I recommend writing the books in Notepad or better yet Google Docs (easier sharing), until it is letter-perfect.
If anyone does write in notepad or anything else keep this in mind:
The format for a Bookworm book in its bookname.txt file is all the text on one line. Carriage returns are done with
Example, pulled right from a book I wrote in-game:
Welcome to AuthentiCity!
nebenezer
In AuthentiCity we can read and write.. in books. We can also store books in bookshelves. You may remove a copy of a book by left clicking the bookshelf, and keep it handy for future reference. Read a book by holding it in your hand and right clicking on something. The bookshelf you took this book from sits atop a noteblock. This arrangement is used to identify information kiosks that you will find around the world. They usually hold helpful information. If you see on be sure to grab a copy of the book it holds! Enjoy your stay and please let us know if you have any questions. When you are ready to build simply read the rules and head upstairs.
Anywhere you see a new indented paragraph has been started.
NateZedRed is the first to recieve the newly made title of [Flatworld Mod]. He is the first NON-OP to recieve WorldEdit and WorldGuard rights. Under lordbug and myself he is the big boss man in the Flatlands. Congrats Nate!! :biggrin.gif:
Thanks to EVERYONE for making AuthentiCity an even more fun place to be lately :biggrin.gif:
That is all :tongue.gif:
Thank you, Neb, and congrats to the rest of the newly promoted!
Well.. unfortunately we got hit by a few of those pathetic people who can't do anything good in life so they go around trying to bring other people down.
Several houses especially near the West Outpost were hit with lava and fire today. Who the f*&k griefs a mineshaft??
A few reminders for those of you who have enough self respect to be able to respect other people:
- Lock your doors and chests!!! You can use a Lockette sign to protect either of them and it is super easy to allow your friends access as well.
- Use the protection stones!!! This is a fantastic plugin and a great way for you all to protect your property. If you use the Silk Touch enchantment on a pickaxe you can obtain Coal, Lapis and Diamond ore blocks. Placing one of these will create a region of protection that you and only you are allowed to do anything in. The downside to this is you cannot add other members to these regions, but it is an excellent self administered protection option.
Coalore protects an 11*11*11 block area
Lapisore protects a 21*21*21 block area
Diamondore protects a 41*41*41 block area
- Don't build so close to the outposts. And if you do then be sure to have your stuff protected. The outposts are intended to be EASY to get to. Unfortunately they are easy for griefers to get to also. If you build within sight of an outpost and you do not protect your property then you can almost count on eventually sustaining some damages.
We have had very very little grief up until now. Today wasn't all that bad but it was the worst griefing I've sen in AuthentiCity to date.
I WILL NOT implement a whitelist and I WILL NOT start banning items like fire and lava. Nerfing tnt and creeper block damage is simply necessary in any non-anarchy themed server (imo) but I will not yield to these losers and start nerfing all kinds of stuff.
Watch your back.
Please use the protection options I have made available.
Please don't give up if you get griefed, learn from it.
And most of all... PLEASE let me know if you catch someone griefing. I get PM's and posts in this thread sent to my phone in real time. You can also email me directly at [email protected].
If you send me an SOS I will stop the server and do whatever I can to mitigate the damages.
Call them out in game too so people can log out to save their inventories before I shut it down.
I've been waiting on the big LogBlock/BigBrother/HawkEye merger but after today I will bee takinng another look at block logging and rollback options.
I have ZERO experience with MySql but I do have a free MySql service thru my host. If anyone is willing to help get this set up I will be tremendously grateful.
I have been getting a lot of questions about how to rank up and if there is anything people can do to help the server..
There are ways you can rank up, ways you can help and gain respect on the server and some ways you avoid getting banned:
The BEST way to rank up is to build something awesome. Build something impressive (bigger is NOT always better)that people would want to visit. Quality building is rewarded more than anything else.
Follow the rules, pay attention and get to know the server and our community.
DO NOT CHEAT. Trying to prevent all forms of cheating is a tedious and frustrating endeavor I do not wish to pursue. If you cheat you will eventually get caught and get banned.
JOBS
I have decided to open some positions for specific jobs on the server. These are for people who will be around for a while. I wouldn't want to reward someone for taking a job they do for a week then stop visiting the server, so don't apply for the "status". Apply because you want to help the server.
We need writers!- There are many books that need to be written. They will be explaining how to use plugins and how to get along in the server. Handbooks and information to help newcomers. They should be written so they are easy to understand, not as though they were copied and pasted from the plugins bukkit dev site. Also they don't have to be comprehensive, they can explain the basic of how to use something or do something.
You will have to learn how to use the plugin Bookworm. It's not that hard just read and practice. No offense but I will not teach you how to use it. A staff member in AuthentiCity should be able to find answers and learn stuff on their own.
