Minecraft Survival Servers

Hello Everyone!

Due to requirements from the Mojang EULA, soon Supporters can no longer gain extra max residences as part of their perks.

However, due to a grandfather clause, anyone who purchases a residence before the perk is removed can keep it!

So, to assist with users who would like to purchase max res LIMIT increases, we have added an option to purchase vouchers that *soon* can be redeemed for an increase to your official "Residence Maximum".


UPDATE:We just reduced the price of this to 30$ for each! If you purchased at 50$, please PM an Admin your transaction ID and we can either refund you 20$ or credit you 250k rupees (that's a bit more than 20$ worth of rupees)

What's the cost?
The cost is 30$ USD per Residence Upgrade. We think this price is fair considering that this upgrade is permanent vs the 1 month time span Gold/Diamond itself provides.

What about my existing Residences?
Absolutely nothing will happen to any claimed Residences as long as they do not go derelict.

What's different about this compared to now?

This upgrade will be PERMANENT! That means, even if you lose supporter, you will then still keep the max res limit upgrade.

Additionally, when using vouchers you can get up to 6 Residences per account!...

Hello everyone! Sorry for mid-day update but Krysyy thinks this update is big enough to justify a mid-day update so she has convinced me =P

New rewards has been added to voting!

== Tokens ==
Voting now rewards a user with Tokens! We debated on the scale of the rewards for this quite a bit, and came up with a scale we feel is comparable to the effort it takes to vote compared to actually killing monsters.

So, lets be clear that voting is not going to be nor intended to be a full on replacement for earning tokens instead of killing monsters or doing the other activities.

Voting will now give a base of 5 tokens per vote, and 10 for TopG and MinecraftServers.org.

There are then additional bonus tokens for various Bonus levels.

>> What If I am already at a high Vote Bonus?
The same as when new rupee bonuses were added, you will NOT receive every missed bonus. You will receive 1 of every "Bonus Level".

For example, there is a bonus level at 2, 5, 15, 30, 50 and 100.

A person at 100 is going to get 1 of each of those, but not 50 2's, 20 5's, etc. Otherwise this would throw a giant amount of Tokens into the system quicker than it would of even been possible to gain through killing monsters.

Your next vote will give you a pretty decent bonus.

== New Items ==
New Rewards has been added Over 100 Vote Bonuses!

All the way up to Level 300...

No, you are not imagining things.
Yes, the 'More' tab is now at the end of the page...and yes, I know that this post is not colorful =P


BUT THERE'S MORE!!!

Introducing (and some re-introducing) New Site Navigation Tabs =)

Let's Break them down to get a better understanding...

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Your friends have a corner of SMP4 town where they build together but your res is on smp6. To move to the same server as your friends you would need to sacrifice all your hard work on your res.

Good news, senior staff services has been tweaked by Aikar and we are now able to move reses between servers. The cost for whole res relocations to a new server is 150,000r. While we cannot copy Utopian reses to SMP servers we can copy a SMP res onto Utopia. Please note that some items are server specific and are very likely to be broke on a new server (promo flags and maps at present). The restriction to whole res relocations within the same server also apply here too.

• Residence Teleport System signs will need to be replaced
• Redstone/railtrack/flowing water or lava will copy but might be going in wrong direction.
• Item frames/paintings may not copy at all or copy without contents/wrong image.
• Entities on res will be copied but will lose any additional data (all villagers become standard villager, Sheep lose colour, horses stats and colour are reset)
• To avoid duplication issues players will not have access to their res during the process.
• Currently not allowing moving res between accounts.

I would also suggest that anything of sentimental value is stored in your vault.

WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
EMC Theme Build Contest: 'Summer'

1st Place: DeadlyAdmin
http://www.mediafire.com/download/qd5vqk5tafsh1a9/Submission.rar
2nd Place: JaydenIrwin
http://www.mediafire.com/download/a9jhqa0gatljjzu/JaydenIrwins_Summer_Entry.zip
3rd Place: sugarpunk
https://www.dropbox.com/s/unudur91ovtd6ra/Casa%20del%20Sol.zip

Honorable Mentions:
southpark347
820327
Zenadon

ATTENTION POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION TEAM MEMBERS:

It has recently come to my attention that due to an odd issue with the short link, the contribution team applications were not actually going through to our database.

This is a public announcement to reapply for contribution team if you applied before in case your application never made it through. I triple checked that it definitely works this time.

PLEASE, PLEASE REAPPLY! I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DO NOT MISS ANYONE!!!

http://emc.gs/ContribApp

Consider this a step 1 in announcing changes to supporting the Empire, but not everything is fully decided yet!

We have an overall plan to change our supporter packages up, where there is 1 rank of supporter and a seperate rank of "Cosmetics".
Yes, this means the Iron/Gold/Diamond is going away. Iron is essentially going to be removed completely, and Gold will convert into 1 package and Diamond converts into having both packages.
===== UPDATE =====
New ideas came to be from this thread!

The new idea will be that Utopia will be open to all, but low player cap. We will introduce a concept of a "Login Queue", so that when a server is full, free players have to wait in the queue to join a server (which is a better experience than simply being kicked like most servers do it and hope for lucky timing) and they will join in the order they joined the queue.

Supporters will get a perk to skip the queue and always connect, and have a guaranteed login slot.

The SMP's will also be reducing their max player counts as we will be condensing hardware to reduce cost.
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Essentially, "Supporter" rank gives Guaranteed Login + some premium non gameplay altering perks, and Cosmetics rank is a pack of many cosmetic features.

What each package entails is not 100% decided yet, but here are some Examples:

Supporter/Utopia Access (unchanged = same as perks provided today):

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