Banned Item Messages

I have added custom messages for all banned items, which give the reason the item is banned when it is confiscated or crafting is blocked.

Custom messages have not yet been added for items that are restricted by rank, but they will be in the near future!

Scheduled Maintenance On Sunday

There will be a short downtime on Sunday morning (UK time) to do the following:

1. Perform full backup/clone.
2. Apply updated EE mod patch (includes two possible fixes).
3. Check config & test.
4. Make a couple of basic maintenance schedule changes.

Scheduled Downtime:

Date Time: 05/01/13

Est Start: 09:30 to 09:45 am

Est End: 10:15 to 10:30 am

BuyCraft Donations Goal

Some players might have noticed that the percentage of the donations goal raised on our Buycraft store has suddenly dropped, I just thought I'd confirm why this is the case!

Basically I set it up as an 'annual' donation goal and assumed the year would start from when I added the goal, instead it reset on 1st January and is no longer taking donations before that date into account, so what I have done is lowered the donations goal and paid the amount raised so far to FragNet as an advance payment towards the annual bill in February (we've actually raised around 25% of the total so far).

Thanks again to everyone who has donated so far!

2014 Has Arrived!

Happy New Year Everyone!

FREE BuyCraft Package Added

I've added a new BuyCraft package that is FREE to players of ranks and includes:

$700 in game money (Shards)

8 x Scrap Boxes

Players can 'purchase' the package once per week.

The 'Booster Package' has also been renamed to 'Premium Booster Package'.

Enjoy!

Server Back Up (DDoS Update)

Sorry for the lack of information regarding the server being down for around 9 hours last night / this morning, I only just found out that the hosting company shut the physical server down for a while in connection with the DDoS attacks, it appears one of the targeted servers may have been hosted on the server or at least in the same rack as us so unfortunately they had no choice but to shut the machine down to limit the effect on everyone else until it was resolved.

The server is back up now but the attack has not gone away, it's just targeting a different IP now (one in Germany this time) so some players may still experience some network lag. I'm assured that the hosting company is doing everything they can to resolve this as soon as possible but this does seem to be a particularly intense attack.