[Head Admin Meeting Notes]

April 2, 2018 Head Meeting Notes

• New Mod Candidates
  • one candidate has been put forward, leaving them up for a bit for staff comment before voting.
• Discussed 3 lobby suggestion box items and responded here
• [Redacted] discussions and progress updates on two events planned for the near(ish) future.
• Discussion regarding the next fundraiser.
  • A wild map has been spotted! Need to check in with the creator to see if theyre making changes.
  • Discussion of theme and spawn ideas
  • Discussion of gameplay options
  • Player made dungeons are coming along great!! MORE ARE NEEDED :nomnomnom:

[Head Admin Suggestion Box]

• east-west tunnel should loop from one to the other + north-south tunnel should loop from one end to the other (oops)
  • While these are interesting suggestions at this time we are not looking to modify the lobby.
• Possibly up entity cramming in the lobby? Not usually an issue but with the p reset...
  • Entity cramming was secretly increased to 200 on the lobby during the p launch, hopefully this will fix lobby deaths!

[Monthly News Digest]

Welcome to the Nerd.nu April 2018 News Digest!
Below you will find a summary of all the cool stuff that's going on this month. Admins will make their announcement posts as usual and they will be compiled here to make it easier to locate them.

 

Community Wide:

• Dont forget to follow @nerdnugaming on twitter!
• Head Admin Meeting Notes
• 2018 Fundraiser - DUNGEON BUILDERS NEEDED

 

PvE: 

• Rev 22 information post
• The Archaeologists' Guild Acquisitions Department is now OPEN.

 

Creative:

• Speedbuild or Spleef - Every Saturday 9pm EST
• Weekly Build Contest 
  • Week 7: Nutcrackers! (Ends 12/8) - Winners: rosebox9, ieuweh, texb
  • Week 8: Snowmen (Ends 12/15) - Winner: EpIc_NaChO_, ieuweh, rosebox9
  • Week 9: Gingerbread House (Ends 12/22) - Winner: ieuweh
  • Week 10: New Years Party (Ends 1/5) - Winner: AndyJF
  • Week 11: Steampunk (ends 1/12) - Winner: AndyJF
  • Week 12: Knights (Ends 1/20) - Winner: ieuweh
  • Week 13: Pirate Ship (Ends 1/27) - Winner: Pixl3
  • Week 14: Aircraft (Ends 2/3) - Winner: Apogee
  • Week 15: Dystopian Future (Ends 2/10) - Winner: texb
  • Week 16: Valentine (Ends 2/17) - Winner: Apogee
  • Week 17: Mythical Creatures (Ends 2/24) - Winner: Spook6
  • Week 18: Desserts (Ends 3/3) - Winner: promaxxe
  • Week 19: Famous Building/Landmark (Ends: 3/10) - Winner: WaxTed
  • Week 20: Ancient Egypt (Ends 3/17) - Winner: WaxTed
  • Week 21: Flowers (Ends 3/24) - Winner: Abitcat
  • Week 22: Computers (Ends 3/31)

 

Minigames:

• FFS Friday - every Friday at 9pm EST

[New Moderator Voting: Kirstae]

Kirstae has changed her mind and has accepted. Permissions will be set up and training scheduled.

[Pixl3 [Silversunset]]

You are unbanned. 

[Pixl3 [Silversunset]]

You will be unbanned after 6pm EDT tomorrow (wednesday) when I get home from work. Please take this time to reflect on your interactions with others in-game, your next instance of this will be met with much harsher consequences. 

[Pixl3 [Silversunset]]

Thank you for your appeal.

Apologizing for “[your] comments being considered harassment” however is not an acceptable response. Harassment will not be tolerated on our servers in any form and you have a long history of attacking others which appeared to have stopped but sadly seems to have resurfaced. 

 Please refresh yourself on our rules page located at nerd.nu/rules and explain what rule you have broken and how. At that point I will determine the length of your ban. 

[Head Admin Changelog and Announcements]

Defiex has stepped down and her permissions have been updated to moderator.

[New Moderator Voting: King_of_Queso]

Please add your vote for king_of_queso - this poll will stay open for two weeks until Sunday 25th March or when 75% of staff have voted (36 people) whichever comes first

If a staff member votes 'no', it is expected that their accompanying comments have been previously made known either within the feedback thread or directly to head admins. If not, we will get in contact with the staff member to get more detailed reasoning.

If this vote is successful:

• We will contact the player to ensure they would like to join staff. If they would:
• We will contact techs to update player permissions in game, and update forum, slack etc. permissions across our services.
• We will arrange basic training and inform server admins when new moderators are ready for additional server-specific training.
• We will move this voting post to public mod forums, and inform the playerbase via the Head Admin changelog.

