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The Great Easter Egg Hunt
Welcome to our newest community event, where you will spend Easter hunting down eggs and finding unique prizes coming with each egg. This event will begin as soon as this post is up on Sunday, April 4th, and it will continue until every last egg has been found using the following hints.
Story
[!] In the deep cold night, when almost all were asleep a door went open and an individual stepped out. A shiver went down his spine as he stepped outside. Carrying a small basket full of golden eggs, the man seemed to have some trouble carrying the weight of them. He then went on his way visiting all across the realm, hiding the eggs. When the morning came closer the man also pinned some papers on notice boards all across the realm, announcing his particular event. In the papers one could read the following: “Dear denizens of Almaris, I have spread out 12 golden eggs across the realm and I invite you all to go and look for them. Upon finding one you can decide to keep it for your own use, or return the egg to me in order to receive a reward. The hints for these egg locations can be found below. Happy searching, and may luck find you today.”
Hints
1. In an old, torn tent where the Kha once rested, wooden walls defend this egg.
2. Flags at a crossroad of red and yellow mix with the colors of gray and orange. In a broken stone tower on the outskirts of a humble village, the next egg is found.
3. In a lush desert oasis, in a place where children play, the egg hides beneath the bridge.
4. Somewhere high up in the air, where the journey begins and a peaceful aura surrounds you, there lays the egg near the fire.
5. Near the boat that brings one to Silver, in the direction of the light the egg could be found. But make no mistake, it is closer than you might think.
6. In the bare cold of the north, hanging high on top of there where one gathers food the egg would be found.
7. Halfway through the sinkhole that houses one of the races, near the mountains in the East near the trees, the eggs can be found.
8. Up up we go, up to the light that helps sailors back to shore, in a port town where the Li-Ren once lived.
9. Time flies by as we climb to the rhythm of the tik tok tik tok. In the lands of the dwarves but not in the capital.
10. A statue that looms over new beginnings and twiggie soup!
11. At the bridge which leads to the inner sanctum of the seaside crown.
12. By a small village’s iconic farmland and a home which is shared by the small and large alike.
Instructions
Once you find an egg, please make a /creq in-game at the location, and a CT member will come to verify that you did find the egg and give you your prize! Each time an egg is found, it will be announced as a reaction on this post and the egg will be removed. This way you know what eggs are still out there and which have been found already. Each egg can only be found once. Upon making a /creq you will get a golden egg item. Within the timespan of a week after date of this post you can make a /creq or DM snoopie12#8195 to trade these eggs for actual prizes. This includes a mina reward per egg and a seasonable banner.
If you have any questions, please let me or another CT member know, and happy Easter!
The Eggs
Each of the eggs will be a golden egg head with a sealantern directly underneath it. For a reference, look at the below picture. Ensure that if you think you’ve found an egg, it looks like this. Any attempt to forge a fake egg will be noticed immediately as we have the coordinates noted down of all real eggs.
Special thanks to the Community Events Team for working on this project!
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Whohoo!
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May you finally have a break, thank you for your service.
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COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE LOGFEBRUARY 2021
INTRODUCTION
This month has been a ride. While the new members got settled in, the new player application numbers have been spiking still. The pressure of maintaining our fast response times with this many applications was there all around the month. For next month I expect to go over 500 new player applications. Now with the information and feedback the Your View threat gave us we will be working and setting up projects the coming month in order to give the team a direction again and restore the faith the playerbase once had in the team.
FEBRUARY DATA
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This month, we saw a total of 491 apps handled, with 233 new players welcomed onto LotC. Maintaining our accepted/denied ratio that is some below 50/50. Overall, it's been a crazy month for apps as we never had so many apps in one month since a while again. We keep raising still.
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TEAM DATA
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SpoilerAPPLICATION KING/QUEEN
This month’s Application Queen goes to @audyush
Followed behind by @Demon_Lilly and @Cobbler !
With 143 applications, @audyush is our reigning application queen of February!
CURRENT ROSTER
Community Administrator
Community Managers
Community Team Members
Content Creation Members
Changes in the Roster
@Ark - Stepped down
@Hopesky123 - Stepped down
@MisterChenn - Stepped downCOMMITMENT UPDATES
Battle of the Arts/Crusade of the Creative - @Demon_Lilly @__TigerKitty__
Hello there! So this month we are going to do it a bit different. To stop the announcements subforum from cluttering we will now put the Battle of the Arts results within the Community Team monthly update. If you are named below make sure to DM @snoopie12as soon as possible in order to get your prizes. Congratulations to all winners, and we hope to see you next time!
