Major changes

2015-04-18 00:00:00 +0000 UTC by FireLordZuko

IMPORTANT UPDATE
We disabled using shears on wool blocks so it's a little more fair to the attacking side. The defending side could previously just have an airbender hop in and destroy the wool within a matter of a second which was a little unfair. So from now on, people will have to actually destroy the wool block instead of smacking it once with shears.

Hey everyone,

Time to push out a big change! We are making some changes, so be sure to read this entire message! :)

1. We disabled teleportation to town outposts. From now on you can use our fast travel system in the cities to get around (costs some Yuans) or use the free Saito Railways system. You are also able to locate your outposts if you would like to visit them by typing /town outpost, this will show you the list of the outposts you currently have and their coordinates.We are incredibly sorry for having to take this step, but as we already mentioned, we are trying to mimic the Avatarverse as closely as possible and this is one of the steps we had to take.
2. We are changing the Towny War System. We enabled the system that forces players to claim chunks during a war from a border inwards. We finally got around to solving the bug that came with it, but with a side effect. Whilst fixing the bug another feature has disappeared (yay spaghetti code!). There is no cooldown anymore between re-claiming a chunk after it was claimed during a war. We haven't gotten around to fixing that, but we would like to see how it turns out this way.We also significantly raised the price to claim a chunk to 10,000¥. If you successfully claim a chunk, you will receive a return of 2,500¥. We believe that it will make warfare a lot more strategical instead of claiming chunks randomly. We are always ready to change it in case it really turns out to be a bad idea, but same as with the cooldown change, we are testing the effects of this change. We added a small feature to the towny flags, they shoot out a rocket every time the color of the wool changes, so people can more easily locate them within a chunk.We also added a new rule: #16 - During warfare, you are not allowed to place any blocks (including water or lava) within a 3x3 pillar, surrounding the flag, extending to the build limit.
3. We are Re-enabling Pets again! They are a little more expensive now, since it's easier to make money, and we also made Sky Bison available for everyone. We did this because it has been shown in the series that numerous benders and non-benders of other elements have raised and ridden Sky Bison.We have also disabled Dragons for the time being, since they are incredibly overpowered and you can glitch through walls whilst riding them. There are more bugs with dragons and we will need a lot of time to fix these bugs. It's going to take a while before we re-implement the dragons.

Thank you for reading! :)

Towny administration changes

2015-04-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC by FireLordZuko

Towny assistants are able to become a mayor if the town mayor is inactive for a longer period of time.

Hey everyone,

We have noticed that some mayors have gone inactive recently. This leads to their town being without a leader and without an option to have a leader. We would like to help you out in this case.

If you are an assistant and your mayor has gone inactive for over three weeks (you can check this by typing /resident [mayor nickname] ), you are able to replace his or her position by creating a ticket ( /t c [your message] ). We will investigate the situation and see whether you are allowed to become the mayor of your town.

Thank you for reading! :)

Spirit world reset

2015-04-12 00:00:00 +0000 UTC by Chiyo

Just an update for you guys. We've reset the spirit world and added the 3rd spirit portal. You might experience some lag while trying to enter and mine in the spirit world. This is because the world is still being generated.

The portals may not function straight away because of the stress the spirit world is under right now, but this problem should go away when the generation has been completed.

Fast Travel Update

2015-03-30 00:00:00 +0000 UTC by Chiyo

There seems to be some confusion on the current state of fast travel and town outposts. I am here to clarify some things we ran into. Feel free to ask questions in the comments; I am more than glad to help you out.

First of all -- YES town outpost teleportation will be removed, probably within a few days. Town outpost teleportation was not intended to be available in the first place. We want the server to feel as close to the original show as possible. People can't teleport everywhere in the show, so you won't be able to do so on the server. This is also the reason why TPing to people was disabled.

However, we do understand that walking around the whole world for hours is not fun at all. So we have a canon friendly alternative. We wanted to give you guys a fun way of exploring our vast world without total boredom of walking for hours. A fast travel system has been implemented at the major cities in the form of hot air balloons. Each balloon can travel to a specific set of coordinates, so it may be necessary to ride more than one to get to where you’re going! These rides comes at a price, but again this is to make the feel of the server more immersive.

Town outposts teleportation was a place holder for this better, more immersive, and more true-to-the-show system. The current rollout of the fast travel is Phase 1. Stay tuned for many more updates to come! It will be fun to travel again without losing the feel of a vast world and a more true to the show feel.

I hope you guys understand where we are coming from and I know that it makes places seem a little further apart from each other. But remember — it took Aang and the gang a whole book to travel from south to north, so it isn't exactly turn right at the second glacier!