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Ω Community Update Ω 13/7/16 by Posighdun July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

Ω Community Update Ω

By  Posighdun  

Recent Promotions / Demotions

There have been quite a bit of promotions and demotions / retirements  since our last official community update.


- Iron, Joltz & Pelpelajax  has been promoted to Junior Moderator

- LFT, Mqderator & Wqmbat  have all been promoted to moderator

- Protel  has been promoted to Senior Moderator

Tournament News

Congratulations to Team Allah who won the Battle of Eternity Tournament last weekend. Congratulations to all those who were runner ups. All prizes will be distributed shortly. If you haven't done so already then I'd kindly ask that you fill out the feedback form for the Tournament, https://avicus.net/forums/discussions/50a1adbf3 .

Atlas Updates

The maps are almost done and the Beta server was launched last week, beta.avic.us . I will be running some more testing sessions sometime this week and next week. You can look at the development tab to see our Devs hard at work trying to meet deadlines. It won't be too long now until it's release.

Posighdun's Address
I thought that it might be beneficial for us to add a part of the update where either Ethan or myself talk about some things. Basically what's been happening this week is quite a bit, our developers have been busy coding, our tournament staff have been busy sorting all the tournament stuff out and as usual the players have been busy playing :P I just wanted to quickly address a few small things. Firstly, the Autoclicker plugin which was a massive success during the tournament will be slightly tweaked and moved into Public servers at a random date. A bit more testing will be done to just make it more reliable. Secondly, last admin meeting I talked to Keenan and brought up the proposition of changing the Voting rewards. For those that are not aware, you can vote for us in the top tab called "Vote". Recently our votes have dropped by a lot, which I know is because of the rewards. So, I'm proposing a question to you all, What kind of reward would make you vote? Please comment down below. It needs to be realistic, getting admin rank for voting isn't going to happen. Thirdly, Ethan is away on camp so I'm your go to guy for any issues over this next 2 weeks. And Lastly I'd like to welcome new players and new forum members, this week alone there have been quite a few new faces from various backgrounds, so welcome :D

Avicus Community Slack

The Administrator team is still encouraging you all to join community slack, just remember to contact an admin to be added to it! Thanks to PieZ PieZ, we have official rules in place now that users will have to stick to, although they are quite straight forward. In addition to this Jahaj has been promoted to Community Administrator like 3 months ago!

General Rules and Stuff

DaFrozenBlaze July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

first
please comment down "bellow"

Posighdun July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

first
please comment down "bellow"
That was quick, how fast do you read? XD

Posighdun July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

I'd like to really see some answers to my question so that I can edit the rewards. Voting is essential, and although it won't bring back 3000 players, it is one of many small paths we can take to make things better.

Junr July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

Neato

Junr July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

A Voting Reward should be keys to open crates, so we don't have to buy some of them.

SnowSX3 July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

getting admin rank from voting isn't going to happen

..fuck

Crimson_Aught July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

Stop spamming with slack rules and channels pls. It is in every community update.

Wait, wait, wait... you try to buy our votes???!!! Oh, nonono, Atlas in the morning - votes in the evening ;P

PokerFace July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

I thought voting only decreased because it stopped working after a while. We never got any rewards since voting has broke.

gobernment July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

>It won't be too long now until its release.

Eh, I wouldn't say that... you never know.
Right now, there's 10 maps though that need to be parsed, and some that still need to be converted. There's also missing required features (e.g a time limit in TDM) and we haven't sorted out the hub yet. We also need to do more testing.

Posighdun July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

I thought voting only decreased because it stopped working after a while. We never got any rewards since voting has broke.
I'll look into that and double check to make sure I'm not wrong. If it's broken I'll get it fixed, but I still want to know what others think about voting rewards. I personally don't vote because a) I forget xd and b) I make 3 times that amount of credits in 1 match.

lordteddey July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

why was my post archived lol??

Posighdun July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

why was my post archived lol??
If you have nothing good to say I don't want to hear it. Either make a comment that actually relates to the discussion or don't comment at all.

lordteddey July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

If you have nothing good to say I don't want to hear it. Either make a comment that actually relates to the discussion or don't comment at all.
I don't want to argue with you because I consider you a friend, but I have the right to post whatever I want lol

Posighdun July 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC

I don't want to argue with you because I consider you a friend, but I have the right to post whatever I want lol
Not really, where did that get you last time? This is a Minecraft server, it doesn't specifically say anywhere you can say what you want. And if what you say doesn't relate to the topic then I have every right to delete it.

Posighdun July 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC

A Voting Reward should be keys to open crates, so we don't have to buy some of them.
I like the idea but I don't think it would pass by Keenan to be honest. But I can try.

lordteddey July 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC

Not really, where did that get you last time? This is a Minecraft server, it doesn't specifically say anywhere you can say what you want. And if what you say doesn't relate to the topic then I have every right to delete it.
it's a forum lol, I'm meant to discuss and I was relating to the topic, u made a mistake so I commented, when ur an admin, you shouldn't be running away from posts, especially when I'm addressing a mistake that you made but instead you archive my post to save yourself from the embarrassment. What I said was nothing wrong, only listing a mistake that you made

Junr July 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC

I like the idea but I don't think it would pass by Keenan to be honest. But I can try.
Or you can have Top Voter ranks of the month, for people who earn the Top 3 slots . The rank can show up in game and on the forums. The voting can reset every month.

