, just as it used to be!

Well, that's nice, what's more?!
After we removed Hide and Seek from the public view -because it was lagging and crashing- we have decided we will create a custom plugin for it. We can't give you much information about it right now, because we haven't started yet... Release date will be around Christmas (staff intervention, he means next year ...

Dear Players,

Since there isn't a new decent 1.8 build, we have decided to downgrade Factions and Survival to 1.7.
This means you can only use a 1.7 build to join Factions or Survival.

All other servers will stay 1.8 compatible!

Best regards,
Michel