State of the Server

I want to start by saying thank you to all the player past and present who have spent their time building, exploring, and fighting on our server. As with any major Minecraft update, we see changes with our player base and the way we operate, so when we make the transition to 1.7 we'll be dealing with a lot of new issues and ask for your patience.
I wanted to highlight some of the changes we're proposing and solicit opinions and recommendations about these, or any other, ideas.

The special Halloween dungeon will remain open until the weekend, when I plan on taking the server down for maintenance.

We plan to entirely delete War and replace it with a fresh 1.7 world (Amplified?), so if you'd like your stuff, I recommend getting it out soon.

The Creative world is going to be made fresh again, since abandoned and laggy plots cover the map. Let us know if you must absolutely keep some of your plots and we'll copy them over for you. Probably.

We have a back end issue that prevents the server from being completely booted. I've been manually removing entire worlds and readding them back after loading. We've grow to the point that we simply cannot operate everything we have in the past and we're forced to make a choice: Bosses not functioning in all worlds, or the loss of Zephyrus (Lifesuck / Instamine). Granted I have a bias against some of the instability of Zephyrus for the server, but I feel it'd reduce lag and improve stability if we eliminated the plugin.

In the same vein, we're considering a one time donation campaign to raise money for the server that we want to make. Let us know if we're way off-base with the idea. This would be an all or nothing campaign, but I think we can do this. We're still working out potential rewards for donors, as well as what platform to use.

We'd love to hear your ideas and feedback. Comment here, tweet us, or mail us at gmail or on the server.
Thank you for your time!

Halloween!

Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls.

We have a new dungeon on the server, for a limited time only! The Halloween dungeon features a new set of bosses: the King of Halloween and his corrupted servants, the Halloween Goblins. They're ready for a long fight and I hope you are too!

Image from NukeLikeTheBomb

To find this new dungeon, you must look around spawn and go trick or treating to find the entrance. I'll give you a hint, it's a recent addition to our Overworld.

Hopefully much more to come for the holiday season! Happy scaring!