If you write and want to submit a book for review please DO! Write it in game and I'll get a copy for review. There are no guarantees your book will be placed in the AuthentiCity Library, but if it is informative and easy to understand then it probably will :smile.gif:
Tasks are separated by which job will be performing them. Jobs WILL NOT be awarded before some commitment to the job is shown. Essentially: write a book/perform a task, if its good enough (for books: if we put it in the server library) then you will be promoted to whatever job the task belongs to and you will be paid in game for future efforts relative to your job. For example I may pay you $50 for the next book, let's see those negotiating skills! :tongue.gif:
AUTHORS:
- How to write books!! Lol obvious :tongue.gif:
- ChestShop - Need this one big time.
- How to get promoted
- How to get a portal to your home
- How to rent plots in the market and elsewhere. We use SimpleRegionMarket
- How, and why, to use Location Report signs
- How to manage your Money (buying, selling, paying). iConomy is currently not working right.. Players can not /money pay each other :/
- How to make a Port Cullis gate and a drawbridge
- How to use Light Sensors, and how to integrate them with gates and bridges
- A collection of the simpler and/or passive plugins and how to use them (powernetherrack, redstone lighting, appletree, smoothboat, etc) This one should be called something like A Collection of Conveniences.
JOURNALIST:
- If you write in a book then later update that book all copies of that book will be updated too. I plan to use this to provide a Newspaper book (open to name suggestions) that anyone can keep on them and stay up with the news. This periodical should have a variety of sections and I suggest trying to keep each short enough to fit on one page, and have only ONE article per page. Some ideas: New builds (either by members or staff, but have to be 100% complete and 100% awesome) announcements, Promotion announcements, Obituaries (I'm thinking this should be a MRB (Most Recent Bans :tongue.gif:) kind of thing), Contests, Classifieds (Help Wanted ads, labor for hire, housing for rent, lost/found, personals :tongue.gif: etc.), Jokes, whatever else you can think of.
The Newspaper may be split into no more than 3 books. Journalists may hire an assistant to help gather news, write and edit. There may be more than one Journalist but there will be only ONE Journalist per book.
This position is expected to have a thorough understanding of how Bookwork works.
PROMOTER
-Get on the web and let people know how awesome AuthentiCity is! :biggrin.gif:
-Take screenshot and post them where they may have some relevance.
-Capture some video and share it with the world :smile.gif:
-Flight will not be granted for this pursuit. If you earn flight by becoming a SuperMod then you can use it for capturing video.
***DO NOT MISREPRESENT MY WORK OR ANYONE ELSES!!***
We take pride in our work. If you don't know who built it then find out before you post. If you still can't then just say it was built in AuthentiCity. Anyone caught taking credit for others work will obviously be immediately banned.
ARTIST-
-We could really use a cool sig banner :smile.gif: and/or logo for the server
-Player skins!! Sometimes its fun to dress alike for battle or something, and its just cool to have a one-of-a-kind skin :tongue.gif: Maybe sell them in game! (for in game money)
These are all I have for now. I could use some help with the tedious task of setting up all the regions in the market and some other stuff, but it all requires granting some elevated and potentially hazardous permissions. I'd rather take my time with it than enlist the help of someone who doesn't know much about WE/WG or someone I am not 99% certain I can trust.
The application has three parts. If you wish to apply you must:
Be an established member of the server. I will not consider anyone who has not visited the server, is still a Guest or is a Nomad but hasn't built a home.
Submit an application in this thread.
APPLICATION:
-IGN:
-Desired Job:
-Qualifications:
-Favorite thing about AuthentiCity:
-Something you would change about AuthentiCity:
-How long have you been a member of AuthentiCity:
(for author and journalist only)Submit an application in game by creating a book and giving me a copy to review.
APPLICATION:
-IGN:thebossjr
-Desired Job:Artist and Promoter
-Qualifications:I've been doing professional art since I was 7 and I have a minor in advertising/promotion.
-Favorite thing about AuthentiCity:The building abilties.
-Something you would change about AuthentiCity:Nothing
-How long have you been a member of AuthentiCity:Since very close to the beginning.
Well my internet suddenly decided to take a crap tonight :sad.gif: I guess I'll spend some needed time on permissions which seem to be ever-evolving.
thebossjr, you got the job now let's see what you can do :biggrin.gif:
Superwill3524 is working on a website for us, maybe you guys want to work together? I am a big forum junkie when I get interested in something. If will is serious about making a site then the forums will be a big focus for me.
Superwill3524 is working on a website for us, maybe you guys want to work together? I am a big forum junkie when I get interested in something. If will is serious about making a site then the forums will be a big focus for me.
