sat, I'd worried about having that side-thread in GD, so thank-you for suggesting a home in SIL for it!

And yes, at least one Pathway needs to be constructed before any other buildings can be worked on. You can decide on straightaways, T-bends, L-bends or crossways. All cost the same in tribute.

Kita, keep in mind just because you can't offer tribute, doesn't mean you can't help us decide which way this goes. That said, if you'd like me to pop you in Survival, and I just provide materials on a regular basis, that can be done as well. I'd not want you to forsake the Council building or Corintha, but neither would I want you to feel left out, yes? If that arrangement works, PM me a list of stuff you use on a regular basis and I'll stock chests up as I can.

(And while the Elizea Prefecture won't be part of the Council, Travincal definitely will be, so I'd be willing to pitch in what's necessary! ) That said, I'd personally prefer that no roads be built to the Matango Colony or Travincal, merely because seriously, you'd like. Five thousand blocks to pave for both. Easier to make teleports.

Kiseki, you're a Survival user. You're more than welcome to help contribute!

It's great to see support for the Council!  I will definitely keep working on it, and there's one project in particular that I want to get done pretty soon.  Like, next couple of days soon.  But it's small.  I feel like maybe this Travincal project will be around long enough that I can wrap up the Council, and then switch to survival for a while.  I've been wanting to hammer out Corinthia's industrial sector for a while anyways.  Thanks for the survival + materials offer, Bio, but this project pretty much necessitates flight, otherwise it'll take like ten times longer with the scaffolding.

Also, if anyone wants to pitch in, I'm setting up a workers' pavilion, which will have things like food, tools, and a bed if you want to set the Council as your spawn point before the transport chamber is installed.  If you help and you're in survival, I'll probably have you digging.  There is a LOT of digging, both through dirt and stone.  You'll probably have to catch me on the server and have me tell you where to dig, though, and I haven't even got it all sorted out yet, so be warned.  In the future, I might be able to use some help landscaping, mountain-sculpting, installing furniture, and hammering out plans and interior decorating.

I'm planning the Council to be able to hold a total of 16 member nations.  I'm pretty sure we don't have that many people on the server, so… I dunno.  Maybe it'll be future proof.  Maybe you'll be able to have multiple nations in the Council, but only one would be considered a full voting member, and the others are advisory.  Maybe some blend of the two.  But there are 16 seats in the Council Chamber, there will be 16 offices for delegates, so on and so forth.

And since there are banners now, there is totally going to be a Pavilion of Flags.  So if you're a member nation, or representing a member nation, you might want to get a flag ready.  I'll make some sort of flag room with everything necessary for flag-crafting and labeled chests to stick your flags in, (since if you have a flag, it's easy to replicate it) but that might be a little ways down the line, since I don't even know where I'd put it in the current layout.

But if you don't want to wait, you can post a picture of your flag with a list of the color elements on it, and I'll consider that flag your nation's, and stick one in the flag storage room in your nation's chest when we get to that.

So, here is Corinthia's flag.



No, I am not at all excited about the new door options, what are you talking about?

Hey all, double-post for justice and all.

You've all noticed the crappy connection issues with the server by now. I'd taken the liberty of looking at Mojang's issue-tracking JIRA system. Query searching for all unresolved 1.8 server issues.

Seems there's a major memory leak bug that lots of people have been reporting, that seems localized to 1.8 itself and subsequent snapshots. So far this is not an issue either Aine nor I can repair, as quite obviously we don't work for Mojang. And neither of us know enough about Java to attempt any temporary workarounds.

If anybody has further connection issues, please notify me or Aine, and we'll look at rebooting the server. If we need to completely shut it down long-term, one of us will post here and in server chat before we do so. That's a worst-case thing, though, and we're going to try our best not to need to do so.

Again, apologies for the service interruptions, and thanks always for hanging in there with us.

Seems fairly consistent with what others have reported on the JIRA tracker. Thank you, sat. I'll review the server's logs and see what's going on there.

I would prefer the lapis block stays, since my texture for it is John Smith Legacy and I like it. That's the only reason. As long as it's not something like a redstone block, we're actually golden. (Hmm, golden. Gold blocks could work, right? ) That said, I put forth a motion to all y'alls, a proposal that all lapis teleports on the server are replaced with another suitable block.