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Visual Art: @Sevastiel
Building: @The Fact Core
Skinning: @ShannonLeigh
Singing/Magic Creation: @jolfrey
Wiki Caretakers - @HogoBojo & @JokerLow
Howdy everyone! During the previous month, the Wiki Caretakers continued to work on maintaining, updating, and adding additional things to the Wiki. As always, we believe that the Wiki is a valuable source, and we wish that players can reference it often as a reliable source of information. During this month, a lot of major pages have been updated to reflect the various changes that occurred on the server. The Major Nations and Charters page, Race Pages (Thanks to ST), amongst many others have been updated. If you wish to contribute to the Wiki or have any questions or concerns about the Wiki then please feel free to contact one of the Wiki Caretakers. The current Wiki Caretakers are @HogoBojo & @JokerLow. Also credits to @Luminairefor working alongside the Wiki Caretakers on updating a lot of pages.
Hogo’s Update
During this month I made it my primary focus to update out of date pages such as the Major Nations and Charters page, Settlement Pages, and more. Additionally as always, I’ve been updating a variety of different miscellaneous pages. I’m quite ecstatic to say that lots of people this month have been using and/or working on the Wiki. I hope that this trend continues, and that more people use and/or contribute to the Wiki going forward. If you'd like an account set up to help contribute then you can request one in the LotC Discord. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Wiki then please feel free to send me a message on Discord: HogoBojo#0001.
JokerLow's Update
Hello there! So a lot of changes recently to the wiki. Firstly we recruited more people as volunteers. Established and prepared future systems, now awaiting admin aid/approval on those. We worked tightly with Story Team to implement the new racial updates to the wiki, hotter that bread out of the oven. Besides the major projects other smaller things here and there on the wiki have been updates as well, not really over the top but just maintenance work. We also started the progression on updating nation pages, but still not done with them since getting the information sometimes is harder than some may think. Right now we are also getting updated information regarding the kha as we speak.Skin Archive - @snoopie12
In the last month we have re-established the Skin Archive and it's function. Now all skins are able to be used once again and all broken redirects have been updated. I recieved some feedback on the new skin archive and will work on inplementing it in the comming month. Due to team budget we sometimes will allow payments for donations to the skin archive, and sometimes not. Keep a eye out on the skinners-information channel in the Lotc discord for updates on that. The newly made skin archive can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/lotc-skinarchive/home?authuser=0
Media Team - @peachcool, @Treshure @snoopie12
Social Media is still being looked at, however Treshure is going full steam ahead with their video's. The Your View on the Community Team also indicated that people would like to see some continuation of the Tutorial Videos and so this will be discussed and looked at to see what we can do.
Application Standards - @Luminaire, @Evonpire and @Ivoreyy
Hello all, marb here. Short update as this is mostly internal! Work is on the way to rewrite the currently used application guide, staff have access to. The most notable, public change in the works currently is an addition to the application format, and its guidelines put in place for the team, as written by @snoopie12. These are awaiting approval, but should help with the application process. As for the internal changes, the aim is to ensure that all team members will enforce the same standard upon applications, especially when it comes to lore. No pink Wood Elves, no Aegis born Humans, etc.
Player Retention - All Community Staff
A plan has been made and has been admin approved, the waiting now is on inplementation by all teams, the time this takes is yet unknown, but progress is being made. Once inplemented the first experiences of new players that join for the first time will be of better quality and far more engaging for both the new player as the communities around them.
MARCH’S DIRECTION
Last month was about continuing to improve the team and roll out some more projects. In this process we regrouped under new management and brought in some new members.
Last Month’s Goals
Our goals for February where to keep improving the team and roll out some more projects while integrating in the new members.
This Month’s Goals
The goals for March are more detailed then the past months. Now I really want to get that ball rolling.
I. Inplement the new systems in order to improve player retention
II. Having more frequent Community wide meetings
III. Looking to get more Tuturial Videos comming out.
IV. Working on disciplining the team more.
V. Rewriting varius documents and guides.If you have any questions or comments about the direction that we are going in, feel free to leave a comment down below or reach out to a team member.
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Great work, I am really proud of you.
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Heya, have you tried uploading it as a different file, a .jeg or a PNG file? Sometimes that works better. You can also just make a screenshot of your persona skin in-game and upload that.
