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[Kaliven]

The DarkTide staff proudly present,

The DarkTide



The DarkTide Experience...


(this video is from pre 1.7 map wipe, but the experience is the same)

Our first concern, is to provide a more balanced, and better PVP experience, if you don't like PVP you won't like DarkTide, outside of the main city, anyone can kill you anywhere, cause they don't like your specific flavor of ice cream.

But that's the beauty of DarkTide you can do whatever you want. We don't stop you.


- Damages of weapons have been tweaked on Darktide to provide more balanced, and longer lasting combat (DarkCombat).
- One of the most lag free servers that is up 24/7
- Plug-ins, both Common and Customized for better play
- No whitelist (we have a grey list, where you can log in and check it out first)
- PvP enabled and encouraged, griefing allowed
- A complete player driven economy based on supply/demand
- Dungeons, PvP tournaments, and other fun events planned by the staff
- Form Settlements (towns, cities, etc.) and Clans
- Buy perks to assist in accomplishing your goals, including own your own protected land.
- No Hacking or Cheating. Either through logs or player provided proof to consider accusation.
- Minimal interference (staff interference), but measured and resolute discipline by professional staff
- Freedom to do as you wish to succeed (minus hacking and plugin perimeters)
- In all aspects, self-sufficiency
- Chat modding leans toward freedom of expression, except when it goes against functionality
- Sleep in a bed to set your home/spawn, even during the day.




Server Address:
mc.thedarktide.net
Log in to Minecraft - Click Multiplayer - Enter mc.thedarktide.net in the box - Click Connect
*Every donation help to pay for the server and upgrades.*
You can find a donation guide here
You can join our server's IRC channel here. (No Registration Required)
(or via your own IRC client at irc.us.gamesurge.net Channel #Darktide)


Server Specs

Professionally Hosted, 24/7 Dedicated server, Supported, and Modded

Intel Core i7 SIX CORE 990X 12MB 130W Overclocked to 4.0GHz
Kingston HyperX 24GB DDR3-1600 (6x4GB)
Intel X25-E 32GB SSD
Ubuntu 10.10
20 MB/s UNMETERED Dedicated (24/7 Guaranteed) Backbone Hosting
This server is optimized for Minecraft Hosting

Rules:

Do not whine.
Do not spam.
Do not cheat/hack.
Do not disrespect staff.
Otherwise, if you can do it it's LEGAL!

Plugins


Common
Fire Spread - Off
Lava - Lava unable to flow from air. Buckets can only be used in region owned areas or below y-40.
TNT - Craftable but unplaceable, and disabled.
WorldGuard - Regions with options.
HeroChat - Chat plugin with channels and extra features.
iConomy - Basic Plugin to allow in-game coins.
HeroSneak - Allows one to sneak in full speed (perk).
Craftbook - Allows creation of bridges, gates, elevators and Integrated circuits (perk).

DarkTide Exclusives
DarkCombat - Drop Items if you log / disconnect while in combat, adjusted combat system.
YardSale - Robust, modified, yet user friendly Sign Shop Plugin.
ScrapYard - Have a chance to recycle metal goods for ingots/diamonds
Warps - Find teleports in the wild and use them to your advantage.



Perks
LWC - Lock chests/doors/signs/levers
CraftBook - Bridges / Gates / Elevators / ICs
Land owner - Set up a 35x35x88 region of protected land.

PvP
PvP rules are short and straightforward:

Disabled: Inside the gates of DarkTide Citadel (Spawn settlement) and server purposed areas.
Enabled: Everywhere else.

If you can kill someone without using mods (mods that give you advantage over others), its a legit kill.
If you have to use a mod(mods that give you advantage over others) to kill someone, it's not legit.


Economy
Coins are the currency of our world. You can get coins by several different means, such as:
- Trading and selling with others. (You may trade and sell with other players in the trade channel or with yardsale signs.)
- Selling to the DarkTide Shops
- Raiding (Raiding chests, players, and trades.)
- Unofficial coin transaction activities (begging, loaning, work compensation, etc.)
- Voting for DarkTide on Minestatus http://minestatus.ne...9-darktide/vote (once per day for 100c)

The economy system will be based solely on the player bases' selling and buying activities. The official market shops will auto set prices and costs from player's shopping activities from within that town. Player yardsales outside town will act independently. Much like the real world. Yardsales (independent player markets) are a perk. While you will be able to buy and sell Portals (Donation Currency) from independent player markets, you will not be able to buy Portals from DarkTide-owned shops.

