Hollandcraft Network

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

Dear Players

I present to you, our new English forum. We have used our dutch forum for a while now, and it was fine at the beginning. But the longer it took, how more English players there were. So now we have decided to create a new forum especially for the International community.

This forum is made to create an awesome community and for an easier way to find support with staff. That was often a bottleneck for the non-Dutch players. This isn't meant to replace the Dutch forum, but just the English equivalent.

We'll open this forum as soon as we are done with it!

- Michel