If this vote is unsuccessful, or the player declines, we will inform staff within the post, and move it to the private closed nomination forum.

[Head Admin Changelog and Announcements]

Trooprm32 (now Trooprm64) has been reinstated as a moderator. 

[Head Admin Meeting Notes]

March 11, 2018 Head Meeting Notes

• New Mod Candidates
  • one candidate to be put to vote this weekend.
• [Redacted] discussions and progress updates on two events planned for the near(ish) future.
• Discussion regarding assisting padmins leading up to and during rev launch as needed
• Discussion regarding the next fundraiser.
  • planning has begun
  • map making is underway
  • the fundraiser trello is filling up
  • Player made dungeons are coming along great!!

[New Moderator Voting: grenbug]

5 people have voted yes for grenbug and 23 have voted "do not know the user well enough"

After speaking with padmins we have spoken to grenbug and she has accepted.

[Staff Cleanup - February 2018]

Hello all, we're going to be moving forward with a number of permission changes upon our services and reflected on the staff page and will be contacting each individual to keep them informed of this change. Data for this was gathered from December 18th through February 18th,

• Based on activity, we'll be moving the following people from current staff to inactive
  • varj (by request)
• The following people will be moved from the inactive staff to our past staff section:
  • Socarch26
• There are an additional 11 staff members who will be contacted regarding their activity levels to ensure we're doing all we can to assist them with any queries or issues, and make sure they're still available to participate as a staff member.

[Head Admin Changelog and Announcements]

bookey42 has joined the moderation team and his permissions have been updated to reflect that. General training has been completed.

[New Moderator Voting: bookey42]

9 People have voted yes for bookey with 19 voting as "did not know the user". Due to the number of staff who voted "do not know" padmins have agreed to accept responsibility and bookey has been contacted. They have accepted and training is scheduled.

[Head Admin Meeting Notes]

February 3, 2018 Head Meeting Notes

• New Mod Candidates
  • three candidates to be reached out to
• [Redacted] discussions and progress updates on various events for the future.
• The newest suggestion box item on the lobby has been responded to in this post
• Discussion regarding the next fundraiser. Plans will be distributed to staff for review and then prep will begin!

[Head Admin Suggestion Box]

• run an event for charity. - This sounds like an interesting idea, if you'd like to reach out to one of us with more details please do!
• pvp in lobby & mini PVP areas in the lobby  - At this time we are not looking to add pvp to the lobby. Players are welcome to use the minigames server during restarts to pvp if they wish

[Monthly News Digest]

Welcome to the Nerd.nu February 2018 News Digest!
Below you will find a summary of all the cool stuff that's going on this month. Admins will make their announcement posts as usual and they will be compiled here to make it easier to locate them.

 

Community Wide:

• Dont forget to follow @nerdnugaming on twitter!
• Head Admin Meeting Notes
• Behold the prophecy is complete! Keep an eye out for news of the 6k!

 

PvE: 

• Rev 21 information post

 

Creative:

• Speedbuild or Spleef - Every Saturday 9pm EST
• Weekly Build Contest 
  • Week 7: Nutcrackers! (Ends 12/8) - Winners: rosebox9, ieuweh, texb
  • Week 8: Snowmen (Ends 12/15) - Winner: EpIc_NaChO_, ieuweh, rosebox9
  • Week 9: Gingerbread House (Ends 12/22) - Winner: ieuweh
  • Week 10: New Years Party (Ends 1/5) - Winner: AndyJF
  • Week 11: Steampunk (ends 1/12) - Winner: AndyJF
  • Week 12: Knights (Ends 1/20) - Winner: ieuweh
  • Week 13: Pirate Ship (Ends 1/27) - Winner: Pixl3
  • Week 14: Aircraft (Ends 2/3)

 

Minigames:

• FFS Friday - every Friday at 9pm EST

[Head Admin Meeting Notes]

January 28, 2018 Head Meeting Notes

• New Mod Candidates
  • Four candidates votes have closed. Two have accepted and two are being discussed by admins.
• [Redacted] discussions and progress updates on various events for the future
• [Redacted] discussions regarding a project requiring tech admin time, Cujo and Silver will be following up with the appropriate admins.
• The newest suggestion box item on the lobby has been responded to in this post
• Applyformod - One new application has been posted for staff to review
• Discussions regarding PvE and Creative servers, and various support requests we have received from server admins.
• Discussion regarding the next fundraiser. Plans have been tentatively made, with heads to finalize a plan by the next head meeting.

