New 'Lifetime' Donator & VIP Ranks

The new 'Lifetime' Donator & VIP ranks are now available!

Obviously the minimum donations are slightly higher than the old yearly ranks but they are still excellent value compared to other servers, with Donator being £15 and VIP being £25. 

From 16th January you will also be able to donate for these ranks on the DiggyVerse server or for just a little more a Multi-server version which gives you the rank on both servers. 

Anyone who donates for either Donator or VIP rank will be given the option to upgrade their rank to Multi-server once it becomes available!

Down For Maintenance

The server is down for maintenance as follows:

1. Full backup/clone - Done.
2. Clear out old data - Done.
3. Management interface update - Done.

Scheduled Downtime:

Date: 04/12/14

Started:  09:15 am (UK)

Finished:  09:55 am (UK)

Scheduled Maintenance

There will be a scheduled maintenance tomorrow* as follows:

1. Full backup/clone.
2. Clear out old data.
3. Management interface update.

Scheduled Downtime:

Date: 04/12/14

Est Start:  09:30 am (UK)

Est Finish:  10:30 am (UK)

*This was originally scheduled for today, but I had to postpone it.

VIP Island MKII

The renovation of VIP Island is complete!

VIP Protection Stones and buyable commands are now available

on the island in the new VIP Spawn Store...

When you warp to the Island you'll notice some major changes, no

more climbing stairs, warps take you straight up to other floors...

The chalets have been replaced with rooms, the style is more simple

but they have extra features such as an included rolling machine

and brewing stand for you to use... 

With the introduction of 'Lifetime' donation ranks, as on the

DiggyVerse server, the number of rooms has been increased

from 12 to 20, with the possibility to add more in the future.

Existing VIP players have already been assigned a room!

Enjoy!

VIP Island Changes

I will be making some major changes to VIP Island this week, don't worry all stored items are safe although you may loose access to them for a day or two as things are moved around, I'll post more details of the changes soon!

Survey, Future Of The Server & Staffing

I've had a few people ask about staffing on the Tekkit Classic server as most of the existing staff now only play on the DiggyVerse modpack server so I thought it was time for an update.

Survey / Future Of The Server

Many of you will remember the survey a couple of months ago before the modpack was released, the results are here if you missed it or need a reminder:

http://diggyminecraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/survey-results.html

The main question about the future of the Tekkit Classic survey didn't get anything close to a definitive answer, and was split between yes we should keep it beyond February, no we shouldn't, and undecided. At the time I promised a second survey nearer the time, that survey will be released within the next week or two. Tekkit Classic is not as popular as it used to be, Minecraft 1.2.5 is very outdated now, but the future of the server depends on you guys and gals and the decision will be made by mid-January.

We will only continue to host the Tekkit Classic server beyond February if a significant number of players want us to and sufficient funds are raised via donations, however big changes are coming to our Donation based ranks for 2015, especially the VIP rank, so watch this space.

Staffing

Although we don't have staff online all the time like we used to most support tickets are still being handled fairly quickly and things like hack detection have been mostly automated. I agree that we really do need more staff if the server is to continue next year, however I'm holding off on promoting any more players to staff ranks until we know how likely that is.

If you want the Tekkit Classic server to continue beyond February then make sure you complete the survey when it's posted and consider donating, if you donate and the server doesn't continue beyond February because not enough funds are raised you will be compensated with free items etc on the modpack server.