Cool! I can help superwill if he's using a sitebuilder otherwise I really can't.
I'm having trouble scaling down a screen shot for a banner... Any ideas like spoiler code or something? EDIT: I have a banner created please critique. Show you support make your signature my banner. Insert the image at http://i40.tinypic.com/i4lmrr.jpg and there you go! It looks like this...
Not bad jerseyguy but to be honest the white text against the glass looks a little busy. Also I'd recommend you get screenshot in the texturepack we recommend: Steelfeathers Enchanted
We now have our own forums! :biggrin.gif: Thanks Bundy3!!
Please bookmark mcauthenticity.net !
This server is a Diamond in the Rough, it is seriously one of a kind. A very nice owner, and community. So far, lag free and fun. The teleports are flawless and do to bug out. I highly recommend the server. c:
well i have 7-8 days left but im have troubles with my comp so i dont think ill be able to pay my rent for my store and i was hopeing you could make my store unbuyable for ppl
Well, that time has come. I'm sure many of you have seen other server owners go through this, and I imagine it is the reason why I have heard so many stories about servers shutting down.
No, I am NOT shutting down the server. I FREAKING LOVE this game and I am not about to stop playing it.
I am tired of all the bitching and complaining, entitle attitudes, cheating x-ray'ers, people that don't read the rules, people that think typing /rules and hitting enter is reading the /rules, people that don't respect the community, people that continually use profanity, general immaturity. I am tired of banning people.
It has been a fun ride learning this game and a major pain in the butt setting up and constantly maintaining a server, a fun one at least. FAR more valuable to me than the investment of any money is the amount of time I have poured into this game.
I am at the point where I do not enjoy my own server half the time. I love seeing all 20 slots full but there's a serenity when the server is empty. When it's full I log in and amidst all the friendly hellos are a immediate requests for stuff, somebody bitching about grief when they have remained oblivious to the protection options we have, and someone begging for a ban.
I will be going back to a whitelist. Gameplay will not change for anyone who is allowed in. I may do away with ranks altogether and let everyone coexist as well as they chose to. I am going to stop letting this server run me and focus on what I enjoy... building.
Inclusion in the whitelist will be based on building skill and attitude.
Expect the whitelist within the next week or so. I am so tired of trying to make this server work for everyone that I simply don't care. iConomy has been giving the server fits so its about to go. My city is protected and a few others that I will want to keep (if the builders choose to stay) are protected. The rest of the chunks will be deleted and eventually regenerated.
All staff members will be whitelisted. Many of the people whose company I enjoy and whose building skills I either admire or approve of will be whitelisted.
Eventually I will compose an application. Until then if you would like to be on the whitelist just post your interest either here or on our forums mcauthenticity.net. Include a little info about yourself, and some reason why we should consider you for membership.
Thank you to all of the people who respect our world and each other.
After some consideration, some conversation with a few of the more valued members, and a couple more bans.. I have decided against the whitelist, for now. I never wanted to have one and in a way it's like folding my hand to children, lol.
I am going to rewrite the rules again. I need to find a couple more moderators. And I'm going to build a Hall of the Banned. I will not tolerate anymore nonsense. I will expect people to report xray mining evidence near their area because we will ban for cheating. Breaking the rules will not be tolerated. Unacceptable behavior will result in a verbal warning, a slap, a kick. If that doesn't convey the message then.. ban sandwich.
This is a survival sever. If you can't or don't want to survive then gtfo!
I like that you are tightening your grip on the server rules and voicing your annoyed state it show you know what you are doing and if you want I can be a moderator its what I do a lot even IRL. P.S. if anyone has IRC experience I need your assistance PM on the forums or email me at [email protected] if you email I should get it immediately on my phone. Thanks in advance, the boss aka Carsten.
If anyone does write in notepad or anything else keep this in mind:
The format for a Bookworm book in its bookname.txt file is all the text on one line. Carriage returns are done with
Example, pulled right from a book I wrote in-game:
Anywhere you see a new indented paragraph has been started.
Thank you, Neb, and congrats to the rest of the newly promoted!
Several houses especially near the West Outpost were hit with lava and fire today. Who the f*&k griefs a mineshaft??
A few reminders for those of you who have enough self respect to be able to respect other people:
- Lock your doors and chests!!! You can use a Lockette sign to protect either of them and it is super easy to allow your friends access as well.
- Use the protection stones!!! This is a fantastic plugin and a great way for you all to protect your property. If you use the Silk Touch enchantment on a pickaxe you can obtain Coal, Lapis and Diamond ore blocks. Placing one of these will create a region of protection that you and only you are allowed to do anything in. The downside to this is you cannot add other members to these regions, but it is an excellent self administered protection option.
