Okay.
Just a quick update on some of the changes I'm making in the patch.
PATCH NOTES:
1) All classes will be reset...for EVERYONE...but to make up for it, each will now peak at level 50, and at the end you'll have around 7 new skills. Plus, balancing is much better...and some get some NICE effects (Eg. Pyromancers can stay in lava and be on fire, and actually heal and regain Mana).
2) Weather changes (More seasons, and Monsoon won't last as long).
3) New timescale (Longers days nights, and nights will be shorter than days).
4) Better Permissions feature (More for me than you guys...but makes shit run smoother).
5) Possible change to Ore generation. This would change it so that you'd find massive randomized veins of ores, instead of tiny little bits everywhere.
6) Mob spawn rate changes. This includes rare mobs.
7) Changes to Nether Portals. New portals made will leak in terrain from the nether (DON'T PUT ANYTHING RARE NEAR THEM!), and have a chance to spawn mobs from the nether into the real world.
8) Possible new world generation features (In addition to the new ones made in the Minecraft 1.8 patch...we're keeping Mineshafts and such!)
9) Changes to the levelling and experience ratios to make it better, and remove exploits.
10) I'm removing the sprint for boots. It makes skills like Speed absolutely redundant. You can also sprint with 1.8.
11) I'm removing the super jump with boots. It was overpowered, glitchy, and you can use Jump.
12) Tons of new skills being added.
13) New NPC system being added in. These NPC's will actually fight you, are randomly generated (In some cases), and still talk and such. I'll keep the old NPC system, as well, for quests. I just have to make sure they work well together.
14) New ways to make money (Mob Arena, Quests...and a possible PvP Arena feature). May also add in a working Bounty feature.
15) New interest rates at banks. Now they'll actually be USEFUL.
16) Cheaper towns, cheaper blocks, and cheaper shit in general.
17) Will be 200T to change class, instead of 250T.
18) Donor feature added in. These include higher EXP rates, new commands, new Tiers (the 5th, and possibly the 6th tiers!), money for donating (Ratio depending on how much you donate...to be decided, "Expansion Packs" including new worlds/mobs/skills/classes/money/features, and tons more.
19) Might add in a feature that gives you money when you donate to the server (YAY BRIBES!)
20) New features for Spout users (New GUI, and whatever else I can think of).
21) Removing Prayer. It was glitchy, overpowered, and messed with the server BIG TIME.
22) Better optimization for the server...hopefully it won't lag too much with more people.
23) Future layout for possible mounts. This includes vehicles. That's right. Boats and flying ships. Beat that, other MMO servers.
24) Possibly new combat features, including Missing, Parrying, and Dodging.
25) Prefixes to special users (Admin, Moderator, Help, and Premium), where Premium are people who have donated over a certain amount.
26) New music.
27) Physics. Heavier armour will decrease your speed and jumping, damaged boats will sink, and pistons can move blocks (Better) and players/mobs. Springboards, anyone?
28) Adding back the Builder Helper tool so that various users can build faster, and better (How do you think I...*cough*...we...built Bale so quickly?)
29) First time on the server? No problem. A screen should pop up and tell you where you can find everything (The MineScape Forum, the Wiki, and whatever else we have), as well as a "Quick-Start Guide" on picking your first class.
30) Quests to get you started (Helps new players with getting started on the server with some money and supplies).
31) A possible spash screen at the start to tell returning players some quick server news, upcoming events, and patch notes.
32) A calender. It's about fucking time I made one... (Remember. If someone can tell me how me and my collaborator came up with the names for the DAYS of the week (Kirvin posted them on the SP thread for this server)...I'll give them 2000T when the server relaunches. Just like that. Note that you need to have them ALL right...but they all relate).
33) A Tumblr account that will detail random things that I feel the need to say, let people know about, and the patch notes.
So yeah.
Once the server is released, I'll make an entirely new thread on here, that will link to the MinecraftForum thread for the server (Where you can read up on it), the Wiki (So you can figure out how to play), the Tumblr account, and the IP (If the IP changes, it will be mentioned just about everywhere).
After this post, I won't be posting on this thread anymore, so if you have any problems, suggestions, issues, bugs, whatever...
Mention them on the MineScape forum:
minescape.forumotion.com