[New Moderator Voting: ieuweh]

15 people have voted yes for ieuweh and 12 have voted "do not know the user well enough"

ieuweh has accepted and will be trained by the headmin team

[New Moderator Voting: i_c_e_]

23 people have voted yes for i_c_e and 5 have voted "do not know the user well enough"

i_c_e has accepted, provided her training is deferred until after Feb 14th. We will look to train (and formally announce) her at that time.

[Head Admin Suggestion Box]

• flame wings effects are neat, but you know what would be nearter? FLYING with flame wings.
  • as stated in previous suggestion responses we are not looking to implement elytra on the current lobby. Where elytra are appropriate to the build they will be considered.
• Submitted on PvE: start of this video as minigame - sphere randomly filled with air or TNT, some creepers start in the middle, your score is how many TNT you retrieve after <time> 
  • The minigames server does not currently support this gametype but we would be glad to pass it on to redwall_hp for consideration

[Revision 21: Mid-Revision Feedback Topic]

@Sir_Didymus  - King of the Tater Thieving Farmers of the Northern Quarter. 

In response to your kind inquiry:

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We tried to mitigate this somewhat with the nether design, which has numerous sand-filled areas, and even a bit of gravel here and there!

Whoever wants to decimate that lovely nether should be strung up by their netherregions!

 

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Do you think the current levels of diamond have negatively affected the current revision? It sounds like you support some biome-specific ore - would you say you’d prefer to closely mimic vanilla in this respect, or would you like to see other ores distributed similarly?

I think having full gear very fast leads to people being "done" faster. That being said it depends on the users end-game. I think having a custom spread across biomes would be a great deviation from vanilla that would make things more interesting for certain.

 

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I see you weren’t a fan of the two-level nature of the nether this revision. That aside, are there any areas of the present nether that you’d like to see return in Revision 22? Is there anything you’d like to see added that wasn’t a feature of the nether this time around?

I don't tend to stay long in the nether, since i know it hurts hunters because of the way spawning works. To me its either a place to hunt or a "point a to point b" method of travel and that's it. Unless the spawning bit isn't so severe i don't know that anything would change my opinion of it, regardless of how lovely it is. 

 

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It’s unfortunate you’ve not been able to use TrainCarts to its full potential. Some people do seem to have a few issues with it, whereas others experience very few problems. 

Sadly i have nothing *but* problems. Unless they're fixed i don't think i'll be using rails at all. Its not worth dying just to get somewhere.

 

Love, 

Queen Sunset, Master of all Shelving and Shelving Accessories!

[Head Admin Meeting Notes]

January 14, 2018 Head Meeting Notes

• New Mod Candidates - Four candidates out for vote, set to close the 20th
• [Redacted] discussions and progress updates on various events for the future
• [Redacted] discussions regarding a project requiring tech admin time, Torteela and Silver will be following up with the appropriate admins.
• The newest suggestion box item on the lobby has been responded to in this post, no current suggestions to post.
• [Redacted] Discussions regarding PvE and Creative servers
• Applyformod - No new applications
• Discussion regarding the next fundraiser. Heads will come back with what they'd like to see to the next head meeting.

[Staff Meeting Notes]

November/December 2017 Staff Meeting Agenda & Notes
December 9, 2017 5:30pm EDT

• Creative
  • Spleef is having a fairly decent turnout. Cadmins will continue alternating
• PvE
  • Reminder that Secret Santa sign up ending today
  • Padmins have added Easy-sign at spawn to get treat
  • Discussion regarding grief and when/how to handle (stemming from a specific incident)
  • Testing new death message on dev currently - should be coming to P soon, this time around will have 450+ messages. 
  • Admin Hunt 
    • Catsenburg won the poll 
    • Padmins have rebuilt the event hub 
    • looking to have first hunt in January would like to have admins to visit arena soon to take a look around.
  • This week we reach golem soul target. Setting up villagers, looking for suggestions for special trades, otherwise will be going with list they have. 
  • Don’t forget to check out the change log for all things!
• [Redacted] discussions for ongoing projects    
• Minigames
  • No updates
  • Techs will look into adding more maps, its not very simple and take some time to put together.
  • Miscellaneous discussions regarding the future of minigames. No decisions made at this time.
• Head Admins
  • Staffing
    • Spook6 has been added to staff today. 
    • One other candidate has been approached and will consider
    • Note to look out for staff candidates during off-peak time zones. 
    • General reminder to staff to comment on notifications as they come in so they can be acted on timely.
    • Reminder to staff to watch for modreqs on creative so they don’t sit.
• Open Floor
  • Updates requested on a tech project. Heads will try to get an update for the next meeting.
  • Zomise has updated advertising banners, some were not able to be claimed previously, zomise will need to provide an update for the next meeting.
  • All the verses will be released before buzzie’s gets busy. 
  • Please continue to add thoughts and ideas for the 2018 Fundraiser to the Forum