Planned downtime, server upgrades starting at 11PST

[ChadTheDJ]

We started to work on some rearranging for the Survival Game servers and tonight we are going to finished the swap. Unfortunately we need to take all servers down to make this change as we are moving data around. This change should take approximately 3-4 hours to complete.

What you can expect from the Survival Games changes this next week:

• Map saving bugs fix (tonight)
• Resetting maps back to default (tonight)
• Donor boost glitched aka the 'deeman' bug (fixed now)
• Modify game times back to old format (you win community!) (Tonight)
  • 40 minutes games for 24 and 48 tribute games
  • 60 minute games for 120 tribute games.
• New exclusive map from Vareide build team (hopefully some time this week)
• Bukkit 1.3 compatibility (checking now will update you)
• Kill Streak Bug (only affecting few people, looking into that now, fix hopefully soon)
• Deathmatch bug and client lag fixes:
  • Removed lava, added bottomless pit to the void (tonight)
  • Change it to day (Later this week)
  • Remove both sand and the stone, loose sand falling animation (Later this week)
  • Remove fire pillars and leave the stone (Later this week)

The Walls servers still being worked on and they are not ready just yet. We will be updating you as soon as we can once we are about to open the servers. 1.3 is coming out, so we are confirming the plugin is fully compatible with that change.

Yes to confirm peoples comments:

1. DEATHMATCH IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE, however we are making a less laggy experience for everyone playing by modifying some of the blocks and removing the sand falling animation.
2. As for the times of the matches, every 20 minutes, the chests reset. So if we do 30 minutes, there will only be 1 chest reset during the gaming. So reason why it's in 20 minute blocks.
3. The DM trigger will stay the same and I will do another community vote on it later.
4. We can add community maps however, we are very picky on what maps we add. So far we haven't found anything that stood out from the crowd but we are still looking.

 

[RedSeamonster]

Sounds good. Thanks for the update.

EDIT-- Question: Will the # of players needed for DM also be set back to 2 along with the time limit?

 

[pupnewfster]

cool so this means there will be 4 maps you can vote for now?

 

[VebbiHD]

nice

 

[ChadTheDJ]

Yes, there will be 4 maps to choose from later pupnewfster

 

[kricken]

Does this mean that games go back to 1h long? D:

 

[Flightman90]

I like the new game times. They are so much quicker and less boring.

 

[Dean]

Just keeps getting better and better.

 

[Brilliantos]

Best news ever! Havnt won a game since that new arena!

 

[ChadTheDJ]

I loved the new deathmatch too but the majority of the players were complaining of FPS drops because of the animations we added. So we are cleaning it up so everyone will have a fair chance at the final fight.

 

[Frostyyy]

Aw man, I liked the short games. I mean they were a bit too short but an hour just feels like too long. Half an hour to 40 minutes seems like the perfect length though, but if people really want a whole hour :/

 

[sabshupe101]

Is this new arena going to fix the lag, and is the new map the Desert Survival Games?