Item Limits Reinstated

As some of you know we have always had limits on the number of certain items that players can place as an anti grief / lag measure, but before the switch to the new hosting company we lifted some of those limits to see if players use the items sensibly. 

The problems which led to the switch-over made it difficult to assess whether the items were being used in a way which would cause problems so we decided to carry on with the trial on the new server, leaving only the following limits in place as they were on the old server:

Doors (all types), Trapdoors, Pistons (all types), Timer & Sequencer

However after two weeks and with the enhanced logging our new host provides it has become clear that the limits are necessary, over the past week we have had 2-3 crashes per day that would not have occurred had the limits still been in place.

We have therefore brought back the limits for:

Energy Collectors (all types), Antimatter Relays (all types), Condensers, Solar Panels & Arrays (All Types)

However the limits for some items have been doubled:

Antimatter Relay (Mk3):     Old Limit - 32, New Limit - 64
Energy Collector (Mk3):     Old Limit - 64, New Limit - 128
Condenser:                       Old Limit - 32, New Limit - 64
Solar Array (HV):               Old Limit - 64, New Limit - 128

Players who have already placed items in excess of these limits will be allowed to keep them as long as they are not causing issues, however they will not be able to place more of any given item until they remove enough to bring them back below the limit, for example if you have 128 placed and the limit is 64 you would need to remove 65 before you could place 1 and removing all 128 would allow you to place 64.

Probationary Helpers

We currently have three probationary helpers:

blad2003
yuolyuol
GethGerlan

In a few days we'll be deciding which of these should be made full Helpers and which should be demoted back to Member+ for now, so I'd ask that if anyone has feedback they'd like to give on any of these helpers, positive or negative they e-mail or message me on skype. We will also be taking other factors into account but your feedback matters!

Any Helper that is demoted will be able to have another go at becoming a full Helper in the future and shouldn't take it personally, we want to keep the number of helpers at any given time small and make sure that most of the community is happy with our choices!

Banned Items Revised

I have managed to get anti-dupe measures working for two banned items:

RM Furnace & Klein Star (all variants)

These items have now been removed from the banned item list, however they are restricted to Member+ rank or above as attempting to dupe with them could cause a lot of console and log spam.

Enjoy!

I've also re-added Dispensers to the banned item list, I thought they were fixed by a patch but seemingly not, we've had a few crashes in the past few days due to the old redstone + dispenser Tekkit bug :(

PVP Village Now Open!

Some of you wondered why I placed an npc village at spawn and put it in a glass box, well now you know...

I've modified the village and set PVP to allow, giving players a more open space to fight rather than just being restricted to the PVP Arena, and unlike the PVP Arena there are no rules, anything goes!

Enjoy!

Whitelist In Place

A whitelist is in place whilst I fix some problems deliberately caused last night, the players responsible have been banned and it shouldn't take me much more than an hour to undo the damage and put precautions in place to prevent it from happening again.

UPDATE: 11:00 - Backup is running now, whitelist will be removed in a few minutes :)

UPDATE: 11:05 - The whitelist is now removed!

To anyone that saw the changes made to the screens at spawn last night I apologise, it appears the two players responsible where using hacked clients and judging by their spelling quite young kids. 

I have added security measures to the screens which should prevent this from happening again, information on the screens can now only be refreshed by restarting the server. All actions / block modifications by them have also now been rolled back.

Both the players have been banned along with their IP addresses in case they have additional accounts. Thanks to blad2003 for jailing & muting them last night to prevent further damage and chat spamming until I could get on to ban them. 

May The 4th Be With You!

In celebration of Star Wars day a maximum size screen has been placed near the market that will be showing the ComputerCraft version of Star Wars on loop all day!

Enjoy!