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wither disappeared, the logs said it went to spawntown spawn, but there was no wither to be found so komrage refunded me the materials

Where did you spawn the wither?

Ok, nobody voted and the proposal has been changed, so let's restart the poll for 7 days.

I vote yes.

wowowow why does it go down into bongatarian desert area
or does that part not mean anything

It looks like you and DC agreed on those borders earlier, you agreed to it being a part of Omnipotencia but you two managing different areas of the region:

red is all lord dc's
yellow is all mine
orange is co-owned
that was bad wording sry
i approve voting to start

Anyway DC what do you say to the cyan borders?

I suggest the cyan borders, what do you say?

Voting has begun and last for the next 7 days. Bla, Komrage, AeriOwl and b-ong will be counted as yes.

I can vote yes if you want to start voting. I hope we can agree to preserve a 1 block zone around the horse road (except for roads connecting to it), and negotiate in case you want to change the horse road or violate the 1 block zone.

Ok. I'll try to increase the kick time to 30 mins.

I and vh have agreed not to 'abuse' that admins don't get afk kicked since admins aren't supposed to have that privilige, but I just don't know how to disable it. But it's not a privilige we use (Idk about Yqt but he hasn't been so active in the world for some months until recently I think).

Ok, awesome. I've whitelisted you, so welcome.
You should spawn at the intro center. It should explain some of the things and rules on the server. If we can find sometime to meet on the server, I or maybe one of the other admins/players can also help you find a place to settle or show you around.
Also just so you know, this is not a pvp server, pvp is only allowed when players agree or when we plan battles in some of our battle regions.

Hello. I need to be added to the whitelist, because i look as old a vanilla server, and unfortunately it's the white list, but I need to be added to it. I'm not griefer, love PVP, and do not use hacks.

Please, IGN: _GarryHero_

Hi, thanks for your interest, we'll need to know you a little bit better before we whitelist you - how did you find out about the server? Do you know anyone else from here?

That's also possible, but since my factory uses water flow that shouldn't affect the AI changing. How does your factory work?

Edit: I found there was some flesh missing in my factory's hopper timer, so hopefully the production should return to normal now.
From looking at how many mobs fall, it does seem like it's not as many as it used to, but I'm not sure.

To participate:
- Let me know your email so I can add you as contributor to the sheet
- Get OnTime raw data files from:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3gllpvcnicjew2e/AADtzrK0VBKVWxLRQgmg8RRwa?dl=0
- Go to the data sheet to contribute:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vr4SD-mcKAZeqJN6EO4JugNY1nnhvMm9w5_vjiH1GDk/edit#gid=302314035&vpid=C3

Method:
- Every new day is added as a column to the left.
- Every user is a row - if a new player appears in OnTime files, they should be added at the bottom, and Bla should be notified to move the player into alphabetic ordering without breaking the sheet.
- Each cell shows the number of seconds the player (row) was online that day (column).
- Note only the daily reports should be used. They're mixed with weekly and monthly reports too in the data files.
- The number at the top of a column is the total amount of time online by players that day. And the very first column shows total time a player has been online. These cells use a formula.
- The data is listed in seconds, minutes and hours. The sheet has m defined as 60 and h defined as 3600 so to save speed and for easier verification you may write =1*h+43*m in a cell if someone was online for 1 hour and 43 minutes that day.

Dates cumulative/percentage sheets: These use formulae for all the cells. If you want to update them, add more rows/columns like above and just make sure to repeat the formulae to the new cells.

Please report here if you update the sheet, need help or more files.

The poll has been extended until November 14. Totally 4 realz this time

Ok, I'll approve of the refund.

So the submissions so far (I'm cancelling Spawntown):

Auspikitan, Rift Auspikitan
Kaktolake, Kaktoland
Capital?, Aahrus + somewhere else (where?)
Sande Sitei, Darvincia
Newtim? (If Tuto wants to submit that?)

Let's finalize the submissions before October 3 so we can start voting.

hi can my player file be restored to the backup preceding 7/28/2015 12:36:52 PM (UTC−7)

solved in IRC i think?

