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Hello tributes,
It’s been a while since we’ve posted any sort of updates on the latest MCGamer happenings, so here’s a post to describe some of what we’ve been working on lately.
Global Leaderboards Update
Over the past 2 months, we’ve extremely increased MCGamer v2’s stability and extremely reduced the number of bugs. This has allowed us to turn our focus towards the leaderboard update. While there is no estimated release date as of yet, we’d like to let you know that the update is now priority numero uno in our books, and we’ll release more information (including exact dates and times) as we get closer to release.
Minecraft 1.7 End of Support: January 29, 2015
On January 29, we will be dropping support for 1.7 clients from our servers and going full 1.8. Not only will this benefit all of you by leveling out the playing field (as we know that there’s some pretty significant PVP differences between the two versions), it’ll also allow us to massively improve our support for Minecraft 1.8 so that 1.8 clients are more stable on our network and can fully utilize some of 1.8’s new features. This is because right now, along with many other networks, we are still internally running our servers on 1.7 with added support for 1.8, meaning that we get (almost) no new 1.8 features and 1.8 clients may be slightly less stable than they can be. On January 29, we plan to upgrade our servers internally to 1.8, dropping support for 1.7 in the process.
Fun fact: by far, 1.7 was the longest supported version on our servers, clocking in at about 15 months as of January 29. Not only is this because the time gap between 1.7’s release and 1.8’s release was one of the longest in Minecraft history, but also because our 1.7/1.8 dual version software has been, by far, the most stable dual version patch we’ve ever used (shout-out to the whole Spigot team for being awesome!).
Localization and Internationalization – two long words with a lot of meaning!
Some time ago, we announced that we were adding support for multiple languages to our system. Ultimately, although the project made some progress, it was put on the backburner for a long time, partially because of other priorities that came up, and partially due to the lack of translators and difficulty to translate.
We’re happy to announce that the MCGamer Translation Project is alive once again! We’ve been making plenty of improvements to the internal workings of our system to make our plugin even easier to translate. Over the course of the next few months, we’ll start seeking out people from the community and the staff willing to invest their time (and knowledge of another language) into translating our core plugin and all of our games into different languages to make it easier for people who don’t know too much English to be able to play on our network. We do have a few specific "core languages" we'd like to target first, and this information will be announced over the next few months.
Thanks once again for flying MCGamer!
It’s been a while since we’ve posted any sort of updates on the latest MCGamer happenings, so here’s a post to describe some of what we’ve been working on lately.
Global Leaderboards Update
Over the past 2 months, we’ve extremely increased MCGamer v2’s stability and extremely reduced the number of bugs. This has allowed us to turn our focus towards the leaderboard update. While there is no estimated release date as of yet, we’d like to let you know that the update is now priority numero uno in our books, and we’ll release more information (including exact dates and times) as we get closer to release.
Minecraft 1.7 End of Support: January 29, 2015
On January 29, we will be dropping support for 1.7 clients from our servers and going full 1.8. Not only will this benefit all of you by leveling out the playing field (as we know that there’s some pretty significant PVP differences between the two versions), it’ll also allow us to massively improve our support for Minecraft 1.8 so that 1.8 clients are more stable on our network and can fully utilize some of 1.8’s new features. This is because right now, along with many other networks, we are still internally running our servers on 1.7 with added support for 1.8, meaning that we get (almost) no new 1.8 features and 1.8 clients may be slightly less stable than they can be. On January 29, we plan to upgrade our servers internally to 1.8, dropping support for 1.7 in the process.
Fun fact: by far, 1.7 was the longest supported version on our servers, clocking in at about 15 months as of January 29. Not only is this because the time gap between 1.7’s release and 1.8’s release was one of the longest in Minecraft history, but also because our 1.7/1.8 dual version software has been, by far, the most stable dual version patch we’ve ever used (shout-out to the whole Spigot team for being awesome!).
Localization and Internationalization – two long words with a lot of meaning!
Some time ago, we announced that we were adding support for multiple languages to our system. Ultimately, although the project made some progress, it was put on the backburner for a long time, partially because of other priorities that came up, and partially due to the lack of translators and difficulty to translate.
We’re happy to announce that the MCGamer Translation Project is alive once again! We’ve been making plenty of improvements to the internal workings of our system to make our plugin even easier to translate. Over the course of the next few months, we’ll start seeking out people from the community and the staff willing to invest their time (and knowledge of another language) into translating our core plugin and all of our games into different languages to make it easier for people who don’t know too much English to be able to play on our network. We do have a few specific "core languages" we'd like to target first, and this information will be announced over the next few months.
Thanks once again for flying MCGamer!