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👀 Dont shoot me because of my awnsers
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We dont have model UN in my country sadly 😭
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Community Meeting Notes
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Topics
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Texture pack
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Community Team
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Vortex
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Story Team Events
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Player Retention
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Recording
Questions and Answers
Q: A server Texture pack!!! I know a basic one has been worked on but would it be possible to do a more in depth version considering all the very cool things that could be done with the custom vortex items! making every block and item not just vanilla plus but into a fantasy style pack that fits LoTC would add to the immersion on another level and I think would be loved by the community and well worth the time (Tech)- 🔥Chaos🔥#4247 (00:00:20)
A: Vortex is coded with a code in mind, so we have a working draft of a texture pack. It's put to the side for now but wants to be put into work later on, some other things are more important. It's something that they really want to get going though and make public to others to use as well. Basically finishing stuff out before it gets out, will see it along at the same time of the big vortex update.
Q: With Telanir currently as the acting Community Team Admin, he's done a good job reforming the team into something more functional. However, given that this was only meant to be a temporary placement, have any considerations been made into a more permanent replacement? (Administration)- Crevel#9266 (00:02:55)A: Telanir is CT admin, after muffins has been removed from the administration the idea of temp has gone away. So he is the CT admin for a while.
Q: What exactly will be the forum for us the people playing the game to create and submit suggestions in order to have an organized way for people to inform the staff where the server can be improved (Administration)- Jameson#2863 (00:03:55)
A: We are still looking into new ways of communicating, but most of the suggestion channels weren't very proactive and mostly not implementable in the short term or they were mostly out on adding a plugin that does X. We are looking for other means of this suggestions, like other discords for staff specific teams.
Q: Any updates or changes to Vortex soon? Specifically so it’s not as grindy. (Tech) -Kingston#6969 (00:04:55)
A: It's going through huge rewrite, going through a whole depth to it and more quality of life important. Everything will have meaning and add to the world. Check out the Tech Discord for more information.
Q: How are you guys on the community team? How’s everyone on the team's work ethic, feelings about the team and such? While we’re on the topic what do the community team have planned for the future, new projects or anything pertaining to that? (Hope you guys are doing well) (Community)- BenjiBot#1207 (00:06:40)
A: We are re-building lately. Last month we accepted 8 new people into the team. Mainly focusing on apps, they are under control. Apps are now taking only a few hours before they are being reviewed. Now that we have that under control we are more looking towards picking up projects like battle of arts, ct updates and more to come. A big thing is every member of the team going through a choosing three roleplay groups and putting on a list to get to know our community more. We want to make a system of volunteers to get new players well integrated. Alongside this Treasure is doing great with the player retention, using numbers and results to work off of. We have ideas but we have inter team collaboration, so a lot of approvals from each team but there is movement.
Q: Any plans to celebrate LotC's 10 Year Anniversary? (Administration)- Crevel#9266 (00:11:01)
A: Would like to but not our priority, we want a small event but will see when we get there.
But Treshure says there is a video planned!
Q: Is there any plans on changing up the pvp system? As in, making it less of an aspect than it is.. I mean we are on an rp server not a pvp server? (Tech)- Kingston#6969 (00:12:36)
A: Already gone through. More information at the Tech Discord. The war server, we have a newer api software to work with, so with the war server there is hope it will be better with the new software and it should have less lag since it is multi threaded.
Q: To add to the question above, I feel a big part of this also has to do with the lack of knowledge with CRP so maybe bring back pots and pandits? or give a bigger description on the rules or something pls. (Community)- 🔥Chaos🔥#4247 (00:13:50)
A: Pots and pandits was couple months ago, so it is semi-shelved. Since there was only 1 player every two months that requested it, we decided it was not being worth a big project so we have made a general video for it. But if a new player makes a /creq we can still teach them the basics of CRP.
Q: Question-will the community team be holding events related to this new map, like they did on Arcas or will that no longer be a thing due to the long wait it takes to get an admin to sign off on projects and deliver prizes that may be required? (Community)- Tainted_Ace#4526 (00:15:01)
A: On prizes, mina are going to be easier now and immediately handed out after an event, as the economy team made a nice treasury for ct to use. Managers can quickly get money for prizes from this. For events, we probably will hold them soon again, but we have focus on the team getting stable. However we are looking towards events again soon, especially for the holidays so stay tuned!
Q: Related question to events, I have yet to do to much exploring on Almaris but I know Arcas had a ton of random hidden event locations and such, Almaris being a bigger map I assume they are harder to find however is that a focus on this map at all? (Story)- 🔥Chaos🔥#4247 (00:16:35)
A: There are a lot and people who have found them, but some are inactive. ST are probably doing events soon for those inactive places. There are Four bigger event sites and 1 smaller one. However, a lot is going on, and the team has multiple tiles with story lines. When Joel is coming back from hiatus those will likely start, but mostly all paperwork and entertainers are doing smaller scale. More or less under ten until someone gets into high gear. Stuff through february will bring more community driven and events will come along and large scale things too. Really trying to still get region lores set up and story lines. After the inferi event line, ST needed a break. A lot are coming back into gear, though it was realised at the end arcas that world war wasn't really adequate to what we have at the time so they have been working to get all of that up to par. A lot more will be heard from ST soon!