Kita-Ysabell wrote:

And now I'm getting a "cannot connect to server" message from the multiplayer menu.

Ditto that!

After an hour or two of Googling solutions to our server leak issue, and pulling up results, I believe the Minecraft community has pinpointed the issue. It seems (okay, it's actually true) that 1.8 renders in a completely different way from all prior versions to-date. This is efficient... if they'd tested the damn algorithms adequately. Our issue here, dear forumites, is the water being rendered. Which I honestly should've realized the second I ran into stuttery lagging with an experimental submarine build for Aine.

Anyway. The solution here branches. Aine and I are discussing it as I post this, and both branches involve OptiFine. Our thing here is, either we all install it client-side (which is all well and good, nothing wrong with OptiFine really) or we (that being Aine and myself) attempt to install it server-side. Which, as many oldbies on the Curse Forums will tell you, is completely impossible and unneeded anyway.

The benefits of client side are – besides less work for the sysops – that the server doesn't need to potentially face being corrupted. Or the world. Or the user database. Or... well, lots of things. And hey, you'll have OptiFine for your SSP work, what more incentive do we need, eh?

The drawbacks are... yeah, horribly incovenient if all you're trying to do is connect to Sunlit Garden. Potential Forge/ModLoader breaks, potential FTB breaks, potential mod conflicts all around. And the latest version for 1.8 is a preview version, not wholly finished.

The benefits of server side are smooth server sailing and no worries about needing to load OptiFine or breaking your mods, since mods won't work on the server anyway.

The drawbacks are more complications, really, and the biggest thing: we don't know if it'll even work server-side. Everything I've read so far indicates it's impossible to do so. I'm no professional coder. I'm not even an amateur/hobbyist coder. (Can't speak for Aine. )

I'm certain they'll be popping in here sooner or later to discuss it all. That said, my vote is nay, precisely because of "we could fuck the server up royally" and because Bio is a lazy thing who doesn't like doing work. (What? >>;;; )

Hi everyone. I'm back after disappearing for months. AND I've been neglecting my duties in Corinthia, sorry.

I logged in tonight, and promptly did something silly, which was to teleport to one of the Flora Fields and get lost. I didn't see any buttons back to the CTC. Searched around but still no luck. Can anyone offer suggestions?

The South Flora Fields is a legit oops on Bio's part, indeed. I forgot to pull the button out as a warning. My bad! I will do so as soon as I could. That said, I will install a teleport back to the chamber soon as I can. And the East Flora Fields do have a teleport right behind you when you spawn in. I need to figure out yaw/pitch settings and add them to the teleports for more sensibility. Also more irritation, but hey, the fact the teleports don't reorient you automatically is irritation in itself. >>;;;

(also, thank you for noticing I've become a prismarine addict~ it used to be acacia, and before that stone bricks... well, okay, the stone bricks'll never change.)

The spawn hut being unleavable is... that might be a setting in the vanilla configs, which Aine and/or I will have to track down and, if it is set unexpectedly, figure out why and whether it's needed. I'll discuss it with them later.

EDIT: Adjusted the rotation of all teleports. Renamed the Central Transfer Chamber to just "Transfer Chamber." Remodeled all teleports. Everything in the Transfer Chamber has a link back to it now, or should. Doubled the Chamber's location capacity. Reorganized a few places. Adjusted some coordinates.

Still need to double-check spawn settings in the config files. u_u

Last edited by BioKraze (11-13-2014 10:57:19 AM)

I've already made a flag for you, as a matter of fact!   I will drop it off as soon as I am able to leave the spawn hut.

Bio, could you create some sort of suicide button in the meantime?  Like, some fire, or lava, or an arrow trap or something?  Or would the protections on spawn make that not work?

Thank you, Bio! 

Claymore, if you're still having trouble, I'm afraid I can't find a teleport point that's close to you.  I suggest either teleport-by-way-of-suicide or making your way to (260,113).  It's a couple of kilometers across tough terrain.  Sound like fun? 

Kita, I've dropped off my flag!