This has been restored to the most recent backed up file before the time. However, at the time Dar had 13 porkchops and some iron armor and is requesting to use the second most recent backup, which I will consider at another time.

did either of you have damaged iron armor, a damaged iron sword, and a damaged bow? because i remember, a few days ago, dying and then spawning in spawntown, then i ragequit with nothing in my inv, but today when i logged in i had the above items

You were fighting in Trenchland with stuff like that on Saturday 12, I suppose it's from that event?
I don't really see any way you could end up with the stuff someone else lost due to changing account name. I mean, it's something with the player files and the way the world folders/files work, and I don't think stuff can just end up in someone else's player file like that.

Second Trenchland battle:

https://youtu.be/YYVDk4X69Qs

And third:

https://youtu.be/Xa-pYem50YM

I'm not sure what you mean by dual bid? But whereever the event is I can help with supplying stuff like gunpower and dyes and such.

Hmm USF mansion that would mean we'd have New Year in creative. You could submit it, but I think it would be more cool to have it in the main survival world where resources aren't infinite.

Also Tuto you can only submit locations now, not vote yet, the voting will be in the voting center later when we have all submissions, and voting for your own submissions won't be allowed

Today's nether trip

nom

Blue Bay now has a portal. In the nether, it's as high as it could be (due to interference with Kaktolake Portal), so there's a ramp up to the main horse roads, and also shortcut going down to Kaktolake Portal.



In other news 28 gold blocks have been sacrificed to Sebastian Castro



Edit: I think I finally have an idea for the top of Sovkon 2015. A hexagonal extension like this, if it would work. Tbh I was actually thinking of a bit different hexagon but after seeing the shape again that wouldn't really work. There should be doors so you can walk outside and fences outside. The floors further up should be progressively smaller hexagons so the top of the building becomes kind of a pyramid/hexamid.

Remember that griefing in the creative world is not allowed. Play in a way that assumes the world will stay permanent - not being sure whether the world is permanent isn't a valid reason to break the rules. Most likely the important parts of it could be moved to a new creative world using MCEdit. Don't use TNT in stuff other people built without their consent, this is breaking the number one server rule on griefing and may be punished.

The reason I wasn't sure what to do with the world was because only really Fiah posted on here about what kind of creative world he wanted and there wasn't any real discussion on it.
But most people said they prefer an overworld-style world so I've changed the creative world to use overworld terrain and moved what we've created so far to a plains area.

Spawntown Testing Lab announces a breakthrough in research

Scientists in the testing lab have successfully created a portal to a new kind of world. They have named the world "Creative" as it seems to be super-abundant with materials of all kinds. However, it appears that only people can travel through the portal - items and experience cannot pass through.

The new portal is located in Spawntown Testing Lab, just across the ancient Spawntown Monster Factory a bit north of Redgate and Spawntown Village in the Southbridge district.



And yes you can have a Kolghast world. If Komrage manages it

I've tested a new clock design based on Atomic's idea to have the lamp lights count down until you win.

Lights on: Items in chest = Time [min:s]

9/9: 000-000 = 0:00
8/9: 001-255 = 1:42
7/9: 256-370 = 2:28
6/9: 371-493 = 3:17
5/9: 494-617 = 4:07
4/9: 618-740 = 4:56
3/9: 741-863 = 5:45
2/9: 864-987 = 6:35
1/9: Never
0/9: 988-1500 = 10:00

Where 9/9 means 8 lamps are lit up and the 4 lamp arrow at the end indicating victory.
Basically the 1500 = 10:00 could be replaced by any amount above 987.
1/9 is never lit up because a signal likes to light up lamps diagonally and I couldn't yet make a design that can lit up just the first lamp (the redstone is getting tight in there).
It would've been cooler if one lamp corresponded to e.g. 2 minutes but I guess this way it's ok, even though the intervals don't make perfect sense. I don't see a way to make it more sensical atm.
Having as much as 8 countdown lights might also be a bit excessive as now the objective requires about 27 meters of long flat land. Maybe reducing it to 6 would be better so they start when there's around 5 mins left (4:56) to control for winning.

Thoughts?
Edit: I've reduced the design from 8 to 6 countdown lamps with the first two counting down when there's 4:56 left. Actually 5 since the 2 first used to light up at the same time, so I removed one of them.

