I've finally settled into my new place and almost finished setting things up.  Definitely enjoying the lack of roommates, and not living in my bedroom :D. The one thing I'm not liking so far is all the prying eyes as I live on the first floor at the front of the building. Oh well, one week and nobody has broken in yet, so I'm not worried.

 

Minecraft:

I'll be starting to recode a lot of the plugins beginning next week (seeing as work are being giant douches and cutting my hours for new people), the main plugin being redone is Residence.  Not much visually in game will change, the main goal of this is just making things run smoother behind the scenes.  I've also been thinking of the resurrecting the classic server as I have my own internet that I don't have to share.

 

Team Fortress 2:

The TF2 server has been dead in the water since the day it started. If anybody has experience running a tf2 server and would like to breath life into it hit me up.

 

Silent Productions:

I will also return to working on a new site. It has been kinda collecting dust on the webserver, and was almost done at one point in time.

I'm going to need help over the coming months, so I have created a jobs page. It is over HERE. 

 

Your Overlord,
Silentneeb 

The next couple of weeks to a month, I won't really be around much, let alone fixing, updating, adding stuff, etc to the servers. I'll be packing, working, packing, personal stuff, starving, scraping enough money together for food and minecraft server(wink, wink, nudge, nudge people), moving, unpacking, settling in, setting/setting back up my techie stuff. Sadly, pretty much in that order too. Once I get all moved and settled in, I'll start planning/working on bringing all the servers closer together (Minecraft, TF2, mumble, and website), fixing and finishing features, and yeah... When I get a roommate(...), l may set up another server. It will probably be a creative Minecraft server similar in setup as our current one, with some plugins removed as they won't be needed.

Expect some serious changes over the summer months, as I won't be spending over two hours going to and from work anymore(....), so I'll actually have energy to do stuff at the end of the day and my days off. 

Your Overlord,
Silentneeb

The lot biome thing has been fixed, they are $5000. /purchase biome (type)

The types are as follows:

• Desert
• Plains
• Taiga
• Swamp
• Forest
• Jungle
• Mushroom
• Hell  ($10000)

The /tell command has not been working for some time and is still not working. I don't know why and don't care. It has a replacement /msg (player) (msg)

Also, if anybody wants to help feed me this month that would be awesome. Moving and new rent is expensive, and I'm broke.

Silentneeb

The TF2 server's ip has changed. I moved it to Canada, it's just how I like to roll. The new ip is 67.205.67.76:27015. tf2.silent-productions.net will point to the new ip. Also, the 50 some odd second wait time has been fixed finally. I've noticed some lag on the server now, but might just be me right now. Monday I will be looking to actually personalize the TF2 server, so map rotation, motd, plugins, all that fun stuff. Throw your suggestions down on the forums, and I'll take a look at them.

The Minecraft server has been very touchy today/yesterday. I have updated CraftBukkit to a recommended build, hopefully that will fix a few issues for now. I will update the plugins when I get a chance. If there is still serious problems come Friday, I will be employing the help of our hoster to try and resolve the issues. If nothing good comes of that than, I think I will start looking to move it again, maybe in with our TF2 server host. So, Friday you can expect some intermittance with the server up time, even long periods at a time. I will also be viewing apartments Friday, so I will be doing most of it from my phone, which should be lots of fun... The /lot command is or rather should be usable no so, that includes /lot unclaim, /lot claim, amd /lot open (may or may not work, this is a problem within the command itself).

I finally started our mumble server, voice.tf2.silent-productions.net:64740 (174.142.18.86:64740). I haven't really done any setup to it, so it will be pretty bland still.

Your Overlord,
Silentneeb

EDIT: I found this little project called craftbukkit++. It is supposed to imporve ram and cpu usage, I'll be testing it out some point in time and if things seem to be visually running better it will replace craftbukkit.

The minecraft server is now running at 1.2.4. If any major game breaking bugs show up I will roll back to 1.2.3, but for now you can update to 1.2.4.

 

-Neeb 

edit: the server will be down till later tonight i kinda forgot to pay the bill, sorries.

So it will take quite a bit of time to update the server as the new world format ("Anvil") breaks a lot of plugins and brings in new possibilities. As soon as bukkit gets a stable release with all the API changes, I'll start adding some new stuff to our own plugins. Like buying biomes for your lot and, maybe fixing the villager spawning in the main world. I'll also need to change a lot of config files for the updated height. The programming and updating plugins won't take long but testing, reconfiguring, and debugging will take awhile as I have other things I need to deal with right now too. Like finding an apartment for May/June :). So, I'm going to ballpark it and say 2 weeks unless, bukkit gets a decent build I can start to work on by Tuesday.

Silentneeb



Progress
Updating plugin code to new bukkit api: 100%
Installing, reconfiguring, and testing plugins: 99% The last one 1% will be doe when things are uploaded. Some non-essential plugins have been removed for now.
Edit town and paradise worlds: 50% Paradise will get fixed maybe tomorrow..
Final testing and touching up: 100%??
Pushing update to Server and praying it works: 100%


EDIT: I'm going to try to push the update to tonight in about 2-3 hours (10-11 pm est) just waiting for my roommates to go to bed so they don't bitch about the internet when I'm uploading everything. During this time anything done in Silencia will get reverted upon upload, Wastelands, nether and Paradise will be unaffected. During the upload the server will be down completely, and maybe down over the course of the night (depending how long it takes). The server will display a message in the multiplayer area when it is updated. I'm so close, I can maybe catch up on sleep tonight.

Ok people, DO NOT RENAME LOTS!! It screws things up a great deal. If you are changing name so people can visit your lot easier DON'T. This is why we have the visit command (/visit (player)) as long as the player has a lot but, it won't work if the lot name changes. Secondly, I am going to be waiting for the 1.2 update before I expand the main world because, of some major changes being done to worlds. Some of the major new things: World height being raised to 256, biomes being saved in the world data and not forced by the world seed, *SPOILER* and the jungle biome.

Silentneeb

So early tomorrow morning I will lockdown the server to make some edits to Silencia. Nothing will be affected just need to trim all the flatland on the edge of the city the future plans. This will be step 1 of a what will probably be a long series of updates to the server. Also, Loginperks has been updated so it should stay working and not randomly quit like it used to. If it does stop working again I'll just scrap it and use the one plugin that handles all the lots and /home command. I will also roll out aan update to the one plugin tomorrow that will simplify finding any empty lot and claiming lots.

Something that I've had floating around in my head for awhile is to setup a online store where you can "donate" money (it's a legal thing) and recieve rewards, supporter ranks, items or even direct in-game coin. Let me know what you think of the idea.

Your Overlord,
Silentneeb.

EDIT: Most of this will get pushed to Friday as I am now working tomorrow morning.

Sooo, I had plans on updating a lot of the plugins tomorrow, but probably won't happen. If it gets as nice as it is supposed to tomorrow, I'll be going for a nice long bike tomorrow or until my tire falls off :(. So expect it to be done on Tuesday and Wednesday instead.

Silentneeb

I'm not trying to overshadow the one problem going right now but this is important-ish.

Now that the new plugin is running (at least the bare minimum). Come next Wednesday I will be freeing up lots from people who do not sign in within the next week. This policy will than extend to every two weeks afterwards. This is just to free up lots as they are very few now. Also, you can use /home to get to your lot now.  This plugin will allow you to visit people's lots using their name in the future and some other things. 

Silentneeb

UPDATE: Added a new command  /visit (player/lot #). Enjoy!!