Empire Minecraft is still 1.8 - 1.9.4 is near!

Aikar

I completely get the stress of RL. I am a professional hair stylist and my husband is an owner of one of the biggest haunted houses in East Texas. So we work 7 days a week. When Im not doing hair Im helping him build and fix things to open in October. Then I usually get a few hours to come play here. Which sometimes, I take longer breaks and just come home from work and start playing. It can be stressful but its understandable. I know that you guys are working as hard and fast as you can. And I am thankful for that. I try to keep my supporter status up to give you guys anything extra that might help too! But I would rather you guys take the time to code this correctly, than to just let it release and chance glitches, crashes, or messing up things that are here on EMC. I am proud to say that I am a part of this community and I am excited about the things occuring on this server! Keep up the good work and I will be sending positive vibes your way and to your staff to help!

Peace & Love

~Skitz <3

I hope you can fix your IRL issues as soon as possible! And remember, real life should always go before minecraft, even as a server owner. Good luck with your IRL issues, and also of course with 1.9

Gee... I totally did not consider RL obstacles.

Thanks for updating us anyway, Akair.

I guess my 1.9 obsessions really did narrow down my mindset.

But I'll keep checking here, "briefly", for the official release date announcement.

Remember folks, ALWAYS put Minecraft before Real Life because if you don't you don't get to get happy time EVAR!
.....and back to sanity....
Good Luck Aikar! We support you with all our Minecratian love!

So yeah , who's got good memory and can recollect here the list of changes EMC will bring in with the 1.9 update? (excluding MC changes) 27 pages starts to get long to read

To be honest, I'm quite glad that the 1.9 update is taking a while. Well, with a more specific context in mind:

Quality vs. quantity. - - I'm willing to wait for a well-done and polished update to 1.9 without many server restarts, vs getting the update tomorrow when it was slapped together overnight, but will require frequent server restarts to patch every nook and cranny of unfinished/broken code.

As a college student who took a programming class last semester, I wish the best to the development team; programming is not an easy thing to do in one sitting...

[Update: Fixed a grammar error.]

Eh, it would be cool if we had a vote, or if we had a system where there were two servers, just the 1.9 being a copy of the 1.8 world/s. But that is probably too fantasized to ever become true. Please like if you agree!

That's not a bad idea for those that do not like 1.9. However, I don't think that'll happen, because that'll mean the staff will have twice the workload of servers to manage, debug, and so forth. (Also, it does cost a lot of money if you plan to make a copy of your entire server and host that copy as well. The monthly electric bill, finding money to buy newer machines/hardware for the server's clone, and so forth.)

can you like remove attack delays plz aikar

Probably not.

well It makes pvp kinda lame not to be mean or anything

I am part of the 2% of pvpers who actually like it so I disagree, but I see where your coming from.

That wouldnt be removed as it is a fully functioning, meant to be in the game- feature.

TBH, dont see what is wrong with the delays- it only requires you to adapt.

good luck aikar

sry for mentioning it

I don't see the deal with this either. It makes PVP and attacking more interesting in general for me...

oh I see

Just to give people the understanding here, not trying force change in opinions, the combat changes that were done in 1.9 came from a combination of community and developers.

In this interview from last year, Dinnerbone talked about part of the development process.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ9LoyyuWgE

Minecraft's developers were trying to make combat in the game more interesting and balanced. Dinnerbone in particular didn't like the spam-clicking in PvP.

Regarding community influence before 1.9 was announced, I can't provide the exact sources. I do know that ways to improve combat were talked about frequently.

I agree dr.mad but it would be cool in pvp so that you can push other players into lava

I agree

ikr