FYI to all Minecraft players and donators. First we want to say thank you to everyone that has helped us make the Minecraft servers great. I also want to thank everyone that has been able to donate so far, without you guys we could not keep the servers running! We will be going through quite a few changes starting today. Many of our changes are in response to Mojang making changes to the EULA. The changes we are making to be compliant are not all bad changes, but they have to be made.
First thing you will notice is we no longer have access to spawn many of the kits like we used to have. We have it setup so that everyone has the same kits available, food, tools and coal.
No one will be able to pickup place or manipulate spawners. They have made things far too easy and really taken the challenge out of the market or user markets.
We have increased the number of home points that all donator ranks can set (We are also considering a name change to the ranks, but that is only in name).
Coal gets 4
Iron gets 6
Gold gets 8
Diamond gets 12
Emerald gets 20
We are giving larger bonus' of Towny plots with Diamond and Emerald. You now get 25 with Diamond rank and 50 for Emerald. Towny plots are great for protecting your buildings, we also sell them in the web store!
We have increased the rewards for Voting, right now I have it set to give $5k in-game and 3 diamonds. This will get our servers out there and hopefully continue to grow the servers. I have setup voting for each server, they are separate, so if you use the FTB server, help us out there too!
Ideas I have so far that I think would be cool (I have not implemented them yet, I would like community involvement to see what you guys want)
pets (either the ability to pay money for them or earn them from donation ranks)
Different color options for names, signs, etc.
The ability to use the nickname command
Many of these changes have already gone into effect on the web store http://minecraft.xtremeidiots.com/
That is all for today. We are working to add more perks. Please PM me or post here and I will take all good suggestions into consideration. I want there to be as many benefits with donating as we can, so long as they comply with Mojang's EULA and are cosmetic only. Again thank you to all of our players, you have helped us build a great community that is continuing to grow! As always feel free to reach out to the admin team via Xfire or Teamspeak. Cheers! Fir3Marshal