[Trade] Signs Disabled

I am sorry to say that I have had to disable [Trade] signs with immediate effect after a serious and unfixable dupe involving them was brought to my attention.

[Buy] & [Sell] signs are unaffected by this and will continue to be used in the admin shops.

I realise it's less convenient but shops wanting to trade for money will have to use it in it's item form, and trade Industrial Diamonds via trade-o-mats instead.

Myself and niki2008 have been through all the stores at spawn and removed the signs, money and/or items belonging to shop renters have been put in chests in the shops or added directly to your balance, we have made sure that no-one loses out by rounding items up to whole stacks in many cases.

Apologies for any inconvenience this causes but if we had not acted quickly then the entire server economy could have been undermined.

Shops outside of spawn:

If you have a shop/mall outside of the spawn area which has [trade] signs then do not destroy them as you will lose any items/money they contain, instead open a modreq so that myself or Tatankore can get your items and / or money back for you. 

Once the sign is destroyed we cannot return the items and / or money.

Server Back Up

Our hosting company had to take several servers down last night just before 10pm due to another large scale DDoS attack against it's voice servers, although it was technically resolved by around 1-2am they decided to leave the servers to be manually started in case of more issues.

As everything seems fine now I have started the server back up so you can log in again! 

Spectator Areas Added To Minigames

Tatankore has added spectator areas to all GameWorld games except RageMaze!

Warp signs can be found in the main building and all spectator areas have warp signs you can use to return to the main building.

This was added after a suggestion submitted by niki2008.

Enjoy!

VIP Renewal Emails Sent & Donator Package Disabled

VIP Renewal emails have now been sent to all existing VIP players, please remember that the email is sent to the address used for your PayPal payment (unless an alternative was provided), if you need it resent or sent to an alternative email address then just let us know.

I know they were supposed to be sent out tomorrow but it's looking like I'm going to have a crazy day so I thought I'd send it now just in case!

Not an existing VIP but want to be?

A new free package will appear in our BuyCraft store from February 7th allowing players who have already bought Donator rank to reserve any VIP slots that we know are not being renewed. Once a slot is confirmed an email will be sent to you with a GroupPay link as with renewing VIP's.

Note: The BuyCraft Donator package has been temporarily disabled so that this is not used to 'queue jump' and will be re-enabled on 14th February when any remaining VIP slots will be made generally available.

Thanks again for all your donations to date!

VIP places remaining as of 17:00 on 6th February:  9 of 12

Fun Statistics

Here's a few statistics for server activity in December, just for fun...

Average blocks placed or broken in 24 hours - 327,314

Total unique players* - 987

Total players on for more than 7 unique days* - 691

Average unique players in 24 hours* - 104

*Only counts if players were online for more than 15 minutes.

Top 20 players by playtime:

#1 tylong234
#2 poppadom587
#3 jabbawokkey
#4 mreyno
#5 niki2008
#6 thedudewhocrafts
#7 tatankore
#8 freaksdesign
#9 diggityduck
#10 xx_boy1997
#11 diggywig
#12 fam_mou
#13 sam_the_chicken
#14 xphantomy2kx
#15 xxman123x
#16 lincoln1313
#17 diggybrine
#18 imtehq
#19 pantheria19
#20 drophar

Total new money added to economy (slots, rewards etc) - $6,675,830

Total money removed from economy (slots, admin shop purchases etc) - $4,671,234

Because we had 3 players win 1 million on the slots we ended up with the amount of money in the economy jumping up but that should hopefully balance out over time :)

Down For Backup/Clone

I've taken the server down for a full backup/clone, it will be back up in about 30 minutes.

Update: The server is now back up!