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Faction Wars Reset + Renovations

novs12

posted Mon at 3:23

The Faction Wars server has been reset for the best interest of the community!

Yes, that does mean that your base, your faction, your money, your everything is gone.

No, that does not mean you cry... and here is why:

Benefits of the Map Reset

A fresh start for all. Now is your chance to become the next big faction out there! There are no longer any faction powerful than yours right now. So start early and get to be the strongest faction out there now!
Keep the heart of Faction Wars alive! All those unraidable obby bases are gone! No faction base is indestructible now! And with the removal of obby generators it is a lot harder to make one! Raids will now be more common again and the true gameplay of Faction Wars is re-instated.

Server Renovations and Additions

Mob Arena is built and almost ready for use! Stay tuned for the release of that!
New spawn design. Spawn has been renovated a bit, it now looks fancy, thanks to Rumsfield!
iConomy is back! The old /money system is now re-instated. /money top is also back!
COMPLETE update of ALL plugins + Java + craftbukkit. The server performance will increase a bit.

Donator Money Returns

All donators get the money they DONATED FOR back!

Click Here and fill out that form to get your donator money back!

The only way to get your donator money back is through that form! Don't ask NOVS or one of the admins in-game for it!

Please be patient, we have many people that we are giving money back to.

The process can take up to 48 hours. If it takes any longer than 48 hours submit a second form.

DO NOT submit more than 1 form per 48 hours.

We hope you enjoy the changes!

-NOVSCRAFT Staff

Ultimate Update for PvP

novs12

posted May 7, 12

The time you've been waiting for is here...

Introducing the largest PvP update yet!

Join now at IP: pvp.novscraft.com

What's new?

General Changes:

All current money stats has been reset to 0 coins.
All money earnings have been divided by 10. Which means now for 1 kill you get 10 coins instead of 100 and so on for all other ways to earn money.
All prices were adjusted in order to cope for the new money system.
Upon disconnecting you are sent back to the neutral team. When you join back you have to chose your team again.
Each team must have 3 players or more in order for the game to run. If a team has less than 3 players on it, the round will be paused until there is enough. While the round is paused you are locked at your spawn. When enough players are on, the game will resume exactly where it left off.

Loadout Based Gameplay:

The server is now running our brand new Loadout system!

Important information about the Loadout system:

Players start with full leather and 10 cookies.
You can upgrade your armor by buying the next level upgrade at the shop at your team's spawn.
You can not skip armor upgrades. Which means if you have a leather chest plate now, you can only buy the next upgraded version which would be gold. You can not skip a level. IE - You can not go from leather to diamond -- You must go in order.
You can upgrade your food type and food quantity.
You also have a custom slot other than your armor and sword. This slot allows to to have an item you can buy in the shop. This item may be a bow, milk bucket, or anything else that is being sold.
There is also potion slots. In these slots you may buy 1 of the 6 potions that are being sold. Potions are restricted to tier 1, 2, and 3 users + donators. The donation system is not yet enabled, so don't donate for them yet. More information on tiers below.
Your Loadout is permanent and will be given to you upon every time you spawn. It will never reset unless you upgrade your tier; which brings us to our next topic.
Tiers can be considered your rank. You can only upgrade your tier after you have maxed out your Loadout (Full diamond). Upgrading your tier will reset your Loadout back to leather but grant you access to 2 different potions you can buy. You also receive a tier number in front of your name to show it off. (Example: [II] NOVS12 would appear if I were tier 2.) For each tier you go up you get 2 more potions you can buy, up to 6. The amount of times you can upgrade your tier is unlimited so you can show off your rank.
You can not drop your Loadout items on the ground and they will not be dropped upon death.

Voting System:

At the end of every game a vote is initiated. During this time a list of maps is shown and you can vote for your favorite map to be played next.
You vote by typing /vote [ID] the ID is the number next to the map in the voting list.
The map that receive the most votes will be announced and ran next.
While voting for the map you are also voting for the gamemode associated with it.

