Silversunset01

Just to throw it out there, our server costs will not change if we host 2 or 3 servers. The box is the box, no matter what we put on it.

Hey everyone! Now that CTF is wrapped up and the fundraiser is set I thought it was time for another financial update. During the drive, we received $3,173.60 in donations, a HUGE thank you to every single person who donated. After fees we get to keep $3,038.98 which puts us just over the 12 month mark for funding! We still have the two servers, the primary one where pve, pvp, creative, and event run, as well as the second box that hosts the forums, map downloads, and holds some of our more critical information in backup. We did enter into a 1-year contract with our server host, which has saved us some money and allowed us to go a bit longer between fundraisers. This dropped our primary box from $238USD/month to $135USD/month (until feb 2017). The secondary box is still at $51CAD/month, with the forums at $25USD/6 months. With the 1.9 update we did have to pay for one of our plugins, but that is expected to be a one-time fee. The plus side is this does leave us with the ability to expand some of our infrastructure - most notably that it takes an increasing amount of space to hold all of our old maps and backups as revisions progress; we'll be following up with the techadmins to get a clearer picture of our needs. Below is a summary of our expenses since the last fundraiser (all figures in USD)

The teams actually seemed fairly balanced this year. I know didy is working on some "fun facts" to put out that i think will help show this - things seemed pretty good in that regard. I loved finding all the sci-fi references on the map. ermagerd.

Anything in particular about it? good? bad?

This year it does due to some savings we found. There will be a financial update after CTF is over if you're interested :)

Silver Stealth Edit: The server will be running a custom resource pack as well (prepared by our very own Sapphric!). You can play without it, but it will be way more fun to see all the fancy things he's added! For those who have trouble with server-side resource packs sapphric has given the link for download so everyone can enjoy the fun (even if they have potato internet like me!!)

Done

therandomnatrix has stepped down to moderator and his permissions adjusted. defiex has been made a padmin and her permissions adjusted.

The timed bans though would be nice for certain things. more like a "time out" than a full ban - things like bad language or trolling, where they may not need the full ban but just some time to chill before coming back. Then we don't have to remember and they don't have to appeal Jails are an interesting concept. I know rev...15? when GenHam was next door (cmchappells build) and someone took over a corner and started building in it. They seemed to completely ignore chat, and kicks. I joked at the time to buzzie who was handling it that he should just surround the player in bedrock until they spoke to him (not knowing that jails had been a thing in the past). Something like that may be useful in certain cases, and i would expect that if it were implemented staff would conduct themselves appropriately. .

I have gone ahead and unbanned your account. Glad to hear you're getting things straightened out!

I will unban you now, but you need to understand that these actions are unacceptable. If you wish to discuss further please PM me in game or via the forums

D_Owl this is the second time in as many days that this has come up. While in the lobby during the restart you died, and then said the following in the PUBLIC chat: You have been warned about things like this already once this weekend alone. Nobody is looking at your private messages, this is a direct result of your public messages. Since the rev is new I will only ban you for 4 hours HOWEVER the next ban you get will be a minimum of 24 hours, regardless of the cause. I will unban you after 1:30am EDT.

Forgot to update this. Barlimore has stepped down and his permissions adjusted accordingly.

So the vote is closed now. We'll proceed with getting Ace and Djentle permissioned up and trained. Welcome aboard!

Will be finalizing this after work tonight, so you can vote until about 6PM EDT and then the topic will be closed!

Just bumping so it's in the new content section. Please vote!

It's this time again, staff will vote on these 2 candidates and we will proceed with full nominations on May 26th (or when 75% of staff have voted, whichever comes first) Voting goes as it was last time: Yes, meaning "I support this person, and want to see them as moderator." No, meaning "I personally do not think this person should be moderator." Don't know well enough, meaning "I do not know this person well enough to make a decision." If you have any concerns with any of the candidates, please reach out to a Head Admin, so we can appropriately deal with the voiced concern, and properly take your feedback into consideration.

inb4 "all mods except wyndy..."

Hey tiki - Hollifer asked me to take over this appeal as she is currently sick. It looks like your account was banned for griefing which is defined by our rules as unauthorized edits to builds that you did not create, and additional usernames were banned as being alts. I will go ahead an unban your username "TikiPlayz" as more than the normal amount of time has lapsed since the initial ban. Please make sure to refresh yourself on our rules at nerd.nu/rules - welcome back!

Hello all, we're going to be moving forward with a number of permission changes upon our services and reflected on the staff page over the next few days. Permissions will not change straight away as we are going to be contacting each individual before making changes to keep them informed. Data for this was gathered from March 12-May 6th. Based on log-in times, we'll be moving the following people from current moderators to inactive: JudgeDread Additionally the following people will be moved from the inactive staff to our past staff section: Cyotie911 Elbeau gdavison SkrapssparkS

Recently nerd staff have transitioned to a new communication tool called Slack in an effort to stay better connected in case of issues. We have no plans at this time close the #redditmc IRC channel and pinging staff there will still reach them. You will see a user called "Nerd" sitting in that channel that acts as a relay between #redditmc and our slack application so we can still communicate easily. If you are trying to reach a staff member via pm on IRC and do not receive a response in a reasonable amount of time please try pinging them directly in the #redditmc channel.

More information can be found here: https://redd.it/4hktli