Q: Staff has recently put out a thread on player retention. How serious is the declining retention on the server being taken and what plans are being formulated to address this issue? (Community)- Burnsider#3564 (00:20:54)
A: Treasure is doing great with the player retention, using numbers and results to work off of. We have ideas but we have inter team collaboration, so a lot of approvals from each team but there is movement.
Q: Have a question for the story team! Would it ever be possible to use old realms? Or parts of old realms for big events. I'm not sure if they're accessible or saved but having the option to go back to Atlas for an event or something like that would be a blast! (Story)- 🔥Chaos🔥#4247 (00:21:15)
A: Yes 100% it's a pipe dream run, so players like going back to Athera. It was a massive disaster from a staff perspective. Athera was just an example of what not to do, would love to entertain it. There is something planned out but more figuring how to do it but it will be on a much smaller goal like a nation group at a time. From the tech stand, there were a lot of problems with Athera event line, loading it, converting, fail safe, old broken items , dupes, old lore items, it wasn't taken care of because of planning. It if ever happens again, we have to keep these things in mind. So lots of planning and set up is needed.
Q: How does the event team plan on moving forward with events due to the apparent setback of vortex? Things such as world events, eventlines, event sites, etc. Is there anything we can look forward to in the future? (Story)- un-w#9099 (00:26:09)
A: In short, everything that is tangible, so story and lore. So lore is paperwork, February is across the board. You will see more green tag precedence, with interactives and events. Huge push to encage players with old and forgotten things and new gen to show them all.
Q: As the community team is regrowing its numbers we’ve seen the return of Community Team Monthly updates, are there any plans to start up any of the other things that the CT dropped while having low numbers? Like the BotA or Monk guidance? (Community)- Desired#2831 (00:28:19)
A: Yes, this month, alongside the ct update. February will have BotA due to Jananuary not having one because of restructure of ct. Monk guidance is actively being looked at, to improve it and re-vamp it to help with player retention to improve it. We are still hashing it out, so it might be involving other team tho so like quests and to get new player into an intervention
Q: Why is it up to team managers on whether their staff members are removed for abusing pex? Shouldnt it be a conduct standard that abusing pex is at minimum removal from staff? Allowing managers to make the decision is quite encouraging of nepotism. (Administration)- Sham#8133 (00:30:26)
A: It's less about managers making decisions. But more managers manage their team to check if the person was actually abusing pex. Because a lot of times it's just a misunderstanding. When it is abuse they get removed. It is taken very seriously and at the end of day it is admin call. There are discussions and shoulds and shouldn'ts.. But you can reach out to the admin to say if managers are playing favoritism.
Q: For the tech team- are you open to returning LOTC to 1.8 pvp? This would be a popular decision amongst all militant rpers: soldiers, mercenaries, and bandits alike. Would you like to see polling data to confirm what is already well established anecdotally? (Tech)- birdman#9444 (00:32:18)
A: No...not in current time. With vortex there is just a lot more to do with it. There were a lot more problems with it code wise. It was a bit of a headache and limiting. 1.9 is just better with rp than 1.8.
Q: The last post in #social only half makes sense and is from october. What plans are there to revitalise the social media presence of lotc? (Community)- Sham#8133 (00:34:01)
A: We are looking into it, however the administrational departure still has its effects and the big question also is if social media had any use or influence to attract new players. So for now the answer is no, no current plans yet.
Q: Does the economy team have any future plans on bolstering the current player economy? (World)- WildWyvern#3228 (00:37:27)
A: We've already changed your minas per vote, buffed it up and consecutive voting too. We have seen we are over 500.000 mina in the economy, where a lot is being held in player or nations banks. In terms of resources you can speak to nation leader to help you out
Q: When the new map first started we were told by economy team that there would be a limited amount of Minas(2 million), how much of that minas has been given out via Voting so far? (World)- Desired#2831 (00:39:18)
A: There is currently over 500.000 mina in the economy.
Q: With large scale battles, will there be an advantage/disadvantage for attacking/defending certain areas? (Moderation) - Welkitends#1764 (00:39:28)
A: War server is being worked on. If we do not have the things ready for large scale battles we have other ways to fight big battles, but let's hope it doesn't come to that.