We have had very very little grief up until now. Today wasn't all that bad but it was the worst griefing I've sen in AuthentiCity to date.
I WILL NOT implement a whitelist and I WILL NOT start banning items like fire and lava. Nerfing tnt and creeper block damage is simply necessary in any non-anarchy themed server (imo) but I will not yield to these losers and start nerfing all kinds of stuff.
Watch your back.
Please use the protection options I have made available.
Please don't give up if you get griefed, learn from it.
And most of all... PLEASE let me know if you catch someone griefing. I get PM's and posts in this thread sent to my phone in real time. You can also email me directly at [email protected].
If you send me an SOS I will stop the server and do whatever I can to mitigate the damages.
Call them out in game too so people can log out to save their inventories before I shut it down.
I've been waiting on the big LogBlock/BigBrother/HawkEye merger but after today I will bee takinng another look at block logging and rollback options.
I have ZERO experience with MySql but I do have a free MySql service thru my host. If anyone is willing to help get this set up I will be tremendously grateful.
Ill probably sell them for:
coal $10
lapis $30
diamond $100.
ThirdPhoenix and Aaratis gained Citizenship. Thanks guys :smile.gif:
APPLICATION:
-IGN:thebossjr
-Desired Job:Artist and Promoter
-Qualifications:I've been doing professional art since I was 7 and I have a minor in advertising/promotion.
-Favorite thing about AuthentiCity:The building abilties.
-Something you would change about AuthentiCity:Nothing
-How long have you been a member of AuthentiCity:Since very close to the beginning.
Cool idea bro.
thebossjr, you got the job now let's see what you can do :biggrin.gif:
Superwill3524 is working on a website for us, maybe you guys want to work together? I am a big forum junkie when I get interested in something. If will is serious about making a site then the forums will be a big focus for me.
Hope I can get logged in soon...
Cool! I can help superwill if he's using a sitebuilder otherwise I really can't.
We now have our own forums! :biggrin.gif: Thanks Bundy3!!
Please bookmark mcauthenticity.net !
Also if you like the server please vote us up on minecraft-server-list.com
Couple new screenshots:
What do you all think?
I won't be able to even log in until later tonight. No promises but I'll look into it :smile.gif:
This server is a Diamond in the Rough, it is seriously one of a kind. A very nice owner, and community. So far, lag free and fun. The teleports are flawless and do to bug out. I highly recommend the server. c:
Did your friend get a chance to visit the sever yet?
If you guys do decide to spend some time with us then please visit and bookmark our new forum website: mcauthenticity.net :biggrin.gif:
fyi useing a wii to type is not fun
No, I am NOT shutting down the server. I FREAKING LOVE this game and I am not about to stop playing it.
I am tired of all the bitching and complaining, entitle attitudes, cheating x-ray'ers, people that don't read the rules, people that think typing /rules and hitting enter is reading the /rules, people that don't respect the community, people that continually use profanity, general immaturity. I am tired of banning people.
It has been a fun ride learning this game and a major pain in the butt setting up and constantly maintaining a server, a fun one at least. FAR more valuable to me than the investment of any money is the amount of time I have poured into this game.
I am at the point where I do not enjoy my own server half the time. I love seeing all 20 slots full but there's a serenity when the server is empty. When it's full I log in and amidst all the friendly hellos are a immediate requests for stuff, somebody bitching about grief when they have remained oblivious to the protection options we have, and someone begging for a ban.
I will be going back to a whitelist. Gameplay will not change for anyone who is allowed in. I may do away with ranks altogether and let everyone coexist as well as they chose to. I am going to stop letting this server run me and focus on what I enjoy... building.
Inclusion in the whitelist will be based on building skill and attitude.
Expect the whitelist within the next week or so. I am so tired of trying to make this server work for everyone that I simply don't care. iConomy has been giving the server fits so its about to go. My city is protected and a few others that I will want to keep (if the builders choose to stay) are protected. The rest of the chunks will be deleted and eventually regenerated.
All staff members will be whitelisted. Many of the people whose company I enjoy and whose building skills I either admire or approve of will be whitelisted.
Eventually I will compose an application. Until then if you would like to be on the whitelist just post your interest either here or on our forums mcauthenticity.net. Include a little info about yourself, and some reason why we should consider you for membership.
Thank you to all of the people who respect our world and each other.
I am going to rewrite the rules again. I need to find a couple more moderators. And I'm going to build a Hall of the Banned. I will not tolerate anymore nonsense. I will expect people to report xray mining evidence near their area because we will ban for cheating. Breaking the rules will not be tolerated. Unacceptable behavior will result in a verbal warning, a slap, a kick. If that doesn't convey the message then.. ban sandwich.
This is a survival sever. If you can't or don't want to survive then gtfo!