Ok, so the server has been rather dead for a while now. I would still rather not kill the server outright, but am thinking about cutting it down to a 15-20 man server. This will give the server 1GB of ram with the hoster, and will save me 15 or so dollars a month on expenses. If activity increases I can up the count and ram as needed, but I can not see paying for so much when not that many use it.
I am also thinking of resetting the whole server. New worlds, new player files.
I am also thinking of making it depend more on Towny for land control. If so I will be upping the amount of land you can own and will probably extend the time for land to become abandoned.
WorldGuard will only be used for Public usage stuff and a few other things. It will not be used as the primary land ownership tool.
I will probably setup a exchange rate for Diamonds to be exchanged for Emeralds, I may do this for gold as well since the econ plugin now has this.
We will still be using pretty much the same lineup of plugins, and any others approved through the suggestions section of these forums.
I will also be wiping the build world as well, but will create a new one. It will probably not be flat, but like the normal world. The build world will have a border setup to keep it from getting too large.
The primary world will probably now have a border for now.
The only other world will be a HUB world similar to what we have now.
The current worlds will be backed up and archived.
I will also be wiping all admins on the server, and everyone will be going back to guest status. I will promote as needed.
I know these steps seem drastic, but I think it is needed to salvage what we can of out now and hopefully future MC Community. This will also help reduce the impact of the server on its ram with the downgrade.
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