The Admin council convened yesterday and we made decisions on a whole host of issues before us! What follows is a list of issues that we decided on and some information about what this means for you guys! We have decided that, with minecraft multiplayer in the state that it is, we still cannot relaunch 0xf as it was in good conscience leading us to decide that:
1.) We will be launching a small Tekkit server (likely 10-15 players).
2.) We may launch another smallish Minecraft server - plugins currently not chosen.
3.) We will be launching at least one CS:S server, likely in the form of GunGame.
4.) We will be launching another non-minecraft server, chosen by the community.
5.) We will be relaunching the site in a vastly improved and more useful form.
6.) We will be re-evaluating current, active moderators as well as looking into the possibility of recruiting more specifically for the additional game servers that I have mentioned.

Please feel free to comment below and fill out the poll as to what other type of server you'd like, and be sure to tell us if there's an option you'd like to see but isn't there!

So i wanted to just give you all a quick update of our progress on the server so far. The inner city is about half done, we have virtually nothing outside that done. The other 4 cities have not been established, yet.

As far as plugins, we are shifting them around quite a lot, so all the mods have to relearn them again.

The question I'm sure you all are wanting answered is, when will it be open to the public?
Well, I don't know, there is a large group of people working their WASD and L/R click fingers to the bone trying to get it done as fast as they can.
Due to finals coming up, work has slowed considerably, but expect work to pick back up as people start breaking for the holidays.
I would say we probably wont be sooner than a week, but I'm fairly sure we will have it all done before the new year. (thyme is far more familiar with the progress as a whole, so perhaps she could weigh in some)

And if you haven't already, don't forget to check the dynmap, which has been upgraded, and is now AWESOME http://mc.0xf.org:8000/

0xF's new Creative mode Minecraft 1.0 server is now up at server2.mc.0xf.org. Until we get the main survival server back up, server1.mc.0xf.org and mc.0xf.org will both point to the Creative server also. Currently the Creative server is pretty vanilla, but we will be adding plugins and making changes over the next few days. Unthymely, necavi, cdburner, and I are the only ones with permissions on the server currently but everyone who had mod access previously should get it again once we finish setting up the permissions. Spawn will definitely be relocated shortly, and a proper spawn area constructed. Once the Creative server is running properly with all required plugins, we will get the Survival server up and running - it requires a lot more work than the Creative server.

In any case, I hope to see you all on the server again soon!

Today the admins had a meeting to decide some key issues regarding the future of 0xF, here are the results, as best as I can recall them:

When Minecraft officially launches we will start off a new, creative mode temporary server (as plugins will likely not be updated at that point).
When plugins are updated we will be ditching most of our current plugins for their new brethren, something we will be researching in the interim.
We will be migrating to Teamspeak3 shortly, as Ventrilo really doesn't fulfill our requirements, and we have a 512 player key for TS3.
We are watching the development of MCServer - a C++ based Minecraft server (it would not require a special client or anything like that) but it isn't quite ready for our use yet.
We are considering adding a TF2 server at some point, likely trading/idle.


Addendum: Roasted seasoned seaweed is tasty.

With Minecraft 1.0 right round the corner, we would like to know what you would like to see in our new server?

We will entertain all (reasonable) suggestions (no "I want free diamond").

There are a few things we wont change, such as having an economy, a survival server, towns, and stuff like that.

I look forward to hearing what you guys (and gals) want!

(For submitting an idea, try and keep it in the following format, so its easier for us to identify)

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EDIT: If we get enough good ideas, the admins will decide the best few, and put them up for a vote to see which are most popular.