Post Minecon news and the future of MCSG

[ChadTheDJ]

This weekend we hit a huge milestone on the forums if anyone did catch the previous forum post that our forums just hit over 80,000 memebrs! That's crazy! Only a small 20k (not really) more members until we get into the 6 figures which is exciting for sure!

Minecon was indeed amazing! Met so many people that I have been talking over TS or skype for awhile. Nice to actually meet these people in real life and put usernames to faces (which was hard). Got to meet a few of the staff, some fans who amazingly picked me out from the crowd, and lastly well known youtubers including Vareide. I did get sick with a fever the last day which really sucks as Sunday I was pretty much in bed all day, but overall the trip was still worth it.

People have been asking me and I been putting a lot of thinking into what is the future of our community for features, additions, and other cool things. Well I have some plans that I want to start changing starting as of January 1st (to start off the new year). Some of the things you will see:

• More advance stat tracking (best of today, best of this week, best of this month, best overall)
• Network donations, no more EU AU and US only donations. You donate once, you get it for all servers.
• Better map tracking and community picked maps. (Remove the less popular ones with tracking)
• MCSG Pro (This idea will be announced sometime in the beginning next year as it's a surprise)
• Stability, Stability, Stability!
• Bring back the 48 lobbies, add grace period for longer games.

More details will be coming up December and January as we start releasing more information once it is more complete.

(I also noticed a large amount of servers were down, just restarted all of them. Wifi is rare traveling, so sorry about that. Our crash detection system should be almost done so servers will just do this automatically)

 

[guggex8]

Those 3 kids in the background tried to be in every single pic, not only with us... xP

"MCSG Pro (This idea will be announced sometime in the beginning next year as it's a surprise)"
^Interesting!

 

[G33ke]

More advance stat tracking (best of today, best of this week, best of this month, best overall)

Just what I was hoping for!
oh, and the other soon to be made changes are awesome, too. :3


But more on to what this topic was about:
Sounds like you had a great time at Minecon! Wish I could have gone, but sadly, I could not. D:

 

[Elisha]

Looks like Chad really had a great time with some of the staff at Minecon

 

[static_nightmare]

It all sounds great! I can't wait for all of this to be implemented. Hope Minecon went well

 

[ShaunDepro]

Excellent indeed.

And when you say grace period, you do mean just for 48 server right?

 

[static_nightmare]

Excellent indeed.

And when you say grace period, you do mean just for 48 server right?

I take back what i said before, grace periods kinda suck, even on 48p servers. But the rest is awesome

 

[Stijn]

I take back what i said before, grace periods kinda suck, even on 48p servers. But the rest is awesome

At least someone with the same opinion as me ><'

 

[ManOfTheBread]

48 PLAYER!!!!!!!

 

[Hawk62]

Everything sounds great! except for the grace period, the survival games is about risk and reward and this just removes some of the risk

 

[ManOfTheBread]

Also I forgot to mention you should add the removal of NCP to the list

 

[Hawk62]

Also I forgot to mention you should add the removal of NCP to the list

Trust me you don't want that.