Hello all,
Esarai here, I just wanted to give you all a message on the status of the server. For the past week it's been rather quiet, I assume since most of our players have gotten sucked off into Borderlands 2 and probably won't be seen for another month. Which means this is the perfect time to clean house.
As you know, right now the server suffers some rather irritating lag issues. We believe that this is not a side effect of our host, but rather the obscenely large number of plugins we run, how long they have been running without a cleanup, and the number of worlds we have loaded. We want CFWR to be fun and irritant-free, and so we have concocted a daring plan to make this happen.
To start, we will cut back on the plugins we have installed. We currently run 44 of them, many of which are outdated or simply broken, so we have decided to cut them back to basics:
CannonSigns
Essentials
EssentialsChat
iConomy
Jobs
LightVote
LogBlock
LWC
MCMMO
MoveCraft
Multiverse
Multiverse-Portals
PearlXP
PermissionsEX
Towny
Vault
WorldEdit
WorldGuard
We may add or remove plugins as the need arises, but for now we have noticed these are the ones that receive the most usage, and everything else seems to be extraneous.
The next order of business is worlds. We currently have 15 worlds running, and thus more memory is being taken up. We want to have four main worlds running: 12World, 13World, Survival and Empires. 12, 13 and survival will all share a nether and end, both of which will be survival (I mean really, who doesn't go to these places to kill things?), and Empires will have its own alternate realities.
Also, in the interest of promoting construction on the server, the Builder job will have its income levels increased a VERY substantial amount.
And now I will leave you with a poll. Does this sound like a good idea or are we barking mad? If you have further suggestions, please leave them in the comments.