Q: What is the future of Magic? With all the shelving and stuff, is there any plan for it? (Story)- Trouble#1991 (00:41:05)
A: A handful is being shelved, a handful is being rewritten. Anything that is shelved is completely open for players to rewrite on their own.
Q: Since November/December the majority of the Content Creation team has stepped down from CT. What are the plans for this part of CT now that their manager and the majority of members are gone? (Community)- Desired#2831 (00:43:14)
A: Simply, there is no more content creation. Slowly everyone has shifted to CT staff. So we are training and shifting to do CT standard tasks, so we have enough people to step in for apps again when needed.
Q: Has a new settlement manager been selected yet? If not, is there any timeline on when one will be selected? (World)- Desired#2831 (00:44:38)
A: Yes it is Zindran. Feel free to reach out to him for any settlement inquiries.
Q: When are you going to get rid of the incompetent staff members? Drain the swamp. (Administration)- Rusti#7801 (00:45:47)
A: If someone is incompetent and they are on trial it will not be extended or if they are not on trial they will be removed. Quality of staff and our work is tried to be held high. If you ever feel like staff are being imcompetent, reach out to a manager or admin.
Q: At the end of the War Rules post that Basket made a while back, it said there was internal conflict rules coming in January. I'm assuming that isn't done, is there any update on that? (Moderation)- Noobli#4534 (00:47:21)
A: Nope, it is being worked on. Not much to say about it but the moderation team will give an update soon.
Q: With the mention of the CT having their own bank for events and such, is there any possibility of New player Skins or Skin Archive donations being paid for again? (Community)- Desired#2831 (00:48:25)A: Hard one, not 100% sure, in terms of economy if it will work out. For this time being, it can't be answered and I will be looking into it. CT skin archive is still being looked into because a admin got removed, several things were removed so it will be looked to be rebuilt again
Q: Actually I have a legitimate question to tack on here. I believe that Nation leaders should be allowed to cooperate directly with the ST for their event lines that apply to their nation, so that they may have the ability to offer insight on how to make events that would be particularly engaging for their player base and culture. Will ST be communicating with all nation leaders directly for event lines involving their nations? Is that something already done? (Story)- Noobli#4534 (00:49:54)
A: When ever comes to this we reach out to the leaders, work something out. As far as anything goes no set in stone policy. Right now, if something happens we will just reach out. Always a courtesy. Smaller events, smaller stories are up to them how they want to work with. But on a larger scale we work very close to nations and leaders. So basically yes.
Q: I've heard talk of a race rewrite. Are there any updates regarding that? (Story)- Soul#9694 (00:52:40)
A: Not much of a rewrite but it was never formalized. So a draft was sent for admin review but has been sent back for more changes. It's a work in progress right now, waiting for people writing it to make changes. However it's not the most pressing project.
Q: Last I heard the Skin Archive was "broken", is it still broken? If so what is the issue with it? (Community)- Desired#2831 (00:54:29)
A: With departure of the last Community Team admin, they cut off ties with the server as a whole, some links in the skin archive will lead to non existing files. Some are accessible but some aren't. We are looking into it to see if we can fix this but if not, we are setting something up to rebuild it. More updates soon but no decisions yet.
Q: I'm very new in this, but I want to do some big events on the server, and currently with the player base and from what information I've been told, I'm not getting clarity on if/how world/story team, mods, tech team works and how to get in contact with them reliably and know that problems are resolved and communicated with our ideas and events. Eg; I took a week for a potential dupe I encountered to get a response with no update, and 3 accounts of resource veins are yet to get responded to. tl;dr Why is it so hard finding out the commands and getting in contact with mods, tech team and world team, for me [a new player] at least. (All Staff)- LeopardMan19218#1702 (00:55:39)
A: To make contact with a staff member you can always make /modreq, /creq, etc in-game or reach out to a staff member through our discord. For the Tech Team this is a /treq or by submitting a request/bug through the Github bug tracker. If it's too sensitive you can pm Llir directly.
Q: This is a question for the development team! Do players have a forum outlet or opportunity to submit plugin ideas for the server? In the sense where you could provide code, diagrams, or the general idea of what the plugin is & how one would implement it on the server? As I know people can already submit general suggestions in the tech discord. And if there is not, could there potentially be a push for such? (Tech)- CallMeDoctor#0362 (00:57:34)
A: Kinda answered. Major plugin suggestions, not really taking ideas but we have limited man power and everyone has a project to work on. So smaller suggestions are better. Coding a plugin is quite a big thing….