So we built a test zone in an area I've called "Trenchland" (built a nether horse road to it in the west direction from spawn). Tested the gameplay: Blotz built a clock which counts down from 20 minutes (or rather ~20:20), and after that it gives a sound signal to say the defenders won. However, another hopper clock counts down from 10 minutes (~10:08), but only when the lever in the center points in one direction (which it would make sense was the direction of the attackers). I and TMC played attackers vs Fiah and Yqt as defenders and they won, where we had controlled the center around 8:30 according to the hopper timer.

The zone can be seen below:



It seemed like people were satisfied with the concept, so the plan is to make more spawn bases with more objectives between, like in the sketch above, in the area. When there are enough spawns and objectives, the region could work similar to the Battleground, with teams being able to own the objectives.
Of course areas like these could also be built in other locations if you want desert themes and so on, but that would be independently of this project.

Now there are 3 things to do:

1: Everyone can contribute to the region by suggesting locations of new objectives and spawns, and once approved, build the battle zone areas by landscaping etc. so that the zone is balanced for both teams. Just type here if you want to sign up for designing a zone.
2: The spawns will have to be approved a bit and should be standardized (but until that's finished we can easily work on 1 just by marking the spawn areas). I'm considering a circular design so that the spawns can be connected with zones/objectives in any direction without having your route out blocked (although there'd probably be a few pillars to hold the roof).
3: The timer system in the center could probably be improved a bit, so it's simpler. I think we should refine this design before installing it in a lot of zones. But for our test it worked well.

Here's an overview of  the area and the current things have been built here west of Ninjahworld:

I think it'd be good if the two levers were next to each other. But nice work on the ideas.

Also any ideas for where the new battle areas could be? At first it'd probably be just one rather linear zone like 20 m wide and 50-100 m long for testing the gameplay, but if the rules/battles work well and seem to be fun, the overall layout of the region could be something like this:



With spawn bases (blue) as nodes and red as objectives between the spawns. Controlling an objective could then allow you to use either spawn that it's connected to.

Also from irc:

