Post by Keiran on Feb 1, 2015 0:40:05 GMT -4
• This month is the Perigee of the Pump Biscuit celebration! We're going to be doing things a little differently this year and it would be greatly appreciated if any and all members chimed in to help. Last year I hosted a lot of 'Meet-n-Greets' and I ended up exhausted in the end. As a member of our minecraft server, you have the ability to create a Meet-n-Greet to host on one (if not many) of the weekends within the month. For more information on what Meet-n-Greets are, and how to create them, check this thread out here. Anyone who creates a meet-n-greet will automatically receive 50 VIP Points, as it's helping me and my admins out.
Perigee of the Pump Biscuit includes days that we celebrate certain quadrants:
Pale Day on the 7th
Flushed Day on the 14th
Ashen Day on the 21st
Caliginous Day on the 28th
The celebrations are up to those who have those particular quadrants. They get to choose how they celebrate their relationships.
• February 21st will be our Worse Than Death Chapter 2 Role Play event. There's going to be one or more Resource Packs you'll have to download and activate (when prompted). The original Chapter 2 thread will be scrapped and replaced with a new one sometime this month. Keep watch.
• For those who have submitted applications and for those who are planning on joining, I must warn you that things have gotten a tad bit more difficult for you to join thanks to another server. We will now perform background checks on anyone who applies to our server, for safety precautions.
• For anyone else's safety, new and old members alike, please remember that you can report abuse from another member. Just remember to take screenshots of any conversations before, during, and after along with any screenshots of what else the perpetrator may be doing. We work hard to ensure that you are comfortable and happy on our server but we can't do anything about members who abuse our hospitality unless you report them!
• Along those same lines, if you notice anything missing from your hives or chests, let us know right away. You may have been griefed.
• Seeing as how we're running out of room on our Skype Call Group, we have decided to take on Skype Call Petitions. These are always going to be located in the Events forum. From now on, if you wish to join an official call for the week (for events and building projects), you'll need to sign the petition to be added. There is a limit to how many people can join. If you sign the petition before that limit is up, but you never join the call, you will be penalized (i.e. can't join any official calls for the rest of the month). However, if the limit runs out before you can sign, this doesn't mean you can't hold any calls with anyone else on the server - you are very much welcome to do so.
• The last role play's summary will be added to the forums before our next role play event, so you may catch up on the happenings.
• I'm going to need help preparing for the next role play event. Volunteers will receive VIP Points for helping us out. Look forward to next Saturday around 2 to 3pm EST, which is when I'm planning on building.
• Polaris is on the verge of being completed. There's quite a few more building projects to go but with volunteers helping out as often as they do, we should be done in no time. Thanks to everyone who has helped out so far: We appreciate it!
• Winner of this month's VIP Membership: Pytis! Congrats!
• We now have a facebook page and it is linked under the forum What You Need to Know. Thank you animealice101 for creating it!
• Our forums have gone under significant changes. Many forums have been added and moved around. We have also added a plugin that will allow you to click on a category and collapse it, so you can get to the category under the one you just collapsed, faster. If you leave a category collapsed, it will turn red if there's a new post.
• TMAU Newsletters Subforum has been added to the What You Need to Know Forum. You can find every Newsletter here from now on instead of it being sent to your inbox. Check the Newsfeed on our Forums page in case a new one has been posted.
• We now have a Role Play forum, Shopping District forum, and Gaming Corner forum aside from Chatter Box under the Misc. category (below Minecraft Server). All threads have been moved to the appropriate forums and from now on, any threads created should be placed in the forums appropriately.
• In order to finish updating the Lore page, I'm going to need to enlist help from volunteers - we need certain kinds of pictures to be created for the new lore. If you're interested in helping out, please let me know. Both VIP Points and a month-long VIP Membership will be rewarded.
As one member to another, not counting myself as an admin, I would like to know what would make applying to our server easier to you and any future members. A lot of people get confused and we're repeatedly asked the same questions, even though we've answered them in the FAQ. It would be great if you can help us out in making it easy for you and others to join us. Please reply with your input, it would be greatly appreciated.