Q: Is there a possibility of LotC making its way to TikTok? There have been quite a few minecraft servers that took off because of TikTok advertisement. (Community)- Desired#2831 (00:58:54)
A: We have one, though not taken into use as it was made under the old CT admin. So still figuring out like the other social media platforms. So it's a work in progress.
Q: Oh goodness, this is a major one. I want to try and make an order of Golemancers and start teaching people, but there is no Thanhium to create Golems with. When are the Lore Nodes coming? (Story, Tech, World)- Noobli#4534 (00:59:50)
A: Might look into automated nodes but I don't know if we wanna go to that because we don't have it on new vortex. So for now, probably within the week, two weeks, we don't mechanical way we will revert back to manual system. Work with the Tech team with item login and modding function. But just figuring out how to implement it. Should be out reasonably soon. The problem is there is a tech exploit. So rewrite is needed for vortex so someone has to sit down for a day or two, but cant work out in next week, will rather tell ST to work old ways. There is a function coming where we can spawn in items, that strips down all mechanical uses. It can be given to represent it and then can work with texture pack
Make an /sreq and they can meet you halfway. Will just looks like an iron sword but with a texture pack it will look like what it needs to be. More than happy to help people, so spread word.
Q: How much of a priority is wiki-related work and will there be any official wiki initiatives beyond simply deleting content or letting people without basic (namely human) history knowledge have free reign to decide what should or shouldn't be worked on? (Community)- LithiumSedai#2394 (01:07:03)
A: When we delete a page it is NOT gone, it can be restored easily if someone requests. Pages are being deleted because they either are useless or have 5 or less sentences.
We are looking for more things than just deleting but there is just as much we can do.
JokerLow and Marb are reaching out to nations leaders for them to update their wiki settlement guide and all for new players to make it easier for them. If you have issues with the wiki or need help, PM HogoBojo or JokerLow and they will be more than willing wot work with you
Q: Unsure which team this question would be under but..
What would staff say makes LotC different from other servers? What makes it more unique & thus more appealing to players? This could be taken in the sense as advertising for LotC, or even just encouraging new and old players to remain hooked. Upon asking a similar question in a few player groups (nothing on a mass scale of course), but a fair few argued that LotC, between a lack of lore compared to older maps, no longer being considered "the number one economy server," or other servers having plugins very similar to that of LotC's, is not as unique as it once was. If the staff agrees with this sentiment, what would be the plan, & in what area, to make LotC "more unique" or attractive retention-wise? (All Staff)- CallMeDoctor#0362 (01:09:34)
A: We have a lot of plugins and systems that are custom made and all to fit the server, so you won't be able to find that anywhere else. Also the longest running rp server! Almost 10 years!
Our community is really, such a passionate and engaging community. Who care about the server and are putting in a lot of work. And this community makes us unique.
The goal also isn't just to make profit, all money flowing in just really goes back into the server! Lotc is the most immersive storytelling experience in terms of gaming. Minecraft is just perfect for the shaping the world into the vision and having complete creative freedom
And Lotc dominates this, with a decade for lore and history for us. Not any economy server, nor a pvp server but it always adds to the rp.
Q: What happened to fireside chats (Administration)- Conor#8203 (01:14:51)
A: On And off again thing, that we as admins thought would be beneficial for the community to see the admins thoughts and wanting changes. But after a while many thought it wasnt most effective way to connect with the community. Looking into new ways for admins and other staff to communicate with players and the transparency with the community.
Best way to join all the discord of the staff, better way to get your thoughts seen.
Q: Is there any plans on making a portable storage space? As in backpacks, shulker boxes again, etc.. (Tech)- Kingston#6969 (01:18:14)
A: No, not plans for it right now. When 1.17 rolls around, we will be able to do the bundles. Shulker boxes were buggy, most of the time deleting players' items, and felt wrong about being able to hold 1000s of items on your inventory, very unrealistic. Just gonna hold off until 1.17. 1.17 will be coming out in summer, so we will be getting onto it as soon as possible.
Q: Are there plans to bring back the wiki team or at least devote some more resources to the two wiki caretakers in some form? relying on volunteers isn't exactly...sustainable (Community)- Sham#8133 (01:22:02)
A: We would like to put more focus on wiki because we have a team for it to make it a reliable source. When new players come in, they get redirected to wiki. So it's the first thing they really see, so it should be a higher priority than it was. Trying to make it a combined staff project to work on wiki and help from volunteers. A discord is being made for easier communication for this too!
Q: Weren't we going to yeet the enderchests? (Tech)- Potatatoes#0500 (01:24:07)
A: I don't know if we ever will remove them from Cloud Temple, but around the world they have been removed. It is still trying to be figured out. They just don't fit in what we are trying to go with for player items. Might find a new use for it sometime. There still is one at the Cloud Temple due to the way they /evict command works.