(16:21:09)<blotz>i love battleground zones after they've been warred
(16:22:25)<BlaBla44>Kol
(16:24:27)<BlaBla44>Oh yes I wrote down some notes before sleeping one of the recent nights. I had an idea for a BG-like system, but instead of all the complications in the BG, there's be just like a slice of land, with two bases on each side, where each team spawns. Digging, TNT and so on is forbidden, so you only have sword, bow, armor, and use the terrain during the battle. You try to push the enemy team as far back as possible, and if you push them back far enough (maybe beyond some line, or beyond some area where you manage to e.g. replace a flag), you win their base.
- 7 min, 17 sec
(16:31:44)<blotz>YES i think i just killed a hacker
(16:31:46)<blotz>ok readin
(16:32:19)<blotz>hm
(16:36:03)<blotz>what do you mean by push back?
(16:36:08)<blotz>if they like respawn
(16:39:57)<blotz>or like
- 6 min, 55 sec
(16:46:52)<BlaBla44>Like |A - a - - - - - b - B| where | is limit of zone, A is team A players, B is team B players, a is where B is trying to reach, and b is where A is trying to reach. Then they might go like this
(16:47:14)<BlaBla44>|- - a - - AB - - b - - |
(16:47:28)<BlaBla44>| - - a - AB - - - b - - |
(16:47:47)<BlaBla44>|- - a AB - - - - b - -|
(16:47:59)<BlaBla44>|- - a - AB - - - b - -|
(16:48:12)<BlaBla44>|- - a - - - AB - b - -|
(16:48:28)<BlaBla44>|- - a - - - - AB b - -|
(16:48:39)<BlaBla44>|- - a - - - - - AB - -|
(16:48:42)<blotz>gg
(16:48:42)<BlaBla44>And then A wins
(16:49:04)<blotz>but i feel like it'd go really fast if all you have to do is cross a line
(16:49:17)<blotz>cuz you could jjust like tank a few hits and have someone chase you
(16:51:35)<BlaBla44>True, but I think it'd depend on the settings. Maybe you could say you're not allowed to run a lot past the enemy team, or something.
(16:53:29)<blotz>good idea hmm
- 10 min, 43 sec
(17:04:12)<BlaBla44>One of the good th
(17:06:55)<blotz>where would this battleground be
(17:07:52)<blotz>i was thinking about a domination type game, where there's a thing at the middle that you want to control
(17:08:20)<blotz>in the middle would be a small zone where you couldn't place blocks or anything
(17:08:35)<blotz>and eaach team would have a lever, hopper, and chest
(17:09:05)<blotz>at the beginning, the levers are powered. if you get to mid, all you can do is adjust the levers
(17:09:14)<blotz>so you would turn your lever off so items can go into the chests
(17:09:37)<blotz>and if you lost control, then the other team would switch your lever on and theirs off. and whoever has the most items'd win
(17:09:56)<Stowaway>"The ordeal of the cross was apparently introduced in the Early Middle Ages by the church in an attempt to discourage judicial duels among the Germanic peoples. As with judicial duels, and unlike most other ordeals, the accuser had to undergo the ordeal together with the accused. They stood on either side of a cross and stretched out their hands horizontally. The one to first lower
(17:09:56)<Stowaway>his arms lost."
(17:10:01)<BlaBla44>That's actually a good idea too, like king of the hill, and each team tries to use the levers to maybe do a countdown when in an on state, so if they control them long enough it'll give some sound or something saying they win
(17:10:02)<Stowaway>That's not a train that's a **** game
(17:10:08)<Stowaway>trial*
(17:10:30)<blotz>yeah i got the idea from some server game i forgot which
(17:10:35)<blotz> oc.tc i think
(17:14:26)<Stowaway>https://twitter.com/DinkMagic/status/620612127351422976
(17:14:58)<blotz>idk how would you do a once you control it for x minutes a gong sounds b/c it would require some tricky comparator stuff
(17:15:05)<Stowaway>http://chemistry.beloit.edu/Stars/images/orbitals.jpg they're mind boggling but cool
(17:15:20)<BlaBla44>Kol Matty that trial
(17:16:13)<Stowaway>It's like thsoe things where a bunch of people have to keep a touch of a car or something and the last person to be touching it wins the car
(17:16:19)<BlaBla44>Bong but if there's one for each team, you could say you have to activate your own lever and deactivate your enemy's, to stop their countdown and start your own. Then you'd just need a hopper timer
(17:16:43)<BlaBla44>for each team and a gong for each team
(17:18:21)<BlaBla44>Kol Matty we learned about those in quantum mechanics, they're plots of probability of where to find electrons you get from squaring the electrons' wave functions
(17:19:58)<blotz>oh i see
(17:21:16)<Stowaway>ye tehre was a video on that youtube channel with the german name
(17:21:21)<Stowaway>i forget what it's called
(17:21:44)<BlaBla44>NEBELWEFER?
(17:21:49)<BlaBla44>*NEBELWERFER
(17:21:58)<Stowaway>kol
(17:24:21)<blotz>bla something like this right http://i.imgur.com/9gRIQFj.png
(17:25:57)<BlaBla44>I imagined separate clocks for each team actually but nvm can be thought out in detail later
(17:26:34)<Stowaway>http://www.boll.co/
(17:27:17)<blotz>problem: what if they dont hear the sound?
(17:27:21)<blotz>solution: ad lights
(17:27:39)<blotz>http://i.imgur.com/1I8akfm.jpg
(17:27:56)<blotz>problem: cannot see progress
(17:28:06)<blotz>solution: hmm
(17:28:18)<BlaBla44>Kol, yes there's a lot of things you could do
(17:28:36)<BlaBla44>How about a **** giganttic fireworks show of doom once a team wins
(17:28:41)<blotz>kol
(17:29:19)<blotz>problem: if you wait like another few minutes the "win" lights would switch off
(17:29:27)<blotz>solution: idk what happened but mine stayed on so yay
(17:29:33)<blotz>solution 2: use non-sticky pistons
(17:29:49)<blotz>problem: can only do for like 4 minutes ish
(17:31:49)<BlaBla44>Problem: Anything
(17:31:56)<BlaBla44>Solution: SEBASTIAN CASTRO
(17:32:35)<blotz>kol
(17:32:45)<blotz>problem: too complicated
(17:32:49)<blotz>solution: use comparators