Capture the Flag - Action packed gamemode where a team must capture the enemies flag and bring it back to their base in order to score a point! First to 10 points wins. This gamemode is currently only on a map that is the best replica of 2fort ever made in minecraft!

Important Info for Capture the Flag:

First team to 10 captures wins.
To pick up an enemies flag you must walk within 4 blocks of it.
The flags are a blue wool block for blue flag and a red wool block for red.
When you kill a flag holder, the flag is dropped on the ground.
If a flag is untouched for 30 seconds it returns to the flag spawn.
Capturing a flag earns you 20 coins.
Killing a flag holder earns you 15 coins.
Winning the game earns your team 100 coins each.
The current map running CTF is 2fort, on this map you can not alter the landscape in any way.

King of the Hill Changes:

You now receive 1 coin per 10 seconds you are in the stronghold while your team owns it.
Ores in our current map have been removed due to the new Loadout system. You can still alter and change the map however you want though!

We spent days working on this, we hope you enjoy it!
Don't forget -- we are constantly adding updates and new gamemodes to this server!

Please report ANY bugs or out of the normal operations on the PvP forums!

Special thanks to the following people for contributing hugely to this update:

- Nighteyes604 - Plugin Development / Coding

- Rumsfield - Amazing 2fort replica map + support during plugin development

- NOVS12 - General work and plugin directing

Now get playing!

Important: Donators and ExpBanks

novs12

posted Apr 17, 12

Our new ExpBank plugin encounter some unexpected errors which makes you unable to take out XP from a sign created before this post.

Your sign will still be on the wall showing your XP levels but you can not take them out.

Any sign you create as of this post or later will work normally and you can take levels out of.

You will be refunded the lost XP amount which is stuck on your sign as long as you DON'T DELETE THE SIGN.

If you break the sign that you can not take the XP out of, you will NOT be refunded that XP!

Email novs12 or send him a message on the forums if you are a victim of the ExpBank glitch.

Be sure to include the following info in the message:

Your exact mc name:
The exact X, Y, Z location of the broken sign.

Failure to include those two requirements will result in delayed refunds.

Thank you!

-Novs

Donators Read: XP Banks Updated

novs12

posted Apr 14, 12

This affects only obsidian package donators or higher, so if you are one, read this post!

Donators: Make sure you read ALL of this post.

As you likely already know, the XP Banks were able to be abused to get more XP than you really should get. This was unfair to all the regular players of novscraft so we fixed it.

Nighteyes has coded us a replica of our current XP Bank but with all the bugs and glitches removed.

He named it.. ExpBank!

The new signs work off of XP points and not levels. (To prevent abuse)
The new signs can not be destroyed in any way other than the owner breaking it.
The new signs give XP points appropriately so that you get as much points as you deserve to get and nothing more.

To create a new ExpBank type the following on the first line of a sign as shown below.

It WONT work unless you are an Obsidian or Bedrock donator!

Donators: Make a new ExpBank sign NOW and transfer all your levels from the old sign to the new one!

You have until 4/15/12 to transfer everything, the old signs will be removed then! If you didn't transfer before they were removed then your levels on that sign are gone!

PvP Server - King of the Hill Beta Released!

novs12

posted Apr 8, 12

King of the Hill is now at it's beta stage!

It is now public for all to play on right now if you join the server!
Keep in mind it is still in beta mode and may not be fully complete to all it's features and settings.

Updates

April 8th 2012

-Stronghold is now indestructible

-NovsWar plugin updated

-"/hill" returns who controls the stronghold

Here is a simplified rundown of how it works:

There is a stronghold in the center of the map.

That stronghold is the HILL that you must capture.

If 4 or more players from a team are in the stronghold then that team captures the hill.

When a team has a hill captured the enemy team's tickets get drained at a constant rate of 1 ticket per 10 seconds whether you kill the enemy or not.

Your team still loses tickets if you die.

If one person from the enemy team is in the hill with your team no matter how many people you have in it it is a neutral hill and no one owns it.