November/December Mod Update

[Josh3738 3137]

Hey everyone! There’s holidays, finals, and more holidays to go through, so we’re doing a single update for November/December since that’s when we could shove a full mod meeting in between everything.

Announcements

LWC Groups w/ Worldguard Integration (Lock Groups)

Spoiler

So I found a single, buried reddit comment mentioning this function and @Llir and I spent a bit finding the 3-4 lines of modder patch notes that describe it, but we were able to turn on the ability for everyone to use regions as lock access lists in a similar fashion to adding players.

 

/cmodify r:RegionName
ex. /cmodify r:numendil_capital

 

This will allow you to add and remove access to locks as players are added and removed from whichever region is modified to a lock (as well as whichever regions are parents of the region used).

 

Moderation will also be facilitating the creation of a new locks category of regions. Nation Leaders and Vassal PROs can /modreq to have unattached regions made for the sole purpose of having lock groups to help with nation running (ie. guard, council, royalty groups).

 

Until our fine tech folks make a proper GUI to better automate the features of this particular system, everyone will be able to use regions with their locks, but we won’t be making lock regions beyond those requested from NLs and Vassal PROs for the sake of organization and team bandwidth. 

 

War Pause Update

Spoiler

As we work on implementing a number of changes and get closer to the usual Christmas Truce time anyway, it seems like it’ll be January when things are done. Another post will come out then detailing all of the changes and the announcement of war being unpaused. 

Rule Changes
None.

November/December Mod Meeting

 

Spoiler

1. Stuff from Josh
   1. Foundations for 2025
      1. We’re going to be using the war pause and the usual Christmas break truce to finish war for release in the new year.
      2. We’re going to schedule a meeting, or several, to do a full review of the rules and systems under our purview with the aim of developing projects to pursue
   2. State of the Team
      1. I’m going to schedule 1 on 1’s with everyone to chat about thoughts on the state of the team and what we need to be working on.
      2. We’ve had a couple of departures.
2. LWC Groups w/ Worldguard Integration
   1. See LWC Groups w/ Worldguard Integration (Lock Groups) above.
3. War
   1. Current changes on track for a January release considering the holiday break.
   2. Discussion about a warzone setup is ongoing.
   3. We’re going to schedule a side meeting for war (and more war features)

State of the Team

Current Team

Spoiler

We’ve had a couple of departures from the team since the last update. A big thank you to @TimberBuff for all of the time and effort spent on behalf of the team. A huge thank you to ex-mod admin @dead madmin as well for the time he continued to spend on the team beyond his tenure and for helping me transition into the admin role.

 

As of right now, managers and mods are:

 

Projects

Spoiler

Active
Rule Clarifications (Ongoing): A review of the current rules looking to see where things could be confusing or otherwise require an amendment.

 

Forum Rule Changes: A review of forum rules and proposals for admin consideration given discussions.

 

Naval Warfare (Early Stages): System for naval effects, battles, and movement of armies.

 

Warzones (Early Stages): Offering an optional addition to wars to have sides set up pvp zones to fight outside of warclaims and raids.

 

Precedents

Spoiler

• Inventories/items of banned players may not be transferred to others or otherwise redistributed.

Afterword

 

As always, the rules of the server stand as both reference and guideline for how we should proceed, but they’re also flexible and should adapt with the times and what’s available to us so we might provide the fairest, safest experience we can. Things can be changed, and it’s your help and feedback that lets us know how we can change things for the better. A big factor in how we adapt and introduce rules and systems is player feedback, so join the Moderation Discord if you want to give input on our active projects and anything else you’d like to see changed.

 

Your Mod Admin,
Josh

[Dyl 2088]

MOD UPDATE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Spoopy_Duck 3218]

26 minutes ago, Josh3738 said:

... being unpaused. Halt will remain on forced hiatus until this time.

This wasn't discussed in the last manager meeting?

[teeylin 1688]

Hype hype

[MayRndz 1830]

mod update mod update

[𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠 818]

omg its me!! mod ibleesian!

[_mady07 1541]

WOOO GO MODS

[JoshBright 3014]

I can't believe my double would post something this cringe 

[lemonke 6014]

roar

[PrimnyaQuorum 4003]

39 minutes ago, Josh3738 said:

Until our fine tech folks make a proper GUI to better automate the features of this particular system, everyone will be able to use regions with their locks, but we won’t be making lock regions beyond those requested from NLs and Vassal PROs for the sake of organization and team bandwidth. 

 

Do Lairs get to use this cool feature or is this exclusively for realms?

[annabanana1014 2084]

Always a slay 💙

[GMRO 6187]

 

 

also clarification on what happens for important lore items if someone gets banned with them, are they just lost forever?

[Spoopy_Duck 3218]

3 minutes ago, GMRO said:

 

 

also clarification on what happens for important lore items if someone gets banned with them, are they just lost forever?

Squakhawk can intervene if he wants an item distributed (99% of the time he will say no) but moderation will not do anything with items

[Jihnyny 5233]

1 hour ago, Josh3738 said:

Inventories/items of banned players may not be transferred to others or otherwise redistributed.

remove this pls

[wowj 9760]

 

6 hours ago, Josh3738 said:

Spoiler

• Inventories/items of banned players may not be transferred to others or otherwise redistributed.

 

make it a RULE