Q: In regards to the Wiki Team, is there any interest in exploring the use of the Wiki Wizard rank on the forums? You could call it a prestige rank but it is weighted similar to Creative Wizard. For example, allocating the role to players that make extremely large contributions to the Wiki and otherwise? (Community)- Heero#7850 (01:27:38)
A: This is what it is being used for, it just isn't being handed out that much as the Creative Wizard role.
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On 2/1/2021 at 1:54 AM, Basil Moroul said:
anyone know when pmc page is finally getting its update since its already 2 maps out of date!
What would you say is outdated on it? And if there is something can you please DM me, then I'll look what I can do.
https://gyazo.com/5a97dfe1639ea7c854ae4377ce7be32a
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4 minutes ago, Evonpire said:
I can't believe my own Manager turned into a repmonster, mein gott.
I-i-i-i, I just have so less. All I want is having green numbers. 🥺
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Welcome to our Battle of the Arts contest -- the second of its kind!
Battle of the Arts consists of the following five categories:
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Visual Art
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Music Creation / Singing
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Building
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Skinning
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Video Editting
Theme
The theme for February's Battle of the Arts contest is Valentines.
How to Sign Up
Signing up is easy! In order to participate all you need to do is comment on this post using the following format:
IGN:
Category:
Artwork:
Prizes
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100 Mina
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Creative Soul (win 1 time)
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Creative Wizard (win 3 times)
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Creative Overlord (win 6 times)
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Criteria
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All content entered must coincide with the theme of the month.
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You are allowed to submit up to 1 submission per category.
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Submissions are to be posted in the comment of this thread.
Credit to @reko for the Battle of the Arts art.
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COMMUNITY TEAM UPDATE LOG
January 2021
INTRODUCTION
Hello! So we are staying in the flow of things in the area of applications, once again almost double numbers compared to last month. Those numbers are really reaching top numbers we don't see very often. Definitely good to see these growing numbers. In terms of the team we are rebuilding. With a complete change of management the past few months and the addition of 8 members to the team the team focus firstly is on getting everything together before we pick up on projects again. It's definitely been a hectic month, but I must say we have come out much stronger as a team. Application response times have gone down to in most cases only a few hours. Which is truly amazing to see. I am really looking forward to next month and all the projects that February awaits. I hope you are as excited as I am!
DECEMBER DATA
- Overview -
This month, we saw a total of 420 apps handled, with 201 new players welcomed onto LotC. Maintaining our accepted/denied ratio that is some below 50/50. Overall, it's been a crazy month for apps as we never had so many apps in one month since a while.
- Accepted/Denied Ratios -
Spoiler- Race Specific Data -
SpoilerTEAM DATA
- Application Team Data -
SpoilerAPPLICATION KING/QUEEN
This month’s Application Queen goes to @Demon_Lilly
Followed behind by @Suicidium and @JokerLow !
With 129 applications, @Demon_Lilly is our reigning application queen of January!
CURRENT ROSTER
Community Administrator
@Telanir
Community Managers
@Ark
@snoopie12Community Team Members
@__TigerKitty__@MisterChenn
@camocat9
@Demon_Lilly
@HogoBojo
@JokerLow
@LuminaireContent Creation Members
@peachcool
@TreshureChanges in the Roster
@Ark- Got promoted to Manager
@snoopie12 - Got promoted to Manager
@zuziee - Got removed@FIXER957 - Stepped down
@Fie - Stepped down
@Hopesky123 - Stepped down
@Luminaire - Got accepted onto the team
@Ivoreyy - Got accepted onto the team
@Evonpire - Got accepted onto the team
@Hyped--Angel - Got accepted onto the team
@latteTM - Got accepted onto the team
@audyush - Got accepted onto the team
@Cobbler - Got accepted onto the team
@__Soph - Got accepted onto the team
COMMITMENT UPDATES
Battle of the Arts/Crusade of the Creative - @Demon_Lilly @__TigerKitty__
Battle of the Arts and Crusade of the Creative have been merged with Creative Cafe and all will be hosted by our new Art Conquest people, big thanks for Demon_Lilly and __TigerKitty__ to step up for the job. We are reorganising the way some of these work, but it surely is to be an exciting thing to look forward to!
Wiki Caretakers - @HogoBojo & @JokerLow
Howdy everyone! The Wiki Caretakers have been continuing our work on maintaining, updating, and adding new information to the Wiki. As always, we believe that the Wiki is very important, and we want players to use it as a prime reliable source of information. You can find the individual updates of each member below. If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns, or need anything else related to the Wiki then please contact one of the Wiki Caretakers.
