• System maintenance, Spigot & Bungee updated.
• Updated cannons to a custom development version for PirateCraft to test:
  • We are testing to see if we can solve the issue of the server shutting down/rebooting. At present without cannons it takes 40 seconds, with cannons its over 10 mins! Next reboot should tell us if it works.
    Cannons are now saved differently, so I need you to pay attention to if your cannons need to be re-created after restarts (Every 24h).
• Migrated all Ranks from flatfile storage to MySQL preparing for cross server ranks. This is a bit of a big one, I need to know sooner (Aka, right now) rather than later if it all worked fully. I need everyone to check that they 1) have a rank, and 2) if its right. The entire process looked like it went fine, there was 142 users that didnt convert over, but after checking about 30 of them randomly they were all offline more than 2 years, Lucky a full log is kept in the conversion so I have a list of the UUID’s to cross reference.
  I need you to tell me if there is any issue with your rank (use /checkrank if you don’t know what rank you are).
  This has nothing to do with Autoranking, please do not get confused, when I say “rank” im specifically saying the rank you are. If you were Gunner and you logged in today and you were Deckhand, then there has been an issue where its not converted you, I need to know this ASAP, because if its happened once then there is an issue with more people.

Looking at the database, there seems to be a hell of a lot of entries, so it looks like it all imported fine, but I need to tell everyone its happened to diagnose issues early if there was any issue with the export/import process.

The reason for the move is that the data needs to be in a database for me to sync ranks across servers when we finally get around to it 🙂

Keep me posted!