Planned events, Portals, and Multiverses
We at DarkTide don't like standing around and fighting all day, we bring assorted events to liven up our citizens.

- Dungeons to be explored
- PvP Tournaments
- Spleef Tournaments
- Portal Tiles can be earned and skills can be learned.
- There will be Portals in the wild to be discovered that lead to other world destinations, special events, and to other Multiverses

Clans & Settlements

Clans are organizations of players that work together in-game for protection, coordinating building projects, and conquering through strength. In DarkTide if you band together with enough people, you may form settlements. Listed below is the criteria needed to form and maintain said settlements.

Settlements can be built to provide a place for a group of people to commune, live, build, and thrive. All dimensions mention are including a y coordinate above 40. Settlements are started with payment of coin. The larger the settlement, the exponentially the higher coin needed. Upkeep payment in coin will also be necessary to maintain your status as a settlement. Staff will judge your settlements status to the number of active people that are citizens.

To make a settlement you must:
- Have x players (excluding yourself) or more that swear allegiance to you. X being the required number of followers needed to form settlement. (10 for a village, 20 for a town, and 30 for a city.)
- A name for your clan.
- A location that is a minimum 150 blocks away from the center point of any adjacent regions (including the borders).

What a settlement has additional access too:
- Exclusive chat and chat moderator abilities for your chat.

Village 75x75 - 10 Followers

Features
- 75x75 Block protected area (no breaking or placing blocks without worldguard permissions)
- A bed to set your home to.
- A private clan chat channel
- A private vent channel for the clan

There are currently 2 Available upgrades to village, allowing for more space, and more clan perks

DarkTide Senate

Members of the Senate will be in the unique position to be able to cast votes to the developmental path of DarkTide and to the order in which new content gets released to the server.

There will be 2 members of DarkTide’s Senate chosen to represent players that are not members of a clan.


Character building

Perks
Perks are additional in-game abilities.

Craftbook
Build Gates
Build Bridges
Build Elevators
Built Integrated Circuits (IC Essentials, IC Sensors, IC Random, IC Wireless)

Land Owner
Land Owner - Grants you a 35x35 protected piece of land where you can do anything including adding members/owners to its region.
Road - Allows you to make a road from your region to official DarkTide roads.

LWC (Limited)
Locksmith (Grants use of LWC and allows 1 protection with the ability to extra locks)

YardSale
YardSale (Grants the player 1 initial YardSale sign)
5 YardSale signs (Requires YardSale but grants the player 5 more YardSale signs.)

Name color change
Allows one to change his/her name color

Sneak
Allows one to sneak around in full speed with their name hidden from other players.

Warp Attunement
Warp Portals can teleport you from one location to another. They are all connected to a Portal Nexus, a gathering place for portals. From this Nexus you can get to several locations, including towns and cities that are connected to it.

ScrapYard
A perk that lets one to dissolve a used or new material back into the raw material.



Perks are bought with quantities of Portal Tile (Portal Tiles are the purple swirl entities that are shown inside operating nether portals). There will be no official connection between Portal Tiles and coin. People will be able to sell or buy them from independent markets, but not from DarkTide Citadel. Ways to earn or buy Portal Tiles are:
- Donating to the Server through PayPal or mailed in donations
- Participating and Succeeding in special events
- Buying sold Portal Tiles from independent markets

Admin & Staff Rules

- No Hacking (xraying, speed/fly hacking, etc.)
- No abuse of chat causing issues with functionality.
- Staff cannot use abilities when not on duty.
- Staff cannot abuse power that cause problems with functionality on or off duty.
- Rules setup for practical, not subjective, modding.
- Rules apply to players as well as staff.
- Staff are held to higher standard.
- Unless doing ingame server maintenance, staff is not to use any admin powers.
- All staff will reside in a staff town and not within other settlements.
- To request staff help, a petition chat system has been setup to administer to your needs in game.
- Accusations of rule breaking are only considered with log and visual proof placed in a petition or in the hack thread.

Hardcore

- No one is coming to teleport you.
- No one is going to spawn anything for you.
- No one is going to say I'm sorry.
- If you can do it without hacking, and working within the plugins, it's legal*.
*= except in few extreme cases at admin's discretion

More Information
To view more information regarding our server please click here.

On Behalf of All DarkTide Administration...



