I don't think that I ever said I was never going to make a TPA, but it got to the point where I couldn't get on the server without someone asking me if I was going to make one. Adding a TPA grows the community by allowing players who otherwise would not be able to play together without making a long walk or only seeing each other at spawn. On the server list you need to stay competitive, 3 years ago when I developed this server, I was one of the first to have a Home/Warp/Spawn system, that set us apart and brought us traffic, other servers noticed and also made home systems, the servers without them stayed at 5-10 players max. I'm always trying to develop new and interesting things that set our server apart, there was "ServerPlz" that was then upgraded to ServerAI, there is all the ingame command block tech, the community orientated forum, stats page, head drops and more. TPA was just one of the things that is almost required to be a high ranking server, I feel that our implementation is the least obtrusive it could be, there is no ".tpa" spam in chat, no numbers on the tab list and it's not even on the first page of the book.

All of the command blocks in the casino are only activated when a player uses them, they are all outside of the spawn chunks and cause an imperceptible amount of lag if any.

The reason you are seeing hostility from those who built/were apart of building the casino is that they have spent over 6 months dedicating their time building it and creating the 100's of trades and machines by hand.

Everyone has a different building style, I prefer a clean look while some like the abstract look. A quick google search for casino's show that the predominant build style/color pallet is abstract and colorful.

While listening to beggars sucks, I don't feel that there should be a rule against it. As long as staff are not giving items from creative mode to beggars I'm fine. If someone wants to help out a new player, good on them.

- Crafty

You can now use the casino warp in the book!

@ViciousKangaroo How does this have more views than the casino thread? :•

I just added it, so it will only count views as of now.

You can now view how many views a thread has gotten:

You can also order by views in the search bar:

- Crafty

@TheForgotten20 "#NUM!" Shows up if the supplied value of quart is less than 0 or greater than 4 or the supplied array is empty.

You can not reply to threads in the ban appeal section, including your own. You can make a new post in general and link they ban appeal.

There's a difference between Memory (RAM) and storage space (Hard Drive/SSD), you may need to add:

-Xmx1G

or

-Xmx2G

to your JVM args in the profile editor.

@ardoasms im happy that stuff didnt happen when i updated my laptop to windows 10 on day 1

I pulled my gaming PC out of my closet one day to see if it still worked, to my surprise it did! about 2 hours later it auto updated to windows 10 and then everything was broken, I lost my SLI, all my display setups, and half my programs didn't work.

@Valgys What was the PPA you used when you tried the update? Ondrej?

Yeah, that was the one that was mentioned most places online, I figured I would just give up on updating and go back to 14.04, it was like 5 in the morning and I just wanted it to work so I could go to bed.

So some of you may be wondering what happened to the server and then the forum today/yesterday.

TLDR; Note to self, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. If you want to sleep, don't be a programmer.

Our server's kernel was out of date, had some issues and then crashed forcing us to do a hard reboot. (Nothing was really lost though, our backups are much more frequent) This was a pretty quick fix, I just had to replace some of the corrupted files with ones from our backups.

The forum was a bit of a bigger situation that took a bit more time and effort to fix. After the main server crashed, I figured it would be a good idea to update the forum's server as well (sounds like a reasonable idea). I expected a few minutes of downtime while we were updating due to restarts but I had no idea what was about to happen. After running the correct commands to update and waiting a bit, it asked me to restart the server. When it came back, I knew I had fucked up.

The forum is built on PHP 5.6 and is not updated for php 7.0. Ubuntu 16.04 only has the repository for PHP 7.0, by using a PPA to get PHP 5.6 I was able to get the forum to run but not communicate with the database server. After getting the database server to work I realized that it was no longer on PHP 5.6 and was back on 7.0 (which broke the forum again). I decided the best way to fix all the issues was to go back to Ubuntu 14.04 (I know it works) however they don't make it easy to downgrade at all. I took a snapshot of the server as a restore point incase it all went tits up and then clicked on the reinstall button on OVH's control panel.

I couldn't believe my eyes, it said that I had a snapshot and I had to delete it before I could reinstall, what good is a restore point if you can use it to restore????

I spent bunch of quality time finding all the bits of data that I would need to save to setup the new OS. I deleted the snapshot, clicked the reinstall button and crossed my fingers. About 10 minutes later I got my email telling me that my new OS was ready, I setup the webserver, database server, ssl, keys and then proceeded to import all the data into the server. The forum content was easy, just copied the files over, however, when it came time to importing the data from the database, I was met with an unpleasant flood of errors. It turns out that after updating to Ubuntu it modified the database a bit (changed the engine type of the tables that store system data) I had to manually change each one that created an error one at a time because it would get to that line and the quit.

The final curve ball was a bit of a surprise to me, when I was trying to fix the issue I turned on debug mode (shows more detail about errors including stuff like deprecation messages). That caused it to just insert all the error messages just anywhere in the forum making it unusable.

It is now 6 in the morning and I have yet to go to sleep from the previous server crash and before that I was attempting to port forward through 2 routers, a modem and then reverse proxy through https, little did I know that both firewalls on the routers were blocking non http ports, the reverse proxy didn't support https and the webserver wasn't even running even though it said it was.

I have school in about 3 hours so I'm going to get some sleep.

Night Ya'll!

- Crafty