Welcome to the official site of KewlMCserver (KMCS)!

Ok this is pretty much a copy of the "mailbomb" I sent yesterday to all our members to remind them of our existence

It's been more than 2 years since I last posted a blog here, so here goes, feel free to comment->

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Christmas at KMCS (Yes, in late January)!

Well, I'm going to do something unprecedented for this server.  I'm writing the THIRD blog (the other being a double one) in the space of just 24 hours.  But that's how much has been happening, and actually positive stuff.

Firstly; guess who expressed an interest ...

First Double Blog - Part 2

 <--- back to Part 1

Hi and welcome to the 2nd and final part ...

First Double Blog - Part 1

This is the first 2-part blog I've written so far on KMCS.  This means today's blog will be followed by another one in 24 hours or less, that I've already written.  Hopefully this will be enough time to digest everything....

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Ok, now that Bukkit seems pretty stable and mature we're using that again. 

Could THIS make the successful rebirth for the server?  THIS time?

....what's that, attempt number 800 now?

Wow, it's been a REALLY long time since I made a blog here, but thought I better had so I could say everything in the one place instead of trying to say everything spread out over many threads.  It's a bit of a long read, but hopefully you'll learn something new, interesting, useful

Firstly, we've been forced to start a new, new, new, new map, again.

Hi!  After a long absense from blog-writing I have decided to write this to let everyone know what has been happening, what is happening right now and what will hopefully happen next.

Most importantly of all to let

Ok, after much deliberation this is the new plan.....

The server STAYS.  The Internet isn't getting rid of us just yet.

The old map is coming back!  With all our kewl stuff!

I'm gonna bite my tongue and stick it out with Bukkit, so we don't lose stuff like

MagicCarpet and LWC chest protection.  I hate it, but it seems to be ok with those 2 plugins, maybe teleport too.

EDIT: ditched Buk...

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Following on from, "UHHHH, LITTLE HELP!!!????" blog.  I have been left with no choice but to do lots of bans.  Can't be bothered with demotions for now i.e. the server survives for another day. 

I'd rather have a server of much fewer quality people, than legions of idiots I can't trust.

Bans and reason (maybe you can avoid the same fate):

The German guys from Haderpur:  It's just easier thi...

I never thought I'd have to write this but......admins, you wanna, uhhhh, admin a little bit????

I don't wanna have to start demoting, but I''m very close to that right now.

The server and site have so many problems right now.  I can't fix them all on my own.  There aren't enough hours in each day and I don't see why I should anyway.  So now I'm on the edge of either doing a few admin/mod demotions or closing server down altogether.

Aldemar, Tiltoautomat, Dragonlord1888....

I rolled back the server a few hours after you left and it's just the way it was before your griefing spree.

It took about 3 minutes work, thanks to good ol' BackupPlugin.

How much effort did your griefing take?  And how much have you lost now?

Just a quick blog before next few.  I have a few big ones lined up.  Including a competition I'm planning.

Anyway; everything seems to be going reasonably well, and we discovered the good news that iConomy and Stargate (the portals) are indeed working out there in some places, after the Beta, so we just need to do something differently.  I downloaded very latest iC, and gonna try it again in the next 24 hours or so.

When I started these blogs I set out to write 1 or more per day, but seems I'm slipping a bit

Anyway, almost all the plugins I've set out to use are in place, but there remain a few stubborn ones.  I just cannot get them working so far. These are:

Stargate (the portals)

iConomy (money, auction, shops etc)

I don't know if Minecraft going to Beta has broken them or what.  Maybe I'm just doing something wrong.  It woul...

I'll get the bad news out the way first.  Brace yourselves (well, admins, doesn't really affect anyone else)....

OK.....

There is a big chance we've lost the original map. 

Not 100% sure yet, but it's not looking good.

I MIGHT be able to restore some stuff from Cuboids if any protected their stuff.

I personally protected the new spawn area quite extensively.  Mong did you protect your Obama (?) thi...

Oh hai, well, I have submitted the server and site to mcserverlist.net a few hours ago, and submitted website to the big search engines so don't be alarmed if we get a big increase in visitors over coming days and weeks. 

A server I used to admin on randomly found itself at #2 on that list and had literally dozens of new people joining over the space of a single weekend

This could be an interesting test for our new mods.  See if they're upto t...

Added a few more sections to website....

"Arcade"; bunch of Flash games, not tried any yet and only added a few so far (there's thousands)

"Links" to other relevant sites.  Any more I could add?  Maybe you could add some if you can think of something good?

"Testimonials"; sorry, couldn't resist

I also upgraded the website from the free one to basic paid account, despite my whining about webs.com, so hopefully...

Dunno if anyone reads these, but you should.  Here's what been happening and what's coming next....

Firstly; I wanna welcome new members to the site and server

That's the Yo!

The Doh is the next 2 bits....

Firstly, does anyone have any ideas how to fix "disconnect.overflow" and does Notch know about it?  A few connecting people are getting this then being immediately disconnected.  Google isn't revealing a huge...

Am upto 39 46 distinct priorities for server and website lol.  So I'm thinking I might wanna delegate some of those 39 46 (see I wasn't exaggerating) to admins etc.

The 39 46 in semi-particular order with easy-to-delegate ones marked with a *

1) Website / screenshots / FRAPS / Forum / Delegate *

2) Cprivate and LWC chest p...