You might already have noticed, I am the past few days adding more stuff to the Hollandcraft servers.
The past 3 days I added 3 Bungeecord instances, this will improve the network performance by balancing it across the world. This should increase the up time and most important decrease the lag.
How does this work?
The most important IPs are all based on the playhc.ms domain. eu.playhc.ms, playhc.eu -> Leads to the best ping for all European players. us.playhc.ms, playhc.eu -> Leads to the best ping for all players from the American Continent.
NOTICE! All other IPs will be abandoned after some time, then you can't use them anymore.
All other games are also being updated to 1.8, this will start somewhere this week, and will start with a brand new SurvivalGames experience, with more commands, epic stuff and better maps. After this HungerGames will be ported to 1.8.
Once those games are ready, the only games that need an update is Skyblock, Skywars and Creative.
Creative will be ported to 1.8 and everything will be saved. Skyblock might be a problem, due to how this plugin currently works, probably it won't be a big deal, but it have to be done.
Skywars will get then the largest update it ever had, this will be online within 1/2 months. This gamemode will be rewritten and started from nothing, if everything is done it would handle more players, with fewer lag.
Once everything is done, the last part is updating the Lobby...
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.
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.
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.
Dear players,
We have decided to do a sale with the Valentine's day, you get 35% off each item you will buy, this sale will take place since the moment of writing until 20 February 2015.
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...
Three days ago Mojang announced the new option to change your name, but due to the fact we are a Cracked server we cannot support this and you will lose everything: your rank, items, skills and permissions.
The server will see you as a new fresh player. We will not transfer anything to your new name.
You can see it here: https://mojang.com/2015/01/announcing-minecraft-name-changes/
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.
