Hey everyone, we all talked about staffing and have some announcements that will be made in the next few days. MrsPinkin is gonna be promoted to owner :D

Just some background to the decision; now that the server will be hosted locally, not only will he be a big help to me in-person if something goes wrong, but his house has fiber internet so if my internet blows it'll go in at his house. Additionally, he's got a strong tech background (he works technical support for Apple) and will bring a lot to the back-end functioning of the server.

Everyone congratulate him!

I have a proposition for the factions of teh3l3m3nts but I figured I'd do it in person so here you go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBih5XBV7k&feature=youtu.be

Reeling from my bandwidth overload last week, I've been doing some behind the scenes maintenance. (Off topic, one of the projects I host was a digg-style suggestion engine for a university activities office, and they didn't actually go with the site I designed. I did a lot of work reworking an early version of Pligg to work with facebook connect and such, so I kept it running as part of my portfolio. I haven't looked at it in like 2 years...but the version of Pligg was outdated, got hacked, and was sending facebook spam, and using 6GB of bandwidth A DAY...I have 100 GB/month, I exceeded it, hence why we were down a few days. I've since removed that service. The more you know.)

I decided to create some subdomains for us:

• http://irc.teh3l3m3nts.com - IRC Client
• http://workirc.teh3l3m3nts.com - At Work IRC Client
• http://dynmap.teh3l3m3nts.com - Dynmap
• http://stats.teh3l3m3nts.com - Server Stats
• http://forum.teh3l3m3nts.com - Forum
• http://noob.teh3l3m3nts.com - Noob Guide
• http://commands.teh3l3m3nts.com - Commands and Priviliges

I can add more if people have more ideas :D

All this faction fighting! What is the line between faction war and griefing?!? OMG DRAMA!

Taking from the courthouse in old world, it was clear that a place was needed for arbitration between factional groups. Nevertheless...this is new world and things aren't supposed to be as easy as they used to be. So I build a serene mountain monastery where issues can be worked out.

I have provided the following screenshot...everything you need to know is in this picture.

Sup everyone! I've been doing a bunch of work behind the scenes, for example, moving into my new house, doing some rewiring, setting up all my networking stuff, and prepping for a new piece of hardware which will be running the server out of hopefully my house. Also, MrsPinkin (a.k.a. OverjoyedWorm) has been helping me with some behind the scenes stuff, and we have been talking about ways to make our community better

We came up with the idea of having a forum. Mostly the idea grew out of wanting to have a place for factions to discuss things without all being on at the same time. Also...this isn't just a minecraft server, this is a community, and we have things to discuss OUTSIDE of the game.

So we played around with a phpbb install, but it would have meant a whole new login system and stuff, and just wouldn't have been smooth. We found a wordpress plugin that integrates elements of a forum right into the existing structure; no new theme, no second user database, and we can tie in forum posts to stories and stuff.

There's a link to the forum in the sidebar, check it out and begin using it, tell us what you think, and blow it up!