As most of you know, we recently changed the server to premium. We asked everyone last November 3 to vote on the status of the server, to be premium or stay cracked. The voting period was open until November 9.
So, What Happened?
It was a close fight. The votes came in and the results were 12 vs 10 until the deadline. Votes after the deadline date aren’t counted. For this, we turned the server to Online Mode, meaning, only Premium Minecraft players can join. With the recent increasing number of spammers and trolls, having a Premium server minimizes, if not totally eliminates such users.
Why Go Premium?
As of this post, we have already made changes within the server. One of the reasons we opened the elections was to eradicate trolls and spammers, as well as fix some bugs and issues. As previously posted on the facebook page:
There will be a lot of fixes if we turn Premium. Our major problem with being cracked is, that UUIDs aren't compatible for offline-mode servers.
-[Advantages of Being Premium]-
1. Inventories - Will Be Stable
2. Inventories - Will No Longer Reset
3. Money - Will Be Stable
4. Money - Will No Longer Reset
5. Enderchests - Will No Longer Reset
6. UUIDs will be supported!
7. We Can Now Advertise on Reddit
8. Skins WILL Load
9. Tab - Heads Will Show (1.8+)
10. Less 'Trolls'
11. We'll surely gain more players if we're premium
12. UUIDs will be supported!
13. Teams (for KitPvP) will work correctly!
14. Teams (KitPvP) - Will No Longer Reset randomly!
*Note: UUIDs AREN'T compatible with Offline Mode Servers. This is mainly why money, inventories, enderchests*, etc. aren't stable.
So, What’s Next?
Soon after these differences were discovered, we contemplated doing a complete cleanup, as was suggested by a number of active and regular players of the server. We hope that this change will help benefit every player. For those who wish to go Premium, simply get Minecraft for only 26.95 USD at Minecraft.Net. It’s only a onetime payment and years and years of fun!
Thank You!
On behalf of the development team and admins, we just want to say thanks again to those of you who took the time to vote and notify us about this situation, as well as apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you personally. We highly value fair play, and we’re going to continue to monitor the server and take steps necessary to prevent exploits and issues from happening in the future.
