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I spent the entire of yesterday moving PirateCraft to a new host from France to our new Dedicated server in Canada, I chose Canada as the new location as the majority of players are from the united states and this should reduce latency.

What Changed

• Moved from shared hosting to dedicated server in Canada to improve latency for majority of players in the US.
• Changed to the default minecraft port 25565, This removes the trickery we had to do in DNS to use our domain IP to connect, this should reduce any issues in the server list when connecting that throws “Cant resolve hostname“. (Minecraft cannot handle SRV records very well)
• We moved to a bungeecord back-end system, this allows us to add new servers on and we can switch between them in-game and share some data between each, you would have used bungeecord before connecting to any “hub” server, we will not be a generic tacky “hub” server.
• Slots were bumped, I legitimately have no idea how many slots we can handle, I need to monitor performance, this is a live testing ground.
• Restarts should be once a day now, 9.30am GMT to be specific when most of you are asleep!
• We added a new chat system to filter chat, this is piggybacking off the recent behavior thread, this is still in testing and has a lot of changes to be made, its very vast and has a lot of features, I will bullet point a few here:
  • AntiBot – Will not be able to chat until you have moved
  • AntiCaps – Spamming caps will earn yourself some bad-points (Need a better name for bad-points here..) based on the quantity.
  • Anti-Spam – Blocks similar messages being sent repetitively, needs to be tweaked.
  • Bad-points system (needs a better name) Doing bad things in chat, gets you given points that add up, when you reach a threshold you get auto-punished.
  • Chat rules
    • Whitelist for URLS to be pasted into chat, I have allowed all piratemc.com links in chat, this includes being able to paste wiki.piratemc.com links, so start creating your shop pages, start creating your crew pages! You have vast control over the Wiki pages you create 🙂
    • Curse/Swear Filter, this is too aggressive at present and needs to be trimmed down
    • Possible to create a slang correction, Im not sure if this is active at present, for example it could correct “dis” to “this” or “k” to “ok”, please give me some suggestions, Im tempted to filter out “GodsDead” and “Lag” from chat.
    • This also gives us the option to filter out other words and replace them with Pirate-language, this would be fantastic for the swear filter, if anyone wants to write up replacements for bad words like c**t, F**k etc with pirate words, please do and I will update the swear filter.
    • Emoticon replace, at present there is a <3 love heart that gets replaced, and a few smiley faces (that are too small so I will remove them) We have the option to add whatever replacements we want, so have a look at the character map for anything we could include, the love heart seems to be the only one that shows as an actual image.
    • We can create custom replace messages, like :star: puts a star in chat, we could make some pre-set custom responces like :wiki: would paste the wiki or :guides: would put the piratecraft guides link in chat, im open to ideas.
  • Message sounds, when players are AFK you can use @username to ping them a sound, it also sends them a sound when you send a /msg, we can customize what commands send them sounds, we can customize the sound too, this may get very annoying so we may remove this later on.
  • Sign/Book filter, its possible to filter out sign messages and whats written in books too.
  • Group systems; Its possible to put players into groups to set custom settings as listed above (untested)
  • Chat channels; Currently under production, Untested, will be used to create staff & help channels that are invite only
• We have a Hub, it needs builders, normal players cannot get to this you will need to be manually added to a list by me, PaulOnFire has a build crew and is in charge of this.

Known Issues

• The map has black bits and its old, yes a render is happening and it can take a week to complete render.
• Voting does not work, all voting websites need their IP updated to this new server still.
• Chat swear filter sucks! and The smiley emoticon is too small! These will be changed, I know, be patient.
• bans.piratemc.com Punishment tracker will not be live, Needs to be moved.
• Stats.piratemc.com will not update, Needs to be moved.

If you find any issues please post them, I opened the server at 3am this morning, and could have screwed up a large number of things, as I was half asleep and drinking ale!

Its entirely possible this server ends up sucking or there is a major fault, at which point we may have to move back to the old host, that I know works, hopefully not!