Dynmap and other minor news

Not a lot going on today. I haven't had a lot of time to work this morning and this evening is rather randomly full between classes and work.
I've updated dynmap for MC 1.4.2. I plan to do some over hauling on dynmap soon. So far, all tiles will be deleted and let them generate as players make changes and adventure. This will help new players seek out uncharted areas. I also plan on doing a second 3D view. Basically you see it in one direction, I plan to add the second view as if you were to rotate it 180 degrees. This should help view hidden stuff on mountains a bit easier.

There has been a bug with the Comfort plugin. I've sent a message about the problem to the author, but we may be out of luck, as there hasn't been activity for a while. I've removed all wooden stairs from being able to be used as seats to nullify the fly mode bug. So far, no one is complaining.

We have added Zain1000 to the roster for DenPatrol. He has been active and very helpful. In a few days, he should have the ropes of managing new players and enforcing the rules. We are still looking for someone to help monitor the server around 5-10am cst (-06:00 gmt) time.


Lastly, I would like to remind everyone, we don't baby any player, even if they donated. If you have been inactive for over a month (/resident playername states last login), and your towny protection falls, your work is open to be raided and griefed, along with all protections allowed to be removed upon request. We recently had an argument from a player who has been busy with life, work, and classes. Logged in today and was upset because all his work was gone, then proceeded to say we were harassing him because his work has been destroyed twice since he first joined. He argued that he never got notice that towny taxes were re-enabled way back when. This is no excuse. Not only do we not spam people via email, we also stated this on here, on the facebook group, and ingame, giving everyone at least one week to prepare. RIky_516 was kind enough to help keep money in his town's bank for a while. What he could have done was log in once every so often (once per week) to keep his activity new. If by any off chance, he would have caught a player online and talked for a few minutes, and heard word about the taxes, but no guarantee, though he would probably noticed a decrease in his own town's bank.

In other news, I have picked out my new car a couple days ago and will be picking it up today. As long as nothing financially major comes around, I should have it paid off in two years, if not sooner.