Welcome to DarkTide.

[Kaliven]

Also...

Some images of DarkTide.

http://www.thedarktide.net/phpBB3/viewt ... ?f=12&t=12

[Drake Tseng]

Yay for launching! This will be a great server.

[EpaFtw]

Idk how you can claim to be hardcore with lwc.

[Unmoved]

Uh, where's the IP?

[Kaliven]

no IP we have dns forwarding just type in

mc.thedarktide.net

it will work.

[BLANK2042]

#1 In-Game Name
- BLANK2042

#2 Country and Age (this is for our demographic purposes)
- america 18

#3 How did you hear about us?
- MC forums

#4 Why do you want to Join DarkTide?
- 'Cause I want a server that's fun and one i can be a regular to.

#5 Did you read and understand the rules?
- yep to the fullest

[BLANK2042]

the dns forwording didnt work, it said unknown host, i cant connect

[Redneck32]

#1 In-Game Name
- Jodo32

#2 Country and Age (this is for our demographic purposes)
- 14 Australia

#3 How did you hear about us?
- Minecraftforum.net

#4 Why do you want to Join DarkTide?
- Because its a well planned out and professional looking server.

#5 Did you read and understand the rules?
- I did and i read the Extended rules and FAQ's as well...

[blindwhatif]

#1 In-Game Name
- Blindwhatif

#2 Country and Age (this is for our demographic purposes)
- USA 19

#3 How did you hear about us?
- Minecraft Forums

#4 Why do you want to Join DarkTide?
- Sounds like a fun server, i looked around and it looks really quite nice

#5 Did you read and understand the rules?
- sure did =D

[Kaliven]

all applications about this one whitelisted

BLANK2042 if you are still having problems it might be mc.net but I will pm you ip in the am.

[Anjirusensei]

#1 In-Game Name
- Anjirusensei

#2 Country and Age (this is for our statistics purposes)
- 20, America

#3 How did you hear about us?
- Minecraft Forums.

#4 Why do you want to Join DarkTide?
- I love PVP... I love to grief and of course raiding. Some PVP servers do allow those, but in the end you can't build something nice with the stuff you stole from people or else they will ruin it.

This server... I can work hard and obtain protection through effort and skill, I can already say I am enjoying this by reading the topic.

#5 Did you read and understand the rules?
- Yes.

[Pachirisu]

#1 In-Game Name: PachirisuxD
#2 Country and Age: USA; 16
#3 How did you hear about us?: MC.net
#4 Why do you want to Join DarkTide?: Because I used to play a server exactly like this one, but it was never upgraded.
#5 Did you read and understand the rules?: Indeed

[macready84464]

#1 In-Game Name
- Indridmacready

#2 Country and Age (this is for our demographic purposes)
- America 24

#3 How did you hear about us?
- Just browsing the forums

#4 Why do you want to Join DarkTide?
- Cause the other pvp server's admins didn't let us pvp hardcore

#5 Did you read and understand the rules?
- Yes

[curvedlines]

#1 In-Game Name
- silk_doom

#2 Country and Age (this is for our demographic purposes)
- USA 22

#3 How did you hear about us?
- From friends who browsed the forums.

#4 Why do you want to Join DarkTide?
- To have a more hardcore PvP experience with my group.

#5 Did you read and understand the rules?
- Yes I did.

[BLANK2042]

yeah its till acting up, anyone got the actual ip address? post please

[doop154]

#1 In-Game Name
- Doop154

#2 Country and Age (this is for our demographic purposes)
- 16 England

#3 How did you hear about us?
- Browsing the SMP forums

#4 Why do you want to Join DarkTide?
- Because i was always looking for a server that is has towns and trading, and after looking around as a guest it is obvious that this is an excellent server

#5 Did you read and understand the rules?
- Indeed i did, aswell as completing the tutorial dungeon

[SquallSeeD31]

For those of you having issues with "mc.thedarktide.net", it resolves to 67.227.238.133. I am able to connect using either, on the default MC port (25565).

[Kaliven]

Everyone above this post will be a citizen within 5

[WilsonLau]

#1 In-Game Name
- Wilson_Lai

#2 Country and Age (this is for our demographic purposes)
- 15 Canada

#3 How did you hear about us?
- MC.net

#4 Why do you want to Join DarkTide?
- It seems like a new server so I can start fresh

#5 Did you read and understand the rules?
- I did.