Posighdun July 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC

it's a forum lol, I'm meant to discuss and I was relating to the topic, u made a mistake so I commented, when ur an admin, you shouldn't be running away from posts, especially when I'm addressing a mistake that you made but instead you archive my post to save yourself from the embarrassment. What I said was nothing wrong, only listing a mistake that you made
Yes because you were definitely addressing a mistake.... Like I said above, If your commend doesn't follow the rules it gets deleted. Now if you have actually got something decent to say regarding something in the update you can make a post but if not stop arguing, It's not going to get you anywhere.

First and only warning.

Posighdun July 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC

Or you can have Top Voter ranks of the month, for people who earn the Top 3 slots . The rank can show up in game and on the forums. The voting can reset every month.
Again, I'll run it past Keenan and we'll see what he says.

Crimson_Aught July 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC

I don't want to argue with you because I consider you a friend, but I have the right to post whatever I want lol
Not really, it isn't a democracy here :D

@OP
That deadline, which you tried to meet, imo, is running away from you and faster, than you.

lordteddey July 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC

Yes because you were definitely addressing a mistake.... Like I said above, If your commend doesn't follow the rules it gets deleted. Now if you have actually got something decent to say regarding something in the update you can make a post but if not stop arguing, It's not going to get you anywhere.

First and only warning.
so ur warning me for saying "ur spelling mistakes makes me cringe lol" ok, good job bro, very professional, instead of justifying your decision to archive my perfectly fine post, you warn me. Thousands of threads have things that are not nice not are relatable to the topic yet you tend to ignore them. Lost all respect for you Sessp, especially when I thought you were probably the better admin from the recent ones.

Posighdun July 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC

Not really, it isn't a democracy here :D

@OP
That deadline, which you tried to meet, imo, is running away from you and faster, than you.
Yes I know. I've set a different deadline, and I'm doing it differently this time because last time it didn't really work out.

PieZ July 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC

Can whoever keeps putting the rules in these updates stop doing what you are doing?
The rules have been tweaked and updated a few times that I do not see any reason to keep putting out old grammar errors and rules. Please change or remove from the post.

*Community Slack Rules*

Posighdun July 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC

Can whoever keeps putting the rules in these updates stop doing what you are doing?
The rules have been tweaked and updated a few times that I do not see any reason to keep putting out old grammar errors and rules. Please change or remove from the post.

*Community Slack Rules*
Hit me up with the new rules in slack and I'll edit it.

felipu_feliu July 13, 2016 at 1:07 PM UTC

MAKE IT SO I GET ADMIN

nah but giving away IN-GAMEE features like the badges you buy for AVICOINS and stuff laik dat would b gud

AbusiveUser July 13, 2016 at 3:07 PM UTC

Neato

Jahaj July 13, 2016 at 8:07 PM UTC

Why am I promoted every update? Anyway keys would be a nice reward.

hasl July 13, 2016 at 8:07 PM UTC

We can all agree voting is a great, proven method to advertise, since the more votes you have, the more inclined people are to try out the server and the higher you are on the servers list.

The "reward" for voting though is what the major issue is. There is 2 ideas that usually occur:

1) To avoid voters becoming too "wealthy" or "overpowered" over non-voters, low rewards are placed on the voters, so that it takes more votes to actually matter and make a difference. This would cause people to not really see the point in voting, and don't vote, which is a bit of a let-down for the owner (Kylo).

2) Or they can offer a large reward for voting, which would cause more voters, but a loss in the balance of the players. Such would give the server more votes, but would really effect the players and gameplay. 

It is about finding the balance between what people want to receive from voting and what would not give a huge advantage and affect gameplay too much. 

As Kylo runs the server he can decide what he wants it to do; either choice 1 or 2, possibly even find the middle ground. There is no "correct way" to do it, just opinions and ideas.

It is about the middle ground, and this where the balance of voting lies, you've just got to find it!

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From observation I would suggest Kylo wants the server to be balanced, EULA compliant. So I have whipped up some ideas that should match his criteria, I hope they will at least be discussed. :)

Voting reward ideas:




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Avicus has many unique gamemodes, there is no faction style one where you can claim your kits or whatever. It's maps constantly rotating, so common voting rewards are going to be ruled out. It's difficult to have perks/rewards on Avicus, so you must give the dev team some leeway when it comes to this.

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TL;DR - Avicus is EULA compliant, strives to have gameplay as fair as possible and has unique gamemodes meaning rewards are limited. I listed some of my ideas.

Crimson_Aught July 13, 2016 at 8:07 PM UTC

^^^ I'm pretty sure, voteleaderboard will work. Do this.
And advertise voting on server