@JokerLowAs of January, I have kept working on updating main wiki pages and getting new people accounts. One major thing that I have done is the creation of a future discord to come, that will be used to ease the communication barrier between players and Wiki Operators, thus giving us a better way to understand each other. Alongside @Luminaire, I have also been able to gather the needed information for some nations to have their pages updated. Our focus is marked on the important wiki pages being updated for players to use, sometime soon we'll plan on adding the freshly accepted magics.
Prizes - @snoopie12
Heya, so since this month I have easier access to mina and so all mina prizes from previous events have been paid if they weren’t yet. This makes processes of getting rewards faster and you will get your hands on your sweet prize sooner. More events are to come and more prizes to win so get ready!
Media Team - @peachcool, @Treshure @snoopie12
Due to internal team circumstances we sadly still haven't been able to start on the Social Media. We are currently still looking into this and how beneficial social media actually are. I hope to give a more detailed update on this next month.
Community Meetings - @snoopie12
Hello all! When I am writing this we have a Community Meeting planned, or it already happened. In the last case I look forward to the next one. As you might have seen Community Meetings are changing a bit so communication stays clear. If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to DM me!
Application Standards - @Luminaire, @Evonpire and @Ivoreyy
Hello all, marb here. Myself and others have begun working on changing and improving the current standards upheld on whitelist applications. The goal of this is ultimately to ensure that different Community Team members apply the same standards to applicants, and are fully informed on what to research properly when handling applications. This is to help avoid lore mistakes being looked over, as well as making sure that racial appearance guides are followed as they are described in lore. What also ties into this is reviewing the current guidelines for whitelist applications, and changing them accordingly so that they are clearer, and fewer mistakes are made by applicants. This is a small project which will be handled internally within the team, but something the people who track whitelist applications are sure to notice.
Player Retention - All Community Staff
As most of you might have noticed @Treshure recently brought out a concerning report. When we are looking through all the reactions and suggestions one question clearly stands out. The most asked question is what we are going to do with this now. Now, we obviously don't have an all detailed ‘what to do with player retention plan’ laying around for these situations. And so I ask for a bit of your patience while staff looks over options and changes we can make to benefit the server. But I can assure you, we are determined to get better numbers and make the server grow more. A concrete example of what we are doing looking from community team perspective is focussing on revamping Monk Guidance and new player integration to make it run smoother and make people stick around more often.
FEBRUARY’S DIRECTION
Last month was about continuing to improve the team and roll out some more projects. In this process we regrouped under new management and brought in some new members.
Last Month’s Goals
Our goals for January where to keep improving the team and roll out some more projects.
This Month’s Goals
The goals for February are to fully enroll our new members into the team and get the ball rolling. We will be bringing back some old projects as well as starting some new ones with the eye on the player retention.
If you have any questions or comments about the direction that we are going in, feel free to leave a comment down below or reach out to a team member.
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Hmmm. Honestly a tough one. I would say just remove them temporarily, however I am worried about Tuturial Island. Now established players don't have a lot with this, but for newly accepted players it's the first they see. And the entire island consists out of NPC's to explain certain topics.
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THE BALLOT
((MC name: snoopie12 ))
Name: Elahern Aeth'sulier
Vote for Okarir'hiylun:
( ) Seth Calith
( XX ) Valyris Wynasul
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Prizes had a little delay, my apologies. However I now reached out to all winners through the forums so be sure to check your messages or DM me on discord [snoopie12#8195]. Thanks to everyone for participating and see you around the next time! ❤️
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Results had a little delay, my apologies. However now the winners @MayRndz and @AlphaMoist have been contacted through the forums to claim their prizes. I want to thank everyone for participating and see you all around the next time!
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Epic build, epic event. Thats all I want to say, big thanks to who worked on this. And Im excited to see what will come.
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THE BALLOT
((MC name: snoopie12))
Name: Elahern Aeth'sulier
Vote for Okarir'tir:
( ) Kiljarys an Iarwaïn
( ) Finnadh Uradir
( XX ) Kolvar Trafina
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Elahern Aeth'sulier would look over the missive when he was whitin the Silver Walls. "Hmm, ayla then. It seems like the government is rebuilding." he thought out loud.
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Praise Llir 🙏
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Let's open the gates 😉
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Easter Egg Hunt 2021
in Announcements
Posted
Number 2 as well
Number 12 as well
Number 1 has been found
Number 8 has been found