Post by Keiran on Jul 31, 2015 22:15:50 GMT -4
• Participation Bank now has a link in the navigation bar. Members of the website can now earn VIP Points simply by posting in certain parts of the forums. All VIP Points are located on both your mini-profile and your main profile (a few of you will already have VIP Points in the bank, transferred from the original Participation Bank post).
• A clock for the EDT timezone has been added! Please use that when scheduling events for the server!
• The Event Scripts subforum has been removed as we don't need it anymore.
• I'd like to suggest to the administration to please check out the Administration forum, as everything's been re-arranged there and there will be tutorials on administrating and using certain plugins for administrating there in the future.
• We now have a Terms of Service. Please read it over in it's entirety.
• Oops! Last month's News Letter was skipped but a lot of chaos was happening, both on the server and real life, throughout the majority of the month. I'm back now, so hopefully there will be no missing News Letters for the rest of the year. (My greatest of apologies!)
• There is a deal for those who donate to the server with over $17! Though the donation drop-down menu doesn't say it, if you donate $40 you'll get one year of VIP Membership and if you donate $60 you get two!
• We need help advertising the server. If you're already spreading word through school, work, or other online communities that's awesome. If you'd like to help out but have been unable to spread word, we've got a few outer links that need moderators to help advertise on (Facebook, MSPA Forums, Tumblr etc.). You can even create a thread or page yourself for another website to help us out! The more people on the server the more fun we seem to have!
• You shouldn't have creative mode on the server anymore! If you still have it when you login, please use /spawn. It will place you in survival mode automatically. If we catch you using creative mode when you're neither VIP or an administrator from this point onward, there will be consequences.
• There's a new banning system for both our server and our website. You will first be given a warning when you've broken a major rule (harassment/discrimination/griefing) and after that you will receive three temporary bans (length extended depending on how often you break the rules) and then a permanent one if you continue. Also keep in mind that the administration are all members of this server as well and not only do they have to follow these rules or risk facing the consequences, but they are also protected under this rule, including myself.
• Lottery winner for this month is... DynashEtvala! Well, technically he was the only one who entered. Congratulations regardless on receiving 100,000 Delta!
• Winner of the VIP Membership this month is... cyberdragOOn! Congrats! Please keep in mind that this does not automatically grant you a bypass in the VIP Point Shop like VIP Memberships that were earned through donations. Your month-long VIP Membership only counts on the server itself and doesn't grant you any website privileges pertaining to your characters.
• Reviews may be delayed this week. One of the administration is on vacation and I myself might be unavailable due to last-minute event announcements from another game that I haven't played on in a long time. That being said, we may end up tackling it later that Sunday or perhaps early Monday. If it is hosted by one of our administration, remind them to: Record VIP Points, make an announcement in the administration skype chat of said recording, and then add those VIP Points to your profiles.
• We're going to be introducing an old event that we used to host a long time ago but we're still in the planning stage. What we need to finish our planning is everyone's times that they can be on the server! Remember to use the clock (EDT) on our website and post in this thread to let us know.
• Regarding all Lore and Game Reserves: If you plan on hosting a role play, whether it's last minute or not- please announce it in the main skype group! Doing so will enable me to see it so that I may add it to the list of events on this page. There aren't any official events aside from reviewing this month as I'm really busy with art this month and probably part of next month too (but this doesn't mean other administration members can't create their own events).
• Don't forget- if you're planning a big event on the server, whether you're an administrator, vip member, or a regular member, please remember to post your event in the Events forum with the date it's going to happen (based on our website's timezone), where it's going to happen on the server, what it's about, and provide a countdown as well!
• We're pending in the Queue for another custom song from the great Kenji-B. He's just been really busy as of late and hasn't gotten around to it.
Don't forget that you can post any events or announcements that otherwise have nothing to do with the server down below (regardless of your rank on our server/website). This can include threads in the Misc. forums and reminders about